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Common Cause, These Attacks Are Through a Common Purpose – to Protect THE FINAL EDITION ® CFMEU Mining and Energy COMMONCAUSE Strong Union. Safer Workplace. www.cfmeu.com.au www.ourjobs.org.au VOL 83 NO. 2 CFMEU Mining and Energy COMMONCAUSE CFMEU COMMONCAUSE Mining and Energy Strong Union. Safe Workplace. www.cfmeu.com.au VOL 77 NO. 5 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2011 www.cfmeu.com.au VOL 76 NO.4 AUG / SEP 2010 Coal miner Pilbara Union Revival Gavin Vickers conquers Everest and takes our Union toto toptop ofof REGISTERED BY AUStTRALIA POST PP 243184/00025 thethe world!world! REGISTERED BY AUStTRALIA POST PP 243184/00025 General BHP Gillard Govt President spells humiliated announces it out way ahead as 92% reject will ratify ILO for Australia EA offer Mine Safety in national TV Convention Inside debate REGISTERED BY AUSTRALIA POST PP 243184/00025 Coal Services Protecting industry Coal Services is a Specialised Health and Safety Scheme proudly protecting the NSW coal mining industry and its workers for more than 90 years. We are a unique and trusted expert body providing preventative and responsive services. Managing health and safety is our business. With a collaborative model unlike any other worldwide, we are connected through a common purpose – to protect. Contact Coal Services for more information www.coalservices.com.au General President Tony Maher Reports Coal bosses attacks highlight our Coal Services Protecting determination to fix Australia’s industry unfair Industrial Laws Coal Services is a Specialised Health and Safety Scheme proudly protecting the NSW coal mining industry and its he extent of the increasing protected industrial action strikes. This operations in Central Queensland are workers for more than 90 years. unfairness of Australia’s has included stoppages of up to 4-days still locked in drawn out negotiations on Tindustrial laws is vividly at a time, with the rank and file showing a new EBA as the company continues We are a unique and trusted expert body illustrated in a swag of industrial its determination by turning out in record to increase its use of casual labour and providing preventative and responsive attacks in our coal industry being numbers at mass meetings. attack miners rights and conditions at services. Managing health and safety is waged by powerful and cashed At issue is Glencore’s refusal to work. This is playing out as BHP, the multinationals like Glencore, BHP, negotiate in good faith to resolve world’s largest private mining company, our business. South32 and even newer players concerns over secure permanent jobs, announced a massive profit turnaround – like the Chinese Government-owned fair and equal terms and conditions for from a loss of US$6.4 billion in 2016 With a collaborative model unlike any subsidiary GRAM Australia. contractors, and fair redundancy pay, to a profit of US$5.9b in the year to other worldwide, we are connected In the following pages of this as well as Glencore’s increasing use of June 2017. Common Cause, these attacks are through a common purpose – to protect. casual contract labour. There’s no doubt that BHP can well clearly laid out in more detail but let The fact that Glencore can engage afford to give its workers a Fair Go but me paint an overview of the picture: in such a scorched earth policy against they won’t because they have an arsenal Glencore the workforce that is delivering massive of unfair industrial laws at their disposal revenue earnings show not only the to use in the greedy pursuit of ever Let’s start with Glencore, which has just contempt this multinational holds coal increasing profits at the workers and announced a new six-monthly mega mineworkers in, but also the unfairness community’s expense. profit as its revenue from its Australian of an industrial system that allows it to coal operations jumped from US$1.77 happen. Save Dave billion to US$3.1 billion in the last half- Common Cause readers will be familiar year. Despite this, Glencore is at war Cook Colliery and the with our Save Dave campaign, which has with our Union members at Oaky North Chinese Government mobilised great public support. South32, in Queensland and throughout eight The failure of our industrial laws are the spin-off from BHP that sacked Dave of its operations in the NSW Northern playing out in a disgraceful fashion at the McLachlan for leading a novel 10-minute District. Cook Colliery where some 200 miners undies protest at the Appin mine As this column goes to press, more have been told that they will only receive because of the company’s refusal to than 190 Oaky North miners in Central 52% of their legal entitlements with honour its agreement, has also weighed Queensland are enduring at least a the mine’s closure. The galling thing in with a huge $US 1.23 billion after-tax 51-day lockout for standing up for their about the Cook miners situation is that profit. Enough, you would think, to stop rights at work while the company is the closure is due to management’s persecuting Dave and his family. But continuing to operate the mine with incompetence earlier this year when South32 have instead chosen to exploit casual scab labour. the mine was inundated by water from Australia’s broken industrial system to They are being locked-out for the above castor seam, eventually keep Dave out of work since April this refusing to accept a proposed new pushing the operation into the hands of year. EA that would strip away 50% of Administrators. Despite this, in contrast What I have touched on here are working conditions. All the Oaky Creek to the plight of the mineworkers who are some disputes in our own coal industry miners had sought in the new EA was the victims of this, all management are that are the result of the unfairness of to roll over the existing agreement. to receive their full entitlements! Australia’s industrial laws. There are Glencore refused, insisting instead that Our Union is fighting this all the many other examples of massive rip- the workforce bow to its managerial way and you can read on page 5 how offs and ruthless exploitation, including dictatorship. Even when a company- we are taking the Cook miners fight cutting penalty rates, in the general controlled ballot resulted in 99% of the directly to the Chinese Government workforce. That is why our Union is in workforce voting against it, Glencore’s while Australia’s anti-worker laws and the front line of the united Trade Union Contact Coal Services response was to turn the screws even the Turnbull LNP Government collude to Movement’s fight to fix our IR system tighter on them. avoid solving such injustices. and restore fairness in the workforce. for more information In the NSW Hunter Valley, thousands And we won’t stop fighting until we get www.coalservices.com.au of our members at eight Glencore BHP a Federal Government in place that will operations are engaged in a series of Meanwhile, workers throughout BHP’s do so. VOL 83 NO.2 COMMON CAUSE 3 General Secretary Andrew Vickers Reports A new era as rank and file votes to take our communications into the digital age Union, I want to wish Paddy and his wife Elinor all the very best in their future. So now as we move from the print to the digital age, I want to encourage all our members to visit our website regularly and check out the news, videos and events reported there. Use your devices to join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. You’ll not only be better informed but also proud of what the great people who make up our Union do on a regular basis. Finally, after 36-years as a full- time Union official I am retiring at the end of September this year. I have been honoured to serve as a Andrew laying down the law to the media during the 1986 Moura Disaster. Lodge Official and District Board of Management member; Queensland n a rapidly evolving media and bequeathed to us, including those who District President from 1981 to the communications landscape, have worked on and edited Common end of 2006; General Vice-President Ithe rank and file have endorsed Cause over the 97-years since it first from 2007 to 2009; and since then as our Central Council’s resolution appeared in March 1920. General Secretary of our Union. When to cease publication of Common On behalf of the Union I want to I entered the Industry at the end of Cause in print form and increase our pay tribute to those Common Cause 1971, I never imagined that I would emphasis on social media and other editors I have known and worked end up retiring as a National Official of this great Union. It has been a great digital forms. with throughout my life. I’m a third privilege to represent coal and metal In doing so, we are mindful of the generation coal miner and Common miners, energy and port workers, their wonderful role that Common Cause Cause has been an essential part of families and their communities and I has played as a printed publication my personal history. sincerely hope that the faith you have throughout the history of our Union I had the privilege of knowing most and of its primary role in keeping our of the talented journalists who edited displayed in me over all those years members informed, educated and Common Cause. Each and every one has proven to have been worth it. I organized.
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