Issue No 88 | 16 March 2001 | |
NewsLifeguards to Down Togs Over Sweaty Speedo Scam
Lifeguards are being asked to place a conscience ban on Speedo swimwear as anger over the transfer of production from a Sydney factory to undisclosed sweatshops gathers steam.
The Municipal Employees Union says it is asking its members working at beaches, pools and aquatic centers to back the Speedo workers, who were thrown out of their jobs earlier this month. "The MEU believes that this trend of clothing being manufactured in sweatships by workers without decent wages and condition must be reversed in Australia," MEU state secretary Brian Harris says. Harris says the union will ensure such a protest does not breech secondary boycott laws while protecting individual members' rights. Other unionists are also backing the Speedo workers, collecting old Speedo cossies are returning them to the company. The Textile. Clothing and Footwear Union says that since the closure Speedo has been giving out its work to contractors, with the work ending up in sweatshops and outworkers' homes. TCFUA state secretary Barry Tubner says the outworkers employed by Speedo contractors are receiving up to $150 below the weekly award rate, with no leave or superannuation entitlements or workers compensation.
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Interview: Labor Law Shadow Attorney General Robert McClelland outlines his plans for workers entitlements, legal aid and a Bill of Rights Unions: Poetic Justice The ACTU kicked off its 2001 Living Wage campaign this week with a new shock tactic: poetry. Technology: Big Brother�s Legacy Organisations with restrictive staff email polices risk locking themselves in the Industrial Age by treating their staff as units to be monitored. Corporate: Scumbags Exposed On the eve of the inaugural Corporate Scumbags Tour, we look at the worst of the worst from the Top End of Town. International: Playing Away Pat Ranald looks at a proposal to hold Australian companies to basic standards when they invest in developing countries. Environment: Nuclear Titanics The Maritime Union has joined Greenpeace in a campaign to stop our seas becoming a nuclear highway. History: Out of the Bog Neale Towart looks at the life of big Jim Larkin, one of the heroes of an Irish trade union movement that continues to thrive. Politics: Westie�s Macquarie Street Alert The Workers MLC, Ian West, provides the first in a series of regular rundowns on the upcoming Parliamentary session Review: The Next American Century? How will the United States maintain its global power in an era when the very notion of the nation-state is under challenge? Satire: Dollar Crashes Through Psychological 0.00c Barrier The bedevilled Australian dollar dropped below the crucial 0.00c barrier losing its battle to avoid the humiliation of being worth less than the commemorative Bradman coins distributed by the Sunday Telegraph last weekend.
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