TWU QLD: Rank-And-File Strength AUTUMN 2015 ♦ VOLUME 5 ♦ ISSUE 1
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ONTHEMOVE TWU QLD: Rank-and-File Strength www.twuqld.asn.au AUTUMN 2015 ♦ VOLUME 5 ♦ ISSUE 1 TOUGHER SPECIAL WORKPLACE POSTER THAN THE COMPANY pp 16-17 HYMIX Members stand strong p. 4-5 CONTENTS Your feedback 2 YOUR FEEDBACK TWU action stops underpayment ONLINE ACTIVISM! Keep up the good work Jodie Bray - TWU Aviation Community (check out the yarn on page 9 to find out more) Keep us strong, we are the future !! C’mon guys, no more sitting on the fence and watching what’s happening from the Online activism! sidelines. Our delegates are working their butts off to fight for us and made great progress at the meeting yesterday on our behalf. Give them a fighting chance by joining Keep up the fight for a better deal the TWU and show both the Company and our amazing delegates that we’re prepared to 3 PETER BIAGINI stand up for ourselves and be heard. Put your money where your mouth is!! Workers United 4-5 Tougher than the company: Hymix members TWU ACTION STOPS UNDERPAYMENT 6 Bus drivers make their safety message Message received from Alan W Dale loud and clear I retired from working with Armaguard Murarrie on the 20 /10/14 but the company Greyhound negotiations had short paid me by 190 hours holiday pay. Thanks to the efforts of Steve Mathews the union delegate I am going to be paid the money that was short, I would like to 7 Qantas agreement inked thank Steve for his dedication to the workers and hope that you can pass on my thanks 8 Imitation highest form of flattery to him and let him know how much he is appreciated by all at Armaguard and by me right? personally. Thank you in advance. TWU delivers for council 9 Frank Re-elected KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Vara heads for protected action From Sam Spann survey Hi. Happy and Safe Christmas to All. I wish to advise that I have retired (11/08/2014) 10 Giving back and therefore have to resign from the TWU. I would like to thank you for all your help 11 Virgin: From strength to strength and keep up the good work. 12 NQ roundup 13 Safe Rates update Keep Us strong, We are the Future !! 14 TWU members trump other workers in pay and conditions on the Goldie From Blair Nunn - TWUQLD Facebook Page All try and read your EBA’s or awards - because with knowledge, when applied, is Are you a HSR or Deputy HSR? Power! 15 Cairns hub humming along International Womens Day 2015 16-17 Special liftout: Workplace poster CONTACT YOUR UNION 18 Tough industry needs solidarity across FREE CALL SOUTH-EASTERN SOUTH-WESTERN WASTE / CASH- all companies to get a fair deal 1800 804 533 Billy Berka AND SOUTHERN IN-TRANSIT / OIL AND GAS / 19 TWU legends recognised T: 3890 3066 (Sunshine Coast) Brendan Bogle F: 3890 1105 0407 695 750 0411 875 903 HEALTH INDUSTRY CO-ORDINATOR E: [email protected] Troy Fernandez AIRLINE INDUSTRY 20 Fight for your rights! Craig Williams Peter Biagini (North Brisbane) CO-ORDINATOR 0411 875 909 0411 819 268 Labour day photo comp! Secretary Peter Paulos Peter Ferguson 0411 875 906 INDUSTRIAL 21 Labour Day 2015! Scott Connolly (South-East GENERAL Adam Carter Assistant Secretary Brisbane and Gold 3890 6208 22 TWU super app Coast and Scenic TRANSPORT / Angela Brown OWNER-DRIVER Rim) 0428 191 489 Margarita Cerrato 23 TWU women talk: your issues at work INDUSTRY Executive Assistant Robert Fitzpatrick 3890 6209 3890 6203 CO-ORDINATOR 24 Life’s a joke! (Brisbane South FINANCE East ) - Graham Garrett MEMBERSHIP Kay Stanley 0455 999 455 0411 875 905 25 TWU QLD HISTORY Jenny Daye 3890 6204 3890 6205 Brad Wyatt (South- BUSES / COMMUNICATIONS Queensland Labor’s 2015 victory in Janette McCallum West Brisbane) TAXIS / LOCAL GOVERNMENT perspective 3890 6204 0418 420 764 Sarah Mawhinney INDUSTRY Kathy Light 0413 738 841 NORTH CO-ORDINATOR 26 Guard of honour 3890 6235 3890 6215 Tom Pfund Bob Giddens 27 Tackling the issues FNQ 0411 556 823 0422 418 417 MARKETING AND Russell Vieritz MEDIA OFFICER 28 POLLIE WATCH CENTRAL 0419 413 586 Martin Cavanagh Tanie Harris-Sansey Queenslanders give LNP the boot CALL CENTRE 0438 294 037 0411 875 910 3890 6214 29 The gloves are off and we’re ready! Organiser Mark Walker (07) 3890 6207 or If you’d like to share your stories, news, pictures, letters, and feedback, 30 The power of the parent collective 1800 804 533 please call us on 1800 804 533. You can reach us by email at info@twuqld. 31 KIDS’ PAGE asn.au, or send mail to On the Move, PO Box 452, Cannon Hill 4170. www.facebook.com/TWUQLD Www.youtube.com/TWUQLD twitter.com/TWUQueensland ONTHEMOVE 3 WORKERS UNITED For every TWU member who took the fight up to the Newman Government this is your victory to share. JANUARY 31 2015 will be by members across the State phase for your Transport Labour Day is packed full of fun remembered for its significance that were working to hold Workers’ Union to lead activities for the whole family for many years to come. the Newman Government a delegation of drivers to with free rides, food & drinks Significant for the fact that accountable. meet with the new Minister for you and your mates and the most successful electoral For every TWU member who for Transport to discuss the families to enjoy to celebrate the victory in the state’s history that took the fight up to the Newman priorities you and your mates huge achievements of Unions saw Newman sweep to power Government this is your victory have identified as key with in fighting for workers rights in 2012 was decimated in less to share. Portable Long Service Leave during Australia’s history. than 3 years. Significant in and improving safety on our Every year the TWU that the first female Premier in THE FIGHT GOES ON buses and increasing penalties contingent has grown in every the history of our country was for those who assault Public regional centre and here in elected from opposition. The fight does not end here. Transport Drivers at the top of Brisbane so we encourage you What many people may not We now need to hold the new the list. all to save the date and bring the remember in years to come, but government to account to make family down to celebrate your something for which we should sure that the commitments MAY DAY 2015 union and the fantastic history all be immensely proud is that that were made in opposition of the whole Labour movement. for every day that Newman was - the introduction of Portable Every year the TWU celebration ► Don’t miss out on Labour in power, it was unions who Long Service Leave, harsher for May is getting bigger and Day this year - save the date and took up the fight. penalties for those who assault better. With over 120 years of bring the whole family! Check it Every day that laws were Bus Drivers, accredited training industrial wins to celebrate out on page 21. passed stripping rights away for Heavy Vehicle Drivers, the the defeat of the anti-worker from workers, every day retention of the Road Safety government on January 31 that funding to Health and Remuneration Tribunal - are provides an even sweeter reason Education initiatives was cut delivered for you and your to celebrate this year. and community groups gagged mates. Spanning across the weekend Peter Biagini it was Unions, spurred on Having secured commitments of Saturday May 2 - Sunday TWU QLD Secretary by the injustice being faced prior to the election the next May 3 right across Queensland 1800 804 533 www.twuqld.ASN.au 4 ONTHEMOVE TOUGHER THAN THE COMPANY: HYMIX MEMBERS Show these guys a substandard EBA and they will show you a series of rolling stoppages. TWU Hymix members are fighting for their families and they mean business. ON 30 JANUARY 2015 TWU since 2006 and Hanson drivers members at Hymix took the in QLD have RDOs – where are power back from the company ours? in their fight for a fair EBA, ‘Hymix close our plants over staging a 24 hour stoppage Christmas for three weeks using under protected action. up our annual leave, then we Workers at Hymix have had only have one week off for the enough and TWU members and rest of the year. We work six Delegates have lead the charge days – up to 60 hours - every in making sure the company week. We get up at 3am, start knows it. They have had enough work at 4 at Coomera to be of getting paid less than their either in Brisbane or Northern workmates in NSW, having no NSW by 5am. Without a break RDOs, the company repeatedly you get fatigued.’ ignoring their concerns of Hymix did not like the fatigue and the company’s lack stoppage and the inconvenience of respect for their families’ to their operations, and locked living wage and their important the workers out for three days. time with their families. Hymix then didn’t like the fact TWU members converged on the media asked for answers the bosses’ office in Southport on why they had locked the on the Gold Coast on 30 workers out, hiring an expensive January, staging a monumental consulting company from stoppage out the front, TWU Sydney. We are strong standing together barbie and TV news cameras The company then threw in tow. another tantrum and declared and we are as tough as the company.