Stegbar Workers Locked Out
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:48 pmSaw this on the news the other night and think it has massive ramifications for industry in Australia - the workers are asking for 3.6% payrise, which will simply level peg them with inflation and continue their wages at the same rate indexed to inflation.
Anyone who recieves less than 3.6% will actually go backwards in their wage. Yet to complicate matters the cost of living going up is happening in a time of considerably reduced consumer spending due to the "two speed economy".
Time for the ALP who claim to represent manufacturing workers to step up to the plate and tell us what they are going to do to ensure that no one sees their weekly wage drop back to less than the inflationary increase.
Door maker slammed over worker lock out
Posted September 08, 2011 08:53:39
A multinational door manufacturer has locked out 200 Australian workers in four states over a wages dispute.
The three-day lockout by United States-based company Jeld-Wen began at midnight after negotiations soured.
Jeld-Wen makes doors at six sites in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia under trade names including Airlite, Regency and Stegbar.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union says negotiations are deadlocked because the enterprise agreement on offer would cut wages in real terms.
Union spokesman Phil Davies says the lockout is an attempt to starve workers into submission.
He says the tactic is reminiscent of the 1998 waterfront dispute, and makes industrial action more not less likely.
"It could well do. We haven't seen a lockout in our industry and it's the first lockout since I was at Port Botany some years ago under the Howard regime, so it could escalate," Mr Davies said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-08/d ... ut/2876202
Anyone who recieves less than 3.6% will actually go backwards in their wage. Yet to complicate matters the cost of living going up is happening in a time of considerably reduced consumer spending due to the "two speed economy".
Time for the ALP who claim to represent manufacturing workers to step up to the plate and tell us what they are going to do to ensure that no one sees their weekly wage drop back to less than the inflationary increase.
Door maker slammed over worker lock out
Posted September 08, 2011 08:53:39
A multinational door manufacturer has locked out 200 Australian workers in four states over a wages dispute.
The three-day lockout by United States-based company Jeld-Wen began at midnight after negotiations soured.
Jeld-Wen makes doors at six sites in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia under trade names including Airlite, Regency and Stegbar.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union says negotiations are deadlocked because the enterprise agreement on offer would cut wages in real terms.
Union spokesman Phil Davies says the lockout is an attempt to starve workers into submission.
He says the tactic is reminiscent of the 1998 waterfront dispute, and makes industrial action more not less likely.
"It could well do. We haven't seen a lockout in our industry and it's the first lockout since I was at Port Botany some years ago under the Howard regime, so it could escalate," Mr Davies said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-08/d ... ut/2876202
