2003
Lights Out on Cheap Labour
Date: 10 December 2003
Electrical workers have pulled the fuse on bosses across NSW who use cheap labour to undermine wages and conditions.
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Delegate Driven Conference goes off
Date: 05 November 2003
South Australian Delegates have organized their own Conference, chosen speakers and are becoming a well-oiled machine where Members, Delegates and Union Officials work as one. They have been informed on declining Electrical Apprentice numbers and gained a greater understanding of WorkCover, the controlling body in South Australia that enforces the Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Act.
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Delegate Driven State Conference
Date: 05 September 2003
Senior Delegates in the South Australian ETU have organized a conference to look at issues that affect them as electrical tradespeople. Keynote speaker, Mr. Peter Tighe, National Secretary CEPU will discuss the worsening crisis of falling apprenticeship numbers countrywide. Mr.Tighe will refer to a paper, which has been released by Dr Phillip Toner, University of Western Sydney.
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Nationwide Blackouts Imminent
Date: 29 August 2003
The Council of Australian Governments has recently proposed the establishment of a National Electricity Regulator ("NER").
The CEPU has called for the rejection of this proposal. Mr Peter Tighe, National Secretary CEPU, believes the establishment of a NER is really the establishment of a national electricity deregulator and would lead to a repeat of the widespread blackouts that have recently disrupted London and the East Coast of the USA and Canada.
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Geelong ETU helping the Community
Date: 21 August 2003
The Geelong Sub-Branch Secretary of the ETU, Randall Lee, has assisted in setting-up a foundation with Barwon health to establish a cancer treatment accommodation centre for people who travel from regional areas. After members of Randalls' family were killed in the Bali Bombing he felt it was a suitable tribute to them.
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The changing face: Geelong Sub-branch of the ETU
Date: 21 August 2003
Geelong's' attractive harbour-side walkways and bustling streets were a good match for these pro-active delegates who added punch to shopping mall cleaner strike action by informing the public of the reasons why these workers were striking (please refer to June article on this website).
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Congress to Debate Casual Work and other Insecure Forms of Employment
Date: 20 August 2003
Up from 13% in 1982, one in four Australian workers are now employed on a casual and part-time basis. Seeing this alarming growth in casual and part time work as a substitute for permanent full time or part time work, the ACTU has announced a test case to give job security to nearly 2 million casual workers . The aim of the test case is to allow these workers access to permanent employment after 6 months.
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ACTU Congress 2003
Date: 18 August 2003
More than 800 union delegates from around Australia are in Melbourne for the four-day ACTU Congress meeting starting today (Monday August 18). The Congress is held once every three years to vote on major union policies. Delegates to the Congress comprise representatives from every union affiliated with the ACTU
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Sydney’s Leading Construction Delegates Gather
Date: 10 July 2003
A Construction Delegate 2 course was recently held in NSW. Lead Organiser, Mick Doust requested the course after months of hard work by the members, delegates and union officials to produce an effective and comprehensive construction EBA. The EBA was to ensure that workers in the construction industry in Sydney would not be undermined by low paid contract labour.
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CEPU Applauds Labor's Training Agenda
Date: 08 July 2003
National Secretary, Peter Tighe, today issued a press release applauding Labor's latest policy initiative to create 20,000 more places at TAFE in the hope it will redress the drastic shortages of skilled electrical and plumbing trades
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Tighe Critical of Howard Government's Approach to Training
Date: 08 July 2003
The chronic shortage of traditional trades such as skilled electrical and plumbing trades has caused National Secretary, Peter Tighe, to speak out against the rise of new apprenticeships and traineeships.
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QUEENSLAND POWERS ON
Date: 07 July 2003
Over twenty delegates from Ergon and Energex gathered for a three-day intensive training course. Assistant State Secretary, Peter Simpson, arranged this course. The emphasis for this course was to empower delegates to effectively communicate with their co-workers and deal with grievance issues. The course got off to an intense start when issues about; what to do when approached for help by a non-union member and why OH&S issues are important to the delegate. The outcome was RECRUIT, INFORM & RECRUIT.
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Dick Williams gives an impassioned speech about the state and direction of the QLD Union
Date: 30 June 2003
Dick Williams is the Queensland secretary for the ETU division of the CEPU. He took time out to talk to a group of Power industry delegates and discussed the strategies that have been put in place to ensure a steady income stream
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Energy Australia – Consolidating Our Position
Date: 26 June 2003
The ETU represents approximately 2000 workers from Energy Australia, in NSW. The organiser, Steve Butler said " we have 110 delegates in place in Energy Australia". He went on to talk about the process that led to this current situation. When Steve first took up the position, some five years ago, he said that, "the organiser fixed all the problems". That was when the 'servicing model' of unionism was in place.
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Winning justice for Westfield shopping mall cleaners across the globe !!!
Date: 13 June 2003
Australia's multinational shopping mall king - Frank Lowy - has been keen to be seen handing out largesse over the last twelve months, as he celebrates the immigrant success story that is his life fifty years after arriving in Sydney.
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Electrical & Plumbing link arms at Training
Date: 11 June 2003
A plumbing delegate created two thirds of the CEPU link, by joining with ETU delegates to enhance his skills in dealing with the Brisbane City Council middle management.
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Aerospace Madness
Date: 23 May 2003
Delegates course: Perth, Western Australia
A group of eleven delegates, three of which were from our brothers over at the CFMEU/forestry & furnishing, which shows how well different unions can work together when the situation requires.
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New Industrial Officer
Date: 05 May 2003
Chris started working as a National Industrial Officer with the CEPU in March 2003.
Chris completed his Social Sciences and Law degrees at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1999. Chris did his Social Science degree through the Centre of Labour & Trade Union Studies.
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Delegate Training 1 in Adelaide
Date: 17 April 2003
Delegate 1 Training in Adelaide commenced in late March, which attracted an eclectic group of representatives. It included delegates from car manufacturers (Holden & Mitsubishi), South Australia power supply company (ETSA), ACI which produce glass products and who have had a recent competitor to challenge their strangle-hold on that part of the market and Penfolds wines, which we thought could lubricate our evening training sessions.
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Advanced Delegates Training Begins in Earnest
Date: 09 April 2003
The first ETU Delegate Training for 2003 commenced in Melbourne with an Advanced Delegates training course. The trainer, John Maraz, had his first training role for the ETU with a group of experienced delegates.
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