Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 06:19:27 +1000
From: pmargin-AT-xchange.anarki.net (Profit Margin)
Subject: AUT: LL:ART:MUA:War on the Wharfies 18 May update


>Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 22:35:56 +1000
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>Subject: LL:ART:MUA:War on the Wharfies 18 May update
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>News Summary - Monday 18 May
>War on the Wharfies Homepage:
>http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbox/index.htm
>
>CONTENTS
>(18/5/98) Columbus Line preparing legal action against US Dockers Union
>(18/5/98) Corrigan offers to cut conditions
>
>New Legal references :
>Stevedoring Levy (Collection) Bill 1998 (18 May)
>Bills Digest No. 201 1997-98 - background information on this
>controversial bill prepared for our politicians. You to can read it:
>http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bd/1997-98/98bd201.htm
>
>Australasian Legal Information Institute Waterfront Index:
>http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/waterfront.html
>High Court Decisions and Transcripts, Federal Court of Australia
>Decisions, Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions
>
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>News Summary - Monday 18 May
>Columbus Line preparing legal action against US Dockers Union
>
>Columbus Line was taking legal action against the international
>Longshore and Warehouse Union over the weekend in an attempt to
>discharge its containership the Columbus Canada at Los Angeles.
>Doug Webster, a spokesman for Columbus Line in the US told DCN
>the company=EDs attorneys were preparing papers for legal action
>but details of the specifics of their suit would not be available
>until filing.
>(Daily Commercial News 18/5/98)
>
>Corrigan offers to cut conditions
>
>The administrators of the labour hire firms are saying they must
>have access to the Government's waterfront redundancy package
>(under the Stevedoring Levy (Collection) Bill 1998) if the
>companies are to avoid liquidation.
>
>Next Monday creditors will meet and vote on a proposal by the
>administrators for a month to assess what manning levels and
>work practices are required to qualify for the package.
>
>Patrick has offered to re-hire 650 of the 1,400 sacked MUA
>workers, mostly as crane operators, machinery drivers, clerks
>and team leaders, as part of an enterprise agreement with
>salaries ranging from $38,000 to $60,000 a year for a 35-hour
>week, and a productivity bonus. 200 further positions in
>maintenance, security and cleaning would be subcontracted.
>The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has rejected the proposal.
>
>MUA Secretary John Coombs said about the offer: "He's got no
>interest in a negotiated outcome. His only interest is to avoid
>our court case and attempt to put this package through as some
>sort of temptation to the workforce. The workers will reject it
>in my view unanimously and we'll proceed to the Federal Court
>on the conspiracy charges."
>
>At Fremantle, the state secretary of the union, Terry Buck,
>said attempts to organise a meeting of members was being
>frustrated by security guards who are denying union officials
>access to Patrick's terminal.
>
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