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JUNE 2010
WHY DOES
IVAN MILAT
HAVE MORE
RIGHTS THAN
THIS MAN?
RALLY FOR ARK TRIBE JUNE 15
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WAY TO
MAKE A
CLEAN
BREAK
WHILE OUT WITH FRIENDS RECENTLY
we started talking about Australia’s divorce rate
and realised every third person, or so, around the
table, was likely to end up divorced. That’s when
everyone turned to me and asked, ‘How can we
tell if a relationship is going to last?
This happens a lot, not because I’m a relationship guru, but because I work in family law.
Friends often ask me what makes a relationship
last, and, I have to tell them, I really don’t know.
What I do tell my friends though, as a lawyer, is
that they should do what they can to avoid court in
a contested property settlement that is often part
of a divorce.
The Family and Federal Magistrates Courts in
Australia are overwhelmed with couples waiting
for a judge to rule on their case with many waiting
up to two years until they get a hearing date. The
situation is very stressful, expensive and people
often end up more bitter when really they should
be getting on with the rest of their lives.
In January this year, the Federal Government
introduced new rules to govern a popular tool in
family law that people are using in an effort to
Our team of experienced lawyers
is readily available to provide legal
advice at discounted rates to all
CFMEU members and their
families. Whether you need advice
on compensation, conveyancing,
family law, wills/estates or criminal
matters, we are always here to help
you. Our offices are conveniently
located in the City and at Lidcombe,
Wollongong and Newcastle.
TIES THAT BIND
Rescina Hekimian helps ease the pain of divorce
safeguard against the pain and misery of a messy
property settlement.
The law was called the The Federal Justice
System Amendment (Efficiency Measures) Act,
and it deals with Binding Financial Agreements, a
common example of which is ‘pre-nups’, which are
entered into before the relationship or marriage.
When these agreements first hit the news, it
was usually because a celebrity was getting his or
her (Nicole Kidman, it has been reported, has one
with Keith Urban) partner to sign one.
What has happened, though, is that the idea
has caught on and people, who lead ordinary lives,
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are signing these agreements. What Binding
Financial Agreements aim to do is protect the
assets of both parties that each has owned prior to
the relationship, during a relationship or divide
assets, as agreed, at the end of a relationship.
These agreements can also protect the interests
of a third party (often a parent) who may have supplied, for example, the money needed for a deposit
on a house.
Binding Financial Agreements must be
drafted correctly or they are not enforceable.
Sections of the legislation MUST be followed.
This includes the fact that each of the parties to
the agreement MUST obtain separate and independent legal advice before signing the agreement.
If either of you doesn’t have English as a first
language, then the agreement should be translated into that partner’s first language and attached
to the agreement in writing.
It’s also a good idea not to rush something like
this. People come to my office the week before
their wedding because they’ve been handed a
financial agreement and told they have to sign it
before the big day.
The thing to remember is that Binding
Financial Agreements can be put together whether you get married, or not, and they can even be
drawn up after you’re married or at the end.
What they do, is help you avoid the destructive battle over property if things turn out for the
worst.
But get a lawyer to do them. If they’re not done
properly, they are next to useless.
Rescina Hekimian is a solicitor with the law firm
Taylor & Scott.
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EDITORIAL
CFMEU WORKER
FACES JAIL
CONTENTS
JUNE 2010
ISSUE 49
RALLY 12 NOON
TUES JUNE 15
CORNER OF BATHURST AND
DIXON STREETS, SYDNEY,
(BEHIND TRADES HALL)
AN ORDINARY BUILDING WORKER,
Ark Tribe, is facing six months in jail.
Ark was on an unsafe site where workers
stopped work. The safety got fixed and
everyone returned to work.
The Federal Government’s Australian
Building and Construction Commission
(ABCC) is demanding that Ark attend an
interrogation about the safety stoppage.
Ark Tribe has refused.
If a worker refuses to attend an interrogation, they face six months in jail. These
unjust laws need to be broken.
The CFMEU offices were devastated
in a car-bomb attack causing $500,00
damage. We believe a rogue contractor
in dispute with the union over their treatment of migrant workers is behind the
attack, yet the ABCC has not bothered to
contact the union.
The CFMEU has been inundated with
support and condemnation of the criminals behind this attack on workers’ right to
be represented.
The ABCC is anti-worker. It never investigates unsafe sites. It is a weapon for the
big builders and developers.
Our challenge is to continue the campaign to abolish the ABCC. It is a disgrace.
Ark Tribe is a hero for refusing to be
intimidated by the ABCC and its unjust
laws. He is willing to go to jail. We need to
show him our solidarity. You are requested
to join this protest rally on the Tuesday of
the No Work Long Weekend.
YOUR SAY: DAMN LIES
WHEN AUSTRALIAN workers think about
fairness and justice we believe our government (though mistrusted) does look after
the less fortunate, and by and large, allows
an “Australian standard” of living.
The Sydney Morning Herald (March
18) reported that “the Reserve Bank of
Australia casts doubt on CPI figure”. I
thought the federal Labor Government
would look carefully at this as such a large
section of society is in fact compensated
according to this figure (pensioners etc).
The article goes on to tell us that “at
times it (the Reserve Bank) has been
misled by inflation figures .. that proved
not to be representative”. What an amazing statement! Will the worker be reim-
bursed for lost “inflation” income? Or
what about the pensioner, disabled pension recipient or unemployed?
Will the “fair pay” commissioner give
us all compensation for years of oversight?
The SMH article goes on to say:
“Australia’s consumer price index is among
the worst in the developed world …”
Workers know the challenge of surviving, when prices of essentials are rising
without comparable compensation in
income, because we are told the inflation in the past 10 years was near zero.
Therefore no wage increases.
Well now we know better folks.
Tom Tesoro, Revesby
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CAR BOMB ATTACK
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CFMEU TRAVEL INSURANCE
The Sydney counter has been inundated
with requests for information about the
CFMEU’s travel insurance and ambulance
benefit deal for financial members. Here
are some of the most common questions.
Q Who exactly is eligible?
A. Travel insurance is for financial union
members and their immediate dependent
family members travelling with them on the
same trip. Members need to ensure they
are financial while they are travelling. To do
this ring the CFMEU office on 9749 0400.
ATTACK ON
DEMOCRACY
THE CFMEU HAS SHOWN it will not be intimi-
dated in the wake of a car bomb attack on the
union’s head office at Lidcombe.
Less than 24 hours after a car was ramraided
into the office’s ground floor and the foyer set
alight on May 13, the union was again open for
business and helping members.
And a week later the union was handing over a
$5000 cheque to the Schizophrenia Association,
money raised by organisers and delegates passing round the bucket on job sites. “We will not
be intimidated,” says CFMEU State Secretary
WORDS OF SUPPORT
‘Metro Migrant Resource Centre stands by the
CFMEU and deplores the cowardly resorting to
violence against a well respected organisation
that promotes equity and justice for all working
Australians and is not afraid to advocate and
fight for those rights.’
Violet Roumeliotis
Executive Director
Metro Migrant Resource Centre
Q What types of travel are included?
A The insurance is for overseas travel and
also interstate travel. Coverage extends
worldwide excluding countries deemed
unsafe e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq.
Members should check the government
website www.smarttraveller.gov.au/ to
make sure their destination is deemed safe.
‘This act of violence is to be condemned by all of us.’
Randa Kattan
Arab Council Australia
Q Are we covered if we take the family on
a cruise?
A Whether you are cruising the high seas
or flying high the CFMEU’s travel insurance
has financial members covered.
‘We hope you are okay and keep your spirits
up and do not let crooks get away with this
unscrupulous act. We hope police will take
action on offenders and keep democracy
intact.’
Paul Ranjit Kumar
Q How do I use my insurance.
A You will need to have a policy number,
which is 0026041-CFMEU MEMBER
NUMBER. Your insurer is Accident and
Health International Underwriting Ltd and
its emergency contact number is
+61 2 92028211 whilst you are travelling
internationally. For more information go to
www.cfmeu-construction-nsw.com.au
ABOUT THE CHANGE
TO MODERN AWARDS
Q What effect do the Modern Awards that
came into effect on January 1 have on workers in the construction industry.
A If you are with a company that has a
registered EBA, the modern award known
as the Building and Construction General
On-Site Award 2010 will have no effect on
your wages and conditions while your EBA
applies. Because of the complexity involved
with the modern award replacing a number
of old awards,if you are in doubt ring the
Lidcombe office and check.
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Andrew Ferguson. “We are more determined
than ever to do our job in representing the interests of workers.
“This is not just an attack on a union, it is an
attack on our democracy and the right of people
to organsise around their rights,” he says.
Ferguson says it is a miracle no one was killed
in the attack as two community groups had left
the building less than an hour before.
Emergency services staff, unaware of the petrol drums in the car, had fought the fire and could
have been blown up at any moment, he says.
RAM-RAID
The stolen car was driven at high speed through
the glass entrance to the CFMEU office
IN THE WAKE OF THE CAR BOMBING the
CFMEU was inundated with calls of support
and solidarity.
“We have been greatly encouraged by
the support expressed to us across the full
spectrum of civil society. Many church and
community organisations use our office free
of charge after hours for meetings and events.
These groups understand that an attack on
us is an attack on them too,” says NSW State
Secretary Andrew Ferguson.
‘With great anger we heard the news of the
attack on our building and the threat to lives.
We express our total oneness with you all.
From our own personal experience we must all
redouble our efforts to rout this bastardry from
our industry.’
Paula and Stan Sharkey
‘This is an outrageous attack on a union which
has always stood in the forefront of campaigns
for workers’ rights here in Australia and internationally.
To acknowledge this proud fighting history
and the solidarity your union has offered to so
many, the CPA will assist in any way it can to
get the union on to its old footing as soon as
possible.’
Dr Hannah Middleton
General Secretary
Communist Party of Australia
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
The main foyer area, including valuable and historical union banners, were badly damaged
SILENCE
TELLS A STORY
SO MY OLD WORKPLACE was attacked
The damage to the offices is extensive and
estimated at more than $500,000, but the damage will be covered by insurance, Ferguson says.
He praised the effort of union staff who
worked tirelessly to clear the mess and put their
own concerns about safety behind them to return
to work.
He was also overwhelmed by the messages
of support that had come from the union movement and church and community organisations.
Ferguson says the union believes the attack
may be linked to a wages dispute with a west-
ern Sydney contractor over underpayments to
migrant workers.
“Less than 48 hours before the car bomb
attack a director [of this company] rang one of our
officials and made it clear he would destroy the
union,” says Ferguson.
As Unity went to press, Premier Kristina
Keneally had advised the CFMEU that NSW
Police had established a special Strike Force to
investigate the attacks. Anyone with information
about the attack is asked to contact police or the
union on 9749 0400.
‘The industry rejects this behavior and utterly
condemns it. Nothing even approaching this
has been seen in my 25 years in the industry.’
Brian Seidler
Chief Executive Officer
Master Builders Association NSW
attack on your union building, and express our
sympathy with all your members.’
Carine Metz Abu Hmeid
External Relations DWRC
‘We are spiritually determined to support the
CFMEU in anyway possible to overcome this
lawlessness.’
Hira Te Rangipumamao
Maori elder
‘We are shocked and appalled at this act of violence. It is an attack on the rule of law and our
democratic society.’
Robin Margo
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
‘You can’t run a society by trying to dominate
through violent action. It’s not simply unAustralian, it’s also not a human thing to do.’
David Reichardt
Uniting Church presbytery minister
‘I am writing to you to express my regret about
the attack on the CFMEU building. I am deeply
saddened by these events as is my community.’
Mustafa Hamed
Bhanin Association secretary
‘When trade unions and their elected officials
come under attack and are threatened, it is
workers’ trade union and human rights that
are violated, it is democracy, which is under
attack.’
Rino Gelmi
UITBB secretary
‘The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Centre
in Palestine strongly condemns this appalling
‘I wish to express my outrage at this despicable
act which could have caused serious injury or
death to persons in or near your building.
Father David Maguire
Diocese of Parramatta
‘On behalf of Construction Workers Syndicate
in Beirut and Mont Lebanon I support you and
announce our solidarity with you. And those
who did this cowardly action must be punished
according to laws that protect the freedom and
security of the syndicates.’
Castro Abdalla
Construction Workers Syndicate president
‘We as a nation, particularly the labour movement, have worked too long and too hard to
see criminal exploitation of workers creep back
in our community. A car bomb in a union office
should be a warning to us all that something
really needs our attention here.’
Julie Owens
Federal Labor Member for Parramatta
‘It does show that the CFMEU is
not an organisation that backs down from
fighting a just cause.’
Dr Kieran James
University of Southern Queensland
Other supporters include
Lebanese Communist Party
NSW State Parliamentary Left Caucus
East Killara Uniting Church
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence
with a car bomb. There are not many people
in this country who can make that statement!
A group of people stole a car, loaded
it with cannisters of petrol, smashed it
through a three-metre-high, wrought-iron
gate and crashed it into the front doors of a
three-storey office block. The picture to my
eyes looked very Baghdad indeed.
Amazingly, since the attack, not one
state or national political figure has come
out and condemned the violence.
Imagine for a moment, if such an attack
had been perpetrated on any other part of
civil society. A church. An RSL. A scout hall
even. Our political leaders would have been
racing each other to the scene of the crime.
Jostling to inspect the damage, crunch over
the broken glass, comfort the staff, condemn the violence.
It would have been (mis)named as a
terrorist attack. Bi-partisan condemnation
would have come from all levels of government. The papers would be full of it for
days.
Instead we get this ... silence.
Rudd has shown his true colours here.
He is a fake. A serious attempt to terrorise
and intimidate a key plank of our civil society and they are mute.
Clearly our political leaders are happy to
associate themselves with a disaster when
politically expedient, but run a mile when
it’s not. That’s not what leadership is in my
book. What a bunch of frauds.
The hypocrisy revealed in this incident is
sickening. A bit of blue language on a building site and there are screaming headlines,
a politicised Royal Commission (which
could not find any of the corruption and
organised crime in the building industry
because it was only looking for it among
the unions) and an industrial police with
powers and an agenda that would make the
Gestapo proud. But drive an improvised
explosive device into a union office?
The shocking explanation is that what
happened at Lidcombe simply does not fit
with the anti-CFMEU agenda of the political
and media elites in this country.
The reason a terrorist-style attack on its
NSW headquarters can be ignored in this
manner is because the union represents
a danger to the political and media elites.
Along with just a handful of other effective
unions, it remains an example, an imperfect
and flawed example, of ordinary people
having a little bit of power in their working
lives.
That’s why the CFMEU is fair game.
A copy of this article was first published
online in Crikey at www.crikey.com.au
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YOUR UNION
LOOKING
OUT FOR
MEMBERS
AT WORK
AND PLAY
THE UNION HAS INTRODUCED free travel insurance and an ambulance
benefit for eligible financial union members. This initiative has been
introduced to reward financial members and to assist in the retention and
recruitment of new members. And it is creating a buzz among members.
All too often in the past, the union has successfully campaigned for
industry improvements and better legislation, which benefit all building
workers or are covered by an enterprise agreement, without recognising
the special contribution of union members, who by being and remaining
financial members, keep the union strong and effective.
Now we have decided to introduce benefits only for financial members of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.
From 1st April 2010 the union is providing FREE International and
Interstate Travel Insurance and Ambulance Benefit.
Make sure you are financial or join now!
RIDING THE WAVE
The offer of Free Trave Insurance takes the worry out of holidays
TRAVEL INSURANCE
Eligible financial members of the CFMEU, New South Wales Divisional
Branch, Construction & General Division and their accompanying immediate family are covered for:
1. Interstate travel whilst engaged on private pleasure travel by air, rail,
motor vehicle or sea; and
2. International travel from point of departure to the intended destination, associated leisure travel and return.
To check if you are eligible and for further policy details go to the product
disclosure statement at www.cfmeu-construction-nsw.com.au
AMBULANCE BENEFIT
The CFMEU also provides an ambulance benefit for all eligible financial
members and their immediate family.
This benefit is payable to Eligible Financial Members and their immediate family who are unable to receive financial assistance for emergency
transportation through a legislated scheme, a health insurance policy or
any other insurance policy.
This benefit is limited to $5000 per Eligible Financial Member per
year. This benefit excludes inter-hospital transportation.
For more details and how to claim go to www.cfmeu-constructionnsw.com.au
SOLIDARITY OFFER FOR FRIENDS
BEING PART OF THE CONSTRUCTION
UNION no longer requires members to have a
strong knowledge of tools.
The CFMEU has launched a supporters
club aimed at encouraging people with a passion for politics and social justice to get active.
CFMEU State Secretary Andrew Ferguson
says being part of the CFMEU is about more
than better pay and conditions.
“For many decades the CFMEU has been
at the forefront of the fight for workers’ rights,
social justice and international solidarity,” he
says, adding CFMEU Solidarity will help better
resource the union “so we can strengthen progressive trade unionism”.
“Our supporters will help us continue our
involvement in the anti-war movement, campaigns for social justice and broader social and
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community work.” Among the inaugural members is barrister David Shoebridge, pictured
right. The local councillor and father of two is
also the lead candidate for the Greens in the
NSW Upper House for the 2011 State election.
“In my experience the CFMEU exercises a
crucial civilising influence on the construction
industry here in NSW by ensuring safer workplaces and promoting fair pay and conditions
for building workers,” says Shoebridge.
“I am proud to support it.”
Supporters, who pay $8 a month to belong,
will be eligible for the union’s free travel insurance offer. Building workers are not eligible to
join CFMEU Solidarity.
So get your mates or family members who
are not in the industry to become a CFMEU
supporter. More information on 9749 0400.
YOUR UNION
TEXT
ON THE
INTERVENTION
TRAIL
FIVE DAYS IN ALICE SPRINGS visiting indigenous town
camps to see the impact of the Federal Government’s socalled intervention was an eye opener.
In my view there are similarities between the union’s
struggle for fair wages and conditions and the plight of
indigenous communities.
Since June 21, 2007 and the introduction of the
BasicsCard, things have taken a backwards step in
Aboriginal communities of the north.
The BasicsCard or income management strategy quarantines 50 per cent of welfare money received by individuals and forces it to be spent on purchases at selected retailers.
These retailers not only impose the principles of segregation by only having designated checkouts to process
transactions, but have the highest cost of grocery items,
in turn creating a further division between white Australia
and the indigenous community.
The biggest and most alarming concern is that people
seem to be working for nothing or basic rations – as you
don’t get paid for the true value of a fair day’s work or the
tasks undertaken, and are penalised for not appearing, ie:
losing 50 per cent of the monies placed on the BasicsCard.
I see a clear parallel with WorkChoices and the
BasicsCard with communities working for no pay or conditions – there is very little union representation in the outback communities.
Canberra has refused to reinstate the Racial
Discrimination Act, as the laws of the Intervention would
breach its guidelines.
As one community elder said: “Why have an income
card – we know how to look after our kids and family – why
do we need to be told what to spend money on.”
Since the Rudd Government came to power there has
been an apology to the stolen generation, but nothing has
been done so far on health, education, job creation and
housing. Yet millions of dollars have been spent enforcing
the intervention.
Myself and Howard Byrnes (CFMEU delegate at Botany
Cranes) joined the Aboriginal communities and STICKS
in the Northern Territory on February 13 to participate in
a rally to seek change to the unjust intervention strategies,
peacefully marching on retailers to seek equal rights for
people regardless of race, colour or creed.
In some of the Aboriginal communities unemployment is as high as 90 per cent, existing community-based
programs have been scrapped and there has been a steady
rise in youth suicide.
Together the CFMEU – on a state and national
level –has delivered one of the first housing and shade
construction projects in remote communities, skilling youth to create opportunities and hope for future
development and achievable employment outcomes.
— Rebel Hanlon
BUILDING
BRIDGES
CFMEU Organiser Rebel
Hanlon with indigenous
community members in
Alice Springs
UNION
ACTION
DELIVERS
The CFMEU built a
prefabricated house
and shade area for the
Alyawarr people at a protest camp about
400 kilometres north of
Alice Springs.
The Alyawarr left
their community,
Ampilatwatja, in July last
year in protest at the
Government’s Northern
Territory Intervention
campaign.
Other unions supporting the campaign
include the LHMU,
AMWU, MUA and AWU.
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YOUR UNION
BETTER
DEAL
FOR
POTTERY
SECTOR
SHAYNE STIFF IS GLAD OF THE COMPANY.
As a one-man team in the Brick, Tile and Pottery
Division of the CFMEU he has been covering
workers in the sector across New South Wales,
putting in a lot of lonely kilometres on the state’s
highways.
So Stiff is pretty pleased to now be part of the
Construction and General Division team.
The Federal Brick, Tile and Pottery Union
joined the CFMEU 12 years ago during the ACTU
push for super-unions and had its own division.
However recently the brick, tile and potters
agreed to fully amalgamate with the Construction
and General Division of the union. Stiff sees it as
a winning move for the workers involved, while
for the CFMEU construction division it is an
extra 1000 members to add to its voice.
“They get all the benefits of being serviced by
a bigger office with more staff and have access to
benefits like the new travel insurance.”
Stiff says the sector was hit hard by the
Howard Government’s WorkChoices laws, that
Liberal leader Tony Abbott is ready to reinstate if
he wins office.
“We had a lot of trouble with bosses de-unionising the workforce and pushing for casualisation,” he says. “In the next 12-18 months most
of the enterprise agreements are up for renegotiation, so it will be good to have a bigger team
behind us to secure better deals.”
The Dubbo-based Stiff, who moved west to
indulge his passion for greyhound and horse
DATE WITH A CHAMPION
CFMEU members on the Bovis site at Darling Harbour, above, recently had the rare opportunity to
meet a world champion. Inspiring athlete and CFMEU activist Todd Philpott, world champion handcyclist, dropped by to talk with workers about the importance of site safety. Philpott, who lost the use of
his legs after a motor vehicle accident, also talked about his personal struggle to get back on track and
the importance sport played in that process. Beside his union activism – Philpott is regularly seen at
the front of CFMEU protest rallies – the champion racer also does a lot of work with disabled youth,
particularly amputees. A two-time New York marathon winner in the handcycling category and Sydney
Olympics paralympics gold medal winner, Philpott has his sights set on representing Australia at the
London Olympics in 2012. In a bid to help him reach that goal CFMEU Organisers Rob Kera and Rebel
Hanlon helped raise $7000 to go towards competition to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games.
racing, will work out of the Lidcombe office
part-time alone with long-time Organiser John
Prentice. Prentice has been on the road with Stiff,
getting to know the issues and the workers.
Stiff has seen 10 plants shut down in the past
10 years and says watching blokes lose their jobs
is one of the hardest parts of working for the
union. However on the positive side he has been
impressed with workers’ ability to take up the
challenge of new technology.
He says the multi-million-dollar investments
by companies such as Caroma means many factories now operate 24 hours. In some cases this
has led to more work and in the case of Caroma’s
Eastern Creek factories will mean work done in
China will now return down under.
If you have any concerns about safety, your
entitlements or wages contact John Prentice on
0414979548 or Shayne Stiff on 0438 926 776.
GO WEST, SAY LAWYERS
TAYLOR & SCOTT AND THE CFMEU have launched an initiative to make
it easier for workers in western Sydney to sort out their legal issues. From
this month Taylor & Scott will open its offices in the boardroom of the
Mount Druitt Worker’s Club three days a week.
That means you can finish work, pick up a beer and sit down with union
lawyers like Ivan Simic and talk about worker’s compensation issues or
other work-related problems.
CFMEU Organiser and Mt Druitt board member Rebel Hanlon says it is
hard for workers to get into Taylor & Scott’s city or Lidcombe offices after
a day at work.
“Lots of our rank and file members in western Sydney are short on time
and have family commitments they need to get to,” he says. “Travelling to
Lidcombe or the city becomes almost impossible so many rank and file
members miss out on chasing up payments they are entitled to.”
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TEAM PLAYER
Shayne Stiff now has the backing of the staff at
Lidcombe as he negotiates on workers’ behalf
FINANCIAL REPORT
CFMEU CONSTRUCTION & GENERAL DIVISION
NSW DIVISIONAL BRANCH, FINANCIAL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DEC 2009
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union Construction
& General Division - New South Wales Divisional Branch financial
report for the year ended 31 December 2009 is audited in accordance with the provisions of the Fair Work Act. The Financial Report,
including the Auditor’s Report and Statements, together with certificates required to be given under the Act by the Accounting Officer
and the Committee of Management, is published on our website
at: http://www.cfmeu-construction-nsw.com.au. A hard copy of the
financial report when published will be supplied by the union office
free of charge to members on request.
COVER STORY
MAKE A
STAND
WITH
TRIBE
FOR ARK TRIBE THE MOTIVATION to
stand up against the Australian Building and
Construction Commission was simple: “I was
always brought up with the belief you don’t dob
on your mates.”
On June 15 that very Australian ethic will be
put on trial when Tribe faces court over charges of
refusing to be interviewed by the industry attack
dog, the ABCC.
For the past two years this impending trial has
weighed on Tribe and in the process the South
Australian rigger has become a hero to workers
Australiawide.
However apart from the anxiety of waiting to
know whether he will be jailed for his civil disobedience, Tribe carries with him a sense of disbelief
that this could be happening under the watch of a
Labor Government.
“[Labor] has forgotten who they represent,” he
says. “I for one will never support a government
that wants to jail a bloke for wanting to be safe at
work.
“These laws are wrong, these laws are discriminatory … I swear on the Southern Cross that
I will never abandon my mates.”
Tribe’s story goes back to when he was working on the Flinders University site in Adelaide.
Conditions were so bad that workers drew
up a petition on a handtowel calling for safety
improvements during an unauthorised meeting.
It took an intervention by the union and the
state government safety regulator to get the most
pressing problems fixed and finally, after several
days, things began to get back on track.
Then the ABCC
came knocking –
not to ask the company why its workplace conditions
were so dangerous,
but rather who had
encouraged the
workers to protest.
Tribe says it is
s i g n i fi c a n t t h a t
while the ABCC has
THAT’S MY DAD
been on the buildSon Jake, 16, says he and his high school mates are proud of what his dad is
ing site beat safety
doing. But the prospect of his dad behind bars weighs heavily.
has gone backwards
“It’s always on my mind, but I try not to think about it.”
with 21 more deaths
last year compared
with the year before the ABCC was introduced.
CFMEU State Secretary Andrew Ferguson
says it is essential building workers use their
RDO on Tuesday June 15 to show their support
for Tribe.
“What type of democracy are we living in
where a serial killer like Ivan Milat has more
rights than an ordinary worker,” Ferguson says.
“Ark Tribe is a hero. He refused to submit to a
force that seeks to intimidate, harass and persecute building workers.
“We are calling on members and activists to
join us in a Solidarity Rally and show Ark he is
not alone.
“And if Ark Tribe is jailed we will shut down
building sites across Australia and every building
worker will put himself in the firing line.”
DAY OF ACTION
SUPPORT ARK TRIBE
ASSEMBLE TRADES
HALL BEHIND SUSSEX
ST, SYDNEY
TUESDAY JUNE 15
NOON
MARCH TO
THE ABCC!
IF ARK IS JAILED
ALL OUT IN 2010
TONY ABBOTT: THE FACTS
THERE IS NO DOUBT the Rudd Labor
Government is a disappointment to many
CFMEU members.
Despite its promise, the industry watchdog,
the ABCC, continues to harass and intimidate
workers and union officials, while turning a
blind eye to anything that involves a boss.
But while the stimulus package is being
attacked for not delivering good value for
money, members know it did deliver jobs at
a critical time for workers in the construction
industry.
Liberal Opposition leader Tony Abbott is
beginning to work his way up in the polls. But
a Coalition Government now would be nothing
more than a return to the days of John Howard.
Tony Abbott might come across as a
good bloke, but he was the one of the key
ministers in the government that introduced
WorkChoices. And read his lips: The only thing
he has promised to Australian workers is that
the name WorkChoices is dead.
When he was first elected leader of
the Liberals, Mr Abbott said: “The phrase
WorkChoices is dead. No one will ever mention
it again.”
But he did not distance the Liberals from
reviving elements of WorkChoices.
“We do need to have a free and flexible
economy,” he said. And in opposing the Rudd
Government plan to tax mining companies
super profits, Abbott said he would bring the
budget back in surplus through cuts.
We all know what cuts mean under a Liberal
Government. Cuts to public health spending,
cuts to public education spending and cuts to
programs that benefit pensioners and some of
our society’s most vulnerable.
And if that wasn’t enough to cause concern,
Abbott has now admitted he only tells the
“gospel truth” when reading from a prepared
statement. So everything else is lies.
UNITY 9
TILING
TEXT
IN THE BOX
Jongsu Suh, centre front, with comrades and CFMEU officials
WINNING
GROUND IN
WEIGHTY
BATTLE
JONGSU SUH IS PAYING THE PRICE of a life-
time spent as a tiler. After 20 years in the sector,
he has retired with crippling pain from back and
knee injuries sustained from his work.
Many people would just take their painkillers
and enjoy their retirement as best they could. But
Mr Suh is campaigning to ensure his comrades
do not suffer the same fate.
Along with CFMEU Organiser Chikmann
Koh and State Secretary Andrew Ferguson, Mr
Suh has been critical is fighting for tiles to be
packed in 20kg boxes. Koh says Mr Suh joined
the campaign voluntarily and has been going on
site visits talking to tilers.
“Without medical help he couldn’t walk, yet
he understands the importance of this and the
union’s involvement and wants to help,” he says.
As part of the campaign the union has placed
a ban on the delivery to sites of boxes of wall and
UNITY 10
floor tiles that weigh more than 20 kilos. Some
tile boxes being imported from China weigh
more than 30 kilos and in some cases more than
40 kilos. These excessive weights have resulted in
injury to many workers.
So far the campaign is having an impact,
thanks also to the support of organisations such
as the NSW branch of the Australian Tile Council
and builders such as Masterton that are helping
raise the issue with importers.
“Step by step we are winning,” says Koh.
“Some importers have spoken with their
manufacturers in China and we have had a good
response and some imports are already being
packed in less than 20kg lots.”
The campaign has also been buoyed by widow
Julie Lee Park, whose husband died in September
last year. Mrs Park has been attending rallies and
speaking out on the need for industry to join the
union in fixing this problem.
Ferguson says a collaborative approach is
needed because the packaging issue can only be
fixed in China.
“If the tiles are repacked in Australia, then the
warranty is cancelled,” he says.
The union is taking the campaign global with
the CFMEU and Australian Tile Council talking
to US and European counterparts to put pressure
on manufacturers over the packaging issue.
CLASS ACTION
The union is also considering launching a class
action through the union lawyers Taylor & Scott
for compensation for workers in the tile sector
who have injuries as a result of manual handling
issues.
If you are interested in joining this contact
Chikmann Koh on 0430 129 977.
PAINTING
ONE
STROKE
AT A
TIME
BY THE TIME JOHN HOWARD WAS KICKED out of government in 2007, the painting sector was in a mess. According to
CFMEU Organiser Mansour Razaghi, the ABN contracting system
the Liberal Government encouraged had spread through the sector
like a virus, weakening entitlements, work conditions and wages.
For the past 18 months, Razaghi has been working to win back
the trust of workers and with the help of CFMEU officers has
managed to sign up 15 companies on to Enterprise Agreements.
The painting sector is divided between a number of ethnic
groups, including Bosnians, Croations and Serbians, Greeks and
Persians.
“Among the communities word has spread that the union has been
successful with a lot of wage claims in the painting sector,” he says.
As a result, workers are coming back to the union for assistance to improve their conditions, says Razaghi. Critical to his success has been a focus on training, with the CFMEU at Lidcombe
recently hosting a painting forum with representatives from
BWAC, Taylor & Scott, CFMEU safety officer Rick Rech and other
union officers.
He also recently held a training course for workers on how to read
their pay slips to check entitlements such as superannuation were
being paid.
“We are getting very positive feedback and very positive
responses,” says Razaghi, who ensures he regularly does faceto-face meetings and ACIRT and Cbus checks. “We are now even
finding some companies are coming to the union when they have
a problem so it doesn’t escalate. We are slowly bringing back the
influence and reputation of the CFMEU.”
NEW DELEGATE READY
TO FACE THE MUSIC
At the Bovis Lend Lease Liverpool Hospital site, employees of Mick’s Painting are
already planning overseas holidays. Having recently signed an Enterprise Agreement,
the team at Mick’s Painting recently elected a CFMEU delegate to represent them.
But as Organiser Mansour Razaghi highlighted all the benefits their new EAs would
deliver, it was the free travel insurance for financial members that caught the imagination. With murmurs around the room of “this is a good thing”, Razaghi found himself
fielding many questions about how the scheme worked. By the end of the meeting, all
the employees had signed direct debit forms to ensure they stayed financial and could
start planning their overseas holidays to visit family. Bovis company delegate Gordon
Cameron told the painters with the free travel insurance, ambulance benefit and picnic
day tickets, union membership paid for itself. “Just those three things would give you a
profit on your membership,” he says. Former Bosnian professional musician Edin Bilal,
above right with Mansour, was voted delegate to the delight of his workmates. Bilal says
he joined the union soon after ditching his guitar for a paintbrush after he migrated to
Australia 12 years ago. “I am happy to take on this job because without the union it is
going to be hard for us,” he says. Bilal says the travel insurance is a good selling point,
particularly in sectors where the workforce has family overseas. Cameron reminded the
workers they needed to support the new delegate. “Without you he’s nothing, with you
he’s strong,” he says.
BE A WINNER FOR WORLD CUP
SAFE MOVE
PICK THE TWO NATIONS that will play in the
A CFMEU-LED INITIATIVE will make tower
World Cup final in South Africa and the final
score and you could win a fantastic prize.
The financial member who can nominate
the two teams that will face off at Soccer City in
Johannesburg at 4.30am on July 12, Australian
time, will win a night’s accommodation for
two at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Coogee, with
breakfast thrown in.
NSW State Secretary Andrew Ferguson
is the first entry in with his tip for a SpanishGerman final with the Spanish to win 2-1.
Football-mad CFMEU members should
be sure to schedule the final off, as thanks to
the time difference the kick-off is on a flexible
Rostered Day Off, July 12.
That means members will have the chance
to watch the live broadcast on SBS on Monday,
July 12 starting at 3.30am without having to face
a day of work.
The World Cup kicks off on June 12
(Australian time) with Australia playing
its opening Group D round match against
Germany on June 14 (Broadcast live on SBS at
4.30am). The other group matches are:
• Australia vs Ghana June 19, 11.30pm (SBS)
• Australia vs Serbia June 24, 4.30am (SBS)
Entries for the World Cup competition close
at 10pm on June 11 as the Opening Ceremony
broadcast kicks off on SBS. Officers and organisers of the CFMEU and financial members are
eligible to enter. One entry per person only.
In the event of more than one person submitting the right answer, a draw will be made to
select the winner, to be announced in the next
edition of Unity.
The prize is valid for a year, subject to availability and excludes peak season dates such
as Christmas and New Year. Send your entries
to cooperdani@bigpond.com with the subject
line marked WORLD CUP or mail them to Unity
File, Locked Bag 1, Lidcombe. NSW. 1825
crane use in NSW safer with the union organising a training course for operators.
CFMEU Organiser Tony Papa says most
tower crane operators are trained on mobile
cranes and then do an employer-run training
course to move into tower cranes.
Papa says this is not sufficient and the
union is pushing for an industry wide training
program. He points to one company that runs
a course for one day a week over six weeks.
“It is a Mickey Mouse course that doesn’t
train the workers adequately,” he says.
The CFMEU initiative has the backing of
the major industry players with one company
donating a tower crane to be erected on site at
Comet’s training centre in Lidcombe.
The union, in collaboration with the Crane
Industry Council of Australia, is also pushing
for better regulation of the 10-year inspection
requirement for cranes. Of 1600 cranes in
NSW it is estimated 700 are 10-years plus.
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OHS
PLANT PUT
IN FOCUS
The next Brian Miller Safety
Forum will see participants
heading west.
On July 7, the topic is “Plant”
and will be held at Mt Druitt
Workers Club.
For those who like their toys,
there will be a lot of plant
equipment on display.
However the feature item will
be Botany Cranes’ 70-metre
boom lift, the largest of its
kind in Australia.
For information about
participating in the event
contact CFMEU Organiser
Tony Papa at the Lidcombe
office on 9749 0400.
LEARNING
CURVE
Jimmy Ponisi and
Gordon Cameron
tuck in after the
forum
SAFETY
THE
WINNER
AT FORUM
THE BRIAN MILLER CONSTRUCTION SAFETY FORUM is growing in
popularity and it isn’t just about the burger at the end. Forum vice-president
and CFMEU Organiser Tony Papa says the forum has had a facelift in the
past 18 months.
“When [former CFMEU safety officer] Brian was around it was only for
union members,” says Papa. “We’ve tried to revitalise it by opening it up to
other stakeholders so it has become an industry event.”
The attendance now ranges from site delegates and safety committee
members through to national OHS managers and sub-contractors. Papa
believes the change has been effective on two counts – through raising
awareness of safety and as a public relations coup.
“It allows a lot of people who aren’t normally exposed to the union to come
to the union office and see we haven’t got two heads,” says Papa. On average
about 120 people attend the forums, which are held every two months. “It’s
great for creating a lot more awareness around safety,” says Papa.
Forum “regular” Jimmy Ponisi, safety committee chairman at Westfield
Design and Construction, says the events are “brilliant”.
“It used to be just rank and file but we now have a broader range of views,”
UNITY 12
SHARING APPROACHES
Australand’s Wayne Game, Dimitri Barlas of WorkCover and Paynter Dixon’s Chris Pearson
he says. Ponisi brings along other members of his safety committee to the
forums as he says it gives them greater authority when talking about safety on
site. “Every day the site changes and we have to deal with that,” he says.
Bovis delegate Gordon Cameron has been attending the forums for the
past 15 years. “I’ve seen legislation getting changed at these meetings,” he
says. “Having the bosses come along is a good move too, after all it’s all about
saving lives.”
For safety managers Chris Pearson, of Paynter Dixon, and Wayne Game
at Australand, the mix of participants is the winning formula.
“It’s a good opportunity for industry at different levels to get together,”
says Game, “and there is good information coming out of it.”
Pearson says the forum also allows people working in the OHS field to
“pass on to others our ideas of how we handle things”.
OHS/ASBESTOS
HUNT
ON FOR
DUMPS
WORKERS WHO MAY HAVE HELPED dump
asbestos or know of potential dump sites used
by James Hardie have been asked to contact the
CFMEU.
Retired CFMEU safety co-ordinator Dick
Whitehead is launching the campaign with
union lawyers Taylor & Scott and former
WorkCover inspector Des Highfield. Whitehead
says it is hoped a map can be drawn up showing
possible dump sites, to stop inadvertent exposure
when these areas are developed.
“In the 1970s companies like Hardie had to
find places to get rid of tailings and broken sheets
of asbestos,” he says. “Mostly they were dumped
and as places like Westmead Hospital got developed broken asbestos was dug up.”
He says if companies and developers know
there is a risk asbestos was dumped on a site they
can take proper precautions for workers before
work begins.
Taylor & Scott lawyer Ivan Simic says the next
wave of asbestos-related diseases will come from
home renovations and accidental exposure through
MAPPING OUT A PROBLEM
Taylor & Scott lawyer Ivan Simic with Dick Whitehead and Des Highfield
inadvertent excavation of asbestos dump sites.
“Young workers think of it as an old blokes’
problem,” he says. “But the ones digging it up
and rebuilding on top of it are going to have the
same problems in 20-30 years.”
He says while asbestosis is due to exposure
to fibres over a long period of time, it is the fatal
mesothelioma that is of most concern into the
future. Researchers still have very little idea about
how the disease works, who is most at risk and
how much exposure is required, he says.
Highfield, who has pleural plaque – a tough
tissue that forms on the chest wall that indicate
exposure to asbestos – considers himself lucky.
“It used to rain asbestos on us when we were
working on the power stations,” he says, adding
that many of his former workmates have since
died.
If you have any information contact Dick
through the union office on 9749 0400.
ENDING USE IN VIETNAM
CANADA RAMPS UP EXPORTS
THE UNION’S AID AGENCY APHEDA has launched a project in
CANADA IS ON THE VERGE OF RAMPING UP its asbestos export industry
Vietnam focusing on asbestos and asbestos disease. Vietnam has
banned other forms of asbestos but still imports around 60,000
tonnes of crysotile asbestos each year to make cheap roofing tiles.
Many thousands of workers are occupationally exposed each year
in Vietnam. Added to this, millions of Vietnamese are living in housing whose roofing is made from asbestos roofing tiles. The initial
one-year project will establish a dedicated National Resource Centre
on Asbestos within the National Institute of Labour Protection.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union will provide for
expertise in worker education and the Asbestos Disease Research
Institute will provide technical, treatment and diagnostic expertise.
The project will develop information and training materials for
workers and assist in immediate protection for workers potentially
exposed via low-cost Personal Protective Equipment.
Vietnamese trade unions will then be better positioned to educate workers and employers on the dangers of asbestos and provide information to the Vietnamese Government.
“Exposure to asbestos has categorically been proven to be lethal
to workers,” says Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA executive officer
Peter Jennings.
‘This project will assist the Vietnamese union movement to
produce credible research to inform the ongoing policy debate in
Vietnam between employers, the government and the unions.
“It will also provide practical and direct assistance to workers in
the short term who are likely to be exposed to this deadly fibre.”
with the Quebec government about to decide on a $58 million loan for a new
$190 million underground asbestos mine in the town of Asbestos, Quebec.
The mine could produce enough asbestos to keep Canada active in distributing the mineral for an additional 30 years. In 2009, Quebec exported
about $90 million worth of asbestos and over half of it was sent to India and
the rest to other developing countries such as Mexico and Thailand.
Pressure against the industry is mounting in Canada with more than
50 Quebec medical doctors, scientists and environmental leaders signing
a petition demanding that Quebec outlaw the use, export and mining of
asbestos. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also released a document asking for a stop to all asbestos use.
However workers and residents of Asbestos are strongly supporting
the development, concerned that any threat to the mine is a threat to the
town’s economy and jobs. To date, more than 40 countries have banned all
uses of asbestos and this includes the entire European Union.
WHAT CAN YOU DO
Write to or email the Canadian consulate in Sydney demanding an end to
the exports and calling on the government to reject the loan at:
Canadian Consul general
Tom MacDonald
111 Harrington Street,
The Rocks.
Sydney. NSW. 2000. or
Email: sydny@international.gc.ca
UNITY 13
OHS BRIEFS/RDO
SITE FOR SORE EYES
The CFMEU is working with
Bluescope Steel to improve safety
on sites with a trial of anti-glare
metal deck form.
CFMEU Safety Co-ordinator
Rick Rech says commonly used
sacrificial metal deck form
reflects the sun resulting in bad
sunburn on workers’ faces and
legs. To overcome this issue
Bluescope Steel has developed
a matt finish on the form that
aborbs the glare, and which is
now being trialled on a Bovis
Lend Lease site.
Bluescope is also developing
anti-slip decking, Rech says. “This
is a very positive initiative to stop
and decrease the rate of skin
cancer on building sites.”
POPPING THE CORK
The CFMEU has warned against
the use of corkscrew-style ground
anchors after a recent failure on a
site due to heavy rains. Safety coordinator Rick Rech says embed-
ded anchors with reinforced strip
footings should now be used.
HOIST WARNING
The Plant Consultative
Committee, which includes representatives from the union, industry and WorkCover, has changed
regulations around the use of
landing platforms.
From July 1, where a landing
platform on a man and materials
hoist is less than 1.5m wide it will
have to have a second safety lanyard to secure the gate.
CFMEU safety co-ordinator
Rich Rech says the initiative is
aimed at stopping a gate from
falling from a platform and plummeting to the ground.
“If it fell and hit someone it is
going to kill them,” Rech says. “I
commend industry for its input
into this serious issue.”
BAN ON CHARIOTS
A fatal accident in South
Melbourne on January 15, in which
a worker fell seven storeys to his
death, has led to a CFMEU ban on
cantilevered chariots. The union
has also called for the following
controls:
• No type of chariot is to be used
closer than three metres from
any edge where a fall of two
metres or greater exists
• Any work that is required to
be undertaken on balconies
or edges of buildings should
be done behind purposefully
designed and engineered
screens, or
• If mobile scaffolds are used,
they must be secured to the
building or structure to prevent
tipping over.
ASBESTOS WARNING
WorkCover has issued a safety
alert over Chinese imports of
natural stone tiles that contain
Tremolite asbestos, a banned
substance.
Importers of natural stone
tiles from China should ask for
HEAR, HEAR FOR A CHECK-UP
MANY MEMBERS ARE TAKING UP the
union offer to make a trip to Lidcombe on their
RDO. The collapse of a number of high-profile
companies has shown the importance of members keeping track of their superannuation and
long service leave.
When the crunch comes this is money you
are missing out on, but understanding pay
slips and accounts can be confusing and time
consuming. The union office at Lidcombe and
all its staff are there to help on your Rostered
Days Off. As an extra service the union has
also organised the hearing van to come to the
Lidcombe office on fixed RDOs (see dates at
right) to make it easier for workers to check for
hearing loss.
And if you have suffered hearing loss, you
can simply walk up to Level 2 and talk about
compensation options with union solicitors
Taylor & Scott. Besides industrial deafness
cases, Taylor & Scott are experts in workers
compensation, industrial relations and immigration law. The union is also arranging for Cbus
co-ordinators to be in the union office foyer on
fixed RDOs so you can update death benefits,
GIVE
BLOOD
UNITY 14
check your superannuation details and ensure
you are covered properly in case of an injury.
Members can also take the time to check
on their long service leave credits with the Long
Service Payments Corporation or check their
coverage with U-Plus insurance. Both organisations have offices on Level 1 of the CFMEU headquarters.
Aside from getting all your paperwork
sorted, you can also use the visit to raise any
safety or workplace concerns you have with an
organiser or union official, pay your union fees,
buy CFMEU clothing and safety gear and catch
up on the latest industry gossip.
The Lidcombe office truly is a one-stop
shop so next RDO remember the union office
is the place to be. The CFMEU office is open
Monday to Friday between 8am and 4pm.
Cbus and the hearing van will be at the
Lidcombe office at 12 Railway St, Lidcombe
from 9am-2pm on:
Tuesday June 15
Tuesday October 5
Tuesday December 7
documentation that verifies the
content of the tiles.
Importers or retailers who
suspect they may have natural
stone tiles that contain Tremolite
asbestos or other forms of
asbestos-bearing rock should tell
WorkCover, and materials are to
be tested.
Where tiles containing
Tremolite asbestos or any other
forms of asbestos-bearing rock
have been installed, the affected
area is to be isolated until the
material is removed.
SAFETY SURVEY
Bosch, one of CFMEU’s sponsors,
has asked members to fill out a
safety survey.
It only takes 2 minutes to fill
out. If members could do so (and
pass it on to others also), that
would be great: http://cfmeu.asn.
au/news/safety-survey-on-powertool-injuries
Get the word out there – safety
matters!
RDO AND NO WORK WEEKENDS 2010
JUNE
Saturday June 12
Sunday June 13
Monday June 14
Tuesday June 15
No Work Saturday
No Work Sunday
No Work Public Holiday
RDO (fixed)
JULY
Monday July 12
RDO (flexible)
AUGUST
Monday August 9
RDO (flexible)
SEPTEMBER
Monday September 6
RDO (flexible)
OCTOBER
Saturday October 2
Sunday October 3
Monday October 4
Tuesday October 5
No Work Saturday
No Work Sunday
No Work Public Holiday
RDO (fixed)
NOVEMBER
Monday November 1
RDO (flexible)
DECEMBER
Saturday December 4
Sunday December 5
Monday December 6
Tuesday December 7
Saturday December 25
Sunday December 26
Monday December 27
Tuesday December 28
No Work Saturday
No Work Sunday
Industry Picnic Day
RDO (fixed)
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
MAKE SURE
YOU ARE
FINANCIAL
CALL 9749 0400
TEXT REHAB
OHS
NORTHERN
EXPOSURE
AS THIS GOES TO PRINT the
UMBERTO
IS NOW ON
THE MEND
WORK IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED
SHOP is a giant leap from the dust
and noise of a construction site, but for
Umberto Galasso his trade background
comes in handy.
A workplace injury on a construction site forced Galasso to stop work
for two years and at times he admits he
thought he would never work again.
Now at Bunnings Hardware, he has
the work of CFMEU rehabilitation provider Mend to thank for a turnaround in
his prospects.
Galasso initially hurt his knee in
2000, but kept working until 2008
when the injury finally forced him
to stop. That’s when he says he was
advised by CFMEU legal officer Rita
Mallia to approach Mend for assistance
in return to work.
“Mend gave me confidence, helped
get me the things I needed to find work
such as my forklift and dogman ticket,
and helped with my resume,” Umberto
said.
“Without them I still wouldn’t know
what I should be doing.”
Mend is an accredited workplace
rehabilitation provider, affiliated with
the CFMEU and the Master Builders
Association (MBA), that specialises in
assisting workers in the building industry.
Following a vocational assessment,
retraining was recommended for
Galasso, and he was assisted in finding
a job through the development of an upto-date resume and help in obtaining
job-seeking skills.
Mend gave advice regarding disclosing his injury to potential employers,
which can be daunting when trying
to both be honest but not jeopardise a
potential job.
Galasso eventually found a full-time
job as a sales assistant at the trades
counter of Bunnings, a position which
lets him use his trade background and
the forklift ticket he obtained as part of
his rehabilitation program.
Galasso’s advice to others in his situation?
“Be patient, be persistent, don’t give
up. One door locks but another one
opens,” he says.
For advice on return to work, OHS
or training call Mend on 1800 300 011.
new Civil Enterprise Agreements
(EAs) for Leighton contractors and
Abigroup are being finalised. These
are effectively the first of the big
contractors to do new agreements
under the Rudd Government’s Fair
Work Australia Act and the Modern
Award 2010 in NSW.
While feedback on the Modern
Building and Construction General
On-Site Award 2010 is slow, the feedback that has come back
is that there is a significant reduction in construction workers’ pay and conditions under the new award, things like the
loss of unlimited wet days for plant operators and a .75 cent
per hour reduction in the hourly rate for carpenters.
While the CFMEU has pushed hard to retain as much of
the old NBCIA (National Building and Construction Award
2000) in the new agreements as possible, the cost-cutting
nature of big business, driven on by a State Government
obsessed with bringing the budget back into the black has
created a dog-eat-dog industrial environment that hasn’t been
seen for many years. This in turn is fuelled by subbies who
continue to drop their prices to compete and a workforce that
is becoming increasingly reluctant to act on its own behalf.
The efforts of the CFMEU are reflected in the new
Abigroup and Leighton agreements while delivering the
industry-standard 15 per cent over three years, there are also
increases to ACIRT, superannuation, daily fares, and productivity.
There is a dangerous precedent for regional workers
brought about by the new modern award however, in the
areas of living away from home and travel allowance. With
every new project it would seem that regional workers are
travelling further all the time, with the current (EA) standard
of 100km each way being accepted as a reasonable distance.
Couple this with the fact that the average weekly hours
worked on any of the major projects on the north coast in the
past two years has been between 50-65 hours per week, then
drive up to 100 kilometres to get home and you start to see a
very dangerous trend developing.
The other big issue that will affect regional workers is
caravan/living away from home allowance, as the problem of
“gate starts” is still very much an issue and will remain that
way until workers stand up to big business threats.
A further assault on working conditions is the removal of
the hard-won right for plant operators to unlimited wet days.
Under the old award tradesmen and labourers were limited
to 32 hours per month wet-weather pay, while operators were
employed on a weekly hire basis and so long as they were
ready to work were paid 38 hours per week.
Due to the change in the modern award big business has
seized on the opportunity to use number crunching as an
excuse to attack workers’ pay and conditions. It is a timely
reminder before the federal election that on average male
workers between the ages of 18-45 are the highest-taxed
group pro rata in the country. Combined with the rising cost
of living and falling rates of pay these factors have a potential
for a loss of tax revenue to the government as well as having a
major economic impact over time in regional Australia as the
disposable income of all workers declines.
JIM HUTCHEON CFMEU Organiser, Northern NSW
UNITY 15
APPRENTICES/RETIRED
FROM LITTLE THINGS...
WHEN TOBY DEBONO DISCOVERED after
working for his boss for seven months that he still
hadn’t signed him up as an apprentice, he didn’t
know where to turn.
The 18-year-old was in an awkward position,
says CFMEU Apprentices Organiser Charishma
Kaliyanda. “He was working for a small builder
who was an acquaintance of his family.
“His boss kept promising to sign him up as
an apprentice but had held off for more than six
months.”Debono says he was being paid low
apprentice rates without any entitlements like
superannuation. On top of that his wages were
paid at irregular intervals. Another family friend
directed Debono to the CFMEU.
Debono says he wasn’t interested in taking a
wage claim, but instead really wanted to sign up
as an apprentice and learn a trade.
“The union helped hook Debono up with Denham
Constructions, who offered him a two-week trial, and if
he liked what they did, the opportunity to sign up
as an apprentice with them,” says Kaliyanda.
Debono says he can’t believe the difference
between his life working for a larger company
compared with the small, cottage industry player.
“I now work with a company with an EBA that
pays all its workers their entitlements and pays
them on time,” he says.
He is now working on the construction of
an aged-care home at a site at Glenhaven, in
Sydney’s north-west and couldn’t be happier.
“The older blokes on site take the time to
explain why they do things and treat me like part
of the family,” he says.
Now a union member he is adamant other
apprentices should follow his lead and join up.
“If you are getting ripped off the union it there
to tell you what your rights are.”
HELPING HAND Toby Debono is learning off the older blokes on site, like Glen Horner
RETIRED MEMBERS REPORT
AT THE APRIL MEETING of the Retired
Members Association there was a good roll
up, with heightened interest by members. The
meeting heard a number of reports dealing
with such things as:
• The proposed Rudd government hospital/
health reforms.
• Our delegates on the Committee of
Combined Retired Union Members
Association.
• Successes in our union’s Green Bans re the
Pyrmont Union Square.
• Our success campaigning against the privatisation of the Sydney Harbour Ferries.
Our Association decided to send a letter to
NSW Premier Kristina Kenneally saying while
we welcome extra funds for our public hospitals and health systems, those funds must be
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administered by our State Government and
not by a ‘one-size-fits-all’ remote Canberra
bureaucracy.
We also stated our objection to handing
over to the Federal Government our state’s
Occupational Health and Safety powers (see
letter on the CMFEU web site) for so-called
“harmonising” with other state laws.
State OHS laws were better in some 100
cases when compared with the proposed ‘harmonised’ federal laws and nowhere was there
an example of the federal law being better.
CMFEU member Ark Tribe is now being
prosecuted for signing a petition calling for a
safety committee on his work site, something
he had a right to do under NSW laws. Just
remember that at common law elsewhere in
Australia, “it is cheaper to kill than to maim”.
Over a dozen of our members attended
the April 28 Reflection Park ceremony held
at Darling Harbour in memory of employees
killed by their work. The rip, tear and bust of
the ‘free market’ economic system will result
in more employee deaths as the corporate
employers ‘go for broke’ in an effort to get back
to where they were in 2007, when the Global
Financial Crisis started with “sub-prime” toxic
debt.
The retired members have decided to get
their own banner again in readiness for the
Tuesday June 15 March to ABCC offices in support of CMFEU member Ark Tribe.
ALL WELCOME
Meetings are held at 9.30am on the fourth
Tuesday of the month at the CMFEU Offices at
Lidcombe. Have your say, (partners welcome).
Just remember you only retired from work, you
did not retire from life. You also have at least
50 years of valuable trade union experience that
is needed today.
SUPER
TEXT
BUMPER
RETURN
IN LOST
WAGES
THERE MAY BE A GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS,
but the members had a bumper year with their union
recovering more than $8.9 million in underpayment of
wages, entitlements and superannuation.
Many employers have continued the trend of underpaying employee entitlements in 2010 with the Wage
Claims Department run off its feet with the massive
increase in claims. In just the first four months of this
year the union has recovered an amazing $7.8 million
shared between 3000 members. A large percentage of
monies recovered was for unpaid superannuation and
ACIRT.
This should serve as a warning for members – when
an employer is struggling financially, they often stop paying the ‘hidden’ entitlements such as superannuation
and redundancy first. We encourage all workers to check
their superannuation at least every three months by a
simple call to the Cbus hotline Ph: 1300 361 784.
If you have missing super or ACIRT payments you
should call your union for assistance on 9749 0400.
JUSTICE FOR LAW
COURT WORKERS
WHEN CFMEU ORGANISERS Rebel Hanlon and Rob
Kera paid a visit to members working night shift on a
Sydney city job they unveiled a racket that the union has
been quick to shut down.
Hanlon says workers have not been paid the correct
penalty rates for night shifts with a flow-on impact on
superannuation contributions.
“The law has been broken on the law courts and
the union has stepped in and demanded justice,” says
Hanlon.
He says members on night shift should be paid time
and a half for the eight-hour shift with double-time payments for any overtime.
“We found workers were just getting their normal
basic pay,” he says. “Many of them knew it was wrong
but because of the lack of work around were too scared
to speak up.”
Hanlon says superannuation contributions should
be 9 per cent of the base pay, which should be time and
a half.
The union secured about $100,000 in entitlements
and wages for the workers, who were employed by Star
City Demolition.
With more CBD work happening when offices are
shut, Hanlon says CFMEU members need to ensure
they are getting the right pay.
Construction workers on night shift are urged to contact the union’s head office at Lidcombe on phone 9749
0400 and ask to speak with the counter organiser.
FINAL PAYMENTS
FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF WIDEFORM last
November, the union’s immediate priority was to ensure workers continued to be employed on their current job sites and
secondly to guarantee that all workers received weekly payment
of their wages and continued to accrue leave entitlements.
We then successfully delivered holiday pay to 95 per cent of
workers before the Christmas break, with the balance of annual
leave paid out in January 2010.
The union recently received the final payments for the
remaining 5 per cent of Wideform employees and all but a few
workers have collected their cheques. The final payments will
have been forwarded to Cbus and ACIRT by the time Unity goes
to press. More than $4 million worth of cheques was drawn by
the union for Wideform employees.
This was one of the largest projects undertaken by the union
and was delivered effectively in an amazingly short timeframe.
Credit should go to all the union organisers and staff who worked
so tirelessly to ensure none of the Wideform crew were ripped off.
We are waiting for verification from some builders showing the
amounts they paid for members direct to Cbus and ACIRT. We
expect to provide the total value of amounts recovered in the next
edition of Unity.
CHEQUE
THIS
OUT
Wideform
workers att
Macquarie
University
received
their payments before
Christmas.
Picture
courtesy
Northern
District Times
Keryn McWhinney, Senior wage claims officer
UNITY 17
DAY OF MOURNING
LEST WE
FORGET
Families tie
remembrance
cards to the
Memory Lines
sculpture in
Reflection
Park, top
opposite, a
ceremony at
the CFMEU
and the Port
Macquarie
memorial
DETERMINED
TO MAKE A
DIFFERENCE
FOR KAREN BOWLAND, the pain of losing her
husband has not eased.
Karen and her daughter, Tara, were two of
dozens of grieving relatives who laid memory
cards and flowers at a ceremony at Darling
Harbour on April 28 to mark the International
Day of Mourning.
Michael Bowland died on February 6, 2003 in a
crane accident on the railway line at Heathcote. “It
still as tough for us today. Some people can move
on, but we can’t,” Karen said after the ceremony.
Since her husband’s death, Karen has herself
become involved in the building industry, studying to become a workplace safety inspector.
“My husband died because of lack of training.
His death makes me determined to do all I can to
make a difference. I want to become an assessor
and help set up a trust to assist with training for
young kids.”
The family of Paul Hughes, a CFMEU scaf-
UNITY 18
folder who fell to his death five years ago in the
CBD, were also there to place a memorial card.
“You never really feel as if you can get over
it,” Paul’s brother, Chris, said as he sat with his
father, Frank, and mother, Hetty. “We’re still waiting on the findings from the Industrial Court into
the circumstances surrounding his death. We
believe lack of safety was a major factor.”
The Minister for Finance, Michael Daley,
called on businesses to make workplace safety a
top priority. “Today is a reminder for the families.
You are not alone in your grief.”
Following a blessing by Jewish, Muslim and
Christian religious leaders, the families lined up
in the autumn sunshine to shed a tear, have a hug
and place a card remembering their loved ones.
Across Sydney and New South Wales, construction sites stopped for a minute’s silence to
remember mates and colleagues killed in workplace accidents or through exposure to toxic
chemicals.CFMEU bucket collections raised
more than $7892.45 on the day, with the money
to be donated to the Workplace Tragedy Family
Support Group.
In Port Macquarie, this year’s Day of
Mourning ceremony was well attended with representatives from the CFMEU, NSW Teachers
Federation, USU, the local council, WorkCover
NSW, Unions NSW as well as representatives
from local families who have lost loved ones.
More importantly the local media recognised the
day and the importance it plays for families in
getting closure.
The CFMEU is also working with the Great
Lakes Council to place another plaque for
international day of mourning in that Local
Government Area and to remember Andy
Maddelena who was killed while working near
Bulahdelah earlier this year.
Remeber, at work it must be safety first.
CAMPAIGN
Julie Lee Park is helping the CFMEU campaign for
better conditions and payment for tilers following the
death of her husband last year
WIDOW HELPS
END THE PAIN
THE IMPACT OF A WORKPLACE
DEATH was brought home by the widow
of a Korean tiler to more than 700
industry members who attended the
Construction Industry Dinner.
Julie Lee Park, 43, lost her husband
Kenny Park on September 15, 2009,
when he suicided because of financial
difficulties.
The tiler had been working on
Canberra jobs for the past two years and
had not been paid for the work he had
completed.
Mrs Park said since her husband’s
death she had been evicted from her
home because of being unable to pay the
mortgage and was now solely responsible for her two children Ahae, 13, and
Chanuk, 9.
“I thank the Construction Forestry
Mining Energy Union for helping me
financially and emotionally. I am joining
their campaign to get better laws and
more protections for building workers,”
she told the audience, which included
NSW Premier Kristina Kenneally.
“I want to say non-payment of workers is a safety issue. It causes great
stress and suffering and sometimes,
tragically, loss of life.”
THE ESSAY
WAR
ZONE
THE FIGHT
FOR PALESTINE
IS A FIGHT UNIONS MUST SUPPORT, WRITES MAL TULLOCH
THE HUMANITARIAN ARM OF THE ACTU
(APHEDA) held a study tour of its humanitarian projects in Lebanon and Palestine in the first
weeks of March this year. The CFMEU has been
an active supporter of these projects since 1987
when APHEDA was established.
The tour was an opportunity to witness
firsthand what the Palestinian struggle has been
about for the past 62 years. It became clear when
I arrived this was not a holiday but a tour of an
active war zone.
The conflict between Palestinians and Israelis
started when Great Britain announced its intention to withdraw from Palestine in 1947. What
followed was what Israelis refer to as the War of
Independence and Palestinians call al-Nakba,
“the Catastrophe”.
Because of this campaign, most of the
Palestine’s indigenous populations were forced
to flee to neighbouring countries, where the
majority (1.5 million) continue to live as refugees
to this day.
Our first stop on the tour was the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in south Beirut, Lebanon. The
camp was established in 1948. The tents have
long gone and instead been replaced with poorly
built, five- and six-storey dwellings. In this camp
22,000 refugees live in 1.5 square kilometres.
The streets are narrow pathways that are hard to
negotiate for the electricity cables and water pipes
that service these homes.
The Lebanese constitution forbids integration
for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. These people have no status under Lebanese law and cannot
UNITY 20
ECHOES OF BERLIN
The Israelis have built a nine-metre wall to
separate the Palestinian communities from Israel
PROUD HERITAGE
Children in Gaza show their solidarity with the
CFMEU and delight in getting some stickers
return to Palestine. They live in this limbo land
where they cannot leave nor can they move on
with a new life in a new country. United Nations
Resolution 194 affirms the right of return for
Palestinian refugees and this resolution has been
reaffirmed every year since it passed in 1948.
The refugee camps have all the social problems and hopelessness associated with poverty
for more than three generations. The APHEDA
project funds an early education centre that helps
kids read and write so they can participate in
the very limited opportunities open to them in
the Lebanese education system. The Lebanese
Government restricts employment of refugees to
a small number of occupations.
The tour crossed into the West Bank of the
Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Occupied
Territories refers to the areas known as the West
Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. These
territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967
Arab-Israeli war and remain illegally occupied in
direct contravention of the UN Security Council
Resolution 242 (1967).
As we drove through the Territories towards
THIS IS ONE
STRUGGLE
AND ONE FIGHT
FOR JUSTICE,
DIGNITY AND
RESPECT FOR
HUMANITY.
SOMETHING
UNIONS FIGHT FOR
EVERY DAY
East Jerusalem, we could see the Israeli illegal
settlements dotting the countryside that occupy
all the high ground. With every new settlement
comes a military base to supply security for the
illegal settlers.
In East Jerusalem Palestinian families were
being evicted from their homes, protesters would
mass to demonstrate against the evictions. With
every eviction or take over came a security force
to protect the new Israeli family. The occupants
proudly hosting an Israeli flag on the house
in these Palestinian neighbourhoods. Other
Palestinian homes were demolished and new
apartments built to house more Israeli’s. Slowly
the Palestinians were being forced out of East
Jerusalem.
Moving about the West Bank was extremely
difficult and time consuming. There are more
than 550 checkpoints scattered throughout and
then there is the Wall. The nine-metre wall has
been built through Palestinian neighbourhoods,
villages and towns, cutting off Palestinians from
their farming lands, employment, family and
relatives. There is very little free movement within the West Bank. We were constantly stopped,
documents checked and questioned on where
we were going. The tour travelled to Ramallah,
Bethlehem, Nablis, through Jerusalem and the
rural district of Tulkarem.
A complex Israeli permit system controls
access to Israeli labour markets and in illegal
Israeli settlements. In 2000 146,000 permits
were issued to Palestinian workers. In 2007 it
went down to 63,000. Permits for workers in
Gaza ceased in 2006. Workers without permits
are frequently arrested and held in administrative
detention.
Palestinians seek work in Israel and the illegal settlements because there is more work available and wages are better. The majority of these
are labouring jobs in the construction sector. The
average daily wage for these workers is $45 a day
compared with less than half that for wages in the
Occupied Territories.
The tour then travelled through Israel to
the border of Gaza where we were confronted
by a landscape of utter destruction. Israel has
imposed a blockade on the borders of Gaza
by both land and sea. The borders have been
closed to importing or exporting any goods since
2007. Gaza is home to more than 1.5 million
Palestinians, but the blockade has essentially created Israel’s outdoor prison.
DAYS OF THE SCHOOLYARD
Despite being semi-destroyed by Israeli gun attacks
this school in Gaza is still operating
With the Israeli occupation, the siege of Gaza,
Israeli closures, the wall, checkpoints and roadblocks throughout the West Bank, the Palestinian
economy has more or less collapsed. Many
Palestinian trade unions have shifted the focus
of their activities from organising workers to providing food and emergency relief for ex-workers
and families.
The tour met with representatives from The
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
(PGFTU), The General Union of Palestinian
Workers (GUPW) and the Federation of
Independent & Democratic Trade Unions &
Workers Committees in Palestine (FIUP). We
also met with the Israeli labour organisation,
Histadrut.
During the tour we witnessed the resilience
of the Palestinian people who were constantly
provoked, intimidated and oppressed by the
Israel security presence in the West Bank. The
Palestinians continue to carry out an active civil
society and had a great sense of community and
family.
I thought it was a very complex situation until
I went on the tour. But instead it is in fact very
simple, if all the parties abided by international
law and did not renege on agreements then there
could be peace in the Middle East. Israel is very
rich and powerful state and the Palestinians are
a very poor, impoverished, but resilient people.
As trade unionist we know only too well what that
means. That any real negotiated settlement can
only come from international support.
This is one struggle and one fight for justice,
dignity and respect for humanity. Something
unionists fight for every day.
INTERESTED IN JOINING AN APHEDA
TOUR. CONTACT THE UNION AID AGENCY
ON 9264 9343 FOR MORE INFORMATION
OR VISIT WWW.APHEDA.ORG.AU
NATIONAL
EXECUTIVE
BACKS BAN
THE CFMEU NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
has adopted a resolution supporting a
boycott of products made in the illegal
settlements in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.
The Palestinian Resolution was
adopted after more than six months’
consideration and reports from the
Palestinian ambassador to Australia
Izzat Adbulhadi and first-hand reports
from Mal Tulloch and David Forde
who recently visited the region with an
APHEDA tour.
During that period the Netanyahu
government has stepped up its provocative actions with the announcement of
new settlements during the visit of US
Vice-President Joseph Biden and the use
of false Australian passports in the killing of a Hamas official.
“It is the kind of solidarity action that
can send a message loud and clear to
the [Israeli] Netanyahu government,” the
executive stated.
“The CFMEU further resolves that
we will argue for this approach in the
forums of the labour movement in
Australia including the ACTU and the
ALP and that we will also argue for it in
international forums as appropriate.”
The resolution was adopted as support that could be offered until a just
and lasting peace is secured with a durable two-state solution.
UNITY 21
MAY DAY
LOUD
AND
PROUD
HUNDREDS OF SYDNEY CONSTRUCTION
WORKERS put aside the chance to earn pen-
alty rates and grabbed a red CFMEU flag to join
one of the largest May day marches in recent
history.
With May Day falling on a Saturday, unionists and their families followed a marching
band down Macquarie Street past the NSW
State Parliament.
At Bridge Street the CFMEU marchers were
met by South Australian rigger Ark Tribe, who
then led the union to the Circular Quay rally.
Organiser Tony Papa said it was a great
turn-out considering the march was on a
Saturday and “that is when the good rates kick
in for most workers”.
But he said it was important unionists took
to the streets to show their dissatisfaction with
the Rudd-led Labor Government.
“It is terribly disappointing … we’ve known
Labor is moving further to the right but they’ve
now driven so far they can’t hear the band play
any more. Workers in this country are getting a
raw deal.”
CFMEU State Secretary Andrew Ferguson
told the rally that tens of millions of workers
were marching this May Day.
“They do this to celebrate the achievements
of working people and as an opportunity to
continue our fight for better rights and work-
ing standards,” he said. Ferguson said across
the globe workers were paying the price for
the economic crisis “created by the rich and
powerful”.
He also attacked the Government’s continuing support for the powers of the ABCC.
“In this country we have laws and a specific
policing force that seeks to persecute, intimidate rank and file workers.
“These are shameful laws that need to be
changed,” he said.
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UNITY 23
CALL 02 9749 0400
UNION
WEAR
AWARDS
SYDNEY COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND CONSTRUCTION
EBA RATES OF PAY
THE CFMEU negotiates extra wages for union
members. The majority of members are paid well
above the rates of pay applicable under awards.
Hundreds of companies pay in accordance with
the wage rates outlined in this CFMEU EBA rates
of pay sheet. These rates are included in most
union-negotiated agreements. In addition to these
rates the union negotiates extra allowances. Also,
in union-negotiated EBA’s there is extra superannuation and redundancy benefits and a fares and
travel allowance above the award rate. If your boss
is paying less than these rates you should contact
the union and assist in campaigning for a unionnegotiated EBA with your company.
RATES APPLICABLE FROM 1 MARCH 2010
A fares allowance of $27 per day for each day worked (including RDOs) per mployee from 1 March 2010 will be paid.
CLASSIFICATION
PER HOUR
PER DAY
7.2 HOURS
0.8 RDO
ACCRUAL
PER 36
HOURS
TIME & A
HALF
DOUBLE
TIME
CW1
CW2
CW3 (Non Trade)
CW3 (Trade)
CW4
CW5
CW6
CW7
CW8
22.96
24.01
25.01
25.87
27.15
28.42
29.71
31.03
32.33
165.31
172.87
180.07
186.26
195.48
204.62
213.91
223.42
232.78
18.37
19.21
20.01
20.70
21.72
22.74
23.77
24.82
25.86
826.56
864.36
900.36
931.32
977.40
1023.12
1069.56
1117.08
1163.88
34.44
36.02
37.52
38.81
40.73
42.63
44.57
46.55
48.50
45.92
48.02
50.02
51.74
54.30
56.84
59.42
62.06
64.66
SYDNEY (COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND)
CIVIL EARTHMOVING EBA RATES OF PAY
RATES APPLICABLE FROM 1 MARCH 2010
CLASSIFICATION
PER HOUR
PER DAY 7.2
HOURS
0.8 RDO ACCRUAL
PER 36 HOURS
TIME & A HALF
DOUBLE TIME
CW1
CW2
CW3 (Non Trade)
CW3 (Trade)
CW4
CW5
CW6
CW7
CW8
22.09
22.93
23.30
23.78
24.90
25.96
26.98
28.19
28.90
159.05
165.10
167.76
171.22
179.28
186.91
194.26
202.97
208.08
17.67
18.34
18.64
19.02
19.92
20.77
21.58
22.55
23.12
795.24
825.48
838.80
856.08
896.40
934.56
971.28
1014.84
1040.40
33.14
34.40
34.95
35.67
37.35
38.94
40.47
42.29
43.35
44.18
45.86
46.60
47.56
49.80
51.92
53.96
56.38
57.80
RATES APPLICABLE FROM 1 OCTOBER 2010
CLASSIFICATION
PER HOUR
PER DAY 7.2
HOURS
0.8 RDO ACCRUAL
PER 36 HOURS
TIME & A HALF
DOUBLE TIME
CW1
CW2
CW3 (Non Trade)
CW3 (Trade)
CW4
CW5
CW6
CW7
CW8
22.60
23.46
23.84
24.33
25.48
26.56
27.61
28.85
29.57
162.72
168.91
171.65
175.18
183.46
191.23
198.79
207.72
212.90
18.08
18.77
19.07
19.46
20.38
21.25
22.09
23.08
23.66
813.60
844.56
858.24
875.88
917.28
956.16
993.96
1038.60
1064.52
33.90
35.19
35.76
36.50
38.22
39.84
41.42
43.28
44.36
45.20
46.92
47.68
48.66
50.96
53.12
55.22
57.70
59.14
UNITY 24
5199
343
AWARDS
STATE BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AWARD
Rates payable from the first pay period on or after 26 November 2009.
CLASSIFICATION
PER
HOUR
TIME
AND A HALF
DOUBLE
TIME
PER
38 HOURS
ACCRUAL OF
0.4 HOURS
PRO RATA ANNUAL
LEAVE PLUS
LOADING
Carpenter, stonemason,
bridge & wharf carpenter
20.15
30.23
40.30
765.70
8.06
76.18
Bricklayer, tilelayer hard floor coverer
19.94
29.91
39.88
757.72
7.98
75.40
Plasterer, floorlayer
20.03
30.05
40.06
761.14
8.01
75.73
Roof tiler, slate ridge/roof fixer
19.81
29.72
39.62
752.78
7.92
74.68
Stonemason machinist
18.83
28.25
37.66
715.54
7.53
71.27
Carver (stoneworker)
20.75
31.13
41.50
788.50
8.30
78.41
Marker/setter out, lettercutter
20.15
30.23
40.30
765.70
8.06
76.18
Special class trade
20.75
31.13
41.50
788.50
8.30
78.18
Quarryperson
18.83
28.25
37.66
715.54
7.53
71.27
Signwriter
19.61
29.42
39.22
745.18
7.84
73.94
Painter
19.00
28.50
38.00
722.00
7.60
71.90
Refractory bricklayer
21.67
32.51
43.34
823.46
8.67
81.60
Refractory bricklayer’s assistant
19.40
29.10
38.80
737.20
7.76
73.39
18.83
28.25
37.66
715.54
7.53
71.27
Scaffolder, powder monkey, hoist winch
driver, foundation shaftsperson, steel
fixer including tackwelder,
concrete finisher
18.29
27.44
36.58
695.02
7.32
69.27
GROUP 3
17.90
26.85
35.80
680.20
7.16
67.82
GROUP 1
Rigger, dogman
GROUP 2
Trades labourers, demolition work, gear hand, pile driver, tackle hand, jackhammer, mixer driver, concrete steel erector, gantry hand, crane hand,
crane chaser, cement gun operator, concrete cutting or drilling machine operator, concrete gang including concrete floater, roof layer (malthoid or
similar material), dump cart operator, underpinner, concrete formwork stripper.
FARES ALLOWANCE PER DAY: $16.50
Able Build & Brick Pty Ltd
DJD
Brick &
Blocklaying
Topdeck Scaffolding Pty Ltd
P/L
P.O. Box 586, Mona Vale, NSW 1660
Timbermass
Constructions
Pty Ltd
■ Where an employer requests a worker to transfer from one site to another site during
working hours
with
17/17 Lorraine Street, Peakhurst, NSW 2210
P.O. Box 318, Pendle Hill, NSW 2145
his/her own vehicle, an extra $0.89 per kilometre must paid.
Phone: 0419 370 681 Ph/Fax: 9596 4884
Phone: (02) 9688 3414
■ Where a worker using his/her car to a job outside the required work boundaries in the award an extra $0.47
Email: ablebuild@optusnet.com.au
Email: timbermass@bigpond.com
per kilometre must be paid.
■ Timbermass
The fares allowance
must be paid
all days worked plus rostered days off.
Constructions
Ptyon
Ltd
Binah Projects Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 318, Pendle Hill, NSW 2145
14 Enterprise Circuit, Prestons, NSW 2170
Phone: (02)
9688 3414
LEADING
ALLOWANCES
Phone:HANDS
(02) 8784
3500 Mob: 0423PER
456 HR
236 Fax: (02) 8783 5199
InEmail:
charge timbermass@bigpond.com
of 1 person
$0.44
Email: admin@binah.com.au
In charge of 2–5 persons
In charge of 6–10 persons
InTopdeck
charge
of Scaffolding
11 persons
orPty
more
Ltd
Buildseal
Pty Ltd
$0.96
$1.22
$1.63
P.O. Box 586, Mona Vale, NSW 1660
Office:
(02) 9979
Fax:Phone:
(02) 9979
Mobile:
04185914
645 116
13005714
723 006 Fax: 1300 723 343
Email: office@topdeckscaffolding.com.au
MEAL
ALLOWANCE:
$12.50
Website:
www.topdeckscaffolding.com.au
Cubic Interiors
Unit 1/93 Norton Street, Leichhardt, NSW 2040
Unique
Flooring
Pty Ltd
Phone:
(02) 8585
1344 Fax: (02) 8585 1345
P.O. Email:
Box 671,
Seven Hills, NSW 1730
info@cubicgroup.biz
Phone:
(02) 9838
7011 Fax: (02) 9838 7881
Website:
wwww.cubicgroup.biz
Office: (02) 9979 5914 Fax: (02) 9979
5714& Block Laying
Brick
Email: office@topdeckscaffolding.com.au Contractors
Website: www.topdeckscaffolding.com.au
Unit 1/14
Powells
Road,
Brookville,
2100 rates and applies for all purposes of the award.
The applicable
leading
hand rate
should
be added NSW
to the hourly
Unique Flooring Pty Ltd
Zoomwave
LtdService Pty Ltd
Gerry’sPty
Glass
38 Gardyne
Street,
Bronte,
NSW 2024
20 Moore
Street,
Leichhardt,
NSW 2040
Phone:
0418(02)
2039660
672 Fax:
Phone:
7722(02)
Fax:9386
(02) 5762
9660 7733`
28 Meta Street
Caringbah, NSW 2229
Ph: (02) 9540 3855
P.O. Box 671, Seven Hills, NSW 1730 Fax: (02) 9540 4190
Phone: (02) 9838 7011 Fax: (02) 9838 7881
UNITY49
Zoomwave Pty Ltd
38 Gardyne Street, Bronte, NSW 2024
Phone: 0418 203 672 Fax: (02) 9386 5762
UNITY 25
AWARDS
BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION GENERAL
ON-SITE AWARD 2010
Rates payable from the first pay period on or after 1 January 2010.
CLASSIFICATION
PER
HOUR
TIME AND A
HALF
DOUBLE
TIME
PER 38
HOURS
ACCRUAL OF
0.4 HOURS
PRO RATA ANNUAL
LEAVE PLUS
LOADING
Carpenter, stonemason,
bridge & wharf carpenter
18.86
28.29
37.72
716.68
7.54
65.89
Bricklayer,
18.65
27.98
37.30
708.70
7.46
65.17
Tilelayer (NSW) hard floor coverer
18.86
28.29
37.72
716.68
7.54
65.89
Plasterer, floorlayer
18.73
28.10
37.46
711.74
7.49
75.44
Roof tiler, state ridge/roof fixer
18.52
27.78
37.04
703.76
7.41
64.72
Carver (stoneworker)
19.99
29.99
39.98
759.62
8.00
69.77
Marker/setter out, lettercutter
19.43
29.15
38.86
738.34
7.77
67.85
Special class trade
Quarryperson
Signwriter
19.99
18.15
18.89
29.99
27.23
28.34
39.98
36.30
37.78
759.62
689.70
717.82
8.00
7.26
7.56
69.77
63.45
65.99
Painter/glazier
18.32
27.48
36.64
696.16
7.33
66.76
Refractory bricklayer
21.47
32.21
42.94
815.86
8.59
74.85
Refractory bricklayer’s assistant
18.72
28.08
37.44
711.36
7.49
65.41
18.15
27.23
36.30
689.70
7.26
63.45
17.65
26.48
35.30
670.70
7.06
61.73
17.29
25.94
34.58
657.02
6.92
60.50
GROUP 1
Rigger, dogger
GROUP 2
Scaffolder, powder monkey, hoist winch
driver, foundation shaftsperson, steel
fixer including tackwelder, concrete
finisher
GROUP 3
Bricklayer and plasterer’s labourer, demolition work, gear hand, pile driver, tackle hand, jackhammer, mixer driver, concrete steel erector, gantry
hand, aluminiumalloy structural erector, crane hand, crane chaser, cement gun operator, concrete cutting or drilling machine operator, concrete
gang including concrete floater, roof layer (malthoid or similar material), dump cart operator, underpinner, stonemason’s assistant, concrete formwork stripper, mobile concrete pump person or linehand.
FARES ALLOWANCE PER DAY: $16.50
■ Where an employer requests a worker to transfer from one site to another site during working hours with his/her own
vehicle, an extra $0.89 per kilometre must paid.
■ Where a worker using his/her car to a job outside the required work boundaries in the award an extra $0.47 per kilometre must be paid.
■ The fares allowance must be paid on all days worked plus rostered days off.
LEADING HANDS ALLOWANCES PER HR
In charge of 1 person
$0.46
In charge of 2–5 persons
$1.02
Able
Buildpersons
& Brick Pty Ltd $1.30
In charge
of 6–10
17/17
NSW 2210
In charge
of 11Lorraine
persons Street,
or morePeakhurst, $1.73
Timbermass Constructions Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 318, Pendle Hill, NSW 2145
Phone: 0419 370 681 Ph/Fax: 9596 4884
Phone: (02) 9688 3414
The applicable leading hand rate should be added to the hourly rates and applies for all purposes of the award.
Email: ablebuild@optusnet.com.au
Email: timbermass@bigpond.com
MEAL ALLOWANCE: $11.90
Binah Projects Pty Ltd
14 Enterprise Circuit, Prestons, NSW 2170
Phone: (02) 8784 3500 Mob: 0423 456 236 Fax: (02) 8783 5199
Email: admin@binah.com.au
UNITY 26
Buildseal Pty Ltd
Unit 1/14 Powells Road, Brookville, NSW 2100
Mobile: 0418 645 116 Phone: 1300 723 006 Fax: 1300 723 343
Topdeck Scaffolding Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 586, Mona Vale, NSW 1660
Office: (02) 9979 5914 Fax: (02) 9979 5714
Email: office@topdeckscaffolding.com.au
Website: www.topdeckscaffolding.com.au
Unique Flooring Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 671, Seven Hills, NSW 1730
Phone: (02) 9838 7011 Fax: (02) 9838 7881
AWARDS
MOBILE CRANE HIRING AWARD 2010
Rates payable from the first pay period on or after 1 January 2010
PER
HOUR
TIME AND
A HALF
DOUBLE
TIME
PER 38
HOURS
ACCRUAL
OF 0.4
HOURS
Up to 20 tonnes
17.74
26.60
35.47
673.94
7.09
21-60 tonnes
18.29
27.43
36.57
694.84
7.31
61-100 tonnes
18.83
28.25
37.67
715.64
7.53
101-200 tonnes
19.33
29.00
38.66
734.54
7.73
201-300 tonnes
20.30
30.44
40.59
771.24
8.12
301-400 tonnes
20.70
31.06
41.41
786.74
8.28
400 tonnes plus
21.25
31.88
42.50
807.54
8.50
CLASSIFICATION
PRO-RATA
ANNUAL
LEAVE PLUS
LOADING
Operator of mobile crane with a max. lifting capacity of:
Thereafter for each additional 20 tonnes lifting capacity an extra $10.64 per week is applicable
Where more than one crane is engaged on any one lift the following additional payments are payable:
2 cranes=$2.70 per day; 3 cranes = $5.35 per day; 4 cranes =$8.00 per day; over 4 cranes = $10.70 per day
Where the boom length rating is in excess of 28 metres an additional $1.03 per metre per week shall be paid.
EXTRA ALLOWANCES
Pile driving allowance
Protective clothing/
footwear subsidy
Car allowance
$53.40
$13.10 per day
$0.74 per kilometre
Overnight allowance
$12.30 per night
Meal allowance
$11.90
Fares and travel (NSW only)
$23.40 per day
BOOTS
‘N’ ALL
UNDER THE MODERN AWARDS CFMEU members have a
chance to claim back some more money on personal protective
equipment. If you have any problems getting your employer to
comply with the new right, contact the CFMEU on 9749 0400.
The Building and Construction General On-Site Award 2010
(which covers all on-site building and construction workers who
are not covered by an enterprise agreement) provides that where
workers, except refractory bricklayers, are required to wear steel
capped safety boots:
1. At the start of work, an employer will reimburse a worker the
cost of buying the boots; and
2. Based on fair wear and tear, replace the boots every six
months, or sooner, if agreed.
This condition also applies under new CFMEU-negotiated
Enterprise Agreements negotiated in 2010. Make sure that you
are wearing steel-capped boots that are in good condition!
UNITY 27
AWARDS
GLASSWORKERS STATE AWARD
CLASSIFICATION
Experienced glass worker
and complex computer operator
Experienced cutter/glazier
Glass cutter and glazier, furnace operator,
quality control, senior windscreen fitter
Forklift driver (licence), Truck driver (HIAB),
Windscreen fitter, experienced glass workers
Stores/warehousing, Furnace loader/unloader,
Truck driving, Crane overhead
Glass handler – repetition work
Induction training
Rates applicable from first pay period on or after 26 November 2009
LEVEL
PER
HOUR
TIME & A
HALF
DOUBLE
TIME
PER DAY
7.6HRS
ACCRUAL OF
0.4 HOURS
PER 38
HOURS
7
21.45
32.18
42.91
163.04
8.58
815.20
6
20.82
31.23
41.64
158.22
8.33
791.10
5
20.13
30.19
40.26
152.98
8.05
764.90
4
19.50
29.25
39.00
148.20
7.80
741.00
3
18.53
27.80
37.07
140.86
7.41
704.30
2
1
18.24
17.57
27.36
26.36
36.48
35.15
138.62
133.56
7.30
7.03
693.10
667.80
This does not include the Construction Work Allowance $25.00 per week or the Tool Allowance of $6.30 per week as of 26.11.09
Annual leave is accrued at 2.923 hours per week. These rates include the special loading of $93.90 payable for all purposes
STATE APPRENTICES
These wage rates apply from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 26 November 2009 and apply to apprentices who are under 18 or
work for an unincorporated employer.
JUNIOR TRAINEE APPRENTICES – BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION
CARPENTER/JOINER/STONEMASON
BRICKLAYER/
TILELAYER
PLASTERER
PAINTER
ROOF TILER
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
9.84
13.03
16.71
373.80
495.10
634.80
9.64
12.83
16.51
366.20
487.60
627.30
9.72
12.91
16.59
369.20
490.60
630.30
9.31
12.51
16.19
353.90
475.50
615.20
9.51
12.71
16.38
361.30
482.80
622.50
4th Year
18.40
699.10
18.20
691.60
18.28
694.60
17.88
679.50
18.07
686.80
JUNIOR INDENTURED APPRENTICES – BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION
CARPENTER/JOINER/STONEMASON
BRICKLAYER/
TILELAYER
PLASTERER
PAINTER
ROOF TILER
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
Hourly
Rate
Weekly
Gross
1st Year
8.93
339.40
8.73
331.80
8.81
334.80
8.41
319.50
8.60
326.90
2nd Year
11.93
453.40
11.73
445.80
11.81
448.80
11.41
433.50
11.60
440.90
3rd Year
15.60
592.80
15.40
585.20
15.48
588.20
15.08
572.90
15.27
580.30
4th Year
17.68
671.70
17.48
664.10
17.56
667.10
17.15
651.80
17.35
659.20
FARES ALLOWANCE FOR ABOVE
1st Year
$15.30
2nd Year
$15.80
3rd Year
$15.90
4th Year
$16.10
These allowances apply to
all apprentices except for
Civil Engineering (Bridge
and Wharf) Carpenter
apprentices who will
receive $15.40 per day.
CIVIL ENGINEERING (BRIDGE & WHARF) CARPENTER
Hourly Rate
Weekly Gross
Fares Allowance Per Day
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
10.40
13.57
16.89
395.20
515.70
641.80
16.50
16.50
16.50
4th Year
19.31
733.90
16.50
TOOL ALLOWANCE is incorporated into the above rates; however travelling allowances are paid in addition to the rates above.
MEAL ALLOWANCE - $12.60 payable when required to work overtime for one and a half hours or more. An extra 20 minutes pay (crib) Monday to
Friday is payable after two hours overtime, and on Saturday and Sunday after four hours work.
INFORMATION about junior apprentices who are over 18 and adult apprentices (ie apprentices who are 21 years or older or turn 21 during their
apprenticeship) can be obtained by ringing the CFMEU Apprenticeship Officer. A copy of all wage sheets and entitlements can be obtained at
www.cfmeu-construction-nsw.com
APPRENTICE ALERT
If you work under a union negotiated enterprise bargaining agreement you are entitled to extra wages, allowances and benefits.
For more details ring the CFMEU on 9749 0400.
UNITY 28
MULTILINGUAL
Arabic
Chinese
‫عامل يف قطاع البناء يواجه السجن‬
建筑工人
面临坐牢
‫ ظهر ًا‬12 ‫تظاهرة احتجاج الساعة‬
‫مايو‬/‫ أيار‬15 ،‫اإلثنني‬
Dixon Lane ‫تقاطع شارعي ديكسون الين‬
‫ سيدين‬،Goulburn Street ‫وغولبورن سرتيت‬
)Trades Hall ‫(خلف مبىن‬
6月15日星期二中午集会
在悉尼市的Dixon Lane和Goulburn Street
交角处（贸易厅背后）
Ark Tribe ‫يواجه عامل عادي يف قطاع البناء إسمه آرك ترايب‬
.‫احتمال احلبس ملدة ستة شهور‬
‫العمال عن‬
‫ف‬
‫توق‬
‫حيث‬
‫آمن‬
‫غري‬
‫بناء‬
‫كان آرك موجود ًا يف موقع‬
ّ
ّ
‫ متت معاجلة موضوع السالمة ومن مث عاد اجلميع إىل متابعة‬.‫العمل‬
.‫عملهم‬
‫) التابعة‬ABCC( ‫املفوضية األسرتالية لقطاع البناء والتشييد‬
‫للحكومة الفدرالية تطالب آرك حبضور جلسة استجواب حول‬
.‫موضوع التوقف عن العمل املتعلق مبوضوع السالمة‬
.‫لقد رفض آرك التقيد بهذا الطلب‬
‫ يواجه عقوبة ستة أشهر‬،‫إذا رفض عامل حضور جلسة استجواب‬
‫ املفوضية األسرتالية‬.‫ جيب إلغاء هذه القوانني اجملحفة‬.‫يف السجن‬
‫ فهي ال حتقق أبد ًا‬.‫للعمال‬
‫) معادية‬ABCC( ‫لقطاع البناء والتشييد‬
ّ
.‫ إنها سالح بيد شركات التطوير والبناء الكبرية‬.‫مبواقع البناء غري اآلمنة‬
‫يعترب آرك ترايب بط ًال لرفضه اخلضوع للتهويل بواسطة قانون‬
‫ حنن حباجة للتعبري له‬.‫ وهو مستعد للذهاب إىل السجن‬.‫جمحف‬
.‫عن تأييدنا‬
‫املطلوب منكم االنضمام إىل تظاهرة احتجاجية يوم الثالثاء يف‬
.No Work Long Weekend ‫عطلة نهاية األسبوع الطويلة‬
Ark Tribe是一个普通的建筑工人，面临6个月的有
期徒刑。
Ark当时在一个不安全的工地，那里工人停止了
工作。在安全问题得以解决之后，工人们又回到了
工地。
联邦政府的澳大利亚建筑和建设委员会
（Australian Building and Construction
Commission）的要求Ark出席有关因安全问题而停
工的审讯。
Ark拒绝了这一要求。
如果工人拒绝参加审讯，他们就会面临6个月的
有期徒刑。这些不公正的法律需要被打破。澳大利
亚建筑和建设委员会是反工人的。它从来没有对非
安全的工地进行调查。这是用来打击大型建筑商和
开发商的一种武器。
Ark Tribe是一个拒绝被不公正的法律吓倒的英
雄。他愿意去坐牢。我们需要向他展示我们大家的
团结一致。
我们要求你加入停工长周末（No Work Long
Weekend）的星期二抗议集会。
Croatian
Farsi
Građevinskom radniku
predstoji zatvorska kazna
‫کارگر ساختمانی‬
‫با حکم زندان روبروست‬
Zbor u 12 sati u podne u utorak, 15. lipnja
‫ ظهر‬12 ‫راه پیمایی‬
‫ ماه جون‬15 ‫سه شنبه‬
ugao Dixon Lane i Goulburn Street, Sydney
(iza zgrade Trades Hall)
Običan građevinski radnik, Ark Tribe, je suočen sa
6-mjesečnom zatvorskom kaznom.
Ark je bio na jednom nezaštićenom gradilištu gdje su
radnici obustavili rad. Opasnost je uklonjena i svi su se
vratili na posao.
Australska građevinska komisija Savezne vlade –
Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
zahtjeva da Ark dođe na preslušanje o tome kako je došlo
do obustave rada.
Ark Tribe je odbio to učiniti.
Ako radnik odbije otići na preslušanje suočen je sa
6-mjesečnom zatvorskom kaznom. Ti nepravedni zakoni se
moraju skršiti. ABCC je protiv radnika. Nikada ne vrši istrage
o opasnim gradilištima. To je oružje za velike građevinske
firme i građevinske velepoduzetnike.
Ark Tribe je heroj kojeg se nije moglo zaplašiti
nepravednim zakonom. Voljan je ići u zatvor. Trebamo mu
pokazati našu solidarnost.
Pozivamo vas da nam se pridružite na tom protestnom
zboru u utorak, za dugi vikend ‘No Work Long Weekend’.
Corner of Dixon Lane and Goulburn Street,
Sydney (behind Trades Hall)
‫ با حکم شش ماه زندان‬Ark Tribe ‫یک کارگر عادی ساختمانی به نام‬
.‫رویروست‬
‫ در یک محل در دست ساختمان که ایمن نبود کار میکرد و به همین‬Ark
.‫ ایمنی محل کار تامین شد و همه بر سر کار برگشتند‬.‫دلیل نیز دست از کار کشید‬
Building and Construction )ABCC( ‫نهاد دولت فدرال موسوم به‬
‫ میخواهد که در مورد توقف کار بدلیل مسائل ایمنی‬Ark ‫ از‬Commission
.‫بارجویی کند‬
.‫ این تقاضا را رد کرده است‬Ark
‫ با شش ماه زندان مواجه‬،‫اگر کارگری از شرکت در بازجویی سر باز زند‬
‫ ضد کارگر‬ABCC .‫ این قانون ناعادالنه باید لغو و شکسته شود‬.‫حواهد شد‬
‫ آنها هیچوقت در مورد ساختمانهای در دست احداث که نا ایمن هستند‬.‫است‬
‫ سالحی است در دست شرکتهای بزرگ ساختمان‬ABCC .‫تحقیق نمی کند‬
.‫سازی و سرمایه داران ساختمانی‬
‫ یک قهرمان است چون اجازه نداد این قانون ناعادالنه وی‬Ark Tribe
‫ ما باید همبستگی خود را‬.‫ وی حاضر است به زندان برود‬.‫را مرعوب کند‬
.‫به او نشان دهیم‬
‫از شما خواسته می شود که در این راه پیمایی اعتراضی در روز سه شنبه‬
.‫که تعطیل آخر هفته طوالنی است شرکت کنید‬
MULTILINGUAL
Greek
Italian
Οικοδόμος
αντιμετωπίζει φυλακή
Lavoratore dell’edilizia
rischia la galera!
Συλλαλητήριο στις 12 το μεσημέρι
Τρίτη, 15 Ιουνίου
Corteo di protesta a mezzogiorno
Martedì 15 giugno
Γωνία Ντίξον Λέην και Γκόλμπουρν Στρήτ, Σίδνεϊ
(πίσω από το Τρέϊντς Χώλ)
Angolo di Dixon Lane e Goulburn Street, Sydney
(dietro al Trades Hall)
Ένας απλός οικοδόμος, ο Άρκ Τράϊμπ-Ark Tribe, αντιμετωπίζει
έξι μήνες φυλακή.
Ο Άρκ-Ark ήταν σε ένα ανασφαλές εργοτάξιο όπου οι εργάτες
σταμάτησαν να δουλεύουν. Η ασφάλεια αποκαταστάθηκε και
όλοι επέστρεψαν στις δουλειές τους.
Η Επιτροπή Οικοδόμησης Αυστραλίας (ΕΟΑ) της
Ομοσπονδιακής ΚυβέρνησηςAustralian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
απαιτεί να ανακρίνει τον Άρκ για την αργία λόγω ασφάλειας.
Ο Άρκ Τράϊμπ-Ark Tribe αρνήθηκε.
Αν ένας εργάτης αρνηθεί να παρουσιαστεί για ανάκριση
τότε αντιμετωπίζει φυλάκιση έξι μηνών. Αυτοί οι άδικοι νόμοι
πρέπει να καταργηθούν. Η (ΕΟΑ-ABCC) είναι αντεργατική.
Ποτέ δεν ερευνά ανασφαλή εργοτάξια. Είναι ένα όπλο των
μεγάλων εργολάβων και οικοδομικών εταιριών.
Ο Άρκ Τράϊμπ-Ark Tribe είναι ένας ήρωας που αρνείτε να
εκφοβηθεί από ένα άδικο νόμο. Είναι έτοιμος να πάει φυλακή.
Πρέπει να του δήξουμε τη συμπαράστασή μας.
Καλείσαι να συμμετάσχεις το συλλαλητήριο διαμαρτυρίας
την Τρίτη του Νο Ουόρκ Λόνγκ Γουηκέντ-No Work Long
Weekend.
Un normale lavoratore edile, Ark Tribe, rischia sei mesi di
carcere.
Ark si trovava in un cantiere non sicuro in cui i lavoratori
avevano interrotto il lavoro. Il problema alla sicurezza fu
sistemato e tutti ripresero a lavorare.
L’Australian Building and Construction Commission
)ABCC) del governo federale ora esige che Ark si presenti
ad un interrogatorio avente per oggetto l’interruzione del
lavoro per motivi di sicurezza.
Ark Tribe si rifiuta di farlo.
Se un lavoratore si rifiuta di presentarsi ad un
interrogatorio, può essere condannato a sei mesi di carcere.
Queste leggi ingiuste devono essere abolite. L’ABCC è un
organo contro i lavoratori. Non indaga mai sui cantieri non
sicuri. È un’arma nelle mani delle grandi imprese edili e
degli immobiliaristi.
Ark Tribe è un eroe per essersi rifiutato di farsi intimidire
da una legge ingiusta. Egli è disposto ad andare in prigione.
Dobbiamo manifestargli la nostra solidarietà.
Ti invitiamo a partecipare alla manifestazione di protesta
il martedì del No Work Long Weekend.
Korean
Macedonian
건설 근로자
감옥 행
Градежен работник
ризикува да оди во затвор
시위 집결
6월 15일 12시 정오
Собир во 12 ч. напладне
Вторник, 15ти јуни
시드니 시내 골번 스트리트 와 딕슨 레인 코너
(트레이드 홀 뒷편)
평범한 건설 근로자인 아크 트리브씨가 6개월간의
감옥행을 앞두고 있습니다.
아크씨는 근로자들이 일을 그만둔 안전하지 못한
현장에 있었습니다. 안전문제는 해결 되었고 모든
근로자들은 일로 복귀했습니다.
연방정부에 속한 호주 건설 위원회 (ABCC) 는
안전문제로 일을 중단한 것에 관한 청문회에 아크씨가
참석하라고 요구했습니다
아크 트리브씨는 참석을 거절했습니다.
만일 근로자가 청문회에 참석하지 않으면 6개월형에
처해집니다. 이런 불공정한 법은 없어져야 합니다.
호주 건설 위원회 (ABCC) 는 근로자의 편이 아닙니다.
위원회는 안전하지 못한 현장을 조사한 적이 결코
없습니다. 위원회가 큰 건설사와 개발자에게는 커다란
무기입니다.
아크 트리브씨는 불공정한 법에 의해 협박받기를
거부한 영웅입니다. 그는 기꺼이 감옥에 갈것입니다.
우리는 그에게 우리의 단결된 모습을 보여주어야 할
필요가 있습니다.
일 안하는 긴 주말 뒤 화요일에 당신께서 이 항의
집회에 참석해 주실 것을 촉구하는 바입니다.
На аголот меѓу Dixon Lane и Goulburn Street, Sydney
(позади Trades Hall)
Ark Tribe, обичен градежен работник, ризикува да оди во затвор
за шест месеци.
Ark беше на небезбедно градилиште кога работниците
престанаа да работат. Проблемот околу безбедноста се реши и
сите работници се вратија на работа.
Австралиската комисија за градежната индустрија (Australian
Building and Construction Commission - ABCC( на сојузната влада
бара од Ark да оди на сослушување во врска со штрајкот заради
безбедноста.
Ark Tribe одби да го стори тоа.
Ако некој работник одбие да оди на сослушување, тој ризикува
да оди во затвор за шест месеци. Овие неправедни закони мора да
се укинат. Комисијата ABCC е против работниците. Таа никогаш
не ги испитува градилиштата кои не се безбедни за работа.
Таа е оружје во рацете на големите градежни претприемачи
претпријатија.
Ark Tribe е херој затоа што тој одби да биде заплашен од
неправедниот закон. Тој е подготвен да оди во затвор. Ние треба
да му ја покажеме нашата солидарност.
Од вас бараме да присуствувате на овој протестен собир во
вторник од продолжениот викенд кога не се работи (No Work
Long Weekend).
Portuguese
Serbian
Trabalhador da construção
depara-se com termo de prisão
Грађевински радник
суочен са затворском казном
Demonstração às 12 horas
Terça-Feira, dia 15 de Junho
Збор у 12 часова у подне
у уторак, 15. јуна
Esquina de Dixon Lane com Goulburn Street,
Sydney (atrás do Trades Hall)
угао Dixon Lane и Goulburn Street, Sydney
(позади иза зграде Trades Hall)
Ark Tribe, um trabalhador da construção como qualquer um de
nós, depara-se com um termo de prisão por seis meses.
Ark estava num estaleiro de obra inseguro, onde os
trabalhadores tinham parado de trabalhar. Os problemas de
segurança foram remediados e todos regressaram ao trabalho.
A Comissão Australiana de Construção e Obras Públicas
)Australian Building and Construction Commission ABCC), do governo federal, requer que Ark se submeta a um
interrogatório sobre a paragem por motivos de segurança.
Ark Tribe recusou.
Se um trabalhador se recusar a submeter a uma interrogação,
depara-se com um termo de prisão por seis meses. Estas leis
injustas têm que acabar. A ABCC é anti-trabalhador. Nunca
investiga locais de trabalho inseguros. É uma arma para os
poderosos construtores civis e empresários.
Ark Tribe é um herói por se ter recusado a ser intimidado por
uma lei injusta. Ele vai para a cadeia de boa vontade. Precisamos
demonstrar a nossa solidariedade para com ele.
Pedimos-lhe que participe nesta demonstração, na TerçaFeira do “Não Se Trabalha nos Fins-de-Semana Prolongados”
)No Work Long Weekend).
Обичан грађевински радниик, Арк Трајб, суочен је са
6-месечном затворском казном.
Арк је био на једном незаштићеном градилишту где су
радници обуставили рад. Опасност је санирана и сви су се
вратили на посао.
Аустралијска грађевинска комисија Савезне владе –
Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
тражи да Арк дође на саслушање о томе како је дошло до
обуставе рада.
Арк Трајб је одбио да то уради.
Ако радник одбије отићи на саслушање, предстоји му
6-месечна затворска казна. Ти неправедни закони мора да се
скрше. ABCC је против радника. Никада не врши истраге о
опасним градилиштима. То је оружје за велике грађевинске
фирме и грађевинске велепредузетнике.
Арк Трајб је херој којег се није могло уплашити
неправедним законом. Спреман је да иде у затвор. Треба
да му покажемо нашу солидарност.
Позивамо вас да нам се придружите на том протестном
збору у уторак, за дуги викенд ‘No Work Long Weekend’.
Spanish
Vietnamese
Trabajador de la construcción
puede ir preso
Concentración 12 del mediodía
martes, 15 de junio
Esquina de Dixon Lane y Goulburn Street, Sydney
(detrás del Trades Hall)
Un simple trabajador de la construcción, Ark Tribe, enfrenta
la posibilidad de seis meses de cárcel.
Ark estaba en un sitio inseguro donde los trabajadores
pararon de trabajar. El problema de seguridad se arregló y
todo el mundo volvió al trabajo.
La Comisión Australiana de la Construcción del
Gobierno Federal )ABCC) está exigiendo que Ark asista
a un interrogatorio sobre el paro por razones de seguridad.
Ark Tribe se ha rehusado a hacerlo.
Si un trabajador se rehúsa a asistir a un interrogatorio,
puede ir preso por seis meses. Estas leyes injustas deben
eliminarse. La ABCC está en contra de los trabajadores.
Nunca investiga las obras inseguras. Es un arma de los
grandes constructores y promotores inmobiliarios.
Ark Tribe es un héroe por no dejarse intimidar ante una ley
injusta. Está dispuesto a ir a la cárcel. Tenemos que mostrarle
nuestra solidaridad.
Le pedimos que se una a la concentración de protesta el
martes siguiente al fin de semana largo cuando no se trabaja
)No Work Long Weekend).
Công Nhân Xây Dựng có thể bị vào tù
Biểu tình vào lúc 12 giờ trưa
Thứ Ba, 15 tháng Sáu
Góc đường Dixon Lane và Goulburn Street, Sydney
(phía sau Trades Hall)
Một công nhân xây dựng bình thường, Ark Tribe, có thể
bị kêu án 6 tháng tù.
Ark ở trong một công trường thiếu an toàn nơi công
nhân đang ngưng làm việc. Khi an toàn được tái thiết lập
và mọi người trở lại làm việc như cũ.
Ủy ban Kiến Tạo và Xây Dựng Úc thuộc Chánh Phủ
Liên Bang (ABCC) đòi hỏi Ark phải tham dự một cuộc
thẩm vấn liên hệ đến vụ đình công về vấn đề an toàn nói
trên.
Ark Tribe từ chối.
Nếu một công nhân từ chối tham dự thẩm vấn, người
này có thể bị tống giam vào tù 6 tháng. Những luật lệ bất
công này phải bị hủy bỏ. ABCC là một ủy ban chống đối
công nhân. Ủy Ban không bao giờ chịu điều tra những
công trường thiếu an toàn. Đây là khí giới của chủ thầu
xây dựng và các công ty xây dựng lớn.
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28 Woodfield Boulevarde
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PROTEST GIVES VOICE
TO EXECUTED KURDS
CFMEU ACTIVISTS HAVE PROTESTED against the execution of
five Kurdish political prisoners in Iran on May 9 and pushed the NSW
Parliament to write a letter of condemnation to the Iranian Government.
On May 13, more than 100 people, including CFMEU members, held a
protest outside NSW State Parliament in Sydney demanding MPs condemn
the action. The protest led by the Provisional Committee Against Execution
and Defending Political Prisoners in Iran paid tribute to Farzad Kamangar,
Ali Haidaryan, Shirin Alam Houli, Farhad Vakili, and Mehdi Islamian, who
were hung in the early hours of May 9.
Kamangar, a 35-year-old teacher and member of the teachers’ union of
Kurdistan, was accused of “endangering national security” and “enmity
against God”. In response to the protest the Legislative Council of the NSW
Parliament unanimously condemned the executions.
Greens MP Dr John Kaye said: “Mr Kamangar offended a regime that is
determined to repress free trade unions.
“His only ‘crime’ was standing up for the rights of Iranian teachers.
Harassment, imprisonment and execution of trade union officials and the
ill-treatment of their families are becoming increasingly common.”
The NSW Upper House called on the Iranian Government to immediately free all trade unionists and other political prisoners held in Iranian jails
and to end the campaign of harassment against their families.
The motion, which was sent to the Iranian ambassador and the Supreme
Leader in Tehran, also demanded the restoration of the internationally
accepted right of Iranian workers to organise in trade unions.
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A letter will also be sent to the families of those executed.
CFMEU Organiser Mansour Razaghi says the success of the protest was
matched overseas with a strike in Iranian Kurdistan and protests in Europe
and Canada. He says it is important the families of those killed know the
world is fighting on their behalf.
WORLD BRIEFS
SWEDISH BLUES
WORLD CUP WONDER
You might have heard of the LAVAL case in
Sweden, a Latvian building company refurbishing a school in Sweden, importing its own
workers and paying them at Latvian rates. The
Swedish building union organised a blockade
of the building site, but was taken to court in
Sweden and in the EU court and was finally
fined 200,000 euro.
Now the right-wing government has passed
a law stating clearly that any service provider
from inside the EU, if he has a valid agreement
locally and pays for instance the minimum
wage, cannot be forced to pay more. In others
word, a Bulgarian company executing a job in
Sweden is allowed to pay Bulgarian salaries.
With national elections in September, the
red-green alliance is making workers’ rights
and collective bargaining an even more important part of the campaign. Sound familiar?
The Building and Wood Workers’ International
congratulates FIFA in keeping its promise of
providing free tickets to the more than 27,000
construction workers who played their part in
ensuring that South Africa hosts a successful
2010 World Cup by building the World Cup stadium and related infrastructure on time.
The free tickets to workers are a victory for
construction workers who struggled to have
their labour recognised and who had to strike
for each and every demand made during the
various construction phases for the World Cup.
The free tickets are an outcome of collaboration between the Building and Wood
Workers’ International
and its three South
African affiliates; the
National Union of
Mine Workers, the
South African Building
Construction and Allied
Workers Union and the
South Africa Building
Workers Organisation
with FIFA.
UNION LEADER KILLED
Another trade unionist has been shot dead in
Bolivar State, Venezuala. Xavier Gutierrez of
the Sinatracon construction worker’s union
was shot dead inside the Orinoquia Mall in
Puerto Ordaz.
The Police Detective Branch reported
Gutierrez was mowed down by 20 bullets while
he was eating inside the mall. The general
opinion is that the murder is the work of rivals
inside the construction industry.
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COLOMBIA MEETING
The president of
Colombia’s General
Confederation of
Workers union, Julio
Roberto Gomez, met with President Alvaro
Uribe to express concern that 17 trade unionists have been murdered so far this year in the
Andean nation.
Uribe ordered the Ministry for the Interior
to stop the attacks with a new strategy of offering rewards for information leading to the capture of trade unionists’ murderers.
The Washington Office on Latin America,
an NGO based in the US capital, has also
called for a reduction in the murder rate of
Colombian unionists before the US implements its free trade agreement with the
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Phone:
Email: philip@sydneyplasterers.com.au
philip@sydneyplasterers.com.au
Email:
Southside Reinforcing
Reinforcing Pty
Pty Ltd
Ltd
Southside
Pelican Place,
Place, Woronora
Woronora Heights,
Heights, NSW
NSW 2233
2233
66 Pelican
Mobile: 0418
0418 461
461 584
584
Mobile:
Able Build
& Brick
Pty Ltd Pty Ltd
Phoenix
Aluminium
Industries
Lorraine
Street,
Peakhurst,
31 17/17
Liverpool
Street,
Ingleburn,
NSWNSW
2565 2210
Phone:
681Fax:
Ph/Fax:
Phone:
(02)0419
9605370
6788
(02) 9596
9618 4884
2145
Email:www.phoenixaluminium.com.au
ablebuild@optusnet.com.au
Website:
Timbermass Constructions Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 318, Pendle Hill, NSW 2145
Phone: (02) 9688 3414
Email: timbermass@bigpond.com
Binah
Projects
Ltd Pty Ltd
Prime
Marble
andPty
Granite
14 Enterprise
Circuit, Greenacre,
Prestons, NSW
40-42
Rosedale Avenue,
NSW2170
2190
Topdeck Scaffolding Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 586, Mona Vale, NSW 1660
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YOUR HEALTH
PROSTATE CANCER
NO LIFE SENTENCE
WHEN RAY VAN DEN NIEUWENHOF agreed to
volunteer for a men’s health study he could never
have known what a lucky break it would turn out
to be. As part of the university-backed study he
had all his vital statistics taken, his blood pressure and cholesterol checked and gave a series of
blood samples.
When the results came back, Ray, who considered himself hale and hearty, received a shock.
His PSA reading – or Prostate Specific
Antigen – was 16. He had prostate cancer and
according to Prostate Cancer Foundation of
Australia figures a “16” reading meant there was
a 65% chance the cancer had spread outside the
prostate.
For Ray it was a devastating moment.
“Everyone is concerned when a doctor tells
you you have cancer,” he says. “You think the
worst and hope for the best.”
However with both his daughter and wife
cancer survivors, Ray knew the illness was not a
death sentence.
Ray was placed on a waiting list and about a
year later with the first symptoms – an enlarged
prostate and urinary tract infection – of the cancer appearing he had his operation.
“I was lucky – until then I had had no symp-
toms whatsoever and if it hadn’t been picked up
then it might have been too late,” he says.
He admits the treatment is not without side
effects. But he says prostate cancer support
groups and counselling services at organisations
such as the Cancer Council provide plenty of support. Ray is now on a mission to ensure CFMEU
members know the perils of turning a blind eye
to issues below their belt.
“It’s something blokes are reluctant to chase
up as it involves a digital examination and that’s
something people don’t like talking about, let
alone having it happen to them,” Ray says.
Anyone interested in Ray visiting their work
site to talk about prostate cancer should talk to
their CFMEU Organiser to arrange a site visit.
PROSTATE CANCER
Is an abnormal growth of cells in the prostate that
form a lump (tumour). In time, without treatment, it may spread to other organs, particularly
the bones and lymph nodes, which can be life
threatening.
Each year in Australia, close to 3,300 men
die of prostate cancer - equal to the number
of women who die from breast cancer annually. Around 20,000 new cases are diagnosed in
MAN ON A MISSION Ray Van Den Nieuwenhof
Australia every year.
Early, curable prostate cancer may not have
symptoms. While younger men are less likely to
be diagnosed with it, they are more likely to die
prematurely from it.
A simple PSA blood test or digital rectal examination can detect prostate cancer.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Men aged 50 and over should talk to their doctor
about prostate cancer and if they decide to be tested, to do so annually. If there is a family history of
prostate cancer; men should talk to their doctor
from the age of 40. For more information visit:
www.prostate.org.au
INDUSTRIAL HEALTH MATTERS
PEGGY TROMPF
›› MESOTHELIOMA VACCINE HOPE
Researchers in The Netherlands are trialling
a new vaccine in the fight against mesothelioma.*
Using a technique called dendritic cellbased immunotherapy (dendrites are cells
that are very helpful in regulating the immune
system), the body’s own immune system is
used to target and destroy cancer cells.
The vaccine consists of the patient’s immune
cells (dendritic cells) mixed with proteins taken
from their tumour. It is then introduced into the
patient. This results in the patient’s immune
system being given a ‘kick start’ to attack and
wipe out cancerous growths.
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Ten patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma were given three injections over a
two-week period. Test showed that the vaccine had succeeded in producing an immune
response.
In some patients, their tumours were
reduced in size, but there was no conclusive
proof that this was linked to the vaccine. Apart
from some flu-like symptoms, there were no
other side effects.
The Cancer Research Centre UK commented on the small sample size of 10 patients
and said much more research needs to be
done to see if the treatment will be effective in
the long term, but that finding new treatments
to fight the disease was ‘crucial’.
Acknowledgments to Cancer News Friday 5
March 2010.
*Hegmans, J. et al (2010). Consolidative
Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy Elicits
Cytotoxicity Against Malignant Mesothelioma
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical
Care Medicine
Peggy Trompf is a University of Sydney
researcher specialising in occupational health
and a former director of the Workers Health
Centre in Sydney
DRUGS & ALCOHOL
ABOVE PAR The field of 120 players at the annual golf day fundraiser
GETTING IN THE
SWING FOR A
GOOD CAUSE
FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, the
Construction Industry Drug and Alcohol
Foundation has held its Charity Golf Day to raise
funds for the Foundation and the operations of
Foundation House – and this year was even more
successful than last.
Thanks to the generous support of building
companies who sponsored individual holes at
the event, and the individuals who supported the
event in other ways, the Foundation now plans to
make the Charity Golf Day an annual event.
About 120 workers, union delegates and
employers lined up to play 18 holes at the
Camden Valley Way Golf Course. This was followed by lunch, raffles and guest speakers. This
year the speakers included former Balmain and
Kangaroo prop forward Steve “Blocker” Roach
and Darryl Brohman, a rugby league legend and
television commentator.
Players paid $100 for the day, which included 18
holes of golf, a hot breakfast, golf cart, sandwiches
and drinks during the round, and a hot lunch.
Over lunch the Drug and Alcohol Program’s
Tom Simpson and CFMEU Assistant Secretary
Brian Parker thanked each and every sponsor and
player for their support on the day.
The Foundation especially recognises the
efforts of Simpson and Mark Foster from Thiess
Pty Ltd who worked tirelessly to help make the
day the success it was.
Simpson said he hoped the day would be an
even greater success next year.
“The Charity Golf Day has now established
itself as a great day out, and a great way to
raise much-needed funds for the Foundation.
Hopefully, we can do even better next year.”
The money raised this year will go towards
purchasing a second bus to transport Foundation
House clients to and from outings and to rehabilitation meetings.
If you are interested in getting involved with
the golf day next year, or want to find out more
about the work the Foundation does, call us on
02 9555 7852.
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Alpene
Austral Steelfixing
Australia Access Hire
Axis Plumbing
Baulderstone Hornibrook
BKH Contractors Group
Botany Cranes
Bovis Darling Walk
Buildup Interiors (CFMEU)
City East
City Rendering Pty Ltd
Erect Safe
Hutchinson Builders
Instant Access
ISD Steelfix
Kingston Interiors
Lawrence Group Surveyers
Reed Group
Southern Cross
Southside Reinforcing (Steel)
St Hilliers
Star Electrical
Sydney Traffic
Thiess
WACO
UNITY 39
PROFILE
FAMILY VALUES Garry Preston with wife Debbie, daughter Amy and sons Michael and Phillip
CALL TO
ARMS
ECHOES
THROUGH
THE AGES
WHEN KIWI GARRY PRESTON STEPPED
off the plane to work in Australia more than 12
years ago, he was taking his family history full
circle. Around Dunedin, scratch the surface of
labour history and you will meet a member of
Preston’s family. But it was in Australia the story
began.
Preston’s grandfather Jack McManus was
born in Cavan, Ireland, but moved with his family to Queensland in the late 1800s. Aged 15, he
left school to become a cattle drover. According
to Preston, it was in the outback his grandfather
learned about ideology and politics, joining the
Australian Workers Union. By 1897 he was a
union organiser.
“He was in some of the first fights to improve
conditions for those workers and they were the
days when the going was really tough and hard
for unionists,” says Preston.
His union work made Jack very unpopular
‘WE NEVER HAD
MUCH MONEY, BUT
THERE HAS ALWAYS
BEEN A RICHNESS
IN THE STORIES AND
STRUGGLES’
with bosses, and he was constantly harassed and
taken to court. By 1906 he had had enough, and
aged 31 he headed across the Tasman.
McManus became integral to the development of the trade union movement and labour
politics in New Zealand. He helped form the
New Zealand Labour Party and as secretary built
the Dunedin General Labourers Union into the
largest union in Otago.
While on the political beat, he also discovered love, meeting his wife Nellie at a NZ
Socialist Party social.
Although old enough to avoid serving,
McManus joined the NZ Tunnellers in World
War I. There were 17 former unionists and
40-odd members of the Socialist Party in his
unit and they went on strike 17 times for conditions such as an extra meal a day for the Welsh
and Scottish miners.
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Preston’s grandmother helped form the
Dunedin women’s branch of the Labour Party
in 1926, and was politically active throughout
her life. It is no wonder that passion for working
people flowed to Preston’s mother, Margaret,
who died in January, aged 91. She was the longest-serving member of the Dunedin women’s
branch of the New Zealand Labour Party.
Preston says his socialist philosophy really
began to form when he was 18. “I think to be in
a labour family becomes a way of life and part of
your value system.”
Like his grandfather, Preston left home at
15, and took up an apprenticeship as a carpenter
with a nice, but dodgy boss. He joined the union
in 1973 and the first dispute he recalls was over a
working on site with a broken sewer.
In one instance Preston went to the union
when his boss failed to pay allowances. “My boss
yelled at me for 20 minutes ‘I treat you like a son
and you turn dog on me and go to the union’,” he
recalls. “I remember thinking then how much
power there was in the union that he would want
to yell at me for that long.”
By 21, Preston was a site delegate and in 1978
he became a union organiser.
Then Robert Muldoon came to power and
using WorkChoices-style policies soon crushed
the union movement. Preston was laid off and
found his reputation meant he was often sent to
remote sites where he couldn’t cause trouble.
With the family in a tight financial position,
Preston took advantage of the Olympics boom
in Sydney to contact a bloke he met on a union
fellowship tour in 1983. That bloke was Andrew
Ferguson, and Preston soon found himself
working on a Sydney site as a delegate.
“I came out for a few months and was going
to go back, but we just stayed,” the now 54-yearold says.
Preston sees another political awakening
about to happen with his daughter Amy working for union lawyers Taylor & Scott; his 20-yearold son Michael, an activist and his teenage son
Phillip, doing work experience at the CFMEU.
It is a source of pride that his children care,
and it is a passion of Preston’s to encourage
young workers on site to get political.
“A lot of times they think I am a boring old
fart, because I just go on …
“Sometimes the union’s not perfect and we
don’t get everything right, but if someone isn’t
out there making a stand then I’ve seen what
happens – you lose conditions.”
While the legend of Jack McManus lives
on, Preston is ensuring he continues the family’s proud labour history – his face is always
in the crowd at any CFMEU rally. And despite
the hardships his family has endured, there is
a reward.
“We’ve never had much money, but there
has always been a richness to our lives in the stories and struggles we have had and there is that
thought you have played a little part in making
people’s lives better.”
JOIN TOGETHER
STAY STRONG
For the union to be effective, we need all workers to join.
Encourage your workmates to join by getting them to fill in this union
application. You are requested to recruit a workmate or
friend to the union.
In order to join the union applicants need to complete an application
form and pay a joining fee plus 6 months contributions in advance.
New members and existing members can pay their union fees
each fortnight directly from their bank account.
For more information contact the Accounts Department of the CFMEU
Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union
& Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union
(New South Wales Branch)
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the Workplace Relations Act 1996 or the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW). In the event that such agreement is negotiated under part VI D of the
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