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system to tackle the root causes of ‘Things have never many truck crashes. Instead, pressure is increasing on drivers to speed, drive long hours and been this bad for skip their mandatory rest breaks. The Turnbull Government’s own report showed the RSRT would have cut truck owner drivers’ crashes by 28% and yet it went ahead claims TIM DAWSON and tore it down. It is clearly willing to play politics with people’s lives. Throughout the transport industry the highest for any industry, according hundreds of owner-drivers are either to Safe Work Australia. going broke or having to swallow take-it In 2016 there was also a 6.2% jump in or leave it rates that barely cover their deaths from rigid vehicle crashes and operating costs. a 1.6% jump in deaths from crashes ‘130 people have In the 30 years that I have either been involving articulated vehicles. running my own one-truck business According to official statistics, over or representing subbies - things have died in truck 130 people have died in truck crashes never been worse! since the Road Safety & Remuneration crashes in two Hirers have been ruthless in exploiting Tribunal was torn down. the economic down-turn to force down And what has happened to Malcolm rates and increase their profits. months’ Turnbull’s vow to set up an alternative If ever there was a time when the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal and regulation of the transport industry - it is now!

As well as safe rates the RSRT order included mandatory payment for waiting and loading times and payment of invoices within 30 days.

All gone!

I do not have the slightest doubt that the abolition of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal was a massive mistake.

And I hate to say it but far too many subbies were sucked into a political campaign led by the Liberal Party, the large retailers and industry groups such as Natroads.

Treacherous Natroads have much to answer for in dumping their previous support for the RSRT and letting down the mums and dads running small trucking operations.

Last year one in three workers killed in Australia was a transport worker, by far

Published by Perth Advertising Services. Phone: 9375 1922. Fax: 9275 2955. The Wheel Autumn 2017 1 2000 TOLL JOB LOSSE S AS PAY TALKS BEGIN

But delegates and members vow to fight against unfair and rushed redundancies reports TWU State Secretary TIM DAWSON

Reports of up to 2,000 potential job We have seen wasteful and costly include TWU delegates and must be losses and redundancies at a variety outside hire repeatedly be used and appropriately established to review the of Toll sites across Australia have sent hundreds of opportunities missed for following: shockwaves through the firm’s national improvements. • Proposed redundancies; workforce. Our national delegates group have • Timing, type and location of proposed Toll Delegates from across all TWU made repeated attempts to raise redundancies; Branches have met to discuss these cost saving initiatives with Toll reports and have vowed to stand management for over two years. • Redeployment and retraining options; together to fight against unfair and Including, repeated attempts to address rushed redundancies and job losses. • Alternative operations savings and the excessive use of outside hire. In efficiencies that don’t impact on The delegates have written to the most instances we have not even had a employees incomes company outlining the TWU’s position response to our suggestions. on the redundancies • Overuse of outside hire at Toll; and Whilst we understand substantial For the last few years managerial changes are occurring to the senior • The cost of casual employees and and executive salaries have grown management team and Toll’s approach labour hire. and grown, resulting in 80 managers to managing its business, it now seems We believe that priority must be given becoming millionaires. our members will unfairly pay the price to Toll direct hire workers and to for former managerial decisions. The company was sold at a hugely securing Toll jobs. inflated and unsustainable price with Our TWU delegates have called for the Toll has a committed workforce that Japan Post offering 49% above Toll’s immediate establishment of TWU/ seeks the firm’s support and respect share value and creating these 80 Toll consultative committees across and wants to work with the company millionaires. the organisation.This will enable to make Toll the best organisation it can real consultation over proposed be. workplace changes. All committees will

2 The Wheel Autumn 2017 2000 TOLL JOB LOSSE S AS PAY TALKS BEGIN

If redundancies are Toll EBA unavoidable Negotiations between TWU members –  Are paid in 30 days or less from If after full consultation and the Toll Group are hotting up with date worked, the existing collective agreement due there are instances where – Receive a fair and sustainable to expire on June 30. genuine redundancies return, are required we have We’ve held yard meetings throughout – Provide training and regulation demanded that the Australia and a log of claims has of their workers, such as Blue following steps be taken been drawn up and handed to the big Card, in order: bods at Toll. – Pay site rates and conditions, 1. Redeployment with no Our overall aim is to change the including TWU Super, loss of income; transport industry for all workers 2. Offer of voluntary through good jobs, strong conditions – Give workers a voice on the job redundancies with and sector reform. through TWU inductions, meetings and union rights. And; genuine time for And top of our list of claims is safe consultation and rates for all Toll workers including • Company-wide auditing to consideration; permanent employees, casuals, ensure all companies meet safe 3. Policy of ‘last on, owner-drivers and labour hire staff. and sustainable standards, including strengthened Safe Rates first off’; Our demands include: committees to review contracting 4. Offers of voluntary Safe and fair conditions for practices and decisions. redundancy through all workers doing Toll work and • Stronger control over seniority; stronger job security to ensure a outsourcing to enforce clauses skilled, stable workforce that will stop 5. 3 x 3 redundancy pay; in our agreement that address the race to the bottom: and then undercutting of contracts. • 3% per annum pay increases 6. Rehires to be made • Obligation on Toll to consult about and 1% per annum superannuation from direct hire technology changes, including increases. redundancy pool, then automation, on demand technology, the laid off outside hire. • Owner drivers’ rates to match etc. wage increases in agreements The inclusion of • Safe hours and fair systems of and to ensure full cost recovery for these steps is in no work to ensure that all workers running the vehicle. way an endorsement performing work for Toll, including or acceptance of • Stronger redundancy rights and outside hire, are paid for all time any redundancies. consultation around workforce worked with hours that reflect the Discussions have – and changes. actual time needed to do the job: will continue to – take place at a site, branch • Information on all companies and • Systems of work and work patterns, and national level players in the Toll supply chain. including Safe Driving Plans, so work can between members and We want improved job security for all be done safely delegates on this process. who work for Toll by ensuring that all and without risk The above are companies and players, including The above positions to drivers or most of the main owner drivers and fleet operators, were decided ahead any transport carrying goods in the Toll supply claims we have put to Toll. a 9 March National worker. chain: A full list is available from Delegates meeting with our office. Simply call Toll management. 6313 3000 and we’ll send one to you.

The Wheel Autumn 2017 3 The Legend of ALAN“Steedy” STEED A recently retired true blue collared union man and ex-Grace Removals heavy lifter

Alan Steed delivers a stinging attack on penalty rate cuts before going on to outline his plans for Collingwood to win the 2017 Premiership.

by Wheel Editor PAUL ASLAN

Alan Steed epitomizes the arch-typical up north working on remote drilling rigs Aussie, wears a blue singlet, loves he was a member for 46 years. nothing better than a few frothies at his ‘The boys all local pub, takes no shit from dickhead The drilling work came to an end after bosses and calls a spade a shovel. a punch-up with an arrogant boss who was treating Alan and his fellow workers walked off the Only problem is he’s actually a Kiwi – like they were shit. and quite proud of it too. Steedy took him on, won the fight but He even barracks for New Zealand lost his job. job in support when they play Australia at cricket. But easy come easy go and back in the And he can quote you the exact day big smoke Grace Removals were glad of me’ Greg Chappell told his brother Trevor to get Steedy back. to bowl underarm in the notorious one- dayer at the MCG. And he has been one of the best “But the boys all walked off the job in delegates TWU members ever elected. support of me and we were on the grass It was 1st February 1981. for four days. Never known to take a backward step Anyway, we are all Anzacs and I’m sure in dealing with management and very “Eventually the dispute ended up in the if Alan had fought in either of the World popular with the troops. Industrial Commission where agreement Wars he’d have been a handy bloke to was reached on my return to work. have alongside you in the trenches. Years back, when Alan was driving a fork-lift “this smart-arse bastard” “I was fully reinstated with all Sadly, Alan was among a handful of whacked a clipboard down on the back entitlements. long-termers who were made redundant of the fork lift he was driving. by Grace Removals last year. “It was very humbling to have that “It startled me and could have caused a kind of support and until my dying day At 69 going on 70 he was planning on serious accident so I jumped down and I will remember and appreciate what retiring this May anyway so the golden punched the prick out,” Alan recalled the boys did for me – including John handshake came at the right time ‘Citizen’ Cain who was our organiser. “At the time we had this little rat-faced, Alan began humping furniture for Grace arsehole of a boss who I didn’t get on back in 1970 and apart from six months with and he sacked me on the spot.

4 The Wheel Autumn 2017 TWU (WA Directory) ALAN“Steedy” STEED “Unfortunately you can’t get away with that sort of spontaneous industrial action Tim Dawson Ray McMillan these days. It’s a lot harder for our union STATE SECRETARY PRESIDENT officials.”

Alan says a lot of other things have changed over the past 40 years and most have not been for the good. BRANCH COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT “Back then we used to drink with the bosses and we, mostly, got on with each • Paul Aslan • Peter Elliott other. You had your blues but we always • Bruce Spaul • John Davis got the job done and everyone was • Ralph Roth • Deborah Dunbar happy. • Andy Payne • Mick Cook • Bill Nuttall • Mick Lawson “It’s a lot different now – every thing’s dollar driven and most of the managers either haven’t got a clue or they are arseholes.”

“Unlike the old bosses they haven’t come up through the ranks and have no bloody idea what it’s like to hump furniture around for a crust.”

Now that his humping days are over - in more ways than one – Alan is settling nicely into retirement.

He has a lovely little unit in Carlisle and keeps himself amused with reading and following his deep interest in local and world politics and downing the occasional coldie.

A Labor man thru and thru he will always be on the sidelines barracking for working class people

Of course no man is perfect and Alan has his down side – He’s a loyal black and white man who supports Collingwood and often gets down to Bassendean Oval to cheer on the long necked ducks.

Alan Steed is a gem of a bloke – a union legend who has joined the growing ranks of our Veterans’ Club which gives us the opportunity to catch up now and then.

Alan, we salute you brother. They don’t come much more true blue than you.

The Wheel Autumn 2017 5 Road Safety Commissioner listens to WA drivers

Road Safety Commissioner Kim Papalia has first-hand experience of the difficulties West Australian truckies face on our vast network of roads.

The Commissioner had a ‘truckie’s eye view’ as he took the wheel of a three-trailer road train last month, on a return trip between Karratha and Onslow.

“This was a sensational opportunity to gain insight,” said Mr Papalia. “It was a chance to find gaps in the infrastructure for trucks and other road users in regional WA, and work with these drivers on better road-side rest stops to combat fatigue and improve road safety.”

The Road Safety Commission has created an advisory framework including an Expert Panel, Advisory Body and a Vulnerable Road Users group, which is developing strategies to protect cyclists, motorbike riders, pedestrians, seniors and people with disabilities on our roads and roadsides.

Road Safety Alliances in the South West, Mid-West, Pilbara and Kalgoorlie-Esperance, and along the Great Eastern Highway are working to focus the efforts of main industry bodies, local and state governments on improving road safety for all road users.

The Wheatbelt Highway Safety Review has highlighted road safety issues along three busy routes in the region. Road improvement works are underway on Great Eastern Highway and Great Southern Highway, while Toodyay Road works are set to begin this year.

Finally, Road Safety Commission campaigns are changing attitudes in Perth and beyond. Distraction by mobile phone use, speeding and drink driving are the top three dangerous behaviours.

Tell your friends to turn the phone off, slow down and don’t drive if they’ve had a few drinks. Their lives could depend on it.

For more information about the Road Safety Commission visit www.rsc.wa.gov.au

6 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Mark McGowan chats with our Transdev delegate Brian Monks about the security of bus drivers.

Labor vows to install perspex guards in buses

Abuse and harassment is an every-day To protect drivers from occurrence on Perth buses and it must be dealt with. being spat on and assaulted The bus companies don’t like giving TIM DAWSON Reports out stats about violence and incidents against bus drivers because they don’t want the general public to know the true Just prior to the state election the now Drivers called for barriers to be installed number. Premier Mark McGowan led Labor Party in their buses to protect them from But they will no longer be able to hide the vowed to install Perspex guards in WA spitting and injury by projectiles. awful truth. buses to protect drivers being spat on by customers and promised a review of They also want a cashless system other bus security arrangements. to prevent fare evasion and MORE POWER given to the guards who patrol TWU Financial Reports WA Labor promised $1million to install the buses. the screens, in response to complaints The Audited General Purpose from drivers. The Government review will examine Financial Report of the Transport the powers and role of bus security in Workers Union of Australia (WA The review will examine the powers and comparison to transit guards and the Branch) for the Financial Year role of bus security in comparison to coordination and integration of bus ending 31st December 2016 is transit guards and the coordination and security and train security across the currently being prepared by our integration of bus security and train network. auditors. security across the network. A petition has so far been signed by 500 As soon as the Report has been Between 2010 and 2014, Transperth people and will be tabled in Parliament completed by our auditors it will be received on average almost 4,000 in May, requesting that the Legislative presented for endorsement to our emergency requests per year for Council recommend that the Government Branch Committee of Management. security back-up from bus drivers. improve safety on public transport. Once this annual process has been completed the Report will then On Tuesday February 14, Bus drivers The TWU will continue to fight for the be posted on our website for the held a Day of Action at each of the bus safety of bus drivers and hold the new information of our members. ports, calling for change in the industry. government to account for its pre- election commitments. www.twuwa.org.au

The Wheel Autumn 2017 7 Serco Security Officers Hit JOB By Contract Change LOSSES Our members employed on Serco’s court After a series of security and custodial services contract are Broadspectrum went in Broadspectrum big losers in the wash up of the Barnett management interviews Government’s tendering out of their work. with Serco employees $36 million cheaper 256 officers have been The contract went to tender in August last year and in race to bottom o ff er e dj o b s wit h t h e employees have since been sitting like inmates on new employer. death row waiting to learn of their fate. JOHN CUTRALI However, 27 have been Of course it wasn’t as dramatic as that, but the ruled out entirely and 57 awarding of the contract to Broadspectrum are hanging in limbo land Fortunately the TWU has been able to recover has had a major impact on our members job with no certainty about security and take home pay. quite a bit of ground thru intense negotiations with Broadspectrum management. their futures. We have heard on the grapevine that Some who have lost their Instead of the $23.70 per hour the court Broadspectrum went in $36 million cheaper jobs have been offered security and custodial services officers were than Serco. work on a Broadspectrum/ initially confronted with, we have been able to Wilson’s contract. And there are no prizes for guessing where get the rate boosted to $30 per hour. those savings will be coming from. Our This would be cold And rather than NO REGIONAL ALLOWANCES members pockets, of course. comfort to these officers we now have allowances of between $3,000 who will only be paid Talk about a race to the bottom. and $5,000. $21 per hour if they switch A quick glance at the EBA they were offering Of course, while the above are significant to Wilsons. to the Serco officers included massive come improvements, we are far from satisfied. downs on what they had been earning. Along with the loss of Our legal division has thrown everything in its other conditions. The agreement which had been negotiated power at challenging the new agreement in Not good! with a handful of employees from a completely court on grounds that it was not validly made. different company included BIG PAY CUTS and the abolition of all regional allowances. However, as we went to press….

BAWDY COPPER HAS UNFAIR DISMISSAL REJECTED A policeman engaged in extremely The constable also allegedly spoke and the employer’s failure to train him serious misconduct when he boasted disparagingly about female visitors to in relevant policies for his conduct. about his sexual conquests, performed Parliament House when he identified The constable said he was only lewd acts with bananas, pretended to some on the Parliament’s CCTV responsible for telling the occasional “dry hump” a colleague and referred to screens as women he had “f--ked”. rude or dirty joke, just like many of his his penis piercings, a NSW tribunal has He was also accused of sexual colleagues. found. innuendo and making inappropriate The commissioner rejected the NSW Commissioner John Murphy said jokes about how the ball bearings constable’s claims of a culture within the constable displayed a “complete in his penis would set off security the workplace condoning his behaviour. disregard” for the sensitivities of his alarms at airport screenings. He also rejected the constable’s claims colleagues, including young female That he had had sex with chickens and officers, who were among the targets that he never received harassment, serenaded a colleague with a song discrimination, bullying or code of of his sexual harassment and bullying about “putting it into you’re a..e”. behaviour. conduct training. The constable denied most of the The Parliament House based constable He said this was an attempt by the allegations, explaining his behaviour constable to avoid responsibility for his was dismissed last January last amid away as innocent joking. allegations he asked a young female conduct. officer, “do you want to suck my c--k”, Commissioner Murphy said the The seriousness of his misconduct another junior officer if they had ever constable lacked credibility, failed meant his dismissal was not harsh or engaged in a--l sex and attempted to accept responsibility for the more unreasonable, Commissioner Murphy to intimidate colleagues into not salacious aspects of his conduct and found. complaining about his behaviour. blamed the culture of the workplace

8 The Wheel Autumn 2017 You Call Last Rites

Roland had been the meanest That Big! tightest husband that ever lived, but now he was dead and his wife had An Aussie cattle station owner was got her hands on his life savings and having a drink at an outback pub insurance policy. when a big Yank walked in and His wife’s friends and relatives were started bragging. most surprised when she asked that “Ah come from Texas,” he drawled, his ashes be sent to their home. where everything’s big. After they had been delivered she “You Aussies call your stations big! In took the lid off the urn and said, “Look Texas it takes all week to ride around at this big beautiful ring, Roland. It’s my spread on a horse! the one that I always wanted.” “Shit”, exclaimed the station owner, She then took the urn into the “”We had a horse like that so we shot bedroom where all her clothes the lazy bastard”. hung.”Look at my new clothes Roland and the expensive mink coat”. Then she moved to the widow and held the urn outside and said, “See that new Porsche in the drive Roland. It’s the one I always wanted.” Footy Dog “And Roland”, she said, “You know that B**W J*B you always wanted, Steve took his dog for a walk down well here it is – WOOOOOSH! to the local pub on a Saturday night. He was having a quiet drink when the footy results came up on the televisin set. Steve’s team had won and the dog OFFENSIVE started running around in circles Headaches and yelping with delight. LANGUAGE “What does your team do when your “Mom, I’m still having those sharp team loses,” asked the barman. headaches!” “Somersaults,” said Steve. “Well son, why don’t you move away Drivers at Visy logisitcs had a recent win with a companyfrom in frontpolicy of being the dart amended board then?”to ensure ALL workers wear helmets. “How many?” asked the barman. Visy drivers were getting in trouble at the site for not wearing ther hardhats but as no clear policy was enforced, they didn’t know “Depends on how far I kick him,” what rules to follow.

The problem stems from two separate divisions of Visy working out of the same yard, Visy Logisitcs and Visy Board. One division wasn’t required to wear hats, while the other was, but without any clear policy or any enforcement the drivers weren’t sure why they were getting in trouble for it. It seemed like the company’s management just woke up one day and decided they would pick on a select few employees while Gutletting the others Problem go hatless. It’s no surprise that these two divisions of workers earn distinctly different salaries. A woman caught her husband on But now ALL Visy employees, including those moving gates, curtains AND Visy Board employees must wear hard-hats. the weight scales, sucking in his stomach.Which is a little win for the drivers. “BTrandhat spankingwon’t help new you,blue PJoe,ersonal you P rotective Equipment (PPE) signage will be erected in designated zones. know?”And the drivers are pretty happy that they aren’t being targeted at their workplace. “OhA strong it helps union a lot,” yard says is all the that man, is standing “it’s between winning and losing rights and conditions. the only way I can see the numbers!”

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10 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Thousands are Unemployed YET COMPANIES STILL CHOOSE TO HIRE OVERSEAS WORKERS AHEAD OF AUSTRALIANS Explains lead organiser MICK KNOWLES

these workers to EXPLOIT the crap out of them. It was only on the 2nd of March that Minister of Immigration Peter Dutton announced that 457’s will no longer have a place in our fast food industry. More than 500 “skilled” worker Visas have been approved for fast-food outlets over the past 4 years after Julia Gillard approved a Fast food Industry Labour Agreement in 2012. A picket was held outside of Northline workers to fill their jobs” which sounds Having said that, this approval was last month demanding the company hire AUDACIOUS especially when Northline made to allow access for a skills Australian workers before 457 visas. wants to hire overseas workers for shortage. DRIVING FORKLIFTS, machinery, The Transport Workers Union discovered And when training, either on a forklift which requires only 2 days of training to Northline was making this arrangement or a deep fryer, takes only 2 days, be competent on. when TWU National Secretary Tony surely we need to question the Sheldon got wind of an application for Currently in WA we are suffering a government’s interpretation of “skills” a potential labour hire agreement at the 6.5% unemployment rate with youth and the company’s agenda behind this company. unemployment across the country immigration system. sitting at 12.3%. Northline plans to hire 60 457 FORKLIFT This country needs to invest in its youth DRIVERS over 3 years at “ANY OF THE Why then would a company like despite the cost in training. BUSINESS’ LOCATIONS” which include Northline decide to hire foreign workers Young people are adept at learning Hazelmere and Broome in WA. over local workers? especially when you give them a chance The 457 Visa was originally intended for Either they are a BASTARD of a and invest in training them. companies who “could not find local company to work for or they are hiring

Hard Heads At Visy Drivers at Visy logisitcs had a recent win with a company policy being amended to ensure ALL workers wear helmets. Visy drivers were getting in trouble at the site for not wearing ther hardhats but as no clear policy was enforced, It seemed like the company’s Which is a little win for the drivers. they didn’t know what rules to follow. management just woke up one day and Brand spanking new blue Personal decided they would pick on a select The problem stems from two separate Protective Equipment (PPE) signage will few employees while letting the divisions of Visy working out of the same be erected in designated zones. others go hatless. yard, Visy Logisitcs and Visy Board. And the drivers are pretty happy that It’s no surprise that these two divisions One division wasn’t required to wear they aren’t being targeted at their of workers earn distinctly different hats, while the other was, but without workplace. salaries. any clear policy or any enforcement A strong union yard is all that is the drivers weren’t sure why they were But now ALL Visy employees, including standing between winning and losing getting in trouble for it. those moving gates, curtains AND Visy rights and conditions. Board employees must wear hard-hats.

The Wheel Autumn 2017 11 Our Buttercup Bakery delegate Bernie Malloy discusses the changes and their impact on members 76 LOSE JOBS AT BUTTERCUP However we have been told distribution Thankfully the redundant will remain at Malaga for at least the remainder of 2017. workers were on a Even so the uncertainty is causing a degree of stress amongst the distribution employees and we are good union EBA hoping decisions will be made sooner rather than later. Reports JOHN CUTRALI I would like to wish all concerned the very best for the future and especially News on February 15 that Buttercup including all the drivers, will keep those who will be hunting for jobs. Bakeries were closing down the their jobs. production side of their business in And a special thanks to our delegate And, thankfully, the 75 redundant Malaga certainly came as a shock to Bernie Malloy for helping me through production workers were paid out most people. the process. under a union agreement with very The closure has resulted in 76 good conditions. employees being made redundant. These include three-weeks’ pay In an unusual twist to the story, the for every year of service - up to a New Payment Goodman Fielder owned company maximum of 52 weeks. Service Provider has contracted production of its well- However, job security is paramount at known bread products out to their Members please be informed present and I know most of those laid major competitors, Tip Top. we are switching to a new off would rather have kept their jobs. Payment Service Provider – Tip Top bakers will produce all their There are also concerns amongst Ezidebit. brands for them - including Wonder distribution members about where they Your statement description will White, Mighty Soft and the popular will be located. now say “Ezidebit” instead of Helga’s range. ‘TRANSPORT WORKERS Many of them are North of the River On a more positive note Buttercup UN PERTH AU’ people and there is talk about the will maintain its distribution system Thank you for your Buttercup’s distribution centre being which means most of our members, continued support. located in Canning Vale or Jandakot.

12 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Swan Drivers End Painful Process with Yes Vote After fighting hard and achieving reasonable outcomes

Swan drivers have voted 59% to 41% The agreement’s best outcomes reports MARK BYDDER to accept a new agreement after more include: than 12 months of difficult negotiations - Rest breaks of 12 minutes instead and NO REDUCTION to WEEKEND with the company. of 10. PENALTY rates for new employees During that time there have been 23 is also a huge company concession - New drivers to be paid the highest thanks to drivers STAYING STRONG. meetings and three secret ballots classification rate with-in two years with drivers knocking back Swan’s instead of 5 years. The Yes Vote brings to an end an ordeal proposals on two occasions. that drivers had become entirely sick - A reduction in super of 0.5% instead and tired of. The often painful process took so long of 1% for new drivers. because of management’s ongoing However one of our main aims was to - This super reduction to occur attempts to strip pay and conditions ensure the wages and conditions of at change of contract instead of away from drivers. new Swan drivers will allow them to immediately for new drivers. Drivers have adamantly dug their feet start FAIR and SQUARE. - No 5/6 roster for ANY employee. in and made the best of a situation to Congratulations to the Swan Bargaining ensure future drivers were protected. - Payment for ANY training required Committee and the entire team by company. And we managed to avoid most of the involved. We fought a long, hard fight – cutbacks that Swan management was Part-time provisions and overtime but achieved reasonable outcomes. attempting to impose on drivers. allocation STAY the SAME in the EBA

Toll IPEC workers Challenge changes

Thanks to our delegates We wanted the opportunity to address some concerns that we believed could possibly affect workers’ safety. Charlie, Jason, Jimmy Agreement was eventually reached in the Fair Work and Andy for their Commission on a plan that would benefit all parties. A meeting was then held on site with affected workers excellent work’ and management to come up with a plan that would be says TWU Organiser LEON RURI acceptable to all concerned. The delegate team at Toll IPEC Hazelmere has been hard Our delegates provided great support for fellow members at it this year; they’re a very effective and passionate bunch with workplace and personal issues, with some great of people who love their workplace and their workmates. outcomes.

With well over 200 members on site, there are always a Many thanks to Charlie, Jason, Jimmy and Andy for their few issues that need sorting out. excellent work.

The troops were particularly annoyed when the company It’s going to be a busy year with a number of EBA’s up for tried to introduce some new start times without fairly negotiation. consulting on the proposed changes as per the EBA. I’ve recently finished the Holcim Quarry agreement. Others TWU members reacted swiftly with a letter to management up for negotiation are ACFS (National Agreement), TOLL asking for the status quo to be maintained while we GROUP, KOMATSU, QUBE, REDSTAR, STEVESONS/ worked through the issues. CCS and BIDVEST.

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TWU advert.indd 1 21/09/12 2:11 PM JASON WALTERS Round-Up TWU lead organiser Jason Walters has been flat out like the proverbial Wridgeways close lizard drinking with heaps of EBA’s to Agreement underway and a busy year ahead. The Santa Fe Wridgways agreement is another one that the company has sat on after it expired on 28 Jan 2016. As we went to press a draft, of what we hope will be the last draft, was being 100% Union Pays Dividends worked on by the company. Our members have given the • 210 hours of Annual Leave Our legal and industrial team picked up thumbs up to a new BroadSpectrum a few issues that might concern the Fair • Only 7.6 hours to be deducted agreement that will apply to our Work Commission and these were being for sick leave even if they are members who work at the RAAF base adjusted by the company. on a 15 hr shifts at Pearce. The company has agreed to most of our The agreement took 18 months Negotiations had been dragging on for suggested changes and are looking into to negotiate with the first hurdle donkeys’ years like endless episodes a few others. being getting Broadspectrum to the of The Bold and The Beautiful due to We are hoping the long wait for our bargaining table. the procrastination of management. members, who are overdue for pay rises, They wanted to move from a 5-day will soon be over. The agreement expired on 30 June operation to a 24hr 7-day operation 2015 and Broadspectrum made it I will report full details in the next edition which our members eventually very clear from the outset that they of The Wheel. agreed to. wouldn’t be giving much away. However, due to the credit of our two But thanks to the determination and determined members Anna and perseverance of our delegates and Deb we continued to push for a deal members we eventually achieved that members’ could be happy with. some pretty good outcomes K&S Rail Talks including: By adding the additional roster pattern We have already began work on the the company needed to employ • 2.5% annual increases K&S Rail agreement and have additional staff. BACKPAID to June 2015 completed the initial members Anna and Deb were quick to sign meetings to establish a Log of Claims. • Rest and recline break them up, knowing that being 100% K&S members also know we’re in • $23.98 meal allowance, up union is the way to win battles with for a tough fight and are aware that from $12.75 management. management will do everything to undermine their strong TWU negotiated • 42-hour week with Sincere thanks to them both. conditions. superannuation paid on all hours But these guys don’t have reverse gears so there will be no going backwards.

K&S members at first EBA meeting

The Wheel Autumn 2017 15 JASON WALTERS Round-Up

WE’RE UNDERWAY Pathetic ISS Offer Trumpisms A Donald Trump has AT CEV Since the ISS Airport agreement expired on 31 Aug announced that now 2016 there have been eight bargaining meetings he’s President he’s with management going to ban the sale of pre-shredded cheese. We held a delegates Their first pathetic offer was rightly rejected by the meeting a few weeks membership. He wants to make back to survey members America grate again. and draw up a new log of Their proposals would have seen members go A HHHH claims to deliver to CEV backward in their pay and the introduction of a management. All Metro divisive roster. Donald Trump was sites have been visited Members are only asking for what’s fair including: asked if he knew any and surveys completed. bible verses. • Decent pay increases to keep their heads The results will now be above water. He replied, “Give a man formulated into a Log of a fish and he’ll eat for Claims before taking them • Better roster conditions (at the moment some a day. Deport him and back to our members for work 6 hours a day over 6 days a week). you don’t have to feed endorsement. him again.” • To be paid the 5th week of annual leave for Alistair Outen from the being a 24/7 shift worker. HHHH firm’s Hazelmere site • And an opportunity to become permanent full Donald Trump has been elected by time. labelled Hillary Clinton the delegate group to “disgusting” for taking a represent members from ISS is finding every excuse possible to not make bathroom break during WA at the eastern states employees permanent even if they are doing the the Democrat debate. negotiations. required hours. Alistair is keen for After we rejected their initial proposals management the challenge and we reconsidered its position and came back with an Trump himself never has thank him for taking the improved offer which was slightly better than the to go to the bathroom, important job on. first. as the crap just comes straight out of his But if members are to agree, the company still has mouth. plenty of improving to do.

16 The Wheel Autumn 2017 We’re Gearing Up At Linfox

We are gearing up for an intense rounds of negotiations with the majors and I will be playing a lead role in the Linfox bargaining alongside our State Secretary Tim Dawson. Their existing agreement doesn’t expire until the end of the year but we are off to an early start We are taking things seriously and have held two delegates training days on the 1st of March where we rolled out the Log of Claims survey. Meetings have started at each site and will continue over the Linfox delegates have met to discuss a new Enterprise Agreement coming weeks and months.

We need to reimburse drivers for beer chits rip-off Grace

With the BevChain agreement expiring on 30 June 2017 we have run a series of members meetings on site where surveys have been Removals completed to establish a Log of Claims. As we went to press another meeting was held to endorse the claims Members we are planning to take to the table. The Bevchain troops are already starting behind the eight ball as last Ready for year their discount beer chits were ripped off them. This effectively reduced their weekly wage by over $20. Tough Fight Our members will be looking at seeking at least pay parity with their Linfox counterparts. Grace Removals also expires 30 June 2017 and the first negotiation meeting was held prior to Christmas. We had a break due to the regular industry busy season but we will be back at the bargaining table soon. Grace have made it clear that this will be a tough round of negotiations. Cost cutting began last year with four redundancies and four employees having their wages reduced. However, the Grace Removals workforce has always been up for the fight and I don’t expect that to change this year.

“The chase scenes were great”.

The Wheel Autumn 2017 17 ...Then they came for our Penalty Rates

A war has broken out between the major political parties over who was responsible for setting the wheels in motion to have workers penalty rates cut. A HOT TOPIC FROM Well I can inform you, it was the Coalition STATE SECRETARY government that commissioned the May Productivity Commission to investigate TIM DAWSON the case for cutting penalty rates. And this fact was well reported in previous Day editions of The Wheel and the general media. Now permanent retail staff will have Sunday penalty rates dropped from 200 per cent to 150 per cent of their standard hourly We are approaching rate. one of the most anticipated days on In hospitality, employees will face a reduction in Sunday pay from 175 per the union calendar – cent to 150 per cent. May Day. Fast-food workers’ Sunday rates will go from 150 per cent to 125 per cent The annual May Day for full-time and part-time staff, and casuals will go from 200 per cent to 175 event will be held, per cent. as it is every year, at Esplanade Park in Public holiday penalty rates of “double-time and a half” in these industries Fremantle from 10AM will also be reduced. on the first Sunday in May. But the big question now is where will the cuts to working conditions stop. The May Day march There is no doubt that the “THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE” has been recognises the hammered in. achievements of Business owners have been working people and celebrates the complaining for years that they significance of the 8 can’t afford to pay penalty rates – Double-time sounds like a lot hour working day. and that they are bad for business. of money, until you’re the one It and many other So what else will they now claim is cleaning up a drunken person’s working conditions bad for business: vomit from a toilet for the sixth are now often taken • Four weeks holiday pay – will for granted but these time that night, dealing with a days employers are they push for three. customer trying to return a top constantly attempting • Or annual leave loading – will that has foundation all over it, to wind back the clock. that have to go because it is asking if someone would like bad for business. fries with that for the 645th time Food and family entertainment begin at • Long Service Leave perhaps. in a day or getting stabbed in 10AM with the march One thing is for sure: The TWU the hand with a fork by a value- throughout the Freo will mount a fiercely aggressive hungry diner. cappuccino strip to campaign against any move head off at 12 noon. to reduce penalty rates in the From a brilliant article by JILL We look forward to transport industry. seeing heaps of TWU POULSON, former hospitality members, and their We fought for 100 years to achieve worker and now journalist with the families, in your union the conditions we have now and Northern Territory News colours on Sunday none of them are up for grabs – May 7 from 10AM. NONE OF THEM!

18 The Wheel Autumn 2017 JD is a delegate who goes the extra mile ‘Never lead your members on’ is just one piece of advice JOHN DAVIS gives new TWU reps

After 30 years as a shop steward at a John has enormous respect for our war “And when you have a win for the driver company where he has worked for 36 veterans who put their lives on at risk in you’re the first bloke the company is years of his life John Davis is no stranger defence of our democracy. after. to the role and the importance of union delegates. And he was honored and humbled when It can be a thankless job, “but it’s often the Last Post Association asked him the most gratifying” Over the years, JD, as he is affectionately to speak in front of several thousand known, has witnessed the delegate’s role people. “It takes a very special type of person in the workplace change throughout his – someone with resilience because, years, but it has never deterred him from But of all these achievements, no matter often you’re taking the problems home. getting the job done. what the level of honour, JD believes the biggest achievement is the job he John remembers the good old days Thanks to John, Skippers Transport has has done representing his Skippers when members would often call him late 100% union membership. workmates. at night, sometimes after a few to drinks, to discuss their workplace issues. With everything JD does he goes the “It is of the most importance, and I extra mile. regard it as my most accomplished JD’s estimates that during his 30 years achievement” said JD. as a delegate plenty of people have lost When the Make-a-Wish Foundation their jobs for misconduct. But NOT ONE approached JD to give a dying young But for all delegates the job has got was ever put down on paper as being boy a ride in his truck, JD organised a tougher. sacked. All were just resignations. convoy of 10 trucks. “It’s not like the old days where you could A person who has resigned has a much When the ALP asked John to do a bit of refuse to load a person if they didn’t join better chance of getting another job than leaflet dropping – JD did, but also drove the union,” John said someone who has been sacked. 22,000kms as part of a campaign to save medicare and was recognised with an “It’s now important for the upcoming Commonsense is also an integral outstanding service to the party award. delegate to establish a relationship requirement in being a delegate and with and earn the mutual trust of their John has plenty of it. When he became a shop steward he organiser. made sure every employee was a TWU JD, you are a legend. member and that there have been pay “Never lead your members on and don’t make promises that you can’t keep. In closing, JD had one piece of advice for rises in every EBA negotiated. newly elected Premier Mr. McGowan. He JD is good friends with former PM Bob “And always, when you’re representing a says “we want to see you FIGHT the libs Hawke who has labelled John, “one of member, always make sure the member over East for WA’s share of the GST. WA the very best union thugs of all time.” accompanies you” deserves a lot more than we are currently getting.” JD wishes the new Premier all It’s a tag John wears with pride. “Because when the boss wins the battle the very best in the new top job. – people will reckon you’re in the pockets of management

The Wheel Autumn 2017 19 Truck Drivers are key to our Survival

We say, what about the company’s lack of understanding of when a drivers’ But trucking firms are motel room is stinking hot because the A/C isn’t working. putting more pressure Or: on drivers to deliver • Bugs have been biting you all night. • The food you ate was what was left Reports HAMMER MELMIK over and you are starving. • You spent six hours waiting for your haul. It doesn’t take long to gain a perspective on its side after trying to cross a flooded of life in the North West and how bridge shows the risks some drivers • There are no facilities to use a toilet, important the transport industry is to take and that could cost their life. No no lunch room to heat your food or the the isolated. job is worth that. room is too hot and full of flies so you can’t relax while you wait. It’s part of our survival. All you have to We want to see the drivers come to do is go shopping during a cyclone alert work healthy and at end of the shift go Companies don’t ask if the roads are or after heavy rain fall with roads and home healthy but that doesn’t always safe, roads where bitumen is missing bridges flooded or damaged. happen. the edges are so sharp they blow 6 tyres without trying. The lack of items on the shelves doesn’t Trucking companies think by installing need any explanation. The rain and cameras that detect eyelids blinking Passing trucks coming in the opposite cyclones are just a couple of hurdles our more often, eyes closing for a split direction where the road is only wide drivers face every day. second, the head nodding, the mouth enough for one truck. Where there are yawning - that it makes driving safer. no lines marked and you don’t know Yet, it seems, that trucking companies what side of the road you are on. put more pressure on drivers every Instead it’s just another distraction day to deliver, do extra trips, work a driver doesn’t need but soon as an Issues like lack of truck stops or longer hours, teach inexperienced truck alarm goes off it’s into the office to find facilities at truck stops, fumes getting drivers and deliver, deliver, deliver. out why and more than likely being into truck cabins, kangaroos jumping in stood down. front of trucks , cattle, camels, donkeys, Seeing the B Double (pictured above) brumbies and goats on the roads, bush

20 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Rand Truck Drivers are key to our Survival withdraws turkey or a wedge tail eagle coming cutbacks through your windscreen “Issues like lack of Reports JOHN CUTRALI Caravans pulling out in front of trucks and then there is the wide open space truck stops or facilities where you might not see another vehicle at truck stops, fumes It took drivers voting by for ages. secret ballot for protected getting into truck industrial action to All the time concentrating to ensure leverage Rand Transport you don’t fall asleep and you keep the cabins, kangaroos management into taking truck on the road while four cameras are EBA negotiations seriously. focused on your face. jumping in front of trucks, cattle, camels, The company had been With all these types of incidences being dragging its feet since the recorded it’s the manager that looks donkeys, brumbies existing agreement expired at the recordings and the first thing he in August 2015 – almost a sees might be a driver not wearing a and goats on the year and a half ago. seat belt or setting up his Bluetooth for his phone. roads, bush turkey And they had continually or a wedge tail eagle come to the bargaining The manager doesn’t ask the driver how table looking for cutbacks he or she is feeling after a bird has come coming through your in wages and overtime through the windscreen or a cow has rates and NO BACK PAY. finished damaging the front bulbar and windscreen” grille. Rand claimed they were paying their 60 or It’s hard enough for me doing 500km in They rarely improve facilities for a so drivers $9 per hour a day in a crew cab Ute, or 1600km over above the award and high a couple of days. better nights’ sleep, better healthy food, facilities with functioning toilets wages were making them We rely on linehaul drivers to do it or shower, or the ability to have a rest uncompetitive. every day like robots. outside of the cabin. It’s a common assertion Transport firms are quick to introduce Most don’t recognise if you look after thrown at us by a lot of cameras and Metadata screens which your driver, the driver looks after firms but we maintain our are no different to receiving a SMS. the truck, works smarter and lowers members are worth every cent they are paid. But they don’t introduce initiatives that maintenance costs. A win-win for all. might help drivers, like air purifying It seems many companies sack rather In any case the award is just instruments/machines so drivers don’t than take into account how much money a minimum rates document get carbon monoxide poisoning (I know they’ve already spent on driver training and a safety net for those of two cases of drivers who will never NOT on union negotiated work again). It isn’t the drivers fault most of the time. collective agreements. Eventually Rand came around and withdrew their proposed cutbacks. They agreed to annual pay rises equal to increases in the Consumer Prize agreement. Drivers also received a $600 sign on bonus to compensate for the lack of retrospectivity. Thanks to our two excellent delegates Alf Barbarich and Miro Selik for the work they did representing their Great Northern Highway workmates interests. complete with wandering cattle and one-way bridges

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There’s quite a bit happening with TWU Super at the moment, they have just rolled out a promotion called ‘round up your super’. For those who have been meaning to combine/rollover their super – now is the perfect time. For every rollover received before 2 June 2017, members will go into the draw to win 1 of 10 $200 Bunnings gift vouchers (full details available from twusuper.com.au/promotions. “My short-term financial goal is to survive until Tuesday. My long-term financial goal is to survive until Friday.” Brendon Adams, WA state rep for TWU Super and all-round good bloke ran a seminar on March 17 and the response was phenomenal and fully booked. Brendon will be running another seminar in the coming months, please get in touch to register your interest and we will advise you Two when it will be held. Hippies The seminars are free events and open to all TWU members and their families - even if you don’t have super with TWU Super. Two marijuana smoking hippies are They cover a range of topics including how to plan your retirement, how walking down a railroad track stoned. much you may need in retirement, contribution strategies, account- One Hippie says “Man, this is a really based pensions, budgeting, Centrelink issues and tax strategies etc. long f..king staircase!”

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22 The Wheel Autumn 2017 ZOO JOB The Mud Raging Crabs

Bear As the politician boarded his flight in Broome the flight attendant noticed the newspaper parcel under his arm. I was hiking once with my “Mud crabs”, he said. I’m taking them Jobs were getting hard to get so Bruce girlfriend. Suddenly a huge home to Perth for a gourmet meal. the forkie applied for a vacancy at the brown bear was charging local zoo. at us, really mad. The hostess took the package, assuring him that storage in refrigeration would POPULAR He was told that Gerald the Gorilla had We must have come close keep them fresh. just died and they wanted him to put on to her cubs. a gorilla suit and pretend to be a gorilla The flight landed and as the aircraft taxied until another one could be found. Luckily I had my 9mm pistol in the passengers were welcomed over with me. One shot to my the PA system by the flight attendant Bruce began to enjoy his job a great girlfriend’s kneecap was all and asked to remain seated until the deal. Eating bananas with the skin it took. I could walk away plane came to a halt… on, swinging from branch to branch, at a comfortable pace. entertaining the spectators and laying in …”And would the gentleman who gave the sunshine. me the crabs in Broome please come and see me?” One day while putting on a performance for a big crowd, he swung a bit too far and landed in the lion enclosure next door. He saw two lions growling fiercely at him and ran to the bars screaming for help. First Trapped he turned to face the lions who were now yelling at him: “For F..K Sake mate stop your bloody screaming or we Date will all lose our jobs!”. He: “I work with animals every day!” She: “Oh how When I run out sweet! What is it that you do?” I hate it when I run out of toilet paper and I have to make the trip to the grocery He: “I’m a store in really small steps. butcher.”

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24 The Wheel Autumn 2017 A Cheap Widescreen TV or Jobs For Your Kids If Amazon sets up shop in Australia 100’s of jobs will disappear

‘A Parasite that contributes virtually Predicts PAUL ASLAN nothing to Australian society’

He may be a multi-millionaire businessman your husband, wife, son or granddaughter Turnbull as a piss-weak leader who but Gerry Harvey’s recent description of can’t find a job. consistently fails to follow through on giant online retailer Amazon as a “parasite tough issues. An unemployment crisis is gripping this that contributes virtually nothing to country and governments both state and We have put a big red WATCH CLOSELY Australian society”, was spot on. federal are contending with gargantuan sticker on this one. Amazon is reportedly about to set up debt issues. “shop” in Australia and enter into a price Raising sufficient revenue to pay for the cutting war with retail competitors. lifestyles we have enjoyed over the past They pay no GST – or any tax for that 20 years is extremely problematic. matter – and they employ only a fraction of the people who hold down jobs with So making overseas firms, who sell into retailers such as Retravision, Harvey Australia via the internet, pay GST and Norman, JB Hi Fi and hundreds of others. other corporate taxes is absolutely essential. Amazon is a $500 billion dollar company that is renowned for tax evasion and Amazon has been paying SWEET-F-A paying employers slave labour rates. since their inception and that can’t be allowed to continue. Of course, if they set up shop in Australia later this year, as reported, there will be The Turnbull government has vowed big savings for consumers. to crack down on this tax evasion and new regulations will come into force on But at what cost – Amazon will create July 12. a few jobs as they send many local businesses broke and throw thousands We certainly hope they succeed in making onto the dole queues. tax invaders like Amazon cough up. What’s the good of having a cheap Unfortunately we have come to distrust widescreen TV or washing machine while politicians and many regard Malcolm

The Wheel Autumn 2017 25 VALE Tony Wrona Tony always chose to stand by his workmates and for that he will be missed

of the two fleets would occur prior to an With such blatant abuse of procedure After a long term agreement being reached. and un-ethical behaviour on show for all to see, every division of the TNT group stint with TNT Group, However, with just an hour’s notice on a in WA took industrial action In support of Thursday night Priority employees were their workmates. long term TWU summoned to a meeting and handed personalised letters. Nothing but emergency blood for transfusions moved out of our yard for member... We were informed that, unless we had a week. signed up to a new “EBA” by the start Tony Wrona passed away suddenly in of business the following day, our By the end, the eastern states couldn’t February. employment would be terminated. ship any more freight because there was no place to put It. Tony’s untimely death bought back We were given less than 12 hour’s (yes, some fond memories for one of we worked over-time in those days) to By mid-week TNT tried a new tactic; every Priority employee was his workmates who recalled Tony’s sign or be sacked. involvement in an industrial dispute handed a letter directing us to attend 17 years ago. TNT, assuming there might be a bit of a “one-on-one” meetings to discuss blue, decided to throw a couple of other “Favourable Termination Packages”. The workmate wrote down his rotten eggs into the basket for good Again we were threatened with reflections on Tony at his kitchen table measure. on the night he died and sent them to termination should we fail to comply. us for possible inclusion in The Wheel. One of these was that the last two Comet TNT was trying to drive a wedge. drivers, one of whom was Tony Wrona, Whittle us down by offering “generous” The writer did not want to be named were to be transferred to ‘Priority’ by the but his following words are well and termination packages tailored to each start of business on the same day. driver. truly worthy of a run in our magazine: This enabled TNT to close the books HHHH on the ‘Comet’ livery, but left the two employees in the same predicament as I Never Sometimes its first Impressions; the Priority guys; Sign or be sacked. sometimes It can be a series of events forgot the stance that define how we remember a man. We held a meeting the following morning. With good delegates across the yard Tony took during For me those events took place and organisers’ like Glenn Sterle and back in 2000. John Cain In the front ranks it was a no- that week. It was brainer. Ansett Airlines had just fallen over and the mark of a man TNT had picked up the air-freight part of the Business. of character At the time TNT was a mish mash of Mcphees, Comet, Kwikasair, TNT Road, TNT Air, and TNT International. Adding another “Division” to the mix didn’t ring any alarm bells for us, however TNT had other ideas. For weeks TNT management (names suppressed to protect the guilty) held meetings with the dozen or so TNT ‘Priority’ employees. Us employees questioned management repeatedly about the conflicting EBA’s (Ansett Air-Freight/ TNT Priority), and TNT members on the picket-line in 2000 were given assurances that no merger

26 The Wheel Autumn 2017 The more employees accepting these “packages”, the weaker our position would become. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VALE We met to consider their proposal and CHOOSE YOUR OWN DOCTOR Tony Wrona unanimously rejected It, We were in the right and we were not Injured workers being Barry was impressed by the backing down - with one exception. sent off to a company company’s generosity, until Tony always chose to stand by his doctor, instead of their it became fairly apparent Both Comet drivers were long serving own GP can cause major that they were taking him employees and in line for the biggest problems with workers for a ride in more ways than workmates and for that he will be missed redundancy payments. compensation claims. just paying for his taxi fare. However, they had been hung out to Often employers are The doctor assessed Barry dry the most of all and we all agreed keen to send employees Story by and issued him with a directly to their doctors recommendation to return that they should do what was in their Avaiation best interests. for assessment and to work the following day,

treatment because it suits Organiser with only a moon boot to

Potentially they had the most to lose. their purposes. GLEN BARRON help him recover. But to their great credit, and Qantas are REPEAT ” It was in the company’s possible financial cost to themselves they OFFENDERS in this treat- best interests for Barry also refused to negotiate individually with ment of their employees. to return to work as soon the company. the as possible without even Legally they CANNOT addressing the safety issue Tony had close to 20 years’ service baggage force employees to a with the baggage trolley. behind him by then, No doubt TNT’s doctor of their choosing. trolley offer to break his strike would have been Barry took this recommend- Barry Lynch, a TWU quite substantial. we used ation on the chin, and member and baggage returned to work the Not to be bought off Tony chose to handler at Qantas Ground kicked following day in excruciating stand by his workmates, some of whom Services, was recently in pain. he hardly knew. this very situation when back and he injured his foot at work. as there is “Even when I sneeze I can When I urged him to re consider in light still feel the breaks in my “The Baggage trollies we of what he might lose, his answer was foot” said Barry. “It is a real use, kicked back and as no spring, pretty simple. inconvenience in just doing there was no spring the the iron bar the simplest things.” We had taken a vote; that meant iron bar dropped onto my accepting the consequences whatever foot” said Barry. dropped After finally getting to see they were, the same for everybody. his own doctor it turns out This happened at 4am in onto my Barry had multiple fractures Over the years since we had the odd the morning and Barry, as in his foot. disagreement, Tony and I, but I never he is required to, reported feet forgot the stance Tony took during that the incident directly to his ” Despite wearing steel week management. cap boots that day, which aren’t a requirement of all their staff It was the mark of a man of character Once the paperwork for the incident – Barry suffered an incapacitating and the respect I had for him was always report was taken care of Barry injury and having seen the Qantas’ based on this. I know many of Tony’s tried to book an appointment with doctor Barry had to suffer without a workmates felt the same way. his doctor but was unable to get chance to rest his broken foot. in to see her before management We didn’t get everything we wanted, but suggested he see one of their Barry’s own doctor reviewed that by sticking together we got far better doctors. recommend-ation and has given terms than TNT was on offering at the Barry time off to heal. start of the week. Qantas was even kind enough to give Mr. Lynch a lift to see the The lesson to all Union members is: All this is ancient history. But with doctor. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to choose an EBA due and the looming Fed-Ex your treating doctor and Juggernaut in the background we would we strongly recommend all do well to take a look and learn what you do that. we can from the past. In this case Qantas must To remember what men like Tony Wrona STILL PAY for the cost and his workmates who stood resolutely of injured employees on the grass for a week have done? visits REGARDLESS What it is possible to achieve by sticking of whether the doctor by your mates, and what can be lost If is a “Q Care approved we don’t. practitioner.” Tony wasn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but he was what he was. He was a man who was true to himself, to his family and Barry Lynch rests his broken foot friends. And to his workmates.

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28 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Linfox to test text blocking gadget

A BOLD bid to cut the road toll would Full functions are restored when the Police are working with Telstra and block text messages from Victorian ignition is turned off. Linfox to limit vehicle phone use. drivers’ phones. According to Victoria Police statistics - They want children to say to their Linfox will install the textblocking almost 80 a day – were being issued to parents, if they see them using their devices in its truck fleet as part of a trial drivers for using mobile phones. phones in the car, “put it down, because next year. my life depends on it”. And Victoria Police has indicated the “It’s recognising they have the most equipment could be used more widely valuable asset sitting in the back seat, in a way similar to an alcohol interlock ‘Some were taking and knowing if they use their mobile device, which aims to curb bad driving phone they could well kill that most behaviour and monitor repeat offenders. selfie photos and valuable asset”. When the vehicle moves, the gadget, Accident data shows that in Victoria, in usually installed beneath the steering using social media’ one year, 22 fatal crashes were caused wheel, sends a message to the driver’s by drivers texting and talking. telecommunications provider to prevent The toll included six drivers who were text messages arriving or being sent texting, and 16 of the deaths involved from the driver’s phone. Most were talking or texting but, drivers talking while at the wheel. Data-based distractions such as social alarmingly, some were taking selfie Apparently, the phone-blocking media are also switched off. photos and using social media. technology does not require legislative But music streaming and navigation The penalty is a $466 fine and three changes. functions remain, and hands-free calls demerit points. will be allowed during the trial. PIZZA HUT NABBED UNDERPAYING DRIVERS

If you are a Pizza Hut customer spare a thought for their Drivers were also expected to cover fuel and vehicle battling delivery drivers who struggle to turn a buck. operating and maintenance costs. Pizza Hut was found guilty of paying some of its delivery The FWO estimated more than $12,000 in underpayments drivers as little as $5.70 per delivery. was owed to the drivers. The underpayments were picked up in an audit conducted Almost 32% of the 170 employees dealt with as part of the by the Fair Work Ombudsman. FWO’s report were under the age of 24. Investigations were conducted after the FWO received 144 A FWO spokesperson said younger workers were requests for assistance between June 1, 2010 and January more vulnerable in this situation because they are less 6 last year. likely to be aware of their rights in the The Ombudsman’s office identified “widespread non- workplace. compliance” within Pizza Hut outlets across Australia, with Pizza Hut has since said it does TWU three quarters of audited outlets failing to comply. not tolerate non-compliance members and is committed to ensuring Of the 34 Pizza Hut franchises the regulator audited, it who believe they found 24 non-compliant. all franchisees meet their legal obligations. are being Seven outlets were misclassifying delivery drivers as underpaid can independent contractors, rather than as employees and paying them as little as $5.70 and $8.00 for each contact us on delivery run. 6313 3000.

The Wheel Autumn 2017 29 Dont risk sack for phone use warns JOEL CLARKE

A warning to all members - don’t get caught out - a few seconds using the phone could see you sacked! It’s the bane of nearly every truckie on the road – distracted drivers using mobile phones! Unfortunately some of us still use a phone from time to time while behind the wheel The TWU has dealt with more than a dozen mobile phone use dismissals in the past year. Many companies now have CCTV in their trucks. These are installed under the guise of safety and mostly that is their purpose. However, those pesky cameras are always watching and can and will be used to give you the boot if you’re The nitty gritty on these rules is broken I truly hope I never have to meet another caught out. down by the Road Safety Commission: member who has been sacked for using Now I’m not just talking about long catch Whilst driving, you can only touch a their phone while driving. up phone calls with your partner or kids, mobile phone to receive and terminate Many companies take a hard-line or sending a long-winded text message a phone call if the phone is secured in a approach these days and will give the to your footy mates about the BBQ at mounting affixed to the vehicle. boot to even long-serving employees Robbo’s next week. If the phone is not secured in a mounting, on the first offence. No, simply touching your phone to it can only be used to receive or It’s just not worth risking your job and it check why it beeped at you, or mucking terminate a phone call without touching is difficult to contest these dismissals at around with the settings to connect it (e.g. using voice activation, a Bluetooth the Fair Work Commission. Bluetooth counts as using the phone. hands-free car kit, ear piece or headset). Ultimately it’s a safety issue – no matter If it’s not in an approved cradle or Whilst driving, it is illegal to create, how brief the actual phone usage is. operates via Bluetooth and dash controls send or even look at a text message, then you could be in deep doo-doo Phone holders and portable Bluetooth video message, email or similar receivers are relatively cheap these (dash, centre console or top pocket do communication not count!) days. Approved units can be picked up Even when the phone is secured in a from many retail stores such as Repco, If you are caught by the police using a mounting or can be operated without Supercheap Auto, JB Hi-Fi etc. hand held mobile phone whilst driving touching it. you are in for a $400 fine and 3 demerit You can even get units with charging points off your licence. GPS may be used by a driver whilst docks which connect to via the ciggy driving if no touch of the keypad or lighter or aux socket. If you are caught by your employer screen is required. using a hand held mobile phone while Keep the receipts and you should be driving you could be sacked for serious able to claim it on tax! misconduct!

30 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Glen Barron’s AVIATION REPORT

Job Security big issue at Gate Aviation

Since my last report we’ve been undergoing the first of many EBA discussions with the crew at Gate Aviation. I’m not going to lie, it will be a difficult agreement to put together and that’s simply The Gate Keepers of because of the current economic downturn. YING GATE AVIATION All businesses are CR POOR in this current economic climate. There is a lot of labour hire at Gate, a lot of casuals, and that alone is a reflection of the level of job security at the company. Currently covered by Workplace Bullying four different agreements nationally, with varied rates and conditions, the aim at Gate is to roll three of these four, concerns at Alpha soon to expire, agreements The workers at Alpha Flight Catering workers” into the EBA, changing into one. have been campaigning for a fair go people’s behaviours towards each All will expire soon except for since before their EBA even expired other starts by standing up to Sydney. in October last year. Bullys. The merging of the other three But finally it appears we are getting We are almost there with an EBA makes a lot of sense as every closer to the end of negotiations. that doesn’t re-neg on hard fought airport has raised the same Our members Log of Claims was conditions from previous agreements issues and a single agreement endorsed and supported by the and we’ll all be glad to see the process is the best way to address crew - especially since the company completed so we can move forward. these concerns. chopped 99% of their claims off – a The priorities at Gate include: great win for our members. • A fair outcome for all One or two more meetings to go and Gate workers, no matter we expect to reach an in-principal the site agreement with the company. • Problems with payroll A major issue at Alpha in WA has getting fixed been workplace bullying and • Access to full-time and harassment. permanent part time This is something I would like to see roles the leaders of the workplace put an • Increased job security end to. • An agreement that Maintaining a good internal culture at DOESN’T go backwards a place like Alpha depends on people looking out for people. • And an end to bullying and harassment And although you can put things like “improved workplace health and safety” and “respect for Alpha

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32 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Record fine against exploitation of workers Big Win for A regional café has been fined more than $500,000 for exploiting Aldi Drivers overseas workers and the FWO is persing two other cafes for unlawful “cash-back” schemes, The Transport Workers’ Union has begun The Federal Government has committed to introducing laws to prohibit consulting truck drivers following a major win against supermarket giant Aldi. such arrangements. The ruling by the Federal Court ensures Albury’s Canteen Cuisine café was fined $533,000 for exploiting five bogus agreements cannot be forced upon workers. employees which deny their rights. This included two Indian cooks to whom the owner promised annual The ruling overturns a Fair Work salaries in excess of $50,000 but who were left with as little as $6 an Commission decision which forced hour after “repayments”. an agreement on employees without The court heard the owner coerced one of the cooks on a Subclass 457 proper workplace and union consultation visa into going to a local ATM to withdraw cash and repay up to $940 and denied them a Union negotiated a week. agreement. The other cook, who was on a bridging visa, had to pay him between The TWU opposed the Fair Work $330 and $2000 every week. Commission’s certification of the Agreement; a position which was The cooks also gave evidence that the owner threatened that if they vindicated by the Federal Court. complained he would kill them or withdraw support and cancel their visas. The bogus agreement would have had implications for safety on the roads. The combination of the cashback scheme and underpayment of minimum entitlements resulted in the cooks being underpaid by about It classified drivers of large trucks as $32,000 and $29,000. store workers so they could be paid below the transport award and denied Three Australian citizens were each underpaid between $6700 and allowances for having to drive long $11,300. distances and at night. Judge Altobelli found that This was a blatant attempt by a wealthy the cashback scheme was multinational retailer with over $50 billion part of a “deliberate strategy in revenue globally to deny employees of deceit to hide the ongoing their rights and leave them voiceless. contraventions of workplace laws”. This ruling is a signal to other major companies wishing to do business in And the owner had “deliberately Australia: wage theft and denying workers exploited the imbalance of Union rights and the ability to support power between sponsor and their families will not be tolerated. visa holder in order to achieve financial gain”. “Aldi’s intention was to pay truck drivers below the award. This agreement was The record $532,900 fine was rushed through without union involvement the largest-ever achieved as a to reduce and circumvent worker rights, result of FWO legal action and including safe rates of pay and union a “big blow in the fight to stamp representation. out deliberate exploitation of The decision was an important win for all overseas workers in Australia”. “Do we have to go through this involved and the TWU’s South Australian every month Stan? Branch. We both know I’m your only employee.”

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34 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Worker fined after fork-lift death

A worker has been fined for killing person, and causing the person’s death a workmate with a raised forklift through that failure. attachment, in the latest of a string of The Perth Magistrates Court heard that safety prosecutions of individuals. Lewis had left his baling forks raised Forklift A Narrogin Hay Pty Ltd employee after loading hay bales onto a feed table, Thomas William Lewis was driving a hay and they partially obscured his vision as and baling forklift with the baling forks raised he drove towards the victim’s vehicle. to about 1.7 metres above the ground It heard his supervisors had previously when he collided with the colleague’s warned him about driving with the tines Quad Bike forklift side-on. raised, and he had completed high-risk The baling forks consisted of five sharp work training addressing this issue. Deaths metal tines for piercing hay bales, Lewis should have foreseen that he and one of these tines pierced the could cause a serious injury or death WorkSafe Victoria has colleague’s torso. by driving the forklift with the baling called for workplaces to He was flown to Perth for surgery, but attachment raised more than 30cm from do more to tackle well- died of abdominal injuries that night. the ground, the Court found. known risks, after two workers were killed in Lewis pleaded guilty to breaching It fined Lewis $11,000, plus $1745 in forklift and quad bike the State OSH Act in failing to take costs. incidents. reasonable care for the safety of another One of the workers sus-tained fatal crush injuries when a load of steel fell from a forklift and landed on him at a scrap metal yard in South Gippsland. The other man died when Mechanical Problems his quad bike overturned on an East Gippsland property. Caused Truckies’ Death “Quad bikes are involved in many fatalities in A Brisbane firm was fined $60,000, In imposing the low fine and deciding agriculture. and ordered to enter a two-year good not to record a conviction, Cleveland Forklifts are involved behaviour undertaking, after pleading Magistrate Athol Kennedy took into in many injuries and guilty to failing to ensure the safety of account KDB’s cooperation with fatalities across a wide one of its truck drivers. investigators, early guilty plea and variety of industries,” In April 2012, the worker was checking financial difficulties. WorkSafe health and the trailer brakes on the prime mover But WHSQ head Blackwood yesterday safety executive director he was using to deliver LP gas to a stressed that “tight budgets are Marnie Williams said. service station, when the truck rolled no excuse for faulty machinery or “These are all well-known backwards and ran him over, killing vehicles”. risks, which is why it is him. “You cannot take short cuts when it unacceptable that people Worksafe Queensland and police comes to maintenance. It all needs to continue to die and Investigations found the truck had a be in tip-top shape,” he said. be injured using these types of machinery or number of mechanical problems, “In this instance, not servicing a vehicle undertaking these types including a defective warning alarm or fixing a fault cost a man his life.” designed to alert drivers if they left the of tasks.” cabin without engaging the maxi-brake, and an air leak in the braking system.

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36 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Trump Bails Out

Donald Trump, the Pope, and a child are in a plane. All of the sudden, it starts to go down. There are only 2 parachutes, Trump takes one and says: “I am the most intelligent person in the world and the leader of the most powerful country on this planet, I deserve to live” and jumps out. Good and Bad News The Pope says “Well child, I’m old and you deserve to live, so take God spoke to Adam. “Adam I have good news and bad news. the last parachute and live a good The good news is that I will give you two organs to give you great power and pleasure. life” I will give you the brain to enable you to think and to control the world. The child responds: “Don’t worry And I will give you the penis for great pleasure in love making. sir, the most intelligent person in the world took my backpack “Sounds great God”, said Adam. But what’s the bad news?”’ instead of a parachute”. God answered: “You will only have enough blood to work one at a time”.

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The Wheel Autumn 2017 37 Injured Workers Caught Up in Complex Compo System Workers Compensation Lawyer JOEL SCHNEIDER explains what injured workers need to know Do you know where to start? How quickly do you need to notify your employer at? What are you entitled to claim?

How quickly do I need to the result of reasonable administrative Most employees get a level of notify my employer? action undertaken in a reasonable comfort from knowing workers’ manner, unless you can prove otherwise. compensation is there to protect Generally, the sooner the better. The law them if they are ever injured at says that notice must be provided to your work. employer in writing as soon as practicable What happens after I’ve after you have been injured. lodged my claim? But would you actually know what to do if you needed to make Your employer will investigate your claim claim? How do I formally lodge and decide whether or not they are liable to pay compensation for your Do you know where to start? How my claim? injury. quickly do you need to notify your Your employer will need to provide employer? What losses are you Your employer is required to process the you with a Claim Form. You should then actually entitled to? How is the claim accurately and quickly however a complete the form and attach a medical process different for physical and decision is usually made within 4-8 weeks certificate from your doctor. psychological injuries? And what of lodging the claim. happens if your employer denies For an injury or disease to be accepted My claim has been accepted, how do I your claim? it must have arisen during the course of know what my entitlements are? your employment and be significantly The legal process can seem contributed to, by your employment. You are entitled to compensation for an overwhelming and it is a very injury if it results in death, incapacity for complex ballgame for workers, If you suffer from a psychological injury work, or impairment. Once you have an especially those employed by or condition, you must establish that accepted claim, compensation is payable firms insured through Comcare. you suffer from a condition which is for: outside the boundaries of normal mental This scheme was originally functioning. You will then need to show 1. Medical expenses for reasonable designed for Commonwealth that your condition has been significantly medical treatment public servants but the Howard contributed to by your employment. You and Abbott governments widened For this to be successful, you’ll need to will be denied if the injury or condition was its coverage to include eligible make sure you provide your employer national companies. Among them are a growing number of transport firms who have grabbed the opportunity to reduce their workers compensation costs. Sadly a number of TWU members have been caught up in the complexities of Comcare and have experienced serious difficulties getting their claims approved. When that happens they come to us for help and we refer them onto our solicitors, Slater & Gordon. To assist members through the often difficult process S&G have drawn up this detailed Questions and Answers report for injured workers covered by Comcare

38 The Wheel Autumn 2017 Injured Workers Caught Up in Complex Compo System

JOEL SCHNEIDER Workers Compensation Lawyer JOEL SCHNEIDER explains what injured workers need to know Slater & Gordon Do you know where to start? How quickly do you need to notify your employer at? What are you entitled to claim?

with all of the invoices relating to your Guide to the Assessment of Permanent expenses. Impairment, edition 2.1. 2. Incapacity • And your injury or disease needs to Rednecks guide To claim for incapacity or time off work, be permanent (defined as likely to to medical terms you must show that you were unable to continue indefinitely) and stable (all reasonable rehabilitative treatment for work due to the claimed condition. This Artery - The study of painting the impairment has been undertaken). can be shown through obtaining medical Bacteria - Back door to a certificates from your GP for the claimed In order to receive lump sum cafeteria periods off work. If you require regular compensation for permanent impairment, Bowel - a letter like A,E,I,O or U time off work or are completely unable you must make a binding declaration A district to attend work, you should continue in writing that you won’t try to sue for Caesarian Section - to submit medical certificates to your Common Law damages against your in Rome employer to make sure you are being paid employer. This includes against another Cat scan - Searching for lost kitty on time. individual employee who may have acted Cauterise - Made eye contact 3. Household services (eg cleaning/ negligently in the course of his or her with her employment. gardening) & attendant care services Coma - Punctuation mark To claim for household expenses and Dilate - To live long attendant care services, you must show My claim has not been Enima - Not a friend that these services are necessary. To accepted, do I have claim this entitlement, you will need to Impotent - Distinguished, well known show that your condition does not allow any options? Labour pain - Getting hurt at work you to perform these duties yourself and If you disagree with your Employer’s also that they cannot be reasonably done decision or if, no decision is made, Medical staff - Doctors cane by a family member. you may seek a reconsideration of the Morbid - higher offer 4. Death and funeral expenses decision in writing. Nitrate - Cheaper than day rate When a workplace injury causes You need to do this within 30 days of Out patient - A person who has death, compensation is only payable receiving the decision. Your employer fainted if the employee leaves one or more then has 60 days from receiving your Pap Smear - Father hood test dependants. The compensation will be request, to issue a reconsideration of the paid to the person who paid the funeral original decision. If no reconsideration is Pelvis - Cousin of Elvis expenses. issued, then the claim is deemed to be Post operative - Mailman disallowed. 5. Permanent Impairment and non- Prostate - Flat on your back economic loss If you still disagree with the reconsidered Recovery room - Place to do decision (or deemed decision), you can To make a claim for lump sum upolstry apply to the Administrative Appeals compensation for a permanent Rectum - Damn near killed em Tribunal (AAT) to have the decision impairment, you need to meet both of the reviewed. The Tribunal will then list the Secretion - Hiding something following requirements: matter for Conferences and Direction Seizure - Roman emperor • The injury or disease that has resulted Hearings as needed. This will progress Tablet - A small table in your permanent impairment will need your matter to a formal hearing before to be assessed by a legally qualified the AAT, which can take up to 12 months Terminal illness - Getting sick at the airport medical practitioner as being at 10 per from the date of making the application. cent or greater whole person impairment Tumour - More than one The process might seem long, (WPI). The assessment of whole person complicated and overwhelming, but your Urine - opposite of you’re out impairment is not straightforward and union is there to help. Contact them for varies case to case. Full details of the Vein - conceited advice and they can refer you to Slater and assessment guidelines are available Gordon Lawyers for further assistance. under the provisions of the Comcare

The Wheel Autumn 2017 39 well ' Brownes Bargaining Begins round up all your

With an EBA set to expire in May, the guys and girls at Brownes are all looking forward to getting super the negotiation process up and running. We received a great response from the Bargaining Surveys and for you The Squad at Brownes are are beginning to formulate the bigger picture of what is to be keen to get the bargaining expected from the EBA. I am looking forward to seeing Saving you time, all our Brownes’ members at * GLENN BARRON process going upcoming meetings. and multiple fees .

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