I had planned to take a break from blogging on Tristar for a while, but when I read Joe Hockey’s latest comments I had to post a response — they are simply wrong. The Minister reportedly told ABC radio that “Tristar and Work Choices are not on the same plate, they are different issues.” Wrong, [...]
The Office of Workplace Services has launched a prosecution against Tristar in the Federal Court. It alleges that because workers have not been provided with work, they have effectively been made redundant. OWS will push for these employees to be paid out their full entitlements — up to four times what Joe Hockey got for [...]
The remaining workers at Tristar are still turning up and doing nothing in a tin shed with no machinery: The 30 workers in Marrickville continue to wait. At the beginning of the year Tristar’s large factory was shut down and the workers were moved next door to a small, congested, hot warehouse with a tin [...]
Tomorrow is the national day of protest against the unfair WorkChoices laws. Local rallies around the country will be linked up by a national telecast. Jimmy Barnes will headline the festivities at the MCG, and hundreds of thousands of workers are expected to join in around the country. Even staff from the Office of the [...]
As $120 million man David Mulligan drove around Sydney’s Northern Beaches in a Mercedes sports car yesterday, the 200 workers sacked from his company were being told there was not enough money to pay them. Mr Mulligan, whose private company is in the BRW top 500, will let the taxpayer foot the bill for the [...]
When these workers came forward with their stories to support the ACTU’s campaign against the extreme WorkChoices legislation, it was inevitable that they would be sledged by the Howard Government. Sure enough, the Government and its supporters in the Murdoch press have been saying that the workers have “nobody to blame but themselves for being [...]
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