Waste Workers Angry Over Council Mess Fixing the Juvenile Justice
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SSH ~ the story so far Feature & fundraiser – pg 9 The Review pgs 11-14 NUMBER EIGHTY-NINE DECEMBER ’10 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE EVELEIGH GLEBE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND The Black Turtles perform at Redfern’s Family Day Photo: Jonathan Bogais (See story pg 12) Waste workers angry over Fixing the juvenile justice system Council mess KATE WIllIAMSON testimony to the work completed by groups, which include the Youth Justice Coalition and UnitingCare REBECCA LE MAY pay cut they received when the contract changed On November 23, NSW Attorney General, Burnside. In 2009, UnitingCare Burnside published hands. “Supporting a family in Sydney, one of the John Hatzistergos, told Parliament that the the Restrictions on Children Granted Bail report, Waste workers and residents rallied outside world’s most expensive cities, these workers cannot controversial changes to the NSW Bail Act would bringing together a coalition of services providers Clover Moore’s cocktail party at Parliament House afford to lose $200,” said TWU State Secretary, not go forward prior to the election. concerned with the increasing number of young last month to protest against pay cuts and the poor Wayne Forno. people held in remand. The report argues for quality of service they have received since the According to Michael Aired, senior TWU industrial Greens MP, David Shoebridge, said that he was amendments required to the Bail Act allowing council switched its waste management contract officer, “The council has met neither its ethical and pleased to see the changes shelved but called greater capacity for children to reapply for bail from Veolia to URM earlier this year. A number of moral obligations, nor its legal obligations in regard for much needed reforms. “The draft Bill had no should the original application be refused. The activists also bought tickets to the function, but to the local government regulations which require friends in the legal, community or social justice report also looks at bail conditions restricting young were ejected when they tried to raise their issue council to consider the pay and conditions of workers sectors of NSW. It failed to address rising juvenile people to a point that contravention and detention over the microphone. before issuing a new tender. They really need to step detention rates. It also side-stepped the major are likely to happen. in and clean up their mess,” he said. public interest debate this State needs to have on According to the 2010 Bail Me Out report prepared Workers are still suffering the consequences of the A spokesperson for the City of Sydney said that s22A of the current Act that prevents more than by the Youth Justice Commission, youth workers City of Sydney’s decision because URM has refused although City staff had met with URM and asked it to one bail application by most accused,” he said. and solicitors are reporting higher incidence of to negotiate with the union over the $200 per week enter into negotiations with the continued on page 2 Mr Shoebridge believes that the outcome is a police monitoring and reported continued on page 2 EVELEIGH FARMERS’ MARKET EVERY SATURDAY 8am - 1pm COME TASTE SUMMER An All Weather Marketplace Visit www.eveleighmarket.com.au for all details 243 Wilson St, Darlington NSW 2008 2 N E W S December 2010 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo Have You Heard? Waste workers angry over Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are THE FAST NEWS Council mess those of the author and the article and are not WITH TREVOR DAVIES necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. continued from page 1 TWU, the council around 20 complaints per week about does not have legal power to compel garbage collection, to which we respond ADVERTISING website which gives a suburb by [email protected] Joe exits URM to negotiate a separate enterprise promptly,” said a City spokesperson. suburb location of where you can find 9319 1373 In the run-up to the state election agreement. Warringah Council, which also them. Do a Google – it’s fascinating. I there have been quite a few members, But according to the union, Canterbury switched to URM, has received similar MAILING ADDRESS: couldn’t help noticing that Alexandria both backbench and frontbench of the PO Box 3288 has five while poor old Darlington Council insisted their contractor negotiate complaints about quality of service Redfern NSW 2016 Government, who are jumping ship. and Chippendale have none. I when it changed hands, so City of Sydney and cuts to workers’ pay. URM recently One of them was Joe Tripodi, and, should do the same. “They are a principal received orders from Fair Work Australia LETTERS within hours, lots of members paid suppose you could always find them Please send letters and emails to: contractor, they created this mess and they to negotiate in good faith with workers at glowing tribute to his ability. Even somewhere in Sydney Uni. The South Sydney Herald. should take responsibility,” said Mr Aird. Warringah after the TWU made an appeal Email: [email protected] the Liberal Party and the Premier Supply sender name and suburb. joined in. One of Joe’s portfolios was Residents are also unhappy. Cr to the commission. Size: 150 words or less. Housing, and in relation to that, I’ve Millers Point is Meredith Bergmann said City of Sydney Greens Councillor Irene Doutney and We may edit for legal or other reasons. asked local Waterloo public housing heating up had received a number of complaints ALP Councillor Meredith Bergmann have activist, Ross Smith, to do Joe’s The ongoing battle there seems to be about waste management, particularly both expressed their support for City of political obituary. Ross Smith writes: heating up the Lord Mayor. According from the Kings Cross area. Sydney waste workers to maintain the “On Tuesday February 1, 2004, whilst to reports: “The Government has Kings Cross resident, Ms Jo Holder said: same pay and conditions and had tried speaking at a public housing estate in already sold 20 properties, two more “Services have been very irregular with to pass motions to force URM negotiate the Sydney suburb of Riverwood, Mr will be auctioned on 14 December the bins left everywhere. I’ve seen them in good faith. So far a resolution has not Carr, the NSW Premier, announced and a further 14 are slated for sale empty both the recycling bins and the been reached. the appointment of Mr Joseph on long-term leases.” Fast News Guerino Tripodi as NSW Housing general waste into the same truck. Many Cr Bergmann also said she hoped understands that the residents of other people have seen that too. At first I the Fair Work decision at Warringah Managing EdiTOR FEATURES EDITOR Minister. He said he wanted Tripodi Andrew Collis Dorothy McRae-McMahon to be a warrior for public housing Millers Point are prepared for a fight. thought they might have had two separate will have an effect on what the waste tenants. On April 25, 2005, Tripodi We will keep you informed. I wonder compartments in the truck but when you disposal workers are being paid at the announced that Housing NSW was what the Coalition will do? look closely it all just goes into the one City of Sydney. “It is outrageous that they abandoning its 47-year-long role of bin,” she said. are still cleaning up our streets, yet one supplying affordable rental housing. Fitzroy Gardens But the City says it has investigated day they went out and cleaned them up Its new role was to become a supplier the problem and found the claims for a certain wage, and the next day they of last resort fixed-term housing. gives the City a to be untrue. “The City of Sydney cleaned them up for $200 a week less ... so Tripodi’s policy was called Future headache – and who NEWS EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR Directions Social Housing. This move provides high quality and reliable waste the activity in the industrial commission Trevor Davies Ali Blogg is Charles Kernan? marked the start of the destruction of collection services. The City receives is really welcome,” she said. S the Housing NSW tenant community. Peter Whitehead reports on the It also marked the beginning of the backlash against the City’s plans for creation of ghettoes of absolute Fitzroy Gardens. There seems to be a unresolved need, occupied solely by bit of a back-down, but on the other Housing NSW tenants. It marked the hand, the residents of Darlington Fixing the juvenile start of the sell-off of public housing seem to be very happy with Charles properties and the beginning of large- Kernan Reserve since the Lord Assistant EDITOR NEWS CONSULTANT Esther Turnbull Jonathan Bogais scale privatisation. In another role he Mayor’s opening in late October. justice system was ‘one of the architects’ of the NSW The barbecues and the basketball Government’s energy reform strategy. hoop seem to be getting lots of use. This strategy resulted in the ever However a sign that told us the continued from page 1 breaches by young This model has already received much increasing electricity bills people are Charles Kernan story, not just his people of bail conditions that are trivial, support around the world. The report receiving.” Fast News wishes Joe well. name, has disappeared. The sign said with no evidence of likely harm to the outlines research conducted in the UK that he worked for the City of Sydney young person or the community.