Cheese being held up seems so fitting for the cheesy union propaganda parrot BlackDay as he squawks the rousing STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE!!!
Unfortunately this doesn't help the blokes losing their jobs because the redundant union old white men fools told them to go on STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE!!!!!
Wonder if Shorty supports them, the unions NOT the workers ?
If Labor had gotten in STRIKES like this would be an everyday occurrence as the Greenies try to close down all industry in Australia.TVs, cheese, wine in limbo as wharfies walk out over automation plansBy Anna Patty and Zach Hope July 10, 2019 — 5.36pm
Imported white goods and new televisions along with shipments of dairy products, meat and wine intended for overseas customers will be left stranded for days at Melbourne's docks after wharfies walked off the job on Wednesday.About 600 Melbourne workers for DP World Australia have joined nearly 1200 others from Sydney and Fremantle in the action to protect their jobs from automation and the outsourcing of labour.
Dock workers in Melbourne walked off the job on Wednesday.CREDIT:AAP
The Melbourne action began on Wednesday and will run for 96 hours.
‘‘During the three-month negotiation period we asked them to come back to us but at the expiry of that period they had not given us any definitive proposals for Melbourne.
"Progress was made in Sydney, but we are yet to have any definitive proposals agreed with the workforce.’’
Under the company proposal, a worker would make up for an unworked Sunday shift by working another Sunday shift or 2½ weekdays when Sunday penalty rates are taken into account. A night shift is equivalent to two weekdays and a Saturday shift is worth 1½ weekdays.
Mr Smith said his members had patiently tried to reach a resolution and had held off taking industrial action for three months.
“This major escalation of industrial action is about sending a clear message to management that the safety, dignity, and job security of wharfies are absolutely non-negotiable," he said.
Martime Union of Australia assistant national secretary Warren Smith said the union accepted the need to mitigate against cancellation of shifts and associated idle work time but was concerned about the roster system being open to ‘‘company manipulation’’.
He said workers were concerned about an ‘‘open slather’’ approach to the cancellation of Sunday shifts and expectation that people would work 2½ days to make up for that one day.
‘‘In Melbourne, you’d frequently get Sundays cancelled,’’ Mr Smith said.‘‘We’ve gone some way to dealing with the problem, but the company won’t come to the party on it.
Mr Adam said on Wednesday afternoon that reports that urgent medical supplies had also been held up in terminals were incorrect.
‘‘We have had no information brought to our attention that there were any urgent medical supplies held up in a terminal,’’ he said.
DPWA said the industrial action would cause "significant disruption" to customers and its broader supply chain of shippers, exporters and importers.
"DPWA employees will also be unnecessarily and avoidably impacted by these lost earnings,” Mr Adam said.
The industrial action, approved by the Fair Work Commission during a period of enterprise bargaining, follows the expiry of a three-month ceasefire agreement between DPWA and the MUA. The union says the company wanted to cut jobs, work rights and existing conditions, including income protection.
“We will not roll over and accept an unfair agreement, we won’t accept unilateral attacks on workplace rights and conditions, and we won’t stand by while outsourcing and automation are used to axe quality jobs," Mr Smith said.
“We are fully committed to reaching an agreement as quickly as possible, however we will not sell our conditions, compromise our core claims, or undermine industry standards to do it."
Mr Smith said the company had unnecessarily escalated the conflict earlier this year when it unilaterally stripped workers of income protection insurance.
DP World Australia said it was disappointed the maritime branch of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union had escalated its industrial action at a time when shipping lines were reviewing stevedore contracts. It said the union had "continued to demonstrate an alarming refusal to acknowledge the commercial reality of the intense competition from automated competitors".
“The company has put forward its position and the union must now make appropriate concessions to their extensive list of claims,” Mr Adam said.
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