Issue No 92 | 20 April 2001 | |
NewsEntitlement Dramas in Health and Printing
Fears are growing that more workers could be facing lost entitlements, with a private hospital going into voluntary administration and a printing factory facing the wall. The Printing Union has raised concerns that printing company Diamond Press is concerned that $6.5 million in unpaid entitlements for some 509 workers could be at risk. The company has gone into voluntary liquidation with debts estimated at more than $140 million and there have been no assurances about the plight of the workforce. Meanwhile, The NSW Nurses Association says an Administrator has been appointed to manage St David's Private Hospital at Eastwood after more than 30 years of operation. Nurses' secretary Sandra Moait says the company's liabilities include some $80,000 in employee entitlements, including superannuation entitlements that have not been forwarded to their superannuation fund. "This is yet another example of the all too frequent occurrence of employers closing companies leaving employees, many of them longstanding, without jobs and their full entitlements," Moait says.
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Interview: Beyond the Accord Simon Crean cut his teeth in the trade union movement, now he's gearing up to run the economy. Politics: In Defence of Della�s List The proposition that trade unions should ask members of the ALP for a commitment that they uphold Party policy should hardly be controversial. Corporate: The Real Rorters The unspoken sore of the WorkCover Scheme is non-compliance by employers. None more so that in the construction industry, as this CFMEU paper details. Legal: In the Real World Lawyer Ross Goodridge exposes the defficincies in the new medical assessment guidelines for workers compensation by looking at real case studies. International: The Docklands and Global Labour Ma Wei Pin and Jasper Goss recount how the struggle of a group of Indonesian hotel workers effected a lucrative Melbourne contract. History: Sweatshops in America Since the dawning of the Industrial Revolution, many generations of Americans have toiled in sweatshops. Unions: Losers Never Start At the end of her six week vigil, Grenadier delegate Michelle Booth gave her heartfelt thanks to the trade union movement. Review: Working Classes: Global Realities The Socialist Register 2001 looks at class realities and the lives of workers in the new century. Satire: Democrats Change Leader The Democrats have a new leader after belatedly discovering that Meg Lees had become the second Democrats leader in a row to defect to another party.
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