The Drivers award provides for 5 weeks holiday for shift workers and 20%
loading for weekend workers - obviously in a pathetic attempt to
compensate for the loss of penalties. Leave loadings were intended to
compensate Workers for loss of income whilst on leave.
>> >And the money they were on! For the job they did? It was pathetic!
>>Don't believe all you read.
>I don't - I read a pay slip of a friend who is a wharfie (he also
believed
>they were overpaid and underworked).
Tell us then - how many hours did he work and how much was he paid. It's
not an invasion of his privacy as we don't know who he is. A Driver can
also get $70,000 pa (old rates) if he works enough overtime, weekends
etc.
>>>Why should the union have a veto over who is employed? Such an issue
is
>>one for management, not the union, yet the MUA had the right to say
"Yes,
>>you can employ that person" or "No, you cannot employ him". Also, why
>>should the employer have to foot the bill for every new employee to
attend a
>>half-day union orientation course?
>>PTU delegates start with a 3 day course, paid for by the employer.
Then
>>there are more advanced courses. It's to teach them about industrial
>>issues and to learn negotiating etc.
>This orientation was not for new delegates - it was for EVERY new
employee
>with Patrick - if I was going to work there as a payroll clerk,
telephonist,
>etc., I would have to go on an MUA orientation course, paid for by the
>employer - that is WRONG!
Depends, what's involved in the course?
>>> The MUA are nothing more than gangsters, and needed to be brought
into
>>line!
>>reith and corrigan are the gangsters. They should be hauled before the
>>courts for their illegal actions.
>So we are onto legalities here, are we? So will the PTU allow the
Patrick's
>train to run? Or will they impose an ILLEGAL secondary boycott?
They have never done so before and they won't start now. Everything the
MUA has done since this started has been legal - it's reith, corrigan
and the security guards who have broken numerous laws.