Great Reading
By Maritime Union of Australia
Great reading and learning on BHP (Maritime Workers Journal May/June
2001). The people highlighted - Greg Combet (ACTU), John Maitland
(CFMEU), Martin Kingham (CFMEU), Doug Cameron (AMWU), John Coombs
(MUA), Paddy Crumlin (MUA) and Tony Maher (CFMEU) look in advance
to the collective future of Australia and the labour movement.
I have had the pleasure to work with them in the Weipa (individual
contract dispute).
Industrial relations in this country is not a debate, it is a
war. The fight is for the minds and souls of workers. In Weipa,
the battle has been going on now for 10 years. In this time, Rio
Tinto has signed up the bulk of the workforce to individual contracts,
but they have not won the hearts of their workers.
Nigel Gould
CFMEU Weipa
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