Re: Help: Train That Ran Through Picket Line

Tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:48:11 +1000

Michael Kurkowski <#NOSPAM#simcard@tig.com.au> wrote in message

>>>>The law also says you can't sack a Worker because they belong to a
Union.

>>>But you can sack people who refuse to work.

>>They hadn't refused to work, most were at work and working. Port Botany
was
>>on a legal strike.

>Umm excuse me if im wrong, but im not wrong. When someone stops working for
any
>reason and not going back until some situation is resolved, regardless of
who
>is right or wrong they are still refusing to work.

Irrelevant to the fact that they were on a legal strike. The fact that they
weren't working *because* they were on a legal strike means they can't in
that circumstance be sacked for "refusing to work".