Bilan
29th September 2008, 13:58
Background: Union Solidarity are an organization based largely in Melbourne, Australia, which have conducted sevral successful solidarity strikes and community campaigns against the bosses. This group has been achieving many amazing things.
In recent times, there have been attempts to privatise Australia post. The first attempt in Melbourne was at a Union Strong hold point in Melbourne, at Fitzroy, where a strike took place and stopped it. The attempts to privatise this a far from over, however. This is just one of the methods the bosses are using to stop industrial action - both "legal" strikes and wildcats - against privatisation.
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Australia Post wins s496 order in attempt to block Union Solidarity action
The AIRC has issued orders preventing employees working at, entering or leaving Australia Post’s Dandenong Letter Centre from taking unlawful industrial action after left-wing protest group Union Solidarity organised a picket line at the site last week.
Australia Post was granted an interim order under s496 on Thursday last week after it discovered that Union Solidarity planned to hold a picket line at the Dandenong site that evening.
Despite the order, the picket line commenced early that evening, with trucks prevented from entering or leaving the site until about 5am the next day, causing some delay to the large volume of mail processed at the Centre.
A similar picket line at the Dandenong Letter Centre organised by Union Solidarity in June is estimated to have delayed the delivery of about four million of the 21 million letters processed by Australia Post each day, but having received prior notice in this case the company was able to take steps to minimise the disturbance.
Commissioner Dianne Foggo issued full orders yesterday banning Australia Post employees at the site, including four named employees, from engaging in unlawful industrial action for four months.
The order was also made against “all employees of Australia Post who in the course of their normal duties enter or egress the DLC,” in effect extending the ban Australia Post truck drivers who deliver mail to and from the site but are not employed there.
Commissioner Foggo did not grant the company’s application for a s496 order against the CEPU.
Australia Post said the orders would enable it provide essential services to the community without interference from Union Solidarity.
“Union Solidarity does not represent Australia Post staff, nor has it communicated with Australia Post at any time. Its activities on this occasion were intended to put at risk the important role Australia Post plays in Australia's economic infrastructure and the essential services Australia Post provides to the community,” an Australia Post spokesperson said.
“The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union stated that it has had no involvement with Union Solidarity or the action it took. We would expect the CEPU to condemn the actions of Union Solidarity given their impact,” he said.
CEPU communications division assistant secretary Ian Bryant branded Australia Post’s actions in seeking the orders as ridiculous, but denied any suggestion the union was behind Union Solidarity’s actions.
“Union Solidarity have got their own business, that’s not us. The company seem to be trying to use the Workplace Relations Act to regulate Union Solidarity using the Commission process, that’s absurd in our view,” Bryant said.
In recent times, there have been attempts to privatise Australia post. The first attempt in Melbourne was at a Union Strong hold point in Melbourne, at Fitzroy, where a strike took place and stopped it. The attempts to privatise this a far from over, however. This is just one of the methods the bosses are using to stop industrial action - both "legal" strikes and wildcats - against privatisation.
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Australia Post wins s496 order in attempt to block Union Solidarity action
The AIRC has issued orders preventing employees working at, entering or leaving Australia Post’s Dandenong Letter Centre from taking unlawful industrial action after left-wing protest group Union Solidarity organised a picket line at the site last week.
Australia Post was granted an interim order under s496 on Thursday last week after it discovered that Union Solidarity planned to hold a picket line at the Dandenong site that evening.
Despite the order, the picket line commenced early that evening, with trucks prevented from entering or leaving the site until about 5am the next day, causing some delay to the large volume of mail processed at the Centre.
A similar picket line at the Dandenong Letter Centre organised by Union Solidarity in June is estimated to have delayed the delivery of about four million of the 21 million letters processed by Australia Post each day, but having received prior notice in this case the company was able to take steps to minimise the disturbance.
Commissioner Dianne Foggo issued full orders yesterday banning Australia Post employees at the site, including four named employees, from engaging in unlawful industrial action for four months.
The order was also made against “all employees of Australia Post who in the course of their normal duties enter or egress the DLC,” in effect extending the ban Australia Post truck drivers who deliver mail to and from the site but are not employed there.
Commissioner Foggo did not grant the company’s application for a s496 order against the CEPU.
Australia Post said the orders would enable it provide essential services to the community without interference from Union Solidarity.
“Union Solidarity does not represent Australia Post staff, nor has it communicated with Australia Post at any time. Its activities on this occasion were intended to put at risk the important role Australia Post plays in Australia's economic infrastructure and the essential services Australia Post provides to the community,” an Australia Post spokesperson said.
“The Communications Electrical Plumbing Union stated that it has had no involvement with Union Solidarity or the action it took. We would expect the CEPU to condemn the actions of Union Solidarity given their impact,” he said.
CEPU communications division assistant secretary Ian Bryant branded Australia Post’s actions in seeking the orders as ridiculous, but denied any suggestion the union was behind Union Solidarity’s actions.
“Union Solidarity have got their own business, that’s not us. The company seem to be trying to use the Workplace Relations Act to regulate Union Solidarity using the Commission process, that’s absurd in our view,” Bryant said.