
Issue No 97		25 May 2001

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Publicans Want to Reduce Bar Pay

By Andrew Casey

Pub bosses want to take money out of the pockets of their workers in a new application to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

The rates of pay for more than 40,000 bar staff working in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania have been threatened by Australian Hotels Association application to the Industrial Relations Commission to reduce the pay of hotel workers.

" The AHA wants to reduce the classifications of bar staff who perform work with TAB terminals or pokies from Level 3 in the Hospitality Award to Level 2, " LHMU Hotel Union Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari said today.

" Pub bosses will be taking out of the pockets of bar workers, if they win in this application before the AIRC, about $18.30 per week on the base award rate, plus modest penalties on this amount for weekends for each bar staff employee.

" This is a miserly act by publicans who are reaping huge profits out of their pokie machines.

" In many places pubs are simply being turned into pokie dens - with fewer not more jobs - as bosses seek new strategies to reap more and more profits from punters," the LHMU Hotel Union's Tim Ferrari said.

" The Hotel Union has thought that the publicans had shown their self interest enough during the last few months. But they are at it again.

" This latest act comes on top of:

� the AHA's recent arguments against a Living Wage increase for hotel workers;

� delays in passing an excise decrease in beer prices to customers;

� the AHA criticism of workers and their union who want a smoke free work environment to safeguard their health;

� profits of $43,000 per pokie in NSW hotels last year.

" Workers in pubs need to expose and resist this new attack on their low pay by increasingly wealth publicans.

" We will be calling on bar staff to support union opposition to this claim by their employers," the LHMU Hotel Union's Tim Ferrari said.

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International: The Not-So Shakey Isles
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Corporate: BHP: The Bit Australian
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History: A Proud Tradition of Mediocrity
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» Coach Drivers Win Permanency

» Boss Pockets Compo Payment

» Union Wins Battle in AWA War

» Publicans Want to Reduce Bar Pay

» Abbott Agrees to Ban Asbestos

» Union Acts to Save Leichhardt Refuge

» Trade Union Choir Turns Ten

» Activists' Notebook

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» Thanks from Indonesia

» Hester Spot On

» Fuelling Voter Anger

» May Day - The Debate Continues

» Not a Chaser Fan

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