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30 March 2001 |
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NewsGood On Ya Mum, Buttercup’s Leaving Town
A community and union backed consumer boycott of the Buttercup bakery in the Newcastle area has started to bite. Big local Hunter area companies are cancelling contracts to show solidarity with the community and the local workforce. The consumer boycott is an angry response to the shutdown of the Buttercup bakery, putting LHMU members out of work from April 22. The community boycott was organised by local Labor MPs, Bob Horne and Bryce Gaudry, as a show of solidarity for the LHMU members who are campaigning to get the multinational Goodman Fielder, who own the bakery, to reverse its decision. To test the strength of community anger a survey - titled Good on ya mum, Buttercup's leaving town' - is circulating in the Hunter region asking people if they would attend a protest rally at the Broadmeadow bakery. The LHMU has also organised a petition which you can print off and get other workers to sign and send back to the union office in Newcastle. LHMU Newcastle Secretary Carmel Cook, said yesterday the union understood major clients were cancelling contracts for Buttercup bread. " We were in a meeting yesterday when one of the girls came in and said another big customer had rung up and cancelled their contract," she said. " We believe that the boycott is beginning to bite and we'll be going around to more big customers in the next few days asking them to stop buying Buttercup. " The union has had a number of meetings but the company is insistent that nothing is going to change, that the closure and retrenchments will go ahead as planned," she said. " We asked for 12 months grace, for three months grace, but they keep saying no, no, no. The company is refusing to consider the union's ideas." Join the campaign by clicking here to tell Buttercup's owner,Goodman Fielder, what you think of their decision to shut down their Newcastle bakery.
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   Interview: On the Up and UpOn the eve of new figures showing the slide in union membership may be bottoming out, ACTU secretary Greg Combet takes stock of the state of the movement. Unions: Organising TheoryLabor Council’s Chris Christodoulou reports back from this week’s ACTU Organising Conference Economics: The Failure of the Third WayIn his presentation to this week's ACTU Organising Conference, John Buchanan painted a dark picture of the emerging labour market. History: Emblems of UnityThe Gregory J. Smith Collection of Trade Union badges was auctioned today in Sydney. Smith compiled a book on 763 of his remarkable collection which was published in 1992. Legal: Della's Compo PlanLabour lawyer Richard Brennan places the NSW workers compensation reforms under the microscope. International: East Timor Goes UnionWorkers in the fledgling nation have established their equivalent to the ACTU to build a safety net for workers. Satire: Management for the Post-Industrial WorldA new management fad is sweeping the post-industrial world, which has major social and political implications at the macro and micro level. We have called it "Purge Management Strategy" (PMS). Review: Surviving The Temptations of TV IslandCultural analyst Mark Morey rakes over the coals of American TV culture to find very little is there.
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