Newsletter No. 25
AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2004
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Victorian Power workers taking 36-hour week There’s still “plenty of fight in the troops ... there is an ongoing industrial campaign in the industry” stated Electrical Trades Union secretary Dean Mighell, after ETU action won a 36-hour week and a 5-fold increase in apprenticeships out of Alinta, one of five providers in the privatised Victorian power industry. After this win, the Australian Industrial Relations Court banned further industrial action by the ETU. Sickies have since soared from 10 a day to about 250 (http://www.greenleft.org.au/ 4.8.04). |