union - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the word union was used in the Senate during the 1970s

Has the Australian Government been consulted about the offer of the base to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister state in the House of Representatives in September and October last that the Government would not favour the Soviet Union’s obtaining base facilities in the Indian Ocean area? [More…]
Did the Soviet Union veto a proposal in 1951 and 1957 that South Vietnam be admitted to the United Nations, a proposal supported by all other members of the Security Council? [More…]
Finally, is it a fact that in 1957 the Soviet Union proposed that South Vietnam and North Vietnam- [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry draw the attention of that Minister to a resolution overwhelmingly carried at the Farmers Union conference in Perth yesterday opposing the lifting of the ban on the export of merino rams, so that the Minister will have a better understanding of the feelings of wool growers in this matter? [More…]
I recall that about 12 years ago the Wool Section of the Farmers Union made a decision along similar lines. [More…]
I have a personal interest because I chaired the meeting of the Wool Section of the Farmers Union that made the decision 12 years ago. [More…]
After the word ‘Act’ in paragraph (1) of my amendment add the following words: or at least that the prescribed housing loan limits be reduced to $3,000 repayable over not less than 5 years and that the qualification of 550,000 hy way of housing loans made and undertaken to be made by a credit union, be eliminated or reduced’. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Attorney-General ask the Attorney-General to investigate whether it is true that about 30 Commonwealth employees in the Division of National Mapping recently were forced to have their photographs taken in the basement of the Division’s office and that the employees were told that they were being photographed for Australian Security Intelligence Organisation purposes; whether it is true that a young girl employee was threatened with dismissal when she refused to participate; whether she was then, under protest, photographed with tears running down her face; and whether the employees, after consulting their union, asked that the photographs be destroyed in their presence but that this request was refused? [More…]
Is it a fact that no Tasmanian meat was included in the last Australian shipment of meat to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Countries such as West Germany recommend maximum protection for union representatives. [More…]
The trend overseas is not to impose penalties on ordinary members of unions who may be involved in disputes but rather to give them the maximum protection to ensure that their functions in representing workers in a plant can be carried out without victimisation. [More…]
It appears to me that the Government is set for a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Nothing is more certain than that there will be a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the leaders of the trade union movement in Australia know the parliamentary procedures and customs and would be aware of the fact that tonight the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives will be making his political protest against a political document, or praising that document, and that, being aware of that fact and fearing the ineffectiveness of the reply that will be given to the Government’s budgetary policy, they decided to use industrial activity at the behest of politicians? [More…]
The ordinary member of the trade union movement would say to himself: ‘I joined my trade union and I look to it for assistance in relation to my conditions of employment. [More…]
A political issue in a democracy is a matter for the individual and when there is an attempt to confuse political issues with trade union activities tremendous damage is done to the causes of the ACTU and the trade union movement. [More…]
Just where Mr Whitlam stood in relation to this matter is yet to be revealed, but no doubt he has to accept some responsibility for doing irreparable damage to the trade union movement because of the action he has taken in relation to this matter. [More…]
Did operators in the Adelaide telephone exchange tape trunk line calls which were not of a business nature, as has been alleged by the Secretary of the South Australian branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia? [More…]
In view of the savage charges to be imposed by the Government on a number of organisations by the proposed increase in postal charges, which will cost the National Roads and Motorists Association an additional $100,000 per annum and the Australian Workers Union more than $26,000 per annum to post their free newspapers to their members, as well as adding to the costs of numerous religious organisations, friendly societies and trade unions which will be similarly affected but which are too numerous to mention individually, will the PostmasterGeneral reconsider the huge increase in charges to be made on journals or newspapers which are posted free to members of such organisations? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service inform the Parliament of the wage rales and working hours for Aboriginals employed in the pastoral industry in the Northern Territory who are not members of the North Australian Workers Union? [More…]
We will encourage the continued existence of trade union journals, business and trade journals, and other newspapers and periodicals hit by these savage increases. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will the Committee set up by the Government consider to what extent servicemen may benefit from the formation of a trade union or some other appropriate association, having in mind that the West [More…]
German forces have for many years had such a union organisation which seems to have performed a useful role in settling differences between servicemen and defence heads? [More…]
For my own part, I see some difficulties within the proposal if it is the intention to set up a union within the Services and if that union were to operate in the normal way of union advocacy. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is about to enter into major contracts to import beef? [More…]
In effect, will he impose on the HCF and MBF the same rule supervision that the industrial Registrar imposes on the trade union movement? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, lt concerns the proposed amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
ls the Government fully informed as to the purpose of the amalgamation of these 3 unions? [More…]
What will be the total membership of the amalgamated union? [More…]
How many members of the Communist Party or parties belong to the national staffs of these 3 unions, including the Federal office and the State offices, and what are their names? [More…]
What percentage of membership of the 3 unions voted in the recent ballot dealing with amalgamation? [More…]
I recognise that the honourable senator’s question is directed to a field of great significance in the trade union movement involving, as it does, the proposed merger of 3 of the largest unions in Australia. [More…]
I ask: Under what circumstances was a Russian doctor who, with a companion, sought asylum in Australia recently returned to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
We have seen the formation of the great Whips union, with Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin, Senator Reg Wright, Senator Cotton, Senator Scott and Senator Withers. [More…]
As I read the article, what he has put down seems to me to be quite logical and proper and a fair statement of Australia’s attitude in relation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The trade union movement has such aims because it is not possible otherwise to get all sorts of freedom from industry. [More…]
Every negotiation which takes place between the trade union movement in Australia and the Government is a political consultation. [More…]
So the trade union movement has not become sick of the Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Party has offered a challenge, and so has the trade union movement. [More…]
Following a request, arrangements were made for the South African Rugby Union team to be shown the Senate chamber on 20th July 1971. [More…]
As a natural corollary to this question I ask the Minister whether early talks could be arranged between himself and federal officers of the meat workers union. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior, ls he aware of a report by a union official in Darwin that Aboriginal stockmen in the Northern Territory are living in shocking hovels? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that a strike by 3 men who are in key positions in a factory at Devonport and who apparently are the only members of a certain union employed there has caused that factory to cease production, incurring the resentment of at least some of the other employees who have been thrown out of work? [More…]
Yes, I saw the statement attributed to Mr Short and I can assure the honourable senator that Mr Short’s experience and standing in the trade union movement would always warrant a statement of his receiving full consideration by anybody having the responsibility of formulating legislation. [More…]
To this end I asked the Clerk of the Senate to have some general discussions with the authorities at Westminster following the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference which he attended in Paris in September. [More…]
I accept, as the Opposition and the Australian Democratic Labor Party accepts, that this is an amendment which is necessitated by the change in the membership and the amalgamation of unions in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This amendment must be made because reference had been made in earlier legislation to the North Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
Now that the union is part of the Waterside Workers’ Federation it is incumbent upon the Parliament to give effect to the change. [More…]
The proposal in the Stevedoring Industry Bill is to insert a new definition of ‘union’ in section 7 of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1966 in place of the existing provision which, amongst other references, specifies that the North Australian Workers’ Union is the union for the purposes of this Act for the port of Darwin, lt is a straightforward proposal acceptable to all parties concerned. [More…]
It results from changes in trade union registration and coverage following the action of the North Australian Workers’ Union in affiliating with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia. [More…]
The Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia will take over the waterfront section from the North Australian Workers’ Union which section includes all registered waterside workers in the port of Darwin, numbering some 200. [More…]
These organisational changes necessitate the deletion of the existing definition of union and the inclusion of the definition as set out in the Bill. [More…]
I rise merely to indicate that the Australian Democratic Labor Party supports this Bill which is the consequence of a change in the union position. [More…]
Part of the union previously concerned becomes embraced within another union and another part becomes embraced with the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. [More…]
It is important that unions have their proper function within the community and that they be given their proper status and recognition. [More…]
As stated by the Attorney;General (Senator Greenwood) in the absence of a Bill of this character and the redefinition of the word ‘union’ there would have been a void in this area and a body of trade unions would have found no trade union home with the right to audience which goes with an embracing of union membership. [More…]
For these unions the legislation is timely. [More…]
I refer again to the two questions that I have asked the Minister regarding the charge by the President of the Australian Union of Students that the Government, for political reasons, is not proceeding against prominent student draft resisters. [More…]
No credit union has applied for approval or been approved to dale, but only yesterday the executive of the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues had a conference with the Department discussing conditions which will take their ordinary form of development. [More…]
I can’ assure Senator Georges that there is a great deal of sympathy for the encouragement of credit unions which, in many cases, are the banks of the working man. [More…]
The question 1 would like to ask is this: Have credit unions or has ony one credit union been able to take advantage of the conditions for the granting of this home savings subsidy? [More…]
Did the Minister for Labour and National Service state in his speech to an employers’ organisation last week that the applications of the unions seeking to de-register to join the much publicised amalgamation were lodged with the Registrar on 7th January? [More…]
Was the contrary advice on the date given to the Minister because the union’s case would have been adversely affected if fines had not been paid on 22nd December when the unions lodged their applications. [More…]
Is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics currently seeking to sell its aircraft to commercial airline operators throughout the world? [More…]
Has any instruction been given to the engineering staff of the Redfern Mail Exchange that they are not to disclose to officials of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union any noise decibel readings taken at the Redfern Mail Exchange? [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that members of the Queensland Police Union are now conducting a ballot to decide whether they will proceed with a vote of no confidence in the Queensland Country Party-Liberal coalition Government and also in the Police Commissioner in relation to their attitudes towards demonstrations? [More…]
Make them all like the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
That is a good union. [More…]
Ballots, in accordance with the existing arbitration Act were carried out by the Metal Trade Unions. [More…]
I think it is an important point that ballots in accordance with the current arbitration Act were substantially carried by all unions and that the Federal and State Registrars accepted the validity of the ballots carried out. [More…]
In the Amalgamated Engineering Union 6,976 voted for and 1,039 against. [More…]
In the Sheet Metal Workers Union there were 8,832 for and 3,346 against. [More…]
The something’ is to hamstring the trade union movement, to restrict its activities, to force it back into the past and not allow it to carry out its rightful role. [More…]
It will take more than the feeble efforts of this Government to hamstring the trade union movement. [More…]
I suppose there will be a few other weakies in the trade union movement who will be prevailed upon to adopt the narrow, sectional, parochial and extremist position of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Notwithstanding all that, the trade union movement will fight for its independence and will survive. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union is one of the largest unions in the country. [More…]
It has been a big union and it has been effective. [More…]
He might be a trade union official. [More…]
In fact he may be a very accomplished legal person, such as those we have in the Australian Labor Party, who has had long experience in trade union matters and industrial relations. [More…]
The trade union movement is interested in the implications of this statement because after all it represents substantial sections of the work force, and it is a body with which the Government has to deal if there is a national crisis. [More…]
This wage induced Inflation derives from industrial unrest brought about by union militancy and by employers who are unable or not prepared to resist union tactics and claims. [More…]
Is it the date on which the union accepts the resignation at a monthly meeting or something of that nature? [More…]
Under what quarantine regulations would the contemplated export of thoroughbred horses from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Australia operate. [More…]
Relative to the last 2 questions asked by honourable senators opposite I ask: Can the Attorney-General inform the Senate whether he has any knowledge of any information flowing from the plush headquarters of the Australian Council of Trade Unions or any other trade union to the Commonwealth or Victoria Police to help them solve the crimes allegedly committed within Painters and Dockers Union circles? [More…]
Does the November-December 1970 issue of the Fabian Newsletter, contain an article written by the Member for Riverina, stating that the Australian Labor Party has drawn on the experience of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries to prepare a programme for socialist agriculture in this country. [More…]
What was the total amount of money paid by the Commonwealth for the conduct of litigation involving the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths’ Society and the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union. [More…]
Was Mr R. Taylor, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, involved in an incident, which was referred to on page 7 of the Australian Railways Union’s Federal Office News, at Heathrow Airport over the validity of his Australian passport which bore the imprint of the Queen’s Crown and the words ‘British subject’; if so, what significance does the imprint and words have. [More…]
That the proposal of the Labor Government to direct Commonwealth Government departments and authorities to grant contracts for work and for the supply of goods to firms considered to be good union firms is indicative of the prejudiced tactics of the Labor Government to bring special benefits to unions and union officials. [More…]
As the Minister’s advisers obviously well know, and as the trade union movement and, no doubt, government departments know, many agreements providing for that now exist in the community. [More…]
The answer I gave yesterday was thatI am opposed to employees taking the benefits gained by trade unions when they will not contribute to the trade unions. [More…]
If they are opposed to joining trade unions I believe that they have complete freedom to refuse to join, but if they do refuse they have no more right to continue to work in an industry that has benefited from the activity of trade unions than a person entering primary production has to ignore a board set upto market his product.If persons are honest in refusing to join a trade union they have complete freedom to enter industries that are not covered by trade unions. [More…]
I take no objection to their remaining outside trade unions if they seek their employment in industries that do not have the benefit of trade union coverage. [More…]
Is the Minister for Works aware that the Canberra branch of the Young Liberal Party recently carried a resolution stating that those who’ benefit from unionism should join unions and contribute to the costs of achieving union benefits? [More…]
Can the Minister explain the difference between this attitude publicly stated and the attitude of several -members of the Opposition who are publicly opposed to all forms of union membership? [More…]
In directing my question to the Minister for Works f refer to what I understood to be a statement by him yesterday when compulsory unionism was being discussed. [More…]
1 understood him to say that he believed that persons not prepared to join a union could go to the country and work in primary industry. [More…]
As this proposal to divert non-union labour into primary industry seems to me to be rather extraordinary for a L-i -or representative to put forward I ask whether it has the approval of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It is unfortunate that on occasions when he gets on to industrial unionism we see all the military training come out and a display of the hatred of those who have built Australia. [More…]
Liberal politicians get the impression that when they are in Opposition they can make a name for themselves by the degree to which they can condemn the trade union movement. [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral forthrightly assure the Senate and the people of Australia that he will not make a decision leading to the waiver of fines imposed for such serious charges when the ground alleged is simply that the persons involved are members of the Builders Labourers Federation and that their case is being taken up by a trades and labour council on the assumption that a union supported government should favourably consider any such application? [More…]
It is a fact that last week a full bench of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission approved in principle an application by the Federated Clerks Union for a new preference clause in the Clerks’ (Oil Companies) Federal Award? [More…]
Does this full bench decision mean that members of the Clerks’ Union will get preference on, firstly, engagement by oil companies; secondly - -Stj dealing with engagement and employment by oil companies - promotion; thirdly, retrenchment - meaning that non-unionists will be the first to go- and, finally, choice of holiday dates? [More…]
Yes, I have seen the report of the full bench’s decision and I understand that it does do the things which the honourable senator has mentioned and that there shall be preference to the many thousands of members of the Federated Clerks’ Union and that that judgment has been the result of Jong and earnest work by the Federated Clerks’ Union which has spent many thousands of dollars to get that decision. [More…]
This question should be directed to the Women’s Council of the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia. [More…]
On 15th January 1973. the Women’s Council of the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs asking for a considered opinion concerning its proceeding with a visit to Taiwan by the Australian Women’s Basketball team and for advice whether the Government could grant any financial assistance for a visit to China. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry has received many representations on this matter, including a delegation within the last fortnight from the broiler and turkey sections of the Victorian Farmers Union when there was complaint about monopoly control of the industry. [More…]
They masquerade as the champions of law and order when they talk about draft resisters, the trade union movement, the Australian Labor Party or demonstrators. [More…]
Does the Minister subscribe to the views expressed by Senator Wright when representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the former Government, that any fragmentation of Yugoslavia as desired by certain members of the Croation Liberation Movement would increase tension in Europe and provide an opportunity for the Soviet Union to pursue its expansionist territorial policy? [More…]
Whether it comes from that quarter or from some other quarter,I am sure it will be put before the Commission, as will the trade unions’ case. [More…]
Whether or not we have spoken to the trade union movement about it would be a matter not for the Treasury but, I would think, for the Department of Labour. [More…]
over the last 3 years, have carried out contracts of over $400,000 and are within the category of a contractor having an adverse ‘relationship with the Trade Union Movement’, within the terms of the Minister’s directive of December 1972. [More…]
O n Thursday, 3 May, Senator McLaren asked me, without notice, whether I would inform the Senate of the Oppositions senators who will visit China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as representatives of the Australian Parliament in June this year. [More…]
Senatorthe Honourable Ivor Greenwood (Liberal) has been nominated forthe delegation to China and Senator Maunsell (Country Party) for the delegation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour aware of the statement of his colleague Mr Clyde Cameron that he would support the Federated Ironworkers Union’s proposal for a series of rolling strikes affecting the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd? [More…]
1 man in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I refer to the Prime Minister’s statement that the present Australian Council of Trade Unions and union ban on French shipping and trade is contrary to the national interest. [More…]
ls there not legislation making it an offence for unions or union officials to impose such a ban or boycott? [More…]
ff it is not prepared to say that it will consider taking such action, is the Government’s position that while it holds office union officials are immune from prosecution? [More…]
Nobody has said that these positions should be restricted to people who are economists, lawyers or people involved in the world of the trade union movement. [More…]
I can say only that the Minister for Labour before he left for overseas put forward proposals to settle the differences between the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and the airlines, a settlement which in the opinion of the Minister would be reasonable and based upon the submissions of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on equal pay. [More…]
Negotiations on behalf of the Minister were vested in Mr Riordan, the honourable member for Phillip, who is a former federal secretary of the Federated Clerks Union and a very experienced person in that area of industrial relations. [More…]
The position now is that the matter has been submitted by the union to the ACTU and unless the ACTU and the unions request the Government to take some action, the matter will be subject to the ordinary processes of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour whether he is aware of the black ban which has been imposed upon the handling of luggage of travellers in and out of Canberra airport by members of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
Has the Government, as the union alleges, breached an election undertaking, subsequently repudiated after the election, to grant equal pay to women members of the Federated Clerks Union? [More…]
Senator Hannan has requested that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) take certain action in regard to the statements that have been made about the events in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate please reconcile for the benefit of honourable senators the following conflicting statements: Firstly, the assurance of the Leader of the Government in the Senate that the decision to site Sydney’s second airport at Galston was not final and the Prime Minister’s statement at the Baulkham Hills Shire Council chambers last Friday that you are getting Galston’; secondly, the Prime Minister’s statement on 9 September that all interest rates would rise and the Prime Minister’s subsequent statement a few days later that home interest loans would be exempted from higher rates; and thirdly the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of Representatives yesterday that he had been promised trade union co-operation in restraining wages and incomes if the Government obtained powers to control prices, and Mr Hawke ‘s denial of the promise this morning. [More…]
That this Senate recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie’ evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government will not take action against these strikes because it has condoned trade union demands for increased wages prior to the proposed referendum on prices? [More…]
By way of preface I refer to the concern in some Opposition quarters about trade union democracy. [More…]
The union representatives were hard to contact after the conference as they went to Sydney by car, not risking the facilities of Mascot for a return by air. [More…]
It may be of interest to honourable senators to know that some 18 months or 2 years ago the Australian Labor Party resolved at a meeting of Caucus- the word ‘Caucus’ is one which Senator Greenwood and others like to deride- that the matter of the persecution of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics should be referred to the international socialist parties. [More…]
(Quorum formed) I was saying that at a meeting of the Australian Labor Party some 1 8 months or 2 years ago it was resolved that there should be forwarded to the international socialist parties throughout the world the text of a resolution passed at our meeting deploring attacks by the Soviet Union on some sections of the Jewish fraternity. [More…]
I thank all honourable senators on both sides of the chamber for the spirit in which they have entered into the debate and indicated their support for the motion on human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I see nothing wrong with members of this Parliament meeting as a union of members and taking a democratic decision. [More…]
In union affairs, do not the unions agitate for the right to nominate their people? [More…]
Why is it right for unionists and wrong for educationists? [More…]
Party I was responsible for quite a number of people being appointed to boards of different government instrumentalities as union representatives, but I always insisted that they be chosen by their union, not by the government. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that the decision of the British and United States Governments to develop further the naval installation at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was taken to balance the growing naval influence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in that Ocean. [More…]
1 ) Is the Postmaster-General aware that details of a purported confidential letter from him to the Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, Mr G. Slater, were published in the Press recently. [More…]
The letter stated that a one-man official post office could be more efficient, less expensive and could be implemented if employees were in the one union. [More…]
Ensure the rights of every Australian Citizen to choose whether or not they shall belong to a trade union. [More…]
Restrict the operation of trade union organisations solely to the fields of working conditions and the economic interests of their members, and stop the practice of ‘closed shop’. [More…]
Ban the trade union practice of imposing political levies on members and to ensure that no trade union maintains any political affiliations. [More…]
Stop the Government practice of trade union membership discrimination. [More…]
Barbados, Bulgaria, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Democratic Republic of Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Mauritius, Norway, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. [More…]
At present my Department is undertaking a project involving the collection of information from various sources such as the Press, the trade union movement, university appointment boards, the Arbitration Commission, women’s action groups and a whole host of other organisations. [More…]
1 ) that they oppose the Australian Government’s recognition of the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union; [More…]
3 ) that the Government should appreciate that the Baltic States were unlawfully occupied in 1940 by the Soviet Union through using armed forces following the signing of a pact by Stalin and Hitler. [More…]
When was the Australian Ambassador in Moscow informed of the Australian Government’s decision to recognise the jurisdiction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics over the Baltic States? [More…]
The question of advising the Soviet Union did not come into it. [More…]
All we did was send Sir James Plimsoll, the Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to visit these areas. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that on 4 August the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, posed a series of questions to the Prime Minister relating to reports that Australia had recognised the Soviet Union’s jurisdiction over the Baltic states? [More…]
Will the Minister say when the Government of the Soviet Union was informed of the Australian Government’s change of policy? [More…]
I refer to the situation concerning the Government’s recognition of the Baltic states as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Has Australia decided to grant de jure recognition to the incorporation of the independent states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union? [More…]
That the Australian Government’s willingness to officially recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union will cause considerable difficulties to former citizens of Baltic countries who have acquired Australian citizenship and are revisiting the countries of their origin. [More…]
By this hasty act, taken without consultation with the groups of Australian citizens concerned, the Australian Government has seemingly recognised the Soviet claim that the Baltic immigrants, upon their arrival in Australia, were really citizens of the U.S.S.R., and as such are not entitled to assume the protection of Australian citizenship until released from the citizenship of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has revealed the detail’s of the crimes against tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union through the activities of the secret police and vast concentration camps. [More…]
In relation to the present position of Mr Georgi Ermolenko in Perth, does he not agree that the desire of the Australian Government to see its own citizens when in custody in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is quite different from the request that is now made- that there should be some period when this young man can make up his own mind and consult privately in the absence of Russian consular officials who may be in a position to intimidate him? [More…]
The humble petition of the citizens of Australia respectfully sheweth that: the decision to recognize the incorporation of the Baltic countries- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania- into the Soviet Union is an alarming and dangerous reversal of foreign policy by the Australian Government, this decision legitimizes the occupation of formerly free and independent nations by an imperialist power, the Soviet Union has suppressed civil liberties in the Baltic states and has tried to ruthlessly eliminate movements for national identity and self-determination among the Baltic people, the desires of the Baltic people have always been and will continue to be for an end to occupation by a foreign power and a return to self-determination of government, there are neither moral nor legal grounds for legitimizing the present regime in the Baltic countries, all other democratic nations have refused to recognize the illegal incorporation of these countries. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Australian Government rescind its decision to acknowledge the Soviet Union as the rightful government of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and support the continuing struggle of the Baltic people for national liberation and self-determination. [More…]
And the Senate requests that the Australian Government revokes its de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognise officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as 1 7 May 1974. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
that he be not permitted to leave Australia until such time as he has had the opportunity (for 24 hours at least) to discuss with the friends and advisers whom he originally told he wished to remain in Australiaspecifically Mr Badger and the Reverend Johnsonthe question of whether he will remain in Australia or return to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and [More…]
Is it not a fact that senior officials of trade unions on strike, unlike the rank and file members, still receive payment which on some occasions amounts to more than they normally receive when their union is not on strike? [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs provide any details of the condition of the Australian tourists who were injured in a bus smash in Kiyev in the Soviet Union? [More…]
ls the Ukrainian historian, Valentyn Moroz, currently being held in Vladimir prison in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Has the Australian Government made any protest to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against the imprisonment of Moroz; if not, when does it propose to do so. [More…]
Is it a fact that currently before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission there is a union claim for the institution of a 35-hour week in the power industry? [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United Stales of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognised by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
-It is the State registered Water and Sewerage Employees Union of New South Wales. [More…]
I point out that the returning officer of this union is the man who handles the ballots in New South Wales for Sir Robert Askin. [More…]
I think that whilst we have people like Senator Bishop in the Ministry no fears need be held by anyone in regard to what we are trying to do in bringing a new charter of democracy to trade unions. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognise the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
It is prompted by statements of disenchantment with the Labor Government which were made by union leaders at the weekend, specifically by the Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Mr Fitzgibbon, who said that industrial relations in Australia were in a mess, and by the National Secretary of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia, Mr Peterson, who urged the Government to get off its backside and do something to alleviate the hardship that its policies are causing Australian workers. [More…]
When will this Government which promised the Australian people industrial stability and good government-union relations, act to stop this polarisation of government and the Australian worker? [More…]
Did Mr Bukevicius specifically ask if Mr Whitlam, as head of the Australian Government, was going ‘to continue not to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union or should we expect a policy change on this matter’. [More…]
Was Mr Bukevicius correct in his assumption that Australia did not at the time of his writing to the Prime Minister recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Is the Royal Australian Navy co-operating with American scientists to hunt submarines of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the Indian Ocean, using sonar equipment. [More…]
Arising from Mr Rigby’s report to me, I wish to place on record my appreciation of the way that officers of the Actors and Announcers Equity, the Professional Musicians Union and the Theatrical Amusement Employees Association, together with representatives of Channel 9 settled this matter. [More…]
The union leaders are to be commended on behalf of all their members for the decision they took in what they considered to be the overall public interest at the time. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That proposed sub-section clearly provides for government interference in the operations of the Corporation, particularly if it is going to be concerned with directions in relation to what trade union organisations may decide is in the interests of their members. [More…]
The following is a list of Parliamentarians, trade union officials, industrialists and other public figures who appeared on the TCN 9 television program ‘Federal File’ during the period S May to 29 September 1974. [More…]
Will the Minister state what Parliamentarians, trade union officials, industrialists and other public figures have appeared on the TCN 9 television program ‘Federal File’ in the period May 1974 to date? [More…]
-Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation say whether repatriation pensions can be paid into credit union accounts? [More…]
-Before replying to the honourable senator I would like to express my gratification at his stand as defender of the unions and his displeasure at any suggestion that there might be such a thing as union bashing. [More…]
The Prime Minister emphasised the need for restraint in wage claims by the trade union movement. [More…]
The last I heard on that matter was that the only submission they had received was from the Musicians Union. [More…]
However, I know that they have had discussions with the other industrial unions involved. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, refers to a report today by the New South Wales State Secretary of the Clothing Trades Union, Mr Watkins, that 600 men and women in the clothing industry in and near Sydney are to lose their jobs next week. [More…]
I will be having discussions with the union later today. [More…]
We are told that the purpose of this Bill is to facilitate amalgamations of trade unions. [More…]
I quite agree that there are some good reasons why, in some areas, union amalgamations should take place. [More…]
I think there are many instances which can be demonstrated where small unions might serve the interests of their members better if they combined with larger unions. [More…]
The argument for union amalgamations is not opposed by the Opposition. [More…]
But it is a typical case of Government misrepresentation to argue that the Opposition is opposed to union amalgamations. [More…]
What the Government is arguing, if its case is properly analysed, is that union amalgamations will be promoted if we can permit crooked ballots, if we can permit contrived ballots and if we can permit cooked ballots in order to achieve the purpose of amalgamation. [More…]
There is no suggestion whatsoever that the committee of a union should be able to ignore the wishes of the rank and file. [More…]
We would certainly say that the rank and file ought to be able to govern the committee in the way in which it conducts the affairs of the union, but to impose a requirement for the rank and file to be consulted in the way that this Bill does is not to uphold the authority of the Commission and is likely to create an unworkable situation. [More…]
-From time to time the Professional Musicians Union of Australia has been in touch with me on matters of this nature, and I assume that it has also been in touch with my colleague, Senator Poyser. [More…]
I am not aware precisely of what the trade union movement has said. [More…]
I understand that some statement has been issued which implies at least either that members of trade unions would be encouraged not to insure with the Australian Mutual Provident Society or, alternatively, that those who already have done so should remove that insurance from that company. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government noted that the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been asked to use all the processes of duress and intimidation of which the union movement is capable to aid the political activities of the Government? [More…]
-Mr President, I seek leave to table the report from the Australian delegation to the Sixty-first Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held at Tokyo last year. [More…]
Did the Minister, on or about 4 July 1974, state that previous Governments had never attempted to enforce the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act so as to ensure that trade union ballots were conducted properly; if so, on how many occasions, when evidence was available, did a previous Government fail to enforce the provisions of the Act. [More…]
I ask whether the Minister will give me an assurance that there is nothing in the Bill to preclude a nonmember of a trade union being accepted for a course in any of a college’s or centre’s courses. [More…]
There will be no prohibition against a non-unionist who wants to undertake a course, but it must be obvious that if attention is to be paid to his training, and if the Government is to spend the money on his training his objective must be to assume an office in the trade union movement. [More…]
So, logically, one would expect him to set out on a course designed for the trade union movement with the object that he would at some time join a union. [More…]
the Director of the Trade Union Training Centre for the State; [More…]
3 members appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the relevant trade union organisation referred to in sub-section ( 5 ); [More…]
I notice in paragraph (a) (i) of the definition of trade union training’ the words ‘objectives of trade unions’, as has been mentioned by Senator Wright and by the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) in reply. [More…]
I would like to know whether the training refers to the political objective of a union which, of course, is regarded as a legitimate objective of unions themselves. [More…]
So I do not think one argues that there is no political objective in most unions in Australia and as the objectives are quite baldly stated does that then encompass, as I take it to be, political objectives as there is no gradation of objectives in the definition? [More…]
Paragraph (a) (i) of the definition of ‘trade union training’ reads: [More…]
That would relate to a training course which would provide historical information about trade unions and what they are doing today. [More…]
It would take into account the activities of unions in the field of arbitration. [More…]
So paragraph (a) (i) would be related more to the basic part of a union official’s duties. [More…]
I think that this relates to the wider organisational activities of a union delegate who wants to go on to a mangement committee; a member of a union who wants to become a union official; or a member who wants to become a special officer of the union- an advocate in the court, who is called an industrial relations officer or assistant secretary. [More…]
I think it is expected that a trade union official has also to be knowledgeable about a number of matters including public administration and questions concerning inflation and the economy. [More…]
This is getting into a wider field which perhaps is somewhat outside of what a person is doing in his normal union job but it is an area which it is essential to understand in presenting a case before a court. [More…]
Union representatives do this sort of thing today. [More…]
In the old days unions used to send before the national wage hearing people like Bill Evans, who was for many years the Federal Secretary of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Union, and Terry Winter who on their own account were not economists but who had to develop the skills of an economist to present cases at national wage hearings. [More…]
-I refer to clause 3 which contains the definition of ‘trade union training’. [More…]
I ask the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) by explicit reference to give me his understanding of what is intended by the various components of trade union training. [More…]
Trade union training is defined as meaning: [More…]
The third thing that I note is contained in paragraph (b) where the content of the definition is ‘training for members of trade unions in any other fields’. [More…]
My first point relates to the objectives of trade unions; my second point refers to the knowledge and skills in fields connected with the functions of trade unions, and my third point relates to the words ‘any other fields’. [More…]
For the enlightenment of those honourable senators who took points of order during the second reading debate, I invite the Minister’s elucidation of those 3 matters in the definition of trade union training’. [More…]
In view of the artificially engendered heat on the subject of the establishment of the Australian Government Insurance Corporation and the large amount of mail which has been received by honourable senators, will the Minister inform the Senate about the position of the registered union, the Australian Mutual Provident Society Staff Association, on the establishment of this office? [More…]
1) to (3) I reject completely any inference in the honourable senator’s question that I, as Minister for Labor and Immigration, should exercise surveillance over the proceedings of meetings of the ACOA or any other trade union- or for that matter any employer organisation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: When is an agreement which is made between an employers body and a trade union a sweetheart agreement and when is it not a sweetheart agreement? [More…]
For example, if a powerful union and a powerful industry were to reach an agreement which stepped wildly outside those guidelines this could have flow on effects which would immediately torpedo any system of indexation. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration recently initiated action on behalf of the Australian Government with a view to settling by negotiation the strike by members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which has disrupted restoration work on the damaged Hobart bridge for more than 10 weeks? [More…]
I refer to the Minister’s remarks about the activities of Mr Laurie Carmichael in respect of a proposed union stoppage of work this week which the Minister categorised as ‘outright sabotage’ of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s indexation proposals. [More…]
Does the Minister, by his statement, acknowledge that the real power and influence which active communists who are union secretaries are able to exercise is being directed against Australia’s economic recovery? [More…]
Leader of my Party has spoken on the question of the de jure recognition of Soviet incorporation of the Baltic states and has made it clear that on our return to government instructions will be issued to our Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics not to visit the Baltic states and that recognition will again be given in this country to the honorary Consul for Latvia; these 2 actions effectively being ones that will reverse the de jure recognition that has taken place. [More…]
Is there any transgression of personal civil liberties and any inconsistency in (a) the Government ‘s ‘evenhanded’ approach to the Middle East, and (b) the Government’s support of total compulsory membership of the Australian Union of Students and therefore of the revolutionary Palestinian Movement. [More…]
Did Australian university students in 1974 reject, by a majority of approximately 80 per cent, proposed support by the Australian Union of Students for the revolutionary Palestinian Movement. [More…]
1 ) Did the Australian Government make a contribution towards the cost of the tour of the Daly Wilson Big Band to the Soviet Union under the cultural agreement with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed earlier this year; if so, what was the extent of the contribution. [More…]
As an officer of an ABC staff association or union claimed on radio this morning that the position of ABC employees is being misrepresented by the media, can the Minister tell us the facts so that the Senate may know whether this is an unfortunate case of the biter being bitten? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of any trade union ban against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Cuba because of their massive military intervention in Angola? [More…]
Did either the Soviet Union or Cuba ever claim that events in Angola threatened their national security? [More…]
If no bans have been placed on trade or other communications with the Soviet Union or Cuba, is this another example of the double standard of left wing groups who attack so-called expansive aggressive acts by right wing governments but are noticeably silent in relation to aggressive acts by communist governments? [More…]
I seek leave to table the report of the Australian delegation to the sixty-second conference of the InterParliamentary Union held at London in September of last year. [More…]
Does the Minister intend to discuss the matter with the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and the Australian Union of Students? [More…]
I hoped that members of the Australian Labor Party would have supported that in the interests of trade union principles. [More…]
But notwithstanding the fact that Mr Bray was never shown a copy of the document upon which the allegations were made he was dismissed from his office and suspended from membership in the union. [More…]
The question was whether it was correct that we did not accept for migration anyone who had been in prison or whether exceptions were made for political prisoners or people who are imprisoned because of trade union activity or because of United Nations refugee activities. [More…]
What are the obstacles in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which would preclude the Plasterers Union from amalgamating with the Building Workers Industrial Union? [More…]
I know of no reason why the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia could not comply with the procedures for amalgamation set out in the Act provided those organisations and their memberships desire it. [More…]
There is the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia, Merchant Service Guild of Australia, Seamen’s Guild of Australia, and if we are talking of fishing vessels there is the Australian Workers’ Union, Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia, and the Australian Shipping Officers Association. [More…]
We can add to that list the marine cooks and marine stewards unions. [More…]
I suggest that consideration be given to making contact with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and its State branch, the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council, when the interim council and any of its committees are established. [More…]
The Government is aware that a number of trade unions have a policy of 100 per cent membership ofthe employees who work in the industry for which the union has coverage. [More…]
However unions are under no obligation to disclose their policies in this regard and information is not available as to the incidence of union membership of employees in particular industries. [More…]
A survey of all federal awards which was conducted in February 1972 showed that at that stage 1 56 awards contained provisions for preference in employment to union members. [More…]
The Minister has undertaken to discuss these proposals with representatives of trade union and employer peak councils before any legislation introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
The answer to the question that I am about to ask the Minister will influence not only my vote but also, I believe, the attitude of a great many people outside this chamber, including a large number of members of trade union organisations. [More…]
It is antagonising some harmless individual who is proud of the period for which he has held a position in a union. [More…]
1 ) On whose instructions did the Australian representative at the International Whaling Commission London Conference in June side with the Japanese and Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s representatives in seeking to gain higher quotas than those advocated by the Scientific Committee. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon said, George Fernandes is Chairman of the Socialist Party of India and he is also the National Secretary of the Indian Railway Workers union. [More…]
It is very important to point out at this time that in all the period Fernandes has been in gaol the Indian Railway Workers Union has refused to appoint anybody as National Secretary in his place. [More…]
What will be the cost of the action undertaken by Commonwealth Conciliation Commissioner, Mr Brack, in mailing his comments on an industrial dispute to rank and file members of the Plumbers and Gasfitter’s Union. [More…]
I refer him to my previous question in this place regarding the refusal of a student at the Australian National University to pay his student union fees. [More…]
The student strongly protested at the financial support given to the Abortion Law Reform Society by the Student Union and so refused to pay his dues but offered to pay the equivalent to a charitable organisation of his choice. [More…]
This is a perversion of trade union justice. [More…]
I am quite sure that this will prove to honourable senators opposite, if they care to read it, that the union has had very democratic elections. [More…]
-I read every publication I can get and I have friends in my own union. [More…]
It does not take an Einstein to find out who are the people in that union or in any other union. [More…]
The honourable senator may be surprised to know that I have files on various unions going back to 1959, so I am not beholden to anybody for my information. [More…]
I am saying that as a member of the Federated Clerks Union I have the mental capacity to produce any diagram such as this. [More…]
I also point out to Senator Hall that in recent weeks- in fact, I think in recent days- my Leader, the Honourable Gough Whitlam, on more than one occasion in the course of speeches he has made at various functions has put quite strongly the need for the Australian trade union movement to be rationalised and to be constructed along the lines of the West German trade union movement, to which reference has been made this evening. [More…]
proposed legislation which would have facilitated the very matter about which he was challenging us this eveningthe amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Before legislation could be discussed in the House of Representatives certain individuals from certain trade unions visited Canberra and spoke to Mr Lynch. [More…]
He is the president of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, Mr Maynes. [More…]
The other question which I can perhaps put at the same time is this: Will the Minister make available figures showing how many Federal unions registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and the number of their members have complied with the provisions of the Cameron amendments? [More…]
The Minister has already mentioned only a few insignificant unions with very small memberships. [More…]
I am not referring to the United Furniture Trades Union or to the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
I ask those questions so that a comparison can be made between those unions that have not complied and those unions that have complied. [More…]
In the light of the explanation which the Minister has given, am I to assume that he believes that if a union switches from the rank and file ballot system to the collegiate system it is fair and reasonable that the representation from such a State on a Federal council of 22 members should be a quarter or less of those members; or did this situation just grow up, like Topsy, in the case of the shop assistants union? [More…]
As the Minister will recall, I said that the New South Wales segment of that union has approximately 55 000 members out of a national membership of over 100 000. [More…]
Because of technological changes the New South Wales branch of the union already has members who in some States would be considered to be storemen and packers. [More…]
I ask the Minister: In what way would the 6 New South Wales councillors of the union obtain redress in the form of higher representation in the light of the increased membership? [More…]
Am I not right in assuming that if the system is frozen as it is now the majority will keep the ‘minority delegates, who represent a bigger section of the union, in permanent bondage? [More…]
1 ) The Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and the Australian Trade Union Training Authority; and [More…]
Information requested by the honourable senator as to the Director of the former and as to those persons who have been appointed to Councils established under the Trade Union Training Authority Act are set out in the following schedules. [More…]
-by leave- I lay on the table the report of the Australian delegation to the Sixty-third Interparliamentary Union Conference held at Madrid from 23 September to 1 October 1976. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that university students who are not in a financial position to pay their subscriptions to the Australian Union of Students are receiving additional money by way of an allowance from the Commonwealth Government to assist with the payment of their union fees? [More…]
People in the trade union movement ask me: ‘Have you got a mandate? [More…]
He further informs me that President Carter’s reference to the proposed demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean was made when he was detailing arms control proposals which the United States has put to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, members of the new United States Administration have said in testimony before the Congress that the Administration would be interested in negotiating with the Soviet Union on arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
By way of preface, the Minister will remember that, about 8 months ago, at the behest of the moulders union I conveyed to him the concern of that union about what it considered was an undue inflow of imported castings. [More…]
In view of the rekindling of the union’s fears, can the Minister outline to the Senate the Government’s plans to combat this apparent inflow? [More…]
On IS October 1976 the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Union (NAATSI) lodged an application with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs seeking $13,000 to enable the organisation to continue operations until such time as expected grant moneys were received from the Australian Union of Students early in 1 977. [More…]
1 have informed the Union that further Government support of his organisation is not warranted at this time. [More…]
Has the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Union sought funding or other assistance from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
However, I did not appreciate the particulars involved and have not been able to obtain any advice in regard to the discussions for amalgamation which have taken place, I gather, between the Health and Research Employees Union and the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, No. [More…]
It is a community station established by the previous Government and, as I am advised, with particularly strong trade union and, I think, Labor Party membership. [More…]
Is the Palestine Liberation Organisation a beneficiary under the International Postal Union. [More…]
Has the Palestine Liberation Organisation been admitted as a member of the International Postal Union. [More…]
Senator Jessop raised the question whether the multiplicity of unions involved in this matter had delayed, or otherwise, the settlement. [More…]
I am not brave or foolhardy enough to open up the question whether one industrial union of an umbrella type would have been better than a series of craft or other unions. [More…]
The unions, the management and the Australian Council of Trade Unions are to be commended for the destination that they have arrived at. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations noted a report in the daily Press stating, first, that the International Labour Organisation has criticised communists and Third World countries for violating some of its key conventions; and secondly, that the ILO report cited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in particular for using the law to restrict trade union rights and that an ILO committee of experts picked out the communist States and eastern European countries as well as 30-odd African and Latin countries for violating the rights of workers, calling them to task for failing to apply Convention 87, despite the fact that they ratified it and nominated the following countries: Algeria, Bolivia, Burma, Central African Empire, Chad, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Kuwait, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Syria and Uruguay? [More…]
However, Senator Harradine has seen fit to continue this farrago of smears, innuendoes and lies that he has perpetrated on the Tasmanian Labor Party since Bert Lacey first brought him in under false pretences to the Clerks Union and to the Lutana Branch in Tasmania. [More…]
It is no wonder that rank and file members of the organisation are heartily sick of the so-called leadership that is being given to them by the union leaders. [More…]
Following on the result of the ballot, the secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Mr Norm Gallagher, said that a union organiser would be on the site from 7.30 a.m. on Tuesday to ensure that no work was done. [More…]
Senator COTTON (New South WalesMinister for Industry and Commerce)- I suggest to the Whips union that it has Whips’ talk over dinner. [More…]
A wool textile industry study group comprising the industry, the union, the Australian Wool Corporation and the Depanment of Industry and Commerce has been set up at the request of the industry to conduct and indepth study of the industry’s current problems and future prospects and how best it may reorganise its activities to ensure its long term viability. [More…]
If there is no requirement for compulsory unionism, will the Minister assure the Senate that those electing not to join a union will not have the right to employment withdrawn solely on the grounds that they are not unionists. [More…]
The Government believes that every employee should have the right to join a union and it encourages employees not only to join unions but to participate fully in their affairs. [More…]
On the other hand, it believes that an employee should have the right not to join a union where he or she has a genuine and conscientious objection to doing so; and that this right shall not be dependent upon the existence of a preference clause in an award. [More…]
Subsequently, the Minister entered into negotiations, on behalf of the Government, with the peak union and employer councils. [More…]
It seems to me that, arising from a conference, we have the makings of a sweetheart deal between the employers, on the one hand, and not just the employees on the other hand, but in fact a monopoly union representing the employees. [More…]
After all, it is very easy for a union representing employee interests to make applications to an employer for all sorts of added benefits and for that employer to find reasons to place before the Prices Justification Tribunal for increasing charges to cover the advantages that it is necessary to provide for the employees. [More…]
I was interested to see in this morning’s Courier-Mail an advertisement indicating that the program is being displayed at the Queensland Teachers Union building in Brisbane from 1 to 3 March, which means that it will be there only until tomorrow. [More…]
Apparently the display is at Boundary Street, Spring Hill, in the headquarters of the Teachers Union in Brisbane. [More…]
I think it is important for parents and other interested people in Queensland to have the opportunity to view this material, but the majority of people will not have that opportunity when the material is at the Teachers Union building because of its location. [More…]
Lavey, a union nominee, to the Tasmanian Council for Trade Union Training? [More…]
I cannot accept- I do not believe the trade union movement can accept- that consideration of employment problems is a variable or narrow guideline. [More…]
He was referring to trade union members. [More…]
1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees’ Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive. [More…]
The Union representing the employees should make any approach to the Conciliation Commissioner which may be thought necessary. [More…]
1 ) Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics participated in the Conference which concluded the Convention on Conservation of Antarctic Seals. [More…]
I can inform the honourable senator that the view of the United States authorities conflicts with the scientific advice and evidence provided to State and Commonwealth governments and with the opinion of international organisations, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which body endorses the Australian Government’s view. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister investigated the problems in the Department of Social Security in Bowen, Queensland, with reference to displaced meatworkers, drawn to her attention by the Merinda Branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees ‘Union. [More…]
We do not have too much information about the Eastern European countries, but we understand that Czechoslovakia both mines and exports uranium and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has known quantities of workable uranium. [More…]
Early in February of this year I was notified by Mr Ray Lette of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in Queensland of a situation concerning the refusal to pay unemployment benefit to workers at the Roma meatworks. [More…]
Certain members of the union applied for unemployment benefit when their leave entitlements were exhausted. [More…]
As a result of union representations the State Government provided some unemployment relief payments. [More…]
The union made representations to the local council and it arraned loans for half of the married group so as to tide them over the Christmas period. [More…]
What percentage does that figure represent of the total union membership? [More…]
in reply- I am sorry that the Opposition has decided to oppose the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Bill. [More…]
A recommendation was made to Mr Speaker and to me by the Acting Public Service Arbitrator, Mr R. H. C. Watson, that Mr Aper should be stood down with pay until a decision has been handed down on his application for exemption from joining a union on the ground of his conscientious beliefs. [More…]
Listening to Senator Lewis tonight, I found it rather ironical that when I came into this chamber with George Poyser there was tremendous agitation right across the board in Victoria from the trade union movement and from British migrants about the bad situation in hostels. [More…]
I would appreciate, in response to that reply, some more detailed indication from the Government of what in its view would constitute proper activity on the part of a union official. [More…]
I have indicated already to the Committee that the particular problem of officers who work in a Public Service union is the subject of discussion between the Public Service Board and the unions concerned. [More…]
I can give only the sort of assurance that I gave before- I give it, I must say, without instructions but simply on my understanding of the attitude that the Government would adopt that there is no wish to repress the trade union activities of public servants. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a degree of concern which has been expressed by at least some Public Service unions, in particular the Professional Officers Association, as to the possible use of these provisions to embarrass and generally make life difficult for those unattached officers of the Service who are in fact employed as full time public service union officials? [More…]
What is the prevailing political climate in Peru in regard to the attitude of the Government to the trade union movement in that country. [More…]
-This Bill deals with machinery matters relating to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
( 1 ) Australian Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Australian Trade Union Training Act 1975- Section [More…]
When it becomes necessary for wharf clerks to be recruited the employer confers directly with the Federated Clerks Union which in turn submits the names of people who are considered by the union to possess the qualifications and skill required to perform the duties involved. [More…]
Interviews are then conducted by the employer, often in conjunction with a union representative, before the vacancy is filled. [More…]
What action will be taken in the current more favourable climate to persuade the Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union that export of live sheep is in the best interests of the industry in the long term. [More…]
They are plumbers who appear to be at the very least the victims of the bureaucracy of their union. [More…]
It involves the blatant victimisation by a union of three of its members. [More…]
The events and circumstances I will describe arise out of a campaign conducted by the Western Australian branch of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia to obtain Federal award coverage. [More…]
A series of disputes was organised by the union in pursuit of its objective and the matter was eventually referred to and resolved by Commissioner Brown in proceedings before him. [More…]
Subsequent to the issue of the award, three employees of the plumbing contractor mentioned earlier were charged by the union with a breach of its rulesrule 13 headed ‘Offences and Charges’. [More…]
It is something of an understatement to say that I find the rules and actions of the unions incongruous as well as disturbing. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions and many other unions are on record as being vehemently opposed io penal provisions being applied against them. [More…]
At least the union movement has access to and the right to legal representation; not so the victimised three, the so-called defendants. [More…]
I speak on behalf of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
I am concerned with the section of the statement which deals with that Union. [More…]
1 take it that in matters relating to trade unions or the Public Service the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) has in mind seeking the assistance of people who have had trade union or Public Service membership. [More…]
I have pleasure in drawing the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the gallery of a delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by Mr Pavel Gilashvili, ViceChairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. [More…]
-I present the official report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Hungary, 1-24 July 1978. [More…]
I am always annoyed when I hear Government senators severely criticising trade unionists for going on strike to get some justice, as the very same senators who are so vocal and critical of the trade union movement were quite happy to go on strike in the Parliament and hold up a duly elected government, a government that had been elected twice within three years. [More…]
I am advised by my Department that the Ordinance was prepared after consultation between my Department, the Administrator of Christmas Island and the Union Assurance Society of Australia Limited, which is the only company conducting insurance business on the Island. [More…]
I refer to the awareness or otherwise of the Prime Minister and senior Ministers that underlying the problem in the Australian Workers Union with industrial relations in the oil industry, the unresolved implications of the decision in the Moore v. Doyle case remain like an industrial time bomb. [More…]
Was the decision to make retrenchments made in the United States of America by the firm of Sandvik Pty Ltd without any consultation with its Australian representatives or with the Vehicle Builders’ Union. [More…]
As a mining engineer, I Tully appreciate the other hazards associated with the mining, treatment and enrichment of uranium just as our Premier does and I believe he and his Party is protecting the public, particularly all union members who could be employed in the production of uranium in South Australia until he is satisfied that all safety precautions are complied with. [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Government task force which has been entrusted with the examination of superannuation funds, including trade union involvement. [More…]
Is there any trade union participation in the membership. [More…]
I simply ask that there be conveyed to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) a request for a stay of proceedings on a deportation order against a Bolivian citizen, Roger Guttierrez, until the union and I can prepare a case to submit to the [More…]
The union is very concerned. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations: Is the Government still not deducting union dues from the salaries of members of the Australian Public Service Association, having ceased that practice earlier this year? [More…]
I will ask the Director-General to release details of what arrangements the Department has in mind to verify the membership of a union when unemployment results from strike or industrial action. [More…]
I pointed out that the deregistration of a union can take place only after certain conditions have been satisfied. [More…]
I am considering it from the point of view of a trade union going before a commissioner whose authority will be completely undermined in the eyes of the trade union movement. [More…]
A union will feel when it goes before a commissioner that it can never be sure what the commissioner is going to say when he consults with a presidential member. [More…]
Furthermore, since in the eyes of the unions the presidential members will make the decisions, does the Minister consider that the unions will continue to put cases before the commissioners? [More…]
The unions will try to overcome this problem the best way, and any way, that they can. [More…]
All the time the commissioners would be losing authority in the eyes of the unions. [More…]
All that has to happen is for the commissioners to bring down two or three decisions that do not suit the trade union movement for them not to be sure whether the decisions were the commissioners or the presidential members. [More…]
I feel that the Government has completely ignored the industrial relations question by bringing in such a clause that undermines the authority of the commissioners in the eyes of the trade union movement. [More…]
If the action taken discloses that the person has been working for a pittance, does it negate the right of a trade union to pursue breaches of the award? [More…]
The fact that he is deported surely does not inhibit the right of a union to prosecute, to ensure that when he leaves the country, from Sydney or Melbourne, for instance, he will receive the adjustment to his wages to which he is entitled. [More…]
I would be grateful if the Minister could respond to the problem that I raised concerning the realism of collective responsibility in the case of a union which has particularly wide membership covering various segments of an industry. [More…]
In the case of the governing body of that union not endorsing a strike, I wonder whether a further discretion should be given to the Director-General to determine whether it would be unreasonable under those circumstances for the unemployment benefit to be denied to those union members not on strike but stood down as a result of the strike. [More…]
To try to isolate the problem that the Government has I suggest the addition of these words: and that the governing body of the union has approved of the industrial action’. [More…]
-I can foresee injustice arising in situations where perhaps a very large union is involved and the government body thereof does not actually endorse the strike in question. [More…]
I visualise that, in a large union particularly, certainly injustices could result because a segment thereof involved people who, though they had not directly contributed to the strike, may have been stood down as a result of it. [More…]
I intend to speak very briefly but would like to congratulate Senator Wheeldon, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union upon the tremendous work that he has done in producing this report, also the members of his committee including, from this chamber, Senator Sibraa, Senator Martin, and Senator Scott, who was originally also a member. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon has said, the Committee’s first reference was the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and later that reference was widened. [More…]
The report deals at great length with the situation of people of the Jewish faith and persuasion in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Like Senator Wheeldon, I would not be worried if the Soviet Union wanted to inquire into a section of the Australian public. [More…]
The Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Industries Employees Union has advised orally that an application will be filed with the Arbitrator to vary the determination. [More…]
In view of the badinage across the chamber, the only way I can think of expressing my situation is by referring to something that happened in about 1936 when, I think, four British law lords and Sir Walter Citrine, as he was later known, of the British Trade Union Congress went to the West Indies to draw up a constitution for that country. [More…]
He said that there has been a long running sore about something crooked in regard to trade union training in Tasmania. [More…]
There is nothing crooked about trade union training in Tasmania, and there never has been. [More…]
I say this very deliberately; I believe that the Minister ought also to ask his Department whether the amount of $33,000- which was reimbursed by the Commonwealth, for trade union training in Tasmania, and which is part of the $43,000 that the State Government had asked back- is in fact State Government money or whether it belongs to the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council? [More…]
The case in which he and I successfully helped the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union was to me a trail blazer. [More…]
I ask: If it happens again to Barney French, the Secretary of that Union, will we be able to lean on people in order to get a 24-hour service and have a summary translated as a prelude to an on-the-job ballot? [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Postmaster-General know that letters were posted to members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia by the union secretary informing them that union officials had negotiated a cessation of the recent postal delivery strike but telling members that no overtime was to be worked in order to clear accumulated mail? [More…]
1 address a question to the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral and as a preface I point out that yesterday I asked the Minister whether it was not a fact that the Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia in Adelaide had written letters to union members informing them of successful negotiations for the cessation of the postal workers’ strike and instructing them not to work overtime to help reduce the backlog of undistributed mail. [More…]
I now ask the Minister: Can she give the Senate any information concerning such infamous discriminatory behaviour on the part of a union responsible for causing such inconvenience to the general public yet not above asking favours for itself? [More…]
Attaches weight to the statements by the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union declaring their intention to seek immediate Security Council action to provide help to any nonnuclear weapons State party to the treaty that is subject to aggression or the threat of aggression with nuclear weapons. [More…]
In recent times we have had the experience of trade union executives setting themselves up as the final court in the land to pass judgment on, the Government’s policy. [More…]
The decision by certain unions to place a black ban on the export of merino rams has reached the height of impertinence. [More…]
This is purely a matter for the wool industry, and the unions have no more right to interfere in the policies of the wool industry . [More…]
than the graziers have to interfere in the policies of the unions concerned. [More…]
I wonder what would be the reaction of the unions and their supporters here if the Graziers Association were to give financial support to a minority group in the unions to bring about a change in union policies. [More…]
To be branded by the Peking bosses as Fascist unions must have hurt considerably some of these union people unless, of course, they belong to the Moscow mob. [More…]
Another sorry episode was the resolution in Victoria by a group of trade union leaders recommending to our troops in Vietnam action which can only be described as mutiny. [More…]
The Amalgamated Engineering Union delegate defended a mess orderly. [More…]
While there are always charges of contempt of court levelled at trade unions which try to exercise the right of labour, nothing was done about that employer. [More…]
We take the same attitude in relation to the trade union movement as is taken on the point about justice for Rheem. [More…]
In fact if Senator Maunsell, who talked about trade union bosses and complained about the nonacceptance of the umpire’s decision, will read what Mr Fowler of the Metal Trades Employers Federation said on the equal pay case he will see that this is a classical illustration. [More…]
Everyone else was receiving meal allowance of $1 but the members of this union received only 75c. [More…]
The point I am making on the sophisticated approach is that the United States and Britain, if they can do so at any time, skilfully play off China against the Soviet Union in world politics. [More…]
If we were to capitalise on any schism between the Soviet Union and China, that would be well and good. [More…]
He has never been backward in telling trade union secretaries the mode of conduct they should follow. [More…]
If there was a wage increase and it was found that by pressure, direct or indirect, the prices of basic commodities did not rise, I think the trade union movement might do some of the things honourable senators opposite have talked about, particularly in the Scandinavian system. [More…]
If the Government does it that way - if it gives the trade union movement an assurance that, after a protracted wage hearing when an increase of 5%, 7% or 10% is granted, the price of basic commodities will not rise for 1 year or 2 years - it will get the harmony it wants. [More…]
But some people in the Department of External Affairs have said thai Australia ought to rely on the Soviet Union. [More…]
This matter has been brought up in particular by the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and I think that this is one of the most commendable proposals in the Speech. [More…]
I am glad that the Government has brought credit unions into the home loans scheme. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party sought to include credit unions in the relevant legislation but the Government refused to accept the proposal and held up the Bill. [More…]
The plus payment bonus plan introduced by the Ford Motor Company, with its pernicious penalties and fines, was not acceptable to the trade union movement in Victoria. [More…]
What is the attitude of the Australian Government to the new policy presented to the NATO defence Ministers at their meeting in Brussels on 3rd December which stated that in an emergency situation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Western powers nuclear weapons would be fired into Polish and Czechoslovakia airports and supply depots? [More…]
I am not unmindful of some of the problems to which Senator McManus refers, through my experience at trade union level. [More…]
Discussions are to take place between Bob Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the Yugoslav Ambassador in Canberra, in an effort to bridge some of these difficulties, lt is more than possible that when Mr Hawke attends the International Labour Organisation Conference this year he will be able to visit the Yugoslav trade unions leaders. [More…]
Mr Hawke will not be the first representative of the trade union movement to visit overseas trade unions. [More…]
Quite a number of Sydney trade union officials have done so. [More…]
I have in mind men who could be defined as middle-of-the-road trade union officials like organiser Shorthall of the Electrical Trades Union and Peter McMahon, State Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union. [More…]
A majority of them wish to live here peacefully, and as trade unionists we welcome them. [More…]
Probably all members of Parliament have received all sorts of representations from some people who are antagonistic to almost every Eastern European Government, even to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The penal provisions of the Arbitration Act are not enforced any more because of the feared upheaval of the Australian trade union movement against such enforcement. [More…]
I compiled for the Baptist Union of Australia and which covers the subject which is of concern to you and the Honourable the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
I refer to the late chairman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr Stalin. [More…]
I attended the Australian Council of Trade Unions congress held in Sydney last year from 8th to 12th September. [More…]
This of course culminated in the gaoling of a trade union secretary and a welling up of support throughout the Commonwealth by working men and women who objected to the use of the penal clauses of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The trade union movement has traditionally taken a stand in opposition to such penal clauses, and rightly so. [More…]
Unlike yesteryear when the general criticisms of the trade union movement and the working people generally were always levelled at the blue collar worker there have been rather phenomenal developments in recent times. [More…]
I remember an incident here when the then Leader of the Government in the Senate, the Present Prime Minister, during a division, marched across the floor and stated to the representatives of the credit union league who were in the gallery: ‘Not one penny will you get from me while I have the authority’. [More…]
Now, after pressure has been brought to bear and after the results of the last election, the Government has decided, firstly, to allow deductions from the salaries of Commonwealth public servants - which is a great service to credit unions - and, secondly, to allow the savings of credit unions to be recognised under conditions which are rather startling. [More…]
I have a letter from the Queensland Credit Union League which states that not one Queensland credit union will be eligible for assistance. [More…]
I spoke to a representative from the New South Wales credit unions. [More…]
Under the provisions of the proposed Bill, not one New South Wales credit union will be eligible. [More…]
Credit unions do carry out lending for housing. [More…]
Credit unions lend money for land, for second mortgages, for deposit gaps and for the initial purchases which make a house into a home. [More…]
Yet the Minister has decided that credit unions do not carry out lending for housing. [More…]
A credit union must be approved by the Secretary of Housing. [More…]
At least 20% of a credit union’s total lending in its most recent financial year must have been by way of housing loans. [More…]
The total lending by a credit union by way of housing loans during a financial year must not be less than $50,000. [More…]
So, the Government wipes out all credit unions. [More…]
The Government is not considering the true spirit of the credit union movement. [More…]
Credit unions assist the Government to provide homes for young people in that they provide the extra finance necessary to turn a house into a home, to make up the deposit gap and to provide for legal expenses. [More…]
If the Government makes this interpretation and gets away from this vicious proposition then many credit unions will be able to assist the Government to house many young people. [More…]
The trade union movement of this country - the Australian Council of Trade Unions - carried resolutions supporting Australia’s commitment behind the United Nations in Korea. [More…]
The Communist system has in the Soviet Union, the Communist Republic of China and North Vietnam slaughtered more of its own people than were killed in two world wars. [More…]
But the professional and scientific sector as well as the ordinary trade union organisations are challenging the decisions of these tribunals on the ground that they are too ready to echo ihe policies of the Government. [More…]
In September 1952 the Republic of South Vietnam was denied admission to the United Nations by one vote - the veto of the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, with the veto of the Soviet Union, South Vietnam was denied formal recognition. [More…]
It is tragic that significant sections of the Australian Labor Party are influenced by the Communists in the trade union section of that Party to pursue a line which will serve the interests not of the Party but of those who put up these policies. [More…]
All I am saying is that this resolution was carried by a group of unionists in Victoria, presided over by the State President of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
May I say in passing that not one of those unions would have tolerated an individual unionist who, in pursuit of what he believed to be his conscientious belief or right, chose not to go along with his colleagues. [More…]
He would have been called a scab and pushed out of the union. [More…]
These unions were calling on national servicemen to scab on their fellows - to use a word which I have heard used in this place - although they would not have permitted one of their unionists to do it in his own union. [More…]
He said that he chaired the meeting in his capacity as a union president or union secretary and not as president of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party; yet he owes his position in the Victorian Labor Party to the self same unions because a ticket is put up before every State Council meeting of the Victorian Labor Party and that ticket is selected not by the rank and file of the Australian Labor Party, diminishing as it is with so many expulsions, but by a group of unionists and within that group of unionists are men who owe their position to the control which is exercised by the Communists. [More…]
I am aware of the report published by the Economic Survey Mission of the Asian Parliamentary Union following its visit to Laos from 15th to 19th November 1969. [More…]
Inter-Parliamentary Union- 57th Conference held at New Delhi, 30th October to 7th November 1969 - Report of Australian Delegation. [More…]
It was also my honour to participate in the deliberations of the small but very important working group on the question of universality of entrance to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
Mr B. Gafurov of the Soviet Union? [More…]
What action does the Government take to ensure that exchanges of academics with the Soviet Union are bona fide? [More…]
Professor Gafurov is an historian and is Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In the recent ballot to elect officers for the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers’ Union, conducted under the provisions of Section 170 of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, did the New South Wales Electoral Officer refuse to permit a recount in the ballot for the position of New South Wales President. [More…]
Arising from this ballot, does the New South Wales Electoral Officer feel that procedures should be changed in the light of criticism voiced at the recent Australian Workers’ Union National Convention. [More…]
Ministers of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the responsibility for circulating to the members of the Conference the reports and any other important information they receive from the Commission. [More…]
I begin by referring to correspondence I have received from Mr Maddox, State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service know whether it is correct, as alleged by a South Australian trade union secretary, that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has, under its new president, invited certain Communist unionists to visit this country; that the ACTU proposes to spend union raised funds to finance this visit; and that no such invitation has been issued to non-Communist unionists from the United Kingdom or the United States of America? [More…]
If this is correct, is there or will there be any statutory right for objecting unionists to require this matter to be referred to the constituent State trades and labour councils or to individual unionists prior to the expenditure of union raised funds against the strong wishes of a significant section of those who provide those funds? [More…]
In the event of the Australian Council of Trade Unions inviting such an august delegation of Communist trade union leaders from Communist countries, will the Minister make such delegation acquainted with the tourist attractions in Australia, as that may attract subsequent visits by other high ranking delegations from Communist countries? [More…]
I recall one instance in Sydney where an organisation was masquerading as a benefactor for groups of aged persons and the Chief Secretary’s Department of New South Wales had to bear down on that organisation very heavily when it endeavoured to float an art union. [More…]
I suppose members of the Building Workers Union built them. [More…]
This union has carried on a tremendous battle not only on behalf of expatriate people but also on behalf of indigenous workers but it is fighting a losing battle against this great mantle of paternalism that hangs over the Territory. [More…]
On 1 8th September 1969, as a result of a question being placed on the Notice Paper by me, the PostmasterGeneral indicated that the following countries televised at least some programmes in colour: The United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, France, West Germany, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and Lebanon. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that a daily increasing and responsible section of the trade union movement of Australia has indicated its strong disapproval of the call made by Dr J. F. Cairns, [More…]
M.H.R., and others, for unionists to leave their employment and engage in an unlawful strike during the Communist supported Vietnam Moratorium in May? [More…]
If so, does the Minister intend to take any action to safeguard the Australian trade union movement from such unwanted and unwarranted interference? [More…]
I have also noticed statements made by responsible sections of the trade union movement which I would consider would be described fairly as definite snubs to the invitation issued by the honourable member. [More…]
Having regard to the robustness of the statements made by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, I would think that the ACTU could be fairly left with the responsibility of defining its actions in relation to the Moratorium. [More…]
Is it a fact that, because of the union hold up of transport for merino rams sold at the recent sales, for export, the Government is contemplating granting permission for the export of semen from merino rams. [More…]
The call by Dr Cairns has not been accepted by significant sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
It seems extraordinary, if the call really does come from a natural and spontaneous motivation of such a significant section of the community, that such a strong body of unionists should call on its members to treat it with contempt. [More…]
The trade union movement of Victoria has repudiated the Moratorium. [More…]
The Trades Hall Council has repudiated it and has asked Dr Cairns to cease appealing to unionists. [More…]
It has been repudiated by a wide variety of people, whom the Australian Labor Party will attack, having seen to it that a large number of trade unionists will be fined a day’s pay over an issue in which they have no particular interest; having seen that parents have learned that their children ‘have been approached outside the authority of their parents, and asked to take part in this demonstration; and having done everything that they possibly can to antagonise the general community in Victoria. [More…]
I was an organiser for the Australian Workers Union in 1939 when the Second World War broke out. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the spokesman for this teachers organisation who says that the policy of the union is that teachers have the right to their private political opinions but they have no right to import those opinions into the class room? [More…]
A remarkable statement was made by Mr P. J. Meehan, President of the Victorian Farmers Union, Grains Division. [More…]
That applies to our national service law, our trade union law and everything else. [More…]
Senator Greenwood got up one night and spent 30 minutes in making a vicious attack on the present Federal Secretary of the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
No restriction is placed on any officer in any parliamentary department in relation to his joining any union or association, in fact, every facility is made available for staff to be interviewed by union representatives and no attempt is made to discourage staff membership of unions. [More…]
The sale took place despite the Senate’s resolution, despite the opposition of the Governments of Victoria and Western Australia, and despite the opposition of the Graziers Association of New South Wales, the Victorian Farmers Union, and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association of New South Wales. [More…]
The imposition of a ban on the export of rams by one section of the community, the Transport Workers Union, is only the first of many actions that could be taken if the Government is going lo persist in its attitude of defying the Senate and defying what the Australian Labor Party believes is the wish of the majority of woolgrowers in this country. [More…]
At this stage there are no representatives from the Australian Primary Producers Union. [More…]
I made that point and no doubt Senator Wilkinson will draw to my attention, as he did during question time the other day, the fact that the Farmers Union in Western Australia at its recent conference passed a motion reversing the decision that it made 12 months ago. [More…]
That is quite proper and the prerogative of the wool section of the Farmers Union. [More…]
I believe that the wool section of the Farmers Union is now making its decision to be taken to the conference of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and eventually to the Australian Wool Industry Conference.I believe that it will say: ‘We the representatives of the Farmers Union do not want to continue the partial relaxation of this ban.’ [More…]
I wonder whether customs officials, members of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia or the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, or anyone else could tell the difference. [More…]
The Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), in his speech, mentioned that 5 members of the AWIC were members of the Farmers Union. [More…]
He said they would express the point of view of the Farmers Union. [More…]
Does that mean that because I am a member of the Farmers Union and am also a member of the Australian Labor Party, I express the point of view of the Farmers Union in this chamber? [More…]
They were not appointed by the Farmers Union. [More…]
They were not voted to the AWIC by the Farmers Union. [More…]
In neither case are they appointed by the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
If the Farmers Union appointed members of the AWIC, something would need to be looked into. [More…]
A little over 12 months ago, when the matter was first presented to the Farmers Union of Western Australia, at ils conference, if agreed lo the lifting of the ban. [More…]
The minutes of this conference of the Farmers Union indicate a bit of a stampede in the way the decision was carried. [More…]
I invite honourable senators from Western Australia to look at the minutes of the conference of the Farmers Union on that occasion. [More…]
This afternoon Senator Wilkinson said that members of the Farmers Union of Western Australia are not members of the Australian Wool Industry Conference because members of the Conference are appointed by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
I remind him that 5 Western Australians are elected as representatives of the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
They are elected as members of the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
If any of those West Australians are not accepted by their fellow members of the Farmers Union, those members have the right, every year at the annual meeting, to elect somebody else for appointment to the Australian Wool Industry Conference by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
Both of these resolutions condemned the trade union movement of Australia for refusing to ship the merino rams. [More…]
He stated that Western Australia had 5 representatives from the Farmers Union on the AWIC. [More…]
I know that one of his colleagues in the person of Mr Reg Sewell has been taken to task by the Farmers Union in Western Australia for not supporting the decisions of the Farmers Union oh the AWIC and he has told them straight out: T do not represent you on the AWIC. [More…]
But he is supporting the Minister for Primary Industry and letting down the people who sent him here, the members of the Farmers Union in Western Australia. [More…]
They are the greatest supporters of the Country Party in Western Australia and they are opposed to the lifting of the embargo on the export of merino rams, just as the members of the Victorian Farmers Union and of the Graziers Council of New South Wales are opposed to it. [More…]
He certainly referred to what Mr A. P. Connell had to say about the DLP, the Communists and the unions. [More…]
I appreciate that I am referring to an offshoot of the Farmers Union, the organisation to which the Minister for Air belongs. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues has recently renewed its request that savings with credit unions be acceptable for purposes ot the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Lending by credit unions is still predominantly by way of loans of less than $1,000 for such purposes as the purchase of furniture, household equipment and motor vehicles and meeting the cost of medical and educational expenses and home repairs. [More…]
However, a few credit unions are making loans of $4,000 or more over periods of up to 10 years or even longer to their members to assist them to acquire a home of their own. [More…]
Consistent with this, we have so far made no provision - other than in respect of the initial transitional period that ended on 31st December 1964 - to accept savings with a credit union, because no credit union was close to being able to do this. [More…]
included in the Bill now before the Senate are a number of amendments that will permit savings with a credit union to become acceptable, provided the union can satisfy a number of conditions. [More…]
The Bill will permit a credit union to be ‘approved for purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
As applicants for the grant are required to hold their savings .with institutions that make relatively large and long term loans for the acquisition of a home, it is reasonable that a credit union, wishing to have savings with it accepted, should have made in its most recent financial year a significant number of such loans. [More…]
One condition of approval of a credit union will therefore be that at least 15% of its total lending in its most recent financial year, that is to say, about three-quarters of the 20% of its lending that must be in loans for the construction or purchase of a home, shall be loans of nol less than $7,000 and be repayable over a period of not less than 12 years. [More…]
Needless to say, a credit union seeking approval will be asked lo give an undertaking that it will continue to meet these conditions during each subsequent financial year. [More…]
Failure to meet these continuing conditions will make a credit union liable to have its approval withdrawn. [More…]
The Bill also provides that savings held by an eligible applicant .for a home savings grant with an approved credit union shall be acceptable for purposes of the scheme where his prescribed date was not earlier than the first day of the financial year during which the credit union met the conditions necessary for approval. [More…]
Suppose a credit union meets the necessary conditions during the financial year which ends on 30th June 1970 and that the Secretary of the Department of Housing is satisfied shortly after the end of the year that it has met those conditions in its 1969-70 financial year. [More…]
Savings held with this credit union by an eligible applicant for a grant where the applicant’s prescribed date was as far back as 1st July 1969, that is to say, the beginning of the financial year in which the credit union met the conditions for approval, would be acceptable not only at his prescribed date but also at his earlier savings dates. [More…]
These are the conditions on which the Government is willing to accept savings with credit unions for purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
It is appreciated that very few, if any, credit unions are as yet in a position to meet these conditions. [More…]
But, once these amendments are approved by Parliament, the door will be open for savings with a credit union to become acceptable if it wishes to make a reasonable effort in lending to its members for the acquisition of homes. [More…]
Because the United States’ aims and objectives have often been misquoted I refer to what President Nixon said in his State of the Union message this year. [More…]
But I should like to have seen more in this statment about the Minister for External Affairs placing his cards on the table and indicating to Mr Malik rhat he did not define every person who wants militant nationalism as a stooge of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is quite clear that in the global grand strategic picture in which we are involved it would merely require the Soviet Union to make threatening noises in north western Europe for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners to refuse the United Kingdom the right to withdraw troops from the NATO area in order to fly them to South East Asia. [More…]
So India has allied itself with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We find recorded on page 13,689 for the period 24th to 31st July 1954 that the 8-nation declaration was signed by the representatives of France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the 3 Associated States - of which South Vietnam was one - and the Vietminh Government. [More…]
Only in today’s newspapers I noted that the Ford company had been offered a big sum to build a motor lorry factory in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only 3 or 4 years ago the Fiat motor company in Italy won a contract to build a motor car factory in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The contract is to build this factory in the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Government simply was not supplying its own people with motor cars. [More…]
The Fiat company won the contract to build this factory in the Soviet Union and to operate it, because the Soviet had shown itself to be incapable of providing motor cars for its own people. [More…]
In that and in other respects the Soviet Union certainly has not delivered the goods to its own people. [More…]
Following approaches by union representatives to me in relation to the possibility of increased import competition in the railway rolling stock industry, a review of the situation was commenced. [More…]
Is a financial grant under consideration by the Arts Council for trade union activity in the arts. [More…]
Do prospective beneficiaries include the Victorian Meat Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Waterside Workers’ Union Film Unit, the Trade Union Education and Research Centre of Sydney, and the Melbourne May Day Committee, all of which have been active in disseminating pro-Communist propaganda. [More…]
The Australian Council has advertised for applications for grams in a wide range of activities in the arts, lt expects to receive some applications from trade unions seeking assistance for work in this field. [More…]
In November 1969, an amount of S480 was paid to the Australian Engineering Union for the Australian performing group at ‘La Mama’ to perform a series of lunch-hour theatre pieces in factory environments. [More…]
It is fair to say that in the interstate trade the Union Steam Ship company has done a great job, with the ‘Seaway King’ and the ‘Seaway Queen’, in providing services to Hobart and Launceston. [More…]
There may be those among us who feel the Government should buy more heavily into union troubles. [More…]
I do not blame the Commonwealth Government, nor do I altogether blame the unions. [More…]
If the unions have problems which they want solved, perhaps striking sometimes is essential. [More…]
From Hobart the Union Steamship Co. provides 9 sailings. [More…]
the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and’ unconditional recognition tinder the Act; [More…]
There is a difference between what the credit unions charge on a sliding scale of interest and what the lending societies charge on a flat rate. [More…]
If the two amounts of interest are taken into consideration - the flat rate basis and what the credit unions charge as interest - 1 think we will find that the credit union rate compares more than favourably with the flat rate charged by lending societies. [More…]
The credit unions do not desire this period because it will be a penalty to them. [More…]
If the Government is genuine in its desire to bring the credit unions in to assist the home builder - and it has always made a feature of this point - wherever it can it should do everything possible to assist the home builder and to assist the people who are buying their own homes. [More…]
By accepting these amendments the Government could assist more people and assist the credit union movement in its desire to help people who wish to purchase homes. [More…]
The total amount that was lent by the credit union to its members during that financial year by way of housing loans was not less than Fifty thousand dollars; [More…]
That is one of the requirements that the credit unions have to meet to qualify to lend money to their members. [More…]
It simply means that for a credit union to make money available to its members it has to prove to the Government that it had lent $50,000 for housing during the previous year. [More…]
It is almost impossible for the credit unions to comply with this requirement. [More…]
As 1 said earlier probably only 10% - I think this would be the limit - of the credit unions will be able to comply with that provision and I am doubtful whether it would be as high as 10%. [More…]
Why is it necessary for the Government to put such a provision in a Bill as will prevent the credit unions from assisting their members to participate in this scheme? [More…]
I am afraid that I am at a loss to understand why the Government has introduced a Bill such as this and put such stringent provisions in it to prevent the credit unions from taking part. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government is aware that the credit unions are also limited by State legislation as to the amount of money which they can lend. [More…]
This is done by legislation but quite often it is done by the State Registrar of Companies who lays down the limit which a credit union can lend to its members for housing. [More…]
Where this provision exists in State legislation the credit unions cannot comply with the provisions which are laid down by the federal Act. [More…]
This seems to me to be trying to play the credit unions with a 2-headed penny. [More…]
Believe me, the Government has never been backward - and I am indicting Mr McMahon and Mr Snedden - in telling the trade union movement that it was on a collision course in an industrial dispute. [More…]
This thing has gone on for too long and these people are allowed to get away wilh any sort of pressure at all at a time when the Government is persistently talking about trade unions and other groups issuing ultimatums to the Government. [More…]
This activity is a strike for political purposes, as much to be condemned as if a militant trade union were to hold the community to ransom, as we have seen from time to time. [More…]
In 1957 a further Conference decision reaffirmed the 1948 Conference decision and applied it in the case of how to vote tickets in union elections. [More…]
We have the statement, to which I have referred already, made at a union meeting on 13th December 1969. [More…]
We see that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has expressed its intention to intensify its support for Hanoi by providing further armaments. [More…]
I am proud of the great number of members of the Party to which 1 belong and of the trade union movement and of the Leader of my Party, because of their association with this Campaign. [More…]
1 have received a message from Mr Webber, the State Secretary of the Victorian Firefighters’ Union, pointing out that he has stated repeatedly that normal services such as attending fires and answering telephone calls will be maintained during the Moratorium Campaign although those firemen who are available have been urged to take part in the Moratorium demonstrations. [More…]
We also believe that the section of the legislation that makes it mandatory for credit unions to provide by way of housing loans $50,000 in any one financial year and in every subsequent financial year is an impossible condition to place upon credit unions at this time. [More…]
While a credit union is not eligible its potential to meet the requirement is retarded all the time. [More…]
I believe that, at least for a start, these very stringent conditions on the credit unions, which would be easy conditions for the major banking institutions of this country to meet, should be reduced to levels that are more possible for the larger credit unions to meet. [More…]
As well as the addition of allowances to pay and the statutory deduction of superannuation contributions and taxation instalments, other deductions are made on request by staff for such items as group assurance premiums, hospital and medical benefits contributions, association/union dues, credit union deductions, National Savings Group deposits and Postal Institute dues. [More…]
Deductions for association/union dues are increasing as more unions take advantage of this new facility. [More…]
The Director-General, Posts and Telegraphs, has recently invited the Association/Unions concerened to participate in a Joint Department/Union Working Party to consider the proposals being immediately implemented and to examine what else can be done. [More…]
The Opposition has criticised the amendments which relate to credit unions, but I think the matters raised by Senator Poke prove conclusively the point that the Government has been making all along, that the credit unions are not established for the purpose of providing money for housing and, therefore, they do not in their present form come within the scope of the purpose of the legislation. [More…]
On the other hand, what is being suggested in the amendments is to give an opportunity for the credit unions to restructure their organisations so that they will become a useful source of credit for housing and a useful source of funds for housing. [More…]
1 feel that the Government is doing the right thing with these amendments in respect of Ihe credit unions in suggesting to the credit unions that they alter their organisations so that they can comply with the legislation. [More…]
This would mean some reorganisation of the credit union movement in order to carry out this function of financing housing. [More…]
I. think that in the not very long term the credit union movement will be strengthened and enlarged if it seeks to conform to the proposals in the amendment with regard to housing. [More…]
This is entirely different from the original proposition that all savings with credit unions be given complete and unconditional recognition for the purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Why was it proposed by the Opposition only yesterday that credit unions should perhaps - it does not seem very certain - be required to make loans for the acquisition of a home up to some minimum annual amount before savings with them may be approved? [More…]
Is it that Senator Poke and his colleagues are coming round to agreeing with the Government that a credit union should be making some sizeable long term housing loans before savings with it will be acceptable for the purposes of the scheme? [More…]
The Government has on a number of occasions carefully considered the representations which have been made to it that credit union savings be acceptable for the purposes of this scheme. [More…]
But the Government is faced with the fact that credit unions make few, if any, large and long term loans for the acquisition of homes. [More…]
I wish to make it quite clear that the Government does not question the fact that a significant proportion of the loans made by some of the larger credit unions is for purposes associated with housing. [More…]
However until recently a majority of the loans made by credit unions for housing purposes were of relatively small amounts and for relatively short periods. [More…]
However, a number of credit unions have recently been making larger loans for longer periods. [More…]
In order to assist the credit union movement the Government has set out clearly the conditions under which savings with a credit union may be acceptable for the purposes of the scheme. [More…]
By making this provision in the Bill which is now before the Senate the Government is making it practicable for savings with a credit union to be acceptable if the credit union is willing to make a reasonable effort to lend money to its members to acquire homes. [More…]
I do not believe that the requirement that a credit union must be lending $50,000 a year for purposes in connection with the acquisition of homes is too strict a condition. [More…]
Senator Little said that he would like to see 5% or more of the credit unions approved in the near future. [More…]
But I refer again to my second reading speech in which I showed that I agree with Senator Little in that I would like in the future to see credit unions complying with the proposed conditions and becoming approved. [More…]
It could be regarded as a trade union. [More…]
I should think that what trade unions have secured for their members over the years is something which draftsmen could secure for themselves by much the same method of organisation. [More…]
The fact is that the minutes of a meeting of any trade union would be challenged in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission if they were falsified. [More…]
The Secretary of the Seamens Union in South Australia and another seaman, both wearing Moratorium badges, joined the group which was drinking at the South Australian Hotel, exchanged beers with them and had quite a cordial conversation. [More…]
The names of those 2 chaps and the names of my 5 companions, who are well respected and high officials of the trade union movement in South Australia and who witnessed this conversation, are available for any inquiry that is appointed to find out whether these are the actions of Australian soldiers in Vietnam. [More…]
The trade union movement of this country debated the issue of South Korea and in its wisdom or otherwise decided that the cause of the people of South Korea was a cause which should be protected; so too did supporters of the Government, which means it was a unanimous decision. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Great Britain, the United States of America and France have a proliferation of thermonuclear weapons. [More…]
It relates to the conditions under which individual credit unions may seek and obtain approval for the purposes of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
One of the conditions is that in a credit union’s most recently concluded financial year not less than 15% of the total amount lent by it shall be in the form of prescribed housing loans. [More…]
Its purpose is to help credit unions while not losing sight of one of the basic objectives of the homes savings grant scheme, namely, to help to increase the volume of savings available for lending for home ownership. [More…]
The attitude of the Government to the conditions for acceptance of the savings of credit unions set out in the amending Bill now before the Committee has not been entirely inflexible. [More…]
I have listened with interest to arguments put on behalf of the credit unions for an easing of the proposed requirement. [More…]
Later he brought to see me a deputation of credit union officials. [More…]
In particular I have been impressed by the thought that the objective of adding to the volume of savings for home ownership could in fact be advanced by setting a minimum amount for the prescribed housing loan which is perhaps more readily attainable by credit unions. [More…]
I should think that the Minister probably would have covered some of the ground for this proposal with representatives of the credit union and would have believed that if she deleted the words ‘Seven thousand dollars’ and inserted in lieu ‘Five thousand dollars’ this would have brought quite a number of other credit unions within the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The time factor is just as important to the credit union movement as a lesser prescribed amount because whilst it might be desirable in some cases to have a loan repayable over a period of 12 years, it is the wish of the credit unions that their loans should not be repayable over a long period. [More…]
1 support the amendment and in doing so 1 should like briefly to indicate that the person who originally drew up this legislation had no real conception of a credit union and its function. [More…]
But to move quickly to the matter before the Senate, the Government has in this clause realised that the original legislation was restrictive and excluded practically all credit unions in Australia from the scheme. [More…]
Reducing the amount of a prescribed housing loan from $7,000 to $5,000 is an improvement, but it sti!l excludes many credit unions which exist under State legislation, lt excludes them not by reason of the amount only but by reason of ability and depth of finance, lt excludes many of the very small credit unions, lt must be appreciated that it is the small credit union which forms the backbone of the credit union movement. [More…]
lt is the small credit union in a parish of 200 or 300 people, the small credit union at the place of employment of 200 people, which has limited finance which the employees themselves contribute and which has limited personnel and staff. [More…]
In fact, all the work that is done for the small credit union is undertaken on a voluntary basis. [More…]
The small credit union does a tremendous amount of work to assist young people, in particular, to buy homes. [More…]
In fact, the small credit union is responsible for enabling the Government’s legislation to function. [More…]
Through the small credit union it is possible for people to take advantage of the $8,000 which the Government provides under this legislation with which to purchase a home, lt is the small credit union which enables a purchaser to find the amount of money to cover the deposit gap so that he can purchase a home. [More…]
Not only this; once the home is purchased the small credit union enables young people to furnish a home, lt provides them with very cheap credit, so (bat the furniture is obtained at a reduced price. [More…]
The small credit union does a tremendous amount of work. [More…]
I believe that the Government has not really appreciated the amount of work which these small credit unions do and the amount of assistance which they provide. [More…]
Credit unions often lend $1,000 or $2,000 in order to allow somebody to clear a mortgage on a block of land so that the title of the land is free and a house can be erected on it. [More…]
But there is another reason why credit unions want the amount of the prescribed housing loan reduced and a shorter term provided for repayment of the loan. [More…]
The shorter the term for which credit unions can lend, the better it is for the members of the credit unions because money becomes available for lending to other members within the group. [More…]
Why does not the Government accept the tremendous amount of work that credit unions, especially the smaller ones, are doing and reduce the amount of the prescribed housing loan to $3,000? [More…]
I appeal to those who support, in principle, the reduction in the amount of the prescribed housing loan from 7,000 to $5,000 to consider reducing it further to $3,000 in order to assist the small credit unions. [More…]
Let us not make of the credit union movement what we have made of various medical benefit funds and other housing societies; do not let us make them monolithic. [More…]
It is true that we in the Democratic Labor Party would have perhaps gone further and proposed a reduction of the amount of the prescribed housing loan to less than $5,000, but if we did that, as a matter of practical politics we would get into the category of the Australian Labor Party which in another place moved an amendment which was virtually along the line which Senator Georges is suggesting, that is, to make this legislation apply to every credit union, however small it might be. [More…]
We should make sure that we do not run away with the idea that this legislation is only for the benefit of the credit unions. [More…]
The credit unions, like cooperative housing societies - wonderful is they are and no matter how much I support them - exist only to serve and function in the interests of the borrower. [More…]
We must not lose sight of the fact that at all times the borrower must be the person who retains the greatest interest, whether he borrows from his own credit union, from a cooperative society or from a banking institution. [More…]
The interpretation we now have of this clause seems to be acceptable to the credit unions, if not to the Labor Party. [More…]
If the Labor Party is not up to date with its information from the credit unions, I suggest that it is no worse off than it was the other night when it lagged a long way behind everybody else with its information. [More…]
If he desires and if he arranges with his credit union to pay it off in 3 years he can do so. [More…]
In their amendment, Labor senators have not considered the practical effects on the interests of the little people that they want to represent - not the credit unions as such but the people who make the credit unions, the ones who put their money into the credit unions. [More…]
In the final analysis^, surely those people are more important than the organisation of the credit union as it exists. [More…]
We should look at the Bill and see the definition of a credit union. [More…]
For the first time the possibility of credit unions being accepted as eligible organisations for savings for homes savings grants is introduced. [More…]
People may save their money by depositing it in a credit union. [More…]
The Secretary shall not approve a credit union unless - [More…]
not less than 20% of the total amount that was lent by the credit union to its members during the last financial year of the credit union that ended before the date of the application for approval was lent by way of housing loans - [More…]
It assures that a proportion of the credit union’s money is being used for the purpose for which the Government insists it shall be used, which is that it is available for housing without qualification. [More…]
But the Secretary shall not approve of a credit union unless he is satisfied that not -less than 15% of the total amount lent - 20% of the housing loan - by the credit union to its members during the financial year was by way of prescribed housing loans. [More…]
While the credit unions have to lend a larger amount for housing the Bill imposes the added restriction that 15% of the loans must be for prescribed housing loans. [More…]
Another restriction is that the credit union shall not be registered unless the total amount lent by it to its members during the financial year by way of housing loans is not less than $50,000. [More…]
It completely eliminates the argument that one can have a credit union of 10 or 20 members. [More…]
Firstly, the credit union must lend $50,000 by way of housing loans in order to meet the Government’s requirement that so much of its money shall go towards housing loans. [More…]
It is not a restriction which helps the borrower and.it is not a restriction which helps the Government’s policy of a reserve for housing; it is purely a restriction to debar credit unions from participating in this scheme. [More…]
It serves the Government’s purpose for the credit unions to lend the money for housing purposes. [More…]
But then it ties up 15% of this 20% under conditions which could well make it impossible for the operations of the credit union scheme. [More…]
This restriction can serve one purpose and one purpose only and that is to disqualify certain credit unions. [More…]
It is obvious not only that the Government is unappreciative of what the credit union movement is and how it operates but also that Senator Little of the Australian Democratic Labor Party is unappreciative because if he were a member of a credit union and he was interviewing someone about a loan of this type the last thing he would advise the person to do would be to borrow over a period of 1 2 years. [More…]
Obviously he does not know how the credit unions operate. [More…]
But the amount of interest that the credit unions have to charge on their loans is, as has been stated previously in this chamber, lc for each $1 for each month, which is 6% flat or 12% simple interest. [More…]
The purpose of the credit union is not to do this. [More…]
The purpose of a credit union is to give amounts of money for short terms to enable- [More…]
The very policy of the Government has made it necessary for the establishment of credit unions and the banding together of people to save together to be able to assist one another to take advantage of finance which is available. [More…]
Obviously the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the Government do not know what the purpose of a credit union is. [More…]
If the Government did know, it would do everything possible to assist credit unions, rather than hinder them. [More…]
The other portion which requires that credit unions lend a minimum of $50,000 in home lending is to be considered later. [More…]
Here is another imposition which makes it patently impossible for the credit union movement, or the bulk of the credit unions, to take advantage of this scheme. [More…]
Although the credit union movement charges this high rate of interest it has all sorts of precautions built into its loans even at this high rate of interest. [More…]
The credit unions do not impose any burden upon those who, for some reason such as illness, unemployment, or even strikes are unable to meet their commitments. [More…]
The credit union, by its nature, by its mutuality, assists. [More…]
The so-called champion of the credit unions, the DLP, is prepared to go along with the Government. [More…]
The DLP is no more a supporter of the credit unions than are some of the Government supporters who have not heard the term before. [More…]
They think that the credit union is creeping socialism and it ought to be opposed. [More…]
I heard one Government member say: ‘We cannot support these credit unions. [More…]
If the Government would only wake up to itself it would give the credit union movement as much support as it possibly could. [More…]
It is afraid of the credit union movement. [More…]
Charges have been made that at the instigation of the private banking systems the Government placed a limitation on the credit union movement. [More…]
I believe this because for the first time the credit union movement started to appear on the list of financing bodies which is given in statistics. [More…]
For the first time at the bottom of that list of financing institutions appeared the credit union movement. [More…]
How does it help people to save and how does it help more money to become available for homes by insisting that 15% of the loans that a credit union makes to its members must be under the condition that it is lent in amounts of not less than $7,000 repayable over a period of not less than 12 years? [More…]
The obvious reason why not less than 15% of the total amount lent by the credit union to its members during each subsequent financial year will be lent by way of prescribed housing loans is that this will cover those credit unions which are perhaps very large and where the $50,000 will not amount to that proportion of their lending for a particular year. [More…]
I said that it was a guarantee that the credit unions would be investing in homes. [More…]
We have that guarantee in the provision that not less than 20% of the total amount lent by a credit union to its members in the last financial year shall have been lent by way of housing loans. [More…]
not less than fifteen per centum of the total amount that was lent by the credit union to its members during that financial year was lent by way of prescribed housing loans. [More…]
The Secretary shall not approve a credit union unless - [More…]
the total amount that was lent by the credit union to its members during thai financial year by way of housing loans was not less than Fifty thousand dollars; [More…]
the credit union has given him an understanding in writing that - [More…]
the total amount that will be lent by inc credit union to its members during each subsequent financial year by way of housing loans will be not less than Fifty Thousand dollars. [More…]
I suggest that so far as my own Slate of Tasmania is concerned there will not be one credit union in the whole of the State which will be able to participate under the conditions of the Bill. [More…]
I may be wrong because I am not an authority on credit unions, but I have had discussions with a number of representatives of credit unions in Tasmania who have told me, when we have discussed this type of legislation, that it was their opinion that there was not a credit union in Tasmania which would be able to qualify under the conditions laid down in this legislation. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should appreciate the participation of the credit unions in this scheme and the benefits which may flow, not only to the credit unions themselves but also to the members because the office bearers and employees of the credit unions are interested only in giving their members service. [More…]
But as I said earlier, the credit union representatives came here to Parliament House and canvassed every political party. [More…]
It became a matter of which political party could get in first to gain the greatest advantage for the credit unions - not for themselves. [More…]
However, we did want to assist the credit unions. [More…]
We move the amendments now in Committee to get a wider participation of the credit unions in the scheme operated under this piece of legislation. [More…]
The Government has shown its good faith in reducing the original amount of the prescribed housing loan from $7,000 to $5,000, which, according to the credit unions, was the biggest bar to their participation in the scheme. [More…]
It includes a whole new field of credit unions as organisations that are acceptable for the purposes of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
I am confident that the Government will extend the scheme further if it proves necessary to include a greater number of credit unions. [More…]
It is not because of any lack of sympathy with the original desires of the people who wanted to delete the requirement that a credit union must lend $50,000 a year for purposes in connection with the acquisition of homes but who now, I understand, are prepared to give the legislation a go for the purpose of getting it made the law of the land. [More…]
A credit union need make only 10 loans of $5,000 each, or 8 loans of $5,000 and a number of smaller loans. [More…]
This is a practical way in which credit unions could make loans available for housing and so achieve the requirement. [More…]
The DLP, by its support of the Government, has indicated that it does not understand or support the credit union movement. [More…]
The talk of members of the DLP about the result of postponement or delay in the introduction of the legislation indicates that at this stage they are not prepared to fight a battle on behalf of the credit union movement. [More…]
The $50,000 barrier - and I call it a barrier - which has been placed on credit unions is not a condition that is imposed for 1 year. [More…]
But it must be realised that credit unions must maintain this rate for, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years. [More…]
A credit union has to grow at a rate which will enable it to lend $250,000 in 5 years. [More…]
That is beyond the ability of the small credit unions. [More…]
I say again that the Government’s action, together with that of the DLP, denies justice to the small credit unions that are providing a service to the community. [More…]
By doing this 1 think we would show that we properly appreciate the role of credit unions in our society, and it would place no limitation on them, if you invest in a credit union you will find that its lending is directed in some means towards the home. [More…]
I have said this before and 1 say it again: Funds of credit unions are not used for the establishment of businesses or profit making concerns. [More…]
Ninety per cent of a credit union’s lending is directed towards making a home. [More…]
Therefore, I do not think it is even necessary at this stage to indicate that some proportion of a credit union’s money ought to be directed in this specific way. [More…]
They have merely assisted the Government in spite of their previous intention to support the credit union movement. [More…]
(a) (iii) will have no application at all to the big credit union 20% of whose lending to its members in the previous year exceeded $50,000. [More…]
In the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Bill it was said that there were many credit unions whose 20% of tendings to their members was in excess of $50,000. [More…]
(a) (i) not less than 20% of the total amount that was lent by the credit union to its members during the last financial year of the credit union that ended before the date of the application for approval had to be lent by way of housing loans. [More…]
Sub-paragraph (iii) will have no application to those credit unions. [More…]
The smaller credit unions whose 20% of tendings did not exceed $50,000 will have to lend a bigger percentage to qualify under the scheme. [More…]
Again it is an attack upon the small credit unions. [More…]
No matter what percentage they lend or how many loans they make, the small credit unions cannot participate under this scheme. [More…]
Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union; member of the Board, American Civil Liberties Union. [More…]
This is a very serious debate because until now the general body of the Australian trade union movement has supported arbitration. [More…]
When one looks at events which have been occurring in the past year or two one can understand how certain trade unions which have stuck to arbitration are becoming disillusioned with it, particularly when they see how the unions which do not stick to arbitration but which threaten or use strike action appear to be profiting thereby. [More…]
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the number is 19.4, in Germany it is 12.7, in Japan it is 10.9, in Sweden 10.7, in the United States of America 9.8, in Canada 8.3, in Taiwan 6.3 and in Australia 6.1. [More…]
A provisional military demarcation line shall be fixed, on either side of which the forces of the two parties shall be regrouped after their withdrawal, the forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam to the north of the line and the forces of the French Union to the south. [More…]
The Kingdom of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, the Kingdom of Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States were represented at that conference. [More…]
What about the Labor Day demonstration in which the trade union movement in Australia demonstrates the winning of an 8- hour day. [More…]
In my view they chased a fantasy because the object of the meeting was to form a farmers union and affiliate with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Why should South African teams be banned and teams from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics welcomed, when the Red Army has repressed liberty in the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Austria and a host of other countries? [More…]
It has been said that if a person goes into an industry where there is either compulsory or preferential unionism he is entitled to know how his union operates. [More…]
There is no need for me to go on about the Industrial Registrar and the conditions that he lays down for the efficient operation of a trade union. [More…]
Apparently it is very nice at times to deregister a trade union, but 1 have not heard of any of these funds being deregistered. [More…]
We had a situation in the late 1950s in New South Wales when I was a union official in which migrants, when we wanted to enrol them in a union, would say that they were in a union already and would produce a brochure from one of the medical benefits funds to show that they belonged to that fund. [More…]
The Government listens to representations by the Returned Services League, the spokesman for all ex-service organisations; the Australian Council of Trade Unions for the trade union movement; the Associated Chambers of Commerce for the business people; and the Associated Chambers of Manufactures for the manufacturing interests. [More…]
In my association with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and various trade unions I cannot remember an occasion when a union has threatened industrial trouble because it was dissatisfied with the salary being paid to Mr Justice Kirby or Mr Justice Dunphy. [More…]
He said that he had inquired into the matter and he set out the details as follows: If the men were members of a union that was engaged in a strike they were not entitled to social service benefits; if they were members of a union whose members were out on strike in sympathy with strikers they were not entitled to social service benefits; but if they were members of a union whose members were unemployed by virtue of inability to carry on because of lack of supplies as a result of a strike they were entitled to unemployment benefits. [More…]
I immediately rang the union concerned and told the union officials the position, namely, that the notification would be in Adelaide and that if the men applied they should receive payment. [More…]
The union secretary got in touch with Mr Mander, Senior Assistant Director of Social Services in Adelaide, who said that he knew nothing about it. [More…]
He went into the union office in Adelaide in a nervous state. [More…]
I draw this parallel: Every time the trade union movement seeks a wage increase it goes to the arbitration court and economists and so on are brought into court and unionists are grilled. [More…]
Where is the freedom and liberty of the subject in union activities? [More…]
If we take it that he is expressing purely Australian Labor Party philosophy then I think it is most regrettable that he should use the words that he did in relation to this matter; because I take it that the position of the Labor Party in relation to the forcing of individuals to join a trade union is the attitude which it adopts in general. [More…]
We have seen what has happened when some poor individual wishes to have some freedom of choice in relation to membership of a trade union. [More…]
Indeed, it would support the proposition of a strike throughout the whole of the community if in fact some poor devil, regardless of whether he happened to be earning say only $42 a week, refused to join a union. [More…]
Such a person would be forced to join a union and to pay his fees. [More…]
Before 1 do that, some honourable senators opposite have injected into the discussion - why I will never know - suggestions about trade unions. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have said that trade unions are compulsory organisations. [More…]
I remind honourable senators opposite that every piece of arbitration legislation and every set of trade union rules makes provision that a member can resign his membership of the union. [More…]
It has been said that a person can resign from a trade union. [More…]
Do not let honourable senators opposite deny that this happens, because in my own State of South Australia workers have refused to join a union - perhaps for the very reasons which the Opposition is putting forward this morning with regard to the health scheme - and the moment they have done so they have been blocked from employment in that area. [More…]
Some honourable senators have referred to the trade union movement and others have spoken about subsidies paid to rural producers. [More…]
We seek to put these funds on the same basis as other organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
Ever since the Bill was introduced in the Senate I have argued that the regulations controlling the funds should be the same as those controlling trade unions. [More…]
Each time there was a change in policy the latter fund sent to its members a circular similar to that which a trade union would circulate to its members about a change of rules. [More…]
The point I make is that, by going to the Industrial Registrar in Sydney or in any other capital city, a person can ascertain the numerical strength of a trade union. [More…]
In view of the presence of Australia’s consular and trade representatives in Peru and of the visit of members of this Parliament to the meeting of the Inter-parliamentary Union there in 1968, will the Minister inquire whether suitable messages of sympathy have been sent and whether appropriate steps have been taken to extend aid to Peru in the recognised way? [More…]
Article I of the Geneva Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam of 20th July 1954, provided that forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam (Viet Minh) were to regroup north of a provisional military demarcation line, fixed in part along the Cua Tung River but generally following the alignment of the 17th parallel of latitude, and that forces of the French Union were to regroup south of this line. [More…]
Although the Republic’s admission was vetoed by the Soviet Union in the Security Council, the USSR had itself put forward in the General Assembly in January 1967, a draft resolution for the simultaneous admission of both North and South Vietnam, arguing that, as in Korea, two separate States existed with different political and economic structures. [More…]
Anybody who examines the industrial scene will see that we are rapidly developing a situation where the trade union official who is loyal to the arbitration system is likely to be shot at and comparisons to his disfavour are going to be drawn between his achievements on behalf of his members and the achievements of the trade union official who decides to ignore arbitration and go in for collective bargaining and, if collective bargaining fails, to go in for strikes. [More…]
He would know of the pressures that are applied in the trade union movement. [More…]
If one takes the pressures a step further than the trade union movement [More…]
In the trade union movement they would have thought that I was very temperate. [More…]
That the members of the Board be drawn, amongst others, from manufacturing, commerce, education, rural industry, trade unions, the National Standards Commission and the Standards Association of Australia. [More…]
1 want to stress the point in relation to trade union representation and the representation of women on this Board. [More…]
We feel that we need and should welcome the full co-operation of the trade union movement over the conversion period of 8 to 10 years. [More…]
We desire to see this training take place at many levels, and this can be done with the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
I should think that, although no undertaking is given in the Bill, it would be obvious that trade union representation and representation of the interests of the female sec’ i hi of the community will be always at I1”’’ forefront of the Government’s concern. [More…]
Perhaps 1 should correct that; I” hold a share in Senator Georges’ credit union. [More…]
Mr Hodges who is the Minister for Works and Housing and, I understand, will be the Minister-in-charge of Police, until the Queensland Police Union gets rid of him, holds 1,200 shares. [More…]
Has the investigation into the 20 18-galIon kegs of beer requisitioned for the sergeants mess at the Amberley Royal Australian Air Force Base and subsequently loaded at the Castlemaine Perkins Ltd Brewery by a private vehicle and delivered to the Grand Hotel at Labrador, in Queensland, during the period of an industrial dispute between the proprietor of that hotel and the Federated Liquor Trade Employees Union been completed? [More…]
lt was South Africa’s politics, nol New Zealand’s, which effectively killed trie All-Blacks Rugby Union tour of 1960. lt was the reaction of his own sportsmen against his own policies that forced Mr Vorster to relent last year and concede that Maoris could come to South Africa as ‘honorary whites’ in this year’s tour. [More…]
Despite the statements made by these soldiers - the fact that those statements were made can be verified by half a dozen reputable trade union leaders in South Australia - and despite the fact that in those statements were allegations which were very damning to the prestige of Australia, I think, in the world. [More…]
In South Australia there is a trade union known as the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. [More…]
not affiliated with other Australian unions represent. [More…]
Their union had never instructed its member at the cement works to go out on strike. [More…]
His union certainly never condemned him for going out on strike; but at no time did it approve of his action in going out on strike. [More…]
The union was a party in the discussions of the disputes committee. [More…]
At the only 2 meetings at which the delegate of that union was present, the disputes committee brought back a recommendation to the striking cement workers that work should be resumed pending negotiation. [More…]
Everything would indicate that the union did not participate in this strike and that it was anxious to get the cement workers back to work for the purpose of permitting the carpenters to resume work. [More…]
In accordance with the policy which was laid down by the then Prime Minister, the AttorneyGeneral and the Minister for Social Services in April 1947, applicants for unemployment benefit who are members of a union that sponsors or supports an industrial dispute are not entitled to unemployment benefit. [More…]
The only conclusion to be drawn is that because one member of the union was on strike without the support of his union, all the other 4,000 members of the union could not qualify for unemployment bene- 5.. [More…]
This policy has been followed by successive Governments since that time and as the applicants concerned are all members ofthe Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, and this union supported the recent strike . [More…]
Only today I contacted the AssistantSecretary of the union to ascertain whether the union supported the recent strike, and he said:’We have never expressed support for that strike.’ [More…]
But the Minister arbitrarily has decided that the union did support the strike, despite all the evidence from the union that it did not. [More…]
The Minister has decided, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that the union supported the strike, and he has applied a false interpretation to section 107 (c) of the Social Services Act. [More…]
The Minister has taken the attitude that because one out of 4.000 or 5,000 members of a union acted in accordance with the decision of the men on the job where he worked, no-one dismissed from employment because of shortage of materials or for any other reason qualifies for unemployment benefit. [More…]
On 17th October 1968 the Queensland Branch of the Union of Australian Women carried this resolution: [More…]
The Japanese trade union movement has been fairly active in endeavouring to improve the wages of workers in Japan. [More…]
I remember that this issue was raised probably for the first time in Victoria by the union of which I was a member, that is, the Affiliated Teachers’ Union which, more than 15 or 16 years ago, took strong exception to this practice on the grounds that because of their bonding, students frequently were directed to take a course which they did not wish to take. [More…]
At any rate, most of the teacher organisations have followed the example which was set by my trade union. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Attorney-General noticed that 5 cases against Tasmanian fishermen for breaches of fishing regulations have been adjourned pending the hearing of a test case before the High Court in which the right of the Tasmanian Government to make regulations concerning off-shore administration is being challenged by the Tasmanian Fishermen’s Union? [More…]
Has the Minister noted the invitation of the Fishermen’s Union to the Commonwealth Government to share in the costs of the case? [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Labour and National Service has discussed this very important matter with the Secretary Of the ACTU, Mr Souter, and the Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The committee will consist of representatives of the Department of Labour and National Service, the ASIA, the ACTU and the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
There should be either some retraining scheme or some payment for redundancy, such as occurs in other industries on the insistence of the trade union movement. [More…]
I am sure that he would not find it amusing if he heard about something like this happening in the Soviet Union, for example. [More…]
I refer to the irresponsible action of trade unions, supported by the Australian Labor Party, in placing a ban on the export of merino rams. [More…]
In view of the encouragement and support given by some members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party to the North Vietnamese, Vietcong and aggressive Communist imperialism, and acknowledging that China and Romania have purchased rams and that the Soviet Union has expressed interest in purchasing rams, will the Minister draw the attention of trade unions to the fact that the ban is opposed to the principle of solidarity of Communist powers expressed by some members of the Australian Labor Party and sections of the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
Under the amended section, only the Commonwealth Industrial Court has jurisdiction to impose penalties for a breach of an award provision prohibiting industrial action by either an employer or a union. [More…]
In framing the legislation, account was taken of ACTU submissions that penalties imposed by the Industrial Court under seclion 111 could be accentuated because, on occasions, the Court imposed fines for each day on which contempt was found lo have been committed; unions could be fined up to $1,000 a day. [More…]
These provisions would apply in respect of all types of breaches whether they be committed by a union or by an employer. [More…]
I know that on many occasions overseas visitors - perhaps someone from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association or the Inter-Parliamentary Union - are in Canberra and have to be entertained by the Clerk of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives. [More…]
This meeting of unions representing a great proportion of workers and dependants affected by the Commonwealth Compensation Acts expresses its strongest opposition lo the pernicious proposals in the Bills for new Commonwealth Acts as submitted by the Commonwealth Government and we urge the ACTU Officers to call on the Federal Parliamentary Labor Committee to co-ordinate wilh the ACTU to secure trade union objectives for adequate workers compensation. [More…]
I trust that the comments 1 have made about conferences with the unions who represent about 400,000 employees will take place soon and that the Government will not rely only upon representations made to it in the form of letters. [More…]
It should hold a conference with the unions to consider the sorts of problems which will arise. [More…]
In the light of the comments that I have made on behalf of the trade union movement I suggest that it is most urgent that the Government introduce those reforms. [More…]
My Party is affiliated with a union which has many members employed by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
The union was enraged at some of the provisions which it was suggested would be contained in the allegedly improved Act. [More…]
1 would say to those who are interested in the passing of good Commonwealth workers’ compensation legislation that although we have had representations at a personal level from trade unions, some of which are affiliated with my Party and some of which are not, we have heard nothing from the official trade union movement throughout Australia, in view of the situation that exists in ‘his chamber we would like it to be known that we would prefer to hear officially from the trade union movement so that we may know its views before considering further amendments to the Act. [More…]
The Government decided to bring in this short Bill now before us in order to make the benefits contained in it available and leave time for consideration of the far broader, more complex and very legal matters on which views had been expressed, and continue to be expressed, not only at governmental level but in the trade union movement and the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I can inform him and the Senate that conferences are imminent - I will not make any firmer statement than that - with the trade union movement on the type of problems to which he referred and which were the cause of the decision to introduce a consolidated Bill at a later stage. [More…]
I ask this because responsible trade union officials have spoken to me expressing concern to see that their members are fully protected in relation to both the transfer of existing rights and conditions and their rights in winning future awards. [More…]
Will they become the subject of private arbitration arrangements such as exist at the present time between the Authority and the unions - His Honour Mr Justice Taylor, the former President of the New South Wales Industrial Commission, has done an outstanding job in maintaining industrial peace and harmony on the Snowy Mountains project - or will the workers who are transferred from the Authority of the Snowy Mountains Council become the subject of Public Service arbitration determinations? [More…]
The Government by this legislation is creating enormous difficulties for Government departments, officers and employees of the great Snowy Mountains Authority, the Cooma Municipal Council, the residents of the southern portion of New South Wales, particularly the residents of Cooma, the workers involved and the trade union movement generally. [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that the penal powers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act will not be applied against the Australian Workers Union and the station hands if action is taken to create the necessary serious unrest in the industry apparently vital to convince the Commission that the standard hours set by the court 22 years ago should not be denied to workers in the pastoral industry? [More…]
I refer to Press reports that the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists have declared black certain post offices in this country, with the result that people served by these post offices are being denied their mail. [More…]
One of the views of the union which is largely concerned wilh the innovation is that the Government should at some stage consider whether instead of having only a full time director it could appoint a directorship consisting of representatives from the Waterside Workers Federation and the waterfront employers. [More…]
He mentioned such things as poor relationships between the employees and the employers, the very hot conditions that existed in the early part of the year in Melbourne and union problems at the time. [More…]
For many years the trade union movement has been complaining about very severe penalties. [More…]
Many unions have been fined heavily in lhe.se circumstances. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that a large part of the modern examination of the sanctions provisions arises from the fines which were imposed upon the Tramways Union and in the so-called O’Shea case as a result of which some S68.O0O in fines has not yet been paid by a number of unions for offences under the Act. [More…]
To be quite frank, 1 do not think the unions will ever pay the fines. [More…]
At some time it may take action to collect them and then we will have a major conflict between the Government and the union movement. [More…]
There have been fewer satisfactory decisions by the Commission and greater confrontation between the national trade union centre and the Government than ever before. [More…]
I should have expected that in these circumstances the Government might have said: Well, if we cannot ease the sanctions provisions in the way in which the trade union movement wants, at least we will wait and confer with it until we can’. [More…]
that in the national interest, it is essential thai there be an effective and respected Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration system: that the decision given by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in the professional engineers case on 3rd December 1969, which has followed lo the letter in both magnitude and dale of operation the salary increases for engineers employed in the Commonwealth Public Service which were announced before he arbitration hearing had concluded, has given rise lo imer dismay and has indicated a lack of independent assessment; that recent statements made al the Australian Workers Union Conference and by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions have indicated disillusionment with the federal arbitration system and have particularly referred lo the professional engineers case: that an unacceptable arbitration system must inevitably lead lo industrial unrest throughout Australia. [More…]
In view of this basic agreement between the national employers, the trade union movement and the Government which established these principles for guidance in avoiding and settling industrial disputes, it was to be expected that the Government would go on to discuss with them the kind of alterations to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act that might be necessary to avoid the continuing complaints of unions about the punitive clauses in the Act. [More…]
The trade union movement for many years has complained about section 109 and section 111 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act On a number of occasions Ministers in this Senate have said that they consider that employers have had recourse too readily to the sanctions provisions of the Act. [More…]
When disputes are reported to the Commission the presidential member will be required either to give a certificate against the union, which more often than not he will do, or to refuse it. [More…]
Negotiations took place between the organisation and the union movement for a long time. [More…]
The union movement was not able to obtain any improvements or compensation for the withdrawal of the free transport. [More…]
From my experience and my knowledge of the trouble within the union movement today I think that any sections of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which make certain processes mandatory are generally unsatisfactory. [More…]
It would seem lo me that the most satisfactory way to deal with the people who are out to upset the economy or to create disputes in the work force is lo provide an arbitration system which will allow unions and workers to get the maximum from the economy. [More…]
The unions are pushing for improved conditions in a situation where the economy is able to grant them. [More…]
In such circumstances sections of the working class movement w,im to take stronger action than that generally taken by the union movement. [More…]
The unions on which penalties were imposed included the major unions like the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australasian Society of Engineers, Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia. [More…]
Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia, Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and many mining unions. [More…]
The penalties had lo be paid by the metal workers and members of many unions who were only incidentally affected by the actions taken. [More…]
The fines imposed on the group of unions totalled $26,680, plus costs of $15,892. [More…]
Mr Woodward, Q.C., in the July edition of ‘Industrial Relations’ said that during 1968-69 fines totalling about $100,000 were imposed on unions. [More…]
Massive penalties have been imposed on the trade union movement under the present powers of the arbitration system. [More…]
The only advantage that might accrue is that in a calculation in respect of breaches through non-observance of an award, rather than the imposition of a penalty which has been frequently fixed by the Commonwealth Industrial Court for each day that a union contravenes an award, in some circumstances single days might not be reckoned as single days but might be grouped together. [More…]
Then in the 1930s we saw the rise in the trade union movement for the first lime of the power of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
Although the people who were associated with the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s strongly attacked the arbitration system at Australian Council of Trade Unions congresses, a number of which I attended, any motions that they moved with the endeavour of severing the Australian Council of Trade Unions from the arbitration system were always soundly defeated. [More…]
Therefore adherence to arbitration is still the policy of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
In conversations over the weekend with 2 men who have had a lifetime of experience in the trade union movement and who have been associated with the arbitration system, both of them assured me that they shared my pessimism. [More…]
In recent years we have seen a steady drift in the direction of direct action and a steady drift away from that old loyalty to the arbitration system which was a characteristic of Australian trade unions. [More…]
I made reference to thai in a speech in early 1969 when I recited in the Senate complaints which had been made to me by men in the trade union movement who were by no means Communists, who by no means could be described as extremists’ and who could be described, I suppose, as ‘moderates’, if I may use that term. [More…]
1 am supported in this view by people who are friends of mine and who are authorities in the trade union movement and the arbitration system. [More…]
There have been long discussions between the national employers committee and the Australian Council of Trade Unions at which they worked out suggestions which, I emphasise, neither side endorsed but which they were prepared to submit to their own bodies. [More…]
I have been very interested, for example, in a new idea which has been adopted in respect of New Zealand unions. [More…]
There are serious faults on the part of trade unions in respect of the number of cases where industrial disputes occur on demarcation issues. [More…]
The trade union movement has an obligation to look at that particular field to see what it can do to clear up the situation where there are strikes and industrial disputes of long duration which cause a considerable amount of loss. [More…]
Fundamentally the fault lies with a number of trade unions which, on demarcation issues, seem to be unable to get together. [More…]
Even a union like the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, which could not be regarded as an extremist union, has been one of those that has suffered as much as any other from costs. [More…]
One trade union might have an official who is not an extremist or a Communist. [More…]
There may be a tough young militant or a tough young Communist in the union who is after the official s job. [More…]
The young man tells all the members of his union that the official of the other union took his men out on strike and got. [More…]
I would have thought today that if a union organises itself well and allies itself it will probably be the stronger, but that is not always the case because one can find a situation where the employers’ body will bethe stronger. [More…]
Mr Temporary Chairman, as has been stated in speeches by myself and by members of the Opposition and as has been long stated by the trade union movement, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and by declarations of the Australian Labor Party we are opposed to section 109 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and we believe that this section should be repealed. [More…]
Under this section of the Act very heavy penalties have been imposed upon the trade union movement. [More…]
These are the sections which cause most concern to the trade union movement. [More…]
We think that the section is against the best interests not only of the trade union movement but also of the Act. [More…]
It is true,as Senator Bishop has said, that the trade union movement and the Labor movement collectively are opposed to what are described as the penal provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
As a member of the trade union movement I have endeavoured to impress upon the Government that it should repeal industrial laws which are designed to dispossess persons employed in industry of the right to the same freedom as that enjoyed by those engaged in commerce and industry. [More…]
in my view, what has happened in the ensuing months since the Government recognised the need to do something about the penal provisions after a tremendous campaign was mounted against the imposition of the penal provisions on the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I was secretary of a trade union for a number of years. [More…]
I know that on occasions the union attempted to obtain some measure of negotiation and conciliation. [More…]
The fact remains, however, that the Government’s insistence on imposing sanctions and penal provisions on trade unions will not resolve the crisis which developed last year. [More…]
I think it would be as well for me to point out to the Government at this late stage that not only has the Australian Council of Trade Unions rejected the imposition of the penal provisions but also the white collar organisations, namely the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, have recently joined forces with the ACTU. [More…]
lt may be argued that the penal clauses are still written into this legislation, but I sincerely trust that the determination which was displayed by the trade union movement last year will be re-enacted if and when a court attempts to apply these provisions. [More…]
Having regard to the traditional opposition which the trade union movement has registered to all forms of restrictions on its rights 1 think it Ls necessary for me to make understood why the Government supports such provisions, lt appears to me that it is absolutely essential for the Government to retain these provisions in order to preserve the so called free enterprise system and enable it to operate successfully. [More…]
In other words, if the Government expects the trade union movement to accept its proposals, likewise the trade union movement expects the Government to apply some system of rationalisation to costs and prices which at least will create an integrated economy. [More…]
Until that happens I am sure that members of the trade union movement will not accept in any circumstances such restrictions, limitations and prohibitions on their rights as free men. [More…]
1 have very little knowledge of industrial matters because, unlike Senator Brown, I have never been connected with the trade union movement although I have been very close to it in another sphere. [More…]
If the unions have been fined so many thousands of dollars under section 109 and have not paid the fines lo date we are only fooling ourselves to think they will pay them in the future. [More…]
The moment the Government goes to collect the fines and the union does not pay, the Government has to put someone in gaol, whether it be Clarrie O’Shea or Carmichael, a Com or a non-Com. [More…]
The Trades and Labour Council, which was successful in stopping the collection of the money from the Tramways Union and possible attempts to collect from other unions, which was admitted by the Minister when we held negotiations, cannot now say that it is defeated on the question or that Clarrie O’Shea was greater than the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
While this new section 109 remains, it is a threat to the trade union movement, and this hostility must continue. [More…]
As a matter of fact, it would leave nothing in it that is not covered elsewhere in the Act, other than possibly section 5 which deals with cases where an employee has been victimised because he joins a union or where an employee refuses to work with an employer because he is a member of some employer organisation. [More…]
If the Bill is carried the only other part of section 1 09 that will be left relates to section 144 which deals with the rights of a person employed in an industry to remain or become a member of the union. [More…]
Surely we will not leave in the Act section 109 merely to allow a penalty of up to $1,000 a day or $500 a day, if the dispute goes for more than 1 day, to be imposed on a union that said a certain employee was not entitled to become a member. [More…]
So with those sections being deleted from the Act, it is obvious to me that the Government is adopting a very obstinate attitude by trying to maintain that at least it had its own way and would not delete from the Act what had been suggested by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the other unions. [More…]
In 1968 the court applied the penalties under section 111 on at least 165 occasions against the unions for alleged failure to observe an order of the court made under section 109(1.) [More…]
On each occasion the court imposed very severe penalties and ordered the unions to pay the costs of both sides. [More…]
Of nearly 500 cases which have been dealt with under this section of the Act since 1957 there has been only one where the court did not order costs against the union. [More…]
Although in 1968 the unions were fined on at least 165 times, the employer organisations were before the court on only 5 occasions for breaches of the Act. [More…]
We do not accept that this Bill is a result of negotiations between the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the employer organisations and the Government, because the provisions of the Bill are not acceptable to the trade union movement and never will be. [More…]
Senator Greenwood mentioned earlier tonight that the action adopted by the unions in taking direct action is not the proper approach for getting industrial wage justice. [More…]
Let me give 2 examples out of the hundreds that there are where trade union organisations would not have received justice without taking industrial action. [More…]
In South Australia in the State Industrial Court the Australian Workers Union on 3 occasions made an application to the court for an extra week’s leave for the continuous shift workers in the cement manufacturing industry. [More…]
On each occasion the President of the Industrial Court rejected the application by the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The matter came before the Commission and the same judge who had rejected applications by the Australian Workers Union for the extra week’s leave on 2 previous occasions, and who had been the employer’s advocate before another judge when the application was rejected, granted the extra week’s leave. [More…]
A case was reported in the ‘Australian’ today - we will read more about it when we get the transcript - where the Australian Workers Union made an application to the court, which was not the first application, to vary an award so that station hands would come into line with all workers in industry and have a 40-hour week. [More…]
The amendments put forward by Senator Bishop to delete section 109 and the other provision will mean that any fines previously imposed on the unions will have no effect. [More…]
I understand that fines amounting to $38,000 are owing by the unions. [More…]
A fairly snide reference was made tonight to Mr Hawke, the new President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
However, when the ACTU decided to advise the unions not to pay any fines imposed under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act the President of that body was Mr Albert Monk. [More…]
I am sure that the people who offer the criticism of Mr Hawke that he is too militant would not say the same of Mr Albert Monk, lt has been suggested tonight that the influence of Mr Hawke has caused the unions to adopt their present policy towards the payment of fines. [More…]
Otherwise a confrontation with the trade union movement generally will occur. [More…]
Of coursethere are things wrong with the arbitration system, and I suggest that it is because of these things that union leaders have been fined for doing something that union members have told them to do. [More…]
The members of my union at a general meeting told me to do something and I did it. [More…]
I am proud of the fact that I observed the direction given to me by members of the union. [More…]
I was fined as an officer of the union. [More…]
Honourable senators will find in the records that when Sir Henry was with the Department of Labour and National Service in 1967 he warned the Government that the white collar unions were becoming restive and that there would be serious difficulties because those unions knew that they were going to face the same consequences as the blue collar workers. [More…]
If he does not, I say without fear of contradiction that there will be a confrontation with the trade union movement and it will not only disrupt industry but it could have the very effect of helping those people to whom Senator Greenwood referred tonight as wanting to destroy arbitration. [More…]
I think the unions are quite justified in their complaints. [More…]
There is no doubt that that was a case of very great injustice to the trade union concerned. [More…]
I recall the horror and astonishment of Government senators when they learned the real facts of the case and how the trade union involved itself in proceedings in the High Court in an endeavour to support awards of the Commission. [More…]
The union involved itself in very heavy costs. [More…]
Notwithstanding this, in a situation of real merit the trade union was subjected to heavy lines and costs. [More…]
Why, in justice, should the fines and costs against that trade union continue to stand? [More…]
The same applies to other trade unions. [More…]
If in fact (here has been an abuse of these proceedings in the past - that is generally conceded and is a pretty charitable way of stating the position - that abuse has led to an awareness that this law should be changed and the trade unions have been driven to a position in which they say that they are finished with this provision and that they will not pay the fines and costs. [More…]
1 believe that there is a very strong case, not only from the point of view of the trade unions but also in the national interest, for seeing that the slate is cleaned and thai we do not leave a situation in which this provision can be used to provoke an industrial upsurge. [More…]
The position of the trade unions has been made clear. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh reminds me, section 109a has put a lot of trade unionists in gaol, has fined a lot of trade unionists and has imposed great financial burdens on the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The Government consistently has complained about the use of the strike weapon - a weapon which is freely available to trade unionists in the United States of America. [More…]
That section is completely contrary to the trade union law of the United States of America. [More…]
This type of provision has been opposed even by the most conservative American trade unions, including the International Association of Machinists, a conservative craft union and a union which by its policy - seeing that the question of North Vietnam has been raised- [More…]
I submit that tonight the trade unionists of Australia are being shown an example of what the Government means by conciliation. [More…]
Here is a Bill and a clause within that Bill which is of the utmost importance to the whole trade union movement and to every employee in Australia, as are all the other clauses that have been presented to and debated by the Committee tonight; yet they are being stampeded through and attempts are being made to gag them through this chamber. [More…]
After that has been done this Government will say to the workers and trade unionists of Australia: Here is an Act that has been passed in order to produce conciliation and arbitration, and you must abide by it; otherwise you will be dealt with’. [More…]
I believe that the trade unionists of Australia are entitled to say: if this is the way in which you have passed this Act, we will treat your Act with exactly the same respect as you have shown for it’. [More…]
This Government has shown absolutely no respect for the conciliation and arbitration laws, for the trade union movement or for its own Bill. [More…]
I would think that the people of Australia - the trade unionists of Australia - would show exactly the same respect for the Bill as the Government and its satellites have shown for it tonight. [More…]
Why does the Government not listen to what is being put forward by the trade union movement and endeavour to succeed in achieving a system which will avoid this unrest. [More…]
He is not concerned with the protest of the trade union movement. [More…]
lt is notorious that he was very active at one time in actions against trade unions. [More…]
Section I 09a permitted the taking of action against a trade union. [More…]
I think it is very important for us to take cognisance of the reaction of the trade union movement to what has taken place tonight. [More…]
The trade union movement is certainly not dumb on the question, lt will be vocal in the near future. [More…]
He spoke at considerable length to show how poor this provision was and how the trade union movement was being deluded by it. [More…]
Mr President, it says a lot for the patience and forebearance of the Australian Labor Party and of the trade union movement that they arc prepared to welcome even so feeble an attempt to cut down the jurisdiction to issue labour injunctions as this Bill represents. [More…]
We went through the matter and indicated then and there the injustices under which the trade union movement was suffering. [More…]
The whole trade union movement has been seeking the inclusion of a reasonable provision in the Act, but instead of including some reasonable provision the Government insists on introducing this kind of outrageous legislation, which inserts a few clauses, and says: We will fix you up with this’ - some nonsensical things about costs. [More…]
Nobody in the trade union movement wants to strike. [More…]
There will be no change in the law when advantage is nol taken of our legislation and a union resorts lo strike action to force concessions. [More…]
Frequently unions have doubts about an employer’s intentions and it is only when the employer resorts to section 109 procedures that the union realises thai the employer meant what he said. [More…]
While penal provisions are part of the arbitration system discontent and dissatisfaction will exist within the trade union movement and among workers involved in industry generally. [More…]
Indeed, employers used the penal powers quite capriciously in an endeavour finally to break the trade union movement - not only the craft unions but also the professional unions. [More…]
Provision is made for a penalty of $400 or gaol for 1 2 months foran official of a union. [More…]
Sub-section (4) (c) provides for a penalty of $100 for an ordinary union member. [More…]
This section of the Act has been the subject of representations from the trade union movement for many years. [More…]
It was one of the matters raised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions when it approached the Government in 1964 and asked for sections 111 and 114 to be repealed. [More…]
1 quickly restate our argument by saying that under that section heavy penalties have been imposed on the trade unions, but at the same time very minor penalties have been imposed on employers. [More…]
In addition to the fines of about 560,000 imposed on trade unions during the 1968 metal trades actions, Mr Woodward Q.C. [More…]
has stated that in his opinion fines totalling $100,000 were imposed on the unions in 1968-69. [More…]
The bodies concerned with this legislation are principally public bodies - trade unions and organisations of employers - created, as was said by Mr Justice Isaacs in the Australian Shipbuilding Board case, for great public purposes. [More…]
Certainly the trade union movement wants to do away with them. [More…]
If the trade unions have to go before the Commission, the Registrar or the Court they will pay their own way. [More…]
But trade unions are engaged daily before tribunals and these orders should not be made. [More…]
While the Government is proposing to meet the complaints from the union movement by easing to some extent the penalties that are imposed as if each day was a new offence, penalties are still imposed under new section 119 (1d.). [More…]
We have seen a performance again tonight by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who has shown throughout his whole career a violent hatred of the trade union movement and of members of trade unions. [More…]
He is a man who has never missed an opportunity to berate the tradeunion movement and its elected officers; a man who, on the discussion of the Stevedoring Industry Bill in 1965, said that he wanted to destroy ‘this wretched Federation’, referring to the Waterside [More…]
The Minister has shown a hatred for the trade union movement which he has evidenced once again tonight in dealing with a Bill which is of the greatest importance to the trade union movement. [More…]
The sort of conciliation which he has shown tonight is the sort of conciliation that he wants to see shown towards the trade unions in their dealings with the employers. [More…]
If this Bill is passed I believe that we have to show our total opposition and our total repudiation of the way in which this Government has acted tonight so that we can go back to those in the trade union movement and tell them what happened, show them the Hansard report, show them the record of the gags moved by Senator Wright, and show them the interjections of Senator Sim. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that those people are members of the Australian Labor Party, nor am 1 suggesting that they represent the bulk of the union body in the community. [More…]
But there is a very significant, and 1 believe growing, body of unionist opinion in this country which would desire this objective. [More…]
Mr Aarons who, I think, is Secretary of the Communist Party, indicated in the ‘Tribune’ in the early part of 1969 that the pattern in 1969 would be an escalation of strike activity throughout the union movement; a militant attack on the arbitration system aimed at its destruction; special emphasis on white collar union involvement in strike action; and the embroiling of moderate unions in joint action. [More…]
It was suggested that an industrial showdown was to take place that year with the ultimate objective of gaining control of the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
That is the Russian styled Communist Party of Australia to which I refer, and there are many unionist members in this country who are actively associated with that Communist Party. [More…]
I need only mention Mr Carmichael of the Amalgamated Engineering Union to identify one such person. [More…]
I have no doubt that he was elected to his position by a section of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
I do not say he was elected by the members of the Union because, as I understand the position, a fraction of the members of certain unions vote in the election of office bearers. [More…]
If we could persuade the bulk or the majority of the members of unions, or all of them to vote for their office bearers we would have a better idea of the thinking of these bodies, but this is a difficult task. [More…]
The Government should endeavour to achieve something like compulsory voting in union elections. [More…]
The editorial refers to adoption by the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions of the new disputes procedures which were formulated by the Government. [More…]
The editorial castigated these new methods for settling industrial disputes, describing them as political treachery, lt said that all workers will repudiate the Government’s proposition, which the editorial described as being part of the monopoly capitalist class attack on the workers, and said that they will repudiate the trade union leaders and trade unions who subscribe to them. [More…]
Having said that, 1 feel that we have to make it known to the people of this country - I think people in responsible positions have to make the point clear - that there are many people involved in or in control of the trade union movement who are determined to destroy the arbitration system, simply as a political objective. [More…]
Thai in turn means the economic fabric of the country and its relationship to the trade union movement. [More…]
To prove this point I will deal with 3 trade union case histories. [More…]
1 assure Senator Greenwood that none of the top echelons of the unions is subjected to any MarxistLeninist influence. [More…]
The same employers who are prepared to settle for contract rates for night cleaners jib at the smallest claims made by the trade union movement. [More…]
The union journal reports that after discussion and pursuant to section 28 of the Act: no action was taken by the Arbitration Commission and the hearing was adjourned. [More…]
This was not a dispute that the trade union won and I am amazed that in the year 1970 people who are performing a vital function could not be granted such a small thing. [More…]
This is a case that the trade union movement did not win. [More…]
The Victorian branch of this union had all the fangs of the law bared to it in the O’Shea case. [More…]
One matter concerns the Shop Assistants Union in New South Wales, which is responsible for an area in which it is difficult to organise. [More…]
There has been a lot of talk about militancy and the ability of the metal and building trades unions to get action. [More…]
I wrote to Australian Airport Services because of the small number of union members concerned. [More…]
said to Senator Cotton: ‘Even in the United States the Government rivets trade union conditions into some legislation’. [More…]
I. spoke to industrial officer O’Neill of the union and he said: ‘Mr Bondy just will not discuss the matter with us’. [More…]
I can assure Mr Bondy if he is listening tonight - tomorrow he may read what I have said - that as far as I am concerned, if unions have difficult areas to organise, I will take action. [More…]
I point out that when a union which has a relatively moderate policy and not large resources gets the run around from subcontractors in these circumstances, it is an indictment of a Commonwealth Government that does not demand minimum industrial conditions. [More…]
My next point concerns the New South Wales Branch of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia. [More…]
Senator McClelland and I were approached over the weekend by representatives of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
I do not care who the trade union official may be or what his ideology is. [More…]
There may be rare cases where 2 unions claim a particular job and unemployment is not a serious factor. [More…]
In Sydney there was a dispute between the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia. [More…]
They were told by one judicial authority that the union was trying to run over the industry. [More…]
Whether it is the craft unions or industrial unions, it is inevitable that these clashes between employer and employee wm occur. [More…]
One of the assignments of a trade union secretary is to see that these people have a place in the work force for the next 10 years. [More…]
I concede the fact that trade unions want all they can get out of an award. [More…]
This might be preceded by discussions with the employer, but there often comes the time when the members of the union say: ‘It is not good enough. [More…]
The plain fact that I am trying to hammer is that society is changing and trade union positions are becoming more difficult. [More…]
Senator Greenwood talked about people becoming shop stewards and trade union secretaries. [More…]
It was a forerunner to the North American Coal Miners’ Union. [More…]
I am not inciting people but 1 could say to the unions that are regarded as moderate, such as the Shop Assistants Union: “You parade banners at the airport and say the Minister for Civil Aviation will do nothing’. [More…]
I hope Senator Wright will look at the case of the oilers and that of the electrical trades union, and I hope the Snowy Mountains legislation will not take 1 1 months to get the royal assent. [More…]
If when we come back in August this is not working very well, we will find the 3 unions to which 1 have referred and which are moderate in their outlook will nol continue to take this sort of thing, because it is not good enough. [More…]
The Government does not care a great deal for the trade union movement, which represents the mass of working people whom Senator Mulvihill has just eulogised. [More…]
1 believe that there is a section of the trade union movement that would like to see the abolition of the arbitration system in Australia. [More…]
They do not necessarily belong to a particular political group within the trade union movement. [More…]
I recognise that there are Communists in the trade union movement. [More…]
I recognise that there are Communists in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Communist Party has always produced members who have taken leadership in the trade union movement and who are, to some extent, acceptable to the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
No matter what the leadership of the union is and no matter how much an individual desires to withdraw labour from a factory, no-one can achieve a stoppage of work unless the majority of the employees in that factory agree to it. [More…]
Of the cases in which information was available, some involved more than one fine and more than one union. [More…]
Costs against the unions amounting to $53,000 were awarded in 93 cases. [More…]
Answers given to questions asked in the other place show that in the period 1957 to 1968 the metal trades group of unions was fined a total of $167,310 on 601 charges; the transport group $82,100 on 126 charges; the building group $2,200 on 6 charges; and so on down to lesser amounts. [More…]
The trade union movement could not exist under the conditions that prevailed and could not obtain its proper entitlements. [More…]
The trade unions could not exert their power as a movement without taking action. [More…]
He was placed in gaol and spontaneously the majority of trade unions throughout Australia went on strike. [More…]
No attempt has been made to collect other fines imposed on the unions. [More…]
While the Act slates that fines are still payable, everyone knows that payment will not be insisted upon, lt is realised that the solidarity of the trade union movement and its power are such that the unions are finished with the penal provisions of the Act. [More…]
Discussions were held with the trade union movement in an attempt to solve the problem, but the provisions of the legislation before the Senate do not reflect in any way any discussion or agreement with the trade union movement. [More…]
So we have the position that in respect of any union which is out on strike a commissioner with whom a conference is being held is not in a position to settle the dispute, nor is the union in a position to agree to settle that dispute, until it is made known that a certificate will not be issued. [More…]
This will prolong disputes and it will absolve from prosecution the big, strong unions. [More…]
But it will not prevent the prosecution of weak unions or of individual members of weak unions, because such prosecutions would not be against the terms of settlement and would not prevent the settlement of the dispute. [More…]
It is necessary for the unions to show their solidarity and to insist that one of the terms of settlement is that a certificate will not be given, otherwise this provision will have the effect of prolonging disputes and of sacrificing a small section of the unions and of protecting the privileged, large unions. [More…]
He stated that he had moved to the Odeon Hotel and intended to leave Greece on Friday, 21st August to visit the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
and (2) Article 1 of the Geneva Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam of 20th July 1954, provided that forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam (Viet Minh) were to regroup north of a provisional military demarcation line, fixed in part along the Cua Tung River but generally following the alignment of the 17th parallel of latitude, and that forces of the French Union were to regroup south of this line. [More…]
Although the Republic’s admission was vetoed by the Soviet Union in the Security Council, the U.S.S.R. had itself put forward in the General Assembly in January 1957, a draft resolution for the simultaneous admission of both North and South Vietnam, arguing that, as in Korea, two separate States existed with different political and economic structures. [More…]
The major part of that time was devoted to reading to the Senate extracts from statements made by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, when he declared that the trade union movement would strongly resist efforts by employers to use arguments on the cost price squeeze to stop workers getting wage justice. [More…]
In typical fashion and according to conservative thinking the Minister seemed to adopt the attitude that when something goes wrong with one section of the community or some economic area the blame has to be cast on the Australian Council of Trade Unions or the working class generally because of their attempts to get wage justice from the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
But here is an opportunity for honourable senators opposite to speak to the militant trade union leaders in order to persuade them to curb this great fight for increases over and above the rate of increases of the gross national product. [More…]
1 challenge representatives of the Labor Party to rise and say where it stands in relation to the claim of the Australian Workers Union and others for a 35-hour week in the pastoral industry. [More…]
A question asked whether the union concerned was interested in this proposed regulation and whether there was any objection. [More…]
The unions may have different criteria from the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. [More…]
Surely the fact that the union made no response, knowing of the regulation, knowing of its implication and knowing the regulation which was repealed, is some support for the suggestion that there is no trespass on the rights of the individual. [More…]
I presume that this body is equipped, that it has advisers, that it is alert and that it is sensitive - as we know trade union organisations are and should be - to trespass upon individual or group rights. [More…]
support for the suggestion that there is no undue imposition upon the rights of the individual that the union itself has not been concerned. [More…]
I conclude by saying that I do not know whether the regulation has been brought to the notice of the union concerned. [More…]
1 do not know whether the union takes an interest in a regulation only when one of its members is affected. [More…]
I appreciate that the union has to protect the interests of its members, but the Committee has to protect the rights and liberties of the individual, whoever he may be. [More…]
One could not expect them to hold the same views as a trade union would hold in these matters. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Supply and by way of preface 1 refer to concern expressed to me by officers of the New South Wales Transport Workers Union about the threat to the wage conditions of their members in the Commonwealth car pool. [More…]
Is it not a fact that those individuals within the union movement and the political parties who urge stoppages and extended strike action by the Australian labour force are the ones who eventually will be responsible for loss of overseas trade by Australia and a possible increase in the number of unemployed in Australia? [More…]
That management is achieved with the aid and co-operation not only of management itself but also of employees and the trade union movement. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate acknowledge that any political decision by the Government which reduces the purchasing power of wages and salaries received by employees and consequently reduces their standards of living is a matter of concern to the trade union movement and is a matter upon which the unions are entitled to take action to protect their interests? [More…]
In the answer given to my previous question about Commonwealth car drivers the Minister referred to discussions with the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
Am I to understand that this meeting is a further discussion and not the abortive meeting held a few days ago between Mr Freeman, a senior officer of his Department, and Mr Pat Booler, an organiser of the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
Have executive members of a Jewish youth organisation recently made statements indicating that they would be boycotting the Bolshoi Ballet, currently touring Australia, because of the discrimination which exists in the Soviet Union against Jewish people. [More…]
It is a fact that such discrimination exists in the Soviet Union; if so, is that situation, in principle, different from the situation which exists with respect to coloured people in South Africa. [More…]
Australian Representatives to the United Nations have on several occasions drawn attention to the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In 1964 deposits of these elements, although still not a dangerous level, reached a maximum as a result of the extensive test programmes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1961 and 1962 and the United States of America in 1962. [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACKThe Leader of the Opposition goes to Tehran, quite properly, to attend meetings of the Inter Parliamentary Union. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service been drawn to the fact that police estimates as published in today’s Press of attendances at the union organised, political, stopwork rallies yesterday in all Australian capital cities totalled approximately 20,000 persons. [More…]
There was the action of the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, which was commemorated by Senator Wright, who is now sitting on the front bench, in a statement in support of the then Minister for External Affairs, who welcomed the presence of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not want to canvass any issues as to whether the Soviet Union ought or ought not to have forces in the Indian Ocean; nor do I want to canvass again what happened in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
But here we have a Government that has said that aggression by the Soviet Union took place in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The Australian Government at all times welcomes the opportunity of practical and constructive dealings with the Soviet Union, as with any other country . [More…]
This is an area of conflict between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
As I mentioned before, I do not think we should become too obsessed with Russia because, in the long term, it may well be that China will present a greater threat than the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean area. [More…]
China has strong influences in Tanzania and Somalia, particularly in Somalia, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
So we find China taking an active interest in this area and, in many portions of it, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us examine the reasons why the Soviet Union has moved into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Fourthly - and this is a matter of concern - Russia desires to exploit local situations in order to replace pro-Western governments with ones more sympathetic to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe 1 should mention in this very brief review 2 factors influencing SinoSoviet relations, lt is very obvious that the Soviet Union has no wish to see China expand her influence in Africa or Asia. [More…]
He went on to state thai for the indefinite future the Indian Ocean will remain the major mari time thoroughfare between the eastern and western parts of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is aware of the strong fears of China held in South and South East Asia, and it is entirely logical that she should seek to exploit these in order to limit Chinese influence in the area, increase her own influence and with a minimum outlay strengthen the military capacity of the states on China’s southern boundary at a time when the Sino-Soviet border is under dangerous tension. [More…]
But to return again to what is germane to this debate, that is, our relations with various countries, I was very intrigued when Senator Sim developed a thesis about a possible world struggle between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I referred to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons and said that I would like to feel that when the chips were down we had an alliance of some sort between the nuclear powers - Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the final crunch comes the Soviet Union will go along with China.’ [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have had to exercise considerable restraint with Israel and the Arab nations because that conflict could balloon into another blood bath in the Middle East. [More…]
I acknowledge, as I think our present Minister does, that the United States and the Soviet Union realise that in this atomic age a big power battle is not worthwhile unless the 2 countries can be contained. [More…]
It ought to be noted that he says: ‘Pressurised by industrial unions’. [More…]
In this community we have workers organised into trade unions which are trying to do their best to obtain justice for those workers. [More…]
If he wants to make criticisms, let him lift up his voice and say that, he is against the trade union movement, and let him be heard. [More…]
Yet we hear, along wilh Senator Gair, people such as Mr Askin attacking the leaders of the trade union movement because they are endeavouring to help their members to catch up with these cost increases which would not occur if the governments would carry out their duly and pass the laws to protect the people in the States. [More…]
Instead of doing that, it is much easier, because they are an easy chopping block, to turn around and attack the trade union leaders and to say that they are terrible men, when they are trying to obtain justice for their own members. [More…]
Union organisers have admitted publicly their disappointment at the response to the call which was made by the Australian Council of Trade Unions to hold nationwide stop work meetings. [More…]
If I had quoted something from the ACTU, a union journal or a Labor Party journal it would have been said that 1 was being biased; so I have deliberately stepped outside. [More…]
We hu e seen displayed perhaps the most irresponsible action imaginable on the part of PlO.pIe whom we might think were responsible organisers of the trade union movement, people who are supposed to be leaders in the community, such as Mr Hawke. [More…]
What will be the situation of an honourable senator who wishes to interview a particular segment of the trade union movement or an immigration group? [More…]
Is it a fact that at the week-end the Soviet Union established a military garrison at the former British crown colony of Socotra at the mouth of the Red Sea? [More…]
A lot of difficulties are involved in considering the profitability of an industry in wage fixation, because the process can operate to the disadvantage of those who are employed in less profitable industries or industries which employ smaller numbers of people - a weaker section of the trade union movement. [More…]
Sections of the trade union movement knew that the demonstration could not be successful unless their members were requested to cease work for the afternoon. [More…]
Although on this occasion stopping work cost them more it did not cause much disruption to industry; but a repetition of such a Budget and the same sincerity on the part of the trade union movement to protect the interests of the workers whom it represents will in future impose a cost on many people other than workers. [More…]
We all know - history and the relevant figures prove this conclusively - that when South Vietnam became a single entity with the sanction of the United Nations and the support of the Soviet Union over 1 million people migrated from North Vietnam to South Vietnam to avoid the dangers of Communism. [More…]
Strange as it may seem, the other day the Canberra evening Press had a very good article about what it cost the Australian taxpayer to provide security guards to look after the embassies of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. [More…]
This is the situation in the trade union movement. [More…]
If Senator Cavanagh or Senator Bishop were here with me at the moment they would agree that women are hardest to organise in the trade union field. [More…]
I went to female members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
I, backed up by the unions, put the viewpoint to the Director-General of Taxation that these people should be able to obtain some taxation concession. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about whether the ACTU is able to control the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side talk about union sub-branches defying State and Federal union branches. [More…]
In dealing with trade unions I recall a very illustrious member of this Parliament, Captain Sam Benson. [More…]
He has gone back to the trade union field. [More…]
It concerned people involved in a very stormy internal battle for the control of the liquor trade union in New South Wales. [More…]
In the case involving Captain Benson people had been waiting for payment for about 7 months and the Merchant Service Guild, which is a quiet, responsible sector of the trade union movement, drifted along. [More…]
Production in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China and eastern European countries together amounted to 21 per cent. [More…]
An application by the Austraiian Workers Union for a 40-hour week for station hands employed under the Federal Pastoral Industry Award was rejected. [More…]
Senator Sim referred to this matter about 2 weeks ago when he made a trenchant attack on the Australian Workers Union because it advised its members employed in the pastoral industry to work a 40-hour week. [More…]
I remind Senator Sim that the national newspaper also supports the Australian Workers Union in its struggle for a 40-hour week for employees in the pastoral industry. [More…]
During the debate Senator Sim made a trenchant attack on the Australian Workers Union for advising its members employed in the pastoral industry to work a 40-hour week. [More…]
I unreservedly support the Australian Workers Union in its stand for a 40-hour week for station hands and I commend the officials of the Union for their belated attempt to acquire for station hands the same standard working week as was introduced for other workers by the Commonwealth Industrial Court in 1947 - 23 years ago. [More…]
An editorial appeared in the ‘Australian’ on Monday, 3rd August, 1970, supporting the Australian Workers Union in its stand for a 40-hour week for station hands. [More…]
On the same day as the Australian Workers Union decision to use force to win its claim for a 40-hour week, coal miners were awarded a 35-hour week. [More…]
But the fundamental nature of the claims makes it quite certain that the station-hands will have extensive public sympathy as well as full backing from the trade union movement. [More…]
I remind Senator Sim that not only does the editorial in the ‘Australian’ support the struggle of the Australian Workers Union for a 40-hour week for station hands but also that the International Labour Conference in 1936 supported the 40-hour week proposal. [More…]
At the International Labour Conference in 1936 the Commonwealth Government aligned itself with a union proposition that there should be a 40-hour week. [More…]
Although this was supported by the Commonwealth Government in 1936, for 34 years the Government still had done nothing to implement the decision of the International Labour Conference until a strong campaign was initiated by (he Australian Council of Trade Unions and supported by the Australian Workers Union in regard to pastoral workers. [More…]
We should not rely on droughts in China or the Soviet Union; we should be looking for other areas in which to dispose of our surplus wheat. [More…]
Therefore it is apparent that the large carryover of wheat is a problem of most of the major wheat producing countries, with the exception of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It is interesting to note what the Queensland Teachers Union said in a resolution carried during the last few days. [More…]
Anybody who has been connected with the trade union movement or who has put to arbitration a case on behalf of the wage earner knows that it is a very costly exercise. [More…]
But I go on to say that we should take stock of our own position because the report states that the increase is a direct result of a surrender to the Trade Union Council of antistrike legislation by the previous Prime Minister, Mr Wilson. [More…]
The honourable senator should read the statement made by the Secretary of the builders labourers union. [More…]
Has the Government noted today’s Press report of the statement yesterday by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that it pledged continuing material support to North Vietnam and restated its faith that Communist forces would triumph throughout South East Asia? [More…]
T have never had any doubt that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is actively associated with the circumstance of Vietnam. [More…]
He was invited to come here by Aquarius, a cultural organisation which is associated with the National Union of Australian University Students, to proceed around Australia and, in the course of that, to do some sight seeing and to appear as a comedian. [More…]
In addition members of the Labor Party support compulsory unionism, with no freedom for the individual to make up his own mind on whether he should join a union. [More…]
We are fighting for human rights for Sam Benson; we are fighting for human rights for the individual who does not wish to be compelled to join a union; we are fighting for the right of Senator Cavanagh to vote against his leader should he desire to do so, although it has not happened once since he came here. [More…]
Union. [More…]
I think I have made my views with regard to the Soviet Union fairly well known and I will not engage in a red baiting campaign in order to make myself sound acceptable to any of those people because I have no desire to be acceptable to them. [More…]
Mr Gregory said that at the time he put ‘sightseeing’ on his application he had not been approached either by the National Union of Australian University Students or by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. [More…]
In referring to cost rises borne by primary producers, I do not for a moment place all the blame for these rises on the shoulders of trade unionists, although much of it can be attributed to them. [More…]
The report ended with the comment that some people suggested that the increase in strikes over the previous 12 months was a direct result of a surrender by the previous Labour Prime Minister, Mr Wilson, to the Trade Union Congress on the matter of anti-strike legislation. [More…]
The campaign would be conducted, of course, through the agency of the Communist dominated trade unions. [More…]
I was amazed when I read a statement made by the Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Builders Labourers Union. [More…]
Honourable senators should remember that a few months ago m Sydney there was a lot of wilful destruction of property by members of the Builders Labourers Union. [More…]
It is worth quoting what the Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Builders Labourers Union had to say because I would say that the Builders Labourers Union would be regarded as a fairly responsible organisation. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
But it was a pity that he shifted his ground and began to lay all the blame for the position in which the farmers find themselves on the trade unionists and the trade union movement. [More…]
He seemed to indicate that the costs the farmers have to meet are the result of actions by trade unionists and trade union organisations. [More…]
The National Union of the Austraiian University Students statement on poverty reads: [More…]
Mr Whitlam belongs to the same shearers’ union as myself. [More…]
The trade union movement has condemned the Budget and supporters of the Government might say that one would expect trade unionists to do so, but it has been condemned also by the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia, the Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland which is a motoring association, the pensioners - most certainly they have not approved the Budget and have been trenchant in their criticism - and, last but not least, that powerful organisation in South Australia, the Young Liberals Association. [More…]
In addition to facilitating effective communication between staff and management, union officials have usually brought to bear a degree of knowledge and experience which has enabled them to highlight any need for a more positive approach or quicker action which they feel might be justified in times of changing technology and increasing productivity and prosperity. [More…]
So please do not let us hear any more rubbish from Government senators who endeavour to ridicule workers and trade union leaders. [More…]
I have spent some part of my life with very responsible people of the trade union movement who have been in my own industry and I know that it is possible to get substantial increases in productivity without in any way doing anybody any harm at the same time leading to better living standards. [More…]
If I must be sidetracked momentarily bv honourable senators opposite, Mr Acting Deputy President, I would say that I believe the time is near when every ballot for the election of a union official and particularly every vote as to whether to go on strike will have to be conducted by officials in secret. [More…]
On 18th February 1970 the local branch of the Transport Workers Union wrote to the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
I quote the following from the letter, which was signed by the secretary of the Canberra Branch of the Union and addressed to the Minister for the Interior: [More…]
Following a press report, the Canberra Times Thursday 22nd January 1970, ‘Taxi fares go up’ and subsequent investigations, I have been instructed by the Branch Committee of Management of my Union to bring to your notice statements that are designed to mislead the public. [More…]
It is of concern to the Transport Workers Union that the taxi owners claim as a reason for fare increases wages paid to relief drivers. [More…]
My members are concerned that the taxi industry operates on a scally wag basis, that is, the industry apart from the owners does not provide a permanent media of employment under established conditions, such as rates of pay, recreation leave, holiday pay, hours of work etc, and therefore competes against established industry and union members at an unfair advantage. [More…]
Are facilities available to appropriate union organisers to visit and speak to Parliament House staff about union membership and employees’ wages and conditions?If not, in view of your high regard for these unions, will such facilities be made available? [More…]
The relationships between the unions, Mr Speaker and myself are very happy and there is no question of any union representative being denied access to members of his union - none at all. [More…]
At present union organisers are allowed access to Parliament House employees. [More…]
Have operators in the main Adelaide trunk line telephone exchange taped telephone calls which were not calls of a business nature, as alleged by the South Australian Secretary of the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
The matter referred to by the South Australian Secretary of the Postal Workers Union apparently relates to the arrangement, now discontinued, which bad been in operation for some years whereby a small sample of trouble report calls made by subscribers to the Service Difficulties Centre (1100) was from time to time taped in order to improve the handling of public complaints and difficulties. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Soviet Union has established a military garrison at the former British Crown Colony of Socotra, at the mouth of the Red Sea. [More…]
All I say to Senator Bull who talked about the effrontery shown by the trade union movement towards the arbitration court is that everybody knows that this Government admits that the present penal powers are not appropriate and that they ought to be modified. [More…]
The Government has put proposals to the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Conditions today might cause some union leaders to believe that now is a very propitious time to engage in some alternative scheme, but if the day comes when full employment does not obtain they will seek refuge in the arbitration court where they can hope to receive reasonable justice. [More…]
He is stirred up to this by his trade union. [More…]
There are all sorts of wings within all sorts of parties, but I did not know that a section of the trade union movement or of a political party followed exclusively my line of thinking. [More…]
After some 55 years in the trade union movement I find suddenly that a wing of the Labor Party supports my views exclusively. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to an advertisement in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of today’s date, signed by Bob Lundberg, the State Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, in which he advises his members that the Moratorium does not have the support of the trade union movement and that they should resist any attempt to take them away from work against their wishes? [More…]
T merely want to say that what we on this side of the Parliament have maintained all along about the value or otherwise of this Moratorium Campaign has obviously been accepted now by the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI would be interested to know that the trade union movement or the Australian Labor Party would subscribe to the principle of wage control. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to some episodes at last Friday’s Moratorium march in Brisbane when the small contingent of people from the University of Queensland, on arriving at the assembly point from where they were supposed to tag along behind the trade union members, decided instead to go on ahead and lead the march? [More…]
Did the trade union members have great difficulty in keeping up with the younger people from the University? [More…]
Our leader, Mr Whitlam, when addressing a recent trade union meeting, said: [More…]
Even the Communists found that out when the Soviet Union was compelled, or at least decided, to export art treasures to try to balance its overseas trade. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Externa) Affairs aware of Malaysia’s new Prime Minister’s call for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, the United States and China? [More…]
If we accept the threat of civil violence and the necessary counter measures outlined by him and his miniserial colleagues this morning, how does he reconcile that with the presence of armed guards outside the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and several other embassies in Canberra as a direct result of his Government’s failure to deal with ultra right wing elements, as personified by the Ustashi, the continuation of the presence of guards being a cost on the Australian taxpayer? [More…]
In view of a report in the London ‘Times’ of 15th September 1970, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will soon be the main naval power in the Indian Ocean, will the Minister make a statement to Parliament on the degree of truth in the report, especially that section which alleges that there has been agreement with and support given to the USSR by the United States of America. [More…]
This simplified structure is identical to that recently adopted by the Universal Postal Union. [More…]
Union structure, the effect will be to reduce the number of weight steps from 5 to 4 by combining the present steps of 8 oz to 12 oz and 12 oz to 16oz. [More…]
Other registered newspapers and periodicals, including those published by professional, business, union, commercial, social, recreational and motoring organisations and associations will pay the following rates: [More…]
The Universal Postal Union Convention requires such special arrangements to be agreed to by the country of destination. [More…]
The Tokyo Congress of the Universal Postal Union in 1969 made a number of changes to the categories and tariff structure of the international post which have been embodied in the new structure: [More…]
The Universal Postal Union Convention fixed the relativity of the upper weight steps to the basic rates. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a report in the South Australian ‘Advertiser’ to the effect that Radio Hanoi has referred to the practical support being given by the anti-war movement in Australia and that trade union leaders in North Vietnam have expressed their sincere thanks to the organisers of recent anti-war demonstrations in Australia for their support? [More…]
Territory) Award binds employers in the industry in respect of the employment by them of members of the North Australian Workers Union. [More…]
and (2) The employers operating the Nita Downs station are bound by the Pastoral Industry Award in respect of all their employees who are members of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The Postmaster-General pointed out that one union of post office employees is opposed to the establishment of a corporation. [More…]
I point out to him that the rest of the unions covering post office employees - at least those of which I am aware - are all for the move. [More…]
Every union of which 1 know, with the exception of one, is in favour of an inquiry. [More…]
That union is the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. [More…]
I refer to the trade union movement, to charitable and religious organisations and to the general public. [More…]
A Queensland trade union estimates that the increased charges will cost it an additional $16,000 a year to post its trade union journal. [More…]
One union will have to find a further $16,000 to meet the cost of posting its journal. [More…]
Our experience is that distribution at places of work is a most unsatisfactory method of distribution of trade union journals. [More…]
There are 284,000 workers in Queensland, the vast majority of whom would receive trade union journals. [More…]
The increased postage charges on these journals will impose a burden on a substantial number of trade unions. [More…]
If the figure for the rest of Australia is added to that, it is a conservative estimate that the total increase to the trade union movement will be in the vicinity of $500,000. [More…]
If the further administrative costs to the trade union movement are added - and I refer to increased telephone rentals and to the increased cost of letter postage - on a conservative estimate it will cost the trade union movement, the workers of Australia, about Sim a year to meet the increased charges contained in these Bills. [More…]
There are 2 ways in which the trade union movement can do it. [More…]
It costs me, and all the members of the Union to which I belong, $1.7 a half year for union contributions. [More…]
I referred to the fact that the cost to one union will increase from the present $9,552 to $25,462. [More…]
What is the object of a trade union journal? [More…]
lt is to educate, enlighten and influence union members to take an interest in the affairs of the union to which they belong. [More…]
This publication has a circulation of 45,000. lt is posted free to all male members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union throughout Australia, if they request that it be sent to them. [More…]
The additional cost to the union of posting this journal will be in the vicinity of $1,250, on our estimate. [More…]
The second page reports on some of the important events in the union, such as the fact that there will be a council meeting held in Adelaide this year. [More…]
Next is an article relating to an ink making agreement between the employers and the union. [More…]
It provides instructions on safety and welfare to members of the union. [More…]
The next page is a miscellany of the current happenings of interest to union members, including a report on the sickness of the Victorian branch secretary and also a reference to rules of printed English. [More…]
The next items deal with the question of who will represent the New South Wales and Western Australian branches of the union at the council meeting this year. [More…]
The next page reports on a visit to Perth by the federal secretary to attend to union matters. [More…]
Then each branch of the union has its own page which is of interest to members throughout Australia. [More…]
This journal has educational value, but the distribution of it to members will cost the union an additional $1,250 a year. [More…]
It will cost the union $1,250. [More…]
1 think we have to take into consideration how much the increased charges will cost the union. [More…]
1 have referred to the Printing Trades Journal lo show the function of trade union journals. [More…]
unions should be penalised to the extent that will be the case if this legislation is passed. [More…]
Other organisations within the trade union movement can speak for themselves about the information contained in their journals, but J have read quite a number of them and the aim of all is to try to educate union members, to try to encourage members to take an interest in the activities of the union. [More…]
I can speak with authority for my own union’s journal; we do not have doctored photographs in that. [More…]
The honourable senator spoke about some union that will have to pay an extra $12,000 or so to post its journals. [More…]
He also mentioned that the union dues at present are $34 a year. [More…]
Perhaps he is not aware of the work which has been done by the Postmaster-General’s Department through the Universal Postal Union in countering the possibility of that kind of thing happening. [More…]
lt is also of interest to point out to Senator Wilkinson who expressed concern about this aspect that an agreement has been negotiated through the Universal Postal Union that 7c per lb will be paid from the middle of next year in respect of that part of the postage between countries which is being carried by the country which receives more than it sends out. [More…]
This arrangement which has been negotiated by the Australian Post Office through the Universal Postal Union will compensate the [More…]
I point out to Senator Murphy, as I did earlier in the evening, that many of the publications concerned - be they club, association, trade union or any other sorts of journals - are worthwhile in themselves but are sent out to quite a number of people who never read them. [More…]
The large., number of people who receive a journal - be it a motoring, union or other sort of journal - open it and turf it straight into the rubbish bin will probably be eliminated. [More…]
I pursued my inquiries and the result was that L made general complaints to the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service and to the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry, f might point out that I had been approached by Mr O’Neill, the industrial officer of the New South Wales branch of the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees Federation of Australia who said that his union was having difficulty in getting a conference with Mr Bondy. [More…]
I have said here on many occasions as has my colleague Senator Bishop, that if the trade union movement in Australia has to appear before an arbitration court and answer questions about how many shirts a bloke uses in a particular industry in 12 months, or what cosmetics are bought by his wife - and other matters of this type - I am entitled to know how much Mr Bondy pays for his concession. [More…]
I then cross-checked with the appropriate union. [More…]
The particular officer of the union concerned who came to see me endeavoured to negotiate. [More…]
We are told to be law abiding, yet Mr Bondy and his colleagues have given the union officer and me the run around. [More…]
I just say that it appears to me that to some extent we in the Senate are being asked to involve ourselves in the affairs of the trade union movement generally and the Shop Assistants Union in particular. [More…]
The Shop Assistants Union wishes to organise employees of Bondy who come under its control. [More…]
The Union claims that Bondy is trading outside State trading hours. [More…]
The Universal Postal Union Convention requires that such special arrangements should be agreed to by the country of destination. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union faces an increase of $23,000 a year in its postal account. [More…]
The Electrical Trades Union must pay an increase of 300 per cent in its postal charges. [More…]
For instance, tonight the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who represents the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Hulme) said that these increases would cost the Printing and Kindred Industries Union 3c a year extra because of the increased postal charges. [More…]
The Printing and Kindred Industries Union publication is forwarded to its members free of charge. [More…]
The members of that Union pay for that service in their annual contribution. [More…]
Surely the honourable senator does not think the union will put up its annual dues by 3c to cover the iniquitous charges imposed as a result of this legislation. [More…]
I make a further charge, ft is being bandied around in many trade union circles that the Government wishes to see the end of the publication of union journals because they have been so critical of some of the Government’s actions. [More…]
Interjections last night from Government members and, to some extent, from the Minister herself, indicate to me strongly that the Government does not want the business that has been flowing to it from the trade unions. [More…]
It does not want to handle the trade union periodicals. [More…]
Even if the handling of trade union journals was a losing proposition, as the Minister claimed it to be, what is a losing proposition when the education of the people of Australia is involved? [More…]
I mentioned last night, and I repeat now, the charge that has been levelled at the Government by a number of trade unions that the Government wants to stifle criticism. [More…]
That is why it is introducing such extortionate, unfair and iniquitous postal charges on trade union publications. [More…]
In that letter Mr McBride who represents the business section of the community, not the trade union section, pointed out: [More…]
What is the effect on the trade union movement as a result of these schedules which are now before the chamber? [More…]
The Electrical Trades Union of Australia sends out 58,970 copies of its journal each month. [More…]
Under these schedules the increase in the cost to the union will be 300 per cent. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union of which my colleague Senator Donald Cameron is a member is going to have an increase imposed on it of some 140 per cent. [More…]
It appears to me that, in the typical fashion of this Government, the trade union movement, the ordinary worker is being penalised by these anomalies and injustices. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to look at the position of elderly people who have given a lifetime of service to an industry and who, for many years, have been active and responsible members of trade unions. [More…]
In the twilight of their lives they have probably been granted life membership or honorary membership of the trade union to which they belonged for . [More…]
many years because of their service to that union and the industry in which they worked. [More…]
They look forward each month to receiving a copy of their trade union journals. [More…]
They contribute nothing towards it because it is sent to them as a consideration for the service they have given to the union. [More…]
I suggest that if costs have to be cut by a union it could well be that these people may have to be deprived of this enjoyment in life which is still left to them. [More…]
On behalf of myself, the people of the State I represent, the political party and the trade unions which I represent I lodge very strong objection to the anomalous and unjust provisions of these schedules. [More…]
Senator McClelland mentioned certain trade unions’ internal dilemmas which will arise from these increases. [More…]
1 can do no better than quote the case of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Railways Union whose members are not in the high income bracket. [More…]
The union relics on the journal to radiate certain decisions to ils members in distant parts. [More…]
As a result of what is happening and quite apart from the overall increased costs the union is caught more or less in a cross fire because if it ceases publication of its journal and has recourse to circulars and telegrams its bill increases further. [More…]
This union has its own Commonwealth problems. [More…]
I have heard members talk about the trade union movement being obsessed with some dictum of Samuel Gompers about more wages and nothing else. [More…]
This union was one of the first organisations to embark on a holiday camp in the Jervis Bay region. [More…]
Due to various factors, including ordinances with which they do not quarrel the union had to embark on an extensive rebuilding programme. [More…]
The union has just emerged from the tunnel of this problem and it is hit with the body blow of increased postal charges. [More…]
A lot of these unions have newcomers to Australia as members. [More…]
This is a serious problem as far as the trade union movement is concerned. [More…]
I couple with the Australian Railways Union the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
These unions have their members in scattered areas. [More…]
Senator McClelland points out, the members of the trade union movement do not Jive by bread alone. [More…]
These publications contain information on union festivities and picnics. [More…]
All these things make for a relaxed, healthy atmosphere in the trade union movement. [More…]
All I have said here would apply in detail to the Clothing and Allied Trades Union as well. [More…]
I am not going to traverse all the arguments made by other speakers appertaining to journals of this nature or in the trade union field. [More…]
I remember a very memorable night in this chamber when Senator Greenwood stood up and castigated the Federal Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, George Slater. [More…]
The trade union movement has not objected to women doing such work purely on the basis of their sex. [More…]
The trade union movement has argued for equal pay. [More…]
I do not think I am treading on anyone’s corns when I say that this is the age of specialisation and 1 cannot see why we could not have a detailed categorisation of all the magazines that go through the post and a much broader compartmentisation of the groups that have been mentioned - the trade union journals, the organs of pensioner groups, national parks journals and so on. [More…]
Some of the learned gentlemen opposite talk about the trade unions. [More…]
1 point out that 99 per cent of the trade union movement is operating on a shoe string because of low revenue. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite pontificate on the role of the trade union movement, they always harp on education. [More…]
They say that there is nothing of an educational value in a trade union journal; that it is always full of slogans. [More…]
I can pay a pretty sound tribute here to the present President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Bob Hawke. [More…]
Some of us who have been at functions with him know that he has hammered the concept of injecting new ideas into the trade union movement. [More…]
I want to deny comments made tonight inferring that the Government is attacking trade unions by means of these various postal rates. [More…]
I inform the Senate that at a meeting on Monday with the union representatives, led by Mr Souter of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Postmaster-General’s Department offered and the unions accepted that the Department would give the unions the benefit of its expertise to assist them in minimising the production and distribution costs of their journals and that it would make this a special project handled by an experienced and knowledgeable officer. [More…]
T do not think anyone can say that this is an act aimed at destroying the trade union movement. [More…]
The Postmaster-General informs me that he has received a number of deputations from various organisations within the industry, as I have informed the Committee tonight, and that his Department has received other deputations including representatives from the trade union movement. [More…]
I suppose that if the Australian Postal Workers Union made an application to the Public Service Arbitrator, judging by experience the application would be fought vehemently by the Postal Department or by the Public Service Board. [More…]
It has been suggested that trade union members ought to pay more for the services they obtain. [More…]
An example of what could happen was given this afternoon by Senator Milliner, who was an office bearer in the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether any progress has flowed from his reply to me on 25th August regarding the fears of members of the Transport Workers Union who are employed by the Commonwealth car pool in Sydney that their earnings will diminish due to the increased utilisation of private car operators? [More…]
I can inform the honourable senator that I did in fact receive a communication from a union representative in relation to this matter. [More…]
A reply was sent to the Federal Assistant Secretary of the Transport Workers Union on 6th October 1970 by the industrial officer of the Department of Supply in relation to the matters under discussion. [More…]
I understand that discussions are going on at present in relation to this matter between the Department’s industrial officer and the union. [More…]
Singapore, South Vietnam, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor, Trinidad, United Arab Republic, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. [More…]
Its mail revenue has been reduced by 25 per cent as a result of a decision made by the Universal Postal Union. [More…]
To support the other part of my argument 1 want to quote some extracts from a letter 1 received from Mr Wallace, General Secretary of the Queensland State Service Union, at the time when emphasis was being placed on restructuring the Australian tax system. [More…]
I was also concerned at the assault made on my colleague, Senator Little, who has just returned as a delegate- of- this Parliament to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference at The Hague. [More…]
Union is a union of non-ministerial members of the parliaments of the world, it meets annually and its meetings are most valuable. [More…]
Senator Little has returned from the meeting pf the Inter-Parliamentary Union but 2 other honourable senators have not. [More…]
I would rather apply a trade union axiom to what is contained in this Bill. [More…]
I have never known a big company to do anything for the workers unless a union has threatened an industrial stoppage or government inspectors have enforced safety regulations. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh and I have had long experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
In this industry piece work rates are paid to female workers, and having in mind these problems and some of the work studies which have been carried out it is difficult always to be accurate.I know that the union went through the lengthy process of an award hearing before the Conciliation Commissioners. [More…]
Is it a fact that the High Court decision in this matter precludes the right of the United Firefighters Union to federal registration? [More…]
As firefighters in countries such as New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada have full recognition as a national industrial organisation, does the Minister feel that it would be acceptable to the union and perhaps in the public interest if some legislative action were taken to correct this anomaly? [More…]
As a secretary of a trade union, at one time I was concerned to try to keep up building standards to a strict craft qualification. [More…]
A tradesman’s ability was assessed by representatives of the Education Department, an employers’ organisation and the trade unions. [More…]
On the matter of poor building, the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia 2 years ago issued a booklet showing the pitfalls associated with building operations and the signing of contracts. [More…]
Where did its members stand in this place when the Australian Workers Union applied for a 35-hour week for the pastoral industry? [More…]
That application was rejected by the courts, and the union ordered all its members to work only a 35 hour week in complete disregard- [More…]
The union ordered its members to work 35 hours a week and resorted to blackmailing graziers who refused to accept that condition. [More…]
I, as an industrialist and a former trade union official, appreciate that there are times and circumstances in which labour may be forced to deny management its services in order to obtain justice. [More…]
But is it and was it a principle of trade unionism that a person should deny management his services for a political reason in a politically inspired strike or a stoppage when, before he stops, he announces that the stoppage will last for only 24 hours or 2 days, so that it becomes merely a terrorist activity in the industrial world? [More…]
Very often the demand by a union is not of an industrial nature but is of a political character, a matter sponsored by the trade union officials rather than by union members who give loyalty to their organisation and find often that that loyalty is prostituted in the interests of international politics. [More…]
In Melbourne another firm has publicly announced that it will not increase the retail price of its goods until such time as an appropriate trade union approves of the increase. [More…]
I wish to offer a few comments as to the fate of the trade union movement in regard to the present wage fixing system. [More…]
I am not saying that the trade union movement was conned at that point of time but it had to accept a jettisoning of the cost of living adjustments. [More…]
One will see from a reading of the enlightened speech made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) in another place that the Department of Labour and National Service has never attempted to implement here the productivity methods which are in use in West Germany and the Scandina vian countries where there is a much higher degree of industrial harmony because the trade union movement has been convinced that there are no lurk men taking the profits. [More…]
One of the most harmful practices which is causing the public to suffer from inflation is that over recent years it has become usual for the trade union movement to indulge in stoppages or strikes - call them what you may - in support of political campaigns. [More…]
I refer to the 2 moratorium campaigns which took place this year - both admittedly fiascos so far as the trade union movement was concerned - in which the Labor Party was allied with all kinds of peculiar people whom Senator Mulvihill would describe as being on the left of the Labor Party. [More…]
Nevertheless, these people were allied in running the moratorium campaigns and in urging members of trade unions to take a day off to participate in them. [More…]
Do the trade union members strike against the big wicked employer, the blood sucker about whom Senator Mulvihill has been jumping up and down? [More…]
Or are the strikes caused because unions are body snatching? [More…]
Of course, honourable senators opposite have not referred to the harmful practice of feather-bedding in unions. [More…]
Anyone who knows much about the transport unions is familiar with the bus driver and conductor situation. [More…]
There is feather-bedding in the unions and honourable senators opposite know it. [More…]
I agree with them to this extent: The greatest tragedy of the Trade Practices Act is that the trade union movement was deliberately excluded from it by legislation. [More…]
One would imagine that if the trade union movement is the beautiful lily white organisation that members of the Opposition would have us believe it is, it would be only too anxious to have the Commissioner of Trade Practices investigate whether the unions are engaged in restrictive trade practices. [More…]
At the election held last June, I think, in Great Britain the Labour Government which had advocated a prices and income policy was destroyed by the trade union movement because it refused to accept that policy, in spite of the pleadings of Mr Harold Wilson. [More…]
He looked for support to the trade union movement but it said, if I may say so: ‘To blazes with the nation and to blazes with the economy. [More…]
That is how the trade union movement reacted. [More…]
They said that pleas were made by responsible members of the former Labour Government - Mr Callaghan in particular - to the trade union movement, or to the British Labour Party which is controlled by the trade union movement. [More…]
It was said that the workers of that country would never get a fair share of its productivity unless the trade union movement was prepared to impose restraints on its members in respect of wildcat strikes and such actions. [More…]
How did members of the trade union movement react to that proposal? [More…]
Although honourable senators opposite scream about trying to help primary industry, a South Australian newspaper which came out today reported that a trade union has declared as black a farm on Kangaroo Island because the farmer will not employ union shearers. [More…]
We have formed better trading links with other countries - Japan, the Soviet Union. [More…]
If this were in an industrial establishment any trade union that was representing that person would immediately call a stoppage of work. [More…]
The rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - GATT- provide that, while it is legitimate for 2 or more countries to join in a customs union, no new barriers to trade should be raised through such a union. [More…]
1 address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, ls the Government aware that a union was fined last week for a breach of an award made by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this failure by a union to carry out the instructions of the Commission is the first breach of provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act recently placed on the statute book. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the union has declared that it will not pay the penalty imposed by the Industrial Court for a breach of the Act? [More…]
lt has come under notice that one union has incurred penalties under the amended provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Soviet Union is conducting a month-long series of missile firing tests in the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 29th October, until 30th November of this year? [More…]
Is it correct that the cancellation was the unilateral act of the union and the result of the refusal of the Government to sanction a 35-hour week? [More…]
Does the union action portend a wave of industrial unrest on the waterfront directed against the Australian National Line in order to force the Government to do something which it deems unwise in the national interest. [More…]
Only this morning I was contacted by a section of growers in Western Australia who informed me that they had taken considerable exception to the flexible reserve price scheme and that they had conveyed their disquiet to the executive of the wool section of the Farmers Union last Thursday or early on Friday morning after the terms of the Bill were made known when it was passed in the other place. [More…]
Although I am a member of the Farmers Union, I have nothing to do with the wool section. [More…]
Let me refer briefly to the wool section of the Farmers Union of Western Australia, having had a great deal of experience in and being one time president of the organisation. [More…]
One had been president of the union and also president of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
He was elected by the conference of the wool section of the Farmers Union. [More…]
Not only did Western Australia have 4 delegates representing the Farmers Union, it also had 2 representing the Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association, so it had 6 representatives in all. [More…]
What would be the position of an Australian boilermaker who was working in the shipyards on the Clyde when there was industrial dispute and union solidarity prevailed and the men were out on the grass and the employer took back some but not all of the men - and I do not say this in a derogatory way - all members of the Clydeside trade union, but the Australian did not get his job back? [More…]
This is a practice that was eliminated by the trade union movement many years ago. [More…]
This is not a procedure that the trade union movement has supported. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the claim by a Press commentator that there is a very large potential meat market in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a market so large that 25 million lb of meat unloaded at once would make little impression on it? [More…]
I well recall that when wool prices increased in 1951 the Australian Workers Union sought a prosperity loading in the pastoral award. [More…]
I am a great unionist at heart. [More…]
I have demonstrated my belief by joining a union. [More…]
This information came to me by virtue of discussions 1 had with members of the Federated Clerks Union who advised me that this sort of activity had been conducted by the Department. [More…]
I did mention the fact that the Federated Clerks Union came into this because some employees were paid $2 an hour and union members objected most strongly to this. [More…]
They took the matter to the union which took appropriate action with the Public Service Board to have this practice stopped. [More…]
I also asked the Minister when the Public Service Board stopped the employment of this firm after complaints from the Federated Clerks Union that the employees were underpaid? [More…]
The answers to those questions will be very useful to me and I know they are looked forward to with some degree of interest by outside bodies such as the union. [More…]
We members of the Opposition have a responsibility to a large number of unions, and when unions request us to seek information of this nature, and it is not readily forthcoming, one can understand the reasons for suspicion on the part of unions and union members. [More…]
The trade union movement opposes any reduction in the ratio which is laid down because of what it terms the exploitation of juvenile labour to the detriment of skilled tradesmen. [More…]
Whatever the merits of the proposal it does show an inclination towards the coordination of tertiary institutions such as colleges of advanced education and universities, in particular by the National Union of Australian University Students which recently changed both its name and its constitution to include amongst its members not only students at universities but also students at institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I have heard Government supporters criticise the conduct of trade unions in relation to their ballots and in the conduct of their affairs. [More…]
I am proud that 1 have been associated with the trade union movement almost all my working life. [More…]
But had any trade union attempted to carry out its business in the same shameful manner as the Government has carried out the business of the national Parliament tonight, 1 believe anybody would be entitled to criticise that trade union movement. [More…]
But no trade union would deny its members the right to express a point of view. [More…]
I repeat that 1 have been connected with the trade union movement for a large number of years and I am proud of having been connected with it, but if I were a supporter of the Government I would be ashamed of the antics which went on tonight. [More…]
I was active in a post-war rehabilitation scheme which was, I think, the most effective training scheme we have had for adult trainees, but the whole operation of that scheme involved trade union participation. [More…]
These bodies consisted of trade unions and employers organisations working in a voluntary capacity. [More…]
Assurance must be given to those who work in the industry that this is not a system designed to take employment normally occupied by a trade union member away from the trade union’s and to give it to some dilutee who is subsidised by the Federal Government. [More…]
Either the scheme is doomed to failure or there will be many critical periods for the scheme if the closest cooperation of the trade union movement is not obtained and used at such time as it is sought to place trainee women into industry. [More…]
I have noted also what he said with regard to these trainees conforming to trade union principles. [More…]
I have every confidence that the Department will keep that well in mind and that the whole scheme will be one in consonance with the spirit of the trade unions. [More…]
He was a member of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, of which I am a member. [More…]
What are the wages and working hours of aborigines employed in the pastoral industry in the Northern Territory who are not members of the North Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
The Cattle Station Industry (Northern Territory) Award applies only to employees who belong to the North Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
Nevertheless, I am informed that on advice from the Northern Territory Cattle Producers Council the award is regarded by employers in the industry as the standard regardless of whether a particular employee is a member of the union or not. [More…]
For each of the years 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969- 70, what has been the average import price into Japan of coking coal from (a) Queensland: (b) New South Wales; (c) Canada; (d) United States of America; (e) Poland; (f) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and (g) any other major’ exporters. [More…]
If the Governments failed to give a lead, who could blame the trade union movement for going to the courts seeking an improvement in wages? [More…]
But the point that I want to make tonight is that everybody appears to be able to improve his own salary and the trade unions are able to get recognition from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, but nobody seems to be concerned about the pensioners, the poorest section of our community, particularly those who rely wholly and solely on the pensions that they receive. [More…]
In Australia the trade union movement has been able to look after its members, to some degree, by appearing before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and making a very careful analysis of the economy and of price rises against demands. [More…]
There was an attempt early in the 1960s to set up a trade union organisation in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
But who blew the stomach out of trade unions there? [More…]
It has been said on several occasions in recent weeks that if you are a member of a trade union in Papua and New Guinea you will be replaced in your job or you will not be employed. [More…]
This is typical of the way that those favourable to the Australian Government have disrupted trade unionism at any level. [More…]
I think Senator Cavanagh, with his trade union background, would appreciate that it is well known that the present Greek Government is concerned with the virtual extermination of trade unionism, particularly the Greek Seamen’s Union. [More…]
In the interim, to ascertain whether or not these boys were exaggerating the situation, I discussed the conditions of Greek tanker crews with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions which, as honourable senators know, is the major world trade union body. [More…]
But one of the unions concerned - namely, the Professional Radio Employees Institute - has written to me indicating that it has received information that RTN-8 will cease ali operations from its studios at Goonellabah on 1st March 1971 and, after that date, will take programmes on relay from NRN-11. [More…]
As I have mentioned already, the union points out to me that ECN-8 Taree has closed down its operations and its studio and now is taking its programmes on relay from NRN-11. [More…]
The Government has berated the trade union movement and has said that price control is an indirect kind of suggestion to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that it should do this, that or something else about wages. [More…]
The present sectional attack of the Government merely cuts down spending in the public sector whilst Government supporters aim their shafts and arrows at the trade union movement. [More…]
It is no use blaming the trade union movement. [More…]
The Australian National Line received the co-operation of the trade union movement in regard to roll-on roll-off techniques. [More…]
If I were speaking politically I could refer to the fact that this Government, which accuses the Australian Labor Party of having an association with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, approved of our Royal Australian Air Force servicing planes so that merino rams could, be sent to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In my State the wool growers organisation, namely, the wool section of the Farmers Union, has held its annual conference and has stated that in its view the export ban should be re-imposed for the coming 12 months. [More…]
There was not very much fuss for a considerable time after that about the export of merino rams but an industrial dispute arose quite recently about whether some rams which had been bought quite legitimately at sales should be prevented by a union black ban from being exported to their new owners. [More…]
I should say, as one who has had considerable experience in the industrial movement, that I have never seen a more futile nor ill considered attempt by the trade union movement to prove its strength. [More…]
I am quite happy to make known my views not only as a member of this chamber but also as a member of an industrial union. [More…]
If I were still taking advantage of my union membership to attend trade union congresses I would say to the trade union movement for its benefit the very thing that 1 propose to say to the Senate, which is: ‘If you want to prove your strength as an industrial .movement you should at least do it efficiently. [More…]
When a trade union picks the Government as an opponent it picks the strongest possible opponent. [More…]
If the trade union movement is unable to take criticism by its own members it is no longer the organisation I originally joined. [More…]
When I joined the trade union movement it was in my experience one of the most democratic institutions ever formed. [More…]
I am a member of two unions and I think I am entitled to be critical of the trade union movement if I think that the ACTU is embarking upon a completely futile and stupid action which will only prove not the strength but the weakness of the trade union movement. [More…]
I must have been a rather peculiar ticket holder because the trade union movement “of Victoria selected me - along with 1 other” delegate - to represent it at ACTU congresses. [More…]
If Senator Cavanagh regards me as having been only a ticket holder I suggest that he should put his record alongside mine and see who has the confidence of the unions. [More…]
I repeat that the black ban was a stupid action on the part of the organised trade union movement of this, country which only added to the confusion: Indeed, the challenge to the authority of the Government itself cast a doubt in the minds of many people who originally supported the idea that the export of merino rams was not in the interests of the people of Australia and drove them over on to the other side. [More…]
But the Australian Council of Trade Unions is suggesting that the people vitally concerned in this matter are the people in the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Transport Worker’s Union, and the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
The real issue on this question of the merino rams is whether a Government elected by and responsible to the nation is to govern this country or whether it is to be a group of unionists with no greater responsibility than that which they assume in their own judgment they owe to their union members. [More…]
By what warrant and with what justification in terms of law and democracy are Mr Hawke, the ACTU and the Australian Workers Union entitled to say whether 300 sheep should be exported? [More…]
Associated with that is the blackguardly intimidation which is imposed upon people who try to overcome the union’s black ban. [More…]
What we have seen is the imposition of a black ban by a variety of unions. [More…]
They have not said so but it would be surprising if these various unions were capable of expressing a more valid opinion than the Australian Wool Industry Conference or the Australian Government as to whether or not the wool industry was in’ jeopardy. [More…]
Let me mention the names of the unions who consulted with the Australian : Council of Trade Unions to impose” this black ban. [More…]
They were the Australian Railways Union, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Storemen and Packers Union, the Transport Workers’ Unions the Federated Clerks Union, the Wool and Basil Workers’ Federation and the” Australian Federated Union of- Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
But on this issue I believe the people of Australia prefer the judgment of the Australian Government to the judgment of that group of unions. [More…]
lt may be the sort of situation that could require drastic action, but it is up to these unions to indicate the type of danger the economy is facing. [More…]
The reasons why the ACTU and these unions have decided to impose a black ban is because they have been asked to do so by leading graziers. [More…]
What has the Australian trade union movement come to when it will act at the bidding of leading graziers? [More…]
lt would make the stalwarts of the union movement of 60 or 70 years ago turn in their graves. [More…]
The Transport Workers’ Union has put a black ban on the export of Australian Merino rams. [More…]
The Federal Secretary (Mr Ted Harris) announced ihi, last night after a plea by leading Victorian and New South Wales graziers to unions to help slop the export. [More…]
lt would appear that that was the motivation for the unions to act. [More…]
The meeting was called following an’ appeal to the unions by the Victorian and New South Wales graziers. [More…]
I appreciate the point made by Senator Prowse but I do feel that he cannot seriously expect the trade union movement to have a referendum on any issue, because this is one area in which referendums are absolutely abhorrent to what trade unions are prepared to adhere. [More…]
What basis is that for a union or a group of unions of this country to say that they will take industrial action which could bring this country to a standstill in particular circumstances just because that union or that group of unions suggests that it believes the Government has not consulted or listened to a wide cross section of the community? [More…]
If this Government ever allows the country to get to a stage where unions determine what policies are to take effect then it is a stage at which the Government is abnegating the task which it has been elected to perform. [More…]
It was highly encouraging to hear what was said by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) on 4th February when the union ban on the export of the merinos was defeated. [More…]
The ban was defeated notwithstanding the boasting of Mr Hawke and others that if the union said that sheep were not to go out they would not -go out. [More…]
In that motion there is not one word about any question, debate, consideration or decision with regard to the action that was taken by the trade union movement. [More…]
They want to substitute thetrade union movement for the Parliament of this country and they want to substitute the law, or lack of law, of the trade unions for the law of the Parliament. [More…]
fairly close knowledge of the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
I know that that organisation circularised every branch of the Farmers Union and asked for its opinion on this issue. [More…]
When I was so rudely interrupted I was telling honourable senators, in case they did not know, that the Farmers Union circulated every branch of that organisation and asked whether it supported the lifting of the embargo on merino rams. [More…]
The Farmers Union sought these opinions because the matter was being discussed by the Australian Wool Industry Conference which, despite efforts by the Opposition to rubbish it. [More…]
The Farmers Union of Western Australia- [More…]
The farmers of Western Australia are represented by 2 organisations, the Farmers Union and the Pastoralists and Graziers Association. [More…]
The Farmers Union elected 5 members and a similar number was elected from the Pastoralists and Graziers Association. [More…]
It is the sort of process that a trade union uses. [More…]
Honourable senators might as well repudiate the Australian Council of Trade Unions as to repudiate the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
The Government desires to collect the fine imposed on the Moulders Union simply in pursuance of its duty to enforce the law. [More…]
I have in front of me the ‘Free Trade Union News’, a publication of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organisations. [More…]
I think it is sufficient to say that it refers to bad relations with the International Labor Organisation and the general opinion of the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions on this subject. [More…]
The new agreement also leaves open the possibility of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics joining that agreement. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is an important wheat country which was not in the International Grains Arrangement. [More…]
ls the Leader of the Government aware, that the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is considering, a national 24-hour strike to bring to the Government’s attention the plight and difficulties of pensioners? [More…]
now and thereby avert industrial action by the trade union movement? [More…]
Trade Unions was considering a 24-hour, strike. [More…]
the best interests of the trade union movement, and to try to find solutions to problems. [More…]
Yesterday I was asked a question by Senator Mulvihill regarding representations by union officials to the Government in regard to the uniform interpretation and application of regulations and instructions concerning meat inspections, and I said that 1 would obtain some information for him. [More…]
No change has been made in the decisions conveyed in writing to the Meat Employees Union concerning trade union representation on the Australian Meat Board and the Meat Industry Advisory Committee. [More…]
The union controlling the printing industry owns 1.000 shares. [More…]
I am in favour of the Bill, which seeks to allow a representative of the students’ union to serve on the Australian National University Council. [More…]
If we approve of a representative of the student’s union- [More…]
Unfortunately at the present time the Student’s Union has appointed the editorial staff for whatever publication comes out of the University. [More…]
Therefore that representative of the Union should take the responsibility for any publication. [More…]
It happened in relation to the repeal of the Taft-Hartley laws, when the United States had repressive legislation against the trade union movement. [More…]
I mention Henry Pietracci an official of the health and research union, and 1 am sure that some senators from Victoria would know Bill Nowak, a post-war migrant secretary of the Pastrycooks Union of Victoria. [More…]
In canvassing our suggestion for the setting up of State advisory committees I have mentioned a number of successful trade union officials who were post-war migrants, and I have mentioned also officers of the parents and citizens organisations and others from independent schools. [More…]
I have named deliberately, with the approval of Senator Hendrickson, a couple of trade union officials because the unions to which they belong have many female members. [More…]
They could encourage many union members to attend the classes. [More…]
I suppose that it should be far from me as a trade unionist to suggest dilutation in any profession or calling, but I do believe that this is a way in which this gap can be breached. [More…]
I may be using a trade union analogy, but I believe that if an official of say the pastrycooks union sees somebody in his calling who has ability he should be able to have that person upgraded into one of these courses. [More…]
Only recently we have interested the Building Workers Industrial Union, New South Wales Branch, in providing classes in the employers’ time at building industry job sites in Sydney. [More…]
Nevertheless the Department of Immigration has had useful discussions with representatives of employer federations and the trade unions. [More…]
Cuba is selling substantial quantities to the Soviet Union. [More…]
This matter was brought to my attention by Mr Gillman, a Commonwealth organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, who recently visited Groote Eylandt on behalf of his union. [More…]
He, his union and members of his organisation are very concerned at the inadequacy of medical facilities available to workers engaged on heavy construction projects at Groote Eylandt, and facilities available to their dependent families. [More…]
In 1966 the mining venture at Groote Eylandt got under way and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, on behalf of its members, negotiated an award with the mining company. [More…]
The union brought to the notice of the company the situation that existed in relation to the inadequacy of medical facilities then available. [More…]
On behalf of the union I raised the matter with the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes). [More…]
Senator MULVIHILL (New South Wales) fi 0.56) - I rise tonight at the behest of the New South Wales Branch of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia to further its campaign for adequate Commonwealth Government protection for civilian employees in South Vietnam. [More…]
If the Electrical Trades Union decided to ban its members from going to South Vietnam, it would be subject to all the vilification that has at times been applied to the Seamens’ Union of Australia or, for that matter, the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
Has the Minister taken any action to meet the request by a deputation consisting of the Federal President and the Secretary of the Meat Employees’ Union on 20th October 1970 towards (a) uniformity of the Departmental regulations relating to veterinary inspectors in the meat industry, and (b) trade union representation on the Australia Meat Board and the Meat Advisory Committee. [More…]
No change has been made in the decisions conveyed in writing to the Meat Employees’ Union concerning Trade Union representation on The Australian Meat Board and the Meat Industry Advisory Committee. [More…]
We recognise the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
lt may well be that if the Minister or the Control Board will not act - and 1 am afraid the Board itself cannot act much more than it has to date because it appears to have become a toothless tiger against these commercial interests - then the trade union movement itself may have to take action as it did in the Dunlop case, lt may well be that if it is found that victimisation is taking place because Australians are concerned about the extent of Americanisation of their country per medium of the television screen, that the trade union movement will have to consider boycotting certain stations. [More…]
I am concerned about this from the point of view of the union journals, because I think the only way to keep people interested is for them to get the journals and be informed about what is happening and so prevent the control of a union falling into the hands of one or two people. [More…]
1 know that a number of unions instead of posting their journals once a month now post them once in 6 months. [More…]
However, I suggest that it is unusual for a government to say that growers should be obliged to pay a levy for purposes of research, or for any other matter, and then criticise trade unions because they require their members to pay a levy or because they object strenuously when someone who takes up employment in an industry fails to join the appropriate trade union. [More…]
I repeat that this action of the Government in imposing a levy and insisting that growers pay it is entirely different from the attitude it adopts when trade unionists band themselves together and demand that all people working in an industry shall be members of a union. [More…]
But that is not so in the case of a union, or an employer if it comes to that. [More…]
A union can be fined $1,000, and an employer or the holder of an office in an organisation, such as a trade union secretary, can be fined $400 or imprisoned for 12 months. [More…]
of this Bill a person who fails to comply with the requirement to furnish certain details can be fined up to $200 whereas in similar circumstances a secretary of a trade union can be gaoled for failure to do some things that are nowhere near as serious as what is contemplated by the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
If the secretary of a union fails to do that - incidentally, I suggest that it is a domestic matter within his own union - he can be fined $200 or imprisoned for 12 months, or both. [More…]
For example, if a person records more than one vote in a trade union ballot he can be fined $200 or imprisoned for 12 months or both. [More…]
I ask honourable senators on the Government side to examine their consciences to see whether this is not discriminatory and directed towards persons in the trade union movement. [More…]
The organisations which supported he declaration were the People’s Front Struggling for Peace; Saigon Student Union; Van Hanh Student Union, of the Buddhist University in Saigon; Buddhist Student Association; Women’s Movement for the Right to Live; Movement for the Right to Live of Children and Orphans who are Victims of the War; Union of Private School Teachers; Unified Progressive Labor Forces; Progressive Cao Dai Scho lars Group, the Cao Dai being an important religious group; Minh Duc People’s Movement; National Progressive Force; Struggle Committee for the People’s Right to Live; Tin Sang Group, ‘Tiri Sang’ being the largest newspaper, the words meaning morning news’; and People’s Self Determination Group. [More…]
I think that even the Minister himself must regret the introduction of such a small amount as 50c which has necessitated such an attack in the other chamber against the trade union movement, its leaders, the arbitration system and everything which the Minister for Social Services could think of. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the demand by the trade union movement for an increase of $5 a week is supported by practically every church leader throughout the Commonwealth and by practically every decent citizen? [More…]
I assure honourable senators that we and the trade union movement generally believe that an increase of $5 a week should be paid so that pensioners can enjoy our affluent society as it is often called. [More…]
Despite the criticism by governments of the present Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, it is fair to say that the Commission has discharged its task in accordance with the Act and, to a large extent, in accordance with justice and the propositions advanced by the union movement. [More…]
Workers generally, through the good offices and representations of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, have been able to get regular increases in the national wage. [More…]
If these increases in the national wage occasion price increases because of the lack of controls by the Commonwealth Government, it is certainly not the fault of the Commission or the trade union movement. [More…]
Has the Postmaster-General seen a report that plans are under way for a1-hour prime time worldwide programme, via satellite in commemoration of the United Nations International Childrens’ Emergency Fund, and that the programme, which is being promoted by the International Telecommunications Union as part of its world telecommunication exhibition scheduled for Geneva from 17th to 27th June 1971 will be arranged by an international group that will include the United States networks, the European Broadcasting Union and other national and international bodies. [More…]
I understand that the International Telecommunications Union has offered the European Broadcasting Union free use of the global satellite on the occasion of the World Telecommunications Conference in Geneva in June 1971, and that the presentation of an hour long television programme to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of UNICEF is being considered to mark the occasion. [More…]
As an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union the ABC has been provisionally invited, and has agreed, to participate in the satellite programme. [More…]
Profits of companies these days are no longer going to some tiny rich minority, as the latter day Marxists and trade union opportunists would have us believe. [More…]
Members of trade unions who find the value of their wages eroded have their trade union organisations which can take employers to the court and have adjustments made in wages in accordance with the rise in the level of prices. [More…]
1 - Interparliamentary Union - New Delhi Conference 1969 - Report of Australian Delegation. [More…]
It found, to its sorrow, that he had a strong industrial union behind him - the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has seen reports that leading South African unionists including the President of the South African Council of Mining Unions, the Secretary of the South African Confederation of Labour and the Secretary of South Africa’s trade union council have severely criticised those Australian trade unionists who are threatening to disrupt and boycott the proposed South African cricket tour, stating that trade unions should not meddle in things like this at all? [More…]
I also ask the Minister whether he has seen reports of an alliance between the Australian Labor Party and trade unions to prevent the proposed tour? [More…]
Australian trade unions is to force politics into those Australian ways of life which we, as Australians^ have always proudly boasted are completely divorced from politics? [More…]
I have seen reports that trade union leaders and Labor leaders in South Africa have strongly deprecated the intervention of the Australian Labor Party combined with trade unions . [More…]
I say to Senator Young that trade unions are afforded privileges in the law of this country for purposes of industrial advancement and for no other reason. [More…]
Is the Minister for Health in conflict with the proposals and policy of the Government to stop inflationary trends and also the Government’s criticism of trade union claims for increased wages? [More…]
Is he aware whether it is correct that that editorial was headed ‘An Appeal to Mr Hawke’, that it said that the appeal was to the Australian Labor Party and trade union movement to reconsider their decision to boycott the Springbok cricket tour, and that it added: We must tell them that by their actions they are harming the antiracialist cause in South Africa’? [More…]
The article also said that the Labor: Party and the trade unions in Australia were rewarding South African cricketers-: - , : . [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONAll T can say to the honourable senator in relation to the political side of his question - it is clearly political - is that if the Prime Minister chooses to have an early election the consequences for the Labor Party will be disastrous, particularly against the background of the situation today when the Labor Party no longer has the control of the great trade union movement which has been the backbone of its political life for the last 50 years. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government seen reports in today’s Press regarding the establishment by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of an air force fighter base in Ceylon at the invitation of the Government of Ceylon? [More…]
I understand that the Soviet Union is supplying arms and personnel to Ceylon in response to a request from the Government of Ceylon to meet an immediate insurgency threat. [More…]
The Soviet Union and India are the only countries so far which have provided personnel. [More…]
In the case of the Soviet Union it was because it is unlikely that Ceylon could have provided personnel who were trained to use Soviet equipment. [More…]
Will the Minister for Health inquire into certain matters which have been raised by Mr Paddy Carroll, secretary of the major trade union in the Northern Territory? [More…]
They have formed their own trade union, the European Economic Community, and they are not going to worry about our future. [More…]
Does he agree that the decision of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement to boycott such tours is gaining great public support from many influential quarters? [More…]
The Government of India became so fearful of the chauvinism of the People’s Republic of China that it entered into treaty arrangements with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
But I have lived: long enough to witness a so-called thaw in the attitude of the Union of Soviet: Socialist Republics in 1953 and the subsequent freezing that took place after Mr Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Communist Party and to wonder what the attitude of the People’s Republic of China will be in another 5 or 6 years when Chairman Mao, the present great Khan of China, goes to the heavenly kingdom, and Mr Lin Piao and another group of men who are mostly Army men who have themselves embedded in the matrix of power in the People’s Republic of China take his place. [More…]
In 1968 a committee was set up within the Inter-Parliamentary Union to determine the - conditions of membership of that body. [More…]
It was not until November 1933 that the United States under the late President Roosevelt recognised the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The reason why the United States Government refused to recognise the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of Russia was not that it did not realise it was the Government but that it wanted to use the fear of Communism for domestic consumption to frighten people into voting for it when polling day came around. [More…]
In view of the agreement decided upon at the National Labour Advisory Council meeting last week on the payment of union fines under outdated legislation, and subsequently supported by the Chairman of ARC Industries Ltd, will the Ministers involved announce their acceptance of this agreement and not continue with an attitude which could provoke a national strike to secure a political advantage and which could create the atmosphere for an early election before the Government may or will have to introduce more stringent credit restrictions and controls? [More…]
For example, someone might take the view that the Soviet Union’s treatment of lews is similar to the treatment meted eat by the Nazis and might give a Nazi salute, to a visiting. [More…]
Can honourable senators imagine what would happen if a number of students in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Red China entered the office of an administrator or a leader in the Government and performed as these people did? [More…]
They burst into the union offices. [More…]
For 6 years on Trades Hall Council meeting nights they closed the balcony of the Trades Hall and stationed uniformed policy on duty because they said it was the duty of the trade union movement to stop demonstrations from getting out of hand. [More…]
Even the trade union movement has learnt from experience. [More…]
The ACTU merely said to the members of the Transport Workers Union: ‘You by pass any of the firms connected with British Tobacco’. [More…]
I would protect her as a member of the same industrial organisation - the Federal Clerks Union - and would expect members of the Australian Labor Party to back me in hat regard. [More…]
I know of his tremendous role in the trade union movement in New South Wales and ‘I did- not have any doubts that his impact- in this chamber would be anything but effective. [More…]
bear injustice in the trade union movement because of economic circumstances. [More…]
Reference was made to unruliness in the trade union movement. [More…]
Let us consider how a secretary of a trade union can get his members to play the game as far as the law is concerned. [More…]
A person whom they thought was leading them on some lost cause would get a rude awakening at the next union election. [More…]
I have seen it happen at a trade union meeting where somebody who has tried to be the peacemaker has had to be the enforcer. [More…]
He referred to the fact that, the 1936 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, section 125 guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. [More…]
On receipt of a copy of the code I sent circulars to the building trade unions in South Australia and the federal branch of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
I was of the opinion that those unions would offer very strong criticism of the code because I did not think that it conformed with sound building practice. [More…]
When it comes to financial arrangements, it was pointed out to us, when the break with Stalin came, while the American bankers cheered them on to stand up against the Soviet Union, this was not reflected in the loan terms that they got. [More…]
The union now is striking because of disagreement with the rate of pay so settled. [More…]
When the usual application was made to conduct the procession, the city council refused permission, but in discussions held before the procession the council offered to give permission on condition that the Union Jack was carried at the head of the procession. [More…]
He said that permission had been refused originally but was finally granted on the condition that the Union Jack was carried at the front of the procession. [More…]
The carrying of the Union Jack made it a lawful procession for which they had a permit I referred these facts to my informant, Senator Hendrickson, and asked him if this was so. [More…]
He said that it was but in his interpretation of events the fact that the marchers’ burned the Union Jack at the top of Bourke Street made it an unlawful procession, because the conditions under which the permission was granted were not carried out. [More…]
Recently I had the honour of representing this Parliament at an InterParliamentary Union conference in Venezuela. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is a substantial producer of tin but on balance a net importer, has signed the Agreement for the first time. [More…]
I understand that this is due to certain factors, the main ones being the unusual weather experienced in Queensland, the prohibition - now lifted - on mutton shipments to the United States of America, shipments of beef to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the lower level of stocks carried forward this year compared with last year. [More…]
The council subsequently advised the committee a few days before the march was to take place that permission would be granted on condition that the Union Jack must be carried at the head of the procession. [More…]
It was not until the march was about to commence that a poor old derelict who had been hired lo carry the Union Jack took his place at the head of the procession. [More…]
Before the march had proceeded more than a dozen yards this derelict was assaulted by 2 young Irishmen who were subsequently arrested and fined, but not before they had dragged the Union Jack to the ground, poured petrol or kerosene on it and set it alight. [More…]
The march was resumed and proceeded up Bourke Street without the Union Jack, and that made it an unlawful procession. [More…]
Many of the marchers roared with laughter when they were told of the scuffle and the burning of the Union Jack. [More…]
I wonder whether it could be possible that Senator McManus, the great anti-Labor and law and order man today, also roared with laughter when the Union Jack was burned. [More…]
To complete the story, the Melbourne City Council prosecuted the organisers of the procession because they had failed to honour their obligation to see that the Union Jack was carried respectfully from the start of the march to the finish. [More…]
We have seen the subsequent antitrade union and anti-civil rights legislation. [More…]
If we oppose the harassment of members of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Yugoslav Embassy or any other embassy, which I do, then in equal right we oppose the harassment of members of the South African Embassy or any other embassy in Australia. [More…]
The Communist Party and left wing union officials issued threats that by the application of black bans on the labour force in that project they would stultify the project that was being conducted in the interests of the people. [More…]
The Minister made no reference to any application by Aeroflot or the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Soviet Union and Aeroflot have been pressing heavily over the last 2 years for regular landing rights in Australia? [More…]
What is a fact is that the Soviet Union, in the normal process, would have had some discussions with the Australian Government on a foreign affairs level. [More…]
I think that last year,’ in about August, the new Soviet Ambassador made a courtesy call on me, which was very kind of him, and he discussed the general question of Australia-Soviet Union flying relationships. [More…]
To the best of my knowledge at this time my Department has no firm application from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or its carrier Aeroflot. [More…]
As this type of costly and unnecessary strike has been encouraged by the militant attitudes of some union leaders, will the Government do all in its power to discourage and check this type of industrial action which is so costly? [More…]
I believe it speaks volumes for the work of the officials of the Waterside Workers Federation that they have been able to adjust the wages of members of their union in line with those of a skilled industry. [More…]
It is to be regretted that the Federation in some branches has also become the vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
There was one quite notable defamation action in Britain in which a prominent trade union official obtained damages from a newspaper which had accused him of being anti-socialist. [More…]
He regarded this as insulting and defamatory, and the court held that it was insulting and defamatory in view of the position which he occupied within the British Labour Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
I refer to a reported statement on behalf of the wheat section of the Farmers Union in Western Australia that New South Wales has used money made available to cover special allocations of prime hard wheat for the general run of deliveries with the result that New South Wales growers have been paid for an additional 14 million bushels. [More…]
The convenors are UNESCO and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) in collaboration withILO (International Labour Organisation) and ITU (International Telecommunication Union). [More…]
It appears that at least 2 organisations - namely, the Australian Primary Producers Union Pig Committee in Queensland and the Victorian Farmers Union Pig Committee - are opposed to the payment of this levy. [More…]
I am advised that the attitude of the Victorian Farmers Union is that, whilst not demanding a deferment of this legislation, it would prefer to see a referendum on this matter. [More…]
At a recent meeting of the Victorian Farmers Union Pig Executive the following resolution was carried: [More…]
Indeed, it would seem that the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation - the Commonwealth body - represents the majority of pig producers throughout Australia although there does appear to be a considerable number in Victoria and some in Queensland who are still associated with the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
On the New South Wales council there are representatives of organisations such as the Australian Pig Society, New South Wales branch, the Australian Primary Producers Union, the North Coast Pig Producers and Research Council, The United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association, and the Pig Producers Co-operative. [More…]
Through amalgamation of their organisations, the Australian Primary Producers Union and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association have become one body. [More…]
Although the APPU and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association came together as the Victorian Farmers Union and are affiliated with the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, that body is not affiliated with the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation. [More…]
In Western Australia the Farmers Union was formed some years ago as an amalgamation of the Wheat and Woolgrowers Association and the Wheatgrowers Union. [More…]
Every effort has been made by the Victorian Council to have the Pig Division of the Victorian Farmers Union affiliated with the Council. [More…]
The Victorian Council has without success repeatedly invited the Victorian Farmers Union, which is not affiliated with the Council or the Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation, to join it so as to make possible full representation in the Federation, through the Council, of all organised commercial pig producers in Victoria. [More…]
The management of Qantas has to learn that if an enterprise is to be successful, it has to run harmoniously and I believe, after talking to a number of trade union officials who have regular dealings with Qantas, that much more harmony can be brought about in the company’s industrial relations programme. [More…]
Senator Malcolm Scott has represented the Australian Parliament on several overseas delegations and lead the Australian delegation to the 5lst Annual Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at Brazilia in 1962. [More…]
He was also a member of Australian delegations to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Canberra in 1959 and the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference at Copenhagen in 1964. [More…]
He first became involved in the Labor movement when he joined the South Australian Vehicle Builders Union as an organiser. [More…]
He, too, travelled through the Vehicle Builders Union into high office in the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In the early days of the Australian Workers Union in Tasmania, Bert was a full-time organiser until he fell into difficulties in that Union, which has been characterised by certain disputations over the years. [More…]
To you, Mr President, with your record term and your untiring and unswerving endeavour to create the perspective of this Parliament in our kindred parliaments overseas through the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the InterParliamentary Union, may I say that we are greatly in your debt. [More…]
We note that this new Agreement includes- major exporters and importers such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Brazil. [More…]
As a trade unionist I can attend national wage case hearings besides hearing detailed reports from my trade union secretary. [More…]
What action does the Minister intend to take to enable fund contributors to have the same rights and privileges as trade unionists, so that they can find out how and why these big funds are disgorging their reserves? [More…]
As Senator Douglas McClelland has just reminded me, there should be a trade union representative on the Tariff Board. [More…]
I understand that there is a vacancy at the present time, After all, over the years the trade unions have produced some of the finest brains in the Commonwealth, having a background knowledge of the needs, the hopes and the aspirations of the ordinary working men and the salaried people of this country. [More…]
I would think that a member of the trade union movement would be of advantage as a member of the Tariff Board. [More…]
But I do not think any of them have been closely associated with the trade union movement or the work force. [More…]
I believe the picture would be completed by having this very important section of the community, the trade union movement, represented directly on the Board. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne made the comment that the Tariff Board consisted of very capable men but it could well stand amongst its membership someone from the trade union movement or the work force in general. [More…]
The trade union movement is quite capable of doing, this if it wishes to do so. [More…]
Although all people in this country support the concept of full employment, we must appreciate that this has enabled militancy in certain sections of the trade union movement to take advantage of the situation and which make demands for increased wages. [More…]
There was conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western Powers. [More…]
In 1939 the Soviet Union bad made territorial gains at the expense of Finland, Poland, Romania, parts of north-east Germany and eastern Czechoslovakia. [More…]
All armies, other- Unas those of the Soviet Union, began to move out of Europe. [More…]
The Soviet Union maintained its forces on a wartime footing and kept armament production at full speed. [More…]
The Soviet Union refused to participate and denounced the Plan. [More…]
An article entitled ‘The High Cost of Wage Inflation’ tells of the abuse of union monopoly power as being at the heart of the new inflation that threatens to sink us all. [More…]
I refer here to the force of union power that perhaps prompts the community to think that the type of thing that the Government is engaging in at present is a particularly good thing and it will do something to dampen inflation. [More…]
This article appeared in ‘Fortune’ magazine of February 1971 which discusses union power and the new inflation. [More…]
The previous article which I mentioned referred clearly to union power and to the fact that productivity of British industries rises at less than 2 per cent per annum while wages are rising at approximately 13 per cent per annum. [More…]
Collective bargaining and association within trade and industry are equally as moral and honourable, in my opinion, as collective bargaining by labour in trade union activity. [More…]
This is an example of one combined industrialcommercial enterprise, namely Bourkes, blatantly using the industrial strength of the trade union movement to foster its own interests. [More…]
depends on being members of a union and adhering to what the union decides. [More…]
If there is to be, an adherence to the dictates of union executives in the way that Mr Hawke claims he can require the dictates of his organisation to be observed, some people will, in the pursuit of an objective, be denying themselves the employment which they regard as vital for their own and their families’ welfare. [More…]
Whilst this may represent a desirable recognition by the trade union movement of the advantages of what the Government has always been advocating, namely the pursuit of activities for profit, it still does have the consequence, if it is applied ruthlessly as Mr Hawke was prepared to apply it, of depriving some unionists of the employment on which they depend. [More…]
I also think it is strangely inconsistent for the ACTU to be urging the principles of compulsory unionism and collective action as a condition of the supply of labour whilst it regards resale price maintenance as not permissible as a condition of the supply of goods. [More…]
I hope that the same principle will be applied in order to break down what is at present the vicious application of a principle of compulsory unionism and collective action. [More…]
Let me state at the outset, Mr Temporary Chairman, that I am pleased that you have directed our attention to the fact that we are considering the clauses of the Bill in Committee and not making second reading speeches in which we can express our spleen and hatred, because I have never seen such an irresponsible attitude taken by a responsible Minister as was adopted by the Minister for Health (Senator Greenwood) today when he was granted an extension of time in making his second reading speech and proceeded to direct a tirade of abuse against the trade union movement. [More…]
I think that my remarks are appropriate because the stage has been reached where the trade union movement has forced the Government to act. [More…]
Despite the Minister’s protestations and what may have been said previously by Government leaders, no legislation was introduced until the trade union movement acted. [More…]
No-one apologises for the trade union movement exercising force for the simple purpose of reducing retail prices and whether or not this action was to enable Bourke’s store to make a profit, it has had the effect of reducing retail prices to the community, so it is not true that the action has benefited Bourke’s store alone. [More…]
The same observation applies in respect of that legislation, that until such time as the new code comes in, which could take many months, seamen will not receive the benefit of the improvements which have been advocated for many years by the Opposition and by the trade union movement. [More…]
The worker will now have the opportunity, or his union will have the opportunity, of obtaining from the board the facts relating to his case. [More…]
However expert an officer might be in handling workers compensation claims for his department he would not be as expert as a trade union official who has to consider some accident case every day and takes steps to institute claims on somebody’s behalf, often where the circumstances of a case are not clear. [More…]
The trade union official knows the history of a case and deals with the lawyer who advises him. [More…]
So any committee which does not have trade union representation is doomed to failure. [More…]
Even in the age in which we live, with hire purchase and other week by week commitments, some people, particularly critics of the trade union movement, seem to have the idea that when a person goes on to workers compensation he is in receipt of the George Cross. [More…]
The former Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, Mr Dave Rees, who I think is now a union official in Tasmania, has pointed out to me some of the industrial tug-of-wars that he has indulged in with the industrial officer at the Garden Island dockyard and the Treasury. [More…]
The agitation of the union, my overtures and those of ons of my parliamentary colleagues were never really rejected, but it was like a ping pong match. [More…]
As late as last Saturday I was conferring with Harry Blythe, a delegate of the Building Workers Union. [More…]
I have already regaled the Senate with some of the problems of members of the New South Wales Branch of the Electrical Trades Union who were employed by a private Australian contractor to work in Saigon. [More…]
If the trade union movement were to slap on a ban and say that it will not offer its members to do this work, certain people - I will not name them - are likely to say the trade union movement is treasonable. [More…]
We would urge the Government to consider setting up such a committee to consider improvements or submissions which have been suggested by the various trade union bodies and which have emerged from debates in both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
For many years as a trade union official I advocated that the South Australian State Parliament should amend its compensation legislation to bring it up to the level of the Commonwealth Workmen’s Compensation Act, such was the high esteem in which the Commonwealth Act was held, its benefits being far in excess of the benefits granted under State Acts. [More…]
No-one can say that this Bill is satisfactory to the Australian Labor Party or the trade union movement. [More…]
It will be a safeguard for those who have a financially strong union behind them which can fight their case to the stage of appeal to the court. [More…]
A man will be disadvantaged, however, by being in a small union. [More…]
A man will be disadvantaged by not being in a union at all. [More…]
We now come to the provisions in the Bill for compensation coverage of members of the Services who are covered by no union at all. [More…]
One of the results of this legislation, in view of the lack of union representation for those, such as servicemen, who will be covered by it, will be that these matters will come more within the realm of the politician who will have to be the adviser and advocate of those whose injuries are covered by this Bill, in order to sec that some measure of justice is meted out to them. [More…]
The Government should exercise the right to appoint one member, one member should be a representative from the trade union movement and the other member should be a representative from the employers. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that Mr Hawke represents the national trade union movement and that his policies and decisions are endorsed by that movement throughout the States. [More…]
Does he realise that Mr Hawke is also a member of the National Labour Advisory Committee that in this capacity and in other capacities in relation to labour matters heads the trade union delegation to the Government which confers with the Minister for Labour and National Service and his colleagues, and that in the circumstances the degree of conciliation and good relations which exists between labour and management must be preserved? [More…]
Does the Minister accept the fact that his published comments, including his speeches as reported in Hansard, are highly offensive not only to Mr Hawke but also to the trade union movement because the policies which Mr Hawke enunciates are supported by the trade union movement? [More…]
Therefore, having regard for the objectives of conciliation in Australia to which I have referred, I ask the Minister whether in the future he will be more moderate when he criticises the men of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement does not accept that in its full form. [More…]
Yet when the Opposition is prepared to co-operate in order to get the legislation passed in the dying hours of this session of Parliament - and bear in mind that the early closing of this session has been criticised severely throughout Australia and even in other parts of the world - the Minister has the effrontery to come into this place and to taunt the Australian Workers Union because it has not moved amendments to the Bill. [More…]
Did I say Australian Workers Union? [More…]
We accept, and so do the unions, this compensation legislation as an urgent piece of legislation which is long overdue. [More…]
The trade union movement spent thousands of dollars on its investigation of the code, as it did on its investigation of the March 1970 code which was introduced and found to be faulty. [More…]
Many of the suggestions from the Labor party and the union movement have been incorporated in this legislation. [More…]
The petition of the Tasmanian Pensioners Union on behalf of the undersigned citizens of Tasmania respectfully showeth: [More…]
Were members of the South African Rugby Union team allowed into this chamber and the chamber of the House of Representatives during their visit to Canberra several weeks ago? [More…]
Who granted the unusual privilege to the members of the South African Rugby Union team? [More…]
official of the theatrical employees union, was in a very agitated state when he telephoned me tonight and asked how this boy, who is an alien in the United States, could be subject to call up by the United States Army. [More…]
On examining the unanswered questions on the notice paper I find that on 7th April this year I asked, questions in relation to actions which, it was implied, could be taken against the trade union movement of this country because certain trade unions, as of right, held a ballot among their own members for the purpose of deciding whether they would amalgamate. [More…]
It seemed to indicate that there was something radically wrong with trade unions wanting to amalgamate because they had common interests. [More…]
The amalgamation referred to was based on a ballot of members of the unions concerned. [More…]
lt was implied in the question that some great monolithic organisation was to be created in this country, under the control of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, by virtue of the proposed amalgamation. [More…]
I asked where they stood in relation to this matter and if, as was implied in the question asked by Senator Kane, the Commonwealth Government could interfere in the decisions of unions made democratically by the rank and file, why did it not or could it not equally interfere in the amalgamations of these great monolithic organisations, such as the banks and other companies that have amalgamated not only with organisations in this country but also with overseas organisations. [More…]
1 suggest that, had I not asked those questions following the question asked by Senator Kane on that day, we would have had an answer to Senator Kane’s question telling the people of Australia how terrible the trade union movement was because it carried out a democratic ballot among its members in order to amalgamate certain organisations and how terrible it was that finances would be amalgamated to fight the cause of the workers in this country. [More…]
Can he further confirm that the current going price for wool in the Soviet Union is in the vicinity of 300c per lb? [More…]
Do we still persist with the outmoded approach of requiring the buyer to come to us rather than going out and selling wool where countries like Union of Soviet Socialist Republics cannot produce alternatives to wool which they obviously need in substantial quantities and which they would buy if reasonable trading arrangements were negotiated? [More…]
In view of the industrial unrest that is ravaging Australia, particularly South Australia, and the fact that an irresponsible militant minority group within the trade union movement has cost the wage earners something like S56m during the last 12 months, will the Minister ask his colleague to exert every effort to bring these deliberations to a speedy conclusion so that the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act can be strengthened and upgraded to give adequate protection to all parties and help to restore industrial peace to Australia? [More…]
Is the Government fully informed as to the purposes of the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union of Australia? [More…]
What will be the total membership of the amalgamated union, its total income and the total amount of the political fund? [More…]
According to ‘A Handbook of Australian Trade Unions and Employees’ Association’ published in 1970 after a survey by D. W. Rawson and Suzanne Wrightson of the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, the total membership of the new union should be approximately 150,000. [More…]
Separate ballots were held by each union in respect of its own members. [More…]
The ballots and the counting of votes were conducted by officials appointed in accordance with the respective union’s rules as registered under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The following figures were released by the unions of the numbers who voted in connection with the proposed merger: [More…]
The views of the appropriate union are generally sought unless the application is one involving an entertainer of particular standing. [More…]
Union Oil Development Corp. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improvingthe industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of affecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
How often in strike decisions such as these are the rank and file members of the union consulted? [More…]
All too frequently the union bureaucracy calls a strike and relies on the union’s solidarity and coercive power to give it effect. [More…]
I have spent almost a lifetime in the Labor movement and in the unions, and nobody appreciates mont than I the necessity for the unionist to have the right to strike in order to better his working conditions and improve his wage earnings. [More…]
But the use of political strikes is outside the role of trade unions. [More…]
On 18th September 1970 the maritime and building groups of unions ceased work in support of the Victorian moratorium. [More…]
On 2nd February 1971 the Australian Builders Labourers Federation struck over the arrest of Norman Gallagher, a Communist union official who was arrested on a charge of physical assault. [More…]
On 14th February 1971 and again on 25th March 1971 the seamens and waterside workers unions held stoppages of various types to protest against the Greek Government. [More…]
There exists already on our statute book an Act of Parliament designed to prevent union usurpation of the Commonwealth defence powers. [More…]
I would suggest that all the Government needs to do is to take Dr Evatt’s Bill of 1947 and change the words as I have outlined, and in that it will have the very Act necessary to prohibit the misuse of union power. [More…]
The proposition contained in the motion reveals a lack of understanding of the role of trade unions in society. [More…]
If it were carried it would mean that the trade union movement would be reduced to impotence. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or. [More…]
The trade union movement is part of the political process of this community. [More…]
Not only in Australia but all over the world trade unions take part in the political decisions which are made, including those which are not related immediate.ly to wages and conditions. [More…]
The right of the trade unions to engage in political decision making and to pursue political purposes was the subject of challenge in this community not so long ago. [More…]
In a case in which one of our colleagues figured very prominently, the High Court decided that trade unions had the right to pursue political purposes and to impose political levies on their members in order to pursue those political purposes. [More…]
I suggest that those members who heard the suggestions that the trade unions cannot and should not do this refer to the case of Williams and Hursey, which’ is reported in 103 Commonwealth Law Reports. [More…]
If one reads especially the passages at page 58 and 59 one sees that the High Court rejected the proposition that the trade union movement should not be permitted to pursue political purposes. [More…]
The quotations from the judgment show, for example, that the writers of legitimate trade union history, one of whom was Hancock, said that an original development of trade unionism in Australia was its decision in the 80s of last century to play a direct part in politics. [More…]
Out of that arose the decision of the trade union movement to establish political parties, lt is right that they were called by various names, but they eventually became the great Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The trade union movement still is an integral part of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Delegates are sent by the trade unions to the Australian Labor Party conferences. [More…]
Not only do the trade unions affiliate with the Australian Labor Party but - and it may well still be so - there was a very small number of trade unions actually affiliated with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
In Victoria for some time the Victorian branch of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and the Victorian branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia - and there may be others - were affiliated with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
It is clear that it is pari of the traditional role of the trade unions to be concerned with political matters, even those unassociated with wages and conditions. [More…]
Yet here we have a proposition which points to the developing practice of using industrial trade union organisations to effect purposes of a political character. [More…]
He says that associations of workers should not engage in political activity; they should not use the industrial trade union organisations to effect purposes of a political character. [More…]
The debate here is not introduced merely in order to say that unions are not to engage in stoppages and strikes. [More…]
This is a motion designed to encourage the Government to somehow bring in legislation or to invoke legislation which will prevent the trade unions from carrying out a part of the great democratic political process, and it should not be accepted by the Senate. [More…]
It is true that in recent times the trade unions have complained about the failure of governments to provide properly for social services in this community. [More…]
In addition there has been a tremendous amount of propaganda of a political type directed by the trade unions against the Federal Government for its failure to do what is rightly conceived to be social justice. [More…]
The trade union movement has been in the forefront of the great struggle against the war in Vietnam. [More…]
ls it wrong that trade unions should join with the other groups in the community, the churches - not all the churches but a number of them - to protest against something which is against their social conscience and which is important enough for them to say to their members: ‘We ask you to stop work, to lose wages and to show how much you disapprove of this evil war, this genocide being committed against the Vietnamese people’. [More…]
Has the time come when it is said that the trade union movement is not allowed to do that? [More…]
When that call comes from the United Nations why are not the trade unions, as representatives of their members, entitled to respond to that call and do what the Government of Australia has failed to do - that is, to heed the international call? [More…]
Whether the attitude of the trade union movement happens to be correct, whether I am right on the issue or somebody else is right on the issue, surely it is within the function of the trade union movement to enter into the political process and do what it can on these issues. [More…]
Is the trade union movement in this country to be told in some way what it must or must not do or to be subjected to legislation which will prevent it from enter ing into the democratic political processes of this country? [More…]
The trade union movement all through its history has insisted upon its right, as representative of the working class movement of the various countries, to take social and economic action which in some cases is associated and in other cases is not associated with the immediate improvement of wages and conditions. [More…]
The trade union movement will insist upon doing this. [More…]
The trade union movement will not be deprived of this right. [More…]
No legislation is going to prevent the trade union movement striking if it feels the issue is important enough. [More…]
The right to strike distinguishes the free man from the slave, and the trade union movement of this country will not be enslaved by any legislation. [More…]
The issues for which the trade union movement has stood are right. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon has told me, if, during the war, the trade union movement of Holland had not refused to co-operate with the Nazis in shipping the Jews out of Holland the Jews of Holland would have perished. [More…]
It was through the efforts of the trade union movement that many - not all - of the Jews in Holland were saved from that fate. [More…]
If this motion were carried and if the trade union movement could be reduced to impotence and could be castrated, as the mover of this motion would have it, how long would it be before some other body would next be told: ‘It is not your right to enter into the political processes in this way. [More…]
I think that nobody in this country would deny the right of any individual member of a trade union or the trade union itself to free and unfettered participation in the democratic, lawful processes of this country. [More…]
The High Court held that it was lawful for the union to impose such a levy and that on non-payment the Hurseys ceased to hold membership. [More…]
But the gravamen of the decision was that thereafter when the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority called upon registered waterside workers to work the Hurseys went along to take part in the work and members of the union took part in picketing by forming human barricades of members and supporters. [More…]
There we have a suppression on the part of Senator Murphy of any reference to the unlawfulness of the trade union action and the citation of 2 pages which are of a sound historical introductory nature which point up where we really find the reason for Senator Murphy’s fire. [More…]
However, the purpose pf my reference to this matter is to show that when the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the supreme industrial organisation conference in the country, passes a resolution inviting coercion by organised labour, that is the point where we deny that the ACTU is still acting within the ambit of its proper purposes. [More…]
When it goes on to urge a vendetta, resistance to entrance to a ground, the throwing of bombs and invasion of the field why, even members of the Labor Party in the person of Mr Dunstan and the Premier of Western Australia have come out strongly to deny that these matters are within the ambit of trade union purposes. [More…]
Lel me cite just a few of the instances in which I believe the trade union movement has been exercising this power to the abuse of its real purposes. [More…]
Yet we have the Australian Council of Trade Unions organising its forces to prevent the facilities of trade from being made available for the export of merino rams. [More…]
Next we had a stoppage because the secretary of a trade union was arrested and subsequently convicted of assault in the course of a political scrimmage. [More…]
What immunity has a secretary of a trade union organisation from the courts of law? [More…]
What has it to do with the union by way of a stoppage of work? [More…]
Then in February this year the Seamen’s Union banned service to United States vessels as a demonstration of support for the anti-war congress held in Sydney in that month. [More…]
Seamen’s, waterside workers and firemen’s unions have restricted the operation in Australian waters of Greek vessels. [More…]
I would have thought that, so far from espousing this line of operation, those who had any solicitude for the existence and welfare of the trade union movement would see in this course of conduct a most divisive factor which, if persisted in, cannot be tolerated by any democratic community that puts its faith in a parliament elected by the majority of the people. [More…]
With regard to the Springboks’ tour, although the trade union organisations were effective in creating dismay, engendering international illwill and creating a. good deal of resentment on the part of the members of our Australian community who desired to afford the ordinary Australian hospitality to visiting sportsmen, we have seen a divisiveness on the part of the Australian trade union movement that ought to be quite obvious to those who have the goodwill of that movement at heart. [More…]
The developing practice ‘ of using industrial trade union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the ‘ effect of improving the industrial conditions of the members . [More…]
He related a number of cases where in his opinion the strikes were not related to trade union activity. [More…]
I suppose when Senator Little speaks in a little while he will have forgotten those great arguments in the Australian Council of Trade Unions when the great Trades Union Congress, which represents today something like 2 million trade unionists, debated whether it would have international . [More…]
It decided to’ affiliate with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which is a moderate organisation. [More…]
It then disowned the move which was then made that it should have some sort of affiliation with the World Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The honourable senator has said that we should have no political influences but he has himself taken part in the work of the trade union movement which determined- [More…]
That is the Internation Confederation of Free Trade Unions, an international body which finds acceptance by both right and left of the trade union movement - to re-examine the question as to whether a world boycott could be instituted by all Trade Unions throughout the world, to boycott the handling of South African goods. [More…]
It is very significant that if the Government which wants to take the old dog collar Acts out of their secret places and place them on the trade union movement in 1971, is not prepared to apply them today because of troubles in its own Party. [More…]
It has had a trade union movement which has, in fact, directed its political aims to the Government, on occasions making industrial activity around it, but generally speaking, it has been trotting up to the Government for years what were in fact not just industrial aims but political aims. [More…]
They are in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, but in the years subsequent to their introduction the Government, because of the case put up by the unions and also because of militant action by the union - action in the workshops, in the factories and on the waterfront - conceded that some alteration should be made. [More…]
It would have decided to bring into the Parliament today fresh laws to hamstring the trade union movement. [More…]
The Rugby Union Association supported by the Government, supported by the Prime Minister and supported by honourable senators opposite who are running around like little puppets saying: ‘Yes, you have to keep politics out of sport.’ [More…]
What the trade union movement said in those 2 States - in my State anyhow - was: ‘We will offer rio facilities’. [More…]
As I have said, since 1964 the Government has been warned by decisions which have been made known to it by the trade union movement, that such a policy is wrong. [More…]
The Government talks about this new technique of the trade unions. [More…]
These political aims have always been part of the history of the trade union movement and of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
As recently as the time of the last Hall Government in South Australia the trade union movement went on to the streets and to the parks and demonstrated at stop work meetings against this discrimination against the rights of electors. [More…]
We have heard from Senator Murphy and Senator Kane that during the latter part of the last century there was a dire need for trade union organisations to improve the lot of the workers who were at that time without any doubt labouring under conditions of oppression. [More…]
To this day only some of the trade union members vote for the Labor Party; not all of them, by a long way. [More…]
Now it is proposed by the same people, or at least the militants among them, and the Communist dominated trade unions to circumvent the political weapon they forged and to circumvent even this Parliament. [More…]
He said, relative to trade unions in [More…]
Senator Murphy went on to say that he thought it was quite right for trade unions to indulge in political strikes and to express their opinions in that way. [More…]
1 am one of those people who believe that a trade union or any other organisation is quite entitled to express its opinion on any matter, but when it converts that opinion into an onslaught on the general community and on the economy of this country, when these people inflict hardship upon their fellow workers and fellow men in an attempt to advance a particular political view I do not go along with them. [More…]
In supporting his contention that it was legitimate for a trade union to do that, Senator Murphy mentioned employer organisations and said that they expressed opinions, as of course they do. [More…]
If this is to be the pattern, why should not any organisation go on the rampage and give expression to its political views in the same fashion as some trade unions are doing today? [More…]
The action by the union was inimical to the whole Commonwealth, but because of Tasmania’s vulnerable position the strike amounted to a blockade of that State. [More…]
Formed in the wake of the industrial revolution at a time when the human dignity of the workers had no champion or organised strength to defend it, the trade union within a century achieved a transformation no less dramatic than the industrial revolution which gave it birth. [More…]
the debate, gave the history of the trade union movement. [More…]
This great man, Senator Kane, the leader in the condemnation of the unions, does not know his history well enough to know that in Britain the people had no choice. [More…]
The initiation of the trade union movement in Great Britain brought about a revolution against the British system of justice at that time. [More…]
According to the book, the honourable senator was regarded as a Com in the union. [More…]
G. ‘Barney’ Piatt, the affable, First World War ‘digger’ who was State Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, had been under attack in his union for a decade from a rebel group, the best known and most active member of which was J. T. Kane, the new Assistant Secretary of the ALP. [More…]
Ironically, as he later became Federal Secretary of the Democratic Labor Party, he was considered by many union leaders in the late 1940s to be on the far left wing and even a camm’. [More…]
I submit that before any unionist takes action in a dispute he considers this loss. [More…]
What did law and order mean to him when he was trying to unseat the officials of the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales in the 1940s? [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improving the industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of effecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
They know - and all the Labor Party senators know - that the decisions which they make will be the decisions which are dictated by the union organisations which control the Labor Party of which they are members and, through the Labor Party, control every decision which they have to make. [More…]
It prefers to acknowledge the mandates and dictates of a few union bosses who through the solidarity concept can bring a number of unions behind them. [More…]
The ban on the export of merino rams was imposed by the union movement in this country. [More…]
A remarkable statement was made by a gentleman called Mr Slater, the Federal President of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, which should have received more publicity than it did. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improving the industrial conditions of the members of these organisations . [More…]
Let us look at some of the things which the unions not only here but in other countries have been concerning themselves with in recent years. [More…]
Let us decide whether the unions are stepping outside their legitimate sphere of interesting themselves in these matters. [More…]
a union to be interested in the matter of housing for its members? [More…]
Is it not permissible for unions to be interested in the matter of credit banking and co-operative societies? [More…]
Is it not permissible for unions to be interested in matters of transport? [More…]
But that also would surely be outside the unions’ sphere of interest. [More…]
According to the framers of this subject for discussion that would be’ an impermissible activity for a trade union. [More…]
But according to the framers of this proposition that is something which the unions are not permitted to do. [More…]
Are not the unions permitted to be interested in the subject of environment? [More…]
When a drill was set up on the Great Barrier Reef and unionists refused to man it the authorities were so ashamed that drilling operations ceased and a royal commission was set up to investigate whether any drilling should take place on the Barrier Reef at all. [More…]
Have the Australian people anything to blame unionists for in taking that action? [More…]
Should they not rather praise unionists for saving this priceless national heritage. [More…]
But according to the words of this submission that is something with which unions should not concern themselves. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial trade union organisations to effect purposes of a political character thus usurping the functions of government. [More…]
I think his comments, naive as they are in questioning what may be considered political strikes as against those which are seeking some industrial benefit for members of a union, illustrate the very simplicity of his colleagues who have spoken. [More…]
Parliament, anti-war meetings, law and order, pensions, compulsory unionism and the Springbok tour. [More…]
I refer to the power of one man, not necessarily with the support of the individual members of a union, who say: ‘We will force this business enterprise of that commercial undertaking to take steps to force employees to join a union*. [More…]
His comments in this regard will go down as perhaps the worst of any leader of the Labor Party, a party which should be reflective of the views of the whole of the union movement - indeed, of the whole of the labouring force in this community. [More…]
Mr Joe Riordan, the Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union, said- [More…]
Our union will not take part in political strikes because we do not feel that they are our business. [More…]
Mr Hawke and the ACTU should observe the difference between union and political action. [More…]
We have a peculiar situation in which an attempt is made to deny me the opportunity to quote the statements of leaders of various unions who oppose political strikes in our community. [More…]
Whether members of the Opposition care to listen or to laugh, I will proceed to say that on 28th June 1971 Mr J. Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia- [More…]
1 can see that the Federated Clerks Union will find no support from the Labor Party in this chamber. [More…]
I make it known that the members of that union will receive only derision from members of the Opposition in this place. [More…]
I believe that this is an important union, and if they do not think so they ought to take the time to stand up and say so. [More…]
Unions and unionists would have to call a halt to political strikes and bans if unionism in Australia was not to be threatened, said Mr J. Maynes, Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
We find that when political strikes are called many unionists who wish to be free and to express their opposition to what the current President of the ACTU puts forward are very quickly excluded from their union. [More…]
I was a member of the Timber Workers Union before Senator Mulvihill was ever a member of any union. [More…]
I found a wonderful fraternity in the Union in Victoria. [More…]
I do not know what he had in New South Wales; but at least the Timber Workers Union was a pretty good group. [More…]
The point I was making was that there is a very big section of people within the Labor Party and the trade union movement which has received no support from anyone who has spoken from the Opposition side this evening. [More…]
The amazing fact is that if there is a big union which is led by the Democratic Labor Party the members of the Australian Labor Party in this chamber want to disown it; but if it is a union led by Communist Party officials it seems to be greatly beloved by them and not only is it accepted but its policies are slavishly supported. [More…]
I can understand the disappointment that a big union should be led by members of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But I cannot understand why members of the Australian Labor Party do not exhibit exactly the same disappointment when they realise that a great many of the most powerful unions which were once led by Labor men are now led by members of the Communist Party. [More…]
lt is a very clear cut proposition, namely, the misuse of the tremendous economic power that has developed in the great trade union movement of this country for purposes that are not industrial. [More…]
If members of the community, trade unionist and others are prepared to continue to permit the development of this trend, then the day must come, of course, when there will be retaliation, when others in the community must have the same right to break the laws and to try to force the hand of Parliament in order to have their wishes imposed upon the community as a whole. [More…]
He has to be as sure as Hitler was that only he has the right to misuse the power that is tied up in the organised strength of the trade union movement and in the organised strength of other sections of the community - religious if you like, friendly society if you like, employer organisations if you like. [More…]
Trade unionists do not believe that they have special rights. [More…]
It is a new trend in trade unionism for a trade union official to feel that he is superior to the law, that he can use violence in the streets and defy the normal processes of law in this country, that he can call on industrial stoppages to impoverish the economy of the nation and the workers in particular. [More…]
In spite of the airy-fairy nonsense talked by Senator Murphy let us face how the trade union movement today really functions. [More…]
I pay money to the Australian Labor Party because I am a member of a trade union organisation that has made a decision to pay money to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Because it was a majority decision of my colleagues in my union I make no protest that part of my subscription to the union goes to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
That is a decision of the union. [More…]
They were trade unionists who wanted to ge there and watch the football. [More…]
It is going to show the sincerity of the Labor movement and the trade union movement 1 have in front of me the headlines of the newspapers of 21st June 1971. [More…]
If the trade union officials who support this sort of thing are foolish enough to do so, if the Labor Party senators here who support this sort of thing are foolish enough to do so, do not tell me that the trade unionists who work in the boot factories where I worked and in the transport jobs where Senator Kane worked, the clerical workers with whom Senator Gair once worked, and the school teachers with whom Senator McManus once worked are as silly as those people who believe that this sort of purity is going to clean their slate. [More…]
Is this a matter to be decided in the factories, in the workshops, in the trade unions, on the streets, at the football matches or at the cricket, or is Australian policy to be decided by the elected members of Parliament? [More…]
It was not suggested by the mover of the proposition that the rights of the trade union movement be interfered with, except in the misuse of power. [More…]
He told us about the trade union official who was charged with violence, and he told us about many other things. [More…]
They understand that they are the ones who pay for the luxury of trade union officials’ exhibiting their tremendous industrial strength in the positions they hold. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill, who is interjecting, is too well versed in trade union affairs to claim that the unionists are willingly stopping work for such purposes. [More…]
We have both the trade union movement and the employers federations anxious to get together because they realise we cannot continue with the situation we have where we are automatically fining people $1,000 and defying every law that has been written. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a deputation of Sydney trade union officials which Senator Bishop and 1 introduced to the former Minister for Trade and Industry, Sir John McEwen, complaining about certain railway rolling stock for mining companies operating in Australia being constructed in Japan. [More…]
In the face of assurances given by Sir John McEwen to the trade unions concerned, is the Minister aware that the fears of the trade unions have been rekindled by the recent announcement that Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd has recently given a substantial order for 584 100-ton capacity ore wagons to the Canadian firm of National Steel Car Corporation of Hamilton. [More…]
Will the Minister have an immediate investigation made into Hamersley Iron company’s policy which can cause a drastic cut in the Metal Trades Union workforce employed in the production of railway rolling stock? [More…]
Soviet Union. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Kane moved a motion relating to trade union organisations. [More…]
The other day after the discussion of an important matter affecting the trade union organisations the question actually put by the Chair was this: [More…]
If anybody outside were to ask him what happened to the proposition he put forward he would have to say: Tt is true that I only got through the Senate a prop?osition that it adjourn till 5 minutes to 11 today, but it really means that it agreed with what I put up about trade union organisations’. [More…]
Though, as I have said, I have reservations about the effect of this union on world agricultural exports, and hence on ours, if the British are right then we as one of the world’s big traders must be among the biggest beneficiaries. [More…]
He is also the Secretary of the Queensland Institute of Technology Students Union. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Recognising the great and enduring contribution which industrial trade unionism has made to Australia and to the general standard of working conditions, is it not a fact that effective industrial unionism depends vitally upon the active participation of all unionists in the bona fide affairs of their unions; and is it not further a fact that intimidation and apathy are the twin destructive elements of unionism? [More…]
Will the Government give active leadership in encouraging all eligible persons to join their unions voluntarily and to participate actively in union affairs? [More…]
The trade union role will be to continue to agree that employers with effective training facilities employ apprentices in excess of ratios. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry been made aware of allegations by members of the Australian Workers Union that wool growers are stockpiling inferior or dirty wool in anticipation of the Government fixing a minimum price? [More…]
The Government sees only excessive wage increases as the cause of inflation and lays most of the blame at the door of the union movement. [More…]
Along with many economic authorities, and the union movement, I believe that this Budget could well produce more than 100,000 unemployed next year. [More…]
The first is the industrial chaos that is being developed by reason of misgovernment of trade union affairs and abuse of a full employment situation. [More…]
Trade unions are organisations and institutions which, if managed by their leaders, can be of great value for the great body of their members. [More…]
I would have let the complaints go by, but twice today the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) in the Senate took the trouble to comment in his usual style on the conduct of the trade union movement. [More…]
When Senator Wright argued the conduct of the trade union movement - I think he will agree - he accepted that the Government’s hands were clean. [More…]
They covered the members of the Hospital Employees Union, which is concerned with the 2 departments to which I referred. [More…]
I suppose he could not do any more, but I want to say to Senator Wright that when he is pontificating on the responsibilities of trade union secretaries he should recall this instance. [More…]
I rang Mr Haines, the secretary of the union, and he told me of the position. [More…]
I put it squarely to Senator Wright that I know there will be a lot more discussion in relation to trade unions or employers in the industrial field. [More…]
This union covers a relatively small section of the work force of this country. [More…]
Its membership is, I suppose, something like that of the nurses union; one has to have a spirit of dedication to engage in this particular field. [More…]
I ask: Has the Minister seen the reported statement of the National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association, Mr Laurie Short - a highly respected trade union leader - that secret ballots in union disputes should minimise, to quote his words, ‘a lot of the intimidation, psychological and physical, at emotion charged meetings at which strikes are called or continued’? [More…]
Will the Minister keep this in mind when policies are being formulated to reduce such intimidation as Mr Short has described and to allow the authentic voice of the majority of trade unionists to be effectively expressed? [More…]
It was a valuable contribution from a person who has had experience in trade union management. [More…]
I believe it reflects the views of trade unionists in general that there should be an element of consultation in the management of trade unions in this day and age instead of dominance and coercion by union bosses. [More…]
This would be of great advantage to the trade unionists, who comprise a very important section of the community. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics In addition, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia also maintained diplomatic representatives in Khartoum. [More…]
The trade union movement played a sterling part in pre-selection procedures and during the election campaign. [More…]
I have been a trade unionist all my working life and I believe that only those people who have been closely associated with the trade union movement know the requirements of the working class people of Australia. [More…]
I would like to devote the second part of my speech to the trade union movement. [More…]
Industrial disputes represent only a small item of trade union activity, but unfortunately it is the item that receives wide Press publicity while all the other activities of the trade union movement pass without recognition. [More…]
In any given day the trade union movement negotiating in industrial disputes solves thousands of problems on behalf of its members - social injustice, wage injustice, incorrect payment of wages, victimisation, unjust sacking and finding of employment for many members. [More…]
The trade union movement contributes to countless charities. [More…]
The Government readily admits that many of its most important committees are unable to function without the full support and cooperation of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement will not and cannot accept restrictions upon its right to involve itself in the political life of the community. [More…]
As the organised strength of the lower and middle income workers, trade unions have an obligation to exercise their civic responsibility. [More…]
The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the unions for improved conditions, social services, education, housing and a host of other things. [More…]
Trade unions initiate the demands and they need to have the Australian Labor Party in government to implement their policies. [More…]
This is the basis of the trade union movement. [More…]
Surely no honourable senator would challenge the right of the trade union movement to intercede in these matters. [More…]
Surely no-one would challenge the right of the trade union movement to interest itself in these matters. [More…]
Here and outside I have heard the Government attack the trade union movement for its stand on apartheid. [More…]
History will prove the trade union movement right in relation to apartheid, just as history has proved the trade union movement right in its stand in opposing the shipment of pig iron to Japan, in its support of independence for Indonesia and in its stand in opposition to the phoney war in Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is proud of its association with the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope that while I am a member of this Senate I will be able to work to see a strengthening of the great ties that exist between the Australian Labor Party and that most important section of the working class - the trade union movement. [More…]
Which agricultural organisations is it intended will be invited to participate in the conference and will representatives of trade unions vitally interested in agricultural matters, such as the Australian Worker’s Union, be invited to attend the conference. [More…]
What action has been taken by the Department of the Interior in conjunction with the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Transport Workers’ Union to ensure that school buses are not used us receptacles for rubbish. [More…]
Did the Department receive correspondence from the Transport Workers’ Union before a bus driver member had to forcibly bring the situation to the Department’s attention. [More…]
Over 12 months ago the Department of the Interior convened a meeting of representatives of Government and non-Government school authorities and the local branch of the Transport Workers Union to discuss problems associated with the behaviour of school children on Canberra buses. [More…]
Following upon some recent incidents, the Transport Workers Union wrote to the Department of the Interior saying that its members would refuse to drive buses to and from offending schools; the Department of the Interior informed the Department of Education and Science of the contents of the Union’s letter and sought its cooperation in removing the cause of complaint. [More…]
I also lay on the table the texts of the following instruments of the Universal Postal Union drawn up at Tokyoon 14th November 1969 and signed by Australia on that date. [More…]
(1) Additional Protocol to the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union [More…]
The trade union movement will never reach the situation where it will sit idly by and allow its membership throughout the community to absorb all the increased costs which are built up by a system which has allowed inflation into the economy. [More…]
When the workers were put off at the Burnie mill that I have mentioned the leaders of the union called a 24 hour strike in protest - an obviously futile action. [More…]
To call a 24 hour strike is beyond the understanding of the average human being, ft is to the credit of the rank and file members of the union concerned that they themselves called a meeting and overruled the union leaders. [More…]
It is a mighty pity that the ordinary rank and file unionists, who in my humble opinion do not want the present incessant industrial unrest, do not do the same as the Burnie mill workers did and say: ‘Enough of this. [More…]
I believe it is unfortunate that the control of some unions is in the hands of people who have a vested interest in the breakdown of the Australian economy. [More…]
I was reading about the friction that has developed between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union because of the embassies from Communist countries. [More…]
It is a fact that the Soviet Union was compelled at one time to dispose of some of its art treasures to try to balance its overseas trading position. [More…]
I suggest that many simple people have been tricked into feeling that the lowest mark-up will be found at this union controlled store. [More…]
They indicated that it was, they were surprised to see, cheaper to shop perhaps in other stores and that the, mark-ups were perhaps too high in the union store. [More…]
While this debate was going on my mind went back to the previous week when a spokesman for the same party, Senator Kane - I regret that he is not in the chamber - in a debate centering on the trade union movement had this to say: [More…]
If members of the Waterside Workers Federation withdrew their labour in support of a friend, a mate or a co-worker then I believe that that union was only carrying out its traditional role - a role which has ever been the role of the trade union movement wherever injustice has been done. [More…]
1 have heard honourable senators opposite during this Budget debate making comments about people in the trade unions. [More…]
I am not defending trade unionists all the time; they make their mistakes, just as we all do. [More…]
Sufficient to say that this is the very point made by Professor Downing, that this trend forces the unions to make increased demands for wages. [More…]
Union leaders, and workers generally if they think about it, know very well that these opportunities for avoidance are virtually confined to those with property and who enjoy incomes from sources other than wages and salaries. [More…]
In the context of Australia today we find that the trade union movement moves out of the system of arbitration and into the system of direct negotiation simply because it does not have its reasonable demands satisfied by the arbitration system. [More…]
In discussing this matter I will use as examples one or 2 leading trade union officials who were born out of Australia, relate that to past history and then refer to one or 2 utterances that were made by Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin when the 1969 Citizenship Bill was before the Senate. [More…]
I wish to point out to Senator Greenwood, as a student of industrial history, that at the height of the serious maritime strike in the 1920s it so happened that the 2 maritime union leaders were of Scandinavian and Irish ancestry. [More…]
1 do not know of any cases of trade union officials being deported. [More…]
I have consulted people in the trade union sector of the community such as Bill Nowak, Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the - Pastrycooks Union and Henry Pietracci, a senior official of the New South Wales Health and Research Union, the former being of Polish origin and the latter of Italian origin. [More…]
They, like any other trade union official, were adamant that while nobody has any latent fears about standing up for what he believes in, there is a sort of second class standard as far as Australian citizenship is concerned. [More…]
I am referring to trade union officials born out of Australia. [More…]
Mr John Ducker, a senior trade union official who has figured prominently in the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress was born in Hull in Yorkshire. [More…]
1 have instanced paid union officials. [More…]
In relation to this reaction of people I could refer to people like Joe Bizjak, an Australian Workers Union rank and file activist, and Vince Martinak, an Australian Railways Union State councillor. [More…]
1 do not say that any trade unionist has been actually victimised as such but 1 think the Minister knows the feeling of people today. [More…]
I might use the motto of the Amalgamated Engineering Union - and Senator Cavanagh will appreciate this - ‘Which is: ‘Educate, organise, agitate’. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister been advised of the vicious sentence of 9 years imprisonment imposed on Ukrainian Valentyn Moroz in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for allegedly conducting anti-Soviet propaganda? [More…]
Has the Government received from champions of democracy in Australia any request to deny admittance to Soviet sporting or cultural’ bodies, such as the Russian ballet, until the Soviet Union changes such policies? [More…]
But operators in the Tasmanian trade such as the Australian National Line, the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd and William Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd, on the evidence presented to the Committee, are facing considerable economic difficulties because of rising costs of operation. [More…]
Was consideration given to my remarks at a recent Citizenship Convention that membership of the Immigration Planning Council should be conferred on post-war migrants in the trade union movement in addition to Australian Council of Trade Unions personnel? [More…]
They include financiers, trade union executives, industrialists, graziers and academics. [More…]
In mid-June, 1971 the Soviet Union advised the other four nuclear weapon states - the United States, Britain, France and the People’s Republic of China - that it ‘proposed to convene at the earliest time a conference of the Five Powers possessing nuclear weapons.’ [More…]
It called on the United States and the Soviet Union to issue undertakings, as China had repeatedly done, not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, and also to withdraw all nuclear arms resources to their own territories as a preliminary gesture. [More…]
A British Note passed to the Soviet Union in mid-August declared interest in and support for the concept of nuclear disarmament, but suggested that the Chinese attitude did not make the proposed conference seem practicable at present. [More…]
Attacks have been made on the trade union movement regarding the high wages sought by workers in the industry. [More…]
Repeated efforts by the Australian Workers Union through the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission have not yet succeeded in reducing these working hours. [More…]
For instance, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is a country in the coldest part of the world and which has a population of 241 million, would buy much more of our wool if we bought something from it in return, but we have never done so. [More…]
For instance, we pay for the petroleum products that we import far in excess of what we would have to pay if we obtained them from the Soviet Union, but we are not allowed to import anything from that country because the Australian Government disagrees with the ideology of the Soviet Union. [More…]
You replied that on the list of 45 countries there was- no figure for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Democratic Republic of East Germany Later in the debate you sought leave to incorporate in Hansard a table showing the consumption of wine by various countries. [More…]
It was also criticised by the trade unions, Surely no supporter of the Government would dispute that the trade unions are an important part of the society of Australia. [More…]
If anyone disputes that, let him get to his feet and say that the trade unions are not an important segment of the community. [More…]
But when I refer to criticisms by the trade union movement some Government supporters are inclined to ridicule such a statement. [More…]
It seemed to me that running through the whole of Senator Murphy’s criticism of the Budget was this attitude of deliberately putting things the wrong way and of attributing to the Government, through the Budget, the things that I believe should be attributed rightfully to the political Party to which he belongs and to the leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
I have here figures which show that last year we exported 40 million kilograms of raw wool to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The attacks levelled at the trade union movement for being responsible, if not wholly then in a large part, for the current inflationary trends do not stand up to examination. [More…]
I say to those listening that the Budget was designed to disable (he trade union movement by a calculated and planned level of unemployment. [More…]
I believe that whilst it is true that the Government would like to have that level of unemployment to be able to disable the trade union movement, I do not believe that business interests will permit the Government to allow this regressive and repressive trend to continue because their manufacturing interests are not being utilised fully and because this is interfering with their profitability. [More…]
On Wednesday night Senator Webster, as is characteristic of members of the Government, found a pretext to attack the trade union movement. [More…]
He also attacked the trade union movement on these grounds - and 1 quote from page 533 of Hansard: [More…]
There is a real irony in the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ ‘victory’ over Dunlop Australia Ltd. [More…]
In effect, the militant action of the socialist trade union movement has helped to reinforce and preserve a basic tenet of capitalism - the belief in free and open competition. [More…]
1 express my sincere thanks and deepest gratitude to the many thousands of dedicated members and supporters of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement who have worked untiringly and voluntarily year in and year out to further the cause of Labor. [More…]
My impressions of that time, coupled with what has transpired since 17th August, have firmly convinced me that the present Government, like all previous Liberal governments, has a bitter hatred of the trade union movements, its leaders and its members. [More…]
We know too, having been through the mill ourselves, thai the trade union movement has had to fight tooth and nail for the wages and conditions thai apply in this country today. [More…]
His case for an increase in the price of his labour is argued in the Commission by his representatives - the respective trade unions - against skilled lawyers employed by the wealthy employers who also have on the:” side on numerous occasions skilled representatives of this Government instructed to oppose any increase in wages or betterment of working conditions. [More…]
A particular complaint has been made to me by Mr Carroll, the main trade union leader in the Northern Territory, in respect of a domestic worker at the Darwin Hospital who suffered an injury as a result of which her hip is encased in plaster. [More…]
Is there any evidence to suggest that Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are concluding trade agreements with Rhodesia in defiance of the United Nations Security Council sanctions against trade with Rhodesia. [More…]
The Australian Government has no information which suggests that Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are concluding trade agreements with Southern Rhodesia. [More…]
He said stoppages and meetings, proposed by the ACTU for Wednesday, were ‘designed to suggest that any social service improvements in the coming Budget have been gained by trade union and Australian Labor Party pressure’. [More…]
There is an old trade union axiom which applies in almost all circumstances. [More…]
How could anyone introduce a subject such as the attitude of the trade union movement, which is dear to my heart, should the Government endeavour to interfere with the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Opposition wanted to raise this as a matter of urgency? [More…]
V. Elliott - Federal Secretary, Seamen’s Union of Australia [More…]
I am here because I refused to accept direction from power drunk union bosses who knew less than I do about the economy of the State or the country. [More…]
I would not like to see a situation where we had this type of body and the Government doing what it does in arbitration court hearings, that is, opposing claims for wage increases by some body, always a trade union, or opposing a claim for reduced hours. [More…]
On behalf of Australian dock workers, will he seek from the Minister for the Navy an apology for his outrageous imputations of disloyalty against these workers and their union officials? [More…]
ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware of a statement by Professor J. Auchmuty, Chairman of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, reported in yesterday’s Press, that a significant amount pf student union fees collected by universities is being used for semi-political and non-university purposes? [More…]
Are Commonwealth moneys paid to such student unions on behalf of the holders of Commonwealth scholarships? [More…]
I noticed that (he statement contained, among other significant matters, a reference to the fact that a proportion of students’ fees compulsorily collected by their union is devoted to non-university purposes and political purposes. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Is it a fact that 200 Commonwealth police carried out a raid at 5 o’clock this morning on Union House in the grounds of the Melbourne University? [More…]
It is apparent from Press comments throughout the week that the persons sought were being concealed within the University by the Students Representative Council and by other people who purported to have control over that area of the Union Building. [More…]
Is he aware that during the past week Melbourne newspapers have reported that among those people who are allegedly mounting a protective guard against Commonwealth police at the University of Melbourne were union delegations and housewives’ committees? [More…]
The World Administrative Radio Conference on Space Telecommunication allocated individual sections of the radio frequency spectrum to the various space services, including international satellite communications, on a basis representing the needs of the various member countries of the International Telecommunications Union. [More…]
Obviously the Government must have known that there was a fair amount of disaffection on the part of the people receiving pensions and also their former trade union associations. [More…]
Was he in receipt of information about the raid by the Commonwealth Police on Union House, University of Melbourne, before it took place last Thursday morning? [More…]
Further, did he direct or instruct the Deputy Commissioner of Commonwealth Police, Mr Davies, to personally take charge of the raid carried out last Thursday morning on Union House? [More…]
Is it a fact that several days before the raid on Union House last Thursday morning the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Professor John Andrews, spoke to officers of the Attorney-General’s Department about the presence of draft resisters in Union House? [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that the Acting ViceChancellor of the University of Melbourne has made a statement in writing, in reply to the statements by the Attorney-General the other day in the Senate, indicating that the University did not take action because this was a matter for the Union Board? [More…]
1 am aware that a statement has been attributed in the Press to the Registrar of the University suggesting that the University could not take action because this was a matter for the Union Board. [More…]
I do not desire to comment on that statement, even if it was correctly reported, for the reason that I am not sure whether the University authorities have no authority whatsoever over the Union Board or Union premises. [More…]
Has the- Attorney-General established - and if so by what method - whether the damage caused by Commonwealth police, which some have called extensive and which the Minister has referred to as minimal, during the raid last Thursday morning on Union House, at the University of Melbourne, was necessary? [More…]
The University Union House doors were locked when the police arrived. [More…]
The amount of damage done in opening the university Union doors and opening the locked doors on the higher floors was limited to the purpose of opening those doors and nothing more. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that there are grave doubts as to whether the Commonwealth police officers in fact had warrants to enter and search Union House, University of Melbourne, last Thursday morning? [More…]
Bell, in the company of the Secretary/ Manager of Union House, Mr Ron Field, asked officers of the Commonwealth Police Force to produce the warrants but they did not do so? [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that Professor John Andrews, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, in a prepared statement issued on 1st October said that he had established to his satisfaction that the damage caused to Union House was excessive and unnecessary in view of the fact that keys were offered to members of the Commonwealth Police Force soon after they entered the building? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the Secretary/Manager of the Union, Mr Ron Field, has stated that he offered keys to the building to 2 senior officers soon after they arrived? [More…]
I have seen numerous statements about what people say occurred at Union House. [More…]
I answer Senator Georges in the terms that I used when I answered, I think, the first Opposition senator who asked me a question about this matter earlier today, namely, that the decision which was made to go into Union House at the University of Melbourne to execute warrants of arrest was made by the police. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the prepared statement issued by Dr J. W. Watson, President of the Melbourne University Staff Association, dated 1st October 1971, on behalf of that body calling for an open inquiry, headed preferably by a supreme court judge, into whether members of the Commonwealth Police Force used needless force and inflicted unnecessary damage in their entry into and search of the Union building at the University of Melbourne? [More…]
Is it a fact that insurance assessors who have examined the damage caused by Commonwealth Police last Thursday at Union House at the University of Melbourne have said that 52 doors had been damaged and 5 $400 solar glass windows had been smashed? [More…]
One would not normally expect to find 200 or more students sleeping at the University Union building at 5 o’clock in the morning. [More…]
I inspected the doors at the University Union yesterday. [More…]
I think it is customary for members of delegations to the Inter-Parliamentary Union to find that the contacts they make are of great benefit to them. [More…]
In answer to a question yesterday he intimated that some time on Monday of this week he inspected Union House. [More…]
Did he ask or make himself known to any person responsible for the conduct and control of the Union, such as members of the Union Board of Directors, the Secretary-Manager or Union staff? [More…]
I visited Union House at the Melbourne University with a member of the University Union on Monday afternoon. [More…]
But I did not make myself known to any member of the Union Board because T did not wish to create a situation in which it was known that I was at the university. [More…]
As tar as I am aware - following upon my inquiries - there was no interruption of the telephone service to the University Union. [More…]
Is he able to say whether this is contrary to the wishes of the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
Secondly, has he also noted that a leading Victorian trade union official is reported to have issued the warning that if Mr Clyde Cameron’s views were made mandatory Victorian trade unions would not provide finance for the Australian Labor Party at the next Federal election? [More…]
It serves the purpose for which I stand here as a Minister to have my colleague remind me of partial notice which the Press has given to 2 significant statements, one to a convention of the Queensland Industrial Relations Society and the other by a prominent trade union official in Melbourne. [More…]
I was in a union when it was not compulsory to be in a union. [More…]
I was just as enthusiastic about unionism as Senator James McClelland was when he was in the group movement, and I was in a union before I was required to be. [More…]
The Soviet Union and its allies are well aware of this situation. [More…]
Two agreements were reached at the time of the Geneva Conference, the first of which was between the People’s Army of Vietnam - which included many people who later moved to South Vietnam as they refused to accept Communist domination - and the forces of the French Union. [More…]
The second matter negotiated was not really an agreement as much as a final declaration - an unsigned declaration - of the Geneva Conference, the parties to which were representatives of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam - I point out to honourable senators that South Vietnam was not recognised in the declaration - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]
In 1958 the Soviet Union proposed a package deal by which South Vietnam and North Vietnam, and South Korea and North Korea should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
So in 1958 the Soviet Union was prepared to recognise, and indeed did recognise by this proposal, that South Vietnam was an independent country. [More…]
Has the Minister read an article in the ‘Age’ newspaper this morning in which the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne still maintains that the Commonwealth Police were asked to produce warrants when they entered the Union premises last week, but that they declined to do so? [More…]
Can the Attorney-General say whether he has inspected the warrants and whether there is any doubt concerning the legality of the police entry onto the Union premises? [More…]
I also have in my custody here a photo copy of a search warrant for illegal radio transmission equipment in the Union building and that specifically gave authority to the Commonwealth Police to break and enter the premises in order to obtain it. [More…]
While they become quite emotional about conscientious objection to military service, if a man because of a conscientious objection does nol want to join a union they condemn him as a scab. [More…]
They might entice a few students at a university to hide them away in one of the Union buildings, challenge the police to come and get them and then say that it is very hard to be arrested when one really wants to be arrested. [More…]
They are not radical, militant or connected with the trade union movement, political parties or any such organisation. [More…]
My question, which is directed to you, Mr President, is in relation to the closing of the parliamentary dining and refreshment rooms last Thursday, which I believe was due to certain pressures being exerted to compel a member of the staff to join n trade union. [More…]
that the rights of individuals in this Parliament, including that of freedom of choice in relation to the joining of a trade union, will he protected? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service seen the statement that Mr Barnard, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in another place, is in favour of secret ballots in trade unions? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Mr Barnard later qualified that statement by stating that secret ballots could be held only if a union meeting reached such a decision by open vote? [More…]
Can the Minister say how that statement aligns itself with the policiesof the governments of New South Wales and certain other States which propose to legislate for the introduction of secret ballots in trade unions? [More…]
Is it a fact that the secretary of a prominent union has said of the shadow Minister for Labour that if he continued to hold the views he espoused in relation to the retention of sanctions it would De better to retain the present anti-socialist government Minister for Labour and National Service? [More…]
Mr Barnard, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in another place, is in favour of secret ballots in trade unions. [More…]
held only if a union meeting reached such a decision by open vote? [More…]
Can the Minister say how that statement aligns itself with the policies of the governments of New South Wales and certain other States which propose to legislate for the introduction of secret ballots in trade unions? [More…]
ls the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware of the stated intention of the South Australian Leader of the Opposition, Mr Steele Hall, to introduce a private member’s Bill calling for union secret ballots before strikes are approved? [More…]
Is it a fact that many trade unionists will welcome such a move? [More…]
Has the Minister also seen a report in which the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is reported to have said that the entire resources of that organisation will be made available to the South Australian trade union movement to oppose the proposed legislation in Parliament? [More…]
Was a motion tabled in the British House of Commons on 22nd April 1971, which seeks action by the British Government to have the United Nations Organisation inquire into the responsibility for the mass murders of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war and intellectuals in the summer of 1940, of whom the remains of 4,500 were uncovered at Katyn in the ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in April 1943? [More…]
Is this financial discrimination reflected in the lower wage scales of State railway employees relative to other employees in the transport industry, as pointed out by the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union? [More…]
I read in one newspaper today - I think it was a Queensland newspaper - that the members of one union organisation in Queensland, to their great credit, have denied themselves a wage increase. [More…]
They said that there was a threat of world wide Communist expansion and that both the Soviet Union and Communist China - Red China as they called it when they were not talking about wheat sales - were determined to conquer this country. [More…]
How many candidates are there for the Prime Ministership of the Soviet Union’?, as if this is some devastating, knock-down argument for use against anybody who asks: ‘What is the situation in regard to the elections in South Vietnam’? [More…]
Have 28 companies been registered under the Life Insurance Act 1945-1965 since the end of World War II, and of these, were only 5 Australian controlled; if so, was one of the Australian companies the Commercial Union, which is only technically Australian, were two Banks affiliated, one an associated company of employers’ organisations and only one an independent and unaffiliated Australian company. [More…]
Commercial Union Assurance Company of Australia Ltd. [More…]
I think I can speak with some feeling about the problems that arise on the workshop floor for the trade union movement. [More…]
I put it to honourable senators that if a black ban - it is a pretty good trade union weapon at times if it is used on the right issue - were put on some of these drug companies, and they were told that if they did not do the right thing by those children who came into this world minus arms and such things, we would see some action. [More…]
I think it was Senator Mulvihill who asked whether we could advertise this scheme through the trade union movement. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service say whether it is the policy of Commonwealth departments and instrumentalities, including the Reserve Bank, to have compulsory unionism for staff members including those who are employed as cleaners? [More…]
If there is no policy supporting compulsory unionism, can the Minister say whether pressures are being exerted by trade union leaders to force people to join a trade union? [More…]
The Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union operates a daily ‘pick-up* system for the supply of labour to waterfront employers and demands that the naval dockyards fill their requirements for Painter and Docker labour from this source. [More…]
The Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors’ Association also operates a ‘pick-up’ system but more flexibly than docs the Painters and Dockers Union. [More…]
At least one official of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, Mr Terry Gordon, is known to be a member of the Communist Party. [More…]
Karlin a high ranking officer of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ K.G.B. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, [More…]
Is he aware of a report by a union official in Darwin that Aboriginal stockmen in the Northern Territory are living in shocking hovels. [More…]
I have seen several newspaper reports of comments attributed to Mr P. Carroll, Secretary of the North Australian Workers Union about unsatisfactory living conditions for Aboriginal stockmen in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the case of employees who are members of the North Australian Workers Union the provisions of the Cattle Station Industry (Northern Territory) Award apply and questions of standards of accommodation provided in relation to that award are matters for the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
I rise at the behest of the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Mr Souter of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to speak about the undue delay by the Government in signing the Refugee Seamen’s Convention. [More…]
Quite apart from that aspect, since receiving the last reply from the Minister I have spoken to Mr John Benson, secretary of (he Seamen’s Union in Sydney, to Mr Souter and to chaplains of various denominations, all of whom have urged that the double penalty which could apply to foreign seamen should be removed. [More…]
Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse, that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting info a state of bankruptcy? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs any knowledge of the allegation that on 17th February 1971, Mr V. E. Tulayev, the second secretary of the consular section of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, personally led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought by great psychological pressure to persuade Dr Soloviev, a defector, to return to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Was consideration given to the Inclusion of a post-war immigration trade unionist in the trade union representation on the present Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council, when the members of the Council were appointed? [More…]
Appointments to the Council are made by the Minister for Immigration on the basis of nominations sought from representative organisations.In relation to the trade union representation, the Australian Council of Trade Unions was invited to submit 3 nominations. [More…]
In the same period the United Kingdom imported from Australia beef to the value of $21m, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics $18. [More…]
Shipments to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics increased from 15,000 tons to 24,000 tons. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the reported statement made yesterday by the national secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association, Mr Laurie Short, to the effect that Australians would have fewer and shorter strikes if unions held secret ballots on industrial problems; that there were too many strikes in Australia ir the past few years, and that political strikes are wrong? [More…]
Will the Minister seek the detailed advice of such responsible trade union leaders as Mr Short in the shaping of any future legislation in this important field? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is correct as reported in one newspaper that the Ukraine and one other State of the Soviet Union - I forget which but there are 2 of them - are both fully fledged members of the United Nations? [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to amend section 7 of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1966 to give effect to changes which have taken place in the Port of Darwin upon the North Australian Workers’ Union application for de-registration as an organisation under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Since 1920 the North Australian Workers’ Union (NAWU) has been the principal employee organisation operating in the Northern Territory and as such it has until recently recruited into its membership the registered waterside workers employed in the Port of Darwin. [More…]
This position was recognised under the Stevedoring Industry Act by the definition which appears in section 7 (1) in respect of ‘union’ as follows: “Union” means the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, the North Australian Workers Union or any organisation of employees specified in a declaration in force under section nine of this Act and “the Union” means - [More…]
in relation to the port of Darwin - the North Austraiian Workers Union and [More…]
Subsequently in 1969 the North Australian Workers Union sought affiliation with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, an organisation also registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
During the course of these proceedings it was agreed that the Waterside Workers Federation should take over the North Australian Workers Union waterfront section’ comprising all of the registered waterside workers in the port of Darwin and recruiting them into full membership of the Federation. [More…]
To all intents and purposes, the North Australian Workers Union has now ceased to exist as a registered organisation and until the Waterside Workers Federation is recognised as the appropriate union in the port of Darwin there is an administrative void in respect of that port. [More…]
The amendment seeks to correct the position by changing the definition of ‘union’ as it presently appears in section 7 (1.) [More…]
of the Act by deleting the reference to the North Australian Workers Union in the preamble and elsewhere and according recognition of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The European Economic Community must be regarded not as a purely trade and customs union. [More…]
Under interrrogation it emerged .that what is contemplated is not merely a customs union of those countries. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that the closest the world came to major war since the Second World War - we were on the very threshold of it - was during the confrontation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union over Cuba. [More…]
The Soviet Union is not withdrawing from the area. [More…]
Senator Byrne quoted various unnamed luminaries in Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere who spoke about the very real threat they felt from the downward thrust of Communist China, the perturbation that they felt about the presence of battleships from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other aspects of the international Communist conspiracy. [More…]
Some mention has been made of the menace of the Soviet Union and its naval forces. [More…]
He is referring to a very complex bubble chamber which has been manufactured in France and transported to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Here we find a country such as France with an anti-communist government under President Pompidou so little in a state of fear of what the Soviet Union might do that it is even cooperating with the Soviet Union in such important matters to the life of humanity and the security of France as nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. [More…]
Yet the Australian Demorcratic Labor Party and the Australian Government are still talking about this great menace coming from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Senator Byrne was correct in reminding us that the European Economic Community is not just a customs union. [More…]
Indeed, it is a political union in the purest sense. [More…]
The significance of the United Kingdom decision is that we now see being created in Europe a huge world ‘force, a new super power - indeed, it might be said, a power capable of exercising enormous economic, political and, if need be, military power in the world, lt will be a power equal to, if not greater than, that of the United States, of the Soviet Union, of the People’s Republic China, if it seeks to be a super power, and of Japan. [More…]
She is o longer able to exercise a major influence in the world, but there will be with the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries as part of Europe a community of 255 million people - a population far greater than that of the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Japan. [More…]
A few week;, before this the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party made an accusation that there were spies in the Public Service and in the trade union movement. [More…]
T ask the mover of the motion when the last free election was held in Taiwan and how many people have been imprisoned there for expressing trade union views. [More…]
I have in mind the North American continent, the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the European Economic Community. [More…]
As Senator Little pointed out, there are people in this Senate who cry aloud about the peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union and Red China. [More…]
I believe that, with respect to the Soviet Union, the Hungarians, the Czechoslovaks and the Poles, on the one hand, would not believe them. [More…]
If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]
For example, the Byelorussian and Ukrainian republics of the Soviet Union are members of the UN. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite admit that this could be a good thing for the world, just as the arrangement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States has been. [More…]
We know that many world crises have been avoided because of the understanding - I admit there have been some misunderstandings - between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
Nobody can say that either China or the Soviet Union has given up the Leninist idea of world revolution but experience has clearly shown that both countries are pragmatic enough to accept agreements that they reach with major countries. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: What powers does the Commonwealth Government have in relation to compulsory unionism and the protection of the rights of individuals who do not wish to join a union? [More…]
ls the Attorney-General able to say what would be the position of an individual who has been in the continual employ of a company for 10 years or more, who is not a union member and who now refuses to join a union? [More…]
I deplore the statement which was made by Senator Cavanagh by way of interjection while Senator Young was asking his question that a person who does not join a union should have his throat cut. [More…]
Only recently I learned that never at any time have we had a trade post in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that a statement has been made by Senator Gair that Union of Soviet Socialist Republics diplomats are connected with sabotage in Australia and that there is sabotage in the trade unions and the public service. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General, as promised on 28th September 1971, discussed with Senator Gair the allegations made by him regarding Union of Soviet Socialist Republics inspired sabotage in the trade unions and public service, and has Senator Gair provided any evidence to support his allegations? [More…]
What has happened to Vladimir Petrov, the former Union of Soviet Sovialist Republics’ diplomat who defected to Australia in 1954? [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that the simplified revised procedures for applications, operative from 1st November 1971, will be distributed to all agencies including Darwin and that trade union organisations are supplied with details for publication in their journals to encourage low income families to avail themselves of the benefits of the scheme? [More…]
Will he take heed of the warning expressed this morning by the Acting National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association, supported by other union leaders, that the current steel industry work force is more than enough to meet the needs of the industry and that any additional work force created by BHP would cause unwarranted and unwanted industrial friction? [More…]
How many applications by citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to join relatives in Australia have been held in abeyance in the past 5 years due to the attitude of the Soviet Government? [More…]
The following are the numbers of people resident in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who were (a) sponsored for migrant visas for Australia to join relatives here and who (b) obtained passports and exit permits and were granted Australian migrant visas in each of the past 5 years: [More…]
The union was asked to contact these people to see whether they would return to Qantas and become part of the Qantas enterprise. [More…]
Since then a number of questions have been asked of the Minister about whether the information was correct, whether discussions between the staff unions affected and Qantas were held, and broadly what the Minister thought about the situation. [More…]
The true position, as I am told by the union, is that in April retrenchment notices were issued to 70 flight engineers. [More…]
In May, because the flight engineers union pointed out that some requirements of capacity could be offset by the engineers taking accumulated leave, the notices were withdrawn. [More…]
Even in the clerical field we find that the clerks union is concerned about the introduction of too many computers and is wondering what may become of the staff that once was required. [More…]
The accepted propostion is that marriage is entered into for better or for worse, but I feel quite confident that the average marriage would be entered into without serious consideration of the implications which may follow from the union. [More…]
The choosing of a partner in marriage is most important and the issues which arise out of the marriage union should be discussed in our society. [More…]
We are responsible for the building of an urban society over recent years which increasingly is promoting the problems of living and undoubtedly is putting pressure on all sides of a marriage, thus leading to some breakdown in the union. [More…]
Those who were not cynical but were dedicated to the idea included representatives of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the work of the Australian Railways Union towards the achievement of this objective. [More…]
It passed through various secretaries and committees but at all times the ARU and a union with fewer members but of considerable importance supported the project. [More…]
Mr R. C. Robertson, a railways employee and railways union official in Tasmania, is another person who worked hard for the same objective, although he had a slightly different interest from a union point of view. [More…]
One other area of agreement in which I find myself with Senator Rae is on the tribute that he paid to the members and office bearers of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
It was very noticeable that he did not refer to a person who was Secretary of the Australian Railways Union in Tasmania, namely, Mr Stanistreet. [More…]
lt emanated from one of the unions in Burnie; I think it was the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, but I do not wish to be held to that because I may be wrong. [More…]
While Senator Bishop confined his remarks to the simple transfer of union membership from the North Australian Workers’ Union to the Waterside Workers’ Federation, after conversations with Mr Paddy Carroll and other union officials, I hope that the apparatus of the Department of Labour and National Service - the industrial hygiene section and other sections - will be adjusted to some of the problems which confront men in heavy manual work on the waterfront in Darwin. [More…]
I welcome this transfer of union membership. [More…]
I think it is significant that often - I do not necessarily indict the Minister - there is a tendency in the trade union movement which can prevent a satisfactory transfer of trade union membership. [More…]
I think that in this case the transfer proves that in many instances the trade union movement is able to handle its own domestic affairs. [More…]
Other countries, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, are spending mammoth amounts of money to provide defence forces, lt would be an act of utter stupidity if Australia, which is in an unstable part of. [More…]
The Soviet Union does not support this proposition. [More…]
Perhaps it would be better if Senator Cavanagh addressed his remarks to the leaders of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It can express pious hopes and pious feelings, but does any honourable senator think that if we express these feelings the leaders of the Soviet Union will say: ‘You are good fellows; we will withdraw our naval ships from the Indian Ocean’? [More…]
I noted also that Senator Cavanagh made the comment that the Soviet Union was playing the game as much as the United States was with regard to atomic testing. [More…]
The United States is an open society and it announces to the world weeks - sometimes months - beforehand that it is going to conduct a nuclear test, but the Soviet Union never announces it to the world. [More…]
The only indication that the world has it through modern instru ments which monitor testing in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a closed society - not an open society. [More…]
That we request the Commonwealth Government to make representations to the Government of the Soviet Union expressing the deep concern of a large section of Australians of East European origin and other Australians at the harsh treatment of prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union and the non-implementation by the Soviet Union of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Is the Minister for Health aware of a snide practice employed by the National Employers’ Mutual General Insurance Association which covers a large segment of workers’ compensation insurance in the rubber industry in New South Wales, by which it seeks to pressure members of the Rubber Workers Union who are contributors to the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia to claim for hernia hospitalisation and similar industrial accidents from the Hospitals Contribution Fund and in effect to transfer the industrial insurance liability from the National Employers’ Mutual General Insurance Association to the entire Hospitals Contribution Fund structure? [More…]
Can the Minister give a firm assurance to the Rubber Workers Union in particular and subscribers to the Hospitals Contribution Fund in general that this method of insurance feather bedding will cease? [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral received a statement which was made lust Sunday by the President of the Australian Union of Students regarding the unwillingness of the Government to prosecute draft resisters? [More…]
I have read the statement which appears in the newspaper attributed to the President of the Australian Union of Stude. [More…]
The Soviet Union, France and some others were in arrears in accordance with Article 19 in 1965 because they refused to meet the expenses of the organisation connected with the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations Force in the Congo and the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle-East. [More…]
What was the value of Australia’s imports from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in each of the past five years. [More…]
For how long have Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics been trading partners, and has Australia ever refused to trade with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Does the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics export crude oil beyond the Communist-bloc countries; if so, how does the price of their crude oil compare with the price of crude oil presently imported by Australia, taking into account differences in grade and freight rates. [More…]
Australian imports from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for each of the last five years were as follows: [More…]
Since the inception of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have been trading partners. [More…]
Did 200 Commonwealth Police make a raid at 5 a.m. on 30th September 1971 on Union House on the grounds of the University of Melbourne. [More…]
The persons were being harboured by others in Union House, and had publicly advertised their whereabouts. [More…]
Thirty members of the Force entered Union House to make the search. [More…]
A member of the Commonwealth Police Force had on 29th September 1971 asked the Registrar of the University whether, in the event of it being necessary, for the Commonwealth Police to go into Union House at any time in the future he could provide a key to Union House. [More…]
Does the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics practise apartheid in preventing its citizens from leaving the country, and does the same situation apply in Czechoslovakia because of the actions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is correct as reported in one newspaper that the Ukraine and one other State of the Soviet Union - I forgot which but there are 2 of them - are both fully pledged members of the United Nations? [More…]
Two constituent Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, namely the Byelorussian S.S.R. [More…]
Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse and that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting into a slate of bankruptcy? [More…]
Its present contribution to the regular budget is assessed at 31.52 per cent of the whole, in comparison to 14.18 per cent by the Soviet Union, 5.90 per cent by the United Kingdom and 6.0 per cent by France. [More…]
In 1965 the United Nations experienced a crisis when Article 19 was invoked against the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was hoped that this indebtedness would be reduced by voluntary contributions, especially by the Soviet Union and [More…]
In addressing a ques tion to the Attorney-General I refer to my question yesterday regarding the statement by the President of the Australian Union of Students and, in particular, to the list in that statement of 7 student leaders whom the Government is unwilling to prosecute, namely, Messrs Yates, Zerman, McLean, Marginson, Varley, Joyce and McDougal. [More…]
I mentioned yesterday with regard to the 7 names which had been contained in the Press release of the Australian Union of Students that inquiries were being undertaken with regard to 3 of them and, on initial appearances, it did not appear that any offence had been committed. [More…]
With regard to the others I set out what the position was and I said ‘hat the statement of the Australian Union of Students that these people were wanted was not accurate. [More…]
Secondly that the General Assembly of the United Nations did the same and, had it not been for the Soviet Union, this would have been accepted. [More…]
Presumably only the Soviet Union and the Opposition line up on the proposition that this was not a free and independent nation. [More…]
We on this side know from what trade union leaders say. [More…]
Because of the miserable policy of the United States, with its fictitious price of gold at SUS35 per ounce, are the mine owners to be left in the position of having to have caretakers in their mines until the American Government settles its monetary differences with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so that any increase in the price of gold will not boost the economy of the USSR? [More…]
At one time we expected a great deal from Senator Carrick but tonight he played the traditional role of members of the Liberal Party by claiming that everything wrong with the economy is caused by the workers and the trade union movement. [More…]
A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]
I emphasised the need to take full account of Japan in the emerging balance between the United States, China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
Also I have seen the statement which was issued by the President of the Australian Union of Students last night. [More…]
1 have been asked to specify the names of those who are alleged by this person from the Australian Union of Students to be people who are not being prosecuted for some alleged political reason. [More…]
The first name which was mentioned by the Australian Union of Students was Mr Chris Joyce. [More…]
But it is abhorrent to me that, if a person because of conscience or some other reason does not want to join that organisation or union, he should be compelled to do so. [More…]
I find it scandalous that, on an island like Kangaroo Island where there are people with small holdings whose income from rural commodities has diminished considerably and whose sons find that they have to go out and take jobs with neighbours to supplement that income, the unions should see fit to black ban their produce. [More…]
In regard to the matter of speaking to the leaders of the union, I hope that common sense will carry the day with them. [More…]
I have become aware of the fact that black bans have been imposed by certain union organisations which apparently would deny to certain persons the right to engage in freedom of employment, which right has long been one of the things for which the trade union movement has fought.I think that not only is it a denial of ordinary freedoms of people to prevent them from continuing in their employment but also it is denial of what every Australian should regard as something basic to his country’s future and something which he would desire to protect. [More…]
I know that persons at law have civil remedies which have been used successfully in the case of unions which have imposed boycotts and black bans in recent times. [More…]
Does he now recommend that action outside that Act be taken by persons concerned in the case of union membership, when certain facilities are open bo those persons to appeal to the arbitration courts? [More…]
In many cases access to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is not available to people who are suffering as a result of black bans and boycotts which are imposed by unions. [More…]
All [ intended to say, and allI think I did say, in response to Senator Young’s question was that boycotts and black bans are denials of essential freedoms - denials which I believe all Australians abhor - and the easiest way of rectifying the wrong is for union members not to engage in black bans which deny to other persons the right to work. [More…]
I direct to the Attorney-General, relates to my questions of last week concerning statements made by the President of the Australian Union of Students that the Government is not proceeding, for political reasons, against prominent student draft resisters. [More…]
I am aware that statements have been made by the President of the Australian Union of Students which were designed to suggest that the Government is not enforcing the National Service Act.1 and the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service in the Senate have asserted that that is not the case. [More…]
The honourable Senator has referred to an incident in which some draft resisters took refuge in ihe union building at the University of Melbourne. [More…]
I also pointed out that the course of action taken by the board of directors of the university union was the correct one in the light of the circumstances and the powers available to it. [More…]
The questions appear in the Senate Hansard at page 2150 under the headings ‘Wool Growers on Kangaroo Island’ and ‘Trade Unions’, Is the AttorneyGeneral now aware, following his investigation, that a wool grower on Kang;voc Island who is involved in an industrial dispute over employing non-unionists is respondent to the Federal pastoral industry award? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that precipitate civil action by wool growers against union officials, ignoring the remedies available under the award, is a dangerous procedure, that it is contrary to the policy advocated by the Government, and that it could even provoke an extension of the dispute? [More…]
The point is that the award does not permit a union to deny facilities to any person by requiring, through union solidarity, the denial of all services. [More…]
Whether or not a person may refer a matter under the arbitration processes is to me immaterial if a union acts improperly and unlawfully, as I believe it does if it acts in the way which 1 have indicated. [More…]
As I indicated on Tuesday, there are civil remedies available to people affected in the way in which these people have been affected by union action. [More…]
In the examination of Division 405, subdivision 2, 1 asked whether figures could be tabled showing the amounts spent by the Australian Broadcasting Commission on the various sports - tor rugby league, showing the amounts spent on English and Australian content, Australian rules, soccer, showing the amounts spent on English and Australian content, rugby union, horse racing, hockey, roller skating and a whole list of other sports. [More…]
What would the Commission have outlayed on the production and televising of the whole exercise of Australian Rules for a year - 1 do not care whether this is the 30th June 1971 or whether it is a calendar year -whatever it is the easiest for them to turn up - Soccer of English origin, and (b) Australian; rugby league - Australian (b) overseas: Rugby Union - Australian (b) overseas; amateur sport, athletics - Australian and overseas swimming - Australian and overseas: hockey. [More…]
Firstly, there was a question asked by Senator McAuliffe, which is set out at page 395 of the Hansard on 23rd November, essentially seeking itemised amounts of what the Australian Broadcasting Commission has spent on television programmes covering Australian Rules, soccer, rugby league, rugby .union, amateur sports, athletics, swimming, racing, trotting, roller skating, and sporting programmes generally As 1 understand the position, Mr Gifford, the information could be obtained. [More…]
To some people demarcation disputes are a battle between 2 rival union empires, but they are nothing of the sort. [More…]
Any businessman or trade union official who is worth his salt knows what would happen if the immigration programme were stopped entirely overnight. [More…]
Senator Little had a long training in the trade union movement and would have read a very apt statement by Bill Ford, who is well known in Sydney as an industrial lecturer. [More…]
If there is racketeering in the trade union movement, let us have a look at it, and let people who claim discrimination prove such assertions. [More…]
I do not want to get into an argument about the hierarchy of the trade union movement and nominees of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I respectfully suggest to Senator Davidson that amongst the committees formed by organisations such as the Good Neighbour Council not many recommendations have been made for the extra appointment of trade union secretaries or lower ranking unionists who are post-war migrants. [More…]
Senator Negus made a quite unfair and back-handed swipe at the activities of postwar migrant trade unionists. [More…]
Some people say that migrants are too docile as unionists and are a threat to industrial conditions. [More…]
If trade unionists are not satisfied with a shop steward they can quickly get rid of him. [More…]
A migrant from Britain, Italy or Yugoslavia when acting as a spokesman in the trade union movement may be sniped at. [More…]
I thought, he was quite unfair about the role of migrants in trade unions. [More…]
He has a place in the trade union movement. [More…]
I am sorry that a powerful union of forces has induced the Government to take the measures that it has taken. [More…]
Next weekend the New South Wales Council will be issuing releases about interim matters concerning immigration, current campaigns, and trade union attitudes. [More…]
On 18th June 1971, the House of Assembly made the National Identity Ordinance 1971 which provides, among other things, for the name of the administrative union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea to be known as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As the name for the administrative union is provided for under the Papua and New Guinea Act the National Identity Ordinance, insofar as it purports to alter the name, could be invalid. [More…]
This choir isan integral part of the military forces of the Soviet Union which in recent years have undertaken the military occupationof [More…]
Recently the State Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, New South Wales Branch, Mr Jack Maddox, conferred with the Minister for the Interior in relation to the ARU holiday camp at Jervis Bay. [More…]
On my last inspection of the Australian Railways Union camp site I saw that there was considerable erosion on the New South Wales side of the area. [More…]
I am informed that the officers saw Mr Maddox of the Australian Railways Union yesterday at Jervis Bay and discussed the matter of the up-grading of the access track. [More…]
Recently, at the request of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
I understand from the union that air conditioning is provided in the town for the employees of the company involved in the mining operations. [More…]
When Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson was Minister for Supply, at the request of the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union I requested advice of the ratio between miles travelled by cars of the Commonwealth car pool in Sydney and miles travelled on behalf of the Commonwealth by private car operators. [More…]
There are some highly organised trade union sectors with a combination of union preference and a turnover of labour such as the Storemen and Packers’ Union. [More…]
The fact is that the Labor Party and the organised union movement, as well as other people in the community, have always contended that at some stage in the economy price controls must be introduced. [More…]
Yet as soon as the trade union movement or the pensioners seek increases which will give them a just return for what they put into the community we are told by the Government - 1 remind the Minister - that the increases would wreck the economy. [More…]
On 12th July - that is only 3 months so far with which 1 have dealt - Mr G. Chance, who is one of the members of the Australian Wool Board, and the President of the Wool Section of the Farmers Union in Wes’ eni Australia, came out with his approval for an acquisition scheme. [More…]
He was speaking on behalf of the wool section of the Farmers Union of Western Australia as well as a member of the Wool Board. [More…]
The union complains - it has put this to Captain James - that had he attempted to take any other ascent than the regulation one, the incident could have been more serious than it was. [More…]
The union, Captain James and other authorities say that they did adopt effective means. [More…]
I have suggested that there is substance in the claim made by the union to the Department for many years that the investigating group ought to be separated from the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
I suggest that now is the time for the Department seriously to consider what the union has said in respect of this matter. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with Senator Sim and I understand from further conversations with the Federation of Air Pilots that there is a suggestion that if the Minister does not agree to the union’s request for a new inquiry it will consider having an all-in discussion with the parties involved so that remedies can be effected. [More…]
Canberra Tradesman’s Union Club [More…]
The Rugby Union Club Incorporated [More…]
Western Districts Rugby Union Club [More…]
Woden Trandesmen’s Union Club [More…]
also as a co-founder with his brother, the late Fred Courtice, of the Bundaberg and District Workers Union of the sugar industry in 1905. [More…]
He was a good unionist of the old school. [More…]
He believed in justice for the working class, but he was very sound in his judgment on union matters and never subscribed to any of the foolhardy practices so frequently seen in the ranks of unionism today. [More…]
In forming the Sugar Workers Union, which later became associated with the Australian Workers Union, he made a great contribution to the history of the trade union movement and the political movement of Australia. [More…]
If so - and the belief is widely held that it is so - does the Minister know that members of my union, Actors’ Equity Association of Australia, are gravely disturbed that such a sum would be made available in these circumstances to an entrepreneur when the local Queensland, Victorian and Western Australian ballet companies received only $31,000? [More…]
I ask the Minister whether the man Edgley named in this firm is the same man who has specialised in bringing to Australia brilliant theatrical troupes, circuses and ballets, etc., from the Soviet Union, many of whose members refused to join Actors’ Equity. [More…]
I assure him that I will have the matter referred to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I hope that a speedy response can be given to the honourable senator about the particular matters which are concerning him and members of his union. [More…]
It refers to a reported statement by the Minister for Social Services issued during the currency of the State Electricity Commission dispute that unemployed members of any union involved in that Victorian dispute, irrespective of State domicile or usual industry occupation, could be declared ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
It should immediately cancel Mr Johnston’s endorsement and condemn those of its members who support any unlawful activities of the Draft Resisters Union. [More…]
In connection with the Government’s review of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, on which I made a statement to Parliament on 7th December 1971, attention was paid to a wide range of views as expressed by various persons and organisations including the views of the major trade union and employer bodies which I consulted in a National Tripartite Conference. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the statement by Professor J. Auchmuty, Chairman of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, reported in the press of 28th September 1971, that a significant amount of student union fees collected by universities are being used for semi-political, non-university purposes. [More…]
These fees include student union fees and are paid direct to the universities on behalf of each student who holds a Commonwealth University Scholarship. [More…]
Student union fees are collected by the universities from all students, not only those who hold scholarships. [More…]
Has the Minister any knowledge of an allegation that on 17th February 1971 Mr V. E. Tulayev, Second Secretary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy in Canberra, led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought, by great psychological pressure, to persuade a defector, Dr Soloviev, to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs satisfied themselves before Dr Soloviev left Aus- tralia that it was his personal decision that he should return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Since the discussions wilh the Federal Council of the Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters the Board has had meetings with representatives of the Musicians Union who supplied information on various aspects of the matter. [More…]
I think also it is even more incorrect to look on the problems which have to be resolved if we are to have peaceful relations with our neighbours in the Indian Ocean as being solely the result of the intervention of major powers, whether they be Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
Mr President, I take the debate on (he tabling of this report as the opportunity for submitting that if we are lo survive with any respect from our neighbours and if we are to retain any reasonable relations with our neighbours we must show that we are just as concerned as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China appear to be about the interests of the great ‘ masses of people in this area who have suffered tremendous oppression througho.it the centuries and who continue to suffer oppression. [More…]
While on the one hand the Pope is offering prayers for the success of President Nixon’s visit to Peking and, at the other extreme, both India and the Soviet Union are expressing concern about the possibility of a new alliance between China and the United States of America, we can get no intelligible statement whatsoever from this Government apart from the usual old anti-Communist claptrap it has been serving up for about 25 years that everything which is going on is the part of some Red plot. [More…]
First in today’s world, the Soviet Navy first contributes to the strategic deterrent potential of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Second, is capable of guarding the maritime frontiers of the Soviet Union from surprise attack. [More…]
Friendship and Co-operation between the Soviet Union and the Republic of India. [More…]
The report claims that we have to match whatever the Soviet Union is doing in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union has ships, submarines and so on but it is our fault that it has them. [More…]
We have virtually forced the Soviet Union to become a super-power by reason of our foreign policy, by reason of United States foreign policy and by reason of British foreign policy which believed that the Soviet Union must be matched. [More…]
The Soviet Union has as much right to the oceans of the world as we have. [More…]
If we adopt the attitude that anything the Soviet Union can do we can do better, or if we try to keep up with the Joneses, we will impoverish ourselves and the country that we imagine to be our opponent. [More…]
The debate on this report presents an opportunity for the Senate to think very deeply about what we are doing when we imagine that we can match the Soviet Union and, if necessary, even go to war with the Soviet Union to determine which is the superior power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
He said that anything the Soviet Union can do we can do better. [More…]
The Committee has examined in some detail great power involvement and interests in the Indian Ocean region - specifically, the role and interests of Britain, the United States, Japan, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Soviet Union as a result of the IndianPakistani clash. [More…]
but al the present lime India’s favours are certainly bestowed upon the Soviet Union. [More…]
The report refers lo the possibility of India granting to the Soviet Union a base with full facilities at Vishakhapatnam. [More…]
At the southern extremity of the Indian Ocean were Australia and the former Union of South Africa, both of which were members of the then British Commonwealth and both of which generally followed, at least so far ils foreign policy was concerned, the policies of the British Government. [More…]
Clearly the closest ally to India in the conflict with Pakistan was the Soviet Union, and clearly the closest ally of Pakistan in the conflict with India was the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is interesting that the statements of the Indian Government have indicated the gratitude which it feels lo the Soviet Union for the support which was given by the Soviet Union to India in that conflict. [More…]
We now find that India is even much more closely aligned with the Soviet Union than it was before the conflict took place, and the Government of Pakistan, although now exercising authority only over what was formerly West Pakistan, is much more closely allied with China than it was before this conflict took place. [More…]
Whatever assistance was given by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to the differing parties iri the India-Pakistan conflict, I do not think that anybody, not even the most hysterical anti-Communist, could say that either the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China was responsible for what happened. [More…]
In the past, we have been in the position where we could make it very difficult for a country such as the Soviet Union to exercise that right. [More…]
The fact is that we have caused the Soviet Union to build its fleet to the size that it is today. [More…]
The Soviet Union was virtually a land-locked area. [More…]
The Soviet Union is exercising its right as a super-power, a status which it has achieved along with the United States of America, to accept what was given to us during our heyday as part of the colonial and imperialist power that was the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth. [More…]
The proposition that Senator Carrick is putting forward is that we have to perpetuate this fanaticism which is getting the world into so much trouble, namely, that whatever the philosophy of these countries - the Soviet Union, China, North Vietnam, [More…]
If we examine the situation closely, we see that the frictions and wars which are taking place and which have taken place over the last 20 or 30 years have been justified by the American strategy or policy that if the Americans were able to create sufficient strength and power they could cause an undermining of the governments of the Soviet Union, China and various other countries scattered throughout the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union in particular has diverted most of its resources into adopting a defensive attitude. [More…]
The most important Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean region are the initiatives taken in the economic, political, diplomatic and military involvement and assistance which is applied to those major areas of the region in which the Soviet Union seeks to obtain greater influence, power and prestige. [More…]
It is clear from those words that the Committee is telling us that really the most important thing being done by the Soviet Union is to take some diplomatic and eco- nomic initiatives. [More…]
Quite clearly no country with a responsible approach to its own interests - no doubt the Soviet Union has that - would want to have naval forces of such size as would destroy the effect of the diplomatic and economic initiatives. [More…]
It is possible in peace-time to envisage circumstances of East-West tension in areas where facilities may be denied to Australia which are made available to the Soviet Union. [More…]
But when considering the extremely remote possibility- 1 emphasise those words ‘the extremely remote possibility’ - that the Soviet Union may threaten Australia’s trading communications, it must be remembered that a high proportion of our trade is carried in foreign vessels including Soviet. [More…]
I believe that the most important step that Australia can take in relation to the Soviet Union is to normalise our relations with that country. [More…]
Not only should this be the task of Australia in rel a-, tion to countries such as the Soviet Union; we ought to act in that way directly with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a vast empire. [More…]
It is believed, altough there is no certainty of it, that the Soviet Union is building its first aircraft carrier which is believed to be of about 45,000 or 50,000 tons, putting it in the class of the United States carrier ‘Enterprise’. [More…]
The United States has developed Polaris missiles with a range of 2,500 miles which, if they were deployed in submarines in “ the Indian Ocean, would threaten any of the cities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is it a fact that investigations made by a prominent union official in Darwin have revealed that both the Department of the Interior’s Welfare Branch and the Commonwealth employment section of the Department of Labour and National Service are implicated in the racket? [More…]
After that report had appeared, the Attorney-General chose to remove the wig and gown of his office and as a private citizen, not as a Minister, made an approach to an industrial union of employees, namely the Australian Journalists Association of which I am a member and of which I assume the journalist involved is a member, seeking the assistance of the union to get redress for Mr Greenwood. [More…]
The January issue of the ‘Journalist’, the official organ of the Australian Journalists Association, states that a letter was received by the federal executive of the union seeking the assistance of the union to get redress for the writer who complained of the treatment of him by one of the country’s most responsible newspapers, namely the Melbourne Age’. [More…]
The federal executive of the union told Senator Greenwood of the machinery available to him to bring a complaint against the member who had interviewed him, but it had to tell him: [More…]
Details of Senator Greenwood’s letter to the federal executive of the union are then set out. [More…]
But the reply from the federal executive of the union, as I have indicated, was that in its opinion it was not a matter for Mt Greenwood, a private citizen, and the Federal Executive of the Australian Journalists Association- [More…]
Be that as it may, the Australian Journalists Association which is a registered industrial union refused to take up the case against the reported statements made by Senator Greenwood in his capacity as AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
If the union can take action against the journalist concerned, assuming that Senator Greenwood proves his case, what is the situation as far as Senator Greenwood and the Melbourne ‘Age’ are concerned? [More…]
The union cannot force the Melbourne ‘Age’ to retract any statement made or direct it to be made by the editor of that newspaper. [More…]
I felt that the appropriate body to which I could refer to ascertain the position was the Australian Journalists Association which claims to be a professional body, albeit Senator Douglas McClelland calls it a union, and that members of the Australian Journalists Association have a standard of ethics on which they pride themselves. [More…]
In relation to trade union awards and such matters, we have never objected to any discipline because we are dealing with the greatest good for the greatest number. [More…]
The trade union movement in New South Wales makes no apology in relation to these prosecutions at all. [More…]
I have since seen literature published by, I think, the Draft Resisters Union which says that this ALP . [More…]
If one reads the various statements of the Prime Minister of India, the new Prime Minister of Bangla Desh and the Prime Ministers of Ceylon and other countries in the Indian Ocean area one finds that they take a somewhat similar view - that the Soviet Union should accept some responsibility, as the United States does, in assisting the growth and development of the under-privileged nations of that part of the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union seeks to accomplish these aims in the Indian Ocean by: [More…]
While the Admiral expressed some concern about the Soviet presence in this region he nevertheless came to the conclusion that it was normal international behaviour and that it related to the general security of the Soviet Union in the global conflict which we all agree still exists between some of the major powers. [More…]
But I think the Senate should examine the declarations which were made when the Indian Government and the Soviet Union had discussions and reached agreement on matters affecting peace in that region during 1971. [More…]
If these countries can normalise relations with the Soviet Union I think it would be an act of statesmanship if our Prime Minister took the same sort of initiative regarding the Soviet Union as President Nixon is taking in his current discussions with the leaders of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
After all, the Soviet Union has a quite minor presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
This is just about the level that the Commonwealth Government sought in order to disable the trade union movement in its just fight to obtain decent conditions of work and rates of pay for the people it represents. [More…]
This is done merely on the pretext of gaining some advantage or some improvement in the working conditions of the members of the trade union concerned. [More…]
Trade union officials were racing around pleading for the reopening of the meat works. [More…]
Stoppages such as that have aggravated our unemployment position and until the trade unions, particularly their leaders, act as if they are genuinely concerned about their members and realise– [More…]
The union leaders were very quick to race around the place and interest themselves once the factory was closed more than they were when the strikes were going on. [More…]
Is it a fact that the recent Teheran Conference of the International Labour Organisation very clearly affirmed the right of unions to organise and the right of freedom of association? [More…]
Would attempts by reactionary groups within the Parliament to interfere in the internal affairs of the trade union movement, particularly in regard to amalgamation of unions, give the impression overseas that we in Australia are opposed to ILO conventions? [More…]
I presume that the honourable senator is referring to the proposed amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Union. [More…]
It is a fact that ballots were conducted by each of those unions. [More…]
The ballot by the Amalgamated Engineering Union was carried out voluntarily and the other 2 in accordance with the requirements of and the regulations under ‘he Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
1 do not have in front of me the figures as to the results of the ballots, but it is true to say that the percentage of the ballot papers returned represented only a proportion of the total membership and ;hat the majority of the members who voted were in favour of the unions’ request for the cancellation of their registrations, which is the subject upon which the regulations require the ballots to take place. [More…]
However, there was a ballot majority of something like, from memory, twothirds of those voting doing so in favour of the cancellation of the unions. [More…]
Professor J. J. Auchmuty, ViceChancellor and Principal, University of Newcastle (Chairman); Mr A. P. Anderson, Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Education and Science; Mr E. ft. Horwood, Honorary Organising Secretary, Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers” Associations; Professor A. H. Johns, Professor of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, Australian National University; Mr W. N. Oats, Headmaster, The Friends’ School, Hobart: Mr A. W. Jones, DirectorGeneral of Education of South Australia: Mr T. W. Payne, Deputy Director of Secondary Education, New South Wales Department of Education: Mr G. Semple, President, Queensland Teachers Union; and Mr F. R. G. Strickland, Managing Director, H. Halford Ply Ltd, Melbourne. [More…]
For such conditions are conducive to the exercise of unbridled industrial strength by powerful union groups; to the rapid passing on of cost increases - and sometimes more - in higher prices; to bottlenecks and delivery delays and all the other signs which, each in its small way, points to a falling away of overall standards of efficiency and real productivity. [More…]
On the one hand, we have the Associated Chambers of Commerce pressing for years for an inquiry into the management, efficiency and structure of the Commonwealth Public Service; the trade union movement has been pressing for such an inquiry; on ils own admission the Government slates that an inquiry is warranted; the Australian Democratic Labor Party believes that it would support an independent inquiry, although not a parliamentary inquiry; and the Labor movement which seeks an inquiry is the only body which has come forward wilh a constructive suggestion as to the type of inquiry. [More…]
After all that trouble that that union had been put to, the matter was referred back to the Public Service Board which then offered Commonwealth meat inspectors a 10 per cent increase. [More…]
Why could not the Board have done that 12 months earlier than it did rather than put a small union to the trouble and expense of submitting the matter, in the first instance, to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
In fact I think history will show that Mr Dargan stood out against union blackmail. [More…]
Is it the cause of the Australian Labor Party, the cause of the Draft Resist ers Union of which he is the secretary or what cause? [More…]
1 wonder how often a person charged before a trade union gets a fair trial. [More…]
What about the records of the fairness of trade unions in dealing with their members? [More…]
The union has talked to them and has prevailed on them to see what we can do. [More…]
If the Government does nothing about it the union cannot be held responsible for the actions of the mcn. [More…]
These appear to be the areas of major political and strategic interest to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union professes not to seek to exercise influence which would be prejudicial to Australia. [More…]
But it remains unlikely in our view that the Soviet Union could demonstrate that its long term objectives would not compete or clash with our own. [More…]
That was the question whether communists would dominate the Labor Party or the trade union movement. [More…]
To my way of thinking, when we are talking about the trade union movement and strikes we should remember the position of the men who are seeking an extra $5 a week. [More…]
I believe that the Government is being totally unfair because every time that the maritime unions have agreed to changes there has been no visible change in the price structure. [More…]
I am talking about the sugar industry and the fact that the trade union movement has accepted changed techniques in that industry. [More…]
I. am not developing an argument about sugar co-operatives, but I am talking about what happens to the redundant workers and the price structure when the trade union movement accepts new techniques. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union has agreed to a new manning scale. [More…]
Ecuador knows that whether the other country is the United States, the Soviet Union or Mainland China those countries believe that, irrespective of their big battalions, t’hey need a good image. [More…]
I think it would be a much better idea if the Department of Foreign Affairs were a little more militant and if it argued that if it is good enough for the Soviet Union and for a small country like Greenland to have defined fishing rights we should have defined fishing rights also. [More…]
I could not but make comparisons between that hostel and the hostels that I went into in the 1950s as a sub-branch official of the Australian Railways Union and as a member pf the Sydney Labour Council’s immigration committee. [More…]
The point I am making is that if we of the Labor Party and the trade union movement begin to question the number of migrants coming in it is because we do not want to see any racial bitterness or undue competition between A and B for a particular job. [More…]
The Soviet Union, as I understand it, has taken measures to decrease income taxation progressively until it disappears, lt was certainly very close to that situation some few years ago. [More…]
Lest there should be any doubts about this, let me refer to the survey made by the Union Bank of Switzerland, which is regarded throughout the world as authoritative. [More…]
As a former unionist let me say that unions are quite keen to make this evil thing called profits. [More…]
We do not hear of the Australian Workers Union passing back to its membership the huge surplus of membership dues that it has collected over the years in excess of what has been required to run the union. [More…]
The union further invested the surplus in other profit making ventures. [More…]
We should stand up here and exchange our ideas as people with an interest in Australia, not as people just trying to gain a political advantage over each other or sing a song that will be welcomed by the unions on one side, or on the other side sing a song that may defend the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) who has agreed to the evils that I have just outlined in the trade union movement and who, indeed, had an entirely different policy on the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd from that of his representative in this chamber, Senator Carrick. [More…]
If the Government wants the lead on the question it can get it from the 84 per cent of the membership of the union involved in the amalgamations which refused to vote on the question of amalgamation. [More…]
If it wants to know the reason why 1 will give it because I have been in the trade union movement. [More…]
Many of that 84 per cent of the membership of those unions that did not vote would have a very valid reason for not voting. [More…]
It is very difficult because those who do interest themselves in union affairs - everybody knows that that is a very small minority of the membership of any union today; my colleagues in the Labor Party know this, whether or not they will admit it - are those who take an interest, who have to stand up to not only the physical threats of violence against themselves but also the harassment of their wives and families by telephone calls in the middle of the night which threaten and use vile language. [More…]
Light Co. Once upon a time its work force - 1 am applying trade union figures - was up to about 15,000. [More…]
The Government gives us all the highfalutin ideas on productivity and smaller work forces and it pleads with the trade union movement to accept some form of redundancy. [More…]
The Federated Gas Employees Industrial Union has accepted considerable work procedure adjustments. [More…]
If we accept the thesis of Senator Little, we would say: ‘All right, if we get the Federated Gas Employees Industrial Union to accept this proposition, what about the consumers?’ [More…]
I refer to a case involving the Federated Clerks Union and the Golden Fleece petroleum company. [More…]
When the federal secretary of that union, Mr Riordan - incidentally, in the not too far distant future he might adorn this Commonwealth Parliament - raised in the arbitration court the question of severence pay, he got a lecture about the right of the employer to hire and fire - hardly a fair attitude. [More…]
But the Government cannot expect the trade unions to remain docile in the face of job insecurity. [More…]
A tirade of hysteria has been raised about the amalgamation of certain unions. [More…]
Sometimes the Labor Party is criticised for trying to politically dominate the trade union movement. [More…]
We have to live in a competitive world in the trade union movement, just as people have to do in the business world. [More…]
Quite frankly, the situation is the same as when a person joins a friendly society- he expects to get service and value for his union membership. [More…]
I suggest that honourable senators look at last Friday’s Sydney ‘Sun’ in which it was reported that the Secretary of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union advocated to his members that a legitimate dispute should be confined to 48 hours. [More…]
The rank and file of the union decided that the dispute should go a little bit longer. [More…]
This is one of the hazards of trade unions. [More…]
When we speak about the metal trades unions, let us be realistic. [More…]
If the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union meet separately and decide on particular claims for wages and if they then meet at the [More…]
It may be argued that there could be occasions when variations occur and that the Federated Ironworkers of Australia, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia and the Australasian Society of Engineers might differ on detail. [More…]
But to be honest about it, most of these unions have members working on sites in distant areas and in hot climates. [More…]
If honourable senators argue with me that in a foundry in Sydney or Melbourne a number of these people receive over award payments and systematic overtime, 1 would point out that this was a product of the employers and not of the trade unions. [More…]
trade unions would have preferred a higher hourly rate than to have the sop of overtime. [More…]
On the subject of amalgamations and what happens at trade union meetings, let us not be namby pamby in our approach. [More…]
Senator Little knows that at a trade union meeting as anywhere else one would expect to hear verbal insults. [More…]
I turn to the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
I say that any apathy that exists in the trade union movement which is said to be manifest in the AEU could equally be present in the Federated Storemen and Packers Union, the Australian Railways Union or any other union, so the question of voting percentage is not appropriate. [More…]
The economic lessons of the day are such that it is inevitable, whatever we may say about it, that amalgamation of the metal trades unions will take place. [More…]
Without naming them, we can think of what has hapened with respect to various manufacturing unions. [More…]
Honourable senators should look at unions that deal with biscuit makers and pastrycooks. [More…]
If those unions merged their members with workers in confectionery industries they would serve their members better. [More…]
1 know that he appreciates the cost factor in servicing a trade union. [More…]
I gave a copy of it to Jack Maddox, the State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union in New South Wales, who has a sizable migrant membership. [More…]
The union was up for $140 just for postage. [More…]
That is a union with a pretty broad membership. [More…]
I do not know what the situation is with respect to unions with memberships below 1,000 such as the union representing tarpaulin workers which has a membership of approximately 700. [More…]
As Senator Lillico just did - for cost-push inflation on the activities of the trade union movement under the leadership of Mr Hawke. [More…]
I asked the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library to obtain some information for me in relation to union dues over a similar period. [More…]
I refer to your request of 29th February for details of union dues payable in four large Australian industrial unions, including an engineering union, currently and 10 years ago. [More…]
I imagine that the imposition of union dues basically is to supply the finance to pay the salaries of their officers-. [More…]
In 1962 the annual dues paid to the Amalgamated Engineering Union were $9.97. [More…]
The dues payable to the Australian Workers Union in 1962 were $6 and in 1972 they were $14, a rise of 133.3 per cent. [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the chamber may gasp because they would not expect that a Labor oriented union would have the effrontery to increase the union dues from its own members by 133.3 per cent during that 10-year period. [More…]
I believe that it probably was forced to increase the fees because of a rise in labour costs within the union. [More…]
In 1962 the annual dues paid to the Electrical Trades Union were $10.50 and 10 years later they were $21, an increase of 100 per cent. [More…]
The dues payable to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in 1962 were $8 and in 1972 they were $19, which was a 137.5 per cent increase. [More…]
Where there are persons who are members of a union and that union is on strike, those members do not qualify for unemployment relief if they are out of work. [More…]
It is appropriate that the Government should follow the same policy because I think it would be unfair to the mass of taxpayers and other unionists if we paid unemployment relief to unionists who are out of work when it is fellow members of their own union who are causing the strike which is creating their unemployment. [More…]
Court on 16th March refuse financial assistance, under the terms of legislation passed by the Chifley Government, to 2 rank and file unionists who have taken action to oppose the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Workers Union? [More…]
I understand that under section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act orders nisi have bee,n granted by judges of the Commonwealth Industrial Court at the instance of 2 applicants with a view to those applicants testing whether certain rules of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metalworkers Union have been carried out and observed. [More…]
The trade union movement offers its people. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that at the instigation of the Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia I sounded out the Minister for Immigration to see whether there was any truth in the assertion that the relative labour employment codes of the United States and Australia were such that undue preference or privileges accrued to American musicians or non-Australian musicians in Australia when compared with the treatment given to Australian musicians overseas. [More…]
When I conveyed to the Union representing people in these categories the information I had obtained through Senator Greenwood I received an interesting letter from Mr John McQuaid, New South Wales Secretary of the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees’ Association. [More…]
In special cases, such as the short term entry of overseas entertainers and musicians, special consultative arrangements have been established under which the relevant union is consulted . [More…]
As to the second matter, I think the day has gone when a trade union should have to deal with the American consulate. [More…]
When I say ‘You have heard what the trade union officials have said’, the reply I receive is: ‘At the ministerial level you have not asked for it’. [More…]
To determine your eligibility for Unemployment Benefit under the Social Services Act in respect of the claim you lodged during the recent Victorian power dispute, it will be necessary to know the name of the Trade Union or Association (if any) to which you belong. [More…]
Were you a member of a Trade Union or Association on 2nd February 1972? [More…]
That must mean the name of the trade union or association, if the person belonged to one. [More…]
The normal procedure provides for consultation with the Department of Labour and National Service about such applications and the Department advises on the availability of local labour and, where appropriate, discusses the proposal with the trade union concerned. [More…]
As to whether or not a person should disclose what his union membership is, I think it is relevant, in the light of a longstanding policy to which- 1 referred on the earlier occasion when Senator Brown raised this matter, that members of a union which is engaged in the dispute which has caused the unemployment or the stand-downs are not entitled to unemployment benefit. [More…]
Otherwise we would have a situation in which some members of a union were on strike and the other members of the union who were not engaged in the strike would be getting the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs noted that following official visits by them to Communist China the following Heads of State were removed from office by their countries: U Nu of Burma, Voroshilov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Nkrumah of Ghana, Sukarno of Indonesia, Amin of Uganda, Sihanouk of [More…]
At present, based on the Bailey Appeal Report of 1944 which has applied evevr since, appeals are heard by a promotions appeal committee which consists of a chairman, a member of the relevant department and a member of the associated union. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to the recent warning by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Melvin Laird, that the Soviet Union is aiming to achieve overall military supremacy by the late 1970s and that the existing, dwindling margin of military superiority of the United States on present trends will disappear within the next 2 or 3 years? [More…]
But with more particularity in response to the question I think I should say that in Australia we follow closely statements made from time to time by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, on matters of relevant strength of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Did the Minister for Social Services, during the currency of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria dispute, state that unemployed members of any trade union involved in the dispute could be declared ineligible for unemployment benefits, irrespective of his State of domicile or usual industry occupation. [More…]
Were any unemployed unionists not directly involved in the SEC dispute denied unemployed benefits because of their union membership. [More…]
Have investigations by a prominent trades union official in Darwin revealed that both the Department of the Interior Welfare Branch and the Commonwealth Employment Service are implicated in this matter. [More…]
Quinn, an Organiser for the North Australian Workern Union and the union official referred to in the article, denied that he has said that Commonwealth officers are involved. [More…]
Would a similar breach of the law by a union be ignored? [More…]
The United States of America maintains its global balance with the Soviet Union and it has a marked superiority in strategic nuclear strength vis-a-vis China. [More…]
As the Department of Defence review points out, its strength in the Pacific Ocean is vast but American resources are not unlimited and the United States Administration has set conditions for its assumption of further responsibilities The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of the North Vietnamese throughout IndoChina, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent with the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]
By the terms of the Bill, if an industrial situation occurs or is threatened, a Minister, the Public Service Board, a Commonwealth instrumentality or a union may notify that situation to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
Honourable senators will be well aware, for example, of the many interruptions to the work of the Post Office, resulting in inconvenience to the public, that have taken place as a result of strikes, bans and limitations on the performance of work by such bodies as the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
The system of the Public Service Arbitration Act, as it stands, envisages that in circumstances in which a union is not satisfied with the response of management - in the form of the Public Service Board or a departmental or an instrumentality - it will take its claims to the [More…]
When an employer and a union are engaged in a dispute with which there may also be associated a strike or ban on work, that dispute can be notified to the Commission under section 28 of the Act. [More…]
This means that officers and employees will carry out only those duties determined by them or by their union. [More…]
For instance in Western Australia the official body happens to be the beekeepers section of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia Inc. [More…]
I have had representations made to me by a particular honey producer - I do not think the pros and cons are relevant because this is simply an example I am giving - who resigned from the beekeepers section of the Farmers’ Union. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to fix the salary of the chairman of the instrumentality, or will the suggestion of Mr I. P. Heffernan, Chairman of the Victorian Farmers Union Wool Committee, be accepted when he said that it was unrealistic that the salary for such an important position should be fixed by the Government? [More…]
He is so involved now over the Middle East situation and the Israeli war that he believes that there is a plot between Israel and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that many honourable senators present come from the trade union movement and that they know about tradesmen’s rights and that this is a difficult question. [More…]
I think that Senator Douglas McClelland mentioned this matter 2 years ago when the President of the New South Wales branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union pointed out what was happening. [More…]
I have been prompted to raise it following the receipt of submissions by Miss Sonia Posenelli, a very active member of the telecommunications union at the Sydenham workshops. [More…]
That is the view of members of the telecommunications union and the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
I put that on the record only to indicate that apparently from a labour relations point of view the employees of Thomas Nationwide Transport are satisfied with their employer, and union officials in Sydney advise me that they are satisfied to date with the arrangements that they have been able to negotiate on behalf of their members. [More…]
This Public Service inquiry had been agreed upon and the unions said they would support it. [More…]
It would not only inquire into the efficiency, staffing and so on of the Commonwealth Public Service but also, from the union point of view, it could consider industrial relations and the general scope of what industrial laws might be required in relation to the management and the employers of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
For example, he referred to the dispute by the transport members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers ‘Union of Australia. [More…]
This was an outstanding case where the union’s claim was justified. [More…]
It took the union 5 months to put the case before the Commonwealth Public Service Board and it was rejected. [More…]
In these situations what else do you think the unions would do but engage more actively in campaigns to secure wage justice? [More…]
There also have been numerous delays which have cost union members many thousands of dollars, particularly the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union which apparently has been singled out. [More…]
The second great problem that the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union got into was over its claim for an industry allowance. [More…]
The industry allowance did not apply to Commonwealth public servants until the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union negotiated and obtained the $4.50. [More…]
1 remind the Senate that when we are talking about the Commonwealth Public Service and the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union we are talking about what the Government called, during the negotiations, the physical grades. [More…]
That claim for the industry allowance took 2 years for the unions to process and it took a long time for the Public Service Board and the Public Service Arbitrator to deal with it. [More…]
The frustrations occasioned loss of the increase to members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union for some 18 weeks. [More…]
In relation to the negotiations to which I have referred it was fortunate that, in some of the circumstances, the Australian Council of Trade Unions was able to come along and assist the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union settle the negotiations. [More…]
It can accept very clear pro formas which are well known to industrial relations people, unions and management. [More…]
In every enterprise there are disputes between workers and management and between union delegates and secretaries and management. [More…]
If the issue is a difficult one the individual union almost’ always engages the assistance of the Trades and Labour Council, which is the State branch of the ACTU. [More…]
For example, recently the Building Workers Industrial Union in New South Wales imposed a ban and carried out activities to secure new standards of workers’ compensation - full pay for those on workers’ compensation - and it finally succeeded. [More…]
As long as that provision is in the legislation summary action can be taken against the union. [More…]
The Government should take the first opportunity to do what the Public Service unions ask, that is, to consult them as to whether modifications in respect of both sides of the employment scale might be considered. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that prior to the election the Minister will initiate actions against unions by standing down their members. [More…]
This is one of the steps that the Government has taken to bring before the public, in its own particular haphazard way, its attempt to pass all responsibility onto the union movement. [More…]
I believe that it is because of the activities of Comrade Slater in the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia that we are faced with this proposition that will be binding on many public serv– ants who have not been associated with the activities that have led to the introduction of the legislation. [More…]
I have belonged to a union for many years which always recognised that it did not have the powerful economic punch to win improvements in wages and conditions by the use of the strike weapon because the strikes would last for a period in that industry which inevitably would mean that die workers would be starved back to work. [More…]
We were always warning those in the trade union movement, who were endeavouring to destroy the processes of conciliation and arbitration which the Labor movement had established in this country in the interests of the unions of that fact. [More…]
It is on that point that there are divisions In the sentiments of many of us who happen to be unionists but who have also been elected by the people of this country to protect public moneys and the public purse. [More…]
As I said at the outset, we feel that had it not been for the very irresponsible activities of Comrade Slater in the trade union movement, the Public Service would not be faced with this legislation at this moment. [More…]
The unions involved mainly are the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and the Postal Telecommunications and Technicians Association. [More…]
When the refusal of 4 people to carry out their duties creates a situation like this, I believe - and I suggest this to those interested in the trade union movement - that this is where industrial anarchy begins and where industrial blackmail can be so clearly illustrated. [More…]
When a trade union official can create this sort of’ chaos by using only 4 men who are likely to lose wages, we must wonder how much of the public purse would have been plundered during the course of the stoppages that have, taken place already in the postal industry, when 557,959 man hours werelost and $855,057 in wages was lost by the’ participants in those strikes. [More…]
As far as the union is concerned, whether it is’ justifiable or not - and if it was justifiable’ for them to go out– [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement, if it is sensible, will use the right to strike in a much more reasonable manner,. [More…]
I think that it mostly has done so, under the national auspices of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Prior to the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in September 1961 much of the radioactive debris from earlier tests had been deposited. [More…]
The extensive test programmes by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1961 and 1962, and by United States of America in 1962, injected more radioactive debris into the atmosphere than had all previous tests. [More…]
the trade union movement will not be advantaged by the use of this technique. [More…]
It follows what has happened recently, particularly in the postal union. [More…]
To my mind it can be clearly established that the unions I mentioned, like the Postal Workers Union, and Mr Slater’s activities, have in some measure been responsible for the introduction of this legislation. [More…]
I advert to the circumstances that applied in the Christmas period and just after Christmas when there was a ban in the postal service on the installation of new telephones for people who were discriminated against by the union. [More…]
Australian citizens who were just as good telephone customers as any other customers not singled out by the union were denied repair service to their telephones, They were denied service and their businesses were disrupted. [More…]
It is elected by the people to protect all the people, not only people who have approval from the secretary of the union to get their telephone repaired. [More…]
There would have been no danger that a telephone belonging to a trade union might not be fixed at that time. [More…]
They were then enjoying certain friendly relationships with the unions, but these have since been disrupted. [More…]
I am not criticising unionists who may think this is a clever technique, under the guise of arbitration Acts in general, to isolate an industrial activity or ban of this character. [More…]
The union was allowed by the Government to define the subscribers whose telephones it would fix or would not fix. [More…]
What has happened in trade unionism in other parts of the world must not be allowed to happen here, but it will inevitably do so unless something is done to prevent it. [More…]
Trade unions are composed of ordinary, normal human beings; our trade union officials are no better and no worse than other members of the community. [More…]
If this sort of conduct is allowed to continue, the stage will ultimately be reached where no person will be able to have a telephone installed without the approval of the union. [More…]
That really means the union official. [More…]
In the United States of America, where industrial power has so often been misused, invariably the stage has been reached where unless union officials are bribed certain people cannot get the things they require. [More…]
The whole wonderful trade union organisation is corrupted when a government subscribes to the immoral point of view that a trade union official shall decide that a place of business shall not have its telephone connected, although it has done nothing to offend the union, and that another place of business shall have its telephone connected if it accedes to the request of the union. [More…]
If an employee did not do so, then as an individual he should suffer the consequences, and the union should say: We told him not to carry out those duties. [More…]
But no, the Government was prepared to allow the employees to refuse duty, on the instruction of their union. [More…]
I do not criticise them as individuals for carrying out the instruction of their union, but they have a responsibility. [More…]
If the union accepted its obligations to its members there would have been a head-on confrontation which would have had to be resolved. [More…]
Senator Little pointed out the dangers that exist when a union or a group of employees, whether they be civil servants or not, are able to determine who will have telephones installed and whose telephones will be repaired. [More…]
In addition, another union with employees in the Post Office directed its members. [More…]
How can a community tolerate a situation in which a group of employees or a union dictates communication policy? [More…]
But he could not obtain the installation because whether or not the telephone was to be installed was being determined by the militant Amalgamated Postal Workers Union which had imposed a ban on this work. [More…]
Whether he as a medical specialist was to receive the telephone was determined by that union and not by the Postal Department. [More…]
In his meandering he cited very deliberately the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union as one of a number of organisations generally involved in this Public Service. [More…]
Of course, he implication right through his speech is that the nigger in the woodpile and the person responsible for the legislation before the Senate at this moment is none other than the general secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
But I want to make it clear to the Senate that the 4 persons who were involved in that dispute in September 1971 happened to be members of the Postal Telecommunications and Technicians Association of Australia, and the Postal Works Union, of which Mr George Slater is secretary, has no control over members of that Association. [More…]
We all recall the sordid display in that intervening period by members of this group who sit on the cross benches applying pressure to the Commonwealth Government to introduce new penal provisions and restrictive measures on the trade unions generally not only in this Bill but also in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The DLP was insisting that 2 of its members, who happened to be members of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metal Workers Union had been refused the right to challenge the amalgamation of the metal trade unions. [More…]
I feel it my duty to report my strong opinion, based on my experience as a Judge of the old Court and as President of this Commission for its first IS years, that in the long term a reduction in strikes can only be brought about by an improvement in industrial relations, and that this is far more likely to arise from changed attitudes of the organised employers on the one hand and the organised trade union movement on the other band than from mere changes in Acts of Parliament. [More…]
The Amalgamated Postal Workers Union has taken the opportunity to obtain eminent counsel’s opinion as to precisely what he thought of the Bill as a whole and, in particular, what he thought of clause 3. [More…]
From an opinion by eminent counsel that the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union obtained in respect to the Bill as a whole. [More…]
I am indebted to the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union for a file which was given to me as late as this afternoon. [More…]
It contains a resolution - I think the Government should be aware of this - that was passed by the ACTU Federal Unions Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, 12th April 1972, which reads as follows: [More…]
This conference of federal unions condemns the anti-union legislation introduced into the Federal Parliament, by the Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr Lynch, which has as its objective the emasculation of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Clearly, the amending legislation is directed against unions which have asserted their democratic right to take industrial action against the reactionary and hostile anti-union government. [More…]
That resolution was carried unanimously, which means that it represents the opinion of not only the physical grades in the organised trade union movement concerned with government - that is, the Australian Council of Trade Unions - but also about a quarter of a million employees employed directly in the Public Service of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
1 am also in a position to inform the Senate that the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union is concerned. [More…]
Incidentally this union is affiliated with the Postal Telephone and Telegraph International which is a major international organisation representing about 20 million public servants across the world. [More…]
The Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union of Australia has received telegrams from Unions all over the world representing 20 million Public Service and Post Office employees protesting against the McMahon Government’s Bill amending the Public Service Arbitration Act to provide for greater penal powers. [More…]
is adi Iia ted, and the Trades Union International of Public Service Employees have condemned the Australian Government measures as a curtailment of trade union rights and contrary to Internationa) Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
1 am advised that the International Trade Union bodies will lodge a protest with the International Labour Organisation concerning the Public Service Arbitration Act amendments. [More…]
I believe this is borne out by the eminent counsel’s opinion which was obtained by the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and to which I referred earlier. [More…]
1 refer to the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, Mr Maynes. [More…]
No doubt it is true that the union is microscopic in terms of industrial support but to the extent that the Democratic Labor Party has that support it would appear that it is not even prepared to concede the wishes of the organisation which supports it politically. [More…]
They spoke with a lot of authority about the trade union movement, arbitration and the upsets and frustrations which beset trade unions in their struggle to obtain better terms and conditions for employees. [More…]
The general secretary of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, Mr J. S. Baker, said last night bis union’s work-to-regulation campaign would continue until its claim for a 9 per cent salary increase was granted. [More…]
It would be directly linked to that of about 20,000 PMG linesmen, members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, who were claiming a flow-on from the metal trades award. [More…]
No sooner were these socalled objectionable penal clauses withdrawn than the secretary of the Builders Labourers Union, Mr Mundey, said: [More…]
The Public Service union publication, receipt of which I think most honourable senators appreciate, has this to say about this amendment: [More…]
To show that other actions apply, recently an action was heard in the South Australian Supreme Court against the secretary of the South Australian Branch of the Transport Workers Union for compensation for loss incurred by omnibus proprietors because of a strike by the Transport Workers Union in South Australia. [More…]
At the present time in Adelaide action is pending against Mr Domford, the secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia and the Trades and Labour Council Disputes Committee which placed a ban upon sheep skins being shipped from Kangaroo Island. [More…]
The ban was placed because the farmer used non-union labour. [More…]
After a Commissioner has made efforts to get a resumption of work or settlement of a dispute and has failed to do so, he makes an order against the union organisation involved saying that work shall resume. [More…]
Most of the strikes are brought about by the actions of a few in the union movement. [More…]
They are brought about not by the unionists in toto but very often by the actions of a few people who are in a position where they can declare a strike and the rest of the workers have to follow them like sheep. [More…]
I have said to them: ‘Why did you not attend your meeting and tell your union that you did not want to go on strike?’ [More…]
One of the unfortunate things that has occurred in the trade union movement has been the creation of fear in the minds of people who do not want to go on strike but who are frightened to express an opinion to that effect. [More…]
I can remember incidents that occurred way back in those days and the difficulties experienced by people who wanted to express a different point of view in the union movement. [More…]
Do not think that as a paymaster in that period I was not associated with some people who were prominent in the union movement. [More…]
My knowledge of what goes on is that unfortunately the decision of the majority of people as to what shall be done in union affairs is not always adhered to. [More…]
The unions have said: ‘We will not accept the decision. [More…]
The result is that the union leaders take their unions out on strike. [More…]
It is very nice to talk in an heroic way about the downtrodden workers and the rights of the worker to do this and that, including to go on strike because he does not agree with a decision given by an arbitration court, but what would the unions say if, as a result of an arbitration court giving a decision to workers or the employers were to say: ‘We think it is too tough. [More…]
What would the unions say in that case? [More…]
I think that in this 20th century for unions to be taking on the strike weapon is really getting back into the dark, dim ages. [More…]
I think it shows that so far as the union leaders are concerned they really have not come far along the track of enlightenment. [More…]
But what do the union leaders do? [More…]
I really think that if the Government had strength it would introduce legislation which would provide that when unions go on strike and union members are not being paid the union leaders would not receive any pay also. [More…]
Unfortunately the leaders are paid while union members have to go on the bread line for some time, lt is very nice for the unions to get a decision their way. [More…]
As I have said, if the employers did the same what would the unions say? [More…]
It is very nice for the unions to go out on strike and affect other people. [More…]
Unions involved in transport which go on strike disrupt transport and this affects people getting to and from their place of work. [More…]
What would the very unions which go on strike say if the farmers and other food producers of this nation decided to go on strike and there was no food for the union people? [More…]
They would say: Those beef barons, those rural people are starving our union people.’ [More…]
There is no difference between this situation and one in which a union goes on strike. [More…]
What do the unions do when they go on strike? [More…]
It is causing a greater cost of living for the unionists’ colleagues. [More…]
I think that what we have to do is to bring back responsibility into unionism in its relationship to the arbitration system and the acceptance of decisions by that system. [More…]
I ?m quite convinced that there are certain union leaders who do not want stability and confidence in the arbitration system. [More…]
I feel that because of the lawlessness of certain unions, this Bill is being forced on the people. [More…]
Those unions are to blame for the maintenance of penalties in this arbitration legislation. [More…]
They could not get service until the union made certain concessions, decreeing that some people could have their telephones repaired and others could not. [More…]
When industrial trouble of that sort arises the union leaders, with the leaning they have a certain way, drag out a cou ple of key men. [More…]
Do they think union leaders should be able to use that sort of technique as an irritant? [More…]
There is no question that irritating tactics have been prominent in the minds of certain union organisations. [More…]
A great number of strikes today are brought about on demarcation issues beteen unions, one union going out on strike because it says that certain work should be done by its members while the union whose members are doing the job maintains that it is the work of its members. [More…]
This is nothing whatever to do with business people or the industry affected; it is merely 2 unions engaged in a fight. [More…]
This sort of thing is going on because of lawlessness in unions. [More…]
It is a matter of 2 unions fighting, causing disruption, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the employers. [More…]
The 2 unions engage in a fight about whether work should be done by members of their union. [More…]
The union leader comes out and says: ‘We are not trying to inconvenience the people.’ [More…]
The unions do these things at peak times. [More…]
1 have seen lots of things happen in unions that make one think how childish they are. [More…]
Union leaders sometimes indulge in the antics of children. [More…]
Some union leaders openly admit they are communists. [More…]
A good deal of the lawlessness in this country has been brought about by the leadership of certain unions. [More…]
It should display the same strength when any industrial union plays up and goes beyond the bounds of decency. [More…]
I think that any person with any degree of responsibility who finds union leaders inciting unions generally and inciting them to refuse to accept the decisions of arbitration should, like the great mass of Australian people, condemn the unions for their lawlessness in not accepting the decisions of arbitration. [More…]
Senator Wood and some of his contemporaries spoke as though Brother Slater of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia or an official from the telecommunications union wakes up one morning not feeling too well and says: ‘I will pull all members of the union out’. [More…]
I can assure Senator Wood that no matter how zealous a trade union official is he always has members who feel that he has to earn his pay. [More…]
People said that its introduction would bankrupt the country, but some of the major recipients of the trade union achievement in the field of long service leave were travel agents such as Senator Wood. [More…]
I do not begrudge him that for one moment, but I can assure him that the trek of a lot of trade unionists on long service leave to the Gold Coast - I think Senator McAuIiffe will agree on this - did not bankrupt the country. [More…]
When we hear of a trade union mounting a campaign for an improvement in conditions we should not write it off and say that it would bankrupt the country. [More…]
The problem is not the membership of the trade union as such; it is that if the unions do not protect, their job procedures, what will happen? [More…]
About 6 weeks ago I took a delegation from the metal trades union to see the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) about stability among employees in the metal trades section of the rolling stock industry. [More…]
Put yourself in the seat of the boilermakers or the amalgamated metal trade unionists or the electricians. [More…]
It is not a question of the trade union secretary talking about responsibility. [More…]
I say this to some Government senators: If somebody says that his union secretary never does anything do others every say that he is a good secretary because he does not take them out on strike? [More…]
Take the case of crane driver Prendergast, a member of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, a rather militant union. [More…]
If the union had declared a black ban and Ministers’ cars were held up, what a howl there would have been. [More…]
Dealing with collective bargaining and understanding, Charlie Fitzgibbons, the successor to- Jim Healy, is one of the most able men in the trade union movement today. [More…]
The trade unions agreed with the ship owners to institute a 35-hour working week and an $8 pay rise. [More…]
The honourable senator would know from his own experience in the Melbourne trade union movement that if the Government accepted its responsibility it would compete fully with the shipping cartels and the shipping conferences which have bled this country white. [More…]
The whole difficulty is that the Government introduces legislation of this nature to deal with the trade union movement, but it never does this if the Australian Medical Association is involved. [More…]
An honourable senator from the Government side - I know that Senator Poyser knows whom I am talking about - rose one night and abused the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
Senator Wood referred to it when he said that the ambit of the trade union movement did not stop at seeking higher wages. [More…]
That is the reason why trade unions become somewhat active and say that they want a better deal in another field. [More…]
So far as the trade union movement is concerned, the Government has created a psychology of distrust and condemned the trade union leaders. [More…]
If a trade union leader is docile, he is bludging on the membership. [More…]
These are the things that are making trade unions so apprehensive. [More…]
Just as professional groups place pressure on him, and he has to live with this, I am sure that the Postmaster-General has to live with the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and other kindred trade unions. [More…]
He had a great interest in his fellow men in union affairs being always a staunch unionist. [More…]
He was a man who tried to help his fellow unionists and a man who was always forthright in putting up a genuine case for justice for his fellow workers. [More…]
I had another very close association with Charles Lamp when I was President of the Tasmanian Trade Union Council. [More…]
At that time, Charles Lamp, in addition to being Secretary of the Launceston Trades Hall Council, as mentioned by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), was also the Secretary of the Tasmanian Trade Union Council. [More…]
J. could pay no higher tribute to Charles Lamp than to say that he was one of the best trade union secretaries that it was my pleasure to work with during the period that 1 was the President of that Council. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether steps can be taken to prevent such employers doing a sell-out to excessive union demands which eventually will mean a greatly increased surcharge on freights and costs? [More…]
This measure has been condemned by every public service and post office union throughout the Western world as being contrary to the United Nations charter on human rights and as being a blatant contravention of the International Labour Organisation conventions dealing with trade union rights. [More…]
It was condemned unanimously by a special conference of federal unions convened by the Australian Council of Trade Unions in Sydney on 12th April this year. [More…]
That was a meeting of unions of various political persuasions, including the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Even the DLP union representatives supported the motion at the conference, which was carried unanimously, and called on every senator to oppose the Bill. [More…]
By the terms of the Bill, if an industrial situation occurs or is threatened, a Minister, the Public Service Board, a Commonwealth instrumentality or a union may notify the situation to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
As Mr Meaney is president of America’s major union organisation, will the Minister invite him to Australia to educate the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
His experience and prestige in the American trade union world entitles his statement to be considered with some real attention. [More…]
Having regard to the devastating strikes that big industry in America has undergone in recent days and to the terrific damage caused to American workmen - more particularly to the 30 per cent who comprise the lower paid group - it is not surprising to find that his union has constituted a committee in search of an alternative to the deplorable practice of adopting strike action. [More…]
It may be a breakaway group from the union; it may be a fragment of the Public Service, and so on. [More…]
It has been prepared in a hurry in order to catch the members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
I merely suggest that what we are talking about now is something which flows from an examination of the legislation which is necessary on behalf of the union members. [More…]
1 think it is important to find out whether the unions who represent the workers are in fact right. [More…]
I spoke about a situation in the Commonwealth Public Service - I am told that this happens fairly frequently - in which officers complain to the department and the union that their place of work is not satisfactory. [More…]
It might be the secretary of the union or an ordinary member of the union, lt could be a nonunionist. [More…]
Trade unions, being registered organisations, have authority to act for their members. [More…]
He is given power to tell unions not to engage in industrial actions. [More…]
Equally, however, a union could ask that some claim or other be dealt with and be resolved. [More…]
If that remedy is sought from the Arbitrator, it must be the Arbitrator who decides the matter after hearing the parties, including the union or unions involved. [More…]
Surely this is part of a scheme to divide the trade union movement on various issues. [More…]
The point is made that if a postal worker is going to refuse to obey a direction to go to a wharf to unload mail, there is likely to be a dispute which the union concerned can then refer to the arbitrator. [More…]
The other point is that a disgruntled officer who refers disputes to the arbitrator without the consent of the union is not likely, one would imagine, to remain an officer for long. [More…]
The Public Service Arbitration Act currently does not provide for industrial situations; it provides merely for the lodging of claims by unions or the lodging by managements or unions of applications for variations of determinations. [More…]
Thus, the Bill will enable managment or a union to notify the Arbitrator of an industrial situation and to have it resolved. [More…]
If a union says that another union will engage in strike action that will affect members of the first union, that union can notify the threatened industrial situation and ask lor the tribunal to be brought into the dispute. [More…]
It could do so in an attempt to avoid the likely effects on its members of a strike by the second union. [More…]
According to the legal advisers of the unions and according to the way that we read the provision, the Arbitrator or Deputy Arbitrator can issue an order against a union which is not concerned with Commonwealth employment generally. [More…]
We agree with the unions that something ought to be done about it and if we are correct in our view there is every reason to delay the legislation, particularly if the advisers are uncertain as to what is meant. [More…]
Organisation’ means an organisation within the meaning of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1950; lt seems to me that the union correctly claims that the Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator can enforce upon an organisation which is registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act an order in relation to a matter which, after all, concerns only Commonwealth public servants. [More…]
That is the legal advice given to the unions. [More…]
can be issued against a union in respect of a dispute outside the Public Service. [More…]
The bans order cannot be made against a union except in respect of conduct by it in the Public Service area. [More…]
I have asked the question and the term ‘organisation’ means without any doubt a union. [More…]
This provision was discriminatory against organisations which, I again repeat, I have been informed include unions. [More…]
T address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise, ls the Minister aware that at the February 1972 council meeting of the Australian Union of Students, its president Mr K. Newcombe stated that an organisation called the Radical Action Movement controlled the copyright of ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’? [More…]
There has been published in the ‘National U’ dated 26th April 1972, the newspaper published by the Australian Union of Students, a front page article with various supporting documentary material which is entitled ‘Federal Minister Betrays Party Secret National Group’. [More…]
We have heard a statement from that notable newspaper of the Australian Union of Students and the alleged minutes of some meetings supplied by an anonymous pimp or informer who was not prepared to make the allegations in his own name. [More…]
All I can say is that the statement which appears in that newspaper of the Australian Union of Students is typical of the malicious lies in which that organisation indulges and of which I had a personal example within recent weeks. [More…]
I wrote to the Australian Union of Students, this reputable body which has been quoted as the authority for these statements. [More…]
I would not believe any statement made by the Australian Union of Students on a bet. [More…]
I would never believe anything from the Australian Union of Students on a bet. [More…]
That was to dismiss the Executive on the basis that it was influenced by a group called the Trade Union Defence Committee, which - [More…]
But it is common knowledge that the significant unions in the Trade Union Defence Committee were controlled by the Communist Party and were exercising a very significant influence throughout the whole of the Labor movement in Victoria. [More…]
Otherwise, why would the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party in 1970 decide to disband the Victorian Branch on the basis that this Trade Union Defence Committee had exericised an undue influence. [More…]
The Federal Executive finds that the Trade Union Defence Committee has been permitted to dominate the Victorian Branch and the Victorian Executive. [More…]
With a relatively minimum amount of publicity it overruled the decision of the Federal Executive that this Trade Union Defence Committee had in fact exercised such control. [More…]
This represents the same continuing pro-communist attitude which was exhibited by elements in the ALP in the days when the Trade Union Defence Committee was acknowledge to be influencing - in fact controlling - the ALP. [More…]
Does this not illustrate that within the Australian Labor Party is a group of communist in trade union officials and other sympathisers of communist officials who are using the Australian Labor Party for their own purposes? [More…]
After all, if the newspapers are to be believed, he was a strong defender of the Trade Union Defence Committee at one stage. [More…]
The ships have to ply across the Strait and back again, lt has been suggested that the people working in the industry - members of the Seamen’s Union and similar people - are not happy about the ships having full complements. [More…]
The members of the DLP have come into the Senate day after day complaining about amalgamations and mergers of trade unions to create better organisations within the trade union movement. [More…]
It is only a whitewash for their activities against the trade union movement. [More…]
I read with interest some time ago that even the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has travelled overseas in an attempt to obtain advice from West German and Israeli trade unionists with the object of attracting, and even using, capital from West Germany in order to provide the trade union movement in Australia not only with expertise but also with possible ways of financing the establishment of a finance corporation designed to enable trade unionists to borrow from it for hire purchase requirements. [More…]
So it was not surprising to me that he should go outside Australia to obtain financial advice, and probably to attract financial assistance, in order to form a corporation that would be of some benefit to Australian trade unionists. [More…]
United State, for that matter, of the Soviet Union and some of the other Eastern bloc countries. [More…]
Talking to those people on their trade expeditions when they are trying to deal with Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other, one finds that they seem to be able to walk an economic tightrope. [More…]
In Australia over a period of years the trade union movement with its political wing, the Labor parties in the various States, and the arbitration courts and the like have protected the interests of the working man to the degree that his standard of living has been partly increased relative to the improving production rate of the country. [More…]
It is printed in a variety of languages and is posted all over the world to political refugees who have left the Soviet Union or countries under its domination. [More…]
They are in no doubt that this indicates the existence in Australia of a Sovietsponsored espionage organisation which keeps tab on the movements and addresses of political refugees from the Soviet Union. [More…]
19 of March 1972 this paper which, as I said, is mailed from the Soviet Union or one of its subject countries to Russian refugees throughout the world, devoted considerable space to an attack on Bishop Constantine of Brisbane. [More…]
denials of the leaders of the Soviet Union that they are anti.semitist are completely untrue. [More…]
By using that particular epithet they have revealed the truth of the allegations made by Jewish people in this country that there is vicious and vile anti-semitism in the Soviet Union today. [More…]
How otherwise can people who have come from a different country and who have established themselves in various parts of Australia have their names and addresses known to people in the Soviet Union from where this document is sent? [More…]
Further to the question just addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service by Senator Cavanagh I ask the same Minister: Is it not a fact that the legislation under which the rank and file of a trade union can be financially assisted in an endeavour to assert their rights was passed by the Chifley Government in the commendable belief that members of the rank and file of trade unions are entitled to have their ordinary rights in a union preserved? [More…]
The Soviet Union veto is the reason for South Vietnam not having been recognised by or admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
In addition to that, the efforts of Great Britain to get the Soviet Union, as a cosponsor of the Geneva conference, to reconstitute that conference will have come to the knowledge of honourable senators. [More…]
But the Soviet Union recently has been quite adamant in refusing any such reconstitution, jointly with Great Britain, to get consideration of the situation at that level. [More…]
Unlike, for instance, the manufacturing, commercial and trade union interests, they are not able to bring pressure to bear, or to prepare and present their point of view on what they believe ought to be done to assist them. [More…]
As a consequence, if a person is injured in industry, often the employer after a period of time, with the connivance of the union, will make his work a little easier. [More…]
I presume that comment had something to do with bookmakers who wanted to form a union to protect their good name, or something in that direction. [More…]
Finally, is the supply of arms by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to North Vietnam, without which the invasion of South Vietnam could not have taken place, a good example of the benefits we could hope to enjoy as a result of our association with the Soviet Union? [More…]
The legislation is also concerned with the activities of union and employer organisations in relation to their members and the activities of members within those organisations. [More…]
Union and employer bodies exist primarily to protect and advance the interests of their members. [More…]
This wage-induced inflation derives from industrial unrest brought about by union militancy and by employers who are unable or not prepared to resist union tactics and claims. [More…]
The police union in Queensland has said so time and time again, as has the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, on 8th May, called on the Soviet Union to join Britain in re-convening the Geneva conference which, in 1954, ended the Indo-China war and of which Britain and the Soviet Union were co-chairmen? [More…]
If these are facts, has there been any response by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to this earnest attempt by Britain to bring about a just peace in Vietnam? [More…]
Whether or not I know what the Queensland Police Union is doing; whether or not I believe what it is doing reflects confidence or otherwise in a government, obviously are only questions which could be designed to ensure that this Senate becomes a forum for the State election in Queensland. [More…]
Will he endeavour to persuade the Government to intervene in support of another application by the Australian Workers Union to rectify this anomalous situation? [More…]
One of the reasons why question time is extended in the Senate is that on very many occasions 2 Ministers in particular when giving answers use question time to launch an attack upon the Australian Labor Party and the leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
He accused the Labor Party, in particular, of trying to get the air and to put a case across.I think that if the honourable senator looks back through Hansard, particularly over the time that I have been here - it has not been very long - he will see that some of the most bitter attacks on the Labor Party and the trade union movement in answer to questions have been launched on a Wednesday when we are on the air. [More…]
If I may, I would like to say a few words without being crossexamined by counsel for the draft resisters’ union or whatever Senator Cavanagh is. [More…]
No, I did not know that there was another television camera at another entrance to Parliament House, but I did see all the television cameramen waiting for some considerable time before eventually the Draft Resisters Union managed to raise its flag on the far side of the road to the right of the Aboriginal ‘embassy’. [More…]
If those documents were incorporated in Hansard I am confident that the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Minister for Trade and Industry would probe them thoroughly and, I hope, collaborate at a later stage with Mr Charles Jones, other interested people and the unions, including the major union concerned, which is the FIA. [More…]
This Bill is the second legislative step within a few weeks towards imposing reactionary laws on trade unions and their members. [More…]
The Government has used a fine tooth comb technique to make trade union activity more difficult and complex. [More…]
I think the Government intends to tie down the unions completely, to subvert the traditional role of the conciliation and arbitration tribunals and generally to make it more difficult for organised labour to maintain wage and industry standards. [More…]
One could go through the names of all of the groups which are confronting the Government about increased costs without finding one which is subjected to the same sort of restrictive laws to which the trade union movement is now being subjected. [More…]
The trade union movement is being subjected to many attacks from the Government and its spokesmen. [More…]
Statements have been and are frequently being made by not only the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the present Minister for Labour and National Service but also by the former Prime Minister and former Ministers for Labour and National Service in which attacks are launched on unions that are out to maintain the wage rates of their members or to get something for them in a period of inflation or because of increased productivity. [More…]
Act after Act is promulgated to impede the functions of the trade unions. [More…]
After all the functions of the trade unions are primarily to protect the standards of their members and to maintain wage levels. [More…]
The Government says that it encourages the trade unions. [More…]
What the Government wants is tame cat unions; it does not want active unions. [More…]
The role of a trade union in Australia is no different to the role of a trade union in any other country, lt is to maintain the standards of and protect its members. [More…]
As we know, in many countries the unions are doing that in a more militant manner than it is being done in Australia. [More…]
This is an area where with co-operation from other sections of the community, from the great trade union movement and from the employers a satisfactory result would be produced. [More…]
The matter should be submitted by the shop steward or accredited representative of the union concerned to the Industrial Officer or other appropriate representative of the employer. [More…]
If not then settled the matter should be formally submitted by the State Secretary or other appropriate official of the union to the General Manager or his representative. [More…]
If agreement had not been reached the matter should then be discussed between the General Manager or his representative and State officials of the union. [More…]
I suggest that anybody with a long experience of union affairs should be the first to do as your counterpart, Mr Deputy President, did in ACSPA, lt is on record that Mr Maynes objected to the legislation, and we would like to know whether you intend to accept his viewpoint. [More…]
What union is going to accept restraint on wages in a situation where the Government will do nothing about prices and incomes other than wages? [More…]
They have accepted with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other people the need to reform that system. [More…]
On the one hand, the Minister is making use of the constructive abilities and experience of the trade union movement, including the ACTU and other unions. [More…]
It is not precise to say Bob Hawke alone; the qualification, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, should be added to his name. [More…]
On most occasions, their work is felt also in getting agreement with employers because, extreme right wing employers apart a great number of employers in the community are willing to do a deal with the trade union movement. [More…]
It was only within the last few weeks that the ACTU, after efforts over a long period, advised on the methods to be adopted within the trade union movement with respect to demarcation. [More…]
No courts can do this; if a reduction is to be achieved in the number of demarcation disputes, the unions and the employers will do it, and they will do it much better with a government which believes in industrial relations and peace in industry and conciliation. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions took part with the Government in the meetings of the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the consultations to which I have referred in respect of this Act commenced during 1970 and continued in 1971 but were never conclusively discussed and considered by the trade union movement but were terminated. [More…]
As far back as December of last year the Adelaide ‘Advertiser’ hit on the real fault of this system, namely, that unions will not accept the situation. [More…]
Despite the laws that this Government is enacting, it will be found that that type of action within the economy will increase and the effect of the laws which have now been promoted by this Government will be, in fact, to increase the amount of militancy in the union movement, because the whole concept of conciliation is not used to the extent to which it should be used. [More…]
To reject completely any attempt to limit the trade unions’ right to organise and seek the enrolment of all wage and salary earners into the trade union movement, and in accordance with the 1971 Congress decision to resist any legislative action designed to prevent unions using their industrial right to ensure that those who enjoy the benefit of award and agreements obtained by unions join with their fellow worker to help bear the costs. [More…]
The results of the ballots showed that almost 86 per cent of those voting in the AEU ballot favoured amalgamation, 73 per cent in the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and almost 70 per cent in the Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The percentage of total membership of the union of those voting were 9 per cent AEU 40 per cent Boilermakers and Blacksmiths and 36 per cent Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
it is wrong, lt places a great burden on the union movement. [More…]
Guesses in newspaper reports attributed the change to threats by the Democratic Labor Party about the merger of the unions. [More…]
DLP renews threat on union merger. [More…]
I cannot understand why people with considerable experience in the trade union movement should let themselves be hoodwinked by this sort of rubbish - and it is rubbish. [More…]
Anything can be so regarded which imposes strictures on the unions at a time when they are battling to achieve proper standards and when there is a great need for increased conciliation to follow the pattern in other countries. [More…]
Had the Government wanted to review in a proper fashion the Australian arbitration system it could have consulted the Australian Council of Trade Unions and employer bodies. [More…]
We have become used to consistent attacks on the trade union movement not only by the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) but also by Ministers who have made similar attacks on the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Trade union secretaries and employer representatives find they must talk to 10 people before settling a dispute. [More…]
1 listened with a lot of interest to what was said by Senator Bishop, having in mind his long trade union experience. [More…]
If that happened in West Germany the union would discipline the unionist responsible for it. [More…]
He would probably be expelled from the union. [More…]
But here, when your management attempts to interfere in a dispute, there is a strike by all the unionists concerned’. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite talk about the amalgamation of Australian unions they justify their statements by saying that West Germany has only 16 or 18 unions. [More…]
But they should take into consideration the apparent difference in outlook of those unions which operate in West Germany. [More…]
I notice that the Heath Government in the United Kingdom - Wilson threatened to do it but did not do it - has imposed a penalty of $170,850 on a trade union under threat of taking over its assets if it did not pay. [More…]
The trade union paid. [More…]
At that time the Secretary of the Seamens Union came on television and, as one man put it, preached bloody revolution. [More…]
He de-registered the union. [More…]
He broke it altogether with the co-operation of the Secretary of the Federation of Labour, Mr Skinner, whose attitude is so different from that of some leading men in the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The Prime Minister with the co-operation of Mr Skinner worked out rules for the formation of another union, free altogether from communist control. [More…]
Whether or not that is contributed to by the trade unions, the honourable senator must know that incomes have been reduced since 1964 as a result of policies of the Government which he supports. [More…]
He must know if he has looked into the matter that the time of prosperity in primary industry was the time of prosperity in the industrial movement which had been brought about by the agitation of the trade union movement. [More…]
Speaking on the Public Service Arbitration Bill which was recently before the Senate, I went into some detail on the origin of conflict in Australia between the trade union movement and employers. [More…]
I will admit that the Minister possibly would claim that he was under pressure to save the Government from the attack of the Australian Democratic Labor Party which threatened to direct its preferences away from the Government unless some firm action was taken against the trade union movement. [More…]
The surprising thing about this resolution is that it was moved by Mr John Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union who is recognised as one of the leading members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
A leading member of the trade union movement. [More…]
While the purpose of this legislation was the appeasement of the Australian Democratic Labor Party - I think I can show that the right wing trade unions are attacked more than the left wing trade unions - and while the political Democratic Labor Party was satisfied with its achievements, those with a bond or connection with the trade union movement could see the dangers of this action. [More…]
The conflict between the political DLP and its trade union representative in Mr Maynes is demonstrated by the fact that he moved this resolution- [More…]
The Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, said that the intentions of the Government constituted a serious attack upon trade unionism. [More…]
All of the provisions to which the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union objected still remain in the Bill in its present form. [More…]
The amalgamation of the metal trades unions cannot be prevented at this stage by the Bill. [More…]
Other requests were made for certain assistance which had to be given for the purpose of delaying the amalgamation of the unions by the Government to help what I take the liberty of saying were 2 stooges so that they might make application under section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act on complaint that the rules of the organisations were not complied with. [More…]
The Industrial Registrar decided under regulation 138 that he had no power, as he interpreted that regulation, to pay for the cost of this challenge which alleged that the rules of the unions had not been carried out. [More…]
To Senator Little’s mind it is justifiable that amalgamation cannot take place when 49 per cent of the union membership vote for it because a minority vote does not count, yet 26 per cent of the members of an organisation can make an amalgamation legal under the proposed amendment to the Act. [More…]
Senator Little now claims that because 49 per cent of the membership of the union vote the same way it is not a dinkum ballot. [More…]
The first notable exception is the Amalgamated Engineering Union which had less than a 50 per cent return on a number of ballots, but that aspect is no longer in dispute because it has achieved its amalgamation. [More…]
The other notable exceptions are the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, the Australian Workers Union, the Federated Clerks Union and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia. [More…]
With the change of operations in industry a lot of unions must become very small. [More…]
Its only hope of some union protection is to amalgamate with another body. [More…]
The smaller unions eventually must be swallowed up by the bigger unions if the members of the smaller unions are to be protected. [More…]
Under this proposed new Act, the militant unions - we have heard them referred to as the communist dominated unions - can achieve amalgamation, according to the figures that are published in Hansard. [More…]
The AWU, the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Clerks Union can never amalgamate with another organisation if this legislation is passed by this chamber. [More…]
One must remember that a trade union movement has the right to exist on only one principle, namely, to maintain and improve the conditions of its members. [More…]
If that principle is not carried out there is no justification for men paying into a trade union. [More…]
Possibly the trade union movement highlights the inequalities within society. [More…]
Strikes have been recurring because trade union organisations exist only to provide benefits for their members. [More…]
The unemployment caused by the Budget dwarfs into insignificance the loss of time through strikes by the trade union movement. [More…]
If non-employment is dangerous to our economy, there are more enemies in Australia’s economy sitting in this Parliament than are sitting in the Melbourne offices of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
In view of urgent telegrams having been sent to all Country Party members and senators by the Katanning Zone Council of the Farmers Union in Western Australia, which has a membership of 900, can the Minister give a guarantee that a decision on a wool acquisition scheme will be made public before the August Budget, or will the Government continue to stall on this important question for fear of electoral disadvantages flowing therefrom? [More…]
Yesterday I endeavoured to show, as I did when speaking on the Public Service Arbitration Bill, the development of the trade union movement, its aspirations and ambitions, and the actions of various governments over the years in the industrial field. [More…]
Even the 1956 amendment, which introduced penal clauses for strike action for the first time in Commonwealth Acts of Parliament, could have been prompted or promoted by the desire of the then government to impose penalties on trade unions in an effort to prevent strike action. [More…]
For example, a union may have been striving strenuously to obtain a settlement to the dispute, and its action in seeking a settlement should be something to be considered by the arbitrator but he is deprived of that knowledge at the time of the meeting of the parties to consider it. [More…]
In the social history of mankind it is not so very long ago that there were no legal rights in terms of employment and no legal rights to organise as a trade union. [More…]
In this country we moved very quickly through the stages of recognition of trade unions to the stage at which the unions were the main campaigners and the main architects of an industrial conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
I recognise, as earlier unionists did, their absolute right to organise as a trade union - that right was challenged in this country, too - and to have a legal award, a wage that was theirs by right of legality in the community. [More…]
To continue the history of the trade union movement, we began to find that challenges to arbitration and conciliation started to come from another organised force in the community. [More…]
I do not want to quote my own experiences although as a former trade union official I could do so. [More…]
In most cases a trade union shows the bank with which it banks on any cheque it issues. [More…]
Lel us remember that any union can avoid disclosing these facts. [More…]
Presuming that we always have conditions as we have at the moment perhaps, from a union point of view, direct bargaining could or could not be successful. [More…]
I hope that Senator Murphy in his contribution to this debate will not tell us that direct bargaining is the answer to all the questions of trade unionism as the Communist Party does and as 1 have heard members of the Labor Party in this chamber repeat almost as a slogan. [More…]
With some knowledge of legal fees, though 1 have been involved only seldom in legal matters, and as a former trade union official, 1 do not think that a Queen’s Counsel- [More…]
The Government quite rightly has pointed out the fact - this is an area where, I think, the Labor Party is most opposed to the provisions of this Bill - that the question of industrial relations does not concern only 2 parties, namely the employer and the employee as represented by his or her trade union. [More…]
They seized on the trade union movement as a whipping boy and built their entire cases on that. [More…]
The point is that when people feel that their future is a little uncertain it does not take great oratory from a trade union secretary to get them to agitate for a change. [More…]
Senator Lillico referred to the role of the trade union movement in West Germany and compared it with that in Australia. [More…]
The top echelon of the West German trade union movement negotiated to reach a national wage agreement but values did not erode after agreement was reached. [More…]
There was much agitation in Sydney about the Theatrical Employees Union - a relatively small union - and its cinema operators and even the usherettes. [More…]
The Government says that it is wrong for a union to seek something, but nobody places a stopper on Greater Union Theatres or their other competitors Hoyts for the way in which they seem to circumvent any concept of price stabilisation. [More…]
This is one of the basic situations that no doubt the Government could discuss when it meets officers of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
If the Government accepts the other point and says that this is a good part of the West Germany trade union structure, it should look at the other aspect. [More…]
The West German officials were in Australia talking about the trade union insurance concept. [More…]
I am trying to develop the point of why the trade union movement cannot win in the eyes of many Government members. [More…]
On one hand the Government says to members of unions: ‘Look, do not agitate about wage increases. [More…]
On the other hand we hear all this talk about why the trade union movement should not enter the retail industry. [More…]
If it says that the trade union movement should keep out of that field, I take the point to the next stage: If the trade union movement is involved exclusively with its own affairs, the Government will come to it and say: ‘We need your assistance in the immigration field’. [More…]
But all these matters place impositions on the trade union cost structure. [More…]
I have dealt with the failure to stabilise prices which, in turn when the trade union movement feels it has been gypped, leads it to come back to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission again and argue that during the term of the agreement there has been such an erosion of money value that some adjustment has to be made. [More…]
The Government says that if a major strong section of the trade union movement achieves something the gap is being widened between other grades. [More…]
It is all very well to say to the ACTU and to trade union secretaries: ‘Get the members back to work and we will arbitrate’. [More…]
Union, the Federated Clerks Union, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and one or two other unions. [More…]
But I ask them to tell a meeting of trade union officials which has to agree to a phasing out of sections of their industry where the person phased out is to get work. [More…]
People talk about trade union secretaries, their ideological background and just pressing a button and people walking out on the job. [More…]
I wonder what they would think if we had trade union racketeers like Jimmy Hoffa in the US and Boyle of the mine workers union. [More…]
I doubt whether the union involved has much Marxist influence in it. [More…]
The message that I am trying to get across to the Government is this: When there is resistance in a union it is to ironclad sanctions, ls it possible to eradicate such a thing? [More…]
The moral of that story is that the original conciliation commissioner should assess the personality of the trade union leader and that of the representative of the employers. [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union of Australia became extremely restive. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite realise that once higher educational standards have been created, even for the trade union secretary, the position will be, rightly, that Jack is as good as his master. [More…]
The union secretary faces that situation. [More…]
I think I might take my argument a little further and quote Mr J. P. Ducker, a leading trade union official in Sydney. [More…]
All the trade union movement is asking is that it should be placed in that position allowed to all other sellers in. [More…]
That is the philosophy of the trade union movement. [More…]
I might take my argument still further and deal with the ambit of trade union movement. [More…]
Amalgamation of certain unions is inevitable. [More…]
In the United States there is a multiplicity of unions. [More…]
While the Americans believe in a minimum of government interference, this multiplicity of trade unions is getting more and more burdensome. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s absurd idea that if a union of 2,000 and another of 50,000 are to amalgamate there has to be a ballot of members of both organisations. [More…]
One day a small union in New South Wales known as the Canvas and Tarpaulin Workers Union will have to amalgamate with another union. [More…]
It probably will carry on for a couple of years, but inevitably it will be absorbed by the Australian Railways Union, which has about 35,000 members, or a similar transport workers union. [More…]
The Government expects a union which has tremendous calls on its finances to foot the bill for the ballot. [More…]
It is utter rubbish that the Government should impose on those unions the need to conduct a ballot. [More…]
Trade unions costs are getting a lot higher. [More…]
On numerous occasions my colleague Senator Murphy has referred to the rising trade unions costs. [More…]
I make a plea for the Government to short circuit a lot of these matters by avoiding a ballot among members of the absorbing union when the ratio is 2,000 to something like 30,000 or perhaps 50,000. [More…]
To my way of thinking, this clause is a deliberate way of drawing upon a lot of the resources of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Australian Railways Union has a considerable number of such people as members. [More…]
That is probably the smallest cost in a trade union operation. [More…]
I was quite surprised that he, as a member of the Opposition with great experience in the trade union movement, should have posed the argument which was apparently applauded by most members of the Opposition - at least they interrupted his speech to the extent that no-one could hear what he was saying - that where there was a small trade union and a large trade union and it appeared obvious at some stage that the larger one would take over the smaller, it was ridiculous to suggest there should be a ballot of both of those unions to decide whether the members wished amalgamation. [More…]
I recall when Bob Hawke and I were trying to do something with respect to forcing the wishes of the trade union movement on Senator Young and his colleagues. [More…]
The worker through his union appears before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and receives a miserable $2 a week increase in the national wage. [More…]
He will seek redress through his union or by his own activities on the job to achieve an increase in wages. [More…]
I mention the Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union who has been here quite frequently this week. [More…]
Let us consider now a branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia. [More…]
One would not call it a militant union, lt is the north Queensland branch of that Union which has its address in the Hibernian Building, 440 Flinders Street, Townsville, P.O. [More…]
At a meeting of the Branch Council of this Union held on Saturday, 26th February, 1972, I was requested to write to your organisation outlining the attitude of this Union to proposals by the Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr Lynch, to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
This letter is from the north Queensland branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia, lt is not a militant union. [More…]
The Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia emphatically rejects the proposals made by the Minister for Labour and National Service for amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as being discriminatory, unworkable and devoid of the type of improvement to make the Commonwealth Arbitration Commission more effective and acceptable. [More…]
Such proposals would pose a major threat to the system of conciliation and arbitration and to Unionism generally. [More…]
We reject the proposals which attack the right of trade unionists to organise effectively as being reminiscent of attempts to prevent the growth of trade unions which were unsuccessfully made in the last century. [More…]
These proposals are similar to the discredited anti-Union so-called ‘right-to-work’ laws to be found in certain backward States in the USA. [More…]
This Union calls on the Federal Government to reconsider its statement of intention and to consult with persons who occupy responsible positions in the field of industrial relations and who have had practical experience in resolving complex industrial disputes and to place less emphasis on bureaucratic advisers whose main experience and knowledge has been gained from text books. [More…]
We have a case in Queensland where the meat industry union with 10,000 members wants to amalgamate with a little union, the bacon employees union, which has about 1,100 members. [More…]
Both unions have to conduct a ballot among their members to determine whether the meat employees union will accept the members of the other union. [More…]
The unions have to go to the expense of conducting a ballot. [More…]
That includes the paper, the printing, the posting out to all the members, the enclosing of a stamped envelope in which to return the vote to the union. [More…]
The 10,000 members of the meat employees union have to meet the cost of that ballot being held to decide whether their union will amalgamate with another which has 1,100 members. [More…]
My friend Senator Mulvihill who also, as I have said of my friend Senator Milliner, is a kind, well-meaning soul, but the argument that the union has to pay for these unfortunate ballots which they will be compelled to conduct. [More…]
The big strong unions and the big strong employers are able to drive the weaker workers and the weaker employer organisations to the wall. [More…]
Of course, one of the big troubles of honourable senators opposite is that they are not active trade unionists and they do not know very much about what goes on inside unions. [More…]
1 do not suppose half a dozen honourable senators opposite could produce their union cards. [More…]
How many honourable senators opposite have a union card with them here tonight? [More…]
I have counted 6 honourable senators opposite who say they can produce a union card. [More…]
I do not see how the honourable senator opposite can find it objectionable that only a very small number of his colleagues have their union cards with them. [More…]
I wanted to nail the canard that people on this side of the chamber are not interested in union affairs. [More…]
1 have been an active member of my union for at least IS years. [More…]
I know what goes on in unions. [More…]
One of the big difficulties is that people can get out of touch with union affairs. [More…]
1 have no doubt that many honourable senators opposite have been very active in their unions in the past. [More…]
They know something about what goes on in union meetings. [More…]
You, Mr Acting Deputy President, will know that my union is a left wing union. [More…]
It is not a tame cat union. [More…]
In deference to your ruling, Mr Acting Deputy President, I withdraw my union card. [More…]
the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party resolved that when it became the Government - should that cataclysm ever happen - ‘union should be immune for actions in common law against private or civil wrongs alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of a trade union in furtherance of a trade dispute’. [More…]
If this is done by a trade union officer in the course of a dispute he is to be immune from actions for damages and he is to be immune from actions in tort. [More…]
It has the effect of placing trade union officers and trade unionist above the law. [More…]
1 believe that members of my trade union need protection but they do not need that sort of protection. [More…]
The trade union movement must insist on j, right to be more than just an industrial body looking after the industrial demands of its members. [More…]
Unions must make it clear that they have a right to interfere in the political movement of the nation. [More…]
I believe that the normal union organiser has the right to protect his men, to make sure that they are not exploited and to take every advantage of industrial legislation which this Government, in the main, has introduced to protect the rights of workers. [More…]
We find that unfortunately this point of view is not shared completely by those who have something to do with running the industrial affairs of unions. [More…]
I refer now to a statement made by Mr P. Clancy in support of Mr R. J. Hawke’s presidency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I refer now to another trade union officer, Laurie Carmichael of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
I come now to what is perhaps my final quotation about the industrial activities of people who do not have the welfare of the workers at heart, as so many honest trade union secretaries do. [More…]
I have as much admiration and respect for the genuine trade union leader as has any honourable senator opposite. [More…]
I distinguish between a genuine trade union leader and a communist dictator. [More…]
Senator Hannan, I am finding it a little difficult to relate the biographies of the several trade union leaders to whom you have been referring to the subject matter before the Senate which is the second reading on the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. [More…]
If there are provisions in this Bill which should commend themselves to honest, down to earth, rank and file members of unions and honourable senators opposite - the 7 of them with tickets - they are, firstly, superseding regulation 141, the provision that will enable financial assistance to be given to a trade unionist who believes that his executive has not carried out the real wishes of his union and who demands a secret ballot, and secondly, the very extensive provisions in the Bill governing the type of ballot to be held before an amalgamation.I want to say a little about the phoney ballot which took place before the recent metal trades amalgamation. [More…]
This is the point I want to make: Of the 35,200 members of the organisation - according to Australian Council of Trade Unions return there were 32,063; so we will accept the lower figure for the moment - of 32,063 members of the union only 21,783 received ballot papers. [More…]
But in a matter which involves millions of dollars, the industrial safety of the Commonwealth and the efficiency of our national industry they are prepared to accept this phoney subterfuge as a legitimate ballot in a union amalgamation. [More…]
The plain fact is that the 3 unions which have already merged themselves into an organisation tentatively called the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union have complied with the law in every respect. [More…]
Senator Hannan, who has just resumed his seat, made great play of his membership of a trade union. [More…]
Perhaps it is not widely known that the union to which he belongs is Actors Equity Association of Australia. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that Mr Lynch’s statement of intent of 7th December 1971 was made after months of consideration and after months of consultation with the unions and employers. [More…]
Then we were confronted with the furore that came from the DLP over the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union - a great aggregation of workers who joined together under one banner. [More…]
Instead he threw, as a sop to the Democratic Labor Party, the amalgamation provisions in the Bill which can be described only as a code to prevent union amalgamation. [More…]
In this, as in every other aspect of the Bill, we observe the Government looking over its shoulder at the employers, keeping its ear cocked to the DLP and ignoring only the unions. [More…]
Of course it has decided, as ever, that votes are to be garnered by putting the boot into the unions. [More…]
Under the old bad unworkable sanction clauses in the Act - the old sections 109 and 111 - an employer could automatically without any certificate from the President or anyone else rush along to the industrial court, get an order against a union and then proceed to have that union fined and loaded with heavy costs. [More…]
It is said that men go on strike - and I heard this echoed again last night by none other than the pundit from Tasmania, Senator Lillico - because of some wicked men up there in the union office who call them out on strike. [More…]
It thinks that the cure is to have a strike ballot when men are talking about a strike because somehow or other this will get behind the backs of their wicked union officials. [More…]
This flies in the face of the recommendations of employers who have stated that they prefer to deal with a large, powerful union rather than with a multiplicity of unions, because employers learn in the course of their experience that if they have to sit around with 15 unions instead of one the proceedings are going to be prolonged. [More…]
Of course, as everybody also knows, it is the proliferation of many unions which is the real cause of the great number of demarcation disputes which account for some 11 per cent of the disputes which occur in this country in the course of a year. [More…]
But in the face of all this, in the face of the obviously common sense tendency in the community to amalgamate, the Government has confronted unions which wish to amalgamate with what amounts to an obstacle race. [More…]
I make bold to say that any unions which are prepared to embark on the perilous, difficult and complex matter of amalgamation in the light of this code are very brave indeed. [More…]
In his book, ‘The Development of Trade Union Law’, Portus says: [More…]
By bestowing this power, governments of Liberal faith gave the trade unions their chance to establish themselves firmly. [More…]
We proudly acknowledge that governments of our faith gave the trade unions the chance to grow, to be vigorous, and to take part in authentic industrial agitation. [More…]
Indeed, it gave rise to the arbitration system which, as did the trade union movement, led the world in such industrial achievements as the famous Harvester case, which developed the basic wage, and the fixation of working hours, standards of work, long service leave, sick leave and margins for skill. [More…]
We stand firmly for strong, vigorous industrial trade unionism, not political trade unionism, not rule by trade union bosses but authentic rule by democratic process from the grass roots of the trade unions. [More…]
Contrary to the opinions of Senator James McClelland, the legislation before the Senate tonight will give the trade unions more democratic protection and democratic rights at the grass roots. [More…]
The Bill has some 9 clauses or groups of clauses that seek to add further protections to unionists at the grass roots. [More…]
The Labor Party concept of a trade union is an organisation that seeks power for the trade union boss and no freedom for those people at the grass roots. [More…]
When I hear Labor senators plead in this chamber for the freedom of the ordinary trade unionist, my heart will be glad. [More…]
If that is not so, will members of the Opposition go out into the trade union movement and say that this is not necessary? [More…]
Does any member of the Opposition say that that is not the extension of a valuable democratic right to a trade union member? [More…]
Do not those 9 collective reforms add up to a valuable widening of the rights and protections of unionists at the grass roots? [More…]
The trade union movement has asked for it. [More…]
Despite the jeremiahs it will strengthen enormously in the interests of trade union workers at the grass roots their conditions of work and this Government to which I proudly belong will work towards that end. [More…]
Nobody has ever heard me on my feet or in writing attack the ACTU or even Mr Hawke or authentic trade unionism. [More…]
I am as strong an advocate as anybody in this place for trade unionism. [More…]
When the trade union movement moved towards the left and towards political unionism it did a grave disservice to its own people and the people generally of Australia. [More…]
I make the plea to the grass roots trade unions of this country to look towards industrial unionism rather than the anarchy of political unionism. [More…]
I refer to an industrial dispute that occurred in the city of Geelong where I live which is associated with a Russian ship, the ‘Ho Chi Minh’, which is loading wheat purchased from Australia by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In his question this morning Senator Hannan stated that the captain of this Russian ship had refused to comply with the conditions of labour in this country and had failed to co-operate with the trade union movement. [More…]
They are the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers’ Union and the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors’ Association. [More…]
The matter was discussed by the Geelong branch of the Waterside Workers’ yesterday, but the branch secretary (Mr Eric Kenworthy) said later no decision had been taken as the matter did not directly concern his union. [More…]
Union officials will inspect the Russian ship. [More…]
The ban was imposed on Thursday after union officials claimed the crew had - cleaned its holds before berthing at the wheat terminal. [More…]
A Federated Ships Painters and Dockers’ Union shop steward, Mr David Fort, said his union was worried that cleaning of the Ho Chi Minh by its own crewmen would set a precedent for other foreign-owned ships in Geelong. [More…]
Mr Fort, who works for Lewmarine Pty Ltd, said cleaning a ship the size of the Ho Chi Minh would normally provide work for 17 or 18 members of his union and the Federated Shipwrights’ Association. [More…]
At no stage had any union official attempted to explain the position regarding cleaning before the ship berthed, he claimed. [More…]
The union ban on the Russian ship, Ho Chi Minh, which berthed at the Bulk Wheat Pier last week, was lifted on Saturday. [More…]
The ban was imposed on Thursday after union officials claimed the crew had cleaned the holds of the vessel before it berthed at’ the wheat terminal. [More…]
A Federated Ships Painters and Dockers’ Union shop steward, Mr David Fort, said the union was concerned that this would set a precedent for other foreign-owned ships in Geelong. [More…]
For the last couple of weeks there has been a dispute in Sydney between the New South Wales Branch of the Printing and Kindred Industries Employees Union and the proprietors of the Sydney metropolitan dailies over an industrial issue. [More…]
This afternoon I was informed by the Federal Secretary of the union that that industrial dispute has been settled. [More…]
I refer to an allegation by the New South Wales branch of the union about the use of military personnel by one of the proprietors as guards for his establishment during the course of the dispute. [More…]
Yesterday afternoon I was informed by an official of the New South Wales branch of the union that last Thursday night - Thursday, 18th May - the union decided to put a picket line outside the premises of the Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’. [More…]
The union told the New South Wales Police Force of its intention and there were one or two officers of that force there in their role as protectors of the rights of the people and, of course, in their role as the protectors of property. [More…]
The union has advised me that its relations with the New South Wales Police Force during the course of the industrial disturbance were very good, to say the least. [More…]
But when the members of the union arrived outside the premises of the Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’, last Thursday night they were confronted with what the union official described to me - I quote his words - as ‘five or six big burly men of large build, anything from between 5 ft 10 to 6 ft and above in height, some wearing big black boots’. [More…]
One of these men was recognised by a member of the union as being a member of the Australian Army Provost Corps. [More…]
The matter was drawn to the notice of one of the officials of the Printing and Kindred Industries Employees Union by the union member concerned who, I understand, spoke to a senior executive of the company. [More…]
The union official asked the senior executive of the company who they were. [More…]
The union official supplied me with the name of the identified man. [More…]
As a result of my complaint to the Minister on behalf of the union - again, I am being fair - the Minister has assured me that he has now issued an order through the Chief of the General Staff telling all unit commanders that in giving approval to servicemen to engage in evening work the unit commanders are to exercise much more discretion in the future and that no member of the armed Services is to be permitted to take part in any work that is suggestive in any way of their becoming involved in an industrial or a political conflict. [More…]
Indeed, to me it would be unpardonable if a military policeman worked as a guard on the doors of a metropolitan daily newspaper especially if, in relation to that establishment, there is an industrial disputation between the proprietor and members of a union working in the establishment. [More…]
I regard the matter as very serious, as do members of the union. [More…]
This Bill is directly hi contravention of that statement of the rights of trade unions. [More…]
One of the great trade unions in Australia - the Amalgamated Engineering Union - had links with its counterpart in Britain, and one of the reasons for the separation of those 2 bodies was the enormous interference in the affairs of the trade unions in Australia. [More…]
Since Senator Murphy has dealt at some length with what he refers to as the rights of unionists, maybe it is appropriate that in stating my part of the case of the Australian Democratic Labor Party I should outline the principles upon which we would judge this legislation. [More…]
Secondly, union organisation, as such, should not be weakened by legislation not merely because it is an expression of the basic rights of wage earners but because it is the necessary foundation of the conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
Thirdly, the legitimacy of authority within the trade union necessarily requires voting procedures which safeguard the democratic rights and proprietary interests of individual members in their unions. [More…]
Fourthly, monopoly power within the unions should be resisted, as it should be in every other aspect of national life, especially when it is sought and used for subversive purposes. [More…]
However, to the extent that the Bill does promote measures to assist in preserving unions from the constitutional challenges of the Moore v. Doyle case, and to the extent that the Bill gives effect to a number of our views in preserving and promoting the rights of union members within their institutions, we consider that it should not be rejected. [More…]
As we see it, the measures referred to go a certain way along the road towards preserving and promoting the Australian arbitration system which for almost 7 decades has assisted the Australian wage earner and the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The DLP shares the following view expressed by the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in his 1 97 1 report to the Parliament: 1 feel it is my duty to report my strong opinion, based on my experience as a Judge of the old Court and as President of this Commission for its first IS years, that in the long term a reduction in strikes can only be brought about by an improvement in industrial relationships, and that m is is far more likely to arise from changed altitudes of the organised employers on the one hand and the organised trade union movement on the other hand than from mere changes in Acts of Parliament. [More…]
This debate was not raginc some 7 years ago when a major union affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions placed on the Congress agenda paper an item which said, amongst other things: [More…]
Trade Union action was successful in certain instances in increasing the shute of certain privileged or closely organised groups such as tally clerks, dock workers and so on. [More…]
The tower paid, the defenceless and the handicapped, despite the declamation of the unions, have not been protected. [More…]
Those who set out to destroy the arbitration system are at best motivated by avarice and self-interest, be they employers who enjoy the protection of high tariff barriers or the more privileged sections of the work force who would throw overboard the principles upon which the trade union movement was founded and also the concept of the Higgins award, the basic wage and other measures designed to improve the lot of the lower paid wage earner. [More…]
On the trade union side and within the labour movement generally over the last 30 years there has been a persistent campai’gn to take every opportunity to smash the system of conciliation and arbitration which we enjoy in Australia. [More…]
In 1942 and again in 1959 the booklet The Trade Unions’ was published by the then national secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, Mr L. L. Sharkey. [More…]
Party within the trade union movement who are characterised by Mr L. Carmichael of the Amalgamated Engineering Union likewise publicly indicated that they were out to destroy the system. [More…]
They want to smash the arbitration system and replace it, not with something which would be better and improve workers’ wages and conditions, but with something which is more conductive to the politicalisation of the trade union movement. [More…]
At this point I am reminded to make some reference to the amalgamation of unions, particularly those in the metal trades industry. [More…]
I think it is worth remembering, first of all, that the purpose of the amalgamation of these unions in the metal trades is not to further the interests of the workers in this field but, primarily, to extend the political power of those unions. [More…]
If Senator Bishop feels - as no doubt he does feel - that it is in the interests of the trade union movement that these unnecessary and, in many cases, undemocratic amalgamations take place he is entitled to support that viewpoint. [More…]
But it is worth looking at the type of leadership which we are likely to get from these unions. [More…]
No doubt one of the leading lights in that group would be a gentleman named Mundey who is Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
It will be recalled that in 1970 this union was involved in strike action in New South Wales. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions. [More…]
I referred earlier to the matter of union amalgamations. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party is not opposed in principle to amalgamation; but holds that no amalgamation should take place unless the majority of union members concerned want it. [More…]
I do not for one moment believe that the best interests of the Australian trade union movement have been served by the recent amalgamation in the metal trades industry. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was dealing with the attitude of the Australian Democratic Labor Party towards the proposals contained in the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill with respect to union amalgamations. [More…]
1 had said that my colleagues and I in the DLP do not fully support the Government’s proposals in the Bill concerning union amalgamations. [More…]
Our view is that there should be a properly supervised ballot, that all of the members of the unions concerned ought to be entitled to vote in that properly supervised ballot and that a majority of the members should be required to vote affirmatively for amalgamation procedures in order for such an amalgamation to be effected. [More…]
I had said also that we felt it was undemocratic, unfair and unjust that only the case for the amalgamation should be put to the union voters and not the case against it. [More…]
The Democrati’c Labor Party believes that in fairness to the members of the union concerned no one side - either those favouring amalgamation or those opposing it - should have sole access to the union records and that if union money, effort or time is spent on a proposed amalgamation it ought to be spent equally between those proposing and those opposing the amalgamation. [More…]
In the course of the debate on Tuesday, Senator Cavanagh used as part of his argument against the proposals with respect to union amalgamations figures that had been quoted during the debate in the other place. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh ‘s argument, as I understood it, was that it was unreasonable to expect some unions to be able to muster the 50 per cent plus one required in order to make the amalgamation ballot a valid one. [More…]
I was rather surprised to hear Senator Cavanagh argue that he felt that that was unfair and unjust towards the right wing unions. [More…]
In some way or other his reading of the results gave him the impression that the right wing unions would have some difficulty in attaining the required voting number. [More…]
I remind him that 53.7 per cent of the members voted in the last election conducted by the Federated Clerks Union of Australia in 1970; that in 1964, 59.4 per cent of the members voted; and that in 1961, 68.6 per cent of the members voted. [More…]
Another union which is so often referred to as a right wing union and which no doubt Senator Cavanagh will have some concern about is the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators of the voting pattern in elections conducted by that union in recent years. [More…]
He attempted to draw out the same sorts of bogeys that have been characteristic of the DLP since its formation, ignoring all the history of the trade union movement and the concrete application of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in Australia. [More…]
1 do not think any honourable senator would disagree when I say that the trade union movement has had a marked and influential effect upon the economic and social development of Australia. [More…]
If this is accepted as a starting point we probably need then to examine the formative years of the trade union movement. [More…]
To that end Government supporters would be well advised to read the complete history of English trade unionism written by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the standard work on the trade union movement. [More…]
Those 2 writers traced the development of the trade union movement. [More…]
Even in those days standards were set which were not unlike the standards on which the modern trade unions operate. [More…]
As industrial development began to emerge from the medieval system of production and as it has developed over the years until today when modern capitalism is the principal feature of production, the content of the trade union movement has changed. [More…]
Having skipped through history 1 think we are entitled to see why it is that the Government is continually concerning itself with the affairs of the trade union movement. [More…]
Once again the Government has put before the Parliament legislation on matters appertaining to the trade union movement and its members. [More…]
In point of fact, in the period of 22i years that this Government has unfortunately been running the affairs of this country it has passed 185 Acts or amendments relating to the trade unions. [More…]
I was a little amused by the contribution of Senator Carrick last evening when he attempted to show some differences between the attitudes of the Australian Council of Trade Unions under the current president, Mr Robert Hawke, and those displayed when it was led by Mr Albert Monk, because most of those 23 amendments occurred when Mr Albert Monk was president of the ACTU. [More…]
I do not suggest that all these legislative acts by the Government were necessarily in total against the interests of the trade union movement, but in a great number of cases - I could almost say the majority of cases - these amendments were carried out in opposition to the united view of the trade union movement. [More…]
It has consistently changed the means by which it can intervene and interfere in the internal affairs of the trade unions. [More…]
Rather does it concentrate its power upon the trade union movement. [More…]
It seeks therefore to put limitations on the freedom of action of unionists and it is not hard to understand why the trade union movement reacts towards the Government as it does - why it opposes the Government on most if not all of its policies and supports the policies and activities of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
For as long as trade unionism has been on the agenda of history it has had to fight for its survival. [More…]
In fact, the whole history of the trade union movement is a history of struggle against government and employer interference. [More…]
Rather, the restrictions that are imposed always seek to hamstring and retard the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
Over the many years that I have been associated with the trade union movement, I have noticed the struggles of ils members against the penal provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The Government is now attempting to write into the legislation such provisions as would make all unions resort to taking a postal ballot in respect to any question facing their members. [More…]
I think it can be established that the objectives and policy of the Government aided and abetted by the Democratic Labor Party, are to restrict the rights and activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
If we look at the role of the industrial court and the role of the trade union movement in recent years, we will find that every gain, every increase in salary and every improvement in conditions have been a result of the activity of the trade union movement. [More…]
If we examine the composition of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, I think it must be conceded that any trade union organisation and particularly the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that has been able to achieve any gains for its membership from that august body must have produced strong arguments to convince it of the justice of union claims. [More…]
If we accept that the tribunal is somewhat influenced by conservative persons who, in the main, have spent most of their working life representing the views of employer organisations, it must be conceded that the substantial gains made by the trade union movement are a tribute to the quality of its advocacy. [More…]
It is remarkable that the trade union movement has been able to overcome some of that conservatism and has induced members of the Commission to grant some justice in respect to wage claims. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that he was referring to the proposed amalgamation of the metal trades unions into the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
There should have been ballots of the members of the three unions conducted by a public official such as the Commonwealth Electoral Officer; the amalgamation should have been approved by a majority of all the members of the unions - not by a simple majority of the members voting in the ballots: the amalgamation would bring about a large communist dominated union possessing excessive power; [More…]
The results of the ballots showed that almost 86 per cent of those voting in the AEU ballot favoured amalgamation, 73 per cent in the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, and almost 70 per cent in the Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
there is no provision in the legislation for officially conducted ballots to be held in respect of union de-registration- [More…]
Thus, it makes provision for what are commonly called ‘court controlled ballots’ for office bearers when requested by the Committee for Management of a union or by a specific number of its members. [More…]
However, these are not mandatory and the great majority of union elections are conducted by the unions themselves. [More…]
We know that these matters were discussed in the trade union forum. [More…]
As Senator Bishop has pointed out in his contribution and by way of interjection, the trade union movement was united in its voice on this legislation. [More…]
There was no opposition within the trade union movement to amalgamation. [More…]
It was the DLP that was pressing for compulsory unionism. [More…]
It persuaded the Minister for Labour and National Service who, after all, is the Minister responsible for industrial relations, to change his attitude to and to drop his position on compulsory unionism. [More…]
He changed his attitude in respect of union amalgamations and many other matters to which I have referred. [More…]
The legislation seeks to continue Government interference in the trade union movement. [More…]
It seems that the DLP has been able to blackmail the Government, stand over the Government to bring about a situation in which the trade unions are pawns in the power struggles taking place for the control of the political destinies of this country. [More…]
It has taken the Government 23 years to reach the point where it is concerned for the democratic control of the trade unions. [More…]
Not only is the Government insincere in respect of the democratic control of the trade union movement; it can also be shown and will it be shown by Opposition speakers that the main aim of the Government is to weaken the capacity of the trade union movement to defend its rights and its members. [More…]
It is equally crystal clear that the Government and its members have absolutely no understanding of the worker and his organisations, the various trade unions. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Act was amended by the Menzies administration in the 1950s to provide that a member of a union could exercise his rights in accordance with the Act to receive financial assistance to challenge actions taken by trade unions. [More…]
We know that the Democratic Labor Party hunted throughout Australia to find somebody to act as a decoy by being game enough to go before the Commonwealth Industrial Court and seek to prevent the amalgamation of the 3 metal trades unions. [More…]
He was a member of the Sheet Metal Union con cerned and had been appointed by the union as a delegate to the Newcastle Labor Council. [More…]
But he failed to carry out his responsibilities as a member and elected official of that union in that he did not attend the Council meetings. [More…]
He was the man who, when put in the witness box, knew nothing of the procedures that had been followed for the past 2 years by the 3 unions which, I think it must be said, have carried out their responsibilities in accordance with the Act, the law and their rules and regulations. [More…]
Indeed, the legislation worsens the position by permitting others who have a disruptive role to play in the trade union movement to take advantage of certain legal situations in order to weaken the fibre of the trade union movement. [More…]
It seeks to restrict the right of unions and to reduce the incidence of negotiated agreements. [More…]
It is clear that the Government proposes in these amendments to restrict this level of activity by the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact, it seeks to place the total responsibility on the trade union movement to win improved conditions and increases in salaries and wages before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The legislation seeks to extend Government control and influence in the internal affairs of the trade union movement. [More…]
For as long as I can recall the trade union movement of this country has fought for its independence against the arbitrary actions of the Governments. [More…]
If this is good enough for companies, it is good enough for trade unions. [More…]
But it is in a hurry in respect to the trade union movement - the work force - because it wants to prevent even the meagre gains, that have been made in the last decade of two, being maintained or improved. [More…]
The Government seeks to use legal, constitutional and intimidatory means to prevent the trade union movement carrying out its proper responsibility. [More…]
It wants to weaken further the capacity of the trade union movement to improve the living standards of the work force of this country. [More…]
I can assure the Government and its supporters in this place that the trade union movement since its inception has shown courage and determination to win for its members and supporters some of the profits and prosperity that the work force produces in this country. [More…]
No matter how much the Government may continue to legislate or to try to place the blame on the trade union movement for its own inept economic policies, the trade union movement will continue to represent the real interests of its membership. [More…]
The trade union movement is the whipping boy for the Government in regard to the inflationary impact in our economy. [More…]
The amalgamation of trade unions has not just mushroomed in this community, nor is it something of the 1970s only. [More…]
It has been accepted always that only through a strong industrial and political movement can the unions ever expect to get the benefits that they continually pursue for their members. [More…]
All these things have been a continuing goal for the Labor movement and the trade union movement. [More…]
Early in the history of the Australian trade union movement it was appreciated that a lot of small unions, irrespective of how strong they might be, were working independently of one another, resulted only in the weakening of the Labor movement. [More…]
Consequently, when attempts were made to amalgamate and form bigger unions and they failed, the Labor movement had to be satisfied with lesser confederations such as the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Officers and the Trades and Labour Councils in the respective States. [More…]
I want to refer now to the chronological order of the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
In 1913 there were two great industrial leaders in Queensland, two trade unionists, who later were to play a major role in the political life of this country. [More…]
Through their initiative and drive they brought about in 1913 the biggest amalgamation of any unions engaged in a common field or common industry. [More…]
The amalgamated union became known as the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
In all instances of ballots being taken to see whether union members required amalgamation or not, the ballots were carried overwhelmingly. [More…]
In 1921 and 1922 the metal trades group carried a ballot for amalgamation but the matter was not proceeded with because the Amalgamated Engineering Union at that time was tied to the United Kingdom. [More…]
A reading of trade union history shows that in the 1950s the boilermakers’ union, the blacksmiths’ union, and the sheet metal workers’ union progressed a long way towards amalgamation. [More…]
The sheet metal workers’ union did not proceed with the amalgamation in the 1950s because it regarded the union fees being charged by the boilermakers’ and blacksmiths’ unions as too high. [More…]
However, in 1967 we saw the amalgamation of the boilermakers’ union and the blacksmiths’ union. [More…]
It was only then, when Jack Devereux, a man steeped in Queensland trade union history, became chairman of the Australian section of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that that union began to take a deep interest in amalgamation. [More…]
There is only one communist holding an executive position in any of the 3 metal trade unions and he will retire at any time. [More…]
I do not know whether my friend Senator Gair who apparently wants to interject is trying to give me a leg up or trying to shoot me down but I say this: If anyone wants to thumb the pages of history - I want the honourable senator to let me finish before he interjects - they will find, if they make a close political study of the history of Queensland, that during the time that the honourable senator was Premier of Queensland there were more communists in the trade union movement than there are at the present time. [More…]
But it is a fact of history that during his premiership there were more communists associated with the trade union movement than there are now. [More…]
The trade union movement has not been mentioned once. [More…]
I thought I was developing a case on the Government’s challenges and references to militancy in the trade union movement. [More…]
I am suggesting that in future, with the larger amalgamated trade unions, it will be more difficult for the communists to be elected to office in those larger organisations which are and which will continue to be controlled by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Mr Denis Murphy of the Department of History at the University of Queensland - a young scholar who has made a very close and valuable political study of the amalgamation of unions - delivered a very fine paper to a conference held by the Waterside Workers Federation in Brisbane on 27th February. [More…]
He offered arguments in favour of the amalgamation of unions into larger unions. [More…]
The advantages that this young scholar, and student of political science and authority on the amalgamation of unions saw are these: [More…]
A reduction in time and cost through having one union negotiate with an employer or association of employers in an industry; [More…]
Provision of social facilities - holiday homes, clubs, credit unions, housing loans, libraries, union educational services, which union members will rightly demand from their union; [More…]
There is a major need for a national trade union college in Australia to provide union education. [More…]
It is more likely to come from pressure from strong and significant trade unions. [More…]
Another interesting situation arises from the Government’s proposed interference - I say that it is interference - in the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
The Committee was constituted to examine complaints received concerning alleged infringements of trade union rights. [More…]
Contrary to what senators on the other side of the Senate have said, 1 have mentioned the trade union movement and I have related my arguments to the Bill. [More…]
87 which protects the rights of the trade union movement to organise and to have freedom of expression and freedom of organisation. [More…]
On the other hand, today members of the Government that is a signatory to the Convention are trying, in a hypocritical manner, to steamroll through this chamber a Bill that does nothing but interfere with the rights of trade unions and their members. [More…]
The ACTU notes the attempt by the reactionary DLP and its counterparts in the Country Party and the Liberal Party to interfere in the internal affairs of the trade union movement, particularly in regard to the amalgamation of unions - [More…]
We point out (hat amalgamation of unions has been in the objectives of the ACTU since the very inception of that body and that many unions in the intervening years have availed themselves of these provisions for the purpose of strengthening the trade union movement and providing a better service to members. [More…]
Far from hindering amalgamation, we believe the Government has an obligation to assist the ACTU in building a strong responsible trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
The executive warns the Government that any legislation or administrative action intended to prevent amalgamation properly effected in accordance with the existing provisions of the legislation will be strongly resisted by the entire Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Whenever the subject of conciliation and arbitration is raised attacks are levelled at the trade union movement by almost all sections of the community. [More…]
I nearly cried last evening when I heard Senator Carrick say that there is no greater champion than he is of the rights of the genuine trade union leader. [More…]
He might in his heart feel that way but in his head he must think otherwise because his addresses in this chamber have not stamped him as being in any way a champion of the trade union movement. [More…]
Despite the attacks which have been made on the trade union movement it has a history and a tradition that are unequalled by any other organisation. [More…]
We hear much about strikes and industrial disputes but they represent only a small part of trade union activity. [More…]
Every day trade union officials are engaged in widespread activities, including finding employment and fighting employment injustices, unjust wage payments, unjust sackings and victimisation. [More…]
Even the Government will admit that without the full co-operation and assistance of the trade union movement many of the committees it establishes would be unable to function without the support of the trade unions. [More…]
The trade union movement cannot and will not accept restrictions on its right to involve itself in the political life of the community. [More…]
In doing so I will be relating my remarks to this debate because the claim was made last night by Senator Hannan that the trade union movement has no right to interfere in the political life of this country. [More…]
He quoted the President of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council, Mr John Egerton, as having said on the Australian Broadcasting Commission that he would resist any attempt to prevent the trade union movement from exercising its right as the representative of the organised workers to interfere in political issues. [More…]
Mr Egerton is perfectly right; the trade union movement initiates the demands and the Australian Labor Party carries them out. [More…]
The trade union movement initiates the demands and the Australian Labor Party, in government, carries them out. [More…]
Improved working conditions, social services, health, education, housing and a host of other things are the concern of the trade unions as the organised strength of the lower and middle income groups. [More…]
Surely they are political matters and surely no-one in this chamber, whether he be on my left or immediately in front of me, as are members of the Democratic Labor Party, would deny the right of the trade unions to intercede in these matters. [More…]
At every opportunity attacks are levelled in this chamber and outside it at the trade union movement. [More…]
The most recent attack was on the stand of the trade union movement on apartheid when the Springboks were here on a rugby union tour. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite that history will prove that the trade union movement’s stand on that matter was right, just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand in opposing the shipment of pig iron to Japan was right; just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand on independence for Indonesia was right; just as history has proved that the trade union movement’s stand on the phoney war in Vietnam has been right. [More…]
On all the great issues of our day history will continue to prove the trade union movement right. [More…]
Challenges were thrown left and right by Government supporters last night at those honourable senators on this side of the chamber who are members of a trade union. [More…]
I have been a member of a trade union all of my working life and I still am. [More…]
The Bill has been presented in order to confront the trade union movement with the pernicious clauses it contains for the purpose of fighting an election on the issue of law and order. [More…]
Because Labor’s ideas on those issues found public support, the Government has gone back to the stage of believing that a head-on collision between the trade union movement and the Government could lead to a oig victory for it. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions, the major white collar organisations and the Public Service bodies have combined to the extent that the 3 groups have expressed their total opposition to this legislation, as Labor members have said both here and in another place. [More…]
This has never before happened in the history of the trade union movement. [More…]
We have to refer only to the statements of Mr Justice Kirby to establish quite clearly that the trade union movement in this country has acted responsibly and has not put on strikes willy nilly. [More…]
The trade unions have moved to industrial action only when most sorely pressed to do so. [More…]
It is a matter of historical knowledge that the trade union movement has been able to control disputes in this country far better than they have in any other Western country. [More…]
The result is that the strike periods in Australia on average have been far shorter than in any other country because of the method of negotiation that the trade union movement has been able to develop between employer and employee. [More…]
The method has been developed through discussions and decisions instigated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
He refused to allow proper negotiations to take place between the trade union movement and the Arbitration Commission at that time. [More…]
On the pretext of bringing together the trade union movement and employers in conciliation, the Government has deliberately introduced an amendment that will make it so much more difficult for the unions and employers to meet and to solve their problems. [More…]
To that extent the trade union movement is now rightly moving into the field of direct negotiation, which is the only avenue left to it. [More…]
The trade union movement will not tolerate this kind of action, irrespective of the pernicious legislation that the Government is now attempting to have passed in this Parliament. [More…]
Now the trade union movement has said: Thus far and no further’. [More…]
Over the past 2 years or so the Government has not been able to collect the fines imposed on unions, and employers are not game now to go into the courts on that issue due to the courageous action of Clarrie O’Shea, who made the decision to go to gaol rather than pay fines imposed on members of his union. [More…]
If the Government were sincere in its desire to improve industrial relations in this country, it would foster discussions with the trade union movement and employer organisations in an attempt to evolve formulas whereby employer-employee relations, and the Government’s approach to industrial relations, would be improved immensely. [More…]
When meaningful discussions were being held between Mr Bob Hawke on behalf of the trade union movement, and Mr Polites on behalf of the employers, the discussions were sabotaged by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) because they were getting too close to a formula which would bring peace in industry. [More…]
If a small union with 2,000 or 3,000 members wants to amalgamate with a union which has 50,000 or 60,000 members, the Government will compel both unions to hold a ballot and to get a 50 per cent return of ballot papers. [More…]
It is remarkable that the Liberal Party and the conservatives are so concerned about getting a 50 per cent return in a trade union ballot. [More…]
There is an example of the Government’s double standards in relation to the trade union movement and the citadels of capital, as has been indicated by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
We support the efforts, actions and decisions of the trade union movement and the white collar movement in relation to these matters. [More…]
We believe that this Bill is a deliberate attempt to widen the gap in relationships between the Government and unionists, and between employers and unionists. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me understand why the Government should bring forward such repressive legislation directed against the trade union movement. [More…]
I want the Senate to appreciate the position in which small unions find themselves, have found themselves and will continue to find themselves. [More…]
The small union is unable to do so because it cannot provide those modern facilities which are required for it to represent properly its members and their cause, in any dispute, which may arise, in any difficulties which may arise or even in any demarcation dispute which may eventuate. [More…]
It is impossible for a small union to provide the necessary skills and even the personnel to carry out its functions effectively. [More…]
It is necessary for small unions to seek the assistance of major unions. [More…]
But it has been necessary in the past few yean for smaller unions to join with greater unions by way of amalgamation or affiliation for many of the reasons that Senator McAuliffe brought out, including the need to improve their methods and efficiency and the need to use sophisticated machinery and proper and modern accounting procedures including computer systems. [More…]
This has been forced upon the unions. [More…]
Unions which are small and fragmented are not in a position to pay the salaries necessary to attract skilled people and men with initiative to take up the union work and to give the leadership that unions require. [More…]
Many smaller unions find themselves in the position where their organisers and officials are being paid for their work less than the men on the job whom they represent. [More…]
This is the case even with the larger unions. [More…]
I take Gladstone as an example of a place where a pretty efficient group of unions operate. [More…]
He would receive half as much again if he were working at his trade than he receives as a union official. [More…]
It is impossible for the smaller unions to provide the salaries or to employ people, such as accountants or experts in specific fields, including lawyers to present their cases, with the skills needed. [More…]
A great need exists for them to amalgamate for continued efficiency in the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Government wishes to see inefficiency in the trade union movement, by all means fragment the unions, keep them small and keep them poor. [More…]
It is not so much a matter of divide and rule because the employer knows that it is far better for him on the job, no matter how small or how big the job may be, to deal with one union only. [More…]
He does not wish to be arguing with half a dozen union representatives. [More…]
Nor do half a dozen union representatives wish to be arguing among themselves as to the right way to approach a matter. [More…]
Unions on a job do not wish to be at the mercy of the smallest union on that job; that union may be under the influence of an erratic shop committee. [More…]
It is in the interests of the employer, industry, trade unions and their members that these amalgamations should take place so that the unions become larger, more efficient, more capable, more skilled and more effective. [More…]
Two or three small unions are seeking the assistance of the major unions. [More…]
The major unions have been described in this chamber as monsters trying to absorb the smaller unions. [More…]
The situation is the reverse: The smaller unions are seeking the assistance, the skills, the abilities and the expertise of the larger unions. [More…]
If industry is to be permitted to merge in the name of efficiency, surely the trade union movement should be permitted to do so. [More…]
The costs that are the cause of union members seeking economic justice are pushed up by other means. [More…]
The pressure on the union is for a higher return. [More…]
Are the unions expected to take unilateral action and say that they will not seek extra wages because the extra wages are not of very much use? [More…]
There is evidence that the workers and the unions resent some of the decisions, attitudes and comments of the judges of the arbitration court. [More…]
Any trade union official, any trade union advocate, any trade union delegate who took part in the recent case involving the Federated Storemen and Packers Union will tell you exactly this. [More…]
Perhaps one can take some comfort from the fact that if these impositions are to be placed on trade unions and trade union corporations, similar restrictions and disciplines will be placed upon many of the other corporations in this country. [More…]
I am hoping that some of the disciplines that are being imposed on the trade union movement - I think that some of them are imposed wrongly at the present time - will be enacted to control the various companies and the directors who control those companies. [More…]
If it is claimed by Government supporters - I deny this - that no democracy exists within the trade union movement, and if it is claimed that the ordinary . [More…]
democratic rights of trade unionists have to be protected, surely the same remarks ought to apply to the shareholders, to the systems that are operated by the various companies and to mergers, takeovers and other forms of affiliation or amalgamation - call them what you will - within the commercial world. [More…]
In effect, compulsion places an organisation or a trade union into the hands of the indifferent - those who really do not care and are not interested. [More…]
There are many of them in all organisations, whether they be shareholders, members of trade unions or others. [More…]
The Government is lengthening procedures which will enable them to carry out certain operations in the interests of the union as a whole. [More…]
The Penal Clauses of the Arbitration system in this country have been strenuously opposed by, the Australian Trade Union Movement from inception as a direct attack on the fundamental right of workers’ organisations to use industrial strength in support of legitimate claims. [More…]
The authority of the organised Trade Union Movement should not be impeded in the performance of responsible traditional functions which must include the right to withhold labor or impose limitation of performance of work - otherwise the minimum wage and conditions of work awarded by tribunals become the maximum and inhibit the possibilities of improvements. [More…]
whilst eliminating the Contempt proceedings, nevertheless continued Penal Provisions which can be invoked against the unions, and therefore is unacceptable to the Trade Union Movement whilst these Penal Provisions are retained. [More…]
Essentially we say that these penalties are Immoral in that they constitute a double standard which operates against wage and salary earners and their unions. [More…]
This legislation has been brought down to make certain that the road to amalgamations by the trade unions is going to be pretty hard in future. [More…]
Surely members of the Government must realise that when there is an amalgamation of unions - previously where there were 2, 3 or 4 organisations they are now speaking with one voice - a lot of these demarcation disputes will be eliminated. [More…]
In Australia today over 300 unions are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Of these unions 298 have less than 10,000 members and 198 have less than 2,000 members. [More…]
So here in Australia, with a population of only 13 million and probably 4.5 million in the workforce, we have over 300 unions representing those workers. [More…]
There are far too many unions in Australia. [More…]
The time has come when the smaller unions have seen the wisdom of amalgamation because it will save the unions expenditure in office rentals, union officials, staff and the many other expenses which are incurred by the smaller unions. [More…]
Also they will be able to give their union members far better service because of amalgamation. [More…]
I think it has adopted the attitude that the trade union movements’ gains over the last 2 years have to be prevented. [More…]
It is prepared to take any drastic measures which will prevent further increases in gains which the unions have won over the last 2 to 3 years. [More…]
I shall briefly refer to how the Australian Workers Union will fare under the legislation which is proposed in the Bill which we are now discussing. [More…]
It should not be forgotten that the Australian Workers Union, as it is today, comprises a number of unions which have been incorporated over the years. [More…]
It was established as the Australian Shearers Union in 1886. [More…]
It was joined by the GLU and the AWA A Queensland, the Rural Workers Union, the ULU of South Australia, the Railways Workers and General Labourers Association of New South Wales, the FMEA of Australia, the Surveyors Employees Union, the ULU of Victoria, the Factory Employees Union and the ULU in New South Wales. [More…]
These unions amalgamated and the Australian Workers Union was formed. [More…]
Workers Union is formed. [More…]
I will refer only to ballots which concerned the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
In 1964 there was a ballot of all members of the union to elect a general secretary. [More…]
Of the ballot papers posted to members of the Union, only 30.87 per cent were returned. [More…]
In later years ballots were conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer in which members elected delegates to attend the annual convention of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
In 1967 there was a ballot for the election of delegates to the Australian Workers Union annual convention. [More…]
Under this legislation the Australian Workers Union and a smaller union could never amalgamate because it would be completely impossible to get a 50 per cent return of ballot papers. [More…]
It is obvious that whoever drafted the legislation knows very little about the ramifications of the trade union movement. [More…]
No-one would knowingly insert in the Act such a prohibitive provision that would prevent unions from amalgamating. [More…]
It is obvious that this position will apply not only to the Australian Workers Union but also, equally, to many other unions whose membership is scattered throughout the States. [More…]
The table to which I have referred shows that there are many other unions in respect of which the percentage of ballot papers returned was less than 20 per cent. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, has assured his senior Ministers that the Federal Government will not try to stop the formation of the country’s biggest industrial union combine. [More…]
It seems to me that the Government and the employers are becoming more and more concerned about the wage increases that the unions have been gaining over the last two or three years. [More…]
Trenchant attacks have been made in this chamber on many occasions on the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and on officials of the trade unions, particularly those officials who are communists. [More…]
The average weekly earnings increased by only small amounts right through to the year 1969-70, which is just about the time that there was a change in the leadership of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I am not going to give Bob Hawke all the credit for being personally responsible, following his election as president of the ACTU, for the trade union movement at last getting some semblance of recognition for the work that its members performed. [More…]
Each of the 41 other awards covering members of the Australian Workers’ Union received the benefit of the 1970 increase and the increase, small as it is, from the last national wage case. [More…]
This prompted an article in the ‘Australian Worker’, the official journal of the Aus tralian Workers’ Union. [More…]
Those two decisions caused enormous unrest within the Stationhand component of the AWU membership and deep concern within the whole Trade Union Movement. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union would no doubt like to be able to get the station hands to do what the shearers did in 1956 when they went on strike and Commissioner Donovan increased their rate of pay. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side do not want to be fooled into thinking that members of the Australian Workers Union will not go on strike when the occasion arises. [More…]
I must confess that from my own conversations with American trade unionists and from reading the journals and the policies of American trade unions - organisations like the American Federation of Labor and the Confederation of Industrial Organisations and also the individual unions - I believe I would not find one American trade union that would support systems of compulsory arbitration such as those applied in this country. [More…]
Even the draconic measures - which have been taken by various American presidents, in particular by President Nixon just recently in relation to the agreement between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, are mild indeed compared with the draconic powers possessed by the Australian Government under the industrial arbitration laws of this country. [More…]
I have not heard of one American trade union which has ever advocated anything remotely resembling the legislation which we have in this country. [More…]
The International Association of Machinists is an offshoot of the original British Amalgamated Engineering Union and is not only one of the largest unions of skilled engineering workers in the United States but also one of the most conservative craft unions in that country. [More…]
It is a union which is wholeheartedly- in support of the American Government’s Vietnam war policy. [More…]
The reason I refer to the United States is that the sort of legislation which has been on the statute books in Australia for many years and which periodically is worsened by legislation such as that which is before us at the moment would not be tolerated for one second either by the American trade union movement or by the United States Congress, and it would be an act of selfdestruction for any American presidential candidate even to hint that he contemplated any piece of legislation remotely resembling the outrageous Bill which is now before this Senate. [More…]
When one cuts out all the paraphernalia, all the extraneous matter, one finds that the purpose of this Bill is to make trade union mergers virtually impossible. [More…]
It was because the DLP wanted to stop trade union mergers that it applied this pressure to the Government. [More…]
As Senator Murphy and other honourable senators from the Labor Party have pointed out already, the Government has taken a class position on this measure, namely, that mergers of trade unions shall be subject to all this scrutiny and will have to vault all these hurdles, while at the same time mergers of companies remain untouched. [More…]
What other organisations in Australia are subject to the same disabilities as the trade unions? [More…]
The Australian trade unions are singled out for this particular attention because the Government is opposed to the trade union movement, and it is opposed to the trade union movement because it knows that the trade union movement is working for the benefit of its members’ economic conditions. [More…]
If one deals with the question of mergers, one finds that only recently in the United States - only over the past few years - there have been mergers of very big trade unions. [More…]
The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Steel Workers of America have only recently amalgamated. [More…]
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the American Communications Association covering different occupations in very different industries have amalgamated to form one union. [More…]
These are big unions covering workers in different aspects of the meat industry. [More…]
At the present time discussions are taking place between the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union which covers the west coast of the United States, and the International Longshoremen’s Association which covers the east coast and the gulf ports regarding a merger. [More…]
There have al so been discussions between the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [More…]
We have a situation in Australia at the present time in relation to the metal trades in which the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Australian Society of Engineers cover the same groups of workers. [More…]
In some States the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners cover exactly the same group of workers. [More…]
Under the Taft-Hartley Act provision is made for a ballot to be held in any enterprise, factory or work place, and upon the result of that ballot one union is given coverage of all the works within that work place. [More…]
In fact, the law in that country encourages mergers of unions insofar as it discourages having parallel unionism within the same work place. [More…]
It is not done because American industry has any great regard for the trade union movement. [More…]
It is done because American industry knows that unnecessary friction and conflict are avoided by having one union within one place of work, and not a multiplicity of unions which can be involved in disputes with each other which are irrelevant to any dispute which may be taking place between the employees and employer. [More…]
Anybody who is familiar with some of the problems that have arisen on the waterfront in Great Britain should be aware that it was recognised by Lord Devlin in his report on the stevedoring industry in Great Britain that one of the primary causes for industrial trouble in Great Britain was the fact that there are 2 unions covering dock workers - the dock section of the Transport and General Workers Union and the National Amalgamated Stevedores and [More…]
In addition, we have the traditional trade union movement led by its national organisation, the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
This has only been as a consequence of the dedication shown by the trade union movement which endeavoured to bridge the gap between what one may describe as the nominal wage’ and the ‘real wage’ - that is the purchasing value of the wage consistent with the cost of goods and services by which one lives. [More…]
Perhaps it: illustrates how the trade unions are to be dealt with, lt is directed towards correcting an error in the original Act. [More…]
The drafting of the provision in the original Act which provided that certain conduct in the nature of dismissing or threatening employees because of their being members of unions or of their intending to be members of unions was seriously defective. [More…]
How has it come about that it has taken more than 13 years for corrective action to be taken in relation to something which obviously was intended to pro- tect trade union members or intending trade union members? [More…]
There is a strong feeling on the part of the trade unions that the Government is anxious at all times to do whatever it can to the disadvantage of the trade unions. [More…]
That does not seem to bear out entirely the suggestion that the Minister has always dealt promptly with these defects when they are to the disadvantage of the trade union movement. [More…]
I have been informed that the General Manager of Williamson-Edgley Theatres Ltd is Mr Michael Edgley, whohas brought to Australia a number of attractions from the Soviet Union and from other countries. [More…]
My attention has not been directed to the statement referred to, but if it is a statement indicating that there will be direct negotiation with the union, as the honourable senator suggested, there is nothing per se either in policy or legislation to inhibit it. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service whether the Mr Morgan, the president of the metal trades employers’ organisation, referred to in Senator McManus’ question, is the same Mr Morgan who stated that the pending amalgamation of the metal trades unions would have the great advantage of eliminating demarcation disputes. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the formal agreement between the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metal Workers Union expressly provided for procedure in the case of demarcation disputes? [More…]
My recollection of the answer which I supplied was that before work permits are made available to overseas entertainers who come to Australia not only is an appreciation made of the employment situation in Australia but also some consultation is held with the relevant union - in this case I think it is Actors Equity. [More…]
Does experience as an ordinary industrial officer at a factory or in an employer’s organisation or as an industrial officer in a trade union come within the definition of ‘high level’? [More…]
I remind the Senate that the basic purpose of this Bill, as is persistently advocated by the Attorney-General, is to attempt to stop wage induced inflation and its consequences and to provide further restrictions to that end on trade union organisations. [More…]
I support clause 12 and I do so on the grounds of principle, of consistency and of good trade union practice. [More…]
I support it first of all on the trade union principle of the going rate for the job. [More…]
When the trade union movement wants high quality officials, when it wants a Mr Hawke, a Mr Short and a Mr Mayne it pays them the going rate for the job. [More…]
If there is one other very good trade union principle it is that we should not discriminate the one against the other; that we should not punish one section of people against others. [More…]
In this place or in the community will he appeal against it - whether it is for professional officers, judicial officers or the trade union movement? [More…]
I deplore inequities in the trade union movement. [More…]
If restraint is to be applied let us not have the restraint that the Labor Party wants, which is freedom for the union bosses and chairs for the union employees. [More…]
We are aware of the differing rates in the respective States, but the point is that when the trade union movement points out the higher rates that workers receive, for example, in New South Wales - in Sydney in particular - and in Melbourne, compared with the rates of workers in other States, the Attorney-General denies to those workers what he now professes should be their entitlement. [More…]
If the conciliation commissioners have to issue wage edicts how does this Government expect the trade union movement to react if this clause is passed and the commissioners receive this increase in salary? [More…]
I know that there is some proposal for the chemical workers and the iron workers to amalgamate and I believe there is some similar suggestion on the part of a boilermakers union in Queensland and some other small section. [More…]
I do not know whether this Bill is aimed at preventing the amalgamations of the iron workers with the chemical workers or whether it is to stop the union amalgamation in Queensland. [More…]
If there is some desire, to control amalgamation, I do not know why this principle should be restricted to trade unions. [More…]
Far too many disputes result from this question of demarcation and union membership, and these things disappear when unions amalgamate. [More…]
Obviously, there must be some further explanation from the Attorney-General to justify what seems to be a vicious attempt to stop some union the identity of which we do not know, despite the fact that the Attorney-General has some knowledge of the matter. [More…]
This union is not generally known to us in the trade union movement which indicates that it could be a less important union and that perhaps a political motivation is involved. [More…]
Someone in this Government is determined to stop someone and wants that to happen without the Government’s disclosing the name of the union to us. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which has just come into existence had to pass through hell fire under the old provisions of this Act to achieve what it has done already. [More…]
Of course, it was not only in December that the Minister was not suggesting that there was any need for this code of amalgamation; in an address which he gave to the Central Industrial Secretariat in Melbourne on 2nd March 1972 - that is, 2 or 3 months ago - he adverted to this question of amalgamation and he answered the critics of the amalgamation of this great big metal union about which we have been talking. [More…]
He was applauding that and acknowledging the tendency in society for small bodies to coalesce into larger bodies and he was admitting that this was an inevitable tendency in the trade union movement. [More…]
He went on to say that there was no such record in relation to the big unions that have amalgamated. [More…]
He also ridiculed the idea that 50 plus per cent of the total union membership should vote. [More…]
I have no doubt that over recent years many trade unions have been contemplating amalgamation. [More…]
I personally do not know of them but at this moment there may be certain such unions or groups of unions which are on the verge of making application for amalgamation under the old law. [More…]
I take no notice of inane interjections by stupid people who would not have the faintest idea of the work of the trade union movement. [More…]
The first is the proposed amalgamation of the Bacon Employees Union, a State registered union, not federated, with the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
That is how the interests of the membership of both unions have been protected. [More…]
I know because the union of which I am a member recently amalgamated with another union. [More…]
We did not want any legislation that the Attorney-General might force on the trade unions to guarantee the protection of the unionists in the 2 unions. [More…]
The legislation is bad enough but this proposal relating to retrospectivity will affect negotiations that unions have been engaged in for some time - negotiations for one purpose only, namely, to ensure that all members of the respective unions will be protected. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that he has not the slightest regard for the trade union movement or, indeed, for Australia. [More…]
Amalgamated Engineering Union will be affected at all by this legislation? [More…]
Frankly, I did not know of the existence of that organisation, but it is said to be a federally registered trade union which covers club, hotel, motel and hostel managerial staff. [More…]
The telegram refers to the position of the Theatre Managers Association, which is a federally registered trade union covering theatre and ten-pin bowling managerial staff and which had a membership as at 31st December last of 303. [More…]
For example, the date, 26th May, was not a date intended to affect, nor indeed was it capable of affecting, the proposed amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metal Workers Union into the [More…]
Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
In that period no representations were made to the Government to hold off the operation of these new amalgamation provisions because some union was well on the way to effecting its amalgamation under the old provisions. [More…]
Why is it said that these unions are trying to beat the gun? [More…]
Is it said that the little union of which I spoke and which sent a telegram to the AttorneyGeneral is somehow trying improperly to beat the gun? [More…]
In its telegram, which the Attorney-General has, that union stated that it had attempted to take amalgamation action as from November 1971. [More…]
One union has 303 members only. [More…]
How can that union afford office staff and so on? [More…]
Some 3 years ago a meeting of the building trade unions was held for the purpose of considering amalgamation. [More…]
Before any agreement could be reached it was necessary to draw up rules for an amalgamated body, preserving the rights of each union. [More…]
The proposed amalgamation involved big unions and small unions. [More…]
The rights of small unions had to be covered, as did the rights of crafts, the settlement of demarcation disputes and other questions affecting any union going into the amalgamation. [More…]
After discussion, the only 3 unions interested in the amalgamation were the Operative Painters and Decorators Union, the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation and the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
At a later stage, the Operative Painters and Decorators Union dropped out of the proposed amal gamation. [More…]
Therefore, the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation and the Building Workers Industrial Union held a postal ballot of all their members, who decided overwhelmingly in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
Under the terms of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the big union applies to alter its name and constitution and the smaller union seeks deregistration. [More…]
It then becomes necessary for members of the smaller union to seek membership of the new body. [More…]
The procedure for the drawing up of rules of the new body, which involved altering the rules of the Building Workers Industrial Union - the big union in this instance - necessitated ratification by the State branches and Federal councils of both organisations after submission to the members. [More…]
An application was made to the Industrial Court to change the name of the Building Workers Industrial Union to the Building Workers Industrial Union and Operative Plasterers Federation of Australia and also to change the Union’s constitution to cover the membership of the Plasterers Federation. [More…]
The Industrial Registrar adjourned the matter, to be called on at the request of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
But he informed the representatives of the Building Workers Industrial Union that he would not agree to the change of name or constitution until such time as the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation applied for deregistration. [More…]
Of course, the union must present an application for deregistration which is acceptable to the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
One of our officers who had a conversation with him last week gained the impression that he considered that the union would be covered by the existing legislation as the proposed amalgamation was sufficiently advanced. [More…]
The Building Workers Industrial Union has commenced proceedings in relation to that. [More…]
Therefore, Part VIllA of the Act does not apply to that union in relation to its application for a change of name. [More…]
The Union is only waiting for the matter to be called on again to see whether it can settle its difference with the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
If that difference can be settled, the Union has only to register its new name and changed constitution. [More…]
1 do not know whether the Building Workers Industrial Union has ever had a postal ballot. [More…]
I would be greatly surprised if any top official of the Department of Labour and National Service does not keep his Minister advised of what is doing in the union movement. [More…]
If the Minister was not satisfied with that information, Senator Cavanagh today indicated the long processes which the plasterers union had been engaged in with the building workers union in trying to establish and complete their amalgamations. [More…]
This legislation has been hotly contested by the Australian Labor Party and it is most alarming to me that the Government should expect the union movement to accept such an arrangement. [More…]
The Government is attracting more contempt from the trade union movement and this Opposition because of the way in which the AttorneyGeneral produced his arguments and dealt with these matters. [More…]
If he continues in the way he proposes he will knock out 3 years work by the plasterers union. [More…]
It will mean that the Federated Ironworkers Association, which has proceeded a long way towards its amalgamation with the chemical workers union, will be prevented from concluding its agreement. [More…]
In addition, of course, under this Bill thousands of members of the ironworkers union will have to engage in a ballot in order to take in the small chemical workers union. [More…]
It wants to rush this Bill through and get it out of the way so that it will be another net around the trade union movement. [More…]
I think that every honourable senator on the Opposition side, from the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) down, was inundated over the weekend with representations from the trade union movement about this clause. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral implies that he is leading the trade union movement to the promised land but he is completely off the track. [More…]
I do not want to recapitulate the situations that confront some of the unions that were mentioned by the Attorney-General and other speakers; I simply want to give another illustration of why, in my opinion, the Government would be fully justified in spending the entire recess in conference with affected unions and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I refer firstly to the New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways Union which has a membership of over 30,000. [More…]
Because of the wage scale of the members of this union it would not be regarded as a very wealthy union. [More…]
There is a small organisation in the New South Wales railway system which is known as the New South Wales Government Railway Canvas Workers Union. [More…]
I return to the operations of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
The union employed a rank and file member as returning officer for a further 6 to 8 weeks. [More…]
As I interpret the legislation in relation to overtures for amalgamation between the canvas workers and the Australian Railways Union, the Government will be prepared to assist and subsidise the unions only if they synchronise the amalgamation ballot with their triennial elections. [More…]
If I were to go out among the rank and file members of the Australian Railways Union and ask them what they thought of the cost of having a ballot to decide on 600 workers coming in, they would say that it was obvious that the 600 members should decide their destiny and that their coming into a big union would not make much difference. [More…]
These are the basic problems of trade unionism. [More…]
If honourable senators look at the balance sheet of the average trade union today they will find that if the unions are forced to conduct an additional ballot in this situation they will be in a really difficult financial position. [More…]
This is a very serious matter for the trade unions. [More…]
Really, what the Government ought to do if it intends to persist and use the weight of numbers to pass this legislation is to at least let those trade unions, which have amalgamations in progress, carry them into effect. [More…]
Mr Short is an eminent trade unionist. [More…]
It has an amalgamation pending with the Federated Artificial Fertilisers and Chemical Workers Union , of Australia. [More…]
The Artificial Fertilisers and Chemical Workers Union has approximately 2,000 to 3,000 members. [More…]
Changes are occurring in industry which mean that the unions should rearrange their organisation and their membership in the same way that industry has to rearrange from time to time. [More…]
If we are to have an efficient community, then those changes must be reflected in the organisation of the trade unions. [More…]
The Government should be endeavouring, as the employers as well as the trade unions would want, to achieve a procedure where the amalgamations can be made simpler instead of more difficult. [More…]
I have been associated with a number of them such as those in the printing union, the hotel trades union and a large number of others. [More…]
An endeavour was made in relation to the Amalgamated Engineering Union, but everyone knows that that was a stunt which was tried in the last few days for political purposes. [More…]
Amalgamations have been part of the labour movement ever since workers banded together to form trade unions. [More…]
While amalgamations have been part and parcel of trade union activity in the past they are even more so now because as a result of technological changes men in smaller unions are becoming redundant and those unions are finding it impossible financially to carry on. [More…]
It is certainly an, illusion to think that restrictions on the right of working people to organise themselves in trade unions can in some way make development easier to obtain. [More…]
Without a free and active trade union movement, governments will find it harder, not easier, to gain the acceptance by working people of the short term sacrifices which longer term progress may require. [More…]
I am quoting from a document of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. [More…]
I think that the trouble with the Government today is that it should do some homework and brush up on what is the thinking on a world wide basis with regard to trade union activities. [More…]
I submit, for the consideration of the Attorney-General and Government senators, that Australia is out of step and out of line with its thinking on restrictive practices on trade unions. [More…]
Before I resume my seat I inform honourable senators opposite and the Government that I am shocked and disgusted at the trend that they are following in regard to the collision course that they seem to be wanting to take with the great trade union movement. [More…]
I refer to the statements made by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. [More…]
Reference was made by Senator Cavanagh to the amalgamation proceedings that have been embarked upon by his union with the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
Union have been through negotiation proceedings. [More…]
Those amalgamations had the interests at heart of the members of the unions concerned. [More…]
I am sure the Attorney-General is not conversant with the trade union movement, otherwise he would not say the things he does say. [More…]
What happened only the other day demonstrated quite forcibly that the Attorney-General is not appreciative of the work of the trade union movement and, in particular, the secretaries and organisers of unions. [More…]
Senator Brown, in addressing himself to the motion for the second reading of the Bill, said to the Attorney-General: “Apparently you have the belief that trade union secretaries sit in their offices in Trades Hall or wherever it may be and just, get on the telephone and bring out all the men on a job’. [More…]
The Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, which is not the major union, decided on Sunday that at a meeting of its members and that it would embark on a 24hour stoppage as from midnight on Sunday. [More…]
I believe that if all the unions within the Railway Department had amalgamated there would have been far greater consideration of the problem in dispute. [More…]
In my humble opinion it is extremely bad legislation, but the trade union movement will deal with that in its own way at the appropriate time. [More…]
I spoke the other day about a State union in Queensland which has no federation whatsoever and which is seeking to affiliate with its parent union, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
If the Attorney General interferes with them he will interfere with the livelihood of about 1,500 workers who cannot sustain their union under the present circumstances. [More…]
At first glance one would say that the disputes procedure provision - something which the union movement discussed with the employers and with the Government over many years - would be a good thing. [More…]
In 1969 and 1970 the trade unions, through the National Labour Advisory Council, discussed this matter with the Government and with the employers, and a procedure was developed from these discussions. [More…]
I personally am aware of voluntary agreements having been made by employers with employees and the unions in relation to disputes procedure. [More…]
Obviously, the Government ought to have the responsibility of appearing before the Commission and putting its view in regard to any effect a decision might have on the national economy and negating whatever the unions or the employers may say in respect of this. [More…]
Of course, the aim of this proposed section is to bind and hogtie the Commission to strict criteria, which the union movement will have to face, in order to make sure that the Government’s policies on wages are kept intact. [More…]
One of the first bases for long service leave was promoted by the Chamber of Manufactures, organised employers generally and the trade union movement and later was incorporated in legislation. [More…]
By agreement, the employers and the unions effected a basic form of long service leave which has now become almost universal. [More…]
All that will happen is that bit by bit the activities of the trade union movement will become more circumscribed and its liberties will be reduced. [More…]
Then all that effort and all the time that the union officials, employees and a skilled conciliator have devoted is wasted and the whole process has to start all over again. [More…]
In point of fact, if one peruses Hansard and, indeed, the Press over the years one will find that there have been many occasions on which trade union leaders and members of the Australian Labor Party have urged that precisely that should be done. [More…]
We learnt during the suspension of the sitting for dinner that there is complete agreement between the Democratic Labor Party and the Government to insert an escape clause permitting the amalgamation of the ironworkers union with the chemical workers union. [More…]
Here we see the alignment of the 2 forces who are facing an election which will be fought on a platform set against the activities of the trade unions. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has lined up with the Government to fight for this policy as an anti-union force provided that the Ironworkers Union is protected, and the Government has agreed to give that protection. [More…]
Senator Carrick’s experience in the trade union movement would be very meagre and he has got away with a lot in this Senate by saying: ‘Everyone has said it’ or ‘a lot have said it’. [More…]
I entered the Australian Council of Trade Unions at the time Percy Clarey was President of the ACTU. [More…]
I do not think that the trade union movement has said anything at a private conference that it would not allow to be repeated in the arbitration procedure. [More…]
They do not stop work but they advise their union and it goes through all the processes of advising the court and a conference is convened. [More…]
The employer through his representative and the employees through their union representative could work it out between them and reach agreement that the workers should have a 10-minute rest period morning and afternoon. [More…]
Then the employers’ representatives hear about it and they come down on the employer and say: ‘You are not to make an agreement with the union in that respect.’ [More…]
If we have a situation where because of the tremendous power which a particular union exercises upon an employer, not in a very substantial way, and by sheer threat and the force of direct action gets what is called a conciliation agreement, I think it is a matter for a conciliation commissioner to consider: ‘Is this in the public interest?’ [More…]
Do honourable senators believe that the results which are secured by simply the naked use of power are things which should be perpetuated simply because the people who use that power happen to be union organisations? [More…]
It is a fundamental section of the sanction provision and the trade union movement is opposed to it. [More…]
We have been told on many occasions how sections of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act can be used to punish the unions heavily by imposing a fine of Si, 000, and $500 a day for every repetition of an offence. [More…]
Breaches by employers become almost ridiculous if one considers the great impost of fines on the trade union movement. [More…]
It was estimated in recent years by Mr Woodward, Q.C., as he was then, that up to 1968 $100,000 had been inflicted in fines on unions because of offences under the Act. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), in the statement he made in December 1971 when he indicated the intention of the Government to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, said that several unions had not paid fines totalling $37,950. [More…]
These fines were legally imposed and he said that he expected the unions to pay them. [More…]
However, since 1970, when sections of the Act were relaxed, fines totalling $10,200 have been imposed on the Unions. [More…]
There is no doubt that the total of fines imposed on the union movement since the date of the figures f read has increased probably to $150,000 or $200,000. [More…]
I do not know how much it is appreciated by honourable senators on the Government side of the chamber that under this provision it is not necessary even for the leadership of a union to support a strike or to be shown to have played any role in the strike at all in order to attract these penalties. [More…]
For instance, in New South Wales, in the penalties provisions under the Act defences are available to union officials who come along and say that they have made every attempt to settle a strike. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about union executives cracking the whip at their members. [More…]
If he feels that there is some danger one can talk until one is blue in the face and one can threaten the demise of the union but he is the person who may have his health impaired. [More…]
Mr Lew McKay, a leading official of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Workers Union visited the area, so did other officials to seek a resumption of work, lt was impossible to get the men to go down the mine again even though the officials pointed out that Conciliation Commissioner Manuel had said that the men were over-rating their fears. [More…]
I am one who does not always give compliments easily to the judiciary, but I say that under the existing Act Mr Justice Robinson played a notable role in the way in which he alternated meetings with the union and with the New South Wales transport department representative. [More…]
I wonder how much it interferes with the normal duties of a union secretary. [More…]
If someone reports to the union office and says: ‘I have a job with employer A’ who is the subject of an award and the union secretary says: ‘I would not go there because we have had a Jot of trouble with him and you can get more wages somewhere else’, it would appear that the union secretary is in breach of proposed new section 33 for carrying out his normal duties. [More…]
It is definitely an infringement of the duties and responsibility of a union official. [More…]
If it is to stop the union secretary from advising someone on a future occasion it is desirable that the presidential member issues the certificate although the conduct has ceased and something could have happened a month ago. [More…]
A union makes application for another award which does not bind employer A, but after the second award is made employer A can appeal against the making of an award binding employer B. [More…]
On this side of the chamber we have at least 8 honourable senators who have spent years as trade union leaders and we also have some very accomplished legal people. [More…]
But many honourable senators on this side, such as Senator Cavanagh, Senator Milliner, Senator Brown, Senator Cameron, have for 20 or 30 years been protecting the rights of union members in shearing sheds and furniture factories, night and day. [More…]
This legislation contains matters important to everybody in Australia and particularly to unionists. [More…]
What disturbed us was that the Act permitted one judge to sit in such important matters as challenges to the rules of a union and in matters which could seriously affect the career and tenure of office of office holders in trade unions. [More…]
In recent years fairly satisfactory discussions have been held between the national trade union centre and the responsible Minister representing the Government. [More…]
However, the sanctions were modified, indicating a good trend, but the amendments to the law did not go as the trade union movement wanted. [More…]
They create a lot of bad feeling in the trade union movement. [More…]
I have already referred to the hundreds of dollars in fines imposed on employers compared with the many thousands of dollars in fines that have been imposed on trade unions. [More…]
In addition, there is continuing argument between the Government and the unions over these provisions. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment will have the effect of ensuring that penalties will not be imposed on trade unions in respect of disputes involving general matters such as wages claims and working conditions. [More…]
Briefly, the amendment to section 145 of the principal Act which was inserted in the Bill had as its intention the laying down of a general rule that resignations from a union should be in writing. [More…]
In other words, it was not to be open to a union to claim that: a man had not resigned, even though he had not resigned in writing, if the union had accepted the resignation. [More…]
But the flaw in the formulation of the Bill is that it would leave it open to a member to claim that he had been informed over the telephone or otherwise verbally that his resignation had been accepted, and there would be no safeguard for the union on the question of whether it had been accepted. [More…]
In other words, a resignation which is not in writing will still be valid provided that the union has acknowledged in writing that the resignation has been made. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the resignation rule of the Australian Workers Union stipulates that a member wishing to resign shall be liable for all membership subscriptions, fines, levies and dues owing by him to the union to the date of the expiration of such notice. [More…]
I think that this point should be cleared up because resignations from the membership of unions cause quite a lot of conflict between members and officials. [More…]
There is always a problem in relation to the average union member who does not read his rules and does not read the Act and who wishes to resign but does not realise that he has to resign in writing. [More…]
The situation then is that the union continues to carry him on the books for perhaps a year or two. [More…]
He becomes overdue with his union dues. [More…]
Eventually the matter is cleared up by his resigning in writing and probably receiving a summons for several years union dues. [More…]
There is ill-feeling and wasted time, lt is wasteful to the union and expensive to the member. [More…]
It would be preferable if, in some suitable way, the necessity for resignation in writing was drawn to the attention of union members. [More…]
1 think it is unquestionable that if a member of a union desires to resign he should know and should be able to find out if he does not know what steps he should follow. [More…]
I think that there are obligations upon union secretaries to pass on that information. [More…]
Take the case where the delegate takes the union dues on a Friday to the union office and, there being a lack of communication, the employee, that is the union member indicates to an interpreter that he is leaving that day. [More…]
This is conveyed verballyto the union delegate and this fellow is struck off the list of members. [More…]
The union then writes to an address, say in Marrickville, that it has accepted his resignation. [More…]
Let us assume that because of the migration of people all over the urban areas this letter goes to the Dead Letter Office and then is returned to the union. [More…]
In this case the union has endeavoured to meet the requirements, the letter goes to the Dead Letter Office and the fellow is under the impression that he is still a member. [More…]
So the union records recording the resignation or the notice in writing would be proof of the acceptance of the resignation. [More…]
My initial thought was that if Senator Rae’s suggestion were accepted we could have a situation which was known in the union office but not known to anybody else and people could proceed on an assumption which, if a challenge were raised, could be proved to be incorrect. [More…]
For example, it was thought that when actions came before juries, the juries would not find persons guilty, even civilly, of an offence of conspiracy or of inducing breach of contract and would not have required unions or their members to pay damages. [More…]
There was a recent case in, I think, Bathurst, New South Wales, against a few union members who were involved in a disputation connected with the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Not only is there a suggestion that in industrial disputes which lead to limitations of work or strikes should there be no penalties if the union is in breach of an award but if a union exercises its industrial power and, as a result, breaks contracts, engages in retortive conspiracy and if - I think this would be covered by the language of the amendment - an assault is occasioned to a person, that organisation and any person connected with it would not be liable to pay any damages for any loss which is caused. [More…]
The enormity of that suggestion strikes one as soon as one examines the amendment because it would put union organisations and their officials above the law. [More…]
Apart from that area, union organisations and their officials can say that they will not be liable to any civil proceeding. [More…]
So peripheral matters could be regarded as part of the industrial dispute and, if any action is taken by a union or an office bearer of the union involved in these matters, that action may be taken with impunity. [More…]
The union or its office bearer will not be liable to any civil action. [More…]
The power of the union movement was such that supplies could be stopped from reaching Safeway’s. [More…]
A court action was instituted and the court ordered that there should be an injunction served upon the various unionists concerned. [More…]
The problem was to find these unions. [More…]
It is not only expressed in the amendment, it is also a part of the Labor Party’s policy, and to put union organisations and officials above the law entirely is to me an appalling prospect. [More…]
The Tramways Union had refused to pay penalties imposed upon it under this Act. [More…]
It was known that the Victorian branch of the union had funds in the Commonwealth Savings Bank. [More…]
It was believed that the union had substantial investments in loans of the State Electricity Commission. [More…]
The location of those securities was not known nor was the location of other assets of the union. [More…]
The consequence of the industrial action which thereby was initiated was avoided by the anonymous payment of the fine which had been imposed upon the union. [More…]
Where a union has funds in bank accounts, or moneys or negotiable securities in safe deposits, or any other organisation has these assets, these can be taken under a writ of execution without the need to summon union officials to disclose on oral examination before the Court the location of those assets. [More…]
The expense for the larger union to an amalgamation to conduct a ballot of all its members would run into many tens of thousands of dollars. [More…]
Such a larger union simply would not be prepared to undertake the expense. [More…]
It seems reasonable that it should not be necessary for a major trade union to conduct a ballot as a general principle when it absorbs another union that does not have a membership exceeding 5 per cent of the total membership of the major union. [More…]
The stage could be reached where a major trade union with 80,000 members could absorb a union with 4,000 members, bringing the total membership to 84,000. [More…]
Within a period of one year a major trade union could absorb as many as 10 other unions. [More…]
The effect of the amendment is that it will not interfere in any way with the right of a major organisation to seek exemption from a ballot except when over a period of 3 years it exceeds the 5 per cent level of its membership by absorbing other trade unions. [More…]
This would mean that if the major union wished to do that within a period of 3 years it would need to conduct a ballot of its members. [More…]
If after the period of 3 years rt wished to amalgamate with another union, thereby exceeding the original 5 per cent of its membership, again it could seek exemption from holding a ballot. [More…]
In that industry there might be another 5,000 or 10,000 workers who are not in the union. [More…]
This is covered by other sections of the Act in dealing with other sections of union organisations. [More…]
The Industrial Registrar has ruled that the application under the 2 required sections was in prior to last Friday, and he has now stated that the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation amalgamation will be the last amalgamation dealt with under the old Act. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party amendment deals with the potential membership of a union. [More…]
Persons could be admitted to the host organisation, but they might not be admitted because they belong to no union or because they belong to some other union. [More…]
The fact is that at law they could be admitted to the host union by virtue of the amalgamation, upon or by reason of it. [More…]
I am trying to paint a picture of how the trade union movement, has followed the normal textbook approach. [More…]
The outcome of the talks between the Commonwealth and the States should have flowed back by now to the Minister for Trade and Industry and in turn to the trade union movement. [More…]
I should point out that every week the unions concerned have been asking Mr Unsworth, the organiser of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, what is happening. [More…]
There has been some talk about trade unions being unreasonable in their approaches. [More…]
Here is a classic example of a trade union which has tried to hold the line at a time when production has been cut, but because of some ineptitude - probably at a State ministerial level - nothing has happened and the Commonwealth transport Minister must be held culpable. [More…]
While I am making this very strong appeal on behalf of the trade union movement 1 think I should point out that the deadline for impending dismissals is being reached. [More…]
Senator COTTON (New .South WalesMinister for Civil Aviation) in reply - (8.3) - As Senator 0’Byrne, my , ex-associate in the Whips Union has indicated we are taking these 3 Bills together. [More…]
Nevertheless, the consumption of tobacco and alcohol in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is amongst the highest in the world. [More…]
As Senator Carrick ably pointed out when mentioning those countries in which advertising has not become part and parcel of daily life, such as the Soviet Union where there is no commercial advertising of cigarettes, cigarette smoking is as popular a pastime as it is in those countries which are subject to this form of salesmanship. [More…]
1 should like, if I may, to read a letter dated 29th February 1972, from the Chairman of the Political Liaison Committee of the Farmers Union of Western Australia, Mr D. T. Eckersley, because I think the letter that Mr Eckersley has written to Mr Graham, Deputy Premier of Western Australia, does indicate some of the concern which is felt by people, particularly in the country areas of that State. [More…]
j .The Farmers Union has written to ; numerous parliamentarians both State and .Federal, complaining df inconvenience to members. [More…]
At the last General Executive meeting of the Farmers’ Union strong criticism was levelled at the administration of the PMG. [More…]
If I may interpolate, that seems an unusual letter from the Political Liaison Committee of the Farmers Union, which has not usually identified with trade unions. [More…]
The Executive of the Farmers’ Union are of the opinion that a strong case should be made for a full scale inquiry into the administration of die P.M.G. [More…]
These people are placed at considerable inconvenience which becomes all the more annoying when one discovers, as the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia reminds us, that so much of the space in these telephone directories is taken up with the largely unnecessary advertisements in the pink pages. [More…]
Because of the special history of the provisions in the Pastoral Industry Award, because that award is not before us and because we have not heard The Australian Workers’ Union we feel that we should make the observation that neither our decision regarding wages generally nor that relating to the minimum wage should automatically apply to that industry. [More…]
Whether in fact they are made to apply will be a matter for the Commission however constituted which has to deal with them when an application is made by The Australian Workers’ Union’. [More…]
They have been thoughtfully bringing to the attention of the public, not despairing even yet, the view that if only industrial chaos and industrial wastage of employment were eliminated by the leaders of the trade union movement a great improvement in the employment position would be achieved. [More…]
I am aware that there was a prolonged court action in South Australia between a Kangaroo Island farmer and an official of a trade union, under which action the farmer sued the trade union official because of a black ban which had been imposed and which had caused him loss and inconvenience because it delayed the transhipment of his wool. [More…]
I am also aware that the farmer succeeded in his action and received a judgment from the court, and that the South Aus tralian Government indicated in the court that it had paid or was prepared to pay the costs of the unsuccessful union official. [More…]
I am also aware that considerable publicity was given to an assertion, I think by the Premier of South Australia, that this was no more than what had been done by the Commonwealth in paying the costs of certain unionists who had been engaged in proceedings before the Commonwealth Industrial Court. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, through the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, has provided a means whereby union members can control their union officials, can ensure that the rules of their organisations are observed and can have properly conducted elections. [More…]
Has he also seen a report that 25,000 metal workers in South Australia are taking part in a halfday stoppage today which is symptomatic of trade union sickness in that State? [More…]
in which 25,000 metal workers were not requested but were directed to cease work at the bidding of the union for consultation on whether they should strike, that there is a dislocation in industry that leads to economic waste. [More…]
I direct a question to the Attorney-General, ls it a fact that the Attorney-General authorised the payment of costs amounting to approximately $11,000 awarded against a union official in New South Wales? [More…]
I do recall an ex gratia payment of approximately $11,000 that was made, I think, to persons who were involved in certain court litigation in connection with the affairs of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The meetings of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Advisory Committee on Pulp and Paper, the International Union of Forest Research Organisations and the International Academy of Wood Sciences have viewed this matter and assessed the future world supply situation. [More…]
The present increase in the volume of softwoods imported from islands to the north and the volume of timber that is now entering Australia from the Soviet Union together with the significant imports coming to Australia from New Zealand are interesting. [More…]
Wherever one finds a Labor government one finds government by union bosses. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to a letter to the editor in yesterday’s Adelaide Advertiser* from a trade unionist from Para Hills West? [More…]
The letter refers to union ordered strikes. [More…]
After 30 years of working and striking I have had a gutsful of getting up in the morning and wondering whether my union friends are going to tell me to- [More…]
I do not propose to comment upon that letter, but it can be taken as a sample of evidence of anxiety, very naturally entertained by union members, as to the arbitrary, domineering directions of some union bosses. [More…]
The situation, on the evidence of several unionists, in that respect has become intolerable. [More…]
In public statements the Soviet Union has made no specific reference to the role of the Security Council in this question. [More…]
It was, however, reported in the Press that the Soviet Union did not favour the holding of a meeting of the Security Council to consider the situation in Vietnam. [More…]
Will the Minister take note that at meetings and demonstrations throughout Australia the gravest possible concern is being expressed by migrants to this country from behind the Iron Curtain at a revival, instigated by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, of a system’ of repression, tyranny and deprivation of human rights such as one had hoped would have disappeared to some degree in those countries? [More…]
It has been tied up for 8 weeks because of a union demand that leading able bodied seamen be paid $8,330 per annum for work amounting to 30 weeks of the year. [More…]
The other point I want to make is that when the Tasmanian Labor Government has to give some attention to this matter the Minister for Transport goes round the union offices begging: ‘Please exempt Tasmania from your disruption’. [More…]
I want only to express my complete dismay that an elected Government should seek to supply essential shipping services to its own State with the consent of the union bosses; that it should seek to make arrangements with the union bosses when the people who voted the Government into its responsible office expect it to represent and service them. [More…]
The vicious aspects that come out of the report which the Senate is debating tonight are, firstly, the exorbitant and excessive labour costs in the stevedoring and seamen’s industry and, secondly, the governmental situation in which a government should seek to run shipping services with the permission of the union bosses. [More…]
When honourable Senators remember it is on official record that one disturbance alone has cost the government shipping line more than $2m without recourse whatever to the union as a matter of responsibility, it is time that we began to consider whether we have any right to claim to be a government and whether we will take the responsibility for ensuring that shipping services are carried on winthout interruption because the economy of our island State is peculiarly dependent upon those shipping services. [More…]
Because he said ‘to the Tasmanian trades’ we then were careful to inquire as to whether he meant to the ANL trade, to the whole trade, including the Union Steam Ship trade or the cost to the trade overall. [More…]
It is my belief, and I implied this by way of question when people tried to sit me down the other day, that at half-past 4 from that afternoon the ANL knew that it would not give in lo the union demands to provide more stewards. [More…]
This is why I suggested by way of question, and I emphasise it here, that there should be some decency, courtesy and commonsense brought to bear on management and unions so that an announcement will be made that the ship next sailing after the one scheduled will be the one which will be stopped because of a strike. [More…]
I believe that both union and management, for the sake of the people, should co-operate in this respect. [More…]
Anytime one tries to make a booking with the ANL, or with the Union Steam Ship Company or any of the travel agencies one is told that the ships are booked out for years ahead. [More…]
Tests of the 1963 models purchased at random by Consumers’ Union had resulted in 32 of 32 cars displaying troubles in the first 5,000 miles of driving. [More…]
a broken distributor cap, a speedometer needle that fell back to zero and remained there, a broken seal adjuster, an ignition lock that wouldn’t lock, a door that wouldn’t latch, engines that leaked oil, directional signals that wouldn’t cancel, a grossly inaccurate gas gauge, front wheels out of alignment, and headlights, as the late Mildred Brady of Consumers’ Union put it, ‘that aimed at the ground or at the eyes of approaching motorists or at birds in trees’. [More…]
T ask the honourable senator to note that in the Budget Speech only last week it was announced that readier access to credit union funds would be available for this purpose. [More…]
Of course, it should be appreciated that within the area of conciliation and arbitration there is a very generous scheme of legal aid to enable trade union members to assert their rights either against executives of the union who they allege are not doing their duty according to the rules or to ensure that the rules are observed. [More…]
That is an avenue which has been usefully explored and utilised by unionists in recent times. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian public may be deprived of television and radio coverage of the Olympic Games, starting on Saturday, as a result of a proposed union ban? [More…]
Does he regard this irresponsible action by the union as a blatant misuse of power to achieve monetary gain and a complete disregard of the rights of the Australian people? [More…]
I can say only that apparently there is no action of an industrial organisation or union which does not have the support of members of the Opposition if the noise by which they have responded is any indication of their feeling. [More…]
As far as this union is concerned, it has the opportunity to have its claims arbitrated. [More…]
I understand that the Public Service Arbitrator at a meeting yesterday told the union to lift the ban and told it that there would be no talks while the ban was on. [More…]
Today Mr Hawke has come out affirming that position, but only after the incident at the beginning of this week when Mr Ducker went on record, when he was assaulted at the plumbers meeting by members of the Builders Labourers Federation - why the members of that union were at this meeting one is left to guess - warning all unionists that communist inspired violence would continue unless unionists were vigilant. [More…]
The fact is that it comes to hand after 2 years or more of a virulent campaign on the part of the Builders Labourers Federation in Sydney where members of that union have been attacking buildings, and labourers and contractors who dare to continue work on a job that they have declared black. [More…]
A Mr Jones, a prominent trade unionist, was so assaulted, and defamed and denigrated that he came out yesterday advocating strongly his view that people such as those who had assaulted him should be eradicated and expelled from the trade union movement. [More…]
Does he now acknowledge that the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which is headed by Mr Hawke, who is also an influential member of the ALP, has condemned such acts and that that policy will be the policy of the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
I ask the Minister further whether he is saying, contrary to what has been said before, that the ACTU is not a responsible national trade union body. [More…]
J am aware of one prior incident of violence against trade union officials in New South Wales in respect of which the Labor Council did express its opposition. [More…]
I should think that if one reflects on those matters to which my colleague Senator Wright just recently referred - the many instances in which there has been defacement and destruction of property and assault to individuals without apparent protest from the Australian Labor Party or the ACTU - one appreci ates that there has been a tolerance within the Australian Labor Party to these matters, because both the Labor Party and the trade union movement are unable to do anything about them. [More…]
Notwithstanding the Press reports today of what was said by Mr Hawke this morning, and notwithstanding the encouragement that people who believe in the rule of law in this country can gain from the fact that the statements were made, it is very significant, when you read them, that they do not cast a very heavy obligation upon particular union members. [More…]
Apparently, according to the report in the Sydney Morning Herald’, which seems to have the best report of the Australian Council of Trade Unions directive, people guilty of violence - I presume that means persons found guilty by the courts - should not thereafter be allowed to be members of the unions. [More…]
Of course, one of the problems is that those persons who are set upon by unionists are unable to get the evidence, in many cases because those persons who can give evidence which would sheet home the blame fear intimidation. [More…]
Apparently the Australian Labor Party is not prepared to take the sort of action that will enable people in union affairs to go about their jobs fearlessly and without risk of physical harm, and this situation is inherent in all that the unions have been putting over the last 2 years. [More…]
As we have seen, the meeting was of such violence that respected and high members of the trade union movement who were giving advice in what they thought were the best interests of their own members were subjected to assault, turbulence and violence to the degree that Mr Jones has said that he would advocate that members who behaved in that way should be disciplined by expulsion. [More…]
We are seeing expressed now in the form of direct violence in the trade union movement in Australia the product of a campaign of urging and encouragement to lawlessness by the Australian Labor Party over the last 2 years– [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party last year at Townsville resolved that in the unlikely event of a Labor government, any trade union official using violence to damage property during or in furtherance of a strike should be immune from any action for damages? [More…]
Is it not a fact that last year at Townsville the Australian Labor Party resolved that in the unlikely event of a Labor government being in office any trade union official using violence to damage property during or in furtherance of a strike or industrial dispute should be immune from any action for damages? [More…]
Do I take it from the Minister’s earlier remarks that the Government opposes all collective bargaining arrangements between employers and union officials? [More…]
I ask: In view of the recently completed sale of wheat to the value of $50m to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics followed by a statement by the Minister for Primary Industry that Australia could find itself in an embarrassing situation regarding wheat stocks, is it now the Government’s intention to review wheat quotas immediately? [More…]
That is the situation which has happened on many occasions with these persons who are members of the draft resisters’ union and other persons who are avoiding arrest for their offences. [More…]
I do not want to accuse the Union Steamship Co. of having any purpose to denigrate or to undermine the Australian National Line, but I do not think that the company is equipped properly to handle the bookings for this service. [More…]
Therefore, in order to obtain a representative range of views and opinions, the Committee subsequently undertook a further inquiry by way of seeking information from people in the commercial world, the trade union world and in the sphere of consumer organisations, as well as from independent publishers. [More…]
Of course in the meantime there is more crime in this country - but not crime of trade union instigation. [More…]
It may be that I was not helped sufficiently, but I had 6 metal trades union officials with me when 1 met the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), who in turn was to pass on our remarks to the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon). [More…]
After the 6 metal trades union representatives met the Minister for Trade and Industry they came out and said: ‘What are the prospects?’ [More…]
When you talk about industrial harmony, and trade union leaders try to accept what you claim they should accept, you find that at times you are left in the situation: The answer is a lemon - nothing happens. [More…]
These sorts of things make the trade union movement very doubtful at times about some of these promises. [More…]
The average person in a suburb of Sydney or Melbourne sees an agreement made by the trade union movement to contract the work force, but he still sees no reduction in retail prices. [More…]
Yesterday some representatives of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union came to Canberra to see me. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators opposite that they can rest content - it was not the top echelon of the union. [More…]
The government talks about rank and file consultation and trade union decisions. [More…]
holders or democracy in the trade union movement. [More…]
I only wish that some of the militancy that he demonstrates against the trade union movement had been turned loose some 6 months ago on the hospital benefit funds. [More…]
No doubt in the near future there will be a conflict with the trade union movement over the role of firemen - or observers, to use the American term - in diesel locomotives. [More…]
Mr Albert Monk and other leaders in the trade union movement had very illustrious careers but the day has gone when a union leader can go out and meet 500 men and dominate them intellectually and physically. [More…]
Government supporters talk about trade union violence but it does not matter what one does, decisions rest with the rank and file individuals, and they must be present and must participate in making those decisions. [More…]
There is another angle to this question of law and order, and it does not matter whether one is in the trade union move.ment or is a senator. [More…]
I thought the Government would canonise both of them for saying that the trade union movement believes, as it always has, that there should be law and order within the unions. [More…]
Government supporters should not think that union leaders can go back to the unions they represent and say that they cannot get anything. [More…]
Government supporters might say to me that it is not a registered trade union. [More…]
I say to the Government, on the grounds that I mentioned, that it never dealt with BHP as it did with the trade union movement’s claims on the ground of conflict of public interest. [More…]
Now that the Australian people are able to receive direct coverage of the Olympic Games, will the Minister inform the Senate whether in fact it was Mr Hawke’s good offices which were responsible, as he has endeavoured to portray through the news media, or was it that the union, realising that it had abused its power by holding the nation to ransom, was concerned about the widespread public condemnation it would have received for its action? [More…]
Has the union agreed to submit its case to arbitration? [More…]
My information is that it was the decision of the union to go back to work which enabled the telecasts to be shown last Saturday night. [More…]
I understand that the Overseas Telecommunications Commission had taken the view initially that, as the union had not lodged any claim for arbitration but had sought to exercise its power in a direct way in order to achieve by this threat of a ban the results which it wanted, it would not concede anything to that union. [More…]
I believe that the OTC has not conceded anything to the union. [More…]
All it did was say to the union that if its members went back to work it would not oppose the union’s application to have lifted the order which was made by the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
I think this is a salutary demonstration that if an employing organisation will stand firm against intimidatory tactics of the kind which this union engaged in the community will undoubtedly be better off in the long run. [More…]
I regarded it as a very significant statement coming from an experienced officer of the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope that Mr Calnan will rise to places of great influence in the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The reason for the Government’s silence about demand-pull inflation is that the blame cannot be laid at the door of the trade union movement, as the Government attempts to do with cost-push inflation. [More…]
Further, 1 rather resent - I use the word resent’ because J do not think that I could rind a word more appropriate to express my feelings - the continuous attack by the Government on the trade union movement for what the Government alleges is the sabotage of the Australian economy by the trade union movement. [More…]
One sits here and listens to attacks made on workers, on the trade union movement, on the President and the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, by Senator Wright and Senator Greenwood who are 2 of the most vicious men in this chamber for attacks on the workers. [More…]
I would say that Mr Hawke is one of the best trade union leaders this country has had. [More…]
Senator Gair says that the Press reported that the union involved told Mr Hawke to keep his nose out of this matter. [More…]
The trade union moment in Tasmania has done more than has this Government to keep ships moving between Tasmania and the mainland. [More…]
The late Mr O’Neill was secretary of the trade union movement in Tasmania. [More…]
It is true that many people who are generally and loosely termed workers do not approve of the actions of many of their union leaders. [More…]
Too often they are frightened to say so publicly, but when it comes to the secrecy of the ballot box they indicate clearly their disagreement with their union leaders. [More…]
What I am seeking to know from Senator Greenwood is: If the Soviet Union is one of the 28 nations with which we are negotiating, would agreement with that country encompass Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which are now part of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The same situation applies in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, though, has published no details of the fees which are allegedly charged although according to Press reports - I emphasise that the basis of this statement is only the Press - the fees range from $A5,000 for the holder of a bachelor degree to $A20,000 for the holder of a doctorate degree. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service able to give me any further information about the Australian Labor Party’s claim for special privilege of union officers during industrial disputes, to which I referred in a question recently? [More…]
Organisation’ is the word which is used in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to mean a trade union - . [More…]
My question which is addressed to either the Attorney-General or the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service follows on the answer to the question asked by Senator Webster in relation to the trade union organisation. [More…]
I ask: Does the Minister believe that trade unionists should not receive the protection afforded by most modern democratic states in regard- to legitimate acts in pursuance of their registered aims as trade unionists? [More…]
I also ask the Minister: In his opinion should a unionist member of a registered organisation be liable for action under the civil law and also for penalties provided in. [More…]
Should he, in short, be subject to 2 penalties for legitimate activity as a trade unionist? [More…]
We on this side of the chamber and the members who occupy the Opposition benches in the other place know only too well that the only device that the Government has for explaining the situation is to blame the wicked trade unions. [More…]
On every hand, whether in reference to inflation, spiralling prices, unemployment or any other ill from which the economy is suffering, we hear the cry from the Government, in a monotonous repetition, that these things have been caused by the wicked trade unions through their persuasion for increased wages. [More…]
If the trade unions are not being blamed it is suggested that high wage increases are the cause. [More…]
it is time, too, for the trade union movement to play its part by recognising the need for a moratorium on wage increases and restraint or even opposition to excessive wage rises as a matter of its policy. [More…]
I did not thinkI would ever live to see the day when a responsible Minister of the Crown in the national Parliament would make such a ludicrous statement as to appeal to the trade union movement to throw overboard one of its main objectives, that is, to seek wage increases for the workers that the unions represent. [More…]
To support what I say I propose to quote the remarks of an accepted authority, Mr Victor Feather, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, who did research and carried out a survey on this subject. [More…]
The acknowledgment of credit union savings is something for which we have barracked here. [More…]
The unions have to be told not to make extravagant wage claims. [More…]
Its actions have been centred largely against the trade unions and workers. [More…]
In doing that it has not vindicated its stand of previous years because it has gone against its activities over all those years when it has charged that the trade union movement and the workers have been making extravagant claims and that their role in the community has produced wage-induced inflation. [More…]
The Government attacks the trade union movement even though it has changed the law of the Land. [More…]
On 2 occasions this Government has introduced extraordinary laws against unions, not only against the traditional unions such as the metal workers and the railway workers but also against its own public servants. [More…]
It was a thrust, a tryout for legislation against the union. [More…]
The Act was amended following repeated petitions by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and many other Ministers who attacked the unions for their wage claims. [More…]
The Government, to defend its position, has tried to relate union activity on every occasion to communists or militants. [More…]
As an ex-member of the Whips’ union, J think I should take my part of the blame in this. [More…]
The trade union movement in Great Britain has conducted a concerted and sustained campaign to resist the British Parliament’s Industrial Relations Act since it was passed early last year. [More…]
There has been a notable advance in the position of trade union law as a result of that case. [More…]
Of course it is now proposed by the Labor Party that trade unions should have complete immunity from penalties for all offences within the arbitration system too. [More…]
It is a demented distortion of section 147 to suggest that its retention in the legislation represents an acceptance by the Liberal-Country Party Government of the claim by the Labor Party for ultraprivilege on the part of the trade unions. [More…]
1 ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the fact that a motor vehicle apparently owned by a union in Victoria was involved in an accident which resulted in the death of a 79-year-old woman? [More…]
Under the demands of the Labor Party that unionists be exempted from civil offences while on strike, could such damage as that aforementioned be exempted from liability for civil action were there a circumstance in which such a vehicle had been driven by a striking unionist? [More…]
The incident was associated with the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia in Melbourne. [More…]
The motor car was registered in the name of the union but it was not proved to be driven by anybody authorised by the union. [More…]
The verdict was that the death of the woman was due to something analagous to culpable negligence or manslaughter but no verdict implicating the union or any unionist was involved. [More…]
I think that such a case illustrates the gravity of the claim by the ALP which seeks to enthrone organisations and unionists as having complete immunity from civil law for anything done during an industrial dispute. [More…]
Can he tell me whether it has ever been suggested, in the long years during which there has been this traditional immunity of trade unions and their officers from action for conspiracy and so on arising out of an industrial dispute, that this would stop a person bringing an action where injury was caused by a motor vehicle accident? [More…]
Will the Minister further tell us: Is there no limit to the efforts by this Government to traduce the trade union movement in this country, which has a legitimate place under law, just because it thinks it can obtain some advantage from this in the few weeks preceding a general election? [More…]
Far from there being no limit to the effort of the Liberal Government to traduce the trade union movement, the position is that the Liberal Government will spare no effort to guide the trade union movement to a province of law and order and consequent prosperity. [More…]
The great body of trade unionists will be persuaded ere long to adopt that choice rather than be led by the Mundeys and Carmichaels into chaos and distress. [More…]
It is particularly unfortunate that the Australian Labor Party allies itself with the Mundeys and Carmichaels and not the great body of purposeful trade unionists. [More…]
This was followed not by legislation giving total immunity to trade unions, as the Leader of the Opposition suggests, but by a quasi immunity of a limited nature which had its origin in perhaps one of the most despicable political compromises in this field of law. [More…]
This bedevilled British trade union operations from 1906 until Heath, with the courage of the Conservative Government - still adhered to - passed legislation not fully to redeem the position but partially to correct it in the Industrial Relations Act last year. [More…]
That is the contention that is going on there, and that contention will go on here on the part of any government which has the welfare of the real working trade unionists at heart to combat this unfortunate adoption by the ALP of the Carmichael and Mundey theory whereby every trade union and every trade unionist seeks immunity from the civil courts. [More…]
I cite the cowardly attack on the President of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales, Mr John Ducker; the recent hit and run murder by some person unknown driving in a Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia car in Melbourne; the destruction of partly completed buildings by the Communist Mundey and his Australian Builders Labourers Federation in Sydney; and the placing of a bomb in the office of the Department of Labour and National Service in Perth. [More…]
That would give complete immunity to thuggery within the halls of trade union meetings. [More…]
That doctrine was adopted in the Senate by the Australian Labor Party when it put forward the proposition that no action should lie against any person or trade union which arose in any way out of an industrial dispute. [More…]
Mr Ducker is a distinguished member and, I hope, a continuing member of the Australian Labor Party, who is fighting for the same things for which the Liberal Party is fighting - that is to say, prosperous, democratic and reasonable trade unionism. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a recently reported statement of Mr Jack Mundey, New South Wales Secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, that he and his union are opposed to physical violence in industrial disputes? [More…]
Could the Minister inform the Senate of the background of this gentleman and of the actions of members of his union in using physical violence on building sites in Sydney? [More…]
Has the Minister seen the article on violence In the magazine ‘Left Review’ in which Mt Mundey advocates violence as a major weapon of the trade union movement? [More…]
Presumably, that is his union - . [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
It was unfortunate that members of a plumbers union, with persons allegedly present from the Builders Labourers Federation, were able to conduct themselves in a comparable way at the meeting at which Mr Ducker was injured. [More…]
If immunity is to be given for actions taken by unions and unionists in the course of an industrial dispute, that sort of physical assault and smashing of property will be allowed to go on without the persons guilty of that conduct being liable to compensate in any way the people whom they injure. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which is the national trade union body and is recognised as such by this Government with which it sits on the National Labour Advisory Council, has condemned violence in industrial disputes? [More…]
Is he aware that its policy binds not only the members of the Australian Council of Trade Unions but also the State trades and labour councils? [More…]
When the Minister is discoursing on these subjects will he give due regard to the policies of the national trade union movement and indicate that it does not encourage such acts? [More…]
I echo what Senator Wright has said - that there is a body of responsible trade unionism in this country which abhors all of these activities and that the inability of that body of responsible trade unionism to express itself within either the trade union movement as a whole or the Australian Labor Party is one of the regrettable features of what has developed. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions recently declared itself against violence, but it did so in a way that I suggest is quite meaningless. [More…]
I say that because I assume that any requirement of unions to expel from their ranks persons who are guilty of violence means that they would have to be convicted in the courts of that violence before the unions would expel them. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has the power, if it wants to use it, simply to say that any union in which these activities of violence occur shall forthwith cease to be a member of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
But the Australian Council of Trade Unions has not taken any step like that. [More…]
I suggest that he talk with officials of the Australian Workers Union, the Clothing and Allied Trades Union and the Australian Textile Workers Union who are very seriously concerned about rising unemployment in their industries as a result of increased imports. [More…]
I have noted that in recent public statements Labor Party and union spokesmen have sought to justify claims for a 35-hour working week on the grounds that it would increase job opportunities, and give more leisure to the work force as a whole. [More…]
Neither the Provincial Federation of Workers in Commerce (the Italian trade union concerned), the Provincial Labour Office, nor the Italian Foreign Office has sought a conference with the Embassy on the matter. [More…]
What happens in the Soviet Union or in China ought not to be held up as an example. [More…]
I can recall many prosecutions in the Arbitration Court against the trade union movement. [More…]
Quite obviously one of the things it could mean is that if someone were charged with a traffic offence, with driving under the influence or driving negligently and knocking someone down, or even if there were a civil action arising out of a motor vehicle accident which might have occurred in the vicinity of the events referred to in the amendment, all those things could be covered in the same sort of way as the Labor Party would protect ils friends and supporters by putting the unions above the law. [More…]
In relation to putting unions above the law, I find it necessary to dwell for a moment on the similarity between the type of approach adopted there of saying that in relation to any civil or criminal action which might arise out of something connected with an industrial dispute - for instance, someone driving his car past the Building Workers Union celebrations in Sydney- [More…]
I know that the honourable senator may have some difficulty in understanding the relevance, but I shall continue to make the point that I made a moment ago, that there is a similarity of approach between putting unions above the law and putting some of the people whom the Labor Party not only encouraged but probably instigated into actions which have led them into the sort of trouble in which they eventually found themselves. [More…]
There is a clear similarity because the sort of action that is taken is designed to put union members above the law and to take away the rights of other people in relation to what happens during an industrial dispute - in other words, to encourage lawlessness without any sort of responsibility. [More…]
If a union secretary decides to take action in the streets of Sydney to stir up an industrial dispute and someone is injured or a car is damaged and overturned in the riot that takes place, according to the Labor Party no action could be taken. [More…]
I ask: Is it a fact that there have been incidents in recent months in the Painters and Dockers Union in Victoria involving murder, attempted murder, violence and unexplained disappearances of union members? [More…]
I think we are all aware that there have been a number of alarming incidents involving members of the Painters and Dockers Union and that there is a lot of speculation as to the reasons for these incidents; Unfortunately there, as in other areas, without community co-operation and people willing to provide information it is difficult to apprehend the persons who may be charged with the commission of these offences. [More…]
Of course a number of crimes have been committed in connection with members of the Painters and Dockers Union and the police have not been able to find who was responsible. [More…]
We know that certain statements have been made by the Prime Minister and the President of Yugoslavia and a lot of inflammatory inaccurate statements, it would appear, have been made by certain of the Press m Yugoslavia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Of course, what resulted from such an illmatched union was continual trouble and problems. [More…]
I am assured, on very strong authority, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is particularly interested in what may happen in Yugoslavia because it always has resented the independent action taken by President Tito. [More…]
I am assured that overtures have been made by agents of the Soviet Union to the Croatian people in certain places. [More…]
That Party has been assured of Soviet help and the Soviet Union at the present time is endeavouring to involve itself in the possibilities which will arise after the death of Marshall Tito. [More…]
Mention has been made of the Ships’ Painters and Dockers Union in Victoria. [More…]
We have seen photographs in the Victorian Press of the homes of some members of the Ship Painters and Dockers Union which today are protected like fortresses. [More…]
We have been told that a prominent member of the union has disappeared. [More…]
The Police have expressed the opinion that he is either dead, and his body disposed of, or that he has been compelled to go into hiding because, it is said, he took part in the union elections. [More…]
The (Ship Painters and Dockers Union used to be affiliated with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
When I was an official of the Australian Labor Party and a union got into grave trouble, we sacked it from the Party. [More…]
When Joe Chandler of the Building Workers Industrial Union sent a donation to the Party’s election funds, we sent it back. [More…]
I would be interested to know what action the Victorian ALP has taken in regard to this union where a reign of terror exists. [More…]
Members of the union have been murdered and others have been shot, and the police say that they believe that further attempts will be made upon the lives of these people. [More…]
I wonder what the trade union movement has done about it? [More…]
In the United States of America and in Great Britain the trade union movement on occasion has taken the firmest action possible to clean up this kind of thing in a trade union. [More…]
I am still waiting to hear what action will be taken in the Australian trade union movement where a reign of terror has been going on for the past 3 years in the union I have mentioned. [More…]
There is violence in some sections of the trade union movement’. [More…]
Tito has been moving closer and closer towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
I stand for the fullest possible investigation of all acts of violence wherever they may be committed, whether in trade union affairs or in the ranks of the painters and dockers, a matter I raised this morning, because it is equally, if not more, reprehensible, when closely looked at. [More…]
I heard the leaders of the Liberal Party on platforms throughout the country say to the people of Australia that inside the trade union movement of Australia there is Communist subversion, Communist intimi dation and Communist violence and that unless we do something about it we will suffer damage and violence in this country. [More…]
The fact is that for 20 years in Australia the amount of violence, intimidation and terror inside the trade union movement caused by communism and caused by the Left is of a magnitude [More…]
Senator Milliner is now saying that Mr John Ducker is wrong because he has said that there is Communist intimidation and violence and that it is threatening to destroy the trade union movement. [More…]
Many people would argue that there is extremism on the Left in terms of violence within the union movement in Australia. [More…]
The primary drive is the drive by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, through its agents and through its influence, to achieve as the next leader of Yugoslavia a leader who will make Yugoslavia a total captive of Russia - a captive of the Iron Curtain. [More…]
Apparently to the Australian Labor Party there is nothing wrong with that because it is being done by the Soviet Union. [More…]
I remember that on one occasion when Senator Gorton, as he then was, was the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Foreign Affairs he drew a very good distinction between the territorial expansions of the super communist powers, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and those of Romania and Yugoslavia, which he put in a different category. [More…]
We certainly do not underwrite the internal structure of any country, whether it is Portugal and Spain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. [More…]
Should the Government tell these people to go stew in their own juice or should it make representations to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about the incident involving an official of the Builders Labourers Union. [More…]
Also, I am reminded of the acts of violence, intimidation and terrorism practised by the Builders Workers’ Industrial Union in New South Wales and the attacks upon trade union officials, acts of violence and terrorism and the attemps to intimidate them. [More…]
However, if the police have problems, because of a lack of cooperation among other members of the union, in finding those responsible for shooting and murdering trade unionists it is logical to assume that they will have great problems in the matter before us because of a lack of co-operation. [More…]
I do not want to score any cheap debating points tonight, and in order that there may be no red herrings drawn across the trail, let me say here and now that I abhor what is happening in the Painters and Dockers Union, and I acknowledge that even the trade union movement should do something about it. [More…]
I disapprove of the violence that is practised by the builders labourers union on some occasions and I also disapprove of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. [More…]
I said quite clearly at the start of my statement tonight that I do not approve of what has happened in the Painters and Dockers Union, that I did not approve of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and that I did not approve of the Stalin purges. [More…]
“How does the honourable senator know anything about what is happening in the Painters and Dockers Union except what he has read in the newspapers? [More…]
In view of the accusations that the Attorney-General was talking self-deluding nonsense by comparing infrequent union violence with the murderous activities of extremist Croatian nationals - [More…]
He was asked whether the trade union movement was interested or encouraging this strike. [More…]
In the main the newspaper article concerned has referred to something about the Labor Government in South Australia, to the trade union movement or to people who have some difference of opinion with the Commonwealth Government over the National Service Act. [More…]
When Senator Young comes into this chamber and mentions things that take place in the Australian Labor Party or the trade union movement with which we are affiliated - we are proud to be affiliated with it - he does so to draw a red herring across the situation which exists in his own Party. [More…]
He has been so concerned about these problems and what is taking place that he is now resorting to some of the tactics that the Federal Government has used on many occasions in relation to ballots within the trade union movement. [More…]
The Federal Government has maintained, through the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), that all ballots within the trade union movement ought to be court controlled or conducted by the State electoral office. [More…]
Of course, the criticism that is always coming from the Government side is that malpractices take place only in the Labor Party or in the trade union movement. [More…]
So it ill-behoves honourable senators opposite to stand up in this place and level imputations against the integrity of the Labor Parly and the trade union movement. [More…]
If we are to allege that certain people are causing violence, we must look equally at the fact that there is a strong allegation of violence by communists in the trade union movement. [More…]
We have seen those sorts of things in the Shortland electorate, in the trade union defence committee in Victoria and in the outright expulsions from the Victorian Labor Party of people who were never given any opportunity to defend themselves and who, notwithstanding the muchvaunted reforms in that organisation, have still not been readmitted to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
As a member of the Australian Labor Party, an executive member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, was denied the right which his membership of the organisation gave him. [More…]
Student union fees are collected by universities from all students. [More…]
These fees include student union fees and are paid direct to the universities on behalf of each student who holds a Commonwealth University Scholarship. [More…]
Student union fees are then made available through the normal administrative processes of the universities to student associations. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics would, doubtless, seek to exploit such a situation for its own ends. [More…]
Leaders of the Croatian extremist organisations have said that they would be prepared to receive aid from any source, including the Soviet Union, for the liberation of Croatia. [More…]
If their requests were accepted the Soviet Union could exploit the present dissident movement against the interests of the West. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that the statement by the Vice-President of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia was quite appropriate when he said, in commenting on Mr Hawke’s desire to enter the transport field: ‘We get a letter from the ACTU Executive saying: “Cop this, fellows, it is good for you” ‘? [More…]
Credit unions are playing an increasingly important part in helping young people to obtain their own homes. [More…]
For this reason the conditions relating to the approval of credit unions for the purposes of the Act will be eased. [More…]
A credit union needs to be approved so that savings with it by its members can become acceptable savings under the Act. [More…]
The present conditions for approval of a credit union require that not less than 20 per cent of its annual lending is, and continues to be, in housing loans at a rate of interest not exceeding a prescribed rate; IS per cent of its annual lending must be in housing loans of at least $5,000 for a minimum period of 12 years, and it must lend not less than $50,000 in housing loans annually. [More…]
The Bill provides that only one of these requirements will remain* Provided a credit union can show that not less than 20 per cent of the total amount lent to its members in its most recently completed financial year has been in the form of housing loans, and provided it undertakes to maintain this proportion in each subsequent financial year, it will be able to become approved for purposes of the Homes Savings Grants Act. [More…]
The principal Act will continue to provide that approval of a credit union is deemed to have taken effect on and from the first day of the credit union’s financial year in respect of which the approval is granted. [More…]
Savings held with an approved credit union by members who have contracted to buy or build their homes, or commenced to build them as ownerbuilders, on or after the date from which approval is deemed to have effect, will then be acceptable for the purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Savings held by credit union members at savings dates during the 2 financial years immediately before the financial year for which the approval is granted will also be acceptable. [More…]
The conditions relating to the maximum value of a home and the maximum grant have been extended to apply also to credit unions. [More…]
The conditions for approval of credit unions are acceptable, as are other things contained in the Bill. [More…]
The savings held in an approved credit union by members who have contracted to buy or build a home will be acceptable for the purpose of the homes savings grant. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware that employees of the South Australian Egg Board were issued with an ultimatum by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union to join that organisation or it would, virtually within the hour, ban the South Australian stores from accepting any egg pulp from the Egg Board? [More…]
As this volume of egg pulp represents a big proportion of production which, if disrupted, could adversely affect poultry producers generally in South Australia, will the Minister say what steps can be taken to protect poultry farmers in South Australia from such militant action by a trade union? [More…]
1 do not know how many men from the South Australian Egg Board the union seeks to involve. [More…]
This sort of action by this union does not do anything to help the cause of the egg industry. [More…]
I ask the appropriate Minister: Are any steps being taken in discussions with New Zealand to extend the present New Zealand-Australia Free Trade Agreement to the development of a customs union, which would result in a common external tariff policy for both dominions? [More…]
Therefore I think the prospect of a customs union was thought to be unlikely in the beginning. [More…]
In evaluating and responding to the present turmoil amongst the minority of the Croatian community is the Minister motivated in the first instance by the attitude of the Department of Foreign Affairs that the fragmentation of Yugoslavia can only further the foreign policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or, conversely, does he lean to the other view expressed in a statement at the week-end by some honourable senators, that the creation of an independent state of Croatia would be a good thing? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether his attention has been drawn to an article in the ‘National Times’ of Sunday, 25th September, which itemises a series of incidents of murder, attempted murder and serious violence on the Melbourne waterfront allegedly involving members of the Painters and Dockers Union. [More…]
Unquestionably what would be useful would be, for example, an indication by those who have power and influence within the Australian trade union movement that membership of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is dependent upon the executives of unions ensuring that conduct of this sort that can be shown to have a real union basis, as the article suggests, will not be tolerated and that if it does continue the organisation concerned will not continue to be a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Were proposals for the stabilising of the rolling stock manufacturing industry presented to the Minister by a metal trade’s union delegation some six weeks ago; if so, in the light of the impending dismissals at Tulloch Ltd, when will the Minister respond to the proposals. [More…]
In March 1972 I met with a deputation of union representatives concerned with the current position in the railway rolling stock manufacturing industry in New South Wales. [More…]
The position outlined by the union representatives was subsequently considered sympathetically. [More…]
In view of the serious growth of violence and terrorism in all nations throughout the world, and in order that the Australian public should be fully informed on all aspects of this grave problem, will the Federal Government consider the early establishment of a major study group on the subject bringing together representatives of all levels of government, law enforcement, civil and military defence authorities, academics and representatives of industry, commerce and the trade union movement? [More…]
The National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia has indicated his union’s extreme concern at the proposal to construct the pipeline with imported materials because the union is heavily involved in the steel and associated industries. [More…]
Mr Short, the National Secretary, said that his union had hundreds of unemployed members in the Newcastle, Wollongong and Melbourne areas and some of those unem ployed could be absorbed if the pipes were built in Australia, or even if half of them were built in Australia. [More…]
The Amalgamated Engineering Union, which is now part of Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, earlier made approaches to the companies involved in the matter, including the Australian Gas Light Co., and apparently reached understandings that its position would not be prejudiced. [More…]
I know that officials of the Australian Textile Workers Union and of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia are very concerned about the large number of importations coming to Australia that are competing with products produced and manufactured in this country. [More…]
But listening to does not mean complete acceptance, and Mr Short is in the position of being the leader of one union amongst others. [More…]
What I want to point out is that it is inescapable that the whole policy of Labor has been developed to point up its purpose - that if it were to attain government it would be a government dominated by unions for the purpose of unions. [More…]
We must realise that the BHP vessel ‘Iron Somersby’ was immobilised for ever 4 months at Port Kembla after its maiden voyage because of bans imposed by the maritime unions. [More…]
When we consider these facts we can put into perspective the attitude of the trade unions in regard to this matter of the manufacture of steel pipes. [More…]
It needs to be understood that, if we are going to have a prosperous trade union movement and if we are going to maintain employment with sound operating companies, we must have a policy on the part of the trade unions which will ensure a continuity of work on a responsible basis. [More…]
I am sure that the Senate would agree that it is the responsibility of responsible union officials to fight for the rights of their members in any given industry. [More…]
It has been signed, subject to ratification, by the Argentine, Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom. [More…]
It relates to a question which I recently directed to the Minister on the subject of the imposition of an education tax ransom on Jewish academics and professionals seeking to leave the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to go to Israel. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government been drawn to the strengthening opposition to nuclear tests not only by Pacific countries but also by people within Australia including members of the trade union movement and others? [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service whether his attention has been drawn to a reported statement by a vice president of the Aus.ralian Union of Students advising its members to apply for unemployment benefit if they cannot obtain work during the Christmas vacation. [More…]
This church is based at the Australian Workers Union hall, Denham Street, Townsville. [More…]
He tells his followers to reject modern methods of medicine, and where antibiotics have been prescribed for very ill people they are told to throw the drugs away and to drink only the olive oil which is blessed by him in his church in the Australian Workers Union hall. [More…]
Recently, respected trade union leaders have told me that on jobs where there have been industrial problems he has had a tendency to get one of his messengers to go on to the jobs and provoke the people belonging to their race to continue working. [More…]
Further, should any honourable senator be interested to check with officials of the Timber Workers Union he will find that they have commended it. [More…]
Newspaper reports at that time indicated that Edward H. O’Brien Pty Ltd, supported by the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union, disputed the correctness of the Post Office’s decision to award the new contract to Directories (Aust.) [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware that the Federal Council of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union has expressed concern at the sale of synthetic meat in Australia and is anxious to secure the cooperation of all concerned parties on a federal level to formulate a policy to combat the spread in sale of this commodity? [More…]
Will the Government consider calling a representative conference of the industry, including representation from the Meat Industry Employees Union, for the purpose of producing a plan to meet the possibility of the manufacture of simulated meat in Australia? [More…]
In Victoria alone, the Australian Leather Goods and Allied Industries Section of the Miscellaneous Workers Union has lost nearly one-third of its membership in the past 5 years. [More…]
I suggest, with respect, that the industry is so clear in what it thinks should be done - the clear view which is held by the industrialists is shared by the trade union representatives - that it would be comparatively easy for the Committee to establish a sub-committee, which it is entitled to do, to hear the industry representatives and to report rapidly to the Government on what action ought to be taken. [More…]
Senator Murphy referred to possible loss of employment by members of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia which covers the industry that concerns the honourable senator in this matter. [More…]
This matter is entirely one for discussion between the employers and the appropriate union. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Postmaster-General’s Department decided that only Mr Lane was to answer the allegations made by Mr Baker of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists over excess STD charges? [More…]
I refer, for example, to the recent agreement reached by Japan with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on petroleum products. [More…]
Steps can be taken also on a trade union level to spread more evenly the employment opportunities that exist. [More…]
I refer to the fact that in some unions there is a very definite principle - indeed, they exert pressure under their own rules to enforce it - that no-one should have more than one job. [More…]
The trade union movement would be in a very powerful position to spread employment more evenly if it adopted a total ban on the 2-job practice that exists in the community today. [More…]
I refer to recent agreements that have been reached between the new giant trade union organisation set up in the metal trades industry and the employers. [More…]
It is unquestionable that price fixing is relevant to this issue because, if the reason why the Australian Gas Light Co. has awarded the contract to a competing Japanese company and one of the factors that have priced the Australian industry out of being able successfully to compete is wage agreements which the employers are voluntarily entering into with the union representatives in the industry, we. [More…]
They are matters that are beyond the competence of a trade union to decide, however well managed and well run it may be. [More…]
They are matters beyond the competence of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
in the allocation of this contract, it comes into conflict with the trade union movement, because neither body has been fully informed of the total consequences of its allocation. [More…]
Business leaders and trade union officials are united in their concern about a national approach to this problem. [More…]
At question time this morning the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) decried worker participation and the role of the trade unions in matters of political concern. [More…]
It was pleasing to hear Senator Little draw attention to the fact that the trade unions, whose members’ livelihoods are affected by the inability of the Government to play any meaningful role in the matter of the pipeline, have had to move themselves into somewhat of a vanguard position. [More…]
Men of such eminence in the trade union movement as Mr Short of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, Mr Garland, one of the joint secretaries of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Mr Bevin, the federal secretary of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia which has now amalgamated with other unions and formed the Amalgamated Metal Works Union have been active in drawing the attention of the Government to the grave consequences of its failure to recognise, failure to prepare and failure to plan for the needs of Australian industry in this matter of providing component parts for this very important new industry. [More…]
A great deal of concern has been expressed by the industry itself and by the trade union movement because such a contact is proposed and because of the failure of the Government through its respective departments to assist in establishing proper procedures in relation to this matter. [More…]
I have never run from a dispute, whether it be in the trade union movement or in the education field. [More…]
It may sound strange coming from me with my trade union background, but although 1 have always believed in seniority for the purpose of protecting people when it came to dismissals, nevertheless we may reach a stage when some of the younger people in the Aboriginal community will have to be given positions of responsibility because some Aborigines in the older age groups will be too cautious or timid and may not have the drive to meet a situation which the younger ones could manage. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that even as late as the current issue of the journal of the Australian Workers Union concern has been expressed at the lack of liaison by the Mines Department of New South Wales to combat the dangers from asbestos mines. [More…]
I have not finished because 1 suppose that the greatest implication of the link between the Communist Party and the Labor Party, if one wanted to establish it in this same guilt by association method which Senator James McClelland used, is to point to the Labor Party’s support for communist aggression in Vietnam - the support for the North Vietnamese Government which is backed by Communist China and by the Soviet Union - and to the attitude which would favour victory in South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese against the South Vietnamese, the Loatians, the Cambodians, the Americans and all our allies to our north who have engaged with us in supporting the right of self determination of the South Vietnamese. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that an official of the Australian Workers Union has advised me that in outlying areas around Gunnedah application forms for unemployment and sickness benefits have been called in from and are no longer available at post offices serving the districts and unemployed workers have to travel to Gunnedah in an endeavour to obtain relief work there or for the purpose of registering for unemployment. [More…]
Earlier in my remarks I referred to the fact that I was privileged to be a member of the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Rome in September. [More…]
Senator Wilkinson is a Western Australian and no doubt he has received representations from the Farmers Union in that State. [More…]
Therefore, I turn to the submission of the Farmers Union in Western Australia in which it put proposals before the Government, the Minister for Primary Industry, members of this chamber and members of another place. [More…]
The submission of the Farmers Union, under the heading ‘Acquisition’ proposes that it be compulsory for all wool leaving a property to come, under the jurisdiction of the wool authority. [More…]
The honourable senator and I well know the views of the Farmers Union on this matter. [More…]
I point out to the Senate that I believe that the honourable senator favours the Farmers Union submission on this matter- [More…]
There will be members of various unions - the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia and the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, to name just 2. [More…]
He knows as well as I do that if members of the Transport Workers Union of Australia working for the Australian Wool Corporation were not getting the award rate the Corporation would have a strike on its hands very quickly. [More…]
If the Transport Workers Union of Australia were the applicant organisation bound by the award and if the Corporation were the respondent to the award, members of the Transport Workers Union would be paid the award rate. [More…]
Where men are employed to push the bales of wool around the store or something of that nature and they come under the Federated Storemen and Packers Union award they, of course, will be paid the award rates for that appropriate work. [More…]
If there is handling of trucks around the store and the employees come under the Transport Workers Union award, they will be paid the appropriate award rate for that work. [More…]
2216 on the notice paper regarding the amount of money paid by the Commonwealth for the conduct of litigation involving the amalgamation of unions to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
He was the leader of the Australian delegation to the conference of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property held in Lisbon in 1958. [More…]
As I said to Senator Wilkinson last night, the Farmers Union of Western Australia Incorporated is suggesting that wool be acquired at the shed door on each producers’ property. [More…]
There was a trade commission in Australia from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics some few weeks ago and the suggestion was made in one newspaper at the time that it may well be that the people of eastern Russia will be looking to Australian commodities such as canned and other fruit to be imported into Russia via Vladivostock. [More…]
1 quote from the newsletter of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
The union refers to areas where it thinks there is inefficiency. [More…]
The union says that on any day of the week in Sydney between 8.45 a.m. and 10 a.m. private contractor employees can be seen disposing of piles of first class mail, sometimes registered articles and parcels, on footpaths and it is left unattended. [More…]
I do not know, but the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists circulated all members in relation to the inefficiency of private mail operators. [More…]
Somebody could lodge a nomination in a trade union ballot and there could be some delay in delivery. [More…]
I do not think there is any need to recapitulate what I have said because it is obvious that the document put out by the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists makes a lot of very serious allegations. [More…]
I am a rugby union supporter. [More…]
Let me make a comparison between rugby league and rugby union. [More…]
Rugby union receives a good coverage on television. [More…]
Rugby union is played in a limited way in comparison to rugby league in New South Wales and Queensland. [More…]
Nevertheless, on an attendance basis rugby league is far more popular than rugby union. [More…]
I make the point also that rugby league is of intense interest to those who follow rugby union. [More…]
Those who enjoy rugby union also enjoy rugby league. [More…]
I am fortified in my remarks to a large degree by discussions I have had with a very dedicated trade union officer in the person of Des Rochfort, t, the Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
We should know what the decibel reading is, as should members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
1 understand that sometime this year the Federal Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union signed an agreement dealing with job operations at the Sydney mail exchange. [More…]
Somewhere along the line the federal officers of the Union made an agreement. [More…]
I do not identify either the State or federal officers of the Union in this instance. [More…]
If one of the factors concerning job satisfaction in the Post Office is the constant industrial turmoil to which a few militant union officials in the Post Office have subjected the Post Office and Australia in recent years, the obvious explanation and answer is available to the honourable senator if he is prepared to recognise it. [More…]
I am concerned that the Minister should get up and make an irresponsible accusation against the unions without an iota of foundation for the statement. [More…]
I can tell him of a number of employees who have resigned from the Department for other reasons, and I can assure him that the trade union movement will check on why employees have left the Department. [More…]
After all, trade union turmoil is only one of the reasons. [More…]
Everyone had finished with the estimates when Senator Greenwood’s pet hatred against the trade union movement appeared. [More…]
In effect it was an accusation that a public department cannot carry on its normal function in the normal way because of the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
This is a serious charge against a body of trade unionists in this country. [More…]
I should think that the Minister would have an abundance of information to back up his allegation against the trade union movement before he would make it. [More…]
Some 2 or 3 weeks ago a representative of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia raised with the Secretary of the Joint House Department and myself the question of the hours of duty worked by the attendant staff of that Department and pointed out that they worked 40 hours a week both in the session and the recess before overtime was payable, while attendants on the staffs of the Senate and the House of Representatives worked 42 hours a week in session and 321/2 hours a week in recess before overtime was payable. [More…]
The representative of the Miscellaneous Workers Union was informed that the question that he had raised would receive consideration and that an examination of the hours of duty of these attendants and other related groups is, in fact, currently in progress. [More…]
But the fact that those who have been appointed as conciliation and arbitration commissioners, as announced in the Press today, are connected with industrial affairs and are associated with either certain trade unions or employers organisations creates some suspicion whether the most suitable of the applicants were appointed. [More…]
But I am querying whether some of the applicants had higher qualifications than some who were appointed, or whether the nature of a trade union or an industry with which their industrial activities were associated debarred them from appointment in favour of someone from a union or an industry which was more acceptable to the Government. [More…]
Until recently he was an official of the Queensland Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
At the time of his appointment he was a clerk with the Australian Workers Union in Queensland. [More…]
I have watched these appointments over the years and it has interested me that as far as I know none of the many friends and supporters of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the trade union movement has ever obtained an appointment to one of these positions. [More…]
It was said that Mr Brown was just a clerk in the office of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Mr Brown had been secretary of the Federated Clerks Union in Queensland. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe says that this man, who has been secretary of the Federated Clerks Union in a most important State, is ineligible to be appointed as a commissioner because he does not like his political views. [More…]
If he had the trade union experience and was a man of integrity, why should I have objected because he was a member of the ALP? [More…]
If honourable senators opposite think that Mr Brown is not qualified because of his trade union experience or if they do not think that he has sufficient experience in industrial affairs they are entitled to stand and attack him. [More…]
Then I listened to somebody else who wanted to say what a good thing Rugby Union was and 1 put up with it. [More…]
But we have now reached the stage where a man who has been the secretary of a big union and who now occupies an important position in another big union has received the nomination for a job and members of the Opposition get up and say: We are against it, not because he does not have the experience, not because he is not qualified and not because he is a member of the DLP, but because we suspect that he is sympathetic to the DLP’. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe said, among other things - this made me prick up my ears, and later I shall explain why - that Mr Brown was a senior official of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and that he had resigned, in fact had resigned from several jobs, because of ill health. [More…]
I do not argue about what Sena tor McManus said; Mr Brown may have been a good colt with the Federated Clerk., Union. [More…]
But apparently at a certain point of time, perhaps because of modern stresses, he was not capable of carrying out his duties and he took a lesser job as a clerk with the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
In the broad spectrum 1 think we are entitled to say that if there are 6 appointments of conciliation commissioners the trade union movement as a whole is entitled to at least 3 of them. [More…]
Secondly, irrespective of whether people within the trade union spectrum give allegiance to the Communist Party or the Democratic Labor Party - I do not say this offensively, but they are a splinter segment of the trade union movement - as far as I am concerned and I am sure as far as Senator McAuliffe and his colleagues in Queenstend are concerned, they should be entitled to appointment provided they are physically fit to the job. [More…]
Because of my trade union activities, at some future time I may have to appear before these 2 individuals. [More…]
The noise comes from a man who is not able now to represent any trade union because the trade unions rejected him years ago. [More…]
But Senator Wright must remember that there are many on this side of the chamber who are Still active in the trade union movement. [More…]
The tests that could be applied to those seeking appointment to the positions include trade union experience, ability to negotiate, and experience in the settlement of diputes. [More…]
They were succesful and it appears - I do not know whether for the first time - that it was because of their political associations and because of their attitudes in their unions. [More…]
I am a member of 2 properly qualified unions which pay their dues to the Victorian trade union movement. [More…]
These unions do not belong to that , section which gets support from members of the Labor Party in this chamber - a section comprising unions which are virtually scabs in the Victorian trade union movement because they are unfinancial and have been for more than 5 years. [More…]
I am grateful that this conservative Government has seen fit to appoint members of the trade union movement to these high positions, just as previous appointees have come from the trade union movement. [More…]
He was a great trade unionist and a great conciliation commissioner. [More…]
But he has not been the only appointment from the trade union movement. [More…]
Bob Saker, who was secretary of the Clerks Union, one of the great trade unions in Victoria. [More…]
Mr Saker was appointed by a Liberal Government as a representative of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is the Liberal Government which has had reason to complain about his decisions, not the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is proud, as the Democratic Labor Party is proud, of having supplied to the Wages Board a very distinguished Aus tralian. [More…]
He served the Federated Clerks Union well. [More…]
I believe that Mr Saker was appointed wholly and solely on his very excellent record in the trade union movement and because at that time not only the Liberal State Government but also people in the working class movement had confidence in his ability to carry out the duties of that position in the manner in which he has carried them out for more than 10 years. [More…]
He has carried out his duties in the best traditions of the trade union and labour movements of this country. [More…]
I deprecate that paltry minded members of this Parliament grizzle about men being elevated from the trade union movement to some of the highest positions in the land. [More…]
The Government has appointed to the arbitration tribunals men from the trade union movement. [More…]
It ill behoves anybody in the trade union movement to deprecate such appointments. [More…]
Prior to his appointment I had some association with the late Commissioner in relation to a number of troubles in the Transport Workers Union arising out of the political circumstances at the time of the split in the Labor Party. [More…]
He became a trade union official at the age of 19 and he has held full time positions in the trade unions for 19 years. [More…]
He was the first full-time secretary of a trade union in Papua New [More…]
He formed the first trade union in Papua New Guinea for private employees. [More…]
He was secretary of the Clerks Union in Queensland from 1965 until 1972. [More…]
It has been said that he was only a clerk in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
He became an official of the Transport Workers Union and later the Federal Secretary of that union. [More…]
When he was appointed a conciliation commissioner I know what Albert Monk - and I think you would take him as a good judge of character - thought of his qualifications for appointment, and I know that even people like Jim Donnegan, who is a communist and Secretary of the Ships’ Painters and Dockers Union, paid a tribute to him one of the greatest commissioners who had ever been appointed. [More…]
I did not dispute what that man had done as a member of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia because I do not know Queensland trade union politics intimately, but I did say that, as Senator McAuliffe contended, if a man finds that a job is getting too hard - and this does not militate against past performances - or he feels he cannot measure up to it and he wants a nice quiet niche, which the term ‘industrial officer’ covers in many unions, that is all right. [More…]
I think that we are entitled to know whether, when this gentleman left the Federated Clerks Union, he felt that he was fit to take this job. [More…]
The trade union movement and the ALP in Queensland accept that there has been an excessive number of disputes at Gladstone. [More…]
I have no objection to that because this is what the trade union movement sought but how can a State claim that it is broke when it increases the salaries of its parliamentarians by 10 per cent, not by legislation but by order in council, when it can introduce into its Budget the functions of the industrial court and when, also, it can announce that it will build a new parliament house within the next 5 years at a cost of about $17m? [More…]
I am informed that the honourable senator’s question refers to a stoppage of work on 11th October last at the Ampol refinery in Queensland by members of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It was introduced by the then Treasurer but later, after representations from the trade unions, it was withdrawn. [More…]
So it was not until 1971 that we had a code which represented much of the thinking of the union movement. [More…]
When I refer to the union movement I mean not only the ACTU but also all of those Public Service organisations which had made representations to the Government. [More…]
Indeed, some of the unions which are affiliated wilh the Australian Democratic Labor Party have kept us reasonably informed of the requirements of the trade union movement in these areas. [More…]
It may benefit the work of the ACTU and the trade union movement in general if those who are interested in ACTU activity acquaint the controllers of the ACTU of the fact that for legislation to pass the Senate they would be wise to keep all parties and independent honourable senators who sit in this chamber fully informed on their requirements. [More…]
I also ask the Minister to accept that last time when legislation on this measure was before us it was promised - probably vaguely but nevertheless promised - that matters raised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and trade unions themselves would be considered in the next amendments to the Act. [More…]
I do say that before there are any further projected amendments to the legislation, irrespective of what government is in office, there should be more consultation between the unions, the employers and the government which is responsible for the measure. [More…]
I believe that the amendments reflect the wishes of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the vast majority of unions, particularly the views of the Federated Clerks Union which the Australian Democratic Labor Party says is affiliated with its organisation. [More…]
I have been very interested to note also that there has been a measure of support from the Australian Union of Students which has pointed out that colleges of advanced education should be more oriented towards vocational practical teaching and more towards industrial and social needs. [More…]
I was saying that the Bill does not in any way affect the conciliation between unions and employer organisations within or outside the arbitration system. [More…]
We are against collusive practices between powerful employer and union groups in key sectors of industry, at the expense of increased prices passed on to the rest of the community. [More…]
The evil that the Bill seeks to remedy is that of collusive practices between major employer groups and unions in key industries such as the metal trades industry and the waterfront industry, at the expense of the general public. [More…]
In the stevedoring industry, the oil industry and the metal trades industry, to take a few key Australian examples, the union leadership periodically announces its intention of demanding large, concessions in wages and conditions: and that is natural. [More…]
It is the union’s business to threaten to stop the plan unless the grants are forthcoming. [More…]
Both the union leadership and the employers understand the situation very well. [More…]
The union leadership, particularly if it is left wing, talks loudly about price control but in fact condones these disgraceful fix-ups and then boasts proudly of gains from industrial militancy. [More…]
The chief victims of the cynical fix-ups between monopoly unions and employers are thus the poorest and most defenceless elements in the community. [More…]
Settlers who were formerly resident in Algeria are included in the category, ‘Africa - Other’ which includes all African countries except the Union of South Africa, the Arab Republic of Egypt and Commonwealth countries in Africa. [More…]
That in view of the developing practice in the industrial trade union movement of using industrial trade union organisations to force political decisions upon governments by threats of strike action or by strike action it is becoming imperative that the Government immediately legislate to outlaw this type of industrial blackmail. [More…]
I think it may be said that it was the result of his strength which enabled the present detente between the United States of America and the Soviet Union to come about. [More…]
I believe in freedom and in preference to trade unionists. [More…]
I believe that those, who enjoy the benefits gained by trade unions have an obligation to subscribe to those trade unions. [More…]
Anyone who has an objection to joining a trade union can go out into primary industry, which for the most part is not covered by industrial awards, and work without any opposition from me. [More…]
In the period leading up to the recent election and even as late as today, the general theme of Opposition speakers in relation to industrial relations has been that trade union demands are excessive and that people like my colleague, Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
In an endeavour to get to the facts of the matter I made inquiries via the Australian Workers Union, through both the Federal Secretary, Mr Mitchell, and the union’s State offices in Western Australia. [More…]
AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ UNION [More…]
This type of practice is not uncommon because earlier this year we had dealings with another Company on behalf of 8 Yugoslavian people which took this Union 9 months to resolve. [More…]
the union movement but it will also have regard to the general economic factors. [More…]
1 note Senator Cavanagh’s interjection, lt is somewhat inconsistent with his statement only yesterday that he did not favour compulsory unionism. [More…]
Compulsory unionism is being forced on the Public Service by coercion because if a person does not join a union he will be entitled to only 3 weeks leave. [More…]
members of a union are entitled to 4 weeks leave and others are not entitled to 4 weeks leave, how will they react against their political masters who impose this decision upon them? [More…]
But at the present time what we have is a policy which applies only, to members of unions. [More…]
In the first place, as I said, it applies only to members of unions. [More…]
To say that a person shall receive 4 weeks leave only if he is a member of a union is to deny to a person an essential freedom. [More…]
He is well aware that the result of that determination and the Public Service Board’s interpretation of it is that only members of unions on 1st January this year will be entitled to 4 weeks leave. [More…]
If the honourable senator is to get up during this debate and say that ali Commonwealth public servants, irrespective of whether they are members of a union, will be entitled to 4 weeks annual leave, I will welcome that and we will reconsider our position in the light of that statement. [More…]
But if he is not prepared to do that I say only that the reason why this .public service determination limits this benefit to members of unions has its origin and is basically dependent upon these determinations which the Senate is being asked to disapprove. [More…]
We know that at the last election a number of unions committed very substantial funds to support the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I am sure that many members of those unions were not members of. [More…]
Why should a person be compelled against his will to pay union dues which he knows will be applied to support a political party with which he may not be in agreement? [More…]
He should not be- coerced m the area of working conditions on the basis that he will get favourable conditions if he joins a union but he will get unfavourable conditions if he does not. [More…]
Australian Labor Party if an employer were to say that those who do not belong to a union will get 4 weeks leave but those who do belong to a union will get only 3 weeks leave? [More…]
If a person does not want to be led by the nose by some union executive on a particular day to engage in stopwork action or in strike action, he should be free to make that decision and to avoid being a member of an organisation, because he knows that the penalties upon him if he breaks a union dictum are so much stronger if he is a member of a union organisation. [More…]
Of course, it is not as clear-cut as that because the way in which the Public Service Board has regarded itself as being legally bound tq interpret the Public Service Arbitrator’s determination, is to limit this 4 weeks annual leave, at least for 1973, to those persons who were members of a union prior to 1st January. [More…]
So the new dispensation is not available to those who wished to join a union after 1st January. [More…]
Labor Party how they can justify a provision whereby people who were members of a union before 1st January can get 4 weeks annual leave but persons who joined after 1st January will not be entitled to 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
because of their positions, ought not to be compelled to join unions. [More…]
If such people had a conscientious objection they would not be required to belong to a union and they would be entitled to 4 weeks leave. [More…]
Then again, it is said by Mr Clyde Cameron and the Prime Minister that they will assume - I presume that the Public Service Board is to assume - that a person is a member of an organisation until a union secretary reports to the Public Service Board to the contrary. [More…]
I can say only that the ALP standards in this area have dropped enormously, ff it is to have a system under which a person’s entitlement to certain work benefits depends upon what someone says about him - -unexaminable, not capable of appeal and simply resting in the hands of some union secretary - what we will ultimately have is the determination of all working conditions on the basis of whether or not a person gels on the right side of some union secretary. [More…]
He has frequently in the Senate chamber talked on arbitration matters or on union matters and has produced what he called today the testament of the Australian Labor Party’. [More…]
He oan read from that document our policy on the preference to unionists. [More…]
There are some who have grave doubts about that because we have found him to be a most anti-union minded senator. [More…]
I am quite sure that Senator Greenwood would be the first to acknowledge the position that he took up in connection with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Bill the drafting of which was his responsibility; On that occasion he gave great support to giving the free-booters the right to go to court even though they had not paid union fees. [More…]
In fact, the honourable senator is advocating the same sort of principle today, namely, that people who do not pay towards a union organisation should receive the benefits or that organisation. [More…]
What he has been saying in this context is this: ‘Nobody should be forced to join a union. [More…]
Preference should not be given to unionists and there should be rights, for non-unionists’. [More…]
But he and his government, provided for 23 years the vehicle of conscription to unionism in many industries. [More…]
Under that agreement a man has the right to work in the industry only if he is a member of the Waterside Workers Union. [More…]
Of course, he also knows that since 1947 a Commonwealth Public Service determination has existed for Commonwealth’ railwaymen which provides that only members of the union shall . [More…]
He knows also of numerous determinations for the Public Service which provided preference to unionists, which means exactly what it states - that a member of a union is given preference. [More…]
In which awards made by the Conciliation, and Arbitration Commission is provision made for preference of employment to the applicant or respondent union. [More…]
awards ‘which, although not making specific prevision within them for preference, nevertheless contain provision for a system of engagement which operates to give preference of employment to union members; [More…]
Electrical Trades Union, of Australia (Container [More…]
Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia C.S.R. [More…]
Miscellaneous Workers Union Chemicals and Plastics (Building Materials, etc. [More…]
Miscellaneous Workers Union - Selleys Chemical Co. Federal Chemical Award 1970. [More…]
- Awards containing a clause under the heading “Preference- which, although not truly preference clauses, provide that there shall be no discrimination against workers of the relevant union or prospective members of such union. [More…]
It has a mandate to grant 4 weeks leave, and its policy is to give preference to unionists. [More…]
Later I shall mention some of the things Senator Gair said when the Senate discussed the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as it affected closed shops and the big unions. [More…]
The organised union movement put a case for 4 weeks leave both to the Labor Party when in Opposition and to the previous government. [More…]
That money was the unions members’ money. [More…]
The great national organisations for labour which were involved in this included the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations and the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and many other organisations whose members worked in the Commonwealth Public Service and elsewhere. [More…]
Those who comprised those unions and organisations paid for these submissions. [More…]
We believe in preference to unionists, not compulsory unionism. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard for the information of honourable senators the history of the policy of the Labor Party on compulsory unionism and preference to unionists from 1928 to 1969. [More…]
1 point out that for only a very short period, in 1942, was compulsory unionism part of Australian Labor Party policy. [More…]
As I have said, Senator Greenwood is one who would know exactly what has been canvassed in the area of compulsory unionism, because he was involved in many discussions on the latest amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitratioin Act. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that in those discussions the principles of the then government were being examined as to whether some action might be taken to prevent compulsory unionism and to stop the principle of closed shops. [More…]
The then government adopted that policy, and my information is that Senator Greenwood was involved in the discussions during whicih the then government affirmed the principle that free hooters or non-unionists should be allowed to take their cases :o the courts; that there should be no pressure by unions to force people to join the unions; that there should be no pressure in regard lo the closed shop policy, and that neither right wing nor left wing unions should be allowed to encompass large numbers of people. [More…]
But it re-thought the policy when it received representations from the Democratic Labor Party and from Mr John Maynes, a well known official of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Although the then government said that it would do all those things - that it would stop the strong unions - my information is that it commissioned a minute from its own Department of Labour and National Service, asking the Department how such legislation would affect right wing unions. [More…]
Whilst a small percentage, but sizable number iti people claim an objection to joining a union, a big majority f these are concerned purely with having lo pay for (he benefit they enjoy instead of remaining as free loaders. [More…]
In practice, what is really in issue today is not the right to refuse lo join a union but the effective right to join. [More…]
The major growth areas of employment and union potential is in the white collar field. [More…]
There is substantial evidence available relating to overseas as well as Australia to demonstrate the determination of employers - particularly those in the multi-national corporation area - to ensure that their white collar employees do not join unions. [More…]
It is the knowledge of the opportunity, for victimisation of those who join or advocate joining of unions in the white collar sphere which prevents large numbers from being the first to join. [More…]
Provided no safeguards against Communist union officials strengthening their position through amalgamation of unions and threatened to weaken the position of Right-wing unions through the proposed ban on compulsory unionism. [More…]
Let me refer now to the Shop Assistants Union. [More…]
Since all these events took place, honourable senators know that the Shop Assistants Union, which in this document is calculated to be a right wing union, has since become widely organised and has established closed shops in many areas of Australia. [More…]
The government of the day would have taken action against that union but because it proposed such action, of course, it received the brunt of the attack from the DLP. [More…]
I do not think there is anybody on the other side of the chamber who has been so trenchant and who has taken a greater initiative in attacking the union movement. [More…]
Senator Greenwood does not recognise the authority of the national union group. [More…]
After all, the union movement, which is a part of the arbitration machinery in Australia, is essential. [More…]
The union movement consists of the people who have promoted, fought for and tried to gain the standard of 4 weeks leave. [More…]
Of course a Labor government would do what we are doing now - giving 4 weeks leave to those who are entitled to it on the basis of preference of trade unionists. [More…]
The Labor Party - the Government - has decided to award 4 weeks leave on the basis of preference to unionists. [More…]
That is the pattern which keeps the union movement together. [More…]
I ask Senator Gair, when he speaks and votes on this matter, to consider the objections that he, Senator Kane and Mr John Maynes took to the original proposals of the previous Government when it decided late in 1971 to impose all the strictures on the union movement which would have stopped the right wing unions as well as the left wing unions. [More…]
It would have stopped what has now been accomplished by the shop assistants in having company unions and by the ironworkers in having closed shops. [More…]
They wanted a system applied, as did the unions in the automobile industry or in the Public Service. [More…]
When they were in Government they also said: ‘We don’t believe in compulsory unionism’, but they allowed the waterside workers, and many others, to have compulsory unionism. [More…]
They allowed their Minister for Shipping and Transport to operate under the terms of the 1947 Commonwealth Railways determination which provided benefits in respect of leave only to employees who were members of a union. [More…]
I he in because the members of the Democratic Labor Party, with their potential political strength, said: ‘You cannot do that to our friends in the union movement”, and they did not do it. [More…]
They accepted industrial unionism as it existed throughout the various sectors pf industry. [More…]
In my earlier years I was engaged in the railways industry, and as far back as 1947 preference was given to unionists. [More…]
If anybody was going to be put off from the job because of redundancy, the first man to go off was the non-unionist. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe knows that from his experience in the railways union. [More…]
The Labor Parly always has been a party which has taken strong notice of the national union bodies. [More…]
I would expect that while we are in Government we will do more than was done by the Liberal governments in talking with those national bodies in order lo reconcile differences between unions, the Government and employers. [More…]
For example, the figures relating to time lost through industrial disputes in South Australia show that the State has one of the finest records in the world, lt has that record because it is working clasely with the central trade union body, the Trades and Labour Council, as it ought to do in order to resolve disputes. [More…]
Nobody should seek to prevent union members from getting 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
Employers are organised; the unions are organised. [More…]
Until I had heard the cass put by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) and the interjections of his supporters I had believed that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) virtually was in favour of the idea contained in Senator Greenwood’s proposition; that is that no restriction should be placed on an individual’s receiving the benefits of the promises made by the Prims Minister in his election campaign because of an ancillary matter relating to membership of trade unions. [More…]
However, I have been forced by the interjections I have heard here today to accept that many supporters of the present Government believe that the Prime Minister’s statement means that he believes that everybody should be considered to be a unionist for the purpose of the decision reflected in the Public Service determination. [More…]
Indeed, they have indicated that they are prepared to fight tooth and nail to support the minor qualification to the important consideration of 4 weeks annual leave, the minor qualification being membership of a trade union. [More…]
I heard a member of the Government Party suggest by interjection that trade union officials are completely above criticism. [More…]
I heard the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), when Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, suggest that legislation should be introduced to protect trade union officials from the normal application of the law in respect of their misdemeanours during industrial disputes. [More…]
I am not prepared to concede that, and I do not think that many Australians would be prepared to concede it or to accept the idea that because somebody has become a trade union official he has become a very special type of person who can in no way offend and who is absolutely everything that is noble. [More…]
I remind my fellow unionists of many cases in which trade union officials have shown that they are quite ordinary and normal human beings. [More…]
I, too, was a trade union official. [More…]
There have often been cases of trade union officials who were so low as to go through with the funds of a union. [More…]
It might not have been generally known but it was known to those of us who were in the unions and worked in the unions that as a class trade union officials were amongst- the lowest paid people in the community having regard to the responsibilities they had to accept and the abilities they had to develop. [More…]
It was not surprising that some of them were forced at times by the pressure of almost dire poverty to go through with the union funds. [More…]
It is suggested by interjection that I ought not to be a dobber, but the honourable senator wants every trade union official to be a dobber by going to the Public ServiceBoard and saying: ‘Joe Blow is not a member of a union and therefore is not eligible for 4 weeks annual leave’. [More…]
He suggests that a trade union official is an exception;!- person in the community who can be entrusted with particular power over the people with whom he associates. [More…]
But he would place these people in the position where they could become pimps on workers who are not members of unions and thus gain some retaliatory advantage for what they considered to bc offences in private behaviour. [More…]
Mr President, I am amazed at the reaction to a statement of fact that trade union officials are just normal human beings who are subject to all the limitations, temptations and weaknesses of ordinary people, irrespective of whether they are members of the Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Labor Party or any other organisation. [More…]
Government supporters would create that situation, not merely by deciding for or against 4 weeks annual leave but by the qualification that on a specific date a person had to be a member of a trade union. [More…]
I have read through the list of applications for receipt of the benefit to be applied to members of unions. [More…]
I have noticed that some unions did not apply until after 1st January last. [More…]
Those unions had therefore not involved themselves in the expenditure of their money in working for this particular benefit, but members of those unions would bc recipients of the benefit. [More…]
However, a fellow who joined a union on 2nd January would not be a recipient of the benefit, ls that fair and just? [More…]
I well recall one of my experiences as a trade union official. [More…]
Will the decision be impeded in its fullest application by union officials snooping on membership and membership rights? [More…]
Will union officials be completely honest and play no favours and go to the Public Service Board and nominate every person who was not a member of the union on 1st January? [More…]
There are 83 determinations involved and perhaps the union officials concerned hold varying points of view. [More…]
Will other union officials rush along and inform on everyone or will some members be informed on not because they have not been members of the union but because they have not toed the line on every particular question in accordance with the wishes of the union? [More…]
I heard Senator Cavanagh’s argument that he did not favour compulsory unionism but that he favoured preference to unionists. [More…]
Some of them made me ashamed to think that I was a unionist. [More…]
A unionist should not support the type of things that were done to some people in the name of a union. [More…]
The people concerned were not non-unionists; they were members of a union and they refused to pay a political levy. [More…]
Surely, if you do not believe in compulsory unionism you do not believe in compulsory union political levies. [More…]
That was done to them by union officials in the name of unionism. [More…]
They suffered violence and everything else because, as good unionists, they had the courage to stand up for their rights. [More…]
Trade unions are not superior to religious bodies or anything else. [More…]
I do not believe that trade union officials are competent to be charged with the responsibility with which the Government wants to charge them of being pimps who will tell the Public Service Board about the eligibility of members, by virtue of union membership, to obtain the benefits which the Government, Senator Greenwood, my colleagues and I now agree should be made available to those members of the Public Service who, in accordance with the promises made by the Prime Minister, are in that employment. [More…]
I open my remarks by saying that I think history is being made in this chamber today, because in my 6 years experience of (be Senate on each occasion on which we have debated the trade union movement’s rote we have been fighting a rearguard action tohold what the unions have. [More…]
There has been legislation which envisaged the shackling of waterside workers and there has been legislation which inferred that the trade unions could not operate effectively. [More…]
I can assure him, as my ministerial colleague Senator Bishop did and as other honourable senators on this side will, that a lot of legislation will be introduced, and we have no inhibitions about redressing the imbalances and impositions that have been placed on the trade union movement. [More…]
My remarks on this subject are relevant to the motion because in another place one of the senior Opposition leaders has been asking whether there will be trade union representation on boards and commissions. [More…]
Of course there will be trade union representation,I digress for a moment. [More…]
I have been looking at the composition of one or two immigration bodies.I find that the ratio is 5 employer representatives to 2 trade union movement representatives. [More…]
I would not mind - I do not think the trade unions would mind - if some of these John Hampdens who talk about independence and freedom booked themselves off for 3 days, did a little research and testified. [More…]
They could be co-partners in the gaining of trade union improvements, but they do not do it that way. [More…]
Trade unionism is costing much more. [More…]
Today any union worth its name which is not amalgamated with another union has to acquire a research officer and all the attendant facilities. [More…]
Trade unionism could be strangled by some people talking about freedom and arguing whether it is a pacesetter for industrial gains. [More…]
1 do not know- whether Senator Greenwood has read too much of ‘Animal Farm’ and George Orwell or whether he has had an overdose of Peter Sellers portraying a shop steward, but anybody who has moved in trade union circles knows that any shop steward or higher official who thinks he can talk in terms of ‘my union’ instead of ‘our union’ is in for a rude awakening. [More…]
Nobody could question his loyalty as a trade unionist. [More…]
If he did not, I am sure he argued it at union meetings. [More…]
Is there any union shop steward or official in the building industry at the moment who has not been threatened by outside goon squads? [More…]
None of the unions which ‘ are beneficiaries under the determinations could be accused of imposing levies for donations to political parties, as was mentioned in. [More…]
We talk about -political patronage and trade unionism. [More…]
Various organisations outside the trade union movement apply particular tactics in relation to the obtaining of and feeding in of donations to political parties.- That does not apply to the trade unions mentioned - in. [More…]
Employees of these unions are the beneficiaries. [More…]
These trade unions are constantly before the Public Service Arbitrator.. Forgetting this particular dispute, in the hard and cold world in which we five one of these maverick members of a Public Service association may have suffered an injury when going to or from work. [More…]
He would be pleased to get union protection. [More…]
Many honourable senators know people who have been chronically unfinancial members of trade unions. [More…]
Somebody, I think it was Senator Little, complained and asked why the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) did not apply an instant interpretation and say: ‘Well, if you were not in a union before election day you will not receive anything.’ [More…]
I am not unmindful of trade union faults. [More…]
We can look at the history o[ the trade union movement, There have been occasions when there has been an eruption in a union and an additional organisation has been formed, I do not agree when the new organisation has obviously been employer aided. [More…]
If someone joins a union in recent times to obtain an additional week’s leave he has nol done too badly out of it. [More…]
Of course, people can drift in and out of trade unions. [More…]
Conversely, in regard to the trade union itself, the members will agitate for the officials to be on the job. [More…]
He takes the point and his main complaint is that some unions have such a tight, closed shop membership that they more or less keep the membership to a small group. [More…]
The Senate will notice that I am picking out a union which is more or less under moderate control. [More…]
I know of certain ballots in that association where the voting for positions was so close that one section of the union has Been transferred. [More…]
I say this because it can well be that some honourable senators may be a bit irate because some senior officers in unions associated with the Commonwealth Public Service may have’ been critical of the previous Government. [More…]
We believe in trade union independence in this way. [More…]
Some of the leaders of those unions were just as critical of [he present Minister for Labour. [More…]
I suppose that if we were vindictive we could have said that those people were not as unfettered in their support of us as other sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
We do not deny that trade- union costs are increasing. [More…]
It is hard to get people to stand for trade union office. [More…]
I think that everyone wants a healthy trade union movement to maintain the democratic fabric of this country. [More…]
Trade unions have to get results. [More…]
The trade union movement can stand up with any other section of the community. [More…]
We all know that no matter what section of the trade union movement is involved and no matter who the officials are if there is a national crisis we run hot foot to the trade union movement. [More…]
We are not interested in the personnel of the trade unions. [More…]
Let us look at the reports of the British Trade Union Council. [More…]
After the Attlee Government went out there were times when trade union rights were broken down. [More…]
If a trade union or any other organisation cannut deliver the goods by agitation and by advocacy in front of a tribunal, of course its membership diminishes. [More…]
But the most serious’, practical aspect is the first-class, and now public, row that is being carried on between the Minister for Labour, Mr Clyde Cameron, and the Public Service’ Board as to what members of a union or what unions or organisations are to benefit from the decision. [More…]
The decision applies simply to those who were members of organisations or unions on the day of the determination. [More…]
Attempts are being made by the Minister to extend it to people who have joined unions since a particular date. [More…]
Give preference to union members, I should say. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Works, relates to the statement that it is the intention of the Government that preference in allotting contracts shall be given to firms which adopt satisfactory attitudes in regard to conditions and relations with the trade unions. [More…]
Will firms be required, when submitting tenders, to support their tenders with evidence of their relationship with the trade unions, or does the Government propose to seek information in each case from union officials? [More…]
There never was a statement made by me that preference would be given to firms which employed trade unionists or which had good relations with trade unions. [More…]
One was the relationship of certain builders or contractors - tenderers - with trade unions; whether they employed union labour; whether they employed their ratio of apprentices, and whether they employed a day work system or a contract system. [More…]
Unless the tenders of firms which have a notoriously bad union record are very much lower than are others, and unless there are other considerations, those firms will have very little chance of getting a Department of Works contract while I am Minister. [More…]
In his directive, did the Minister direct the Director-General of Works that in allocating contracts consideration shall be given to the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement? [More…]
What does the Minister consider to be indicative of a relationship with a union that he would favour? [More…]
Is it contribution to its funds, ready acceptance of union demands, or active support of the trade union movement? [More…]
Is the Minister displacing the Director-General so that he can translate the feeling of the union movement into the awarding of contracts for his favourites? [More…]
In the course of his tenure of that office Senator Greenwood displayed an aversion to trade unions generally and to trade union officials in particular. [More…]
To say that a person shall receive 4 weeks leave only if he is a member of a union is to deny to a person an essential freedom. [More…]
Since 1955 he has consistently opposed worthwhile reforms which were suggested by the then Opposition, which is now the Government, and which would have enabled the trade union movement to breathe more freely and to obtain improved physical conditions of employment and improved standards of living for its members. [More…]
He had the temerity, in my view, to lambast, in one of the crudest speeches I have heard in this chamber, trade union secretaries and officers of trade unions. [More…]
He was an erstwhile Labor man and a former officer of a trade union, but I have not heard him once attack the profession of the gentleman who moved the motion which the honourable senator supported so strongly. [More…]
I do not think it is unreasonable to say that any decent person - I use that term deliberately - would object to paying for a service and a benefit which a union obtains. [More…]
That is the basis of all good Australian and all good trade union principles. [More…]
All that is granted with one qualification: Public servants receive it only if they join a union. [More…]
The Party platform aims, as a precedent, at bringing into Australia the most obnoxious, un-Australian and anti-trade union principle. [More…]
Let those people who believe, as I do, that there are moral reasons for people who gain the benefits of trade unionism to join unions - I was in such a position and belonged proudly and voluntarily to a union - admit that they cannot hope to achieve their ends by legislating for morality. [More…]
The principle that such people espouse is that in order to receive the benefits of trade unions people should be forced to join those organisations. [More…]
This thing called ‘preference to unionists’ is a backdoor method of compulsory unionism because the end is the same. [More…]
The effect is to be this: In Australia on the trade union and industrial level there are henceforth to be 2 kinds of citizens. [More…]
He will be the good person who receives a good conduct badge because, forced or voluntarily, he has joined a union. [More…]
Then we will have the deprived, under-privileged citizen class 2 who has failed because that citizen has elected not to join a union. [More…]
I can fully sympathise with those decent trade union leaders who want more people in their unions, who want more money for their unions and who, as one Government Minister said, need it because unionism is becoming more costly. [More…]
I can sympathise with union officials. [More…]
Let us reflect and remember this: Of all the men and women in Australia who are eligible to join a trade union, despite the abilities of the trade unions to bring their facilities to the attention of these people, approximately half of them at this moment have elected not to join. [More…]
Are we to say that we will stand by and, by blackmail and industrial conscription, take that one-half of the eligible people and force them into a trade union? [More…]
Perhaps it is not the fault of these people that they have not joined unions. [More…]
Look, trade union official, at yourself. [More…]
What are you doing wrong that you cannot attract people to the union?’. [More…]
Last year, the Australian Labor Party was successful in a move which is now becoming the trade union numbers game. [More…]
It has pledged the whole of its weight to obtain amalgamations in trade unions. [More…]
As in the case of its caucus, the ALP is to use the numbers game in trade unionism. [More…]
Because they will do that the trade union leaders are out to gain more and more numbers in more and more trade unions, amalgamating unions left and right. [More…]
This drive is making the ordinary worker in the community a puppet in the game of the trade union official and ALP and Communist Party politics. [More…]
The unionist himself is merely a pawn. [More…]
Firstly, there is a thrust on the trade unions particularly to get numbers up in those unions which by political levy give money to the Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Party gets its funds by putting pressure on the trade unions to increase their numbers. [More…]
Then it says to commerce and industry: ‘Let us get this straight: By the most intangible terms which we will not define but which the Minister will know by virtue of his responsibility, unless you are on side with the unions and unless the shop stewards tell Senator Cavanagh, “This is a good shop; it played ball in all ways”, you do not get a contract’. [More…]
There are 2 different kinds of rates - one for those who belong to the employers union which we recognise and the scabs’. [More…]
I sympathise with many honourable senators opposite who - and let me pay a tribute to them - in their day have been fine trade union officials and who understand the great difficulties involved in running great institutions and trade unions. [More…]
Why is it right if it thinks there is a moral obligation on someone to join a union? [More…]
I use Senator Murphy’s words - the words of one of your leaders: ‘You cannot legislate for morality in unions or in anything else. [More…]
This is the claim of the Clerks Union to get the representation that the waterside workers have. [More…]
On the waterfront waterside workers, tally clerks, foreman, watchmen and others are required to be members of their respective unions and in point of fact, without those provisions the waterfront could not work despite the high degree of permanency now introduced among watersiders. [More…]
In practice, what is really in issue today is not the right to refuse to join a union but the effective right to join. [More…]
The major growth area of employment and union potential is in the white collar field. [More…]
There is substantial evidence available relating to overseas as well as Australia to demonstrate the determination of employers, particularly those in the multi-national corporation area, to ensure that their white collar employees do not join unions. [More…]
It is the knowledge of the opportunity for victimisation of those who join or advocate joining unions in the white collar sphere which prevents large numbers from being the first to join. [More…]
It is not a case of compulsion to join a union. [More…]
It is a case of the right of workers to join a union without being subject to victimisation. [More…]
The purpose of the Cabinet decision in this case is to see that the people who have advocated and agitated for increased annual leave and have applied to join a union receive the benefit of the Arbitration Commission’s award. [More…]
There should be no compulsion to force that benefit on to those people who do not want it and who indicated that they do not want it by refusing to participate in the activities of a union. [More…]
He cannot inflict something on people who are not members of a union that makes an application to him. [More…]
His determination is limited to those people who made, the application through their trade unions. [More…]
On this occasion, because of the Labor Party’s policy, no such regulation will be issued and therefore the additional week’s leave will be restricted to members of the applicant unions only. [More…]
It is not of much concern if the Democratic Labor Party and the Liberal Party do not want to help the right wing of the trade union movement. [More…]
That is all right; we will give it to everyone but at least we can say that we tried on behalf of affiliated unions. [More…]
That raises the question I asked earlier tonight as to the extent to which the Opposition is prepared to go to block the efforts of the Government to give freedom to workers to join unions, including those unions which do not support the Australian Labor Patty. [More…]
The Government is offering to those persons who are afraid of being victimised the opportunity of joining a union. [More…]
The accusation is that my intention is to give preference, in the letting of contracts, to those organisations which support compulsory unionism in their establishments. [More…]
I have had a lifetime association with the building industry and with the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have been strong in their condemnation of the continual stoppages of work - I think all of us are desirous of avoiding those stoppages - because of the employment of non-union labour. [More…]
The Northern Territory branch of the Electrical Trades Union has issued an ultimatum that its members shall refuse to work with nonunionists on any undertaking and shall refuse to supply electrical connections to buildings on which non-unionists have been employed. [More…]
I made an appeal to Mr Dolan, the federal secretary of the union. [More…]
1 asked him whether he could get members of the union in the Territory to lift the ban, saying that in the week’s recess I would go to the Territory to straighten out the position. [More…]
No-one is doing more than 1 am to get trade union recognition in areas in which it is difficult to get it. [More…]
1 believe that at present some shops and a motel do not have electricity connected because of the action of the union in Darwin. [More…]
If it is a question of trying to get an amicable relationship between the trade union movement and the employers in industry, I am prepared to assist in every way that I can. [More…]
I have stated that nothing in the enforcement of trade unionism in industry would lead to anything like the graft which it was suggested by interjection tonight I might get from builders or that builders, by their method of operation in Australia, are getting from the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Parliament should not be debating continually whether unions are good or bad. [More…]
Unions are part of the Australian industrial system, the same as marketing boards are part of the Australian trading scene, and they have to be accepted. [More…]
As I said in my opening remarks, those unions which do not support the Australian Labor Party are appealing to it for some assistance. [More…]
The Young Liberals f South Australia and the Liberal Movement in South Australia, which is possibly the biggest section of the Liberal Party, support co-operation with trade unions. [More…]
Destroy the determinations, take away the right to organise the right wing unions and condemn the left wing unions if you want to. [More…]
We make no apologies for our attempt to assist those unions which find it difficult to get trade union membership today. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government benches are simply bemusing themselves when they say honourable senators on this side of the House would do anything to destroy or render inefficient the cause of trade unionism. [More…]
Trade unionism has grown during this century into a real contributor to our community life. [More…]
In private employment trade unionism grew against great difficulty and great hostility but in public employment we have the extraordinary picture tonight where a Labor Government in office, the creature in its own self of the trade union movement - the trade union movement is its heart and soul and the mainspring of its life - pits its reputation and pits its credit for impartial and equitable administration because it wants to promote trade unionism, it says, in the Public Service, that is to say, in the employment services of this Government. [More…]
if the Government has goodwill towards the employees of its own service, one may be excused for querying what altruistic motive drives the Whitlam Government to increase the number of union members in that service. [More…]
We thought - God forgive us - that even under a conservative government the Public Service Board would be so mindful of sympathetic treatment of the Public Service that surely there would be no urgent need for rampant unionism against the government of the day in order to establish equitable treatment amongst individual public servants. [More…]
But no - bless your heart - Senator Bishop sits there, benign and complacent, representing a government which is so intent upon promoting unionism in the Public Service - a unionism to advocate the cause of the underdog, to see that public servants will get justice against the repressive demands of Senator Bishop and his colleagues - that we need to have preference for unionism m the Public Service. [More…]
Yes, I heard johnny.comelately’s statement but if the honourable senator would give me a little time I too could deliver a lecture on the history of trade unionism. [More…]
But tonight I am just making a few contemporary comments on the asininity of the grounds on which the Government, represented by Senator Bishop and Senator Cavanagh, puts its case that there is need for rampant unionism and preference to unionists in the Public Service as a matter of equity and fair conditions. [More…]
They want a few more members’ fees so that in the pool of public service union revenues there will be a greater scum or cream to come off into the political kitty for the next election. [More…]
Just as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union could afford a $25,000 cheque to promote the idea that on 2nd December it was time, it is hoped that the public service union wheat fields will be spread wide, that the Labor Party will garner the corn and the public servants will be left with the husks. [More…]
That indicates the extent of the genuineness of the paranoic plea we heard from the Minister for Works who said that in this proposition the Government was insisting on the freedom of unionists to join a union. [More…]
It is just that degree of perversion of truth that stalked through Germany in the 1930s, restricting the unionist and compelling him to become a member of a union. [More…]
1 would think that when we recall that the Prime Minister conducted the general election campaign with duplicity, taking into account this arbitration coupled with his electoral speeches, we should highlight the Senate’s performance of a most useful role to ensure not only that unionists in the Public Service receive the benefit of the extra week’s annual leave but also that those public servants who, for their own reasons refuse to join a union, should also receive it. [More…]
The benefits will then flow, not merely to trade union members of the Public Service, but to all members of the Public Service. [More…]
That is in accordance with tradition and in line with the Public Service Act and removes a new anomaly which it is almost impossible to imagine creeping into our system except for the fact that it is Government policy, not part of an arbitral determination, that suggests that we innovate in this way - by preference to trade unionists in our Public Service. [More…]
In other words it is envisaged that an application by a claimant union to the Arbitrator should be confined to members of that union. [More…]
In other words, there is jurisdiction in the Arbitrator to do just what is complained of in this case, that is, to give benefits limited to members of the union. [More…]
In other words, the Arbitrator may, if he so decides, make an award or a determination which is not limited to the members of the claimant union. [More…]
The fact that section 14 is there underlines the fact that the Arbitrator has jurisdiction unless this discretion is invoked to give benefits which are specifically limited to members of the claimant union. [More…]
In the first place the policy of the Act is that a claimant union may approach the Public Service Arbitrator for benefits confined to members of that union. [More…]
The primary policy of the Act is that the claimant union may make a claim for its members alone. [More…]
Then comes section 14, then the regulation which complements section 12 by saying that in one case the Arbitrator may extend the benefits to other than union members. [More…]
In another case the Board itself may extend the benefits of the determination to other than union members. [More…]
But those provisions merely underline the fact that it was envisaged in the Act itself that benefits could be confined to members of a claimant union alone. [More…]
I do not know, but in any event these people, who are so outraged that an Arbitrator could do this allegedly totally novel thing of conferring benefits only upon a claimant union’s members, have had an opportunity since 1920 to take this section out of the Act. [More…]
I want to come now to this question of whether what we have in the case of the present determinations is in fact preference to unionists or is compulsory unionism. [More…]
It was in the matter of an application for a writ of prohibition against Holmes, a member of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, ex parte Altona Petro-chemical Co. Ltd and others. [More…]
One of the arguments that was put on behalf of the company which was resisting this application was just the point that the Opposition has attempted to make in this debate, that in other words the requests for preference were so wide in their scope and ambit that they really amounted to an attempt to introduce compulsory unionism by the back door. [More…]
In all of these matters the High Court held that to grant preference to unionists over nonunionists did not amount to compulsory unionism but was preference permitted by the Conciliation and Arbitration Act within the jurisdiction of the Commission and unobjectionable constitutionally. [More…]
Yet we are told by the Opposition that measures which do not compel anybody to join a union but which give preference in leave to unionists amount to compulsory unionism. [More…]
This debate revolves around the granting of 4 weeks annual leave, supposedly to Commonwealth employees who belong to unions. [More…]
They say: ‘All we are saying is that if you do not join a union you will not get the benefit’. [More…]
Mr Hawke said in support of his demands that many companies in Melbourne would be blackballed if they did not support compulsory unionism. [More…]
Mr -Hawke would not enable individuals to work and offending companies would be closed down if their employees did not join a union. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite say that it is not denying a right, that an individual may refuse to take the extra week’s leave if he does not wish to join a union, and that he is completely free. [More…]
Benefits will be granted only to individuals who belong to a union and pay their union fees. [More…]
I believe that the unions provide the basis of the funds for the Labor Party’s political campaigns. [More…]
It wants to force more people to join unions. [More…]
Perhaps the next speaker in this debate can correct me but I am told that union subscriptions include some mandatory payment to the Labor Party. [More…]
I want to refer to one or two of the unions associated with the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
The increase in the consumer price index in the last 10 years has been of the order of 36.4 per cent but the dues payable to this union have increased by 73.3 per cent. [More…]
The fee for another union with a substantial membership is $23.40. [More…]
I hope that this Government will have something to say to that last union I mentioned because in the last 10 years it has increased its fees by 290 per cent. [More…]
On going through this list of unions 1 find that one has a fee of $24. [More…]
I do not doubt that people who wish to join that union feel that they get good service from it. [More…]
It may force them to form a non-union, and what a ridiculous situation that would be. [More…]
In effect the Arbitrator said that there shall be 4 weeks annual leave for workers who are in an appropriate union. [More…]
They say that there should be no compulsion, but I point out that the Arbitrator is not compelling anybody to belong to a union. [More…]
The Arbitrator is leaving the matter entirely to the individual’s discretion as to whether he joins a union. [More…]
The Arbitrator said that if a person wants to have 4 weeks annual leave that person should pay a contribution to the appropriate union but if not, do not join the union. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite know that Sir Kenneth Morris, one of the pillars of the Liberal Party in Queensland, introduced into the State Parliament legislation providing that there shall be compulsory unionism or, in other words, preference to unionists? [More…]
Where it is mutually agreed by the parlies concerned, or considered advisable by the Commission that preference by granted either generally or to any industrial union, such preference shall be granted subject to such conditions as the Commission may, approve. [More…]
If you are not already a member of a registered industrial union you must become a member of such a union by- [More…]
Please advise the above Staff Clerk in writing by that date as to membership, stating the name of the Union concerned for which purpose the attached form may be used. [More…]
Please also enclose the receipt for such Union fees for noting and subsequent return to you. [More…]
The colleagues of honourable senators opposite do not say: ‘If you do not join a union you will not get 4 weeks’ annual leave’. [More…]
They say: If you do not join a union you will be unemployed’. [More…]
If you are not already a member of a registered Industrial Union, you are required to join such a Union within one month. [More…]
They are all required by the colleagues of honourable senators opposite to become members of a union. [More…]
Where it is mutually agreed by the parries concerned or considered advisable by the Commission that preference be granted either generally or to any industrial union, such preference shall be granted subject to such conditions as the Commission may approve. [More…]
In this case - the Printing and Kindred Industries Union of Employees, Queensland Branch . [More…]
then to persons who give to the employer an undertaking in writing to make application to join such Union within 14 days of accepting employment. [More…]
No person who is not a financial member of such Union shall continue or be continued in employment under this Agreement unless he makes application to join the Union within 14 days from the date hereof, or if he commences employment after that dale, then within 14 days from the date of commencing employment. [More…]
No person shall continue or be continued in employment for more than one week after the employer has been notified by the Union that he has ceased to be a financial member of the Union. [More…]
No person shall be deemed to have made application to join the Union unless he has tendered the fee prescribed by the rules of the Union. [More…]
What a travesty of justice that the Commonwealth Government should be criticised, not for compelling a worker to join a union but for telling him: ‘If you elect not to join a union you will not get 4 weeks annual leave’. [More…]
But the Queensland Government the Government supported by the colleagues of honourable senators opposite says: ‘Join a union or else get the sack’. [More…]
Minister for Repatriation, who represents the Minister for Labour in this chamber, deputed last night to reveal the Government’s changed attitude on the 4 weeks leave question and its preparedness to support 4 weeks leave for all public servants regardless of union membership? [More…]
Prior to entering the Federal Parliament he served as an official of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
As has been said by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), Mr Bryson in his younger days was a prominent official of the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
If they are the standards by which Opposition senators are to be known, then I suggest that they have a very careful look at themselves before they say anything at all at any time about a trade union or workers opposing an arbitrator’s decision. [More…]
Not only does it agree to preference for unionists but also - I will read the document to honourable senators - it says that unless a person joins a union he will not have a job. [More…]
If you are not already a member of a registered industrial union you must become a member of such a union- [More…]
Please advise the above Staff Clerk in writing by that date as to membership, staling the name of the Union concerned for which purpose the attached form may be used. [More…]
Please also enclose the receipt for such Union fees for noting and subsequent return to you. [More…]
That is the attitude of honourable senators opposite, yet I know people who belong to the Party whose members sit opposite and who say that because of the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act every worker in Australia should belong to the relevant union. [More…]
As Senator Kane is leaving the chamber, let me remind him that he advocates that anybody who does not belong to a union and works in industry is a bludger and a free wheeler. [More…]
That is, the worker - is to be given a particular job he is directed to join the relevant union. [More…]
I draw honourable senators’ attention to the fact that he said, ‘directed to join the relevant union*. [More…]
Sir Frank Nicklin supported the legislation to provide that a fellow who obtains a job must join the relevant union. [More…]
He and his colleagues say that no worker should be pressured into joining a union. [More…]
The Public Service Arbitrator said: ‘I will give 4 weeks annual leave to those who are members of a union’. [More…]
Last night I referred to legislation introduced into the Queensland Parliament by a Libera) Party member in which it was provided that there must be preference to unionists. [More…]
Let me say however thai the prescription required every worker in Queensland to become a member of the relevant union. [More…]
We find that since that decision many employers in Queensland, not because of duress but because they wanted to negotiate with a decent body of people - a trade union and not free-wheelers or whatever other names people elect to caD them - have written into industrial agreements provisions for preference to unionists. [More…]
This employer in central Queensland said that it agreed there would be preference of employment and that a fellow who works for that newspaper must join the appropriate trade union. [More…]
That newspaper is a signatory to this document which states that preference of employment will be given to unionists and that a worker must join a union if he is to work in that industry. [More…]
A person could not obtain a job in M.t Isa unless he was a member of the appropriate union. [More…]
Again, that agreement contains the prescription for preference of employment for unionists. [More…]
Here is an agreement made by the appropriate union with that grand old bible of the. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have said the worker has a fundamental right to determine whether he will join a union. [More…]
Why then should a person not be compelled to pay a union subscription for the very purpose of improving his wages and conditions? [More…]
Their secretaries will receive shortly a substantial salary increase which will give them a salary of $100 a week; yet Opposition senators argue that they should not pay a miserable 30c or so every week to recompense the union for what it has expended in gaining that improved industrial condition. [More…]
I was for 20 years secretary of a union and the honourable senator asks me to show my card. [More…]
1 would not insult the union by showing the honourable senator my card, lt seems to me, Mr Deputy President, that when one throws a stone into a pack of dogs the mongrels will always bark. [More…]
They hate unions and unionists and hate is the basis of their attitude in this debate. [More…]
For instance, I could speak of a situation in which Senator Little, the great champion of the DLP, did nothing but roast trade unions in his speech the other day. [More…]
He told of all the secretaries who had run away with union money. [More…]
No, Senator Little, I will let the Clerks Union handle you in due course. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber take no issue on the question that people should join unions. [More…]
It is in their interests to join unions. [More…]
They should be members of unions and they should not be discriminated against because they are members of unions. [More…]
We also accept the right of any individual, for whatever reason he may have, not to join a union. [More…]
It is indeed strange to hear from the Labor Party that people should be discriminated against because - and it is in the Labor Party platform - they are not members of unions. [More…]
It is promoting compulsory unionism by stealth or back door methods. [More…]
The other day in reply to a question Senator Cavanagh, the Minister for Works, said that he does not believe in compulsory unionism. [More…]
He said that he believes in voluntary unionism. [More…]
He went on to say that if a person did not wish to belong to a union he could go out and work in the primary industries where there are no unions. [More…]
Quite clearly he meant that as far as he is concerned a person who does not belong to a union has no right to work in the employ ment of his choice. [More…]
The Government will have to state clearly what is meant by conscientious objection to joining a union. [More…]
Public servants and workers in industry may rightly refuse to join a union because of its political affiliation- [More…]
and its overt financial support of a political party, because the union serves no useful purpose, because it is not run democratically- [More…]
If the Labor Party applies that interpretation to military service or to something else then it must apply it to those joining a union. [More…]
I can understand the reason for the disappointment and hatred that Opposition senators express towards the trade union movement. [More…]
They seem to be jealous and angry that the trade union movement wholeheartedly supports physically and financially the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
If ever there was to be a change in the attitude of the trade union movement - I hope that never comes about - and it shifted its allegiance from the Australian Labor Party to the Tories, I wonder what the attitude of honourable senators opposite would be. [More…]
I suppose it would be a different situation entirely if they were in receipt of the physical and financial support that the trade union movement now gives to the great Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Their attitudes would change overnight and we would have them putting on shining armour, mounting a prancing steed and becoming the champions of the trade union movement. [More…]
I believe that honourable senators opposite are jealous of the support that the trade union movement gives and will continue to give to the great Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the chamber are concerned at that decision - I feel that honourable senators opposite should express some concern about it - because the effect of the Public Service Board’s decision would have been to exclude from the extra week’s annual leave benefit union members who joined their union after 1st January 1973. [More…]
So the new dispensation is not available to those who wished to join a union after 1st January,. [More…]
I would like to know from members of the Labor Party how they can justify a provision whereby people .who were members of a union before 1st January can get 4 weeks annual leave but persons who joined after 1st January will not be entitled to 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
The resolve of the Australian Labor Party was that ali employees would be assumed to have been members of the appropriate union at all times unless the Board were otherwise advised by the union. [More…]
For the edification of honourable senators opposite, the 2 unions whose membership increased as a result of the Cabinet decision are not affiliated with the ALP. [More…]
He tried to swing the facts around and say that the trade unions concerned, through their affiliation fees, would be giving finance to the ALP. [More…]
They we’re the 2 unions whose membership increased considerably. [More…]
The union which Senator McManus should be supporting and which did very well out of the exercise is the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
He has been a champion of that union for a long time. [More…]
He has not acted loyally to that union. [More…]
I am a member of 2 trade unions. [More…]
I have been told by a member of the Australian Labor Party that I ought not belong to a trade union. [More…]
But I say this: I was a teacher and when I ceased to be a teacher the union asked me to remain a member. [More…]
I asked myself what was the trade union nearest to the calling which I would follow as a member of Parliament. [More…]
I decided on the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
I am a financial member of both trade unions. [More…]
But like myself he asked what trade union was nearest to the calling which he would be undertaking as a member of Parliament. [More…]
He joined the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Many members of the Australian Labor Party are in the Federated Clerks Union for the same reason as we joined it. [More…]
We are not anti trade union. [More…]
We believe in trade unionism. [More…]
How can a man pay money every year to belong to 2 trade unions if he hates them? [More…]
Senator Poyser asks whether I believe in the policy of my trade union. [More…]
In Victoria one of the trade unions to which I belong - the Federated Clerks Union - is affiliated with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But in the course of this debate there has been a lot of discussion about compulsory unionism. [More…]
A number of speakers, and Senator Cavanagh in particular, made the point that they were opposed to compulsory unionism. [More…]
But I think Senator Cavanagh should have qualified bis remark and explained what he meant by opposition to compulsory unionism. [More…]
This situation was fought out in the trade union movement about 20 years ago. [More…]
There was a powerful move in the trade unions to introduce compulsory unionism in States where Labor was in power. [More…]
Originally a number of unions - right and left wing - supported it. [More…]
The right wing unions went cold because it was pointed out to them by the legislators that if compulsory trade unionism was introduced a Bill of Rights would have to be introduced for the individual trade unionists who were forced to join a union. [More…]
The unions did not want that because some people pointed out that a section would have to be included in the Bill of Rights stating that a unionist should not be forced to contribute to a political party in which he did not believe. [More…]
That would have harmed the Labor Party because it obtains affiliation fees from unions. [More…]
So the Australian Labor Party and many of the right wing unions decided to oppose compulsory unionism by law. [More…]
The other reason that was put forward - Senator Cavanagh would know this - was that a number of left wing unions said that if compulsory unionism was brought in and people were forced to join unions they would probably be the conservative type and they would vote against the left wing leadership of the union. [More…]
So those unions did not want to have as members potential opponents to their leadership. [More…]
The result was that people like Senator Cavanagh and others decided to oppose compulsory unionism by law. [More…]
But of course they are in favour of compulsory unionism by industrial action. [More…]
He believes that they should have the power to force a man to join a union by industrial action and yet he says that he is opposed to compulsory unionism. [More…]
We talked to him on this matter of compulsory unionism. [More…]
He said: ‘I do not believe in compulsory unionism’. [More…]
He said: ‘They all join the union because they know that if they do not we will throw them in the river but there is no compulsion to join the union.’ [More…]
That is exactly the view of these noble hearted people on the Labor side who have thumped their breasts and said that they are against compulsory unionism. [More…]
They are against compulsory unionism by law because a Bill of Rights to protect the individual unionist would be necessary. [More…]
But if they have the industrial power to order people into trade unions they are in favour of it. [More…]
Another matter which I think should be raised is this argument which says that if only some people pay money into trade unions to fight their case and everybody benefits from what the unions do- [More…]
I believe in unionism and I belong to 2 unions. [More…]
If one says that the only persons entitled to benefits gained by a trade union are the union members, then when the Repatriation Bill is debated, because the returned soldier organisations do the battling and the fighting it can be said that only returned soldiers who are members of returned soldier organisations should receive the increased benefits. [More…]
Well, what is the difference between that and the union policy. [More…]
The pensioners have, some very fine organisations which work hard to get improvements for them, just as the unions do to get improvements for unionists. [More…]
Let me get back to the trade union question. [More…]
If it is right that only the people who belong to the union should receive increased annual leave, it is right that only the people who belong to the union should receive higher wages if the union achieves them. [More…]
All kinds of industrial conditions apply to workers, if we are to say that only those in the unions should receive condi tions achieved by the unions, we will have 2 groups of people in the industrial field. [More…]
Is the trade union movement working for a system in which there will be 2 groups of people in industry, some with different conditions from those of the others? [More…]
Ultimately, when they realised that their proposal to confine the extra week’s leave to trade union members would not be allowed to be implemented. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh made the point that the unions mainly concerned here were unions affiliated with the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Well , I would be very interested to know what are the unions affiliated with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I know all the unions that are associated with our Party, and only one is interested in these determinations, and that is the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
He is suggesting that the Federated Clerks Union- [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union is a federal union with branches in the 6 Australian States. [More…]
In only one State is the Federated Clerks Union affiliated with the DLP. [More…]
Senator Poyser knows, because he knows the union scene, that the majority of the branches of the Federated Clerks Union in Australia are affiliated with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
So Government senators are accusing us in regard to a union of which only one State branch is affiliated with the DLP and all the other babies are on their doorstep. [More…]
I am surprised that ali those persons with a knowledge of union affairs do not know the facts in regard to their unions. [More…]
In New South Wales the Federated Clerks Union is affiliated with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
At any rate, in New South Wales and Tasmania the Federated Clerks Union is affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and in Victoria alone is it affiliated with the DLP. [More…]
So Senator Cavanagh was wrong when he said that unions affiliated with the DLP made representations, because only one union did. [More…]
One union is not ‘unions’. [More…]
The second point on which he is wrong is when he says that the unions are affiliated with the DLP, because the union involved is affiliated with the DLP in one State and with the Australian Labor Party in 2 States, and in 3 States it is not affiliated with the ALP or the DLP. [More…]
With my long experience in the trade union movement in Victoria, 1 have been amazed to hear the type of speech that has come from Senator McManus this evening and from Senator Little earlier in this debate when they protected the free riders in the trade union movement. [More…]
The unions of which they proudly boast they are members do not have such a policy. [More…]
The employer sends a cheque to the office of the honourable senator’s union once a month or once a quarter, whatever the case may be. [More…]
It has a closed shop policy in relation to trade unionism. [More…]
Then he rises to debate the question in the Parliament saying: ‘We are the people who give freedom to everybody and let them have all the benefits, whether or not they are unionists’. [More…]
But he does not practise that in the union to which he belongs and with which he claims to have a great affiliation. [More…]
He has ratted on the trade union movement in the speech he made in the Senate. [More…]
Senator McManus talked about the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
We do not stand for those standover tactics of compulsion and coercion in trade union views. [More…]
We believe that people should be completely free to join or not join the union and should get all the benefits’. [More…]
The facts are that the honourable senator’s union in Victoria has supported coercion. [More…]
In fact, 1 have led a strike on behalf of his union in this regard. [More…]
We were requested to take action by the Federated Clerks Union, which is affiliated to the Geelong Trades Hall Council and of which Senator McManus is a member. [More…]
(Quorum formed) Before the quorum was called I was referring to the union to which Senator McManus so proudly boasts he belongs in Victoria, this union that he says would never coerce workers and would uphold the right of freebooters to get all the benefits that the union could obtain for them. [More…]
I remember a strike that I led on behalf of the members of the Federated Clerks Union in Geelong. [More…]
We literally forced, and quite rightly forced, every person who was a clerk in the factory concerned to join the union. [More…]
The strike had a rather interesting history because the then secretary of that union, Mr Saker, applied to the disputes committee of Trades Hall Council at Geelong to declare a dispute with the International Harvester Company because it would not assist the union in obtaining union membership, lt wanted 100 per cent union membership in that factory. [More…]
As a trade unionist I should agree and did agree. [More…]
So much was it nothing to worry about that all the militant unions in Victoria, including the Australian Railways Union, led by Mr Brown, the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia led by Mr McNolty, and the Amalgamated Engineering Union led at that time by Mr Car michael came in behind the Federated Clerks Union to enforce compulsory unionism in the International Harvester Company factory. [More…]
This is the union that does not do these things in Victoria, according to DLP senators. [More…]
It does not really believe in trade unionism, or in enforcing it. [More…]
We let everyone have all the facilities that the silly fools who join our union are prepared to pay for. [More…]
It took solid trade unionism on an industrial basis to force the company into accepting the principle of 100 per cent trade unionism. [More…]
In fact, the union of which the honourable senators so proudly boast abhor this policy. [More…]
These honourable senators have tried to live on the backs of the true trade union movement ever since they split from the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has got to the stage where, in the final analysis, it has only one trade union affiliated with it - the one they boast of tonight as the union of which they are members. [More…]
They have double union membership. [More…]
It is very commendable to have double union membership. [More…]
But they are very proud that the Victorian branch of that union, they say, would not have a bar of this kind of coercion. [More…]
If this principle were followed right through there would not be a union office, let alone a trade union movement, in their area. [More…]
We saw Senator Hannan proudly wave his union ticket. [More…]
He said: ‘I am a unionist. [More…]
I am a member of a union’. [More…]
The important thing to remember is that he could not get that job without the union ticket. [More…]
He had no hope of working in that area without a union ticket. [More…]
So he purchased this union ticket of which he is so proud. [More…]
Ever since that time every progressive move of the trade union movement has been opposed by the Conservatives. [More…]
They want to make political capital of it whereas if they were decent about it they would resign from the Federated Clerks Union forthwith. [More…]
I was quite amazed to hear Senator Cavanagh, who must have had his tongue well in cheek, in one instance say T do not believe in compulsory unionism’, and then in the next say ‘But I do not believe that a person who is not a member of a union should enjoy the benefits in certain awards’. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh on the one hand refers to voluntary unionism, but on the other hand he makes it confoundedly difficult for an individual to do other than follow his dictates if that individual is to be eligible for benefits. [More…]
In my opinion, the use of public relations and discussions with employees in given industries is the avenue for increasing union membership - not some stringent personal economic imposition which in itself is a compulsion in that direction. [More…]
Previous speakers today have referred to the question of preference to unionists and to the provision in the determinations that employees will not receive the benefits unless they are members of the appropriate unions. [More…]
Under a Commonwealth Railways determination since 1947 an employee has sacrificed or lost his annual leave, sick leave and public holidays if he has not been a member of the appropriate union. [More…]
Of course, it means that employees will receive 4 weeks annual leave whether they joined the appropriate union before or after 1st January. [More…]
I believe that there is a very close similarity between the trade union movement and its rules, regulations and registration and the National Health Act and its rules, regulations and registration. [More…]
Similarly, a trade union movement has to have rules that are acceptable to the Commonwealth Industrial Registrar by complying with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
A person who is not a member of a trade union and is working in an industry covered by a union in my opinion is not entitled to the benefits that that union gains for its members. [More…]
Under the Government’s proposals for 4 weeks annual leave, public servants who joined an appropriate union are to be entitled to an extra week’s annual leave. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have sought to emphasise that duress and blackmail have been used to force conscientious objectors into a union. [More…]
Probably not many honourable senators opposite have any knowledge or experience of the trade union movement. [More…]
I was a trade union official for 19 years. [More…]
During my experience as a trade union organiser I visited hundreds of jobs and called on thousands of members. [More…]
To my knowledge that is the only religious organisation which refers to ks members joining a trade union. [More…]
Whether they join a union is left to their own consciences. [More…]
During the whole time that I was a union official they were the only 2 people I met who were genuine conscientious objectors. [More…]
Under many Federal awards the benefits are paid only to members of a particular union. [More…]
Workers who do not belong to the Australian Workers Union do not get the benefits of those awards in respect of annual leave, sick leave, long service leave, public holidays, rates of pay, overtime or penalty rates. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are talking nonsense when they say that they do not accept the principle that it is necessary to belong to a union to be entitled to benefits. [More…]
But for the trade union movement there would be no Labor Party. [More…]
The trade union movement has elected to this Parliament and other Parliaments of the Commonwealth many union officials who know what their members want. [More…]
They have played a leading part in giving parliamentary effect to conditions that the trade union movement could not obtain in the industrial sphere. [More…]
Therefore to say that trade unions had nothing to do with obtaining 4 weeks annual leave is a lot of nonsense. [More…]
The principle of 4 weeks annua] leave has been the policy of the trade union movement for many years. [More…]
There would be no Labor Party without the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is the backbone of the Australian Labor Party whether Senator Little likes it or not. [More…]
-It was compulsory unionism in Queensland, lt was an offence for an employer to employ anybody who was not a member of his appropriate union. [More…]
In Queensland during the time that Senator Gair refers to - he was Premier of Queensland at the time - any official of a union could go to an employer, ask for his time book, check the names in that book and then check the membership roll of his organisation. [More…]
If there happened to be an employee named in that time book who was not a member of the organisation the union official would take proceedings to prosecute the employer and the union could not lose the case. [More…]
The trade unions prosecuted and won many cases in Queensland against employers because they were employing non-unionists. [More…]
That was how the late Joe Bukowski became so powerful in the Australian Workers Union in Queensland. [More…]
1 feel sorry for Senator Donald Cameron, who has just resumed his seat, because he has had to swallow the words of his brother, a Minister in another place, who, in a cavalier manner, came in following the policy speech by the Prime Minister and said in a very flamboyant way that only those people in the Commonwealth Public Service who were members of a union would receive the extra week’s leave. [More…]
It is obvious to me that the Government recognises the incredible mistake it made of supporting the overtures of the cavalier Minister for Labour in another place when he tried to blackmail people in the Commonwealth Public Service into joining a union. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side have criticised us for not being familiar with the trade union movement. [More…]
I once was a member of the Miscellaneous Workers Union and I must say that I have been quite disturbed by the way that it has been carrying on in recent times. [More…]
It has been instructive because it has revealed for the media and the public how the Australian Labor Party is prepared to act when issues of trade unionists and trade union influence are at stake. [More…]
The fundamental issue which concerned the Opposition in relation to this matter was that an election promise had been stated in general and unqualified terms that all public servants were to have 4 weeks annual leave but when the Government decided to implement that promise it retreated and said that the additional leave would be available only to those who were members of unions. [More…]
It has been successful because the Opposition objective of ensuring that all public servants, and not simply those who have been dragooned into membership of a union, will receive the 4 weeks annual leave which was promised is going to be achieved. [More…]
The Government today, belatedly, gave an assurance that it would honour the election promise it gave, and it retreated from the position it adopted within a fortnight after it took office that it would limit this benefit to some unionists and not grant it to others. [More…]
If we see the Australian Labor Party proceeding, as we have had many indications in the past that it will do, to prefer the domestic interests of the Australian Labor Party, to prefer the persona] partisan interests of sections of the trade union movement and make them paramount to the public interest, we shall stand for that public interest and we shall be judged in due course on the way in which we have acted responsibly in the public interest. [More…]
It has been suggested that those Opposition spokesmen who are adopting this course are motivated by an attitude of hate to trade unions and trade unionists. [More…]
We will oppose actions by the Government which will give preference to trade unionists and give to them benefits which would be denied to others where the nature of the benefits are such that they should be applied to all. [More…]
We of the Opposition believe in responsible trade unionism. [More…]
We believe in the democratic control of trade unions by their members and we believe that trade unions should act in the interests of their members in those relationships for which unions were formed and for which their continuance is so important. [More…]
Therefore, it is ridiculous and baseless to suggest that the Opposition has acted in an anti-union way. [More…]
One argument used by the Government was that what it proposed to do was simply to express a preference to trade unionists. [More…]
That argument is ridiculous because it ignores the true meaning of the phrase ‘preference to trade unionists’. [More…]
Preference to trade unionists is a long established union doctrine by which, all things being equal, if there is a job available that job will go to a trade unionist in preference to a person who is not a trade unionist. [More…]
Preference to a trade unionist means that if a person has to be dismissed and if there is a trade unionist and a non-trade unionist on the job the non-trade unionist will be dismissed. [More…]
That is and always has been what is meant by preference to trade unionists. [More…]
It is a ridiculous stretching of words to suggest that a provision which states that persons who are members of unions will get 4 weeks annual leave and that persons who are not members of unions will get only 3 weeks annual leave is in some way preference to trade unionists in the sense in which that term has always been used. [More…]
It may be said to be a preferring of trade unionists, but the real impact of that type of preferring is, as I think Senator McManus said so colourfully a short while ago, tantamount to saying that anybody who does not join a union will be thrown into the river. [More…]
The pressures on a person who does not get an extra week’s annual leave, the coercion on him and the effective practical intimidation on him are designed to make him join a union. [More…]
At the time the protest against the bombing of North Vietnam was delivered to the United States, in order to be even-handed why was not an emphatic protest against the invasion of South Vietnam by, as reported, 200,000 well equipped troops, which in fact triggered off the bombing referred to and protested against, delivered to the Hanoi Government instead of advancing a proposal to recognise that Government and to receive some of its trade union representatives in this country? [More…]
I can recall as part of the long history of the Australian Labor Parry and the trade union movement the campaign that was launched by the Australian Labor Party when it opposed the export of pig iron to Japan. [More…]
Yet this present Government has announced that the rewards for the labour of a man or woman depends no longer on the basis of the value of work performed but on whether a man or woman is a unionist. [More…]
A man’s reward, according to our Labor Government, should depend not on how hard he works or how much individual initiative and enterprise he puts into his work but on whether he or she belongs to a union or whether an employer gives preference to unionists. [More…]
Apparently there was some undertaking given to the Federal Conference of the Labor Party and once again the Labor Government sees its responsibility to its union base and Labor Party supporters - not to all the public servants and others in the work force who may have helped in their election, but only to unionists. [More…]
Without regard to either economic or social consequences it intends to award government contracts to employers who will comply with trade union policies; [More…]
For the past 5 years each time the Senate has debated a matter concerning unions, my illustrious colleague Senator Milliner and I defended trade union rights. [More…]
No matter how much honourable senators opposite talked and no matter how much they endeavoured to label the Labor Party as a group of Benedict Arnolds, when the United States Republican President Richard Nixon had a dialogue with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China he destroyed the credibility of the present Opposition’s foreign policy. [More…]
The Opposition has complained about trade union bureaucracy and members of such unions not being consulted before certain action is taken. [More…]
It has positions in relation to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and western Europe which cannot be adopted or shared by Australia. [More…]
They explained in considerable detail that Pine Gap is uniquely placed to control and monitor space vehicles crossing the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
whether at a time when the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were giving actual military aid to the forces of North Korea then engaged in hostilities against the Australian troops in the field, Wilfred Burchett then had any professional relationship, remunerated or not, with either of those Governments; [More…]
whether at any time whatsoever Wilfred Burchett has had any professional relationships with the KGB of the Soviet Union; [More…]
Will such maternity leave be provided for union members only, as stated in the booklet ‘Platform, Constitution and Rules of the Australian Labor Party’? [More…]
As the Attorney-General has called for union assistance in a war against crime, can he inform the Senate of the role to be played by the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia? [More…]
Does he consider that legal immunity for union officials has a major role in the campaign? [More…]
In view of the clamour from Opposition benches on the desire to have worker responsibility in industry, can the Minister indicate whether the Government proposes to redress the injustice to trade unions by providing for trade union membership on the Australian Meat Board? [More…]
As I stated in the direction given to the Director-General, one of the things to be taken into consideration in allocating contracts - only one of the things - will be the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement, as well as the relationship with the trade union membership employed by the contractor. [More…]
Firms which trade unions had claimed had had bad relationships with the trade union movement have rung me and assured me that their relationships with the building trades will be satisfactory. [More…]
are now consideraing the adoption by employees of my Department of the Commission’s formula which gives preference to unionists on time of appointment, on time of promotion and on time of termination. [More…]
At the time I was a member of the Timber Workers Union and I was a delegate to that union on many occasions with Mai Fennel who Senator Brown, who is trying to interject, would know very well. [More…]
We should not regard a trade unionist or a trade union official as being somewhat akin to God, because of the position he holds, and therefore capable of no wrong or mean attitude whatsoever. [More…]
Was the interpreter of the North Vietnamese trade union delegation which visited Brisbane on 6th February, during an Australia-wide tour, reported as saying ‘We welcome very much the actions by the Federal Government of Australia which has given us many facilities’; if so, what exactly were the facilities given by the Australian Government to the delegation. [More…]
The North Vietnamese trade union delegation visited Australia on a private basis at the invitation of an Australian trade union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, announced the Australian Council of Trade Union’s housing plan at Noarlunga, south of Adelaide, during his policy speech for the recent South Australian elections? [More…]
Has he also read the reported statement by the Federal Secretary of the Building and Construction Workers Union that he would not go along with the ACTU’s scheme as he was opposed to foreign capital being used and that the houses would be shoddy, at a cost of $10,000, because a contractor could not pay award rates and build a house, at that price? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that Mr Gallagher is reported to have the support of Mr Robinson, the State Secretary of the Union, who has claimed that the ACTU is a front for foreign capital and that he is considering putting proposals to other unions to place a black ban on the ACTU’s project? [More…]
In the event of the ACTU proceeding with its foreign investment proposal, what action does the Minister propose taking in order to protect workers who wish to purchase such homes against shoddy workmanship and holdups as a result of possible industrial action by the building and construction workers union? [More…]
I recall that the building and construction workers union mentioned - it is, in fact, the Builders Labourers Federation - was described in debates recently as the most despicable outfit in Australia because of its activities in industrial disputes. [More…]
They know very well that any sensible statesman in the world is prepared to talk to China, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It relates to the AttorneyGeneral’s recent statement that he would seek the active help of various bodies including trade unions in the interests of crime detection and prevention. [More…]
On that principle will the Minister urgently seek the help of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union regarding a series of recent and current incidents of alleged physical violence to persons and property at the Botany plant of Imperial Chemical Industries? [More…]
I understand that last year arrangements were negotiated between the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Soviet authorities for a ‘Four Corners’ team to enter the Soviet Union this year for the purpose of making certain film programs. [More…]
During the course of a visit to the Soviet Union last year, one of the Assistant General Managers of the ABC, Mr Buttrose, who was there to arrange for certain Soviet artists to come to Australia, entered into arrangements for getting the ‘Four Corners’ team into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was an understanding on the part of the ABC that as part of the agreement the team would be allowed to take its own camera crew into the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that as a result of the negotiations between the ABC and the Department of Foreign Affairs, on the one hand, and the Soviet authorities on the other hand, the team has now left the .Soviet Union and has been dispatched by the ABC to Vienna where certain film programming will be conducted by the team. [More…]
It is a security to the parents and the children of the union. [More…]
He became Secretary of SHUMS (Union of Croatian United Youth of the World), which, despite its innocent sounding name, is under the effective control of Srecko Rover and is suspected by the Commonwealth Police of being an extremist front organisation (see letter from J. Davis to the Attorney-General’s Department, dated 8th June 1972). [More…]
More recently, the Government declined to deport the Bulgarians Daskaloff and Petrov who had completed a term of imprisonment for offences in connection with the bombing of the Embassy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia. [More…]
fs this to be done with the agreement of the Postal Workers Union? [More…]
Referring to the statement made by the Attorney-General this afternoon, I ask him: Will he apply to the violence and terrorism instigated by certain trade unions, such as the Building Workers Industrial Union, principles similar to those which he proposes to apply in relation to the alleged but as yet not proven violence by certain Croatians within Australia? [More…]
We will find him turning on his former compatriots who organised violent demonstrations during the period of the Moratorium campaign, during the period of the violence which was associated with the visit of President Johnson to Australia, during the violence which was associated with various union activities in Australia and during the various other instances of violence which Australia has known in the past 3, 4 or 5 years. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have not had anything to say about the case which was reported in this morning’s Press of Mr Sgro, a member of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria and a member of the Painters Union, who was [More…]
I think that the purpose of a Matrimonial Causes Act is to make the dissolution of unions which have broken down as painless, as dignified and as financially cheap as it can be. [More…]
In my view, the role of a Matrimonial Causes Act is to see that when a union docs break down there will be as little pain as possible in the process of dissolution. [More…]
If you get into the hands of a lawyer in Sydney who is part of the racket, he takes over your life and your whole existence, and no matter what you may wish about dissolving your union in a dignified, quiet and reasonably inexpensive way you find that your divorce proceedings have taken on a life of their own under the tutelage and guidance of these racketeers. [More…]
If this is his view, will he ascertain whether the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has any information, documents, files and reports in relation to the alleged activities of, firstly, Wilfred Burchett and, secondly, the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union and certain of its members including some now missing or murdered? [More…]
Senator Rae, your reference to the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union contains an inference. [More…]
All I can do is to use the opportunity to indicate to honourable senators when they ask certain questions that imbedded in those questions are matters which are contrary to standing order 99.I made a reference merely as an illustration to Senator Rae, when he referred to the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union in Melbourne, that the question contained an inference in the context of the Painters and Dockers Union and not to anything else.I would be glad to allow honourable senators some reasonable freedom but I ask them not to transgress violently the Standing Orders. [More…]
Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union and certain of its members, including some now missing or murdered? [More…]
I ask the Minister whether this attitude expressed by the Trades and Labour Council in Western Australia indicates that the trade union movement favours these bases as an avenue of employment for its members. [More…]
As a former member of the Whips’ union, I have always felt fairly strongly about the remuneration of the Whips. [More…]
If one union goes to the arbitration court and gets an increase in wages, is it suggested that other unions should say that they will take some of that extra and give, it to the other workers who did not get the increase? [More…]
I refer to the occasion when the then Minister for Customs and Excise, Senator Scott, was merciful to an employee in his Department who had sought mercy and in respect of whom supporters of the present Government, had they been trade union officials representing the men, would have asked the Minister to do precisely what he did. [More…]
The Commonwealth has agreed to provide a 25 per cent subsidy on a Union Steam Ship Co. vessel. [More…]
We can see that for nations from Japan in the north to this highly industrialised nation of the south and coming through thai non-homogenous group of nations including Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, there is a possibility of developing a commercial trading community of tremendous mutual advantage to all the participants in the commercial trading union. [More…]
I think Senator Cavanagh would respect that Council because its membership includes at least an equality or a majority of well respected union leaders, including Mr Barry Unsworth. [More…]
Therefore, what this Council says no doubt will reflect the viewpoint of the moderate union thought. [More…]
I tell the Senate that I believe that some operatives with an unduly militarist background thought that the whole of the trade union movement was vermin. [More…]
This Act was introduced by a Tory government in 1926 in order to deport officials of the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
In the ‘American Union Journal’ which I have here it is pointed out that last year 40 per cent of the unemployed in Yugoslavia were Croats although they are only 22 per cent of the people in the whole country. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has entered into this welter of trouble. [More…]
The result has been that the Soviet Union has offered assistance to the Croatian people in order to throw off the yoke of those who are running the country at the present time. [More…]
I know from speaking to Croatians that they have been offered the assistance of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union hopes that when Marshall Tito dies it will be able to take advantage of what follows. [More…]
Probably - I would say almost certainly - Soviet armies will enter the country, and 1 predict that every endeavour will be made to incorporate it into the group of countries which at present are under the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Federated Ships Painters and Dockers Union of Australia is a trade union. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has control over it. [More…]
The union is affiliated with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Yet for several years there has been a reign of terror in that union. [More…]
Today members of that union are living in homes around which high walls with barbed wire entanglements at the top have been erected. [More…]
That union would be in the No. [More…]
Senator McManus talked of the Painters and Dockers Union. [More…]
The plumbers union has been mentioned. [More…]
He would have to go so far as to refer to the sort of violence and terrorism which exists in this country within some sections of the trade union movement, about which there is no doubt. [More…]
There is certainly much stronger proof of terrorism and violence taking place in some sections of the trade union movement of Australia than there is of terrorism and violence on an organised basis taking place within the Croatian community. [More…]
Now we come back to the situation where they ignore the statement in order to condemn our Attorney-General and then condemn the Government because of its action in relation to some trade union, some left wing official or someone else. [More…]
The previous Government could have used its powers because it introduced certain clauses for the purpose of deporting Walsh and Johnston because of their activities concerned with the Seamens Union of Australia. [More…]
The penal provisions which were put in the Crimes Act so that seamen union delegates could be gaoled will be repealed. [More…]
Every time he was asked a question about draft resisters or somebody else he made a vitriolic attack on the trade union movement, on the Labor Party or somebody associated with us; but never once did he come to grips with the question of terrorism and violence in this country. [More…]
My own personal knowledge of the history of those exercises is that Senator Greenwood hounded draft resisters and made vicious attacks on trade unionists and demonstrators but displayed double standards when it came to dealing with acts of violence and of terrorism. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has been challenged by Senator Murphy to justify to this Parliament why he took no action against terrorism and violence and, more serious than that, why he did not admit that it was in existence instead of sidestepping the accusations and charges made by honourable senators on this side of the chamber, and making vitriolic attacks on the Australian Labor Party and fanatical attacks on the trade union movement, demonstrators and draft resisters. [More…]
It is very easy for members of the Opposition to try to equate a bit of violence which might take place in one trade union or at one Trades Hall meeting with all the threats that have been made against officers of trade unions. [More…]
My brother and the officials of his union have received many threats against their lives, as well as obscene suggestions over the telephone, from right wing sources within the trade union movement. [More…]
Do honourable senators really and seriously equate that sort of behaviour with the sort of unruly behaviour, disturbance and, to some extent, minor violence that has taken place from time to time in and around certain meetings in the trade union movement? [More…]
Acting Minister for Primary Industry whether he is aware, of reports that the export of Australian wool could be stopped indefinitely by a ban imposed on handling by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union, in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. [More…]
If he is aware of these reports will he say what action the Government proposes to take to ensure that wool growers and the wool industry generally will not suffer at the hands of a few union agitators? [More…]
Minister for Primary Industry is well aware of the problem facing the industry at the present time because of the ban which has been placed on the handling of wool by the trade union movement. [More…]
Mr Petrie of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union has had a conference with the Minister on this question and has arranged for a conference to be held with those who are interested. [More…]
There is opposition in the trade union movement to the use of jumbo bales and to sale by samples, because this will reduce the amount of labour required to handle the wool and there is a fear of redundancy. [More…]
The union feels that some compensation should be paid to those involved. [More…]
This was the basis of negotiations with Mr Petrie, and subsequently with the wool brokers, for a conference to see whether the union’s fears could be allayed. [More…]
If, as the Minister said, one of the reasons for the Storemen and Packers Union’s ban on the handling of export wool is the union’s concern about the possible introduction of new methods of wool handling and marketing, can he say whether the Government proposes to allow unionists to dictate the marketing methods of Australia’s most important single earner of export income? [More…]
1 do not know whether there is domination by the unionists. [More…]
The fact is that moving export wool from Australia is a co-operative effort in which the unionists are concerned as much as anybody else. [More…]
As I stated in a previous answer, the question concerned the trade union movement because of the possibility of redundancy. [More…]
Representatives of the trade union movement have been conferring with the Minister. [More…]
Advice has been going from the Minister to the Chairman of the Wool Corporation to whom the unions and other segments of the industry have been invited to submit their views. [More…]
The Government has agreed to provide a 25 per cent subsidy for 2 roll-on roll-off vessels for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd for trans-Tasman services. [More…]
Importing countries which have signed the Agreement, including the member states of the enlarged EEC, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Japan and Canada, account for almost 70 per cent of world imports of cocoa. [More…]
I bring up the report of the Australian delegation to the 60th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held in Rome from 21st to 29th September 1972, and move: [More…]
I wish to take this opportunity to pay a tribute to Mr John Jess for the work he did as leader of the Australian delegation to Rome last year and for the other work he did for the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
Obviously, the Minister for Labour, who is a very capable minister, not only is in close consultation with the trade union movement but also is involved in healthy discussions with the Treasurer. [More…]
The particular case concerned was one in which the Soviet Union sought, although it did not have an extradition treaty with Australia, the extradition of Ervin Viks, an Estonian, who pointed out that no evidence had been put forward that he was the guilty person. [More…]
At the same time, I received correspondence from a lawyer from as far away as Iceland who informed me that the Soviet Union had requested the extradition of certain Estonians who were prominent in anti-Soviet activities in that country and that the Government of Iceland also had refused their extradition. [More…]
We had none with the Soviet Union, we had one with Hungary, which had an escape clause by which neither country had to hand over people if it did not want to do so; and as far as I know we have had treaties - unless they have been repealed - with Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. [More…]
That would assist the Soviet Union’s foreign policy. [More…]
He would say that on a priority basis the Soviet Union is more dangerous to world peace than Marshal Tito is. [More…]
The people involved may not be only people for whom the Soviet Union may be looking. [More…]
He could have been from the Soviet Union or from one of the Baltic nations. [More…]
The purpose of the setting aside of these determinations was to ensure the principle that no members of the Public Service would be obliged, by pressure of one form or another, to join a union or an organisation. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to earlier concern expressed by the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and the Transport Workers Union about some safety measures in relation to different types of overhead cranes, forklifts and lifting appliances generally. [More…]
The question I put to the Minister is: Does he know whether the Minister for Labour has effected any liaison between unions and the State departments of labour and industry to ensure that there is uniformity when new types of cranes from Europe are introduced to Australia? [More…]
As to the last part of the honourable senator’s question, I am aware that in a few industries in Australia there is a minimal form of profit sharing and that in some other industries there are minimal arrangements between the unions and the employers for bonuses related to productivity. [More…]
the union movement and the Australian Council of Trade Unions today - the Labor Government supports this - is that workers should be able, by collective arrangements and bargaining, to get some share of the profitability of industry. [More…]
I remind him of his directive in December that in allocating contracts consideration should be given to the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether any contract has been refused to a contractor whose tender was the lowest because, in the opinion of the Minister, the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement was adverse. [More…]
The declaration of credit unions as an approved class of lenders follows the liberalisation of the conditions under which they may be accepted as repositories for savings under the homes savings grants scheme, and indicates our support for the credit union movement. [More…]
It is now open for credit unions to apply to the Corporation to become approved lenders and to insure with the Corporation those housing loans which meet its requirements. [More…]
The instrument also caters for co-operative societies other than credit unions that are registered or incorporated under laws relating to co-operative, industrial or provident societies and that lend to their members on mortgage security. [More…]
People are going away with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
It could well be that a member of, for instance, the Country Party in the Senate is on a trip to China and that another member of the Country Party is on a trip to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Be that as it may, it could well be that a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party is on a trip to China or to the Soviet Union. [More…]
They hope that that will be the time to break up this rather artificial ethnic union of Yugoslavia. [More…]
They would come under increasing pressure to be dominated by one of the power groups in the world; more probably than not by the Soviet Union. [More…]
His party especially referred to some terroristic activities that were perpetrated on members of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia in Victoria, and I take it that that is what he is referring to now. [More…]
I think the answer could well be that it was when the Soviet Union had obtained land accommodation in Cuba, within the area of the United States, and set out to mount missile landing weapons on that piece of territory. [More…]
The best that can be hoped for is that the proletarian leaders are more concerned with the welfare of their own countries than with being a vassal state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or China in an expansive mood. [More…]
The visit of this delegation follows, after an interval of only a few months, the visit by a group of alleged unionists who came to this country from North Vietnam. [More…]
We saw them being embraced and actually kissed by leaders of unions. [More…]
We saw Jack Devereaux whom I know more intimately than does any other honourable senator - he is the top man of the Amalgamated Engineering Union– [More…]
Of course, we cannot expect any help from Mr Whitlam because he received another trade union delegation here earlier this year. [More…]
I have a document from one of Australia’s largest trade unions. [More…]
It is now the amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The journal decides how they feted the alleged trade union delegation which came from North Vietnam in January and February of this year - a delegation which was sponsored by Mr Carmichael, Mr Halfpenny, Mr Bill and Mr Clancy, all the notorious and well known communists of this country supported, of course, by Senator Wheeldon and Dr Cairns. [More…]
My mind goes back to some of the very tough trade union meetings that I have attended. [More…]
Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia to deny correspondence to members of the Senate? [More…]
From my understanding of the position in the case of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a ready supply of information on agricultural production in that country is available. [More…]
Has he any figures available from any source on the feed and fibre stocks in the Communist bloc countries as a whole, not only of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that these reports allege that the training camp is run by the secret Ukrainian insurgent army which is said to be dedicated to the violent overthrow of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which I understand this Government regards as being very friendly with Australia and with which we have full diplomatic relations? [More…]
Can the Special Minister of State inform the Senate of the Opposition senators who will visit China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as representatives of the Australian Parliament at a later date this year? [More…]
By the courtesy of the Organisation of American States the meeting was held in the Pan American Union Building. [More…]
One of the groups which will gain from this legislation is that which is composed of people from the Baltic countries which are part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
For various reasons the Soviet Union was not enthusiastic about it. [More…]
It has had such an impact on the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union that its members wish to deny postal deliveries to members of Parliament, so concerned are they that this benefit should not be disallowed them. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the text of the allegations made by the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the Seamen’s Union, Mr Benson, before Conciliation Commissioner Allsop relating to the treatment accorded to an Australian seaman by Panamanian authorities? [More…]
He has maintained, as has the Labor Government and the trade union movement, that there is a right to strike and that to remove that right to strike from workers and unions is in fact to conscript them and destroy their freedom. [More…]
In vie-w of the Minister’s advice to me yesterday that Senator Greenwood, Liberal, Victoria has been nominated for the delegation to China and Senator Maunsell., Country Party, Queensland, for the delegation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as Opposition representatives of the Australian Parliament [More…]
But on this whole question, when the trips were first mooted I had talks with the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and also with the Charge d’ Affairs of China. [More…]
And I, on behalf of the Senate, have entertained the VicePresident of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Following ratification by the tenth signatory state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Convention came into force on 28th January 1973. [More…]
Is it a fact that (a) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics provided more than ‘$ 1,050m to Indonesia in aid up to 1966, and(b) Australia has, up to June 1973, given Indonesia $53.8m, as well as 16 Sabre aircraft worth $10m and some naval patrol vessels; if so, why did the previous Government offer that country $69m on a grant basis over a period of 3 years from June 1973, a large proportion of which was to be used for the purchase of naval vessels. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that any equipment purchased by Indonesia as a result of this offer from Australia may rot away in the same manner as the equipment provided by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Has the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics given aid to Indonesia, up to 1966, totalling more than $ 1,050m, consisting of: [More…]
Senator WILLESEE - The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: it is correct that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics provided aid to Indonesia in the form of loans prior to 1966, valued well in excess of $ 1,000m. [More…]
It is also correct that a large proportion of the military equipment supplied to Indonesia by the Soviet Union is no longer serviceable. [More…]
He said that although you talk about internal politics in the Balkans, the moment that Yugoslavia is fragmented you would have an expansion of territorial aspirations by the Soviet Union which, in turn, would destroy the power structure, the balance of power between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Warsaw. [More…]
I might draw the analogy that at times when some trade unionists have referred to the union to which I belong they have not been talking for the rank and file of their unions. [More…]
He subsequently had discussions with officers of the Environmental Law Centre in Bonn (an organ of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and attended an IBM Conference on Computers and the Environment at Bad Liebenzell, Germany. [More…]
Is it because of representations by union officials with regard to lack of job opportunities for carcass process workers in abattoirs? [More…]
I reject emphatically any suggestion that any unions have been exercising any pressure on me in regard to refusing to permit the export of livestock to Iran. [More…]
But I assure him that there was no approach to me, or to anyone I know, by any union on the basis that it might be disadvantaged by the export of that livestock which would not be slaughtered in Australia. [More…]
I should mention here that the issue which was raised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and some unions with the Minister for Labour related to proposed new section 133 (1A) concerning various elections by members of a union. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the suggestion made by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, that there should be created a joint naval force by Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia, in view of the expanding naval presence of the Soviet Union in the South-East Pacific and Indian Oceans? [More…]
It will examine the needs of trade union and employer organisations in Australia, the need for amalgamations, for trade union education and for closer consultation between unions, employers and government. [More…]
The central position of power occupied by the tribunals, however, could never have been attained or maintained without popular approval and especially without the support of the trade union movement. [More…]
In recent years, however, many employers as well as the great mass of union members have become impatient with the penal aspects of the federal system. [More…]
As unions and employers become better organised, as their research facilities grow, as they become more aware of the advantages of negotiation and the disadvantages of remaining passive clients of an arbitration commission, so will the acceptability of the Commission’s penal powers diminish and the area of its influence as an arbitral body contract. [More…]
They are: The removal of existing barriers to trade union amalgamation; the removal of the Commission’s authority to ban strikes and the removal of all penal sanctions upon strikers; procedures to ensure that certain types of agreement are acceptable to members of organisations affected by them; provision for democratic control of unions and the fullest participation by union members in the affairs of their organisations; provision to enable action to be taken for the recovery of wages at law within a period of 6 years instead of the 12 months’ limitation that now applies; the protection of organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case; the removal of the various defects which have been shown to exist in the 1972 legislation; and elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission. [More…]
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Salaries paid to officials of great energy, dedication and talent are low and unattractive, and discourage men of quality from making the sacrifices that a career as a trade union official often involves. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
The mobility of trade union officials from office to office is sometimes restricted by rules which require officials to be drawn from among longstanding ticket holders only. [More…]
A strengthening of the resources of the working people in amalgamated trade Unions which are possessed of strong, well-trained and well-equipped leaders will redress the present imbalance. [More…]
Negotiation and conciliation will become more effective in resolving disputes as union leaders become better informed and better trained. [More…]
We are, therefore, wholly in favour of amalgamation of unions of the working people. [More…]
The usefulness of the present provisions can be tested by the simple question - do they help or do they hinder the unification of the trade unions into more powerful institutions to represent and uphold the interests of the employees? [More…]
For an amalgamation proposal now to be adopted by a union, it will be necessary merely for a majority of those voting to approve of the proposal. [More…]
The Bill provides that the unions themselves will have the power to conduct amalgamation ballots. [More…]
Amalgamation ballots will be conducted by the Commonwealth when requested by the unions concerned. [More…]
These ballots will not be open to challenge, although the court will have power to investigate ballots conducted by the union itself. [More…]
The provisions protecting union officials from tortious actions stem basically from the Government’s belief that the right to strike is a fundamental right which every employee must have. [More…]
The struggle of the trade unions to overcome these legal handicaps culminated in 1875 in the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act which provided that in contemplation of furtherance of a trade dispute, no combination to do, or procure, any act should itself be a criminal conspiracy unless the act itself would be punishable as a crime. [More…]
In 1901, a union in the United Kingdom placed a picket on the premises of an employer where a strike was taking place. [More…]
The employer sought an injunction to restrain the men from preventing labour from entering his premises but the union argued that since it did not exist in law, it could not be enjoined or sued for damages. [More…]
The argument failed, the injunction was granted, and the union ultimately fell liable for a very large sum of damages. [More…]
The great trade union agitation which followed the Taff Vale decision finally forced the House of Commons in 1906 to pass legislation to set aside that piece of judge-made law. [More…]
The immunity from actions for tort that was granted to British unions by the House of Commons in 1906 is now extended by this Bill to officials and members of Australian trade unions. [More…]
There is nothing novel in what is proposed in this Bill; it is based upon the principles of the British Trade Disputes Act of 1906 which granted unions and union officials in that country exemption from tortious actions committed in furtherance of industrial disputes. [More…]
As promised in the Prime Minister’s policy speech, the Bill provides for the removal from the Act of all provisions under which a penalty might be imposed upon a trade union or member, because a union is involved in or threatens a strike, ban or limitation on work. [More…]
If unions wish to submit to the inclusion in an agreement of a bans clause they may do so, but that agreement cannot be certified by the Commission. [More…]
It is the view, not only of the Government, but also the trade union movement, and I believe, the majority of employer organisations that this procedure is preferable la having conditions arbitrarily imposed on employers and employees. [More…]
The platform of the Australian Labor Party calls upon the Government to ensure a system of democratic control of all unions, allowing fullest participation by members in their affairs. [More…]
The Bill provides that no officer elected by the rank and f: may be dismissed during his period of office unless he is guilty of misappropriation of union funds, a grave breach of rules or gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
I do not have to enlarge on the sense of injustice suffered by the individual candidate and the distortion of fair control of a trade union which can arise in a case of the type now provided against. [More…]
We do not wish to see men tempted to resort to direct force to defeat a rival in a union conflict. [More…]
course, some statutory provisions which are available to assist rank and file unionists who wish to bring cases to the Industrial Court. [More…]
Furthermore, it does not cover assistance where such a union member is required to defend in the High Court a decision given in his favour by the Industrial Court. [More…]
Over recent months there have been a number of disputes between 2 groups of transport workers in New South Wales concerning the legal status of transport workers belonging to the respective State and Federal Transport Workers Unions. [More…]
The Federal union is an organisation registered under the Commonwealth Act, and the State union is a separate union registered under New South Wales law. [More…]
For some 40 years after the adoption of a scheme designed to achieve the amalgamation of a New South Wales State Trade and Industrial union with a federal organisation registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the State trade union continued to conduct its affairs in accordance with its own rules and State industrial law and pursued with vigour benefits available to a State trade union under State law. [More…]
During such a period, members of the State trade union became members of the New South Wales branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
The State trade union, inter aiia, assumed the name of and rendered accounts and accepted obligations as the New South Wales branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
The scheme of amalgamation was assumed by its authors and actors to have achieved the continued existence of the State trade union and, at the same time, its establishment as a branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
lt was held, in the circumstances of the case, that the State trade union had not ceased to exist, and that it was not a branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
The result of this decision was that the Commonwealth Industrial Court was unable to issue orders against an officer of the State union for his compliance with federally registered rules. [More…]
It follows, therefore, that the Commonwealth Arbitration Commission has no power to make an award, or certify an agreement, binding on the State union. [More…]
It is an irritation to most unions; an intractable problem for some. [More…]
Cases referred to earlier in this judgment are further illustrations of the web of problems and technicalities which have developed in the system of trade union organisation in Australia . [More…]
The system as required to exist by State and Federal legislation and as it has evolved under that legislation in practice is technical, productive of artificialism, and in urgent need of the attention of the law reformer … A system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems and it should be possible for Federal and State authorities to examine the question whether organisations and trade unions can be provided with such a system . [More…]
we have decided to refer our judgment in this matter and these remarks to the Attorney-General for the Commonwealth in the hope that it may be possible, after consultation between the Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General, the trade unions both federal and state, and other interested government authorities to arrange for the important organisational matters to which we have referred. [More…]
In a later case, namely, the case of Steuart v. Oliver, it was held, in respect of the Australian Workers Union, that a substantial number of persons were legitimate members of a body known as the Australian Workers Union of Queensland, a State union, but were not entitled to be members of the Australian Workers Union created by the Commonwealth Act. [More…]
It was held in that case that there were 2 separate unions. [More…]
The 2 unions were funded and administered for all practical purposes as if they were one. [More…]
This will enable the Transport Workers Union of Australia to include as members owner-drivers in New South Wales and other States. [More…]
This is by no means the complete answer to the difficulties that have caused the current dispute among transport workers and it does not even touch difficulties affecting other unions. [More…]
Whilst there has been provision in the Act for a union or an employer to seek an interpretation of an award or agreement, delayed hearings and heavy costs have discouraged parties from making use of this provision. [More…]
Provision has also been made in the Bill to give an extended right to union officials to enter at any time during working hours at establishments covered by Federal awards. [More…]
In this way full time officials will be better able to enforce the observance of safety regulations, clear up misinterpretations of awards, smooth out demarcation differences, interview non-unionists, detect symptoms of potential unrest, and smooth out abrasive managerial policies. [More…]
It is difficult to understand why so many companies do so much to impede the on-site activities of full time officials and then blame the union when its shop stewards find themselves with an unavoidable dispute on their hands. [More…]
2), it is nothing but an electoral swindle, instigated by a Party which, in the past, forced us to legislate in order to stop the rigging of union elections. [More…]
Let honourable senators opposite, all those leading personalities of the trade union movement, tell me where there is a one vote one value voting system adopted in respect of a trades hall council. [More…]
Let them tell me of one Australian Council of Trade Unions conference where there is one vote one value. [More…]
The committee comprised Dr K. Grigg, convenor; Mr W. Butler, prominent trade unionist; Sam Merrifield, member of the Legislative Council; Mr J. P. Brebner, secretary of the Paper Mill Employees Union; Senator Sam Cohen, Councillor R. Fell, Mr J. M. Tripovich, and I understand that Gordon Bryant was associated with the committee also. [More…]
I ask: How does the Government reconcile the blatant double standards under which the Minister for Trade, Dr J. F. Cairns, is currently actively seeking maximum expansion of trade between Australia and China while at the same time, the same Dr J. F. Cairns and other Government Ministers and members, together with the Australian Council nf Trade Unions, are working to impose a ban on Australian trade with France? [More…]
If the Government does not support the current trade union ban against France, will the Government take all action necessary to ensure that the ban is removed . [More…]
I’ think Senator Greenwood knows the situation in regard to industrial action in Australia because he was a Minister in the previous Government; but his record in handling the trade’ union movement was not one to which I think he would like to advert at any time. [More…]
I refer to my earlier question about the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ ban on shipping and communications with France in the context of the Government’s oft repeated assertion that it can deal with the trade union movement far better than any alternative government. [More…]
In this place last year I heard the story about a union election. [More…]
That is one of the unions upon which the Labor Party claims that it is based. [More…]
Now it proposes to bring forward legislation to facilitate the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
That legislation will provide that only half of the membership of a union need vote on a proposed amalgamation and that only half of the membership voting need vote in favour of the proposed amalgamation for it to be given effect. [More…]
In other words, just over a quarter of the membership of a union could effect an amalgamation that affects all of the members of the trade union concerned. [More…]
Our policy further states that when countries such as the Soviet Union and China refuse to take action to end nuclear armaments in the world Australia then has no alternative but to endeavour to obtain a nuclear deterrent for herself. [More…]
Secretary of the Postal Workers Union, about this matter. [More…]
Is his failure to give an answer to this question which I have asked twice already an indication of the apprehension which he or the Government feels on even considering taking action against any member of the trade union movement? [More…]
without regard to either economic or social consequences it intends to award Government contracts to employers who will comply with trade union policies; [More…]
I state this with some degree of definiteness in the hope that it will begin to penetrate this socialistic, union ridden Government that incites the dislocation of industry. [More…]
I would very much like to look at some of the submissions which came from the Attorney-General of the day - he was not a member of the Labor Party - who had to deal with the case of 2 maritime trade union leaders, one of Scandinavian origin and the other of Irish origin. [More…]
Whether one was a spokesman for some vegetable growers co-operative or a shop steward in a trade union - believe me. [More…]
I hope that within the trade union movement and even in the Chamber of Manufactures and other employer groups there will be people who will inject their attitudes and cultures into those bodies without feeling that at some stage someone will call them Bait soandso’s and say: ‘We will have you deported*. [More…]
I am well aware that work on the Adelaide mail exchange building has been held up for several months as a result of a demarcation dispute between 2 unions. [More…]
As a result of certain remarks made by a union representative at that conference I was asked whether I would consider taking certain action. [More…]
I attended a conference and advised that as the matter was a demarcation dispute between 2 unions it should be settled either between the 2 unions within the trade union movement or presented to arbitration. [More…]
That should be the case whether those who wish to interfere with a project are private individuals, people who have banded together to form a society to protect the environment or people who have banded together to protect the wages and influence of those who work in a specific industry - and I refer there to a trade union. [More…]
One saw this with the private enterprise railroad giants in the United States - the Union Pacific and the other lines - which did not care 2 hoots what the people wanted so long as their own small stockholders benefited. [More…]
There is a chairman, the secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy, a full-time executive member and 2 other members will be a members of a trade Minister’s second reading speech, one of these other members will be a member of a trade union. [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Similarly we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North [More…]
In March this year we welcomed to Australia the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr Patolichev, and a highlevel Australian trade delegation led by the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has just completed a successful visit to China. [More…]
It is my belief that the controllers of the giant unions who control this Government would not allow such a course. [More…]
We have not forgotten the $25,000 bribe paid by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union to the Prime Minister for the promise that there would be no sanctions in future industrial legislation and no prosecutions. [More…]
The whole period in which we had a 2i per cent average yearly increase in inflation was a period in which, I remind the Senate, the great trade unions of Australia, through the Australian Council of Trade Unions led by Mr Monk, worked on the principle of industrial trade unionism. [More…]
Inflation was inflamed on the day when Mr Hawke and his left wing brought in this approach to political unionism - using unionism as a weapon of the aggrandisement, the power politics of union leaders. [More…]
What has happened in Australia is that unions today, with the blessing of this Labor Government, are working towards the power politics of their leaders and against the interests of the ordinary worker. [More…]
We are familiar with the squeals which emerge from the Opposition at any time when the Australian Labor Party shows any sort of an attentive ear - as it sometimes does - to the representations of union officials. [More…]
I ask him also whether he is aware that Mr Landeryou, the Victorian Secretary of the Storemen and Packers Union made this statement in Melbourne? [More…]
He referred to a plan by his union to establish a co-operative enterprise for the purpose of wool classing. [More…]
Probably on occasions they will have to battle with small segments of the trade union movement. [More…]
He picks at random the remarks of a trade union secretary and says: There you are. [More…]
On a personal note, I can say that many years ago some colleagues in the trade union movement and myself formed almost the impetus for the establishment of a co-operative housing society in the State which I represent. [More…]
There is nothing wrong with the ACTU or the trade unions running co-operative housing societies and sharing in the general schemes. [More…]
In fact trade unions, having a community interest, are among the ideal bodies to run very successful co-operatives including housing co-operatives. [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union of Australia of which I have been a member for many years runs a great number of housing co-operatives, particularly in Victoria. [More…]
However, as the trade union of trade unions the ACTU might over-involve itself in commercial enterprises. [More…]
As a member of 2 trade unions part of my subscription fees ultimately goes to the ACTU and my counsel to the ACTU would be: ‘Do not stretch yourself too far in areas in which you have not had experience. [More…]
Helping some people to accept the philosophy of wanting to buy their own homes should be a project which should be entered into by trade unions and other interested organisations as well. [More…]
I feel I must emphasise that the standover tactics and threats of Mr Slater, apparently made on behalf of his union, although I know a number of unionists who would dissociate themselves from the type of tactics adopted by him, to members of this Parliament about what will happen to them if they carry out their function as they see fit, conjure up a terrible prospect. [More…]
That principle was the result of the very persistent representations made last year by the combined trade union movement and the combined Public Service organisations as a result of which, as we said it at that time, that Act became the best in Australia. [More…]
Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Norway, Argentina, France, Iceland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Panama, United States of America and Denmark. [More…]
I refer in particular to what Senator Wright and others said about my comments and the comments of the Minister for Labour, Mr Clyde Cameron, about the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill 1972 that was introduced by the previous Government, after consultation with the union movement. [More…]
But the citizens who are more equal than others in my mind are the trade union secretaries and the trade unionists whom this Government proposes to make immune from tort in industrial action. [More…]
With great respect to Senator Hannan, I suggest that he got on to a lot of irrelevancies when he talked about the mish mash of the Government, trade union secretaries getting it easier and things of this nature. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour aware of the statement of his colleague Mr Clyde Cameron that he would support the Federated Ironworkers Union’s proposal for a series of rolling strikes affecting the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd? [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to a statement made by Mr J. S. Baker, Federal Secretary of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, that the union is very concerned about telephone bugging and that there were real grounds for examination of the security of the public communications system in Australia? [More…]
It is public knowledge that Mr Baker and a number of members of his union have made statements to the Postmaster-General and myself about certain matters which they suspect. [More…]
It is the employer or the employees union which gets the big headlines. [More…]
It is a Party which, if it is not controlled by union officialdom, is certainly strongly influenced by and submissive to its union connections. [More…]
It is a Parry not only powerless to resist policy proposals which the trade union movement regards as vital, but as a government it is unwilling and unprepared to challenge powerful sections of the trade union movement when they act against the public interest. [More…]
When a union ban is imposed on French shipping, French trade, mail and telecommunications - action which before the event the Prime Minister said would be contrary to the national interest - the Prime Minister and the Government again become silent. [More…]
When a construction union bans the construction of a public work the Government is once again silent and inactive. [More…]
When the Australian Council of Trade Unions makes a submission to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission which must have inflationary effects the Government gives its wholehearted support to that submission. [More…]
public interest, an election promise of the Australian Labor Party to grant 4 weeks annual leave to all public servants would have been limited by the deliberate choice of the Government to union members only. [More…]
While imposing a price control under the euphemism of prices justification on large scale employers of labour the Government resolutely has set itself against any form of limitation of wages or incomes for reasons which unmistakably reflect the pattern of government submission to union power. [More…]
Why, when union power, backed by the pressure and coercion pf union solidarity, is so strong is the Government creating greater opportunity for this . [More…]
In those days it was the disruption to the public interest that promoted the development of statutorily imposed conferences and arbitration procedures where, by law supported generally by the trade union movement and the Labor Party, the excesses and hardship caused by unregulated and unrestricted collective bargaining were sought to be overcome. [More…]
The understanding of this - this is why I have sought to elaborate the concept at some length - is vital to an appreciation of why the Opposition will resist in the Parliament and in the country the provisions of this Bill, which grant a charter to the union movement to hold the community to ransom. [More…]
We in the Opposition shall not accept the precept, which the Labor Party accepts, that the only power, .which matters is union power.We believe in and we shall fight any. [More…]
It is class or sectional legislation, calculated to enable unions to act with substantial immunity from the. [More…]
What the Government is doing is reverting, and reverting by deliberate act, to the anarchy of laissez-faire so that unions may achieve by their industrial power whatever they aspire to achieve. [More…]
Indirectly, the unions are strengthened by those provisions which seek to give them an immunity to move into premises at.any time and to take such -action as the union, member or official thinks fit in order to advance what he conceives to be the interests of his members. [More…]
However, a number of fines then existing have since been paid, in particular the fines owing by unions which now . [More…]
Union were paid early in 1972. [More…]
The unions paid because they knew that the Government meant action. [More…]
The last time that they were sought to be imposed, all the unions which owed the fines paid them on the indication that the Government was proposing to collect them. [More…]
This doubt exists primarily because the frequent assertions by and intimidation of union officialdom lead to a belief that strike penalties would lead to more general industrial trouble. [More…]
It was the action of the employers, the fixing of a day for hearing by the Industrial Court and an appreciation of the consequences of that action that brought a group of unions which had been recalcitrant of a period of 2 months to the point at which they were prepared to accept the mediation, outside the legislation, of Mr Justice Moore. [More…]
It was only when the union movement cracked the whip that the Minister was forced to abandon his publicly expressed views and espouse the policies now inherent in the Bill. [More…]
Both gentlemen indicated that when a Federal Labor government was in office individual unionists would be fined for any breach of an agreement. [More…]
Within 48 hours not only the union movement but the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Caucus repudiated its leader, and today we have this Bill which represents the approach of the Labor Party that there should be no penalties at all. [More…]
The concept of meaningful negotiations, so often stressed by union leaders, will simply mean a round-table conference at which the employers concede what the unions demand. [More…]
Until the employers concede what the unions demand we will have the constant repetition from the union side that the employers are not willing to enter into meaningful negotiations. [More…]
Meaningful negotiations, in the language of the trade union movement, has come to mean: ‘Give to us, the unions, what we want. [More…]
There will be greater pressures for what some union official believes his union members can benefit from and what will enhance his own union’s standing. [More…]
Small unions and their members will suffer as larger unions, because of their greater power, make greater gains. [More…]
It is not surprising, in the case of a government which regards itself as the political arm of a labour movement which has for its industrial arm union militancy, that that overall purpose is to strengthen the power and influence of employees’ organisations, the powerful trade unions. [More…]
For a governmental framework designed to regulate the anti-social effects of industrial relationships it substitutes an open door for unrestricted and unregulated trade union activity. [More…]
The Government is fulfilling its obligations and promises to its union members and its union financiers, supporters and virtual controllers, but it is retreating from its obligations to the people of Australia as a whole. [More…]
Senator Greenwood says that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union paid some of its fines, but we all know that it did that not because of any threats or because it feared that it would be deregistered or would not be able to continue if it did not pay them, but merely to smooth the way for the amalgamation which it entered into towards the end of last year. [More…]
The second matter which is contentious and on which Senator Greenwood spent some time is the proposition that the removal of recourse to the civil courts by employers who feel aggrieved by the concerted action of employees or by the actions of trade unions also will contribute to the dislocation of industrial life and will make peace in industry harder to attain. [More…]
It inserts proposed new section 146a which frees unions and union officials from liability to action in tort for actions arising out of industrial matters. [More…]
It was suggested that we were attempting to open the door to violence and intimidation and that the removal from unions and union officials of liability to action in tort was an invitation to criminality. [More…]
I refer to what are now sections 70 and 72 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1961-1964, which were taken from the Queensland Trade Union Act 1915. [More…]
An action against a trade union, including an industrial union registered under this Act, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the union, shall not be entertained by any court. [More…]
The fact remains, Senator, that you did not bother to remove from the statute books these provisions which explicitly excluded unions or union officials from actions in tort. [More…]
There was also one in Victoria, the Ford Motor Company v. The Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
We think that the public interest is much more important than that some employer may have the right to rush to court for penalties against a union or group of union officials because there has been a strike, lasting a day of so, that he may have provoked. [More…]
I am not attempting to cover the whole field, but only its more contentious aspects, are the measures which we have taken in this Bill to facilitate the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
their minds and look at this, matter honestly must admit that any measures designed to facilitate union amalgamations are squarely in the public interest because, as has been pointed out in the debate on this Bill in the other place and as has been pointed out often, Australia has just too many tradeunions. [More…]
At the end of 1970 there were, I believe, 305 separate trade unions in Australia. [More…]
Well, by contrast, in West Germany with a population of 61 million, there are only 16 unions, lt must be obvious, on a moment’s reflection, that larger unions not only produce more efficient service to union members but also save society and employers from much unnecessary disputation and disruption of the. [More…]
This Bill contains measures which remove the obligation for ballots for amalgamation - what are called official ballots - to be conducted as of necessity by the Industrial Registrar while it permits the union to request a ballot to be held in such a way if it wishes. [More…]
We also embody an amendment which we sought to put into the Arbitration Bill when it was being debated in this chamber last year, namely, a requirement that the host union which may be much larger than a small union which seeks to> amalgamate with it should not be required to hold a ballot if, in fact, the union seeking to amalgamate with it has only 5 per cent of the number of members of the host union. [More…]
We have also provided that a simple majority df the members of a union should be sufficient to encompass the aim of an amalgamation and, of course, we have eliminated a requirement that there can be a ballot inquiry into amalgamation votes when the vote has been conducted officially by the Registrar. [More…]
Despite what Senator James McClelland and other spokesmen for the Government have said there is no doubt that the provisions of this Bill would give increased power to the militant union bosses and would enable them to hold industry and the nation to ransom. [More…]
There is no doubt that most Australians support the principles of trade unionism. [More…]
Most would agree that, many excellent benefits have been achieved for members of unions over the years. [More…]
But I believe that if militant unionists and union bosses are given powers so that they can use tactics of militancy, coercion or intimidation against industry, then we could reach a stage where we could have industrial anarchy and chaos. [More…]
When we look at the provisions of this Bill, despite what has been said here, unionists and union bosses would be free from civil action. [More…]
We can visualise a situation in which top union bosses not only could intimidate members but also could create strikes and intimidate employers. [More…]
It was first promised on 2 June by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when addressing the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The value of this Bill to that Union can be clearly seen from the fact that the Union donated $25,000 to the Australian Labor Party’s campaign funds after hearing what Mr Whitlam had to say. [More…]
The proof of that is to be found in a speech made by Senator Gair to the National Press Club in Canberra prior to the last election in which he produced the minutes of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which showed quite clearly that it was not until Mr Whitlam gave a clear undertaking as to what the Bill would provide - the abolition of the penal provisions from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and so forth - that it agreed to hand over $25,000. [More…]
I can understand why the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is particularly pleased with the introduction of this Bill. [More…]
I can understand why Mr Laurie Carmichael, the effective leader of the Union, would be particularly pleased. [More…]
It was only after Mr Carmichaels union had extracted the promise from Mr Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party would abolish all the penal provisions from the present legislation if it were elected to office that it was prepared to, and in fact did, hand over $25,000 to the Labor Party for its election campaign. [More…]
He would be pleased with the removal of all the democratic provisions required under the present legislation for union amalgamation ballots. [More…]
As the Bill seeks to destroy the effect of the clean ballot legislation that was introduced by the Chifley Government to deal with union manipulators and ballot riggers, he would also be pleased. [More…]
Is it any wonder that Mr Carmichael and a union such as the union he leads are happy with the provisions of this Bill? [More…]
It is worth noting that the removal of the penal provisions from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act will result in the communist union leaders achieving the major objective they have set for themselves over the last 20 years. [More…]
I repeat, for the sake of emphasis: Is it any wonder that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was prepared to hand over $25,000 to the. [More…]
Let me now turn to the question of union amalgamations. [More…]
number of unions in Australia. [More…]
The Minister said that in December 1970 there were 305 separate trade unions in Australia. [More…]
unions had a membership of more than 50,000. [More…]
These - figures ignore the fact that approximately 65 per cent of all Australian unionists are members of 21 unions. [More…]
Apart from that, the drive towards amalgamation is not directed at absorbing small unions but rather to bringing together the large and medium sized unions into some concentrated body, which would be to the detriment of the rank” and file members’ of those unions. [More…]
The attitude of my Party to union amalgamations is, I think, clear. [More…]
We do not oppose union amalgamation. [More…]
All we say is that there ought to be proper safeguards to prevent the amalgamation of unions by stealth. [More…]
The case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which was so keen to contribute $25,000 to the Austraiian Labor Party election campaign, funds, ‘was one amalgamation which was brought about by stealth. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the ballot that brought about the amalgamation was conducted and counted by the union officials themselves, many of whom were members of the Communist Party. [More…]
Union funds and resources were used to support the amalgamation; none were used to argue the case against the amalgamation. [More…]
Only 16 per cent of all the members of the unions involved voted in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
Apparently the Government thinks it is because the Government wants to remove from the Act those provisions requiring the proper democratic procedures to be followed before unions can amalgamate. [More…]
We say it should provide that an amalgamation cannot, take place unless and until more than half the membership of the union votes for it. [More…]
We do not believe that the Act as it presently stands is good enough when it requires only half the union members to vote in a ballot and when the majority of these can carry the vote. [More…]
The Government’s proposal would destroy what democratic procedures are left in relation to union amalgamations. [More…]
whole ambit of the Bill but the third matter upon which I want to touch concerns clean union ballots. [More…]
the Chifley Government in 1947 which , took positive steps to prevent union ballot rigging, there would be no way of dealing with this menace of crooked balloting in particular unions. [More…]
Surely any person who claims to be a democrat will agree that union officials ought to be elected only in properly supervised ballots, and that those ballots which are open to rigging ought to be properly supervised. [More…]
In the days when I was a member of the Labor Party Senator James McClelland was fighting to have this ballot system introduced to ensure proper safeguards in union elections. [More…]
It is wrong for people outside the unions to interfere in union affairs. [More…]
It certainly is not wrong for a government to safeguard the rights of rank and file members of unions. [More…]
Once this provision is removed, if it is removed, can honourable senators imagine the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which did so well out of the inaction of the previous Government, then asking the Industrial Registrar to conduct such a ballot?. [More…]
If the majority of the union members want amalgamation then 1 am for it. [More…]
But I want to ensure that each member of the union has a right to vote in a properly supervised ballot. [More…]
I want to ensure also that the case for the amalgamation as well as the case against it is put to the union membership. [More…]
I do not believe - and surely Senator Mulvihill does really not believe - that union funds ought, to be used to propagate one side of the argument, namely, why the amalgamation ought to . [More…]
Registered unions are not a private organisation. [More…]
Workers are compelled to belong to unions by the sheer coercive power of unions, and Senator Wheeldon says that a union is a private organisation which can do as it pleases. [More…]
The next point I want to raise in relation to union amalgamations is that the Bill removes the necessity for postal voting and secret ballots, and allow ballots to be conducted - these are the words used in the Bill - ‘in accordance with any rules of the organisation that are applicable’. [More…]
a membership roll be compiled on which is included those persons who are members or were members of the union when the Registrar gave his approval of the proposed scheme of amalgamation. [More…]
It leaves it to the union officials to define who are the financial members. [More…]
It enables no limit to be placed on the number of small organisations which may be amalgamated into a large organisation without a ballot of the members of a union involved. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the Australian Engineering Union ballot. [More…]
It was the dominant union in the proposed amalgamation. [More…]
I wonder how many members of the union did not even know that the ballot was being held. [More…]
If the Government claims to be the champion of unionists and of the rights of unionists, why does it want to take from the unionist his right to decide what happens to his union. [More…]
Why does the same thing not apply to a trade union? [More…]
Why should a member of a trade union find himself deprived of his union merely because he did not know a ballot was being taken on the question of amalgamation and, if he did, what safeguards has he? [More…]
Why would the Government not want to see the retention of the present provisions whereby the unionist has the right to know what the amalgamation is about, and has the right to vote in a properly supervised ballot, with at least half the members voting before the amalgamation can take place? [More…]
I stated earlier that the Democratic Labor Party believes that there should be a requirement that 50 per cent of the members of a union must vote in favour of an amalgamation Before it can take place. [More…]
There is not compulsory voting in union elections and I am not proposing that. [More…]
What I am saying is that a union should not be permitted to be taken over by another union by stealth. [More…]
More importantly, the present Act provides that a ballot be supervised, not by union officials who are concerned with the amalgamation, but by the industrial registrar. [More…]
Why would the Government want to promise Mr Carmichael, who got his big union by stealth, that it will enable the same thing to be done in future with other unions? [More…]
What a squeal there would be I am saying, and I repeat it, that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) first promised this Bill on 2 June at a meeting of the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union and, in return for the promise, that union contributed $25,000 to the. [More…]
The Labor Party is a puppet government in relation to the cause of trade unionism. [More…]
The Labor Party is the creation pf the trade union organisation and expresses, at the direction of the majority representation of the unions in its councils, the purposes and objectives of the trade union movement. [More…]
If one couples that identity of purpose in Parliament with unrestrained, uncontrolled and unlimited power on the part of unions to combine to destroy industry, prosperity and employment, outside, one finds a situation in which the contest is between unbridled unionism- militant unionism - on’ the one hand and parliamenary government on the other and this must come to a real crisis. [More…]
Despite what I have said, I do not want to be misrepresented as one who is hostile to the institution of trade unionism. [More…]
Trade unionism is a welcome . [More…]
and useful institution, not only for the members of the unions but also for ‘the balanced development of the community. [More…]
But an ignorant view has been espoused by members of the Government, echoing ignorance and pre-, judice from militant leaders who mislead their trade union members, that unions should be irresponsible and have some privilege in the. [More…]
It is when one comes to arming combinations of industrial power led by irresponsible unions and acceded to by weak government, who are their instruments, that there is danger to the prosperity of a free community. [More…]
The legislation provided that if the tribunal enjoined the union for a period not to enter into a strike the union was liable to a penalty for non-compliance with or a breach of that direction. [More…]
It is true that the Liberal-Country Party Government, which preceded the Whitlam Government, in order to placate the unions from 1965 onwards, introduced clauses to try to make those sections that enforced the bans clauses palatable to the unions and provided that penalties imposed under those sections should not be enforceable unless a presidential member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission issued a certificate that in the course of a certain dispute h was appropriate that the penalty should be sought from the Industrial Court. [More…]
But nothing would satisfy the unions which were controlled by militant disciples of chaos, the Carmichaels, the Mundeys and others who significantly are avowed communists. [More…]
It was an endeavour to see whether moderation in enforcement would induce sense into the trade union movement with regard to this policy. [More…]
That legislation was enacted against the declared opposition of the organised trade union movement which, of course, has not yet been quelled. [More…]
In 1904, 4 years after Federation, all parties combined in one unanimous purpose to create the system in the hope that the leaders of the working unions would adopt it to supply solution of their disputes by peaceful and unwasteful means instead of by prolonged strikes, bitterness and conflict. [More…]
It brings in a provision that would exempt all unions, all officers of unions and all members of unions from any wrong-doing in connection with a trade dispute. [More…]
So far from putting its efforts to preventing trade disputes and, when they occur, channelling them to the peaceful decision of the Arbitration Commission, the Government now in 1973 with the genius of Gough Whitlam, guided by Cairns and a few others who ought to know better, and a whole crowd following them who, of course, do not understand that they are simply’ being manipulated by extreme communist disruptionists, npt only wants to neutralise the remedies’ under the arbitration system but wants also to give to the trade union organisation, its officers and members a special privilege that Austraiian organisations, officers and members have never had - a privilege to be erected here 70 years after the commencement of the arbitration system, that system being designed specifically to bring the unions into the field where the framework of law would give them advantages and impose corresponding responsibilities, and in which the whole community would work according to a system of law and order; in the words of Mr Justice Higgins: ‘A new province of law and order’. [More…]
The trade union movement today is determined to see that the principle of job security prevails. [More…]
I sometimes wonder whether senators who sit in this chamber on well-padded buttocks are interested in whether somebody’s job is secure/ Senator Wright indulged in .a tirade about agitation by trade union secretaries. [More…]
It refers to expediting proposals for trade union amalgamations. [More…]
I was surprised that Senator Kane adopted the attitude he did about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, there is apathy in the trade unions as there is in any other group. [More…]
The number of people who objected to the amalgamation of the metal trades unions was so minute that it is not worth talking about. [More…]
This is only one section of the trade, union movement. [More…]
If we are to deal with, the ideological content of trade unions, let me remind the Senate that the transport workers - the members of the Australian Railways Union, the’ storemen and packers and the waterside workers - probably will have” a merger of their own. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite say to the unions that they should dispense with confrontation through strikes and settle disputes around the table by collective bargaining, the trade union movement has to make its in-depth research, and’ that costs money. [More…]
Some of the smaller unions ‘ cannot afford to do it. [More…]
In fact, in many of the smaller unions getting the job done is dependent on the dedication of individuals. [More…]
I give as an illustration the biscuit- makers and pastrycooks union in Victoria. [More…]
It is a relatively small union. [More…]
The parties to that dispute were the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council, the Australian Workers Union and the mining company. [More…]
I was amazed that Senate Kane, a former member of the Transport Workers Union, indicated that he wants to throw thu Bm out. [More…]
He forgets his old comrades in that union and the fact that the Moore v. Doyle dispute has created a complete impasse in the trade union movement. [More…]
But with the back of his hand he has struck the Transport Workers Union in the face. [More…]
In this respect, it is designed to assist the strong unions such as the Amalgamated MetaL Workers’ Union. [More…]
It is true - and it has been shown to ‘be true in England as it is here - that Labor members of Parliament have the most profound respect of trade union secretaries over whose backs they hope to climb to this exalted chamber. [More…]
Once having arrived here, they lose their nexus, with industrial organisations and they do not know what goes on within the unions. [More…]
I suppose it is simply the case that they are prepared to allow the weakest to go to the wall and to allow the strong metal unions and other left wing organisations to ride rampant over the rest of the industrial community. [More…]
I was impressed by Senator Kane’s reference to the $25,000 bribe paid to the Australian Labor Party by the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union. [More…]
I am still a financial member of my union, and I go to all its meetings. [More…]
I have been paid for my services in that capacity and I think that that is more than the honourable senator could say if he went to his union. [More…]
That is not what my union thinks. [More…]
What happened was simply that the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who was then Leader of the Opposition, went cap in hand to this mighty metal union and said: ‘Look, we need the money, boys. [More…]
Clause 26 gives a power to a union organiser to enter any premises for the purpose of inspecting not only conditions of labour. [More…]
I mention the scandal which brought about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
of legitimate trade unionism. [More…]
Christopher Hollis, who was probably the most progressive of English conservative thinkers, when referring to the end of the last century wrote that capitalism in England would have collapsed under its own weight if it had not been for the existence of the trade unions which protected the men who had- only the labour of their own 2 hands to -sell. [More…]
The unions protected them from capitalist exploitation. [More…]
What has happened since the days about which Christoper Hollis wrote is that far from being a persecuted downtrodden organisation, the union tail is now wagging the entire community dog, and it is the very strength of the trade union movement which may well bring the trade union movement down in ruins, as the very dictatorship of Hitler, Stalin and the rest of those people have brought their own organisations down in ruins. [More…]
Not only do we have an abuse of Union strength in regard to refusing often to accept the umpires decision, we also have political strikes. [More…]
We are seeing and hearing a great deal of nonsense from unions on the issue of the French nuclear tests. [More…]
I am concerned at this stage only with the fact that the foreign policy of this country was taken out of the hands of a pusillanimous Prime Minister and wielded by the Seamens Union. [More…]
There is another matter which has had little or no attention and that is the removal of the provision relating to the payment of the costs of a successful rank and file member of a union who takes action against his union executive. [More…]
In the past - LiberalCountry Party governments have always had very high regard for the genuine welfare as distinct from the strangleholding of union activities - there was a provision that any member of a trade union who felt that wrongful action was being taken by the executive had the right to apply to the Attorney-General for the payment of his costs in any court proceedings. [More…]
It must be remembered that the member of a union who has only the labour cif his 2 hands to sell, who has only his own wages, is tangling with an organisation which, let us say in the case of the metal union, has an income of about $3m a year. [More…]
In those circumstances it would seem to me to be the barest elementary justice that such a man should have his costs borne by his union provided it is not a frivolous attack. [More…]
Arbitration did a great deal for the trade union movement. [More…]
Because of the arbitration system we have the highest average of trade union membership in the world. [More…]
Trade unionism has done great things for the Australian worker but today I confess with regret, because I have always supported arbitration, that arbitration is on the way out. [More…]
It sought the advice of members of the trade union movement. [More…]
They said that if the present Government wanted to make any real contribution towards industrial peace it would try to get back to the principles of the Bill that was passed by the Chifley Government in 1947 and to which the only worthwhile measures that have been added are those on amalgamation and trade union ballots. [More…]
On the question of torts by trade union officials, there is a considerable body of opinion that the situation is covered by the existing law. [More…]
The, whole of this Bill is based on the principle, of big amalgamated trade unions and big organisations of employers getting together, and agreeing to milk the public by agreed awards and then recouping themselves, in the . [More…]
Trade union people are being put on boards and managements to make sure that their point of view ‘ is made known, But honourable senators opposite still talk about the old days, the days of the coal mines, the days of the first arbitration legislation when it was considered that a worker had no rights at all. [More…]
We are talking of the days when unions are organised and have a collective power. [More…]
The Labor Government has decided that the trade unions, in concert with that power, should have new inhibitions placed upon them. [More…]
We have decided to make sure under this legislation that trade union officials have to be elected to office. [More…]
We have put new strictures on the trade union movement. [More…]
We are providing, for example, that there shall be more democracy in the union movement. [More…]
Senator Wright talked about Mr Mundey and the militant left wing unions. [More…]
May I remind the honourable senator that only last week’ he asked me whether I had met the building workers’ unions, and the very next day I was to meet in this building the militant and non-militant union bosses, the right wing unionists and the Master Builders Association representatives. [More…]
What have they done about the penalties they imposed on the unions? [More…]
But they say tonight that unions ought to be subject to sanctions. [More…]
He told us about how Mr Wilson had failed and he said that when Mr Heath got to power he applied new measures against the union movement. [More…]
As soon as these new measures were applied theoretically, of course the trade union movement did not accept them. [More…]
They will not work if we say, as honourable senator opposite say, that trade unions have no rights. [More…]
If trade unions break an arbitration law or reject an award, the Opposition says that they should be punished. [More…]
It believes that the worker has to be penalised, that the union has to be penalised but that the bosses - the profiteers - should get off scot free. [More…]
It has offered 25 per cent subsidy to Union Steam Ship to build two roll-on/ roll-off vessels in Australia for the Trans-Tasman trade; announced tenders would be called shortly for a 70,000-ton replacement for Australian National Line’s ‘Tolga’; announced two further orders would be placed shortly by ANL, one as a replacement for ‘North Esk’ the other a further vessel for the Tasmanian trade; called tenders for an oceanographic vessel for the Navy; announced that tenders would be called shortly for a navigational aid vessel for the Department of Transport; advised it expected several companies to announce plans to build vessels and oil rigs in Australia; permitted the import of three 100,000 ton vessels for the coastal trade on condition that orders for equivalent tonnage were placed with Australian shipyards; announced a decision to reserve the coastal trade to Australian-built ships. [More…]
Australia is surrounded by water but had been so lagging in marine science that nations such as the Soviet Union and Japan were far more knowledgeable of what was happening with the fish life around the coast of Australia than were Australian scientists who were placed in the position of having to ask the Japanese or the Russians for information about our own resources. [More…]
The Federal part of the Parliament is the Senate - the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal union. [More…]
But unlike our Founding Fathers, who were concerned to establish the Senate as the Federal part of the Parliament - ‘the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal Union’ - the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) leaves no doubt that, as one honourable member of another place expressed recently, he ‘is hell-bent on completely abolishing the States themselves’. [More…]
It is the thin edge of an insidious wedge being relentlessly employed by those bent on the wrecking of our federal union and the destruction of our sovereign States. [More…]
So long as every State is like every other State, equality of suffrage is not destroyed by admitting a new State to the Union. [More…]
The union would not man her. [More…]
She is manned by a non-union crew. [More…]
So, Mr Jones having said that these port facilities were designed to accommodate a larger vessel and a larger vessel ideally suited for the trade having been constructed, the governments in combination are stupid enough to use a vessel such as I have described, manned by non-union labour, without any container or refrigerated facilities and not equipped to carry cattle. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General, having regard to his recent statement that he would seek the active help of various bodies in the interests of crime detection and prevention, urgently seek the help of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union regarding a series of recent and current incidents of alleged physical violence to persons and property at the Botany plant of Imperial Chemical industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited. [More…]
Members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union were one of a number of unions involved in a stoppage of work for some weeks at the Botany plant of Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited. [More…]
The members of the unions involved in the stoppage returned to work on 29 March 1973. [More…]
Is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics commercial airline, Aeroflot, allowed to operate flights to and from Australia. [More…]
No agreement authorising such a service has been entered into between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Was the Minister for the Media correctly reported in the ‘Australian’ of 8 August as promising that the Federal Government would pay the cost of action by Greater Union Theatres in Brisbane to fight a court case to overcome a ban on the screening of the film ‘Oh! [More…]
I am also informed that union action concerns principally metropolitan France in the form of bans on communications and on servicing any ships or aircraft owned and/or registered in metropolitan France or any ships or aircraft chartered by any French metropolitan interests. [More…]
The ability of the 2 super powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, to destroy each other by nuclear exchange has placed substantial restraint on direct military confrontation. [More…]
Five years ago, although the government was communist, that government was attacked on the ground that it sought some small degree of independence from the demands of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In addition, the Managing Director of the Greater Union Theatre organisation, Mr Moremon, wrote to me only last week and said that his organisation was tremendously impressed with the quality of the films being produced by Film Australia, that it would be very interested in seeing the films available for purchase from Film Australia and that it also would be prepared to make suggestions as to what type of film could be produced by my Department which would be of a commercially successful nature. [More…]
He and I have been members of the same union for many years. [More…]
I say it because I know the gentleman about whom I am speaking as as a member of the union to which I belong. [More…]
However, there has been great criticism and some by industrial and union leaders. [More…]
Industrialists who have the responsibility of maintaining employment and a responsibility to the owner of their businesses, and certainly leading union officials such as Mr Hawke, have found it necessary in the first Labor Budget to be critical and to say that some actions which the Government has taken are certainly not viewed with favour by those who are responsible to both unionists and business. [More…]
He said that this Government sees hope in the new relationships between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In those years there were new relationships between the United States of America, Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to people such as Harold Souter and Bob Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Every time that we get a dispute such as the one concerning the Federal Branch of the Transport Workers Union we cannot do anything under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It was interesting to note that when the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, who was taking a few hours off from his duties as company director, was asked what he thought about this Budget he declared that in his opinion the blot upon the Budget was the fact that it resorted to indirect taxation which pressed heavily on the workers and was unfair to the workers. [More…]
I agree with Mr Hawke, who was merely expressing an obvious opinion and one that should have come from a .trade union leader. [More…]
Looking back over this situation of imbalance in spite of what has been said by some of the Department of Overseas Trade officials who gave evidence to the effect that the 2 economies were complementary to each other and there was no reason at all why they should not coalesce and eventually form one trading union. [More…]
Add to it this evidence by a Mr Clifford, a member of the Victorian Farmers’ Union: [More…]
Let it say here and now that it is prepared to sign a trade agreement with France and let it say that it will demand that the trade unions lift the ban on French trade and communications. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that despite the ban on French trade there was no protest from Mr Hawke and the trade unions about the visit of the Chinese Trade Minister and the conclusion of a trade agreement with China. [More…]
There has been no suggestion from trade union leaders, other than from Mr Short and one or two other sensible, rational and logical trade union leaders, that a ban should be placed upon Chinese trade. [More…]
It does not prevent the trade union movement from taking action, but it has the same double standard as the Government in relation to this matter. [More…]
without regard to either economic or social consequences it intends to award Government contracts to employers who will comply with trade union policies; [More…]
And whereas the Style and Titles appertaining to the Crown at the time of the enactment of the Statute of Westminster, 193 1 had been declared by His then Majesty King George V. in a Proclamation in pursuance of the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 of the United Kingdom, and were, in consequence of the establishment of the Republic of India, subsequently altered with the assent as well of the Parliaments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: [More…]
Was trade union pressure a factor which caused the Government to disband the Squadron? [More…]
To my knowledge no trade union pressure has been associated with the examination which is being conducted at present of the role played by 5ACS. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Primary Industry received a case prepared and submitted to him by the Farmers Union of Western Australia for special consideration to be given to the dairy industry in Western Australia? [More…]
If that is the action which the Labor Party is taking at this time, I agree with the leaders of the trade union movement who say that the policy is inappropriate at present. [More…]
The Government elects to use blunt instruments because it is a captive of its left wing trade union masters. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite took the opportunity to talk to officials of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia, the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia and the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia they would learn of the human interest stories that are involved with respect to those who work in those industries. [More…]
In those days Senator Little was a part of the trade union movement. [More…]
Every time I hear an Opposition member talk about anarchy in the trade union movement I wonder whether he says: ‘Do the Hospitals Contribution Fund and the Medical Benefits Fund in [More…]
The blood and iron that he sometimes uses on the trade union movement I wish he would use on the funds. [More…]
One minute the trade union secretary is a boss, he stands over the workers, he intimidates them, he has goon squads. [More…]
There is no trade union official, be he an organiser or an ACTU official, who today can go to any gathering of men in industry and be sure that they will accept his viewpoint. [More…]
This is the new era of the trade union movement. [More…]
The State secretary of the Bus Employees Union, Pat Ryan, put up one attitude and finally between his viewpoint and that of the Commissioner for Transport, an acceptable viewpoint emerged. [More…]
Sometimes I suppose the managerial people have to back down and conversely there is trade union solidarity. [More…]
The point is that when an employee or a trade union official complains about a case over which the employees are not prepared to indulge in a strike, it is still an injustice. [More…]
But one of the ways of removing industrial friction is by means of the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite say Oh well, look at the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union’, and chant the names of Halfpenny and Carmichael. [More…]
But it must be remembered that the mass of the union membership finally determines policy. [More…]
Leaving that sector of the trade union movement aside, let me deal with the group of unions covering the food industry. [More…]
The only conclusion that I can reach is that some unions are frugal. [More…]
If we are talking about the rank and file trade unionists, nothing is more serious than the problem that besets the Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
The present position is bad for society and it is bad for the trade union movement. [More…]
But at least we could have solved that problem in relation to future legislation because it is a trade union problem. [More…]
The trade unionists have their own pride in their membership. [More…]
It will be 1 1 years, on 18 October, since I appealed in this chamber for the then Government to raise before the United Nations the question of the persecution of Jews within the Soviet Union. [More…]
Tonight’s reference is again an appeal to our Government to take some action on a matter inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is the question of the supression, imprisonment and torture of political dissidents inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
But protests had this impact within the Soviet Union only when it is backed by the united might voice of hundreds of prominent people- by the opinions of a whole continent. [More…]
It is the Government’s intention to appoint the Secretary of the Victorian Seamen’s Union to the Commission; if so, what is the reason for the appointment. [More…]
1 ) that 1 will appoint a trade union representative to the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission. [More…]
I have indicated that there will be discussions with all the professional and trade union bodies concerned in the matter at a meeting on Monday convened by Mr Barnard. [More…]
These figures were not supplied to me by the trade union movement, as was suggested at the time; they were figures taken from an official State government document in Queensland which was issued by the Public Affairs Department. [More…]
But in the world in which we live it has not been possible so far to obtain world nuclear disarmament because of the refusal of the communist countries- particularly the Soviet Union- to agree to a system of inspection which would make any system of world nuclear disarmament trustworthy. [More…]
At the moment India, on her border, has 2 powerful neighbours with nuclear arms- the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
One can understand the attitude of Mrs Ghandi who, at the United Nations through her representatives, said frankly that she would sign the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty if the nations which had nuclear arms- great nations like Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union- would guarantee to defend, if necessary with nuclear weapons, any country such as India or Australia which might be attacked by a country having nuclear arms. [More…]
They have examined the situation in Europe today and have come to the conclusion that because the Soviet Union has the bomb, Great Britain has the bomb and the United States has the bomb and because they have had no guarantees from any of those countries that they will be protected or defended against nuclear attack, they have to defend themselves from nuclear attack. [More…]
In view of the situation in Europe and as no other country in Europe has the military power to stand up to the Soviet Union, the French have decided that their only hope, faced with the possibility of an American withdrawal from Europe, is if they have a nuclear deterrent. [More…]
What they are proposing to do is to obtain for themselves a form of deterrent which will offer them some prospect of being taken notice of by the Soviet Union in the event of the Soviet Union attempting to take over Europe. [More…]
He said that the French have gone ahead for the same reason as the British and the Chinese- also the Americans, if it came to the point- that is, because they are afraid of the Soviet Union. [More…]
France and Britain believe that if the Soviet Union threatened them they could not be certain that the United States would place its own cities at risk in order to save its allies. [More…]
I point out that according to Professor Burns the weapons which the French are preparing are infinitely less potent than those of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Professor Burns points out further that the only power that would be immediately disadvantaged by France’s development of an efficient thermo-nuclear warhead is the Soviet Union. [More…]
He says that is why we hear what we do against the French tests from Moscow orientated Communist Union leaders who were silent when in 1961 the Soviet broke the unofficial mon.torium on nuclear tests with a 50 megaton explosion and later on with at least an 80 megaton explosion. [More…]
Whether we agree with it or not, we have to concede at least that in the present balance of the powers in Europe under which no country could stand up to the Soviet Union the French have an argument which ought to be looked at. [More…]
America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Great Britain. [More…]
Premier Chou En-lai said that he believed that France, like China, had to have nuclear armaments because of the threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I notice that, although the French intend to continue tests, Mr Whitiam asked the Australian Council of Trade Unions to lift the trade union ban on French communications. [More…]
I have no doubt that the reason why Mr Whitlam asked the ACTU to cease its action against the French was that a number of unions had placed on the agenda of the ACTU congress motions seeking similar condemnatory action to be taken in regard to China, because of its tests, as had been taken against France. [More…]
It was a decision of the unions recently, following a request from Mr Whitlam to the ACTU, to lift the ban. [More…]
I repeat that the reason why it was lifted was that certain unions had put an item on the agenda for the ACTU conference asking that China be similarly condemned. [More…]
Our Government, which at present is making trade treaties with China, which calls China the most favoured nation and which will set up a high priority visit by our Prime Minister and other Ministers to China, felt it was very embarrassing that certain trade unions said that they ought to be honest enough to do to China what they were doing to France. [More…]
In this present equation the United Kingdom and the United States are superimposed on the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I think it is inevitable, even disregarding ideological reasons, that there be a conflict of interest between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is the crunch of my assertion: Whether the tests were held in Australia, underground in the Urals in the Soviet Union, or in the Nevada desert in the United States, they were held on home ground. [More…]
Remarkably, one of the by-products of the cold war- fear of the Soviet Union- put Japan and West Germany back on their feet. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about criticism of foreign policy and the undoubted imperialism of some of the actions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
They are prepared to be a bit tolerant and say that he achieved some understanding with the Soviet Union and China and that there has been a reduction of tension in South Vietnam, although there are a few other odd things still happening in that country. [More…]
What are the current radiation levels in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (c) United States of America, (d) Canada, (e) New Zealand, and (!) [More…]
By what percentages has the present radiation level been contributed to by past nuclear testing by (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the United States of America, (c) the Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (d) The People ‘s Republic of China, and (e) France? [More…]
The Minister will recall that he told me last week that he intended to consult with his ministerial colleagues and various trade unions regarding the possible redundancies which are likely to occur as a result of the Labor Government’s decision to reduce defence expenditure. [More…]
Does the interest in this aspect of Government policy by Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions suggest an area of disagreement between the elected representatives of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement? [More…]
The honourable senator will be pleased to know that as a result of those discussions it was mutually agreed that a committee should be set up providing access to the trade union movement and those central bodies which I have mentioned. [More…]
The trade union movement and people who work in the industry say that they believe there are ways and means of getting additional work. [More…]
The survey, carried out by the State Teachers’ Union, found that children from poor suburbs were severely handicapped in learning skills, compared with those in wealthier areas. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the letter written by Dr Sakharov to the United States Congress appealing to Congress to block trade concessions to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unless it allows free emigration of its citizens. [More…]
Will the Minister re-examine his answer to my question last week when he said that restrictions placed on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union was an internal matter? [More…]
All honourable senators on this side know- I am sure that the Government itself knows- that it is reluctant to take action because it knows that if it deals in any way on the front of wage demands or if it deals in any way with incomes there will be an initial reaction, which it cannot withstand, from the trade union movement. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that he would receive co-operation from the trade union movement if price control was effective. [More…]
Mr Hawke did not even indicate that he would be prepared to take action on the trade union front if there could be effective price control. [More…]
It is a totally unco-operative attitude, and it is based upon the fact that the union movement is not prepared to give an inch. [More…]
Yet, even the former Liberal-Country Party Government with its tremendous hatred of the trade union movement and with its tremendous arrogant contempt for anybody who works with his hands was not game during the 23 years it was in power to take these things away from the people who, underneath, it hates so much. [More…]
As long as the big boys could get bigger and as long as it could grind the trade union movement down a little further, that was all it cared about. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that he told us he had received an assurance from Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party that the unions would practise forebearance and restraint in seeking any wage increases if the Government demonstrated that it was fair dinkum about attempting to restrain prices. [More…]
Despite the Prime Minister’s assurance, Mr Hawke has made it very clear that he will make no promises regarding wage constraint and certainly Mr Halfpenny, the Victorian Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Trades Union, has made it very very clear that his Union, the Amalgamated Metal Trades Union, will not be a party to any arrangement which would mean that they had to restrict other wage demands. [More…]
Furthermore, Mr Hawke could not deliver union concurrence to an agreement even if he did promise to do so. [More…]
Trade union power is preventing inflation control because it refuses to let the Labor Government have an incomes policy as part of an overall approach to attack and counter inflationary pressures. [More…]
With no restraint on wages, small industries forced to capitulate before union demands will be forced out of business. [More…]
He could not use the power over incomes because his own Party, and the union movement which is the very basis of his Party, could not permit him to do so. [More…]
This premise has been rejected time after time by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission when the trade union movement has gone to the Commission seeking an increase in the minimum wage rates. [More…]
I am satisfied that if we have the power to control prices, in addition to the measures which we have taken and which I have mentioned, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that finally the trade union movement, once it sees that we have taken the initiative, will give us its support. [More…]
Then, having effective control over prices, I am quite sure that the effect will carry into the trade union movement, into the area of wages and into the sorts of arrangements and controls that we might best obtain. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government is given power to control wages and power to control prices, and the complementary power to which I have referred, it will be put in the situation of trying to ensure that we will not have this vicious circle of continual inflation and of attempts- often unavailing- by sections of the trade union movement to catch up, and we will not have the position that we have today, in which people on fixed incomes, superannuation and so on, are reduced to the poverty line. [More…]
I refer to the trade unions. [More…]
Obviously, one reason why Mr Whitlam and Mr Crean have not been happy about this proposal- it is well know that Mr Whitlam did not want the referendum- is that they realise the immense difficulties they face from sections of the trade union movement, such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union under Mr Carmichael and Mr Halfpenny who now have established a system by which they go to a cosy love nest with the employers and work out increases. [More…]
That union is committed to that couse of action without regard to the effect upon other unions or upon the economy when demands are made for a flow-on. [More…]
Therefore, it is necessary that we call upon the trade union movement of Australia, not through one individual but through its interstate executive, or by means of a special conference if necessary, to delcare where it stands upon this question. [More…]
I have been told that at the recent congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions it was determined that there should be no control over wages. [More…]
Although because of some prejudice, the honourable senator has perhaps destroyed his attitude to the trade union movement I think that his call for co-operation with the movement is one which we have to accept and explore. [More…]
I would like to take honourable senators opposite on a trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Its masters outside of the Parliamentthe trade union bosses- have told the Government to lay its hands off the control of incomes. [More…]
I know that that is the way the system operates in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Of course, the Australian Council of Trade Unions would want to divert attention from the obvious fact that our inflationary problem is the end result of an abandonment of a wages policy tied to productivity in the face of direct action by certain hostile unions. [More…]
There is a lack of co-operation at a national level between the trade union movement, the community and government in the way in which we should seek to work together to arrest this inflationary spiral. [More…]
Perhaps the first step we should be looking at in order to achieve price stability, even in the short term, would require the curbing of the power of trade unions to pursue higher and higher wage levels. [More…]
It is a matter of public record that a manufacturer stated to that committee that if union demands at present on his desk are all upheld and achieved there will be an increase of 30 per cent in the cost of the product he produces by April of next year. [More…]
It is unreal to think that he will have a profit increase that would relate proportionately to those union demands. [More…]
But this scheme failed because of the union approach to this type of incentive. [More…]
The trade union objected to the fact that Mary Jane on one bench earned only $65 a week- although previously she had earnt $40- whereas Suzie Wong on the next bench earned perhaps $85. [More…]
Because of the attitude of the trade union movement these people were deprived of the opportunity not only to increase their productivity but also to increase the money in their pockets. [More…]
This action by the trade union resulted in a decision being made by this young enterprising fellow to put in an automatic machine which displaced about half of his employees. [More…]
Of course, the trade union movement has never complained about prices increases which have emanated from wage agreements which were made outside the jurisdiction of the wage fixing tribunals of this country. [More…]
If an employer said to a union: ‘We will give you the wage increase you asked for’, the union would shut its eyes to what happened subsequently and say the increase it received had come out of the profits of the employer. [More…]
It would have been easy for the leader of the trade union movement of this country to have come here with 2 hats and to have changed them so rapidly as to confuse everybody, being with the Labor Party and also with the unions. [More…]
He is President of the Labor Party and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
But he came here and wore his trade union hat, and he said he would not co-operate when the Government endeavoured to abdicate responsibility for the control of incomes. [More…]
He said he would not guarantee the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
If it is not politically stupid it will see beyond the vote of the 45 and the fact that the unions are all-powerful in the Labor Party’s internal discussions. [More…]
The unions have not even threatened the Government as yet, unless they have done so privately, yet the Government is frightened of union reactions if it dares to venture into the field of incomes, including profits and everything else. [More…]
Even the Treasurer has said: ‘We would like to have control of incomes too, but we cannot have that control while the unions object’. [More…]
Are the unions in a position to look at both sides of the question, in the interests of all Australians? [More…]
Do union officials do so even for their own members? [More…]
I say that they do not, and I have been a union official. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what would be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
I say without any hesitation that in most countries there is a coterie of men whose aim or objective is to seize control of the trade unions. [More…]
On more than one occasion the New Zealand Government has said to communist controlled unions in New Zealand: Unless you get rid of so-and-so we will deregister your union and we will freeze your funds’. [More…]
The thought has struck me that if these much abused oil companies- and they have been abused throughout the years- were activated with the same sentiments as some of the militant trade unions are, they would have said without any hesitation: ‘Right, your whole supply is stopped ‘. [More…]
That is what the Transport Workers Union has said on many occasions. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
It rightly condemns the aspects of apartheid and decides that it is not an internal matter for South Africa; then it runs away from the question of Russian tyranny on the specious ground that it is an internal matter for the Soviet Union. [More…]
Unfortunately it swallows all the diplomatic nonsense which is put out by the Soviet Union in respect of detente. [More…]
The gravamen of these interviews is that intellectual freedom is nonexistent in the Soviet Union and anyone who criticises the Government is liable to imprisonment and, in many cases, to torture, the favourite method being the injection of excessive amounts of the drug halopiridol to cause depression and ultimately madness. [More…]
In the Soviet Union we have seen the degrading spectacle of Dimitri Shostakovich, a name that will be familiar to all senators in this chamber as a very distinguished Russian composer, being compelled to write a letter to ‘Pravda’ in which he attacked his colleagues and his friends. [More…]
According to Sakharov, he is receiving excessive doses of the drug halopiridol The writer Andre Amabrik was sentenced to 3 years in July of this year for anti-Soviet activities, consisting largely of writing what might be called a Russian ‘1984’ predicting what the Soviet Union would be like in the future. [More…]
It should not be thought that the Soviet Union is entirely impervious to criticism from outside. [More…]
He did not quite accept the Soviet view on the conduct of World War II nor the amount of freedom which was available to people of intellectural attainments in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is extraordinary that dissidents in the Soviet Union who receive treatment are not placed in an ordinary prison. [More…]
It is important that the West should know what is happening in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ of 1 1 September also points out that there is plenty of evidence that international criticism is taken seriously inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Two American Cabinet Ministers- that is the nearest approach I can get to their status- have indicated to Russia that arrangements, presumably made with President Nixon when Brezhnev was in the United States recently, might well not be carried out unless there was some liberalisation of the condition of dissidents inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Please God, this protest will ring around the Soviet Union and may spring the traps which imprison so many courageous men. [More…]
Mr O Toole is the Federal Assistant Secretary, Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union. [More…]
That was a conflict between the Federal and State branches of the Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
Since this particular demarcation dispute arose between those 2 branches of the union we have had quite a lot of stoppages for exactly the reason I gave earlier. [More…]
The Labor Party has had a divided Caucus, and the union movement is uncertain as to whether there should be a proposal such as this. [More…]
I am sure that there is not a person in this chamber who has not heard that expression used by those who speak on behalf of the Labor movement when they raise arguments either to justify price control or the excuse actions which the union movement has taken when it has sought to increase the wages of the workers. [More…]
It may be that I would be interested in that brief if it should be offered at some future stage, but I am not banking on it because I think that the deception and the fallacy, in addition to the pressure of the union movement which can be exposed when this matter goes before the people, are such that this referendum proposal has little prospect of being acceptable. [More…]
That is interesting- of the union movement that, if price control proved effective, the unions would act voluntarily to restrain or moderate wage demands. [More…]
I am advised by the Minister for Civil Aviation that Mr Cooley, Chairman of the Public Service Board, has notified the Department that the Board has arranged a meeting with the Professional Radio Employees Institute, which is the union involved in the dispute, at 2.30 p.m. today. [More…]
I quote from the minutes of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which quoted Mr Whitlam. [More…]
Mr Whitlam was speaking about the prosecution of trade unions. [More…]
That statement is in the minutes of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I have no doubt that if the people of Australia give us power to control prices, we can count, if necessary, on the responsible co-operation of the trade union movement in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China face one another across their common border where the Russians have 45 divisions and the Chinese have almost as many. [More…]
I would say that with the serious position to the north of Australia the increasing power of China and the Soviet Union and the big increases in the size of their navies, anybody who simply says that we can forget the rest of the world for 10 to 15 years will have a very serious awakening. [More…]
We have a situation in which the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are on speaking terms. [More…]
True it is that it appears that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have reached a degree of co-operation and understanding that did not exist previously. [More…]
This has developed in place of the former bi-polar system involving the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The balance between the United States, China, the Soviet Union and Japan- the quadrilateral in our region- is far from clear. [More…]
Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union are bedevilled by great differences over the return of the islands north of Japan. [More…]
Only today it was reported that the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Tanaka, left for a tour of Europe and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was reported that he may reach agreement with the Soviet Union over the return of the northern islands- this was disputed in other reports- in return for Japanese investment for the development of Siberia. [More…]
On the other hand, if Japan cannot reach agreement with the Soviet Union will Japan reach agreement with China? [More…]
There are reports- I think this was mentioned by Senator McManus- that there are between 44 and 49 Russian divisions along the border between China and the Soviet Union and that they are faced by an equivalent number of Chinese divisions. [More…]
The Soviet Union, obviously. [More…]
No one who has any knowledge of military matters would say that the only threat would come on the border, that the only fighting would take place on the border, because everybody knows that the Soviet Union has nuclear submarines spread all over the world. [More…]
If the Chinese feel that there is a threat from the Soviet Union then obviously they will try to match those particular bases and a situation could develop where the confrontation will be not on the border between Russia and China but in some remote part of the Pacific. [More…]
I refer not only to the cold war between the United States, its allies and appendages, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but to a time when the divisions between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China had not become as apparent as they are now. [More…]
That is why there have been negotiations between the Administration of the United States and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The dispute between the Soviet Union and China is a black feature at the present time. [More…]
Is it a fact that the union which is concerned with these bus drivers has taken these employees out on strike on several occasions in order to have this anomaly and unfairness rectified? [More…]
As the Minister for Labour has expressed himself in favour of a 35-hour week in the power industry, does he approve of the methods used by power industry union officials in New South Wales to gain the 35-hour week? [More…]
The Minister and I are aware that there is a campaign by the trade union movement, in part supported by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the State Trades and Labour Council, to attempt to attain a 35-hour week in selected industries. [More…]
The discussions between the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, representing all the unions, and the State Government have broken down. [More…]
At present shipping services between Australia and New Zealand are provided almost entirely by the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, with some specialist cargoes such as timber being handled by the Australian shipping companies. [More…]
The Union Steamship Co. is New Zealand based and is the only shipping company which can operate between Australia and New Zealand. [More…]
One of the great problems has been that New Zealand wharf labourers have flatly refused to load or unload any vessel operating between Australia and New Zealand which is not a Union Steamship Co. vessel. [More…]
Recent reports have been to the effect that the New Zealand Government is planning to establish its own national line to counter the monopoly of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Ths move might be even more disadvantageous to Australia unless the Australian Government adopts the same procedure and arranges for and Australian flag carrier to enter the trade, whether it be the Australian National Line or some other carrier. [More…]
The discrimination between employee or trade union publications and employer publications appears to have been established fairly clearly on the evidence made available to me. [More…]
I understand from representations that have been made that some trade unions are in a state of confusion as to whether their publications are affected. [More…]
During the course of Senator Cotton ‘s remarks in this debate he said that these amendments have come under very severe criticism from the trade union movement. [More…]
I think it is only fair and proper that we should have a quick look at how the increases affect trade union journals. [More…]
The postings of one union in Australia, the Australian Workers Union, represent about onethird of these annual postings. [More…]
In other words, the union posts approximately 2.6 million items a year. [More…]
Honourable senators can see that if we are to look at how the increases affect the trade union journal position we have to examine an organisation which is involved in this field in a very big way. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union publishes 2 newspapers. [More…]
It is given to us in the schedules and information supplied with the Bill that the average weight of a union journal is 58 grams. [More…]
Under the amended proposals, postage charges for a single copy union journal weighing no more than 50 grams will be as follows: There will be no increase in the present cost of 2.5c on 1 [More…]
Let me return to deal with the journals of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
That Union claims to have over 140,000 members. [More…]
Eighty-five per cent of its membership receives a union journal every fortnight. [More…]
Those union members who want to receive ‘The Worker’ or, in Queensland, ‘The Northern Worker’, make application for it. [More…]
But there is a levy in the union dues whether or not the union member takes the newspaper. [More…]
This union sends out about 106,000 journals every fortnight- 62,000 copies of ‘The Worker’ in the southern States and 44,000 copies in the northern States. [More…]
The union relies heavily upon the mail service for distribution of its journal. [More…]
I am still referring to the Australian Workers Union and I am endeavouring to make a comparison of the charges existing now and those that will be in operation after the Bill is passed. [More…]
The cost of the journal is a levy on the union membership and therefore it is only correct and proper that we consider the increases in membership dues during a given period. [More…]
In 1968 the annual subscription to the Australian Workers Union was $8. [More…]
If the same progression is to apply in the next 3 years there will be a considerable increase in that union’s membership fee. [More…]
That is a very small amount in relation to past and expected increases in wages and union dues, [t might be appropriate at this time if I relate the position regarding average weekly earnings since 1966-67. [More…]
Yet the postage of the union journal is to go up by 52c a year. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe, who preceded me in this debate, mentioned at great length the case of the Australian Workers Union journal. [More…]
He said that because of the large increases in union dues the increased postal charges will not mean very much to that union. [More…]
That may be so; but not everybody is in the position of being able, because of compulsory unionism, to increase dues to such a tremendous extent that the increase outstrips even the current rate of inflation in this country. [More…]
Since then I have received a large number of telegrams from all sorts of people and organisations, including trade unions. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe referred to the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
He gave the impression that the Australian Workers Union should be quite happy with the new charges; that after all is said and done it has not been treated too badly. [More…]
But that is certainly not the view of the New South Wales general secretary of the Union, Mr Charles Oliver, whose telegram to me was in the following terms: [More…]
The Groom brothers have been producing newspapers for many years and, if I may say so, the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia has assisted them over the years. [More…]
The Union has assisted them with staff and paper problems and now is assisting them with their telecommunication problems. [More…]
It has had a commercial printing shop for as many years as I can remember, and I was at least 20 years the Secretary of the union. [More…]
Members of the Senate may have noted that one trade union newspaper commented in stronger terms. [More…]
A trade-union newspaper today bitterly attacked the Federal Government, which it helped to put into power. [More…]
In an editorial, The Australian Worker’ accused the Federal Treasurer, Mr Crean, of ‘giving the kiss of death ‘ to trade union publications. [More…]
He forecasts that no trade union newspapers would survive the postal charges slug. [More…]
The trade union movement and union newspapers supported the Labor Government ‘s battle for power. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
Western rapprochement with the Soviet Union could be dangerous if the West acquiesced over the lack of democracy in the Soviet Union, he said. [More…]
He called upon the United States Congress to support the Jackson amendment which sought to place safeguards, in terms of liberty, in any negotiation between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
What we are saying- we are asking the Senate to support us- is: ‘Please ask the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to look into this matter because human freedom and human dignity in the Soviet Union must be as precious to us as human freedom and human dignity in our own country ‘. [More…]
I make this plea without any kind of violent criticism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Just ask any Jew who has left the Soviet Union whether he was ever a hundred per cent sure that he would get out. [More…]
The second technique is even more subtle: the Soviet Union, by joining the Universal Copyright Convention (membership became effective on May 27), has ensured that works banned within the USSR can never be published abroad. [More…]
The first is Andrei Amalrik, the internationally known historian whose crime was that he wrote a book entitled: Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984’. [More…]
We do no service to the brave men to whom he has referred by indulging in any hymn of hate against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
After all, at the present time we are in a particularly delicate situation in relation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whatever we think about the Soviet Union and whatever we think about the United States, there is no doubt that the relationships between those 2 great powers will have a great deal to do with the sort of lives that we and our children will live in this country. [More…]
Whatever we may think of President Nixon, there is no doubt that over recent months negotiations designed to produce a real detente between the great rivals in the world- the Soviet Union and the United Stateshave been in train. [More…]
Understandably, there is in the United States, as there is in the rest of the world, a justifiable concern with what I believe are clear-cut manifestations of repression of opinion by dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On the one hand we have to strive to conduct our relations with the Soviet Union in such a way as to promote the detente. [More…]
We have to face up to the fact that, whatever anybody may think about the Soviet Union, it is not going to be puffed out of existence; it is here to stay for the foreseeable future. [More…]
We have to learn to live with it, just as the Soviet Union has to face the fact that it has to learn to live with the capitalist United States. [More…]
I believe- I agree with Senator Carrick on this - that we do not do any service to the cause of detente or to the cause of liberty throughout the world by remaining silent about the repression which I believe is occurring in relation to dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Having said all that, 1 think we have to face the fact that the Soviet Union has come a long way since the days of Stalin when a Solzhenitsyn or a Sakharov, far from being able to trumpet an appeal to the world, would have been allowed nothing much more than to stand up in the dock and parrot a prepared confession prior to a quick death. [More…]
Nonetheless, I accept that in the terms of this motion there is a prima facie case to support the allegations made by the 2 leading Soviet dissidents, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The dissident movement in the Soviet Union developed following Khrushchev’s admission to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party that the horrors of the Stalinist period, which had long been known to discerning people throughout the rest of the world but which had been denied by the communist movement throughout the world, in fact had occurred. [More…]
But members of what might be called the opposition in the sense of people who did not go along fully with the regime in the Soviet Union were dissatisfied with the restrictions that continued to be placed on them even after Khrushchev’s speech and some of them advocated radical changes to the social and economic system. [More…]
Since then we have heard of the cases cited by Senator Carrick: The case of the geneticist Zhores Medvedev who was deprived of his passport while on a lecture tour of Britain; the case of Vladimir Maximov who was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers and his novel ‘Seven Days of Creation’ described as ‘anti-Soviet’; and the case of Andrei Amalrik whose work, which was referred to by Senator Carrick, I happen to have read in translation. [More…]
I think the Soviet Union has reached the stage where it is no longer completely impervious to world opinion. [More…]
Among other things the Soviet Union has reached a stage where it needs massive technical and capital assistance to develop its own resources. [More…]
I think that in a situation like this is behoves people in the rest of the world, like ourselves, who while accommodating to the fact that the Soviet Union exists and is possibly a permanent fixture in world society, nonetheless to regard dissident intellectuals or human beings in general in those countries as people like ourselves, people in whose fate we have an interest and people for whom we are prepared to raise our voices. [More…]
Whilst I disagree with Senator Hannan on many of his views of the world, especially his view of the Soviet Union, I applaud his raising of this issue. [More…]
I would hope, as I said when I got to my feet, that everybody who speaks in this debate will speak responsibly, will speak without hate and will speak with a knowledge that we can no longer afford the luxury of just sounding off about what we do not like in the Soviet Union or, if it comes to that, what we do not like in the United States. [More…]
But I think it behoves any people who claim to be civil libertarians and who claim to be democrats to raise their voices against the sort of repression which I am convinced is occurring in the Soviet Union at present. [More…]
So I feel no inhibition whatsoever although I belong to a Party which has traditionally been considered to be over-partial to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst not resiling from the proposition that we should restrain ourselves from any violent attack on the Soviet Union, I feel no inhibitions at all in solidarising with the speakers who suggested and who moved that we should speak up on behalf of Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Amalrik, Grigorenko and all those other courageous dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Honourable senators would know that since he has become Chancellor he has devoted a lot of his energies to a detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wasn’t proposing, and despite your invitation I don’t think it’s likely that I will, to protest to the Soviet Union about these matters. [More…]
But I quoted this extract as an illustration of the fact that our own Prime Minister is not unconscious of what is happening in the Soviet Union in respect of dissident intellectuals and that he also solidarises himself with their cause. [More…]
I am assured that it will give consideration to whether there are grounds for bringing the recent developments in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the attention of the United Nations in some form or other and in this regard will consult with other friendly Governments which share similar views. [More…]
Australia- this present Government- believes, together with other Western countries, that this detente is in the interests not only of the people of the Soviet Union but also of the people of the world at large. [More…]
If we are sincere- and I give credit to the mover and seconder of the motion as being sincere- in our attempt to help these men I believe that we can do so by being restrained, temperate, avoiding hymns of hate and by reminding the Soviet Union that it lives in the world, that it needs the goodwill and the help of the world to develop its own system to nourish in the world and that the cause of detente is served by paying regard to the liberties which are considered to be a minimum requirement of civilised society. [More…]
I also was pleased to note what Senator James McClelland said about the situation in the Soviet Union, as he sees it. [More…]
But protest had this impact within the Soviet Union only when it was backed ‘by the united, mighty voice of hundreds of prominent people, by the opinions of a whole continent. [More…]
The importance of this motion arises from these developments which seem to have occurred in recent years in the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is the tendency which now seems to be growing in the Soviet Union to confine dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. [More…]
Of course, we all know that the Soviet Union is not the only country in which there are infringements of human rights. [More…]
Scientists and writers throughout the world have been assailing the Soviet Union’s handling of dissident intellectuals. [More…]
I don’t think it’s likely that I will protest to the Soviet Union about these matters. [More…]
Why is not the Australian Government prepared to protest to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why is it not prepared to take this stand with regard to the protection of individuals in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why is the Government not prepared to take a similar stand in regard to the Soviet Union? [More…]
We know that at present there is a growing detente and a so-called closer relationship between the governments of the Western world, in particular the United States, and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet, whilst the United States of America is stating these things as objectives of detente- of this closer relationship- as it seems the position in terms of growing contacts with Russia at the same time we are finding a clamping down in the Soviet Union of any movement for freer contact, freer information and the interchange of it amongst the Soviet intellectuals. [More…]
But surely if that obligation is recognised by this Government, why is it not an obligation which is also maintained and exercised in relation to what is now happening in the Soviet Union? [More…]
After the words ‘Soviet Union’, insert ‘and other countries throughout the world ‘. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is evidence to support allegations that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and other countries throughout the world, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
Tonight we had broad unanimity in relation to the question of oppression in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are now able to communicate with that Latin American republic but I cannot get specific details of the position of members of the trade union movement in Chile who, if not in custody, could be hounded and shot. [More…]
During a previous recess of Parliament, at the behest of the Seamen’s Union I sought information about an incident in Panama. [More…]
All I ask, in deference to the grave concern of the trade union movement of Australia and the concern expressed by a number of senators about the position in Chile, is that we should at least send some form of communication to the Deputy Ambassador in Santiago to find out if, as the Foreign Affairs Bulletin showed this week, that 500 people have sought clemency in a number of other foreign embassies. [More…]
It may be that because we have opened the door to some of them our embassy in Santiago might accept some of the persecuted trade unionists who may be on the run in that country. [More…]
Under those laws the dealing with the dispute is between the Public Service Board and the union concerned. [More…]
I am informed the latest development is that the Public Service Arbitrator has convened another statutory conference between the union- the Professional Radio Employees Institute- the Public Service Board and the Department of Civil Aviation for 2.30 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the letter written by Andrei Sakharov to the Congress of the United States of America appealing to it to black trade concessions granted to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, unless that country allows the free emigration of its citizens. [More…]
Did the Attorney-General, in an answer to a Question asked without Notice by Senator Kane on 12 September 1973, reply that restrictions placed on Jewish emigration from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an ‘internal matter’. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Australian Government will heed Sakharov ‘s appeal in Australia’s trade dealings with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Senator Byrne becomes, with a number of us, a distinguished member of the ex- Whip’s union. [More…]
Thursday 27 September dealing with the question of the abrogation of the civil rights of dissidents within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Provision for democratic control of unions and the full participation by union members in the affairs of their organisation; Provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case; [More…]
Provision to remove existing barriers to trade union amalgamations; [More…]
Similarly, because the clause in the Bill dealing with the Moore v. Doyle situation did not become law, the problem of solving the demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which disrupted the Sydney waterfront for weeks became almost insoluble. [More…]
There should be, therefore, no reason why the Opposition should not readily agree to the reforms which are now contained in this Bill- reforms which are urgently required and which undoubtedly have the support of most organisations, employer and trade union alike, which have the major interest in the effective operation of the conciliation and arbitration machinery. [More…]
provision will be made to further strengthen the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full-time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct election of the members of the organisation and that the only officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be parttime officers of an organisation’s federal management committee. [More…]
In particular, I believe honourable senators will approve of the power to determine financial assistance to union members being taken out of the political arena and being given back to an independent statutory officer in the person of the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
This will ensure that irrespective of the political complexion of the Australian Government the determination of whether financial assistance shall be made available to a person who wishes to test the validity of a union rule, or to obtain an order for the observance of the rules, shall be made without any consideration of the particular political philosophy of that person. [More…]
In view of the remarks which the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) has just made I want to quote to the Senate from a document that I have in my hand which was sent to me under a covering letter from the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia. [More…]
In the last paragraph on page 4 the Union states: [More…]
The Farmers’ Union objects to the trade and, therefore, the producer having to pay the 0.6c a lb levy on beef exports which has been imposed to recoup the Government the cost of the national tuberculosis and brucellosis campaign. [More…]
The Farmers’ Union would prefer that Western Australia be left out of the Commonwealth scheme and that growers contribute instead to the State scheme through the State Cattle Compensation Fund, at a higher level to compensate the State program for any loss of funds. [More…]
The submission is signed by J. E. Gardiner, President of the Meat Section, Farmers’ Union of Western Australia. [More…]
It is well known throughout the country that the Government is in trouble with some sections of the union movement, and therefore with some sections of the Labor Party, over its proposals. [More…]
In short and putting it bluntly, unions will not be subject to wage freezes. [More…]
Union members will not have their wages subject to any regulation which would limit the wages which could be received, but other persons will have a restraint placed upon them, persons who are self-employed, the doctors, dentists, accountants, academics, lawyers and architectsall persons who do not have a wage imposed upon them but who earn their own remuneration will be subject to some limitation on the remuneration they receive. [More…]
I refer to the serious and protracted electric power dispute in New South Wales and specifically to 2 significant statements made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales, Mr Hills, directed primarily to the trade union movement. [More…]
He understands that the Australian Federation of Air Pilots has convened a meeting for 2.15 p.m. tomorrow with the Australasian Airline Flight Engineers Association, the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and the Transport Workers Union of Australia to consider this question. [More…]
The action that various unions will take is yet unknown. [More…]
This has nothing to do with compulsory unionism. [More…]
I think the question is one of company control rather than of union control. [More…]
We must be concerned because the stability of any region in which the interests of the 2 super powers- that is, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- are so vitally engaged must be of concern to nations such as ours. [More…]
It is this: The Arab attack could not have been launched had it not been for the military and political support of the Soviet Union- support about which the Arabs and the Soviet Union have made no secret. [More…]
It has been not only a matter of Moscow building for the Arab States a massive arsenal of its most advanced weapons but it has been the urging and goading of the Soviet Union which has allowed and enabled the Arabs to feel confident in their military planning. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tension. [More…]
Yakob Malik, the Soviet Union ‘s Ambassador, not only supported the military activities of Egypt and Syria against Israel, but criticised the Security Council for even raising the question at the United Nations. [More…]
Meanwhile, and this is the main point, the information coming to the United Nations was that the Soviet Union while committed to reduce tension under the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement was actually urging Algeria, Lebanon and particularly the King of Jordan to get into the war against Israel. [More…]
In conclusion, let me say that today we hear authoritative reports that the Soviet Union is re-supplying heavy weapons to the Egyptians and the Syrians and that the war is to be a long and bitter one. [More…]
After all, only the other night the Senate unanimously passed a resolution to go to the United Nations on the question of the dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union, as a result, has not had representation on the Dairy Produce Board. [More…]
Union- in fact, he is the chairman of its Dairy Committee, I think it is- and I believe that by his appointment the dairy industry throughout Australia will have a wider representation than it has had in the past. [More…]
Now that the trade union movement, as represented by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, has indicated its hostility to the incomes part of the proposed prices-incomes referendum, has the Government, considering the total interdependence of prices and incomes, decided to abandon the referendum? [More…]
In the making of its attitude known to the Soviet Government, did the Australian Government specify restrictions on Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union as an instance of denial of this fundamental human right? [More…]
Did the Australian Government protest, that is, did it make a formal statement of dissent or disapproval, to the Soviet Government specifically concerning that Government’s refusal to allow free immigration of Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union? [More…]
What has appeared is that the Prime Ministerwhether the delusion is directed to the people as a whole directly, whether it is directed to the union movement specifically, or whether it is merely something which is designed to cloud the issue and to avoid the problems in which he has got himself- is really looking for a means of controlling some incomes in this country but not all incomes. [More…]
Any amount which has been paid over and above the minimum wage which has been fixed has depended upon the ability of the union concerned to barter for better wages. [More…]
The legislation which was introduced earlier this year sought the removal of penalties on union organisations for conduct which was contrary to prohibitions in the conciliation and arbitration legislation. [More…]
Under the Bill unions were to be placed above the law by being granted immunity from the consequences of actions for which other individuals, if they broke the law, would be liable for penalty under the law. [More…]
The Moore v Doyle situation is one in which a State union or a State branch of what is believed to be a Federal union is not subject to the system inherent in our conciliation and arbitration legislation. [More…]
The Bill seeks to widen the basis upon which a unionist can object to dismissal and to place the onus of proof, if there be any prosecution of an employer for dismissing a member of an organisation, upon the employer. [More…]
The Opposition will seek to retain those provisions which at least give to union officials the conduct and the control of negotiations in which the union is involved. [More…]
Perhaps the legislation will give the Senate an opportunity to declare its views on the amendments which the Labor Party sought, such as those for procedures to ensure that certain types of agreements were acceptable to members of organisations, the removal of barriers to trade union amalgamations, the very radical moves which were sought by the former Bill concerning the protection of organisations and members from some tortuous liability in connection with industrial disputes, the provision to remove the Commissioner’s power to ban strikes and the removal of the penal sanctions on strikers. [More…]
Clause 27, which gives trade union officials a right of entry to premises, I also question. [More…]
At times union officials are very acceptable, such as when one wishes to discuss with them problems that relate to a particular industry. [More…]
The industries with which I have been connected have had a very good relationship with union people over many years. [More…]
At one stage I was a delegate of the Timber Workers Union and I remember well the great debates we used to have. [More…]
I had a great respect for the union officials and the aims they had for the people they represented in those days. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that in that case it was felt by some that the trade union movement should accept the initial offer made by the employer as being the millennium. [More…]
Anyone who compares the final terms of settlement in that dispute with what was offered initially will see that the unions persist in their wage negotiations because they know that the initial offer usually will be increased considerably. [More…]
The more we produce highly educated members of the community the more we can forget about the myth that a trade union secretary or an Australian Council of Trade Unions chieftain is able completely to dominate a particular organisation. [More…]
One minute they say that the trade union movement will stop work if Bob Hawke lifts his little finger and the next minute they argue that he has only to say that a particular agreement is a good one and the workers will go back to work. [More…]
I do not think a young trade unionist today would accept everything Bob Hawke said. [More…]
Those people who talk about the views of the rank and file being submerged by the ambitions of a trade union official should not turn round and in the next breath say: ‘Why is it that on occasions when trade union leaders go back to their rank and file they are told by the rank and file to go back and seek a better offer?’ [More…]
I do not blame the trade union leaders if strikes are prolonged. [More…]
The then leader of the bus union in Sydney, Pat Ryan, disputed it. [More…]
It was a classic case that was ultimately settled after negotiations had been conducted over a period of 6 to 8 weeks, if not longer, by Pat Ryan, the secretary of the union, and Mr Justice Robinson, who is another excellent example of a judge with a high degree of industrial relations knowhow. [More…]
Talking about lengthy stoppages and strikes, in the free enterpise Mecca of the United States about which Senater Webster has spoken, trade unionists on strike have access to food stamps, public assistance and unemployment compensation. [More…]
There is no need to go over a lot of the criticism that has been expressed about the indirect hardship caused to other trade unionists and about the denial of unemployment benefits to Australian trade unionists. [More…]
I am not questioning whether overtime is necessary on a production line, but I would suggest that it should not be a question of Brown having to work 5 nights a week overtime if a trade union or the work force can provide the men and either Smith or Jones is available. [More…]
Talking about a small organisation with a genuine grievance, nobody will question that the members of the telecommunications union involved in the recent airlines dispute had any left wing trends. [More…]
I say that deliberately because when I dealt with the right of a trade union to evolve a formula of voluntary overtime for people working in the postal field I believe that the officers of the PostmasterGeneral ‘s Department could have moved a little more quickly in the Sydney mail branch dispute. [More…]
But if one has not got one’s head in the sand, one would knowand most of us in the trade union movement are aware of this-that if someone has a foul-up with an insurance company or an employer- and I indict the larger insurance companies in regard to compensation- and does not receive a compensation cheque after the first fortnight hardship is certainly experienced. [More…]
These people could be contented members of the Storemen and Packers Union, they may be tally clerks or they may belong to the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
As my colleague, Senator James McClelland, mentioned, there were overtones of the Moore v Doyle case in the problem that arose between the Transport Workers’ Union of New South Wales and the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
I can remember getting up here on one occasion and defending the Australian Workers Union on a metalliferous mine case where the Conciliation Commissioner had said: ‘Yes, go back to work and we will have a look at it’. [More…]
I say that with some feeling because the Conciliation Commissioner concerned had been a former active unionist and an active member of my Party. [More…]
But when it is a case of going into an industrial area where there is danger it is pretty tough for a trade union secretary, much less a judge, to say: ‘Well, go back to work because it is going to be all right’, because in the period that safety hazards are being investigated somebody can lose a limb. [More…]
Outside the trade union vigilance that we have been talking about there are many light industries in which I do not say that the employer is deliberately avoiding wage justice to the employee because sometimes some of his clerical staff are not abreast of current awards. [More…]
The first question I want to deal with concerns union amalgamations which the Bill proposes. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) when referring to unions and the question of union amalgamation during his second reading speech on this Bill, which is recorded on page 659 of Hansard of 30 August, said: [More…]
We members of the Democratic Labor Party crossed swords with the then Government on this matter of union amalgamations. [More…]
Subsequently there were some compromises and the then Government introduced alternative legislation relating to union amalgamations. [More…]
What we primarily were concerned about then was the giant Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
It was being brought into being by the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society. [More…]
It was proposed at the same time to amalgamate 2 other groups of unionsthose in the building trades and those in the maritime industry. [More…]
There would have been a membership of something like 367,000 workers in those 3 union groupings and they would have had an income of something like $8m a year. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions could not do so; nor could the government of the day, short of a showdown that would make the 1949 coal strike look like a Sunday school picnic. [More…]
We have made it abundantly clear that we are not opposed to union amalgamations but what we are opposed to, and will continue to be opposed to, is the amalgamation of unions by stealth. [More…]
It is a matter of history that the amalgamation of the unions which now comprise the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union came about by the votes of a mere handful of people and that the people who counted the votes were involved with those who wanted the amalgamation. [More…]
It was argued then that the unions concerned would get a better service; that members would be better served. [More…]
Therefore, it is worth looking at what some of those union leaders have had to say about this matter so far as better service and the economies of size are concerned. [More…]
The president of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, speaking at the Queensland State Conference of the Union on 23 February 1973, said this: [More…]
Hence the forecast is for almost a doubling of union dues in order to provide service . [More…]
This is one of the things that came out of union amalgamation and it is one of the problems that will confront this Government in the very near future. [More…]
As I said before, my Party is not opposed to union amalgamations but we believe that when they come about they should come about only if the majority of union members want them. [More…]
We believe, firstly, that the case for amalgamation as well as the case against amalgamation ought to be circulated to all union members. [More…]
Our attitude to union amalgamation is that every union member should have before him before he votes a clear case for and a clear case against the amalgamation. [More…]
We believe also, and will insist by way of amendments that we propose to this Bill, that the ballot, when conducted, should be supervised by people other than those who are participants in the proposed union amalgamation. [More…]
We believe that before any amalgamation takes place the majority of union members ought to vote for it. [More…]
The present Act provides that before an amalgamation can take place a ballot must be held in which more than 50 per cent of the union members must participate. [More…]
We believe that the entire union membership has the right to vote on the question of amalgamation and that before they vote they should have the case for and the case against amalgamation. [More…]
If only 60 per cent of the people in the union voted, it would not be enough. [More…]
I am saying that the majority of union members ought to vote in a properly supervised ballot. [More…]
What is more, I would make sure that the ballot was conducted properly and that each member of the union had before him before voting the case for and the case against amalgamation. [More…]
Then, if the majority of the union members, that is 50 per cent plus one, voted for amalgamation, it should take place. [More…]
My Party and I will settle for nothing less than a ballot in which the majority of union members vote- that is, 50 per cent plus one- in a properly supervised ballet. [More…]
It is all very well to have an express authority given by the organisation to do something if it is done by the executive or the council of the union or by the secretary acting under authority directing a member or members to do certain things. [More…]
But the secretary of the union, the shop steward, the official or the executive has required him to do something. [More…]
He may feel that his obligation as a member of the organisation is to accept the union dictates. [More…]
I know that the Minister in another place has stressed very significantly the role of union rules and the desire to democratise all union organisations. [More…]
He said that the shop delegate has to get his riding instructions from the executive of the union. [More…]
He has not been in a position beforehand to get his union executive to make a recommendation. [More…]
A holdup would occur in production and doubtless the foreman or manager would ring the Sydney Trades Hall or the union headquarters. [More…]
I know that Senator Greenwood wonders whether that delegate sees himself as a potential secretary and organiser of a union, and whether he wants to take the initiative away from the union executive. [More…]
The publication concerning the life and times of Ernest Bevin summed the matter up this way: If a union leader is 6 feet behind his members, he is in trouble; if he is 6 feet in front of them on what they want he can be equally in trouble. [More…]
They are the intermediaries between the men on the job and the union officials. [More…]
But whatever the dispute is on the job, if the shop stewards can rectify it without reporting it to the union and causing an upheaval they are doing a service to the union, to the employer, to the industry and to the community. [More…]
I could not accept that an employee, even if he were a union official, would be at risk in terms of the type of situation Senator Mulvihill has raised. [More…]
Our amendment is designed to ensure that any action which is taken by officials or members or an organisation in respect of which they say: ‘We ought not to be dismissed because it is part of our job as union activists to engage in this’, can be justified only if the action they have taken is lawful in accordance with the laws of the land. [More…]
I do not think that it is in the interests of unionism in this country, nor is it in the interests of employers or the public at large if one can have numbers of employees who simply thumb their noses at an award that is made and say that they can do what they like and are not liable to be dismissed. [More…]
He is suggesting that the clause the Government has proposed will in some way open the door for outrageous anti-social conduct on the part of union officials, shop stewards and so on, and that there will be some sort of complication in ultimate criminal proceedings if the clause gets through. [More…]
This seems to me to be something which limits the limitations that we are seeking to impose on the activities of union officials and union stewards. [More…]
I can not see how that makes it more difficult for union officials to act anti-socially, as the honourable senator seems to think they will act. [More…]
He has confidence in the way that union officials - [More…]
I do not want to use a provocative word, but I would have thought that it is paranoia, an obsession with the idea that the union is always right. [More…]
I believe it is important that the words or elsewhere’ should be included in the legislation otherwise the shop steward, the union secretary or the union organiser who may be negotiating is at a disadvantage. [More…]
It would not have mattered if I or any executive officer of the union had told them to stay on the job, they would have walked off the job. [More…]
Of course it was unlawful according to the laws of the land, the Arbitration Court, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the rules of the union and everything. [More…]
How could a union secretary- forget about the shop steward for one moment- know that he is to negotiate with an employer about an industrial dispute which has happened on the job? [More…]
In practice, union representatives on the jobs are elected by the men. [More…]
He can be dismissed because he went to his union meeting and said things about his employer which were derogatory. [More…]
Do you condone that as the action of a trade union?’ [More…]
It is an essential clause of this Bill because a Labor government in power should protect those who represent the trade union movement on the job, who fight for the protection and the interests of the workers on the job with all the pressures against them. [More…]
Senator Milliner, Senator Mulvihill and Senator Cant told us about their history in the trade union movement. [More…]
However, in view of the fact that the war has now proceeded to the stage where the United States and the Soviet Union are supplying large quantities of arms to both sides, I ask whether it is not time that the Government should use its undoubted influence at the United Nations level and internationally to promote a ceasefire. [More…]
I have been attending a conference of the Interparliamentary Union, and I leave on Sunday to go back to it. [More…]
Union when some of the top brass of the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney refused to give organiser Groves, a Miscellaneous Workers Union official, details of award rates for the bank cleaning staff. [More…]
I prize a letter from the Federal Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union which expressed the effectiveness of the weapon I used. [More…]
I am pleased to learn that he is one of the members of the delegation who will be attending a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at which the whole structure and the procedures of our parliamentary systems will be examined in depth and detail. [More…]
But what has infuriated the trade union movement in the past is that within a couple of months we get a spate of price increases and therefore what they have gained from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is virtually immediately eroded. [More…]
The classic case concerns the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. That company had been arguing about conditions with the Federated Ironworkers Association, the major union covering the company’s employees, assisted by the craft unions. [More…]
But there is, in a particular area, a small union which has immense power and which can by force of the arguments, the activities or the tactics in which it engages persuade an employer to give a very significant benefit to it and the result is reached by agreement, it may be that that ought not to be regarded as in the public interest and ought not to be certified. [More…]
What, for example, if a small union in a large factory in which there are other unions which have members performing much the same work, is able to persuade an employer to give, say, a 100 per cent wage increase or 7 weeks annual leave or a 30-hour week and that agreement then comes up for approval- for certification. [More…]
I believe that it has come into a number of cases in recent years, particularly under the system evolved in the last couple of years whereby the metal trades employers and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union get together and make cosy agreements. [More…]
Nobody would accuse him of being anti-union or anti-labour yet he realised what effect there could be on the economy as a result of some of these cosy arrangements. [More…]
The kind that are being negotiated today by the metal employers and the metal trades union- have, in turn, a peculiar effect on other sections of industry which seek similar conditions. [More…]
We believe that the sensible thing is simply to say that all that should be required is that there should be a statutory declaration by an officer of the management body of the union that the agreements which are being arrived at or the terms of the award which are being consented to have been approved by the committee of management. [More…]
I think that committees of management of unions, knowing that they will have this responsibility, will act responsibly, and that is adequate for the purposes of the legislation. [More…]
Surely, an agreement is not an agreement between the union and an employer; it is an agreement between employers and employees. [More…]
In the oil industry or any industry that you care to choose, there could be members of 6 separate unions working within that establishment. [More…]
To put the situation at its worst, if there is an industrial dispute in that establishment and agreement is reached on some issue, each party to that agreement would, in accordance with the proposed amendment, be required to have the approval of the board of management of the union authorised by a responsible officer of that union. [More…]
All unions do not necessarily have the same rules. [More…]
A union might have rules which provide for quarterly meetings of the board of management and the executive may meet between meetings of the board of management. [More…]
The union might have a federal conference annually and a federal executive dealing with business between annual conferences. [More…]
Another union might have an entirely different system. [More…]
Consequently it might not be so easy as Senator Greenwood might think to secure the approval of the board of management when the various unions involved have different rules. [More…]
Settlement of a dispute starts on the job, not in the board room of the union or wherever the committee of management or executive of the union may meet. [More…]
I say with all respect to Senator Milliner, whose interest and experience in union matters is well known to us all, that the type of argument he was putting forward is more in support of what the Opposition is proposing than it is in support of the Government’s amendment. [More…]
But I think, nevertheless, that on a negotiating committee you have to have officers of a union who will negotiate with employers’ representatives on behalf of the union. [More…]
If a small group- it does not necessarily have to be a small groupwhich by a ballot can express its objections to terms of settlement which the union committee has agreed upon, it can play havoc with the whole industrial system. [More…]
We believe there has to be- I think the Minister has expressed this view in times past- a responsibility within the union movement under which the union officers exercise a control which is vested in them from their membership over their membership. [More…]
We are not concerned about union regulations or how the unions operate; it is the making of agreements that we ask to be put to the members. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood is trying to say is that in such cases if the management committee is sitting in Sydney and is composed of a majority of brick makers with eligibility for membership of the Australian Workers Union, that management committee can enter into an agreement which binds stockmen and shearers throughout Australia- and the honourable senator would expect them to observe the conditions of that agreement. [More…]
It may be impossible to get agreement of the majority of members of the Australian Workers Union but agreement can be reached in certain other instances. [More…]
But an industrial dispute on the Sydney waterfront is decided by a stop work meeting of the men in Sydney, and their union takes up the demand made by the men. [More…]
-One of the advantages of the Westminister system is that the consideration of a question like this can have the benefit of the mind of men like Senator Cavanagh, men who have been experienced in trade union matters and who have actually been in the workshops and who know the realities of life and can bring these considerations to bear on such questions. [More…]
But I suggest that he has missed the point when he says, as he did in answer to my proposition, that there was some sort of contradiction in his attitude towards union democracy on the question of amalgamations and union democracy on the question that we are considering. [More…]
In my experience- and I have had some- the ordinary man regards wages and conditions as more important than amalgamation with another union. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood considers that on the matter of amalgamation we should have these rigorous standards of hearing the voice of the rank and file, I really do not see how he can refuse that sort of method of determining the will of the members of a union in what I think they regard as even more fundamental things. [More…]
And if, as sometimes happens, the officials of his union presume to make agreements behind his back, I think he is more sorely wounded than he would be if an amalgamation were wrought without his being consulted. [More…]
Senator Greenwood said earlier that he would prefer that we should not mention amalgamation; but we will come to that and he will be advocating then, according to amendments that have been circulated, that there should be the most rigorous democratic procedures involved in deciding whether members of one union should amalgamate with members of another union. [More…]
In this matter- a matter which I suggest goes to the heart of unionism- is the query: ‘What are we going to get for our labour, under what sort of conditions are we going to work?’ [More…]
union flag is to fly over or. [More…]
As no message has been reported to the Senate of royal assent to the amending Royal Style and Titles Bill 1973, why has the Labor Government acted in such a manner as to ban the flying of the Union Jack? [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate give consideration to my request that the Government’s instruction be varied at least to permit a courtesy flag of the union to fly to mark Her Majesty’s visit? [More…]
My question which is directed to the Attorney-General, refers to the reported murder of the Secretary of the Federated Ship Painters and Ship Dockers Union- another violent incident in the long history of murder, violence and disappearances associated with that particular trade union. [More…]
Whilst appreciating that the investigation of the killing is a matter for the State police, I ask: Will the Attorney-General undertake a study of all acts of violence and intimidation and of disappearances in recent years associated with that trade union and make an early report to the Parliament? [More…]
I do not know, and no one can know, whether murders or violence in some sphere have real connection with union activities, are related to some sphere of organised crime or might be a result of casual crime. [More…]
Certainly, any kind of violence, and especially murder, would be disapproved of not only by everyone here but also by the trade unions of Australia which have a reputation of being free of the kind of violence and intimidation which has sometimes occurred in the United States when there has been infiltration from outside. [More…]
Often this was done by big organisations in the United States which wanted to gain control of the trade union movement. [More…]
Equally, it should be recognised that under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as it has been administered over the years by all governments, people may be appointed who have been active on the trade union side. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to a statement that the Australian Workers Union will ban the export of merino rams regardless of the result of the wool growers’ referendum on the issue? [More…]
Is it futile to conduct a referendum sponsored by a national Government, involving a tremendous volume of work and high overall cost if a trade union says that it will ignore the industry’s wishes? [More…]
In view of this, and in view of many other recent instances of trade union intervention in national affairs, is there good reason to believe that the unions are taking it upon themselves to govern Australia? [More…]
Any statements made by the Australian Workers Union are matters of concern to the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I think we would need to wait and see, therefore, precisely what the Australian Workers Union might do in the event of the ban not being reimposed. [More…]
I understand that the trade union movement has been invited to appoint Mr Souter, the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, as its representative on that body. [More…]
This was illustrated by the very large purchase recently by the Soviet Union of 200,000 tons of butter from the European Economic Community countries at the give-away price of 22c per lb. [More…]
In view of the rising concern of the New South Wales trade union movement at the abnormal delay by the Phoenix Assurance Co. of Australia Ltd in processing workers compensation claims, will the Minister ascertain the possibility of the Commonwealth Actuary and Insurance Commissioner assisting the New South Wales Minister for Labour and Industry to probe the operations of this company? [More…]
In view of these lying statements put out by the Soviet Union in regard to the cause of the conflict, and in view of the fact that a tiny nation of 3 million people is confronted by the Arab nations of 1 10 million people, backed by one of the world’s super powers, can the Government still adhere to its declaration of neutrality? [More…]
Do not these community organisations see the union bans as their only safeguard against the follies of officialdom? [More…]
However may I say that I think it is quite inappropriate that the determination of these matters should be by any trade union. [More…]
It is not the function of a trade union properly to determine matters of the environment. [More…]
It is not the function of a trade union to determine the question of the general management of the economy. [More…]
Indeed, I understand that is what the trade union mentioned by the honourable senator says itself. [More…]
I seem to recall statements by Mr Mundey that it should not be his function and that it should not be the function of the trade union to do these things. [More…]
What has been done by Mr Mundey and by the trade union has occurred because of the default of the New South Wales Government to attend properly to matters of the environment. [More…]
In accordance with Standing Order 64, I intend to move today that the Senate, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 10.55 a.m. for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
The monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania ‘s seaborne trade. [More…]
Because the monopoly maritime unions sought to arrogate to themselves the monopoly in relation to New Zealand trade that they have long exercised with regard to the Australian coastal trade, they picketed the ship and prohibited her from unloading any of the Mazda cars in Hobart unless she returned to Adelaide, delivered the Chryslers back to the Adelaide port and proceeded on. [More…]
The ship having resisted that situation, the Seamen’s Union of Australia extended the boycott to 2 ships then in Hobart port, the ‘Poolta’ and the ‘Seaway King’. [More…]
That is a perfect illustration of the monopoly control that the maritime unions are exerting with regard to Australian shipping. [More…]
In the interests of slaughtermen in Tasmania who said ‘It is our work to slaughter Tasmanian animals’, the maritime unions combined with the slaughtermen’s union and said that no more livestock would be transported by Bass Strait shipping for 3 months. [More…]
1 emphasise this because there has been an unavailing weak notion developing in Tasmania, prompted by the Chief Secretary, Mr Batt, that if as a member of the Labor Government he appealed to the union bosses to be good boys they would grant an immunity to Tasmania. [More…]
In the interests of Tasmanian shipping we have to come to grips with a correct resolution of this problem of the monopoly menace of the maritime unions. [More…]
I intend to follow this remonstrance and rebuke to the maritime unions today by positive action in the next few months and then we will see whether Senator Poke, who has been interjecting, can do anything more than poke by interjection. [More…]
These things are important because when the maritime unions gracefully released these ships from that boycott yesterday they issued the warning to shipowners that the work belonged to Australian seamen. [More…]
Let us make the point that at the same time the New Zealand seamen’s union is demanding that it too has a monopoly of this trade. [More…]
If the country is to fall into the chasm of contest between a seamen’s union across the Tasman in New Zealand and the monopoly claim of the Seamen’s Union in Australia, for God’s sake where does government belong? [More…]
This urgency motion relating to the hours of sitting tomorrow was moved for the sole purpose of capturing the broadcasting time of the Senate and apparently is part of a long campaign on the part of Senator Wright over many years in his concern about the activities of the waterfront unions. [More…]
We all know that the trade union movement has a power in this area. [More…]
The waterfront unions have been one of the most efficient sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
Certain counsel in that court action has never forgotten that he was defeated at law by the trade union movement. [More…]
As for this particular matter that has been raised, for some time the Seamen ‘s Union of Australia has been concerned about the reduction in cargo on coastal shipping and the reduction of cargo carried by Australian ships. [More…]
This Government has sought to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to enable agreements similar to those entered into by the Waterside Workers Federation to be entered into by other unions. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union has been denied this effective method of settling such disputes and this has been brought about by the delay on the part of the Opposition parties in this chamber in agreeing to amendments to that legislation. [More…]
If it did Tasmania would be getting favourable consideration in regard to cargo-handling because the responsible trade union movement realises that it is an island State and that it relies so much on shipping. [More…]
The Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council asked the Australian Council of Trade Unions to look into the question and the ACTU Executive determined that in respect of any strike which has the effect of stopping shipping services to Tasmania the participants in the strike are called upon to give particular consideration to the island’s economic position and to take such steps as are practicable and required to cause the least disruption. [More…]
When a dispute occurs the union officers are requested to take it up with the local branch of the ACTU and to explain this position to the workers. [More…]
Many things which would have caused disputes in other States have been overlooked in Tasmania because of the recognition by the trade union movement of the particular economy of that State. [More…]
The trouble was caused by a ban on loading by the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
That incident was an example of the representations made by the ACTU to the union concerned and that happened because Tasmanian shipping was affected. [More…]
On receipt of notification of the situation the responsible Minister wrote on 23 May to the ACTU asking that special efforts be made to persuade the Storemen and Packers Union to grant the type of dispensation outlined in the 1971 decision of the ACTU. [More…]
On 31 May the Council sent out circulars notifying those concerned that before any action was taken which would hold up essential supplies to Tasmania the unions concerned must notify the respective Trades and Labour Councils. [More…]
That illustrates the concern of the whole trade union movement and its efforts to give preferential treatment in view of the position of Tasmania. [More…]
The New Zealand Maritime Union insisted on New Zealand cargoes being carried in New Zealand flag ships. [More…]
The whole trade union movement is trying to lean over backwards to assist Tasmanian shipping yet we hear the suggestion that it is tying up Tasmania. [More…]
He attacks the trade union movement whenever he gets an opportunity to do so. [More…]
We are asked to attack the trade unions today on the barest of details. [More…]
They will not recognise what has been done for them by the trade union movement. [More…]
The gravamen of the matter raised by Senator Wright is: for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania ‘s seaborne trade. [More…]
He referred to an example of the Australian Council of Trade Union resolution in operation, cutting down the adverse effect of strike action and union disputes on Tasmania and its shipping. [More…]
The ‘North Esk’ was tied up at Geelong for approximately a month as a result of a dispute which in no way concerned conditions in Tasmania or Tasmanian unions, but which certainly adversely affected a large number of Tasmanians. [More…]
I suggest we could conclude that there are no examples which are more appropriate than one in which union disputes, despite the ACTU resolution, held up the ‘North Esk’ for approximately a month. [More…]
So Tasmania suffered severely as a result of that union dispute. [More…]
I do not subscribe in any way at all to any suggestion that all union action is not justified and that unions should never be allowed to strike. [More…]
Our desire as a government- and the State Government in Tasmania has the same desire- is to ensure maximum co-operation with the trade union movement, not to confront it, because that does not help anyone. [More…]
A union- whether it is the Seamen’s Union, or the Waterside Workers Federation, one of the airline unions or a refuelling union- can do a lot of damage to us. [More…]
We heard previous speakers give details of just how much trouble some of the unions have forced on Tasmania. [More…]
Unions in some cases seem to have very little regard for the shipping service as it affects the people, producers and companies in Tasmania. [More…]
I do not intend to go to great lengths to bash the unions. [More…]
I know many unionists who get as annoyed as I do about these hold-ups. [More…]
There are a lot of reasonable people in some of the trade unions. [More…]
The legislation should make it illegal for any union to interfere with scheduled services to this island State. [More…]
-The motion before the chamber has been moved for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the Seamen’s Union of Australia being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
It was settled in Sydney after a meeting of the unions had received an assurance that the question of Tasmanian trade would be discussed as soon as possible. [More…]
The union delegate on the ‘Poolta’ said that a meeting of unions at Macquarie Wharf had decided to accept the Sydney recommendations. [More…]
The unions have more or less made an agreement that that will be the situation. [More…]
But this motion relates to the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
As was referred to today, the Federated Storemen and Packers Union had a dispute which was settled. [More…]
The slaughtermen, members of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union, were not so much in difficulties as protecting their own interests because overseas buyers were taking Tasmanian export beef to Victoria to be slaughtered. [More…]
They do not come into this exaggerated motion which is before the Senate relating to the monoply power of the Seamen ‘s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
This is a case where the Tasmanian shipping arrangement is being boycotted by the Seamen’s Union simply because it wants to use its power over the cargo to compel the exclusive right for Australian ships and seamen to carry out the New Zealand trade. [More…]
I hope that the Senate will show its concern for Tasmanian interests so that we can accept this motion in the terms in which it is put forward, that is to say, consideration of the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
The people who came within the ambit of that legislation for the first 20 years of the American experience chiefly were the trade union combines. [More…]
He said proudly that he had a union ticket on one occasion. [More…]
I would have liked to see how he observed the union rules. [More…]
The latest information is that yesterday a joint resolution was put down by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. [More…]
One must remember also that simultaneously with the Security Council’s activities- and Sir Laurence Mclntyre has been tireless in trying to get the representatives together, adjourning when nothing could be done, and finally getting them together again yesterday- Dr Kissinger has been negotiating directly with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to reported statements that even if Australian wool growers vote in the affirmative on the question of the export of merino rams, the unions concerned will still refuse to allow the export of any rams? [More…]
Will the Minister make it clear to those concerned that in the event of an affirmative vote the Government will take firm action to see that no union impediment will prevent the export of these rams? [More…]
I did see a report of the action that the Australian Workers Union intends to take in the event of the referendum not going the way in which it apparently would like it to go. [More…]
I am not in a position to direct any union as to what attitude it should take, but 1 hope that it will take a responsible view of this matter and that it will abide by the results of the referendum. [More…]
I ask Senator Murphy if he will accept a compliment and I would ask him, if he would, to convey to the Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs appreciation for the speed with which the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Laurence Mclntyre, has been instructed to bring to the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations the terms of the Senate resolution of 27 September concerning political dissidents in the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics. [More…]
Clause 27 deals with the right of entry of union officials. [More…]
I am one who has had a long experience in relation to the right of entry of union officials. [More…]
Agreements between employers and union officials for union officials to go to establishments, upon notification, seem to work satisfactorily. [More…]
In an industry, different unions operate in the same establishment. [More…]
It would comprise representatives of each union. [More…]
Quite frequently a union organiser going into the establishment would be required to speak to somebody who is not a member of his union. [More…]
Engineering Union may be required to speak to a representative of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia or to a representative of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
An organiser from the Clerks Union may go into the establishment and may have to speak to employees who are not members of the Clerics Union. [More…]
I do not know whether the Oppositon knows this, but I would say that on 99.9 per cent of the occasions on which a union organiser goes into an establishment he goes first to the employer or the employer’s representative. [More…]
I would say that the employer would do exactly the same if he visited a union establishment. [More…]
I am not trying to make out that the unions are ultra courteous. [More…]
The unions regard the establishment as belonging to the employer as it does. [More…]
This clause is regarded in trade union circles as one of the most important provisions in the legislation, namely, the right of entry. [More…]
In this regard there would not be the secretary of any union or possibly a paid organiser who would have at his fingertips the relevant facts that the people in the shop would have. [More…]
This means, in effect, that if an organiser of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and perhaps somebody from the Federated Storeman and Packers Union of Australia who happened to be the secretary of the area went on to the same job, the shop steward secretary would be able to rattle off to them the sins and omissions of the existing catering service or whatever was the cause of dispute. [More…]
I know of a case in which the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was involved in a dispute with the Sunbeam motor corporation. [More…]
Finally there was a 2-hour stoppage by the members of about 1 1 unions concerned, involving both white collar and blue collar workers, to convince the Botany Municipal Council and the Police Department that their failure to provide adequate parking facilities and to provide a policeman on duty was constituting a hazard. [More…]
There is at the present time under this legislation, no right for a union member or a union officer to enter upon an employer’s premises and to do the things which this clause is proposing to enable them to do. [More…]
If the parties do not make any agreement then the employee organisation, the union, can rest upon its statutory right. [More…]
I agree that for the first time we are giving to union officials the right, with some restrictions, to enter upon the employer’s premises. [More…]
The union officials have to be authorised in writing to do so by the secretary of the organisation. [More…]
The provision seeks to permit the union organiser to have the right to watch over conditions and to apply the provisions of the awards of his * members. [More…]
We have union officials as inspectors because it is obvious that the arbitration system has not been successful in ensuring that inspections are carried out. [More…]
It is for that reason that we insert for the first time by means of this clause the right for union officers to inspect books and premises and to speak to any employee for the purpose of ensuring the observance of awards. [More…]
The Parliament decides that the unions should have the right of inspection to ensure that awards are being observed. [More…]
If this power of inspection is given to someone else he may put so many restrictions upon that right of entry that it would be of no benefit to the individual or to the union. [More…]
This provision is sought to be inserted to clarify what otherwise might be doubts, to anticipate what might conceivably be problems and to ensure that the right which is being granted to a union officer to enter onto premises at any time is a right that is exercised in a specific way and not so as to prevent the ordinary fulfilment of duties by an employee. [More…]
I suggest that his real purpose is to prevent any tendency on the part of union officials entering premises to do anything in the nature of the recruitment of non-unionists. [More…]
I point out to him that this limitation on the right of a union official entering premises, confining him to dealing with members of his organisation, suffers from, a great logical flaw, and it is this: The amendment fails to recognise that the purpose of the right of entry is, as stated in the amendment, to ensure observance of the award. [More…]
It is therefore quite illogical to confine the right of a union official entering premises merely to people who are members of his organisation. [More…]
I repeat what I said at the outset: The real purpose behind the amendment is to segregate people who are not members of a union from union officials who might be able to persuade them that it is in their interests to join the union. [More…]
As a trade union official I have been requested on several occasions to attend a factory where a person had refused to join the union. [More…]
Unions adopt different techniques in trying to overcome the problem raised where an individual is genuine in his beliefs. [More…]
Some people belonging to particular religious sects will not join a union at all. [More…]
An employer does not wish to see this plant held up and is only too happy to have a union official talk to a chap under those circumstances if he feels that the matter is likely to disrupt his plant. [More…]
It would assist both sides of the industrial relationship if it were part of the Act that a union official could talk to an employee who was a member or who was eligible to be a member of an organisation. [More…]
The union official may meet other circumstances. [More…]
For example the employee might have recently come into the industry or come back into the industry and might not have had time to join the union. [More…]
If he is a new employee a question may be raised as to his margin of skill but the amendment would mean that the union official could not speak to him because he was not a member of the union at that time. [More…]
He may have left the union or industry 10 years before and not have been working in the industry again sufficiently long for the shop steward to have interviewed him. [More…]
Invariably if he is working in the industry he is eligible to be a member of the union and if the words I have suggested were accepted by the Opposition and placed in the amendment it would cover the purposes the Opposition seeks and meet the objections raised by Senator James McClelland. [More…]
The union official would not be able to check those who are not members of his organisation. [More…]
Those eligible to join an organisation will be performing an operation in a factory covered by the award, in a classification covered by the constitution of the union. [More…]
The Government has no intention of having union officials obstructing or stopping work. [More…]
A reading of the transcript of evidence put forward by the advocates for the union and that put forward by the advocates for the Commonwealth Railways made it very obvious that the decision was not consistent with the evidence given by the witnesses who were called. [More…]
However, when the union appealed to the Commonwealth Industrial Court, the Court said it was not in the public interest for the Arbitrator to give this increased benefit of working conditions which were actually enjoyed by every other comparable industry in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation or any other trade union could teach the legal profession something about trade union unity. [More…]
The trade unions believe that an injury to one is the concern of all. [More…]
It would never be the attitude of the trade unions. [More…]
There is a loyalty in trade union circles that is not apparent in professional circles. [More…]
-Well, as I said, we do not think that this position where the Government ‘s undertakings to the union will prevail will be a very lasting situation. [More…]
The simple fact is it would deny any right of appeal to the High Court on any union amalgamation question. [More…]
The Opposition’s attitude to this would continue the present anomalous situation in which decisions of the Commonwealth Industrial Court on inquiries into amalgamation ballots would be appealable to the High Court while decisions of the Commonwealth Industrial Court on registration and deregistration of organisations under Part VIII of the Act, which also involve questions of property and assets, and decisions on inquiries into irregularities in union elections under Part IX of the Act would not be appealable. [More…]
I agree with a lot of Mr Mundey ‘s militant attitudes on conservation, but if some member of the judiciary or the establishment resented Mundey being involved in this sort of thing, does Senator Greenwood mean that he could not appear as a spokesman for the Builders Labourer Federation, even if members of the union wanted him to do so? [More…]
Here we have a court specifically created for the consideration of problems concerned with trade unions. [More…]
I have been in the Industrial Court and I have seen able, competent trade union officials stand up and ask for leave. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I have part of a transcript here which I propose to read to the Committee in order to highlight the sort of indignity which I believe representatives of trade unions should be spared. [More…]
Mr P. Ryan, the official of the union, said: [More…]
If Your Honours please, I appear on behalf of the union as secretary of the union and Mr J. Coulthart as an organiser of the union. [More…]
Mr Coulthart happened to be the New South Wales Secretary of the union and Federal president. [More…]
This strikes me as a matter which is not calculated to build up the confidence of the unions in this Court. [More…]
One who comes immediately to mind is the late Jack Roberts who at one time was an official of the Federated Moulders’ Union of Australia. [More…]
He was an inspector of the Arbitration Court and he had been appointed to that position- from the Union. [More…]
But there are also trade union officials and representatives of employer organisations who have done so. [More…]
It certainly encourages a great deal of trust by those people on both sides for whom arbitration has been created- commerce and industry, and the organised union movement. [More…]
Today the trade unions expect to provide appointees to these positions. [More…]
The unions have every confidence in the inspectors who bring down the wrath of the unions at times when the unions do not get what they think they should have got. [More…]
The ranks of Commonwealth inspectors are strengthened by the injection of these specialists who are developed in the trade union movement. [More…]
If he had his way, no one from the trade union movement or from the employers associations or anyone else could possibly hope to be appointed as an inspector. [More…]
The position then applying worked satisfactorily for many years until, I think, a person who opposed the amalgamation of 3 unions to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union applied for financial assistance. [More…]
I will not repeat the figures that I have given in this chamber on more than one occasion on the scandal surrounding the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union, a union which now has 183,000 members and an income running to over Sim. [More…]
This amalgamation was brought about by a vote of an insignificant number of members of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and Sheet Metalworking Union of Australia who conducted the ballot without the control of the court or the electoral officer. [More…]
The way in which the ballot was conducted was that batches of papers were sent out to the shop stewards on the boilermaking jobs and it was left to the discretion and honesty of these gentlemen to ensure that all members of the union on the job received a ballot paper. [More…]
The original provisions which were laid down in what has been rather disparingly and quite unfairly called ‘Lynch law’ which was introduced last year provided a proper protection for rank and file members so that their assets, rights and union connections could not be disposed of without a substantial vote of the people concerned. [More…]
This is not the day upon which the normal rank and file member of a union sits around reading the Gazette. [More…]
This honourable senator has a hatred for the unions which amalgamated to form the Australian Metal Workers Union. [More…]
His reasons why we should not endorse such amalgamations were based on allegations he made of corruption, of failure to hold ballots and so on in the metal trade unions. [More…]
I think that it is important that assistance be given to unions to amalgamate when amalgamation is possible. [More…]
There are many small unions in Australia today. [More…]
As has been stated, I think that employers would rather deal with one large union in a particular industry than with a number of smaller unions. [More…]
Of course, a bigger and close knit union is better able te look after and protect the interests of its members. [More…]
A bigger union is more financial and is of more benefit to members in matters of industrial arbitration. [More…]
It is doubtful whether we would have seen the imposition of a green belt plan in Sydney at present if the building trades union in that area had amalgamated and formed a union in which everyone in the building industry had a say. [More…]
But 1 do not think it is a trade union responsibility. [More…]
Of course, simultaneously while the Security Council was meeting, negotiations were going on between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. [More…]
A miscalculation by either of the great powers involved- the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- could easily have brought about a world war. [More…]
I note that both the Soviet Union and the United States were criticised together for the supply of arms. [More…]
I do not accept that a even handed policy blames the United States to the same degree as it blames the Soviet Union for the war in the Middle East. [More…]
We also believe- it is referred to in our foreshadowed amendment- that there must be an understanding and an agreement between the 2 major powers concerned, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, that they will ensure that there is no massive rearmament and that they will adopt an even handed policy on both sides to ensure that peace is maintained. [More…]
Even if one were to argue that it was a mistake for the United Nations to decide some 25 years ago that Israel should be established as a state- even if one were to say that it should not have been done, despite the fact that the United States, the Soviet Union and practically every country in the world voted for the establishment of Israel- it is too late now to say that it was a mistake. [More…]
Senator Little would like us to make an heroic declaration in Canberra condemning, I take it, the Arab states, the Soviet Union and anybody else who happened to be connected with the Middle East position, and then to withdraw from the proceedings and take no further part in them, because that would be the consequence. [More…]
I would say at the same time that it seems to be quite absurd for the Senate to say that it is going to condemn the Soviet Union for selling or providing arms to the Arab countries. [More…]
We can condemn the Soviet Union for providing arms to the Arab countries only if we condemn the United States for providing arms to Israel because there has been a two-sided traffic going on. [More…]
It is not as if Israel is manufacturing its own arms and the Arab countries are getting their arms from the Soviet Union. [More…]
What has happened is that there has been a conflict of interest between the Soviet Union and the United States with the Soviet Union supporting certain Arab countries and the United States supporting Israel. [More…]
I am not saying that either the United States or the Soviet Union is acting maliciously or endeavouring to create havoc or harm. [More…]
It is all very well to condemn the Soviet Union and the United States of America in this conflict. [More…]
The fact is that it was the Arab states that made the first move and it was the Soviet Union that assisted the Arab states before the United States came in. [More…]
It is wrong to ignore the part that the Soviet Union is playing in the Middle East conflict or the part that it is still playing in the Korean conflict. [More…]
Even today representatives of the Soviet Union appear continually at peace conferences to conduct negotiations with members of the United Nations. [More…]
Those circumstances were that Nasser, who led the Arab nation, was supplied with the most sophisticated armaments of warfare by the Soviet Union; he closed the Suez Canal; he demanded the withdrawal of the United Nations forces from the Gaza Strip thus cutting off the Straits of Tiran from the Israelis and placed [More…]
The Soviet Union then established in the Arabian states up to 20,000 military experts who were advising and training in the use of still more sophisticated armoury and weapons which it had supplied and still continues to supply. [More…]
The Soviet Union is still supplying arms to the Arab nations, and America is trying desperately to catch up by supplying arms to Israel. [More…]
One must ask the reasons why America allows herself to get into the situation where she is only endeavouring to match with what the Soviet Union has already supplied and is continuing to pour into an area of conflict. [More…]
Those reports seem to establish that the Soviet Union has supplied equipment to the Arabs and has trained the Arabs in the use of that equipment. [More…]
The Soviet Union then informed Israel that the attack was likely to come. [More…]
All we want is noninterference in trade union affairs. [More…]
If we can achieve this we will be able to bring about much more harmony in unionism. [More…]
The defeat of the proposed amendments put forward by the Government will make no difference to the amalgamation of the metal trades unions which is the union concerned in the only complaint that Senator Hannan has raised against the clauses we are now discussing. [More…]
However, at no time did he tell us where an amalgamation of the building trades unions, for example, would be detrimental. [More…]
Also, if these unions were amalgamated one small section of the industry would not be able to impose green bans. [More…]
Negotiations would take place between a combined building trades union and other bodies and we would possibly see a reduction in the number of disputes. [More…]
It was argued there that a ballot conducted in accordance with the rules of the union was an adequate ballot within the meaning of regulation 138 ( 1 ) (c); and in truth the mere fact that the union rules were somewhat rugged was not a matter which could be examined by the court at the time Drinkwater ‘s application was made. [More…]
I have here a reference to the decision of the court in the matter of the application for the cancellation of registration of the Sheetmetal Working, Agricultural Implements and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia. [More…]
Regulation 1 38 ( 1 ) (c) or the Conciliation and Arbitration regulations on its true construction does require that the Sheetmetal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemakin Industrial Union of Australia conducting a ballot of its members as provided in that regulation conduct a ballot of all its members. [More…]
One of the matters raised by the applicant in Drinkwater’s case was that he complained that the union had not conducted a ballot- that the rules did not provide adequate grounds for conducting a proper ballot to determine either cancellation or amalgamation. [More…]
The court found- and I think that in this regard the court was correct- that the governing body of the union had implied authority to choose the means by which it conducted it as fully and effectively as if expressed provision were made to that effect. [More…]
The amalgamation ballot paper shall be posted to each member of the union. [More…]
Each member of the union. [More…]
It is not alleged that ballot papers were sent to each member of the union and I am simply not going to explore that matter any further. [More…]
It is not likely that a union so full of integrity as Senator Cavanagh suggests would dare to mislead the Australian Council of Trade Unions when it says it has 32,000 members and then allege that it has notified all its members and sent them ballot papers when it sends out only 2 1 ,000 papers. [More…]
Yes, the court says that the union should send notices to unfinancial members. [More…]
The allegation that the amalgamation of unions will reduce demarcation disputes is sheer nonsense. [More…]
Most of the disputes or at least as many disputes now occur inside unions as to who should be doing certain jobs as occur between competing unions. [More…]
If Senator Cavanagh cares to examine the agreement between the Boilermakers Society, the Sheetmetal Workers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union he will find that clause 9, 1 think it is, provides for the procedure to be followed in demarcation disputes. [More…]
So if the Government is going to eliminate demarcation disputes by permitting amalgamations, why on earth would the unions put such a clause into their agreement? [More…]
Do you mean to what union do I belong? [More…]
-The Australian Workers Union. [More…]
But they are in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I am afraid that Senator Hannan ‘s obsession- it cannot be called anything less than obsession- with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is not based on any principled or consistent objection to amalgamation as such but on his notion that the creation of this amalgamated body represents a vast strengthening of what he would regard as a communist dominated organisation. [More…]
-Senator, it is also interesting to look back at various other statements that were being made about the time when the amalgamation of those bodies that ultimately formed the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was coming to fruition and in particular to a statement made on 24 February 1972 by the National President of the Metal Trades Industry Association, a Mr Morgan, speaking at the conclusion of a meeting of the Metal Trades Industry Association National Executive. [More…]
He said that his association raised no objection to the amalgamation of metal trades unions and it was his intention to convey that information to Mr Lynch, the Minister for Labour. [More…]
Mr Lynch showed quite clearly that far from being some little conspiracy foisted on the great mass of the members of these unions by a few authoritarian union leaders there was a long and carefully drawn out series of negotiations about which the members were fully informed. [More…]
Senator Hannan has made much of the fact that he considers that a small percentage of the members of each of those unions actually voted on the amalgamation proceedings. [More…]
This also is analysed by Mr Lynch who pointed out the percentage of members of the 3 unions who voted in the ballots. [More…]
In the Amalgamated Engineering Union 86 per cent of the voters favoured amalgamation, as did 73 per cent of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and 70 per cent of the Sheetmetal Working Union. [More…]
The percentage of the members of the unions who voted were: AEU, 9 per cent; Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society 40 per cent; and Sheetmetal Working Union 36 per cent. [More…]
I can see from the expression on Senator Greenwood’s face that he thinks that there is something very damning to our case in the fact the only 9 per cent of the members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union voted. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Act as it then was the host union which was the AEU- that is, the union which was not seeking deregistration- was under no obligation to hold a ballot at all. [More…]
A more instructive commentary on the feelings of the rank and file of these unions is that it was always open to any member of these unions throughout the period when amalgamation was being discussed to take proceedings under section 141 of the Act to prevent the amalgamation from taking place. [More…]
It was only at the very last moment that a couple of members of one of the unions- who were obviously inspired by an outside organisation- made the belated attempt to take these proceedings. [More…]
Apparently the 2 members concerned did not even know why they were taking the action except that they had been told that communists were in the union. [More…]
We are satisfied that in the case of each union the ballot was conducted in accordance with the union rules applicable to the taking of the ballot and were so found. [More…]
I appeal to Senator Hannan to look at the question of amalgamation of unions in a larger frame than that of his prejudice against the fait accompli of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The next logical step is to ask what has happened so far as trade union democracy is concerned. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has conducted a series of ballots throughout Australia. [More…]
I have friends in both the Transport Workers Union and the Sydney Branch of the Australian [More…]
The moral of this story is that the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation had a conflict. [More…]
Of course, if we want a corollary to the Transport Workers Union case we should consider our efforts to solve the problem in the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
But I repeat that there have been some unfortunate conflicts between the 2 transport workers ‘ unions in which working time has been lost. [More…]
I know that the trade union movement has not benefited by it. [More…]
It could be argued- I think that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs would agree with me- that if the shipwrights ultimately became part of the present Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or even the Federal Moulders’ Union of Australia as well you would remove that fear because they would be under the one umbrella and they would know that their work would be protected. [More…]
He questioned whether some employers are as fair to some of the smaller unions as they should be. [More…]
I do not doubt that on occasions certain employers might feel that the Moulders’ Union or the Shipwrights’ Union may not be able to mount the same militant momentum that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union can mount. [More…]
Therefore, the employers might not be averse to getting a bit tough with these unions. [More…]
If Senator Hannan is concerned, as he claims he is, about some of the smaller unions he could well and truly see that if they became part of a big trade union they might have more protective devices. [More…]
Senator Hannan does not seem to understand and he gets rather narked about the number of people who participate in what the Amalgamated Engineering Union used to call a ‘star night’. [More…]
In the terminology of other unions, such meetings are called sub-branch meetings. [More…]
Frankly, at a Amalgamated Engineering Union star night, an Australian Railways Union sub-branch meeting or a meeting held under any other union concept it is difficult on some occasions to obtain a consensus. [More…]
That is why on occasions- this is accepted by many employers- the unions would sooner hold a stoppage and everyone be there, even those people who say that if they do go along they might not be able to stop someone who goes a little too far in his agitation. [More…]
We hear talk about union members receiving a ballot paper and making sober decisions in their kitchens. [More…]
I have never seen a major trade union dispute yet, whether it be within one trade union or within a group of trade unions on a site in which the position was as plain as black and white. [More…]
The present honourable member for Darling in the other place, Mr Fitzpatrick, was the minute secretary of the combined unions in the Mining Industry. [More…]
I have deliberately painted this picture to assure Senator Hannan that it is not in every dispute that a trade union member can open his letter box, take out the ballot paper sent to him and mark it yes or no. [More…]
I make this appeal to Senator Hannan in regard to his fears about the merger of the metal trade unions killing trade union democracy. [More…]
I am sure that my Victorian colleagues would agree with me that in their State there are plenty of people who aspire to be trade union officials. [More…]
If we lived in an ideal trade union community we might perhaps look at the propositions being put forward by the Government in regard to amalgamations with a favourable eye. [More…]
But as anybody here who has had anything to do with trade unions knows, we do not live in an ideal trade union community. [More…]
Ernie Thornton had amalgamated a number of unions in the ironworkers field. [More…]
On the basis of the success of that amalgamation which resulted in one of the most corrupt unions from the ballot point of view that we have ever had in this country and which resulted in a union where a communist boss dominated everybody, as Senator Mulvihill knows, Ernie Thornton dealt it out to Laurie Short. [More…]
On the basis of this success the Communist Party began a big drive for the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
In those days, although it was a policy on the books of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to have amalgamations, just as it is now, the leaders of the ACTU were as cold as ice in regard to amalgamations because they knew what they would lead to. [More…]
In those days the position was that Ernie Thornton could be elected to represent the trade union movement of Australia at international conferences. [More…]
For that reason the best elements in the trade union movement combined to see to it that the amalgamation move in those days did not succeed. [More…]
Even in the Soviet Union they did the same thing. [More…]
I say to Senator Milliner that in those days the official trade union movement frowned upon amalgamations. [More…]
In those days we even had the position that the trade unions, such as they are in the Soviet Union, announced that in their view amalgamation was bad for any system of trade unions. [More…]
Having had big amalgamated unions, they determined to decentralise the whole of the trade union movement in that country. [More…]
You do not necessarily improve a trade union by amalgamating it with another. [More…]
One of the troubles with big amalgamations is that the unions become so big that the only way to run them is to have a very large measure of executive control. [More…]
After all, the biggest amalgamated union in Australia before this proposal to amalgamate was the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Who was more eloquent in his allegations that that Union in some respects was being run without regard to the welfare of the rank and file than the Minister? [More…]
I believe that the Minister put before this Parliament a very powerful case to indicate that in his view the Australian Workers Union, the prime example of amalgamation, was a union in which there was a denial of the rights of the rank and file to a degree that should not have occurred. [More…]
The Minister was one of the chief attackers of the biggest amalgamated union in this country in certain respects. [More…]
The only other point that needs to be made relates to the history of the big amalgamated unions in other countries.. Go to Great Britain and ask about the Transport and General Workers Union and about democracy in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
It does not necessarily have to be a left wing union for ballots to be crook and for the rank and file to be dealt with in a way in which they should not be dealt with. [More…]
It happens in right wing unions as well as in left wing unions. [More…]
They want to have one big union controlling iron and steel, one big union controlling transport, one big union controlling light, fuel and power, one big union controlling the building industries and one big union controlling all the rest. [More…]
If they can get 5 big unions like that in a country like Australia, where the average of trade union membership is the highest in the world, and can arrange, as is normally done, for the secretary or man in charge of the amalgamated union to be a communist, they are well on the way to controlling the whole of the economic life of the country. [More…]
Lance Sharkey said repeatedly in his book on the blueprint for the Communist Party in this country that the communists must seek to amalgamate the trade unions and then must use the shop steward movement for the purpose of achieving their ends. [More…]
Whenever I hear men of experience in the trade union movement talking as though the trade union movement was an idealistic organisation in which everybody is as pure as the driven snow - [More…]
Yes, you are brothers until the union fight starts and then you will cut one another’s throat without the least compunction. [More…]
The trade union movement is a movement with great humanitarian ideals, but it is a movement which is under attack by people who have in view political ends which are not for the good of this country. [More…]
You can see, Mr Chairman, that we all agree that the trade union movement is under attack at present by people who have political ends in view. [More…]
If we let the people with political ends in view obtain control of the trade union movement, we are in for trouble. [More…]
Sometimes I hear people say that communist union secretaries can be good blokes, that they are very efficient and that it is no wonder that many of the workers vote for them. [More…]
I have heard Labor Party senators say that so-and-so was a communist but he was a good union official. [More…]
But a communist can never be a good union official because, when the welfare of the union comes up against the welfare of the Communist Party, what does he do? [More…]
If a union wants to amalgamate, let it get 50 per cent of its members to say yes. [More…]
I want to say one or two things in order to clear up what has been said and in order to defend the trade union movement from those who attack it- those who have in view political ends that are not in the interests of this country. [More…]
I think we can accept the words of Senator McManus and say that we should defend the trade union movement against those who seek to destroy it. [More…]
Senator Hannan has one obsession- the amalgamation of the metal trade unions. [More…]
We have to work out regulations for trade unions which are for the benefit of the unionists, whoever they might be. [More…]
Even members of the Democratic Labor Party have been known to be members of trade unions. [More…]
We have not protested about such people being members of the trade union movement. [More…]
We are satisfied that in the case of each union the ballot was conducted in accordance with the union rules applicable to the taking of the ballot, and we so find. [More…]
I refer to that period when Ernie Thornton was Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association and when, we are told, the unionists combined for the purpose of defeating the amalgamation. [More…]
Ernie Thornton became Secretary of the Union after amalgamation of right wing unions- the ammunition workers union and the ironworkers union. [More…]
He was not displaced because of the amalgamation of the unions; he was displaced by the court. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite said that the present Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) had agitated against the Australian Workers Union and crookedness in the AWU. [More…]
It was originally a shearers union. [More…]
It let other unions form. [More…]
I deal now with this suggestion of a union getting too big to get to its rank and file members. [More…]
The union’s rules contain a provision that it have contact with its rank and file members. [More…]
Under the amending legislation the union had to assure the court that it had a majority in favour of amalgamation. [More…]
I do not know why the amalgamation in that area denies us the right, in Senator Hannan ‘s mind, to allow other unions to amalgamate. [More…]
Because there might be a communist and at one time there was a communist Secretary of the Ironworkers Association, the DLP will not support the principle of amalgamation even of unions which do not have communists in control of them. [More…]
It is untrue to say that no one on this side is a member of a trade union. [More…]
My recollection is that Senator Bonner is a member of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
He said that I have an obsession about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The reason why I direct such attention to that Union is that in my view- I still hold the view, regardless of what the court said- the amalgamation was such an extraordinary example. [More…]
Mr Morgan, who was accepting the amalgamation with such facilityhe found it so easy to accept the amalgamationwas in the course of making a sweetheart arrangement with the metal trades unions. [More…]
I refer him to the genuine sinister outside influences which have been the real motivating factor behind the amalgamation of the heavy unions in Australia. [More…]
When this debate began I said that there could well be reason why some of the 3 1 6 trade unions in Australia should amalgamate with one another. [More…]
Of course, Sharkey, who would be no stranger to honourable senators, said in his book: ‘We must destroy the craft unions. [More…]
We want to move to a setup of industrial unionism’. [More…]
The position has been reached where a union of the size, power and wealth- I emphasise the word ‘wealth’- of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has been able to dictate to a potential Prime Minister. [More…]
The rules of the boilermakers’ organisation at that time provided that 55 per cent of those voting could effect the cancellation of the registration and an amalgamation with the takeover union- the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
If the Government’s position in respect to this Bill were to be sustained it would simply mean that a meeting of 3 members, two of whom voted in favour, could deregister a union and make arrangements for amalgamation. [More…]
That is just too silly to be put forward seriously by men as experienced in the trade union movement as Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
I regard that as being a substantial reflection of the views of a union. [More…]
There are reasons why a unionist cannot vote on a particular occasion, such as absence on holidays and some fault in the delivery of mail. [More…]
As I had occasion to remark when discussing this Bill on a previous occasion, we have some grounds for hoping, on reading the speeches in the other place of Mr Malcolm Fraser, that this moderate approach is beginning to take root among the Opposition and that it is beginning io dawn on it that union bashing and vilification and wild frenzied talk about anything to do with unions may be unproductive. [More…]
During his tour of the coalfields he raised the question of union costs. [More…]
He referred to the extent to which the democractisation of unions could go. [More…]
He referred also to whether the unions would have to take on additional administrative staff. [More…]
Senator Hannan pointed out that what he called the takeover union- I prefer to call it the host union- had to participate in a ballot and share the cost. [More…]
The point I am putting in relation to the cost to the union, although it is a big union, was also advanced by Mr Laurie Short within the last 12 months in conversation with several of us. [More…]
It related to a small element of an industry which was to be taken under the large union’s wing. [More…]
It has been said: Why should the Federated Ironworkers Association, with a big membership, have to have a complete ballot and pay the cost when the small union has the most to gain? [More…]
Mr Malcolm Fraser realised the point concerning union costs. [More…]
Union costs are becoming astronomical. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation, within the last 2 years, absorbed 600 unionists from Carrington. [More…]
When the Federal Council of the Waterside Workers Federation and the Newcastle branch officers of the union said that they would have those unionists, the Waterside Workers Federation certainly did not want to have the cost of a ballot of its entire membership when there was to be an increase of only 600. [More…]
The other point I wish to make is that the small segments that the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Waterside Workers Federation wanted to absorb, were so insignificant that they would not disturb the balance of power within the large unions. [More…]
I conclude by saying that I take up Senator Hannan’s offensive remark about the takeover union. [More…]
In most cases that union is giving out more than it is getting by gaining a minute additional membership. [More…]
Should a majority of the union have to vote? [More…]
I know that in Victoria at the moment we have an industrial dispute which, I suppose, some would call a demarcation dispute, but its resolution does not depend on whether there will be an amalgamation because there are competing selfish groups within the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
But the point is well taken to demonstrate that this fallacious argument- that in some way the union position can be improved by permitting amalgamation which overnight, as it were, will solve industrial disputes- is so much arrant nonsense. [More…]
I raise the question now and I invite- indeed, I challenge- the Minister to show where in this Bill in any of the clauses which we have so painstakingly examined over the past few days there is a provision which would enable the Government to take some action in regard to the dispute involving the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria which is denying Victoria power and which has created an enormous amount of unemployment in other areas. [More…]
I raise this question specifically to enable the Minister to show where provision is made to deal with this situation in which there are a small number of members of the Electrical Trades Union who have gone on strike because they feel that they should receive $4 a week more because some other grade of electrician received an increase recently. [More…]
It was a view that China believed it had a right to have a nuclear capability, that China was to continue with its nuclear testing until it had that nuclear capability and that while America, Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had a nuclear capability it was China’s right and entitlement to have the same capability. [More…]
What is the opinion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in regard to this alignment? [More…]
There will be a number of people there whose job will be to assist Ted Hill and the Australian Community Party Marxist-Leninist to advance their already considerable influence in the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Milliner has been through the union mill. [More…]
I think that with their influence Hill will become the controller of that element in the trade union movement in the very near future. [More…]
I can remember- it must have been within the last few months- when the Government was not a front for the Chinese Communist Party but was a front for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The allegation has been made that on one occasion we were following the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [More…]
No one has ever corrected that allegation and said: ‘We would like to draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that the ALP followed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union but it does not do so any more’. [More…]
We are being told, without any correction, that the same Party which follows the Communist Party of the Soviet Union also follows the Communist Party of China- a remarkable feat which even Houdini would have been incapable of performing. [More…]
They have closer relations, although by no means indissoluble bonds or overpowering bonds, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The advertisement is sponsored by the Australian Teachers Federation, the Australian Council of State Schools Organisations, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Wood, Principal of St Michael’s School for the Handicapped just outside Launceston; Mr McNamara, President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations; Father F. Martin, Director of Catholic Education in Victoria; Mrs J. Kirner, who was selected from a panel of names presented by the Australian Council of State School Organisations; Mr Ray Costello, President of the Queensland Teachers Union; Mr Albert Jones, Director of Education in South Australia; Dr Peter Tannock, a young man who is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australia; and Mrs J. Blackburn, who has been an outstanding member of teachers college staffs in South Australia. [More…]
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; [More…]
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; [More…]
Is this an expression of how the Government intends to promote better industrial relations, or is it simply a Government financed propaganda organ for an extremely militant union body? [More…]
As a former trade union official I would have promoted a strike if members of my organisation were asked to work in a boot factory under the same conditions as people are working in Parliament House in Canberra. [More…]
-There may well be reason for requiring that the source of any kind of propaganda, as it is called, by or on behalf of any foreign power in Australia be identified, irrespective of the questions which the honourable senator raises about the Soviet Union. [More…]
658 of 1973-Federated Clerks Union of Australia; [More…]
659 of 1973-Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
He mentioned Mr Ray Costello, President of the Queensland Teachers Union- and we would allow for 2 such persons; Mr Albert Jones, Director of Education in South Australia who is, of course, capable of being appointed by the Australian Education Council; Dr Peter Tannock, a young man who is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australiaagain capable of being categorised; and Mrs J. Blackburn, who has been an outstanding member of teachers’ college staffs in South Australia. [More…]
Did the Australian Government, in making its attitude known to the Soviet Government specify restrictions on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union as an instance of the denial of this fundamental human right; if so, on what occasion, on what date, and at what diplomatic or governmental level was this done. [More…]
In 1970, in the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the Australian representative expressed concern about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and appealed to the Soviet Union to resist from policies or practices of discrimination against citizens of Jewish origin and to allow those wishing to emigrate to do so. [More…]
The Soviet Union has in recent years considerably relaxed its restrictions on the emigration of [More…]
If so, will the Government publicly support the system of conciliation and arbitration by urging publicly the striking members of the union to return to work and to abide by the decision of the Commission, and if the union wants to have the decision altered to use the ordinary procedures of putting in a claim and submitting it to conciliation? [More…]
The Soviet Union has bought 700 million bushels from the United States. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and I refer to the announcement of the Government’s proposal concerning trade union training. [More…]
Firstly, does the Government’s proposal to establish a national trade union college involve the erection of a new building in Canberra for this purpose? [More…]
Secondly, will the Minister consider adding to the students and union members eligible for training courses representatives of management in order to develop greater understanding of trade union administration? [More…]
Whether the course will be extended in the manner suggested I do not know; it has been designed essentially for trade union training. [More…]
But what will Senator Wright say about an ordinary, decent trade union official who was going about his business of protecting members of his union in a club on a Sunday night and was belted and bashed and put into hospital? [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDSenator Rae talks about the building workers union. [More…]
It was not the building workers union which was involved in this case. [More…]
An official of a registered industrial union was going into the premises to protect the working conditions and wages of members of his union. [More…]
I would have thought that the police force and those responsible for the administration of justice would be leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that people who do that to an official of a registered union are apprehended and dealt with. [More…]
I have been an official of the trade union movement. [More…]
I have been on the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I often hear Ministers, when they want to get their way on matters involving credit unions, old peoples homes and the like, say to the people concerned: If you attempt to interfere with the Bill at all you will lose the lot’. [More…]
As a result of my experiences in the trade union movement and in the Labor movement I became a connoisseur of high pressure tactics. [More…]
I think that we must look back at some parts of history and its relevance to Senator Poyser ‘s interjection in relation to the trade union movement. [More…]
The State Service Union which is the Public Service Union- I believe honourable senators will agree that that is a very respectable union- was asked to nominate a representative from the union to go on the Board. [More…]
The union took a secret ballot of its members after calling nominations. [More…]
What about a teacher who has religious beliefs which preclude him from joining a union? [More…]
ls the Minister aware that there is grave concern among members of my union that first release Australian drama probably will be removed from television during the months of November, December and January and replaced by replays of old episodes? [More…]
Many weeks have passed since 1 September, but the Government has still not sought to bring on this piece of legislation which so many of its union supporters berate the Opposition parties for delaying or frustrating. [More…]
The purpose of clause 13 is to make invalid the provisions of the rules of a trade union that prevent a person from joining the union by reason of his race, and the clause also makes it unlawful to prevent a person from joining a trade union because of his race. [More…]
Indeed in my experience as a trade union official, being interested in a large body of members, I came into contact with persons involved in this problem. [More…]
In addition the student who qualifies for a living allowance will be entitled to an incidentals allowance to assist in meeting costs of fees, such as students representative council fees and union and sporting fees. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it not a fact that the real aggressor in the Middle East is the Soviet Union and that it has supplied and is supplying Arab nations aggregating 100 million or more people with the latest weapons and technical advice as to how to use them in an attempt to subdue a tiny nation of 2.5 million to 3 million people. [More…]
-The honourable senator asked me whether the real aggressor in the Middle East is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Union. [More…]
There is no doubt that for a long time the Soviet Union has been backing the Arab States and has given some war materials to them. [More…]
These are the sort of things that bedevilled us before we ever had the degree of union that comes from federation. [More…]
But having had that degree of union that comes from federation since 1900 let us apply the Constitution to the situation as we know it since 1900. [More…]
The reason for the difficulties stems from a directive, issued by the Federal Executive of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists to its members, instructing them not to handle the $20 postal orders and associated accounting documents. [More…]
As the members of this Union are fairly widely distributed throughout official post offices the Union’s directive has resulted in some inconvenience to persons receiving such postal orders. [More…]
Negotiations are continuing with the Federal Executive of the Union with a view to having the bans lifted. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that representatives from 31 countries are demanding that the United Nations restore to the Royal Government of the National Union of Cambodia, headed by Prince [More…]
I suppose the prime example is the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, whereby the Government aimed to bring industry to its knees by not only waiving penalties but also by giving to trade union leaders and their stooges exemption from civil action and by making union amalgamations easier. [More…]
Within the last hour I have spoken to the Secretary of the Australian Workers Union in Western Australia about a paltry claim made by 6 migrants who worked at Dampier for 8 weeks well over 12 months ago. [More…]
But I indict successive State governments, of Western Australia for their failure to provide trade union protection. [More…]
The Western Australian Secretary of the Australian Workers Union pointed out to me that his union could be involved in extensive litigation in order to have satisfied the paltry wage claim of the 6 migrant members of his union to whom I referred. [More…]
I point out to Senator Hannan that the Western Australian Government suggested that perhaps the union could confer with the Yugoslav Consul General. [More…]
When we consider the weight, seriousness and the sheer number of the Bills which the Senate is being asked to considerBills that affect the constitutional position in Australia, Bills that affect the social order in Australia, Bills that affect domestic relations in Australia, Bills that affect the national health scheme and things like that- and matters, such as the Trade Practices Bill, that concern the commercial life and the trade union life of Australia, it must be realised that these things are of such moment that to try to deal with them ad hoc in the quick rush towards the end of a session would be unthinkable and indefensible. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that Qantas Airways Ltd makes available special fares to members of student groups, such as the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Qantas Airways Ltd is not making available ‘special’ fares to members of student groups such as the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Qantas will be arranging a program of international travel for the Australian Union of Students over the coming summer holiday period. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students meets all of the eligibility rules laid down by the Government for affinity group charter travel, except that its total membership exceeds the ceiling limit of 50,000 which the normal affinity group charter rules prescribe. [More…]
The minimum fare which the Government has prescribed for affinity group charter flights of the kind Qantas will be operating on behalf of the Australian Union of Students is applicable in peak and non-peak traffic periods. [More…]
There is not one vote one value at the Australian Council of Trade Union conferences. [More…]
The unions would not have it. [More…]
At the Australian Council of Trade Union conferences small unions get representation out of all proportion to the big unions. [More…]
A big union of 70,000 to 80,000 members would get 4 votes and a union made up of 53 members would get one vote. [More…]
In other words, the Commonwealth of Australia is not a union of all people; it is a federation of designated colonies emerging as designated and original States. [More…]
Every time a committee or a commission is appointed, I have heard members of the Labor Party seek to have on that committee or commission some Labor Party representatives, some union representatives or representatives from some other organisation. [More…]
The Senate early this year had to keep the Government honest when it insisted that its promise of 4 weeks leave to all public servants was given to all public servants and not simply to those who were members of a union. [More…]
The Commission may call directors, union secretaries and anybody else to whom it seeks to direct questions. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of the plight of the Russian ballet dancer Valery Panov who was dismissed from the Kirov Ballet and has been subjected to interrogation and imprisonment by the Soviet secret police after applying for a visa to emigrate from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Israel? [More…]
I accept what the honourable senator said about the Constitution of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Without interfering with the independence of the television companies, is there any way he could suggest to them that there are other trade union leaders? [More…]
-The honourable senator is well aware that there are other trade union leaders. [More…]
It appears to me however that members of the Opposition complain bitterly when any trade union leader, including the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, appears on television to express the point of view of the industrial organisation by which he has been elected. [More…]
I refer to the S-week-old strike initiated by the Ship Painters and Dockers Union at the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd shipyard in Whyalla. [More…]
Can the Minister tell me whether the Government intervened at that stage to urge the union to discuss this matter at arbitration? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the delay in settling this argument has cost Whyalla workers more than $300,000 and that the wives of many of these unionists recently demonstrated their feelings in opposition to the dispute in an attempt to get the workers to return to work? [More…]
If the Ship Painters and Dockers Union were merged with a wider group of workers in the industry there would be more chance of avoiding demarcation disputes. [More…]
I have raised this matter at the instigation of the vigilance committee and with the authority of Mr John Garland, the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union. [More…]
This will reduce a lot of the hardship that is generally experienced by the average trade unionist when he has the misfortune to have to seek compensation. [More…]
No doubt he would have seen the reports of proceedings pending in the Industrial Court concerning the deregistration of a union and threats made by one Gallagher of disobedience to court process, supported by mob action. [More…]
Is he aware that one of the signatories, the Soviet Union, celebrated its ratification, in October of this year, with hundreds of new arrests and closed trials within its own borders and within the captive nations which the Soviet Union occupies? [More…]
While this Senate has already expressed its view on the treatment of the Soviet Union’s own dissidents, I ask the Minister whether he is aware that a particularly brutal and repressive persecution by the Soviet Union is now taking place in the Ukraine. [More…]
Will the Government sponsor a resolution at the United Nations requiring the Soviet Union to live up to its membership obligations by releasing all prisoners of conscience in the Ukraine and in other captive nations? [More…]
It is true that the Soviet Union was a signatory to the famous Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I have listened to Opposition speakers repeatedly talking about rank and file control in the trade unions. [More…]
I am realistic enough to know that rising costs cannot be controlled completely, but what I do say is that if it is good enough for a trade union to have to call meetings of its rank and file to ratify an industrial agreement it is good enough for the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Limited to call their members together in the capital cities and ask them how the reserves should be used. [More…]
It is a document presented by Mr Hayden, Minister for Social Security, to a meeting organised by the Trade Union Council. [More…]
The trade union movement has been in favour of margins for skill for years. [More…]
Everingham said that he saw Australia moving toward the pattern in England and the Soviet Union, where only a well-off few use private doctors. [More…]
Is it a fact that a request has been received for the release for public viewing of the film which was made of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation’s recent visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
1 ) Does the Government intend to limit the control over Australia’s most valuable resource, the national work force, by migrants who hold leading positions as union bosses and who are responsible for the preponderance of constant strikes which are ruining the economy of Australia and aggravating inflationary trends. [More…]
1 ) Has publicity recently been given to Union opposition to an agreement which it was alleged the Government was seeking from Ansett Airlines of Australia, Trans- Australia Airlines and Qantas Airways Ltd, in connection with future industrial negotiations in the airline industry. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of honourable senators to the fact that a delegation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is present in the Senate. [More…]
He was Chairman of the Standing Committee on Industry and Trade from 1971 to 1973; Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts from April to August 1971; Leader of the Australian delegation to the 58th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at The Hague in 1970. [More…]
He then went on to play a part in the meat industry in an organisation now known as the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia Inc. As Senator Murphy has already cited, on coming into the Senate we have seen the interest which Senator Prowse displayed in this place in trade and secondary industry. [More…]
Before I go any further I take the opportunity to remind honourable senators that the delegation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is about to retire. [More…]
whether at a time when the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were giving actual military aid to the Forces of North Korea then engaged in hostilities against Australian troops in the field, Wilfred Burchett then had any professional relationship, remunerated or not, with either of those Governments: [More…]
of the Soviet Union; [More…]
That, in view of the developing practice in the industrial trade union movement of using industrial trade union organisations to force political decisions upon governments by threats of strike action, or by strike action, it is becoming imperative that the Government immediately legislate to outlaw this type of industrial blackmail. [More…]
That the program should include the following measures: A reduction in public spending and wastage in administration; measures to stop the drift towards industrial anarchy instanced by the enormous increase in strike action and the imposition of black bans by trade union leaders; and recognition by the Government that the right to work is equally to be safeguarded as the right to strike. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the Post Office, which falls under his ministerial responsibility, should be run by the Government and not by the postal unions? [More…]
If so, how does the Minister explain his passive acquiescence in union demands for the closure of all post offices on Saturdays? [More…]
What is the Minister’s reaction to the claim of the unions that because they have banned all Saturday work their members should now receive an increase in wages to compensate them for the loss of their Saturday earnings? [More…]
I ask: What action has the Labor Government, which allegedly champions the cause of dissenters in Australia, taken to express its disapproval of the brutal action by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his family from Russia? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister use the occasion of his coming visit to the Soviet Union to protest to the heads of the Soviet Government against such brutal and mindless oppression of a distinguished writer whose only crime was to publicise the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union? [More…]
He has indicated to me that he understands that the ABC Staff Association, the registered industrial union of which Mr Flower is a member, has been approached by Mr Flower to take up the matter with the Commission on his behalf. [More…]
Migrants who have come to Australia from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites have asked me to protest at the presence in Australia of Lieutenant-General E. Pitovranov who has admitted that he served for a long period in the Soviet Secret Police (KGB). [More…]
My information is that Mr Petovronov is the President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ national group. [More…]
The Labor Party and the Labor Government have made it clear that they support what the united trade union movement wants, that is, fewer penal powers and more collective arrangements. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, I have been a trade union official since 1 was 2 1 years old. [More…]
Another major conflict, one in regard to which it seems probable that very little can be done by Australia, is the conflict which has developed between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
However I think we have to recognise that in the case of China and in the case of the Soviet Union they are countries which, with whatever favourable aspects they may present, and indeed have presented, are dictatorships and that there are disputes as to which of them should have hegemony, if not throughout the whole world, at least in part of the world between the leaders of those 2 countries. [More…]
Certainly I think it has to be said that a contributing factor- I would not suggest that it is a major factor because I think there are other more important factors involved over which we never did have any influence- involved in the present intransigence of the Soviet Union and China is the many years of isolation in which both countries were placed after their revolutions. [More…]
I do not think it should be any wonder that both the Soviet Union and China should be extraordinarily suspicious countries, that both of them should be countries with which it is very hard for the other nations of the world to have sensible and sane dealings in view of the treatment which was meted out to both of them. [More…]
But at the same time, that action has been very mild compared with the campaigns of economic boycotts and sanctions which were carried out for almost 2 decades against the Soviet Union and against the People’s Republic of China, largely at the behest of the United States of America. [More…]
I believe they are both wrong, but I think that while we are looking at the situation of China and the Soviet Union we have to give some recognition to the historical reasons which have given rise to the difficulties which we now find in dealing with them and to see, insofar as we can, that these policies are not continued in the future because these are things to which the Australian Labor Party is opposed. [More…]
To a large extent the major difficulties between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and perhaps to a lesser extent between the United States of America and China, have been resolved as a result of some of the initiatives taken by the major powers. [More…]
Now it seems to be generally accepted that the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union, and on the other hand the U.S.A. and China, are taking all sorts of measures to prevent a conflict breaking out between those nations or any nations closely associated with them. [More…]
Although on the one hand this certainly is something which is to be welcomed- only a most negative, destructive, homicidal if not suicidal person would be opposed to the relaxation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A.- I believe at the same time that all democratic people need to have some thoughts for the future, and perhaps some fears, as to what might be the consequence of this type of detente. [More…]
His most famous book, ‘1984’, was not merely an attack on the sort of future which could be created under some sort of Stalinist regime similar to that which was existing in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that while all of us welcome the relaxation in tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., we should be very cautious lest a consequence of such a relaxation could be a division of spoils between 2 super powers with neither of which democratic people have a great deal in common. [More…]
Although obviously the most serious and most disastrous thing that could happen to the world would be a third world war, particularly a nuclear war, at the same time it would be a rather grim prospect for the people of the world if the consequence of the relaxation were to mean that the Soviet Union was free to send its tanks into Czechoslovakia and the United States of America was free to send its marines into the Dominican Republic. [More…]
We have to see that we have our own independent policy, our own desire to assist our own people by an independent national policy, and that we work to see that there is no foreign intervention in any country either by the Soviet Union, the United States of America or anybody else. [More…]
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have a rather dismal record over the past 20 years of interventions and invasions in other peoples’ countries and of efforts to impose their form of economic system and their domination on other countries- the United States of America in South East Asia and Latin America, and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. [More…]
At the same time, when we come to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there cannot be any question but that the position of the ordinary person in the Soviet Union is much better than it was under the Czars. [More…]
It is illegal not only in the Soviet Union but also in those countries where the supporters and friends of the Soviet Union exert dominance. [More…]
I think that something which has always to be borne in mind by members of the Australian Labor Party is that however friendly we may be with many of the countries associated with the Soviet Union, our counterparts in those countries are in gaol or have been executed. [More…]
I do not want to deprecate in any way the tremendous sacrifices which have been made, the tremendous injustices and the tremendous loss of life and devastation which was suffered by the people of the Soviet Union during the second World War. [More…]
But I believe that those people who accept the dictatorship in Spain, who accept the genocide in Vietnam, who accept American intervention in Cuba and Dominica, and who are happy about the coups d’etat and the military juntas in Greece and Chile have no right to protest about civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe they show only hypocrisy when they talk about Solzhenitsyn but have not a word to say about the treatment of the African National Congress in South Africa, the South African Congress of Trade Unions or about the Socialist Party or Christian Democrats in Spain or about Wilfred Burchett. [More…]
I think that this is one of the most inexplicable things which has been done by the Soviet Union. [More…]
This action of the Soviet Union has placed in jeopardy the very painfully and carefully constructed alliance between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the left wing radicals in France which showed very great prospects of defeating the conservative Government which has been in power for many years. [More…]
The Australian people know that Senator Willesee as Minister for Foreign Affairs on 2 occasions condemned the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for banishing that colleague. [More…]
The other 2 vessels, which are substantially operating to southern ports and which belong to the Union Steam Ship Co., are carrying quite a significant trade. [More…]
The cost which that union’s operations impose on the industry is unbelievable. [More…]
I refer now to the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
Then the ship operators, the waterside workers, the Seamen’s Union, the freight forwarders and all other elements that combine to make up the industry would be under the supervision and scrutiny of this body. [More…]
I accept the fact that there has been criticism from sections of the trade union movement over some of the industrial things which we have done. [More…]
We have to have an agreement, a working understanding with the other super powers, whether it be China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.’ [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are critical of the trade unions. [More…]
Senator Hannan has complained that union leaders do not consult members enough. [More…]
Unless this Government representing the national interest can induce the unions and the employers to get together to determine a system which will give the ordinary worker justice from a wage point of view, and ensure that the general interests of the community are preserved, within 8 months we will be in the same position as is Great Britain. [More…]
One of the troubles today, in the union field, is that the arbitration system and the rule of law have been smashed. [More…]
I have noticed with alarm a member of this Government who has duties in the union field stating that he strongly supports collective bargaining of the kind that goes on today in the metal trades industry between the employers and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which is largely communist influenced. [More…]
In an endeavour to smash the arbitration system the unions concerned jacked up. [More…]
They have entered into discussions and negotiations with this great big union, and they are making determinations and giving concessions. [More…]
The employers are saying amongst themselves that the union can have these things. [More…]
Militant, or so-called militant, union officials today tell their workers that they have to go for an increase of $10, $20, $30 or $40 a week, but everybody knows that the granting of such an increase to a worker is not of benefit to him to the extent that often he believes it is because it invariably puts him into a higher tax bracket in which the taxation scale is a little more savage. [More…]
I think that the trade union movement will have to look at whether it is to the benefit of the ordinary worker to demand very large increases. [More…]
Sadly, the rule of law is being breached by communists such as Jack Mundey who glory in the fact that their unions are holding up building projects. [More…]
Jack Mundey has said that his union is holding up building projects to the value of $300m. [More…]
Why should a union official have the right to say that a building cannot be erected because it offends his personal view of the economy, ecology, or whatever else it may be? [More…]
I accuse the Government of gross cowardice in not taking action to prevent one union official from constituting himself as a tribunal above the law. [More…]
Jack Mundey has done that by saying that his union, without any recourse to a public tribunal, will hold up building projects to the value of $300m. [More…]
If the Government accedes to the request of the postal workers it will mean that railwaymen and members of other unions will have the right to decide their hours of work. [More…]
If the Government concedes to the postal workers the right to decide their own working hours it will have to concede that other unions also have the right. [More…]
Experience has shown that when a government gives way to one union on a matter like that other unions will enter the field and say: ‘If it is good enough for the postal workers to decide their own hours of work it is good enough for us’. [More…]
We were told the other day by a postal union official that he had heard from the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen) that the charge for a letter was going to go up to 9c. [More…]
There was some meeting which was attended in relation to intellectual property, as I recall it, and the gentleman in question was the representative- I think the president- of the national group from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic attending that meeting. [More…]
I am proud to say that ever since the Australian Labor Party was born out of the trade union movement, through thick and thin it has gone forward with the name of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
We understand the trade union movement.’ [More…]
In the face of telling us that the Government has a mandate to do certain things the PostmasterGeneral, Mr Lionel Bowen, said to an official of the Australian Postal Workers Union- a man who could no longer stomach the actions of the Labor Party and resigned from his position as No. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Postmaster-General aware that details of a supposedly confidential letter from the Postmaster-General to the Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, Mr George Slater, were published in the Press recently? [More…]
In the case where unions A, B, C and D are employed in that undertaking and unions A, B and C cause the unemployment of the members of union D, are members of union D whose unemployment has been caused by strike action at the undertaking entitled to unemployment benefit? [More…]
We in this country are witnessing a great upsurge in trade union dictation. [More…]
We wonder whether the trade unions are running the country or whether the Government is doing so. [More…]
In this regard I refer to the postal unions. [More…]
The Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen), because of union pressure, said that throughout Australia there would be no Saturday household deliveries of mail in those cities in which such deliveries have been made. [More…]
On second thoughts, some of the union members are not too pleased about the situation because they will lose money by not working on Saturday mornings. [More…]
After the Postmaster-General made the announcement regarding Saturday mail deliveries, the unions decided what they would then do, and they issued instructions that all official post offices throughout Australia would not open on Saturday mornings. [More…]
How can a union dictate to the Government in relation to how mail deliveries are to be made, when post offices are to be open and what business is to be done? [More…]
But the unions went further than that. [More…]
This results from further union dictatorship in regard to what the Government can and cannot do. [More…]
It was not long before the unions declared that if any of these small businesses took on this work for the Postmaster-General, several things would happen. [More…]
Firstly, the unions would see to it that the shops concerned did not receive the supplies of stamps, postal notes and the raw materials necessary to do business with the public. [More…]
The unions would also place a black ban on the businesses concerned. [More…]
So after trying for a week or so to have the service accepted the Postmaster-General himself had to capitulate to the postal unions. [More…]
The basic principles of the scheme were supported by the Farmers Union of Western Australia in March of the same year. [More…]
We do know from public reports that leaders of the trade union movement and others spoke out vehemently in the early stages against the proposals put forward by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Is it true that a special report on telecommunications security was delivered to Senator Murphy by the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists and the Postal Telecommunications Technicians Association of New South Wales in which they urged the Federal Government to establish, amongst other things, a special debugging squad to check out all telephones of parliamentarians and unions? [More…]
It is true that the union in question made a number of representations after it had considered these matters and also made various reports which were fully investigated. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether strike action, which is so prevalent and is paralysing industry, at the instance of not merely that union but also the zinc workers in Hobart and the railwaymen throughout the country, has yet reached the stage where the Government is prepared to take any action to bring these disputes into the arbitration field, or is the Government acquiescing in this campaign on the part of many unions to gain increases by blackmail rather than arbitration? [More…]
I want to say, as I have said before, that however well intentioned a government may be in attempting to get conciliatory solutions to things such as are happening today, the situation is that prices are rising rapidly and there is an almost automatic response among a number of trade unions and workers who want to get the best they can while the market is good and while prices are rising. [More…]
Whenever there is a dispute he makes sure that an officer is available to talk with the union and with the employers. [More…]
If it acquires a majority holding of the shares in any private ventures and places union officials and other experts on the boards of such companies and the companies concerned make a profit, that profit will not be paid in taxes to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government would be able to find a trade union official who is sufficiently close to it these days and who would be able to get sufficient time away from his strike-creating activities to be able to join the proposed authority. [More…]
The Government and the trade union officials know that the most inciting factor in inflation is a decrease in the hours of work and the capacity to produce, particularly if the overall hours are reduced by 5 hours from 40 to 35 a week. [More…]
I have had a lifetime in the trade union movement, and notwithstanding the fact that during the last 8 years I have sat in the Senate in a much easier atmosphere than that of working with my hands, it still amazes me how young people can leave school at 1 8 years of age, work in a clerical position in one of these sky-high office buildings and receive excellent amenities and wages, while the Miners Federation will probably have to indulge in a rather vigorous industrial campaign to achieve comparable conditions and reasonable wages. [More…]
It is no wonder that on many occasions the trade union rank and file members feel that the processes of arbitration, whether they be conciliation or decisions to be handed down by judges, are not fast enough. [More…]
This is the sort of thing that develops this counter-militancy from the trade union movement. [More…]
I was informed by the companies Victorian Country Branch assistant manager, Mr Alan Gallagher upon my appointment that my job would involve addressing meetings of the Victorian Farmers Union and obtaining insurance business from their members. [More…]
About seven months after my appointment the Victorian Farmers Union broke away from the insurance arrangement with the Federation Insurance Limited. [More…]
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It is proposed that payment of child endowment be made to the credit of saving accounts with approved credit unions. [More…]
An approved credit union would be one registered under the law of a State or the Australian Government. [More…]
Although initially it will be possible to pay only child endowment to credit union accounts, eventually the new provisions will extend to other payments under the Social Services Act which will include all pensions, supporting mother’s benefit, sheltered employment allowance and rehabilitation allowance. [More…]
We are going to make it possible to pay it to credit unions’. [More…]
I have no doubt that the children will be delighted, and their mothers also, now that they know they can get it through a credit union. [More…]
But they can get it in a different way: They can collect it through a credit union. [More…]
It says: ‘We are robbing you, but be pleased about it, because whilst we are robbing you, if you have a credit union account you will be able to pick it up there instead of picking it up at the bank’. [More…]
A scientific delegation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was in Australia recently and it had talks with our people, as a result of which we will initial an agreement with the USSR on scientific grounds. [More…]
It is big business inasmuch as in the Soviet Union, for instance, all the capitalists are rolled into one big capitalist. [More…]
I desire to inform the Senate that a union meeting of the staff of the parliamentary refreshment rooms held this morning decided that all members of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union would stop work immediately and would not return to duty until 9 a.m. on Friday, 5 April. [More…]
At 10 a.m. on that day a further meeting of union members will be held to consider a report from union officials. [More…]
This dispute arises out of negotiations that have been taking place since last year with the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union over an agreement that was sought by that union to cover wage rates and conditions of employment of casual refreshment rooms staff, employed during parliamentary sessions. [More…]
In past months a number of discussions have taken place, some between union representatives and departmental officers and some with the Presiding Officers, and in these a substantial measure of agreement, including new rates of pay for casual employees, was reached. [More…]
The offer of the Presiding Officers was to meet a union request for improved conditions for casual or, as they are referred to, sessional staff. [More…]
The Presiding Officers were aware of the problems of obtaining casual labour to meet the exacting and difficult operation of this particular support system of Parliament and the difficulties associated with recruiting staff to work only intermittently with the Parliament, and after long discussion either alone or with the union the Presiding Officers decided to offer the union the following: [More…]
However, at the last meeting held on 21 March the union claimed that the benefits of the new agreement being negotiated, which was expressed to apply to the sessional staff of the refreshment rooms only, should be applied to the permanent staff also. [More…]
This morning before the stop work meeting was held, officials of the union were advised that at the invitation of the Presiding Officers the Public Service Board would be ready to discuss these matters with them as soon as a mutually convenient time could be arranged, Thursday or Friday of this week being suggested. [More…]
In the circumstances they believe it is essential that consultation with the Public Service Board must take place before any decision is made on the union request that the pay scales for sessional staff be applied to permanent officers of the refreshment rooms. [More…]
We hope that you are making every effort to get along to the branch meetings of the Party and we cannot stress strongly enough the enormous need to do this in order to successfully counter the activities of the Eagle Star and the Farmers Union in having their inspectors and field officers attend Farmers Union branch meetings around Victoria at which they are strenuously selling the Eagle Star’s arrangement with the VFU [More…]
In other words, a representative of his union- [More…]
It is true that on the last occasion I spoke on this matter it was suggested that the Australian Council of Trade Unions had been or had wanted to be involved in a similar situation. [More…]
All donations that we get from the trade union movement- we accept them and we will always accept them because, after all, the trade unions created the Australian Labor Party- come from individual unions. [More…]
It was solely an exercise so that the consumers, the members of the trade unions, might get cheaper goods and cheaper holidays. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union, which Senator Poyser mentioned, also has an arrangement with an insurance company whereby it gets a commission. [More…]
Victimisation is something which the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement in Australia- indeed, the trade union movement throughout the world- have had to fight since their very inception. [More…]
Because the Labor Party has not represented the owners of capital and has not represented the employers, people who wish to join the Party and who wish to be active in the Labor movement and the trade union movement have constantly been subjected to the fear of intimidation through their employment by their employers who, almost to a man, are opposed to the principles of the Labor movement to which their employees belong. [More…]
I think it is salutory that the attention of the Senate and the Australian people ought to be drawn to the wretched little company called Federation Insurance Ltd which has continued the same policy of intimidation as was used to try to break the trade union movement and the Labor movement from its very beginning. [More…]
We have seen repeatedly in the past in this chamber and elsewhere allegations that there is something wrong with the Australian Labor Party because it has affiliated with the trade unions. [More…]
We are proud of our relationship with the trade union movement. [More…]
Our relationship with the trade union movement is an open constitutional relationship and the decisions which are made by the Australian Labor Party, in association with the trade union movement, are publicly known arrangements made at conferences which are open to the Press and the public. [More…]
On 1 9 February the Farmers Union sent a telegram to the Prime Minister inviting him to address a public meeting. [More…]
The Farmers Union sent it. [More…]
On 1 1 March a letter was sent from the Farmers Union to the Prime Minister, repeating the invitation in the 2 earlier telegrams. [More…]
On 21 March, some 5 weeks after the initial invitation, an article appeared in the ‘ Farmers ‘ Weekly ‘ stating that at least one of Mr Whitlam ‘s Ministers, Mr Grassby, supported the Farmers Union in its stand on the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
Mr Grassby confirmed his opposition to the removal of the bounty by telegram to the Farmers Union. [More…]
On 22 March Mr Whitlam replied to the approaches of the Farmers Union along certain lines. [More…]
It is understood that the Prime Minister in his letter to the Farmers Union indicated that he believed that any representations that the Farmers Union wanted to put to the Government would be put to the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) because the union was meeting the Minister for Primary Industry on 25 March. [More…]
At 9 a.m. on 25 March, Senator Wriedt met the full executive of the Farmers Union and for 90 minutes discussed Government rural policy. [More…]
We had come up from the union meeting at Subi, but we’d seen in the press that the Prime Minister had refused to come out to talk to us. [More…]
I think this is the important thing: A lot of this is due to the fact that the farmers in Western Australia- and this has been fomented by the Farmers Union, of which I am a financial member- have not been told the facts about what the Federal Government has been doing for farmers in Australia while it has been in office. [More…]
One of the things that Mr Eckersley, the President of the Farmers Union, one of the things that the ‘Farmers Weekly’, a newspaper from which Senator Reid quoted, one of the things that the ‘Countryman’, a country newspaper distributed all over the rural areas of Western Australia, and one of the things which other rural newspapers have said is that the Federal Labor Government has cut off the taxation concessions that were allowed to farmers. [More…]
I ask you, Mr President, to look at the advertisements in the organ of the Farmens Union, “The Farmers Weekly’, inviting people to come to Perth for a meeting of farmers at Subiaco. [More…]
But a member of the Farmers’ Union who accepted the invitation was not welcomed because he was a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Farmers’ Union is an organisation that purports to be non-political, but these are the tactics it adopts and these are the tactics that the stormtrooper supports. [More…]
Ensure the rights of every Australian Citizen to choose whether or not they shall belong to a trade union. [More…]
Restrict the operation of trade union organisations solely to the fields of working conditions and the economic interests of their members, and stop the practice of ‘closed shop. ‘ [More…]
Ban the trade union practice of imposing political levies on members and to ensure that no trade union maintains any political affiliations. [More…]
Stop the Government practice of trade union membership discrimination. [More…]
Before each election the menace of communism, of China and the Soviet Union was trotted out. [More…]
Factors considered included international global developments affecting relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, the strong interest of other major powers in the avoidance of conflict, and various developments nearer to home involving countries in our neighbouring region. [More…]
I think that we are all discouraged to learn that Dr Kissinger’s latest mission to the Soviet Union did not achieve the hoped for results and that the Russian position is obviously hardening, no doubt because of the domestic situation in the United States and the disunity in Europe. [More…]
These factors included international global developments affecting the relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, the strong interest of other major powers in the avoidance of conflict, and various developments nearer home in and between the countries within our own neighbouring region. [More…]
As Senator Sim reminded us, in recent times who predicted that the Middle East conflict would break out again as quickly as it did and that the major powers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America would nearly come into conflict? [More…]
Another interesting issue in recent times is the request by the Soviet Union for a so-called scientific base in this country. [More…]
Today we understand that the request by the Soviet Union for a so-called scientific base in [More…]
Senator Maunsell ought to know this because recently he and I were members of a parliamentary delegation which visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, they are so inadequately developed that the Soviet Union is now calling in expertise from the United States of America, France, Japan and other countries because it has been so committed- this is my view, and I am stating it publicly- to the proposition of having huge numbers of” men in uniform that many of the resources which the Soviet Union could have been developing for the good and the benefit of its people were left undeveloped. [More…]
We said at that time that the major oil routes of the world went through the Indian Ocean and the dominance of the Indian Ocean by any one country such as the Soviet Union could result in those oil routes being blockaded and other countries being blackmailed into submission. [More…]
At the present time the situation has become so serious that the United States of America and Great Britain have agreed to the establishment of a base at Deigo Garcia facing the bases which the Soviet Union has acquired from some of the eastern countries. [More…]
A few years ago under the old regimes it would have been unthinkable that the United States of America would have dared to talk or even suggested talking to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
But if a world war breaks out in this situation with the United States on one side and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the other side nearly every nation, and certainly Australians, Indonesians and the rest, will finally be dying in the field. [More…]
Not that it matters a great deal since the 2 super powers- the United States and the Soviet Union- have enough to overkill one another many times over. [More…]
Apparently the Soviet Union does not think so either because 2 months ago it launched a 45,000 ton carrier- and that of course will soon make its way into the Indian Ocean where we wish to preserve a zone of peace simply by saying that we like peace. [More…]
One hears talk of detente between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I received from the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Downing, an assurance that the Commission had taken into consideration all representations made to the Commission on Mr Flower’s behalf by the industrial union covering his calling, namely, the ABC Staff Association. [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDShortly after I assumed this office the Professional Musicians Union of Australia made representations to the Australian Broadcasting Commission and to me for a new orchestral site in Brisbane. [More…]
Riley, the secretary of the Manufacturing Grocers Union in Victoria. [More…]
I stated in the Senate only a week or so ago, I think, that I have received a submission from the Western Australian Farmers Union which is, as I said at the time, a very good submission and the type of thing that the Prime Minister is seeking from rural industry. [More…]
If he is visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government I think it is relevant to remind the honourable senator that in this modern day and age Mr Khrushchev once visited the United States of America and President Nixon visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to the action of unionists in refusing to permit the export of livestock on the basis that it is endangering abattoir employment. [More…]
Is the Minister prepared to condone a position in which contracts are in danger and a valuable trade is in jeopardy because of the attitude of union officials, or has the Minister intervened? [More…]
Has he had discussions with the union or with the Minister for Labour? [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour Is it a fact that some trade union officials are paid wages and overtime by trade unions when those unions are involved in strike action? [More…]
If this is so, how does this practice align itself with that of workers and members of those unions who receive no pay while on strike? [More…]
I was in the trade union movement for something like 20 years and I have never known a case where a trade union official has been paid overtime at any time, including during stoppages. [More…]
A major feature of last October’s conflict in the Middle East from our strategic point of view was the manner in which the United States and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]
Perhaps we are waiting for the day when this Government, if it ever gets back, gulls the people of Australia into believing that perhaps we would get better equipment from the Soviet Union than we would get from the United States or some other country. [More…]
The honourable senator might be interested to know the affairs of some of the leading unionists in Victoria. [More…]
According to evidence given in court cases that are currently proceeding, they are pulling $40,000 a year out of union funds. [More…]
Such union officials apparently would not fall into the same category as the officials of the various health funds throughout Australia whom the honourable senator criticised. [More…]
Incidentally I must have missed out because I was a union secretary in’ Victoria and quite frankly I never enjoyed that type of salary. [More…]
The whole of the existing voluntary funds must be demolished, although no good cause has been given for this, including many trade union and voluntary organisation funds. [More…]
This was based on recommendations by the Panel of Experts set up by the International Telecommunications Union following the 1959 Administrative Radio Conference and the Huxley Frequency Allocation Review Committee, convened by the Australian Government in 1960, as a means of relieving the serious congestion in the High Frequency Spectrum. [More…]
I now wish to inform honourable senators that I have received the following message from the relevant trade union: [More…]
This Government would not dare go into an election in Australia with the thought hanging over its head that it was considering a request from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to establish in Australia a base which would put the ANZUS pact at risk. [More…]
We are pleased that the Government has decided to reject the offer of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to set up in Australia a photographic observation station. [More…]
When the 2 super powers of the world today, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, combine in space research I suppose honourable members opposite would say, if they were sitting in Congress, that President Nixon would be a communist as also would Dr Kissinger and everybody else there; therefore, they are not even to be talked about. [More…]
While he was running around the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics people in Queensland were doing all the work. [More…]
Unlike my friend on the Government side, Senator O’Byrne, I am now a distinguished ex-member of the Whips Union. [More…]
Sir, I think that you are the first member of the ex- Whips union to occupy the chair. [More…]
For all his adult life he was a unionist, a union official, a Party official or a member of this Parliament. [More…]
Before being elected the member for Adelaide he had been Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of South Australia in the years 1950-52 and then organiser of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He was also a member of the Australian delegation to the Inter-parliamentary Union meeting in Canada. [More…]
Each week I travelled back to Adelaide on the aircraft with him, but apart from saying ‘Good day, Joe’, or making similar remarks to him, that is about all I knew of Joe Sexton until we were appointed to represent this Parliament at the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union in Canada. [More…]
The amount of constituency work that he did was attributable to the long ties that he had with the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not think that he worried very much whether a person lived in Adelaide or in any other electorate in South Australia: The fact that he had those ties with those people in the trade union movement meant that he would certainly take up their problems and attempt to solve them. [More…]
1 ) without regard to either economic or social consequences it intends to award Government contracts to employers who will comply with trade union policies; [More…]
It is this policy and action by a militant, irresponsible, small coterie of union bosses that this Government encourages. [More…]
That there is a serious economic mess is recognised clearly by the responsible trade union movement which is on record in tonight’s Press as warning that there will be unemployment at a level of 200,000 by the end of this year, a shameful situation deliberately caused by the action of a government which purports to be a government of the people. [More…]
There was a deliberate plan, egged on by left wing union leaders, to create scarcity in the basic industries and so upgrade the bargaining power, and the Labor Party applauds this plan. [More…]
That is what Professor Downing said yesterday of the situation which today the trade union movement acknowledges and which the Caucus in its frenzy acknowledges. [More…]
The 2 nations which opposed the Australian amendment were Japan and the Soviet Union, the two major whaling countries. [More…]
Is it the policy of the Australian Government to allow trade unionists, who are not elected representatives of the people, to intrude into such sensitive diplomatic areas? [More…]
If not, what action does the Government propose to take to prevent the trade union movement taking over the foreign affairs of Australia? [More…]
I could not quite understand that part of the question which referred to the trade union movement. [More…]
The Western Australian Farmers Union did this successfully and its case is now before the Commission. [More…]
I was amazed at the attitude taken by the Minister for Labor and Immigration in this Government, Mr Clyde Cameron, whose sole concern after the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation was that some action should be taken to enable that union to regain its registration. [More…]
Action of a different character ought to be taken by a government which is concerned to protect the public interest and to protect the industry of which these unionists ought to form a vital and constructive part. [More…]
They are small groups in remote areas who are not able to speak up with the force with which the major unions in this country can speak. [More…]
When the secretary of the union involved expresses his concern and criticises the Government’s policy, the only response which he is given by the Minister for Labor and Immigration is that he is a featherweight. [More…]
Because it is a creature of the trade union movement it cannot argue with those who dictate trade union policy. [More…]
No less than 10,000 tons of steel are at that terminal purely and simply because of a conflict between 2 trade unions about who should be despatching that commodity from that area. [More…]
Since March of this year the steel has remained in that area, purely and simply because of an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Union concerning the delivery of that steel. [More…]
Not only is it incompetent to deal with the trade unions in that area but also it has allowed the trade union movement to take the foreign policy of Australia out of the Government’s hands. [More…]
I have asked him to see what he can do about arriving at some sort of an arrangement between the 2 unions involved. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should consider the proposition put forward by the Liberal and Country Parties during the election campaign and look at the leadership of some of these unions. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should look at this aspect, introduce the holding of secret ballots for the election of union officials and insist that all trade unionists in Australia vote at such elections. [More…]
That would get rid of some of the irresponsible trade union leaders who are causing industrial trouble, leading their fellow workers into strike situations unnecessarily and causing them and their families hardship. [More…]
I suggest as a positive move- as a positive example of the policy of the Liberal-Country Party- that the Government should introduce legislation to provide for the holding of secret ballots for elections of union officials. [More…]
I believe that if that happened the average trade unionist in Australia would vote at such an election and would see that the irresponsible trade union leaders were thrown out of office and replaced by fair dinkum Australian workers who have the interests of their fellow workers at hean. [More…]
Something else that irritates me is a situation in which a trade union- to wit, the Seamens Union of Australia- can hold the country to ransom simply because it disagrees with the policies of a foreign government. [More…]
I believe that it is quite evident to the people of Australia that the Government is unable to control or negotiate with the trade union movement and that the trade union movement is obviously the Government’s master. [More…]
I can appreciate the demand for higher wages, but here is a failing in union leadership. [More…]
That gap will be paid for by the trade unionists and other sections of the community. [More…]
-I do not know that the loss of markets can be fully attributed to industrial action by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union concerning the slaughtering of cattle particularly, and sheep to a lesser extent. [More…]
On the one hand we have the attitude, which Senator Lawrie has put forward, that it is the fault of the unions. [More…]
On the other hand, the unions claim that producers are withholding stock from the market. [More…]
In addition to having Post Office employees available, I also instructed one of my assistants- a Minister’s assistant- who has some experience in industrial affairs to confer with the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and other unions. [More…]
In addition, Mr Don Hancock, the officer whom I have mentioned, has been talking with the Postal Workers Union and the other unions concerned and, as a result of these talks, he has introduced new and urgent measures at the North Sydney Post Office, the Vaucluse Post Office, the Randwick Post Office and the Baulkham Hills Post Office. [More…]
In particular his criticism of the Government’s tariff policy certainly is in conflict with the statement of Mr John White, an officer from the Graziers Association of New South Wales which I quoted here in the Senate only last week and also with the statements made by the President of the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
I refer to an article which appears in the Australian’ of today’s date and which states that the Minister for Defence will be leaving Australia next week to visit Germany and that while there he will study the union concept in West Germany where trades unions are permitted to operate in its military organisations. [More…]
While he is overseas and in West Germany in particular, he intends to make inquiries into the arrangements made in the German army for what is called a trade union organisation to see how it operates. [More…]
There have been some reported moves on the part of servicemen to form their own unions, although such moves have not developed. [More…]
Sometimes people castigate us in relation to the question of industrial disruptions, but I am one of those who have said that a trade union secretary has not any sort of Moses appearance; he cannot sort of wave his hand and people will stop. [More…]
Unlike our founding fathers who were concerned to establish the Senate as the Federal part of the Parliament- ‘the organ of the States, the visible representative of the continuity, independence, and reserved autonomy of the States, linking them together as integral parts of the Federal Union’- the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam leaves no doubt that, as one honourable member of another place expressed recently, he ‘is hell-bent on completely abolishing the States themselves’. [More…]
It is the thin edge of an insidious wedge being relentlessly employed by those bent on the wrecking of our federal union and the destruction of our sovereign States. [More…]
So long as every State is like every other State, equality of suffrage is not destroyed by admitting a new State to the Union. [More…]
I have in mind the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Federal Republic of Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Canada and New Zealand. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration say what progress is being made in solving the dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which has held up delivery of 10,000 tons of steel from the roll-on roll-off terminal of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Port Adelaide since March of this year? [More…]
I understand that the Waterside Workers Federation is prepared to go to the disputes committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, but the TWU will not agree to that course of action. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Has any approach been made by the Australian Meat Board or by the Government to the authorities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the purchase of Australian meat, as occurred some years ago? [More…]
-As regards the first part of the honourable senator’s question, no, I am not aware of any major purchase of beef by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the European Common Market countries. [More…]
The question concerned the Australian Meat Board’s activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It is true that some years ago the Board did negotiate a very good contract for Australian meat in that country but I am not aware of any activities by the Board in the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
The newspaper headlines refer to what the trade union leaders have said and the Government is not popular at all. [More…]
They do not want to go home and have their arms twisted by thenelectorate committees and their trade union leaders because they may well have to come back to caucus next week and agree with Senator Wright’s motion calling for disapproval of the report. [More…]
A wage increase is brought about by a demand from the union concerned. [More…]
Although the solidarity of the trade union movement today is having some success and is moving along where the Arbitration Court has failed, it is the leaders of this great country who will have to make the sacrifice and pay the penalty for the inflation that is occuring in Australia and other countries at the present time. [More…]
We believe that unless the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gets together with the Premiers, the trade union leaders and the other groups in the community and sells the story that the only way this country will get out of this inflationary mess is by voluntary restraint on prices and incomes, we will get nowhere with inflation. [More…]
I cannot guarantee what the trade union movement will do. [More…]
If this matter is as serious as honourable senators opposite are making it out to be- if they say that what they are doing tonight will be a challenge to the Australian people, a challenge to the Australian trade union movement and a challenge to the Australian white collar workers- the problem will not be solved by pegging the wages of 187 people and agreeing to increases for thousands of people. [More…]
When it comes to wages and salaries they say: ‘Our recipe for the ills of the community is to say, “First of all, let us tell the trade union movement that it must negate and disapprove and set aside the arbitral determinations that have been made” ‘. [More…]
I tell honourable senators opposite that the trade union movement of this country is waking up to it. [More…]
The leader of the trade union movement, Mr Hawke, came out and stated strongly his views on the matter. [More…]
One has heard the denigration of the trade union movement which the honourable senator has made of it over the years. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Agriculture seen a recent issue of the ‘Farmers Weekly’, the Western Australian Farmers Union newspaper, reporting that Mr Sinclair, the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party, is claiming that the latest rise in interest rates was an act of vandalism- whatever that meansagainst the rural sector? [More…]
If so, what action has the Government taken to ensure that future wheat sales are not jeopardised by union actions which are beyond the control of wheat growers and the Australian Wheat Board? [More…]
Throughout Australia so many unions are operating in the Post Office field that it becomes an impossible financial burden to keep supply up to demand. [More…]
I come now to this important point: We have tried to make possible and easy amalgamation in the trade union movement. [More…]
On each occasion they have opposed our efforts to make amalgamation in the trade union movement easier. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration inform the Senate what are the precise issues that threaten to precipitate the strike tonight by members of the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration will recall that I raised the question last week concerning the 10,000 tonnes of steel that is rusting on the wharf at Port Adelaide due to an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. [More…]
As it would seem that the Federal Government, the South Australian State Government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions are unable to effect a speedy solution to this problem, will the Minister authorise the Army to effect delivery of this urgently required steel to contractors because I understand that unless this material is delivered very soon unemployment will be the result? [More…]
It has had the difficulties of a union green ban and all sorts of difficulties which arose because of environmental concern and the threat of pollution from the Captains Flat slag dumps. [More…]
Can the Minister recall my asking a question of him in March this year concerning the payment of union officials during strikes? [More…]
As the Minister could not give me a definite answer on that occasion, and because of the great number of strikes at present, I now ask: Do union officials receive any payment during a strike or do they forfeit their pay in the same way as the other members of their unions during a strike period? [More…]
In many cases a union management committee or council decides that the secretary of the union shall not receive his pay during a stoppage. [More…]
I know that in many cases union officials decide to waive such payments and that in other cases such payments are made during stoppages. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh has reminded me, during disputes and troubles of that nature or arbitration proceedings the secretaries of unions are involved in performing much more arduous duties and in greater expenditure than they would be ordinarily. [More…]
It comes from a Mr Phillip Nitszhke who I think is employed as an agricultural adviser to the Wattie Creek community and has a big mailing list, including the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Mr Buchanan, for his complaints about Wattie Creek. [More…]
We should seek to erect a constitutional edifice which shall be a guarantee of liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent and the adjacent islands. [More…]
Deakin stressed ‘union’ and ‘the whole people’. [More…]
He used that phrase not only in his great skill but also in his understanding of the union structure throughout Australia. [More…]
It was the unions which had insisted on that form of words in an amendment with regard to industrial matters. [More…]
The firms that have pulled out of oil search in Australia recently include the Gulf, Continental, City Service, Ocean Venture, Sun Oil, Union Oil- which was the first company to have a commercial field in Australia although West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd was the first company to discover oil- and Tennico companies. [More…]
I understand that some sort of demonstration was mounted, mainly by members of the Transport Workers Union and the clerks union. [More…]
Representatives of the two unions involved will be there also. [More…]
The policy of the Liberal Party itself admonishes the industrial partners in the following terms: ‘Consultation, negotiation, cooperation between employees and employers would be assisted by a structure of industry unions’. [More…]
The Liberal Party would ‘seek to work with the Australian Council of Trade Unions in encouraging industry-based unions’. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill enable unions to obtain such a structure. [More…]
The trade union movement will be placed in a position whereby it may rationalise its structure. [More…]
The need for such a rationalisation can be seen from the number and overlapping organisation of trade unions in this country, and the consequential unorderly operation of awards and agreements. [More…]
The fragmented nature of the trade union movement has been reflected in an unorderly operation of industrial regulation. [More…]
It is not uncommon for several unions to be party to a single award or agreement, as is the case in the metal industry award, or for a multiplicity of separate awards and agreements which are to operate in single establishments and which therefore have to be observed by the employers concerned. [More…]
Amalgamation of organisations will operate in this situation not only by reducing the number of unions party to single awards and agreements but also by limiting the number of awards and agreements applying within single establishments. [More…]
The Liberal Party itself recognises that ‘the multiplicity of unions and the spread of certain unions through many industries makes the task of consultation and negotiations more difficult with problems of one industry unnecessarily flowing to others’. [More…]
I can further instance its wages policy, trade union education policy and so on. [More…]
The present fragmentation of the trade union movement can only result in unco-ordinated wage claims being pursued by 300-odd unions, each operating as a separate independent unit. [More…]
It provides impetus for fresh claims elsewhere and hence we witness a leap-frogging of wage increases from one area to another as unions outbid each other in an endeavour to protect themselves against an erosion of the purchasing power of the wages of their members. [More…]
It will, in the long term, pave the way for some co-ordination in the presentation of union wage demands. [More…]
This is almost impossible to achieve with the large number of existing unions and the unordered nature of existing arbitral arrangements. [More…]
Finally, amalgamation will remove obstacles to agreement being reached between unions and employers and so operate to produce more stability in industrial relationships. [More…]
These are the devices to which unions have been driven by the 1972 provisions introduced by a party which professes a belief in the need to uphold Australia’s system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Prior to that time we had witnessed, in the federal sphere, the amalgamation of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Societies in 1965; the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees Union in 1 966; the Australian Leather and Allied Industry Employees Federation and the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union in 1967; in 1971 the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union and the North Australian Workers Union; and in 1972 the 3 metal trades unions. [More…]
The Opposition bears a heavy responsibility for the current fragmentation of the trade union movement and for the creature of that fragmentation, spiralling wage demands. [More…]
Lack of acceptance of the agreement by the employees concerned can only generate disputes at the shop-floor level which may be resolved only with difficulty, if at all, at the union’s Federal level. [More…]
It has also been claimed that employers cannot obtain union approval for industrial agreements of any fixed duration. [More…]
It is anxious to leave the union side of business and commerce to wreak havoc and inconvenience, losses, irregular supplies, higher prices to the consumer, unchallenged and uncontrolled. [More…]
The Labor Government will oppose and seek to remove the imposition of penalties for conduct by unions and union officers in breach of awards. [More…]
It would rouse itself to a fever pitch if it were suggested that a penalty of $0.25m were an appropriate penalty for unions which have annual incomes in excess of $3m. [More…]
One can imagine the consternation from the Labor side if there were ever a suggestion that a union might be fined $0.25m for going on strike because it was contrary to the public interest. [More…]
For a trade union the ability to hold the community to ransom, to withhold vital supplies of power and transport and to impose hardship and inconvenience on tens of thousands of fellow citizens is a hallowed right acknowledged and defended by the Labor Government. [More…]
The public interest that it should uphold is subordinated to the sectional interest of the trade union movement which determines its membership, influences its policies and exercises a virtual veto over action not in accord with the public interest. [More…]
Musicians Union, the Transport Workers Union and the Airline Salaried Officers Union. [More…]
I believe that this afternoon a meeting has taken place- perhaps the Minister will be able to tell us something more about it- between two of the union secretaries and a Mr Michael Edgley. [More…]
One of the 2 union officials is Mr Cowles, the West Australian Secretary of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
The other union official, Mr Bluck of the Musicians Union, attended with Mr Michael Edgley, a well known entrepreneur who brings out to Australia Russian troupes, circus performers and so on. [More…]
They have let their emotions run away with them and have very deliberately struck at the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with which we have diplomatic relations. [More…]
In any event, Mr Ermolenko refused to go to the meeting and Mr Henne suggested as a compromise that the 2 union officials who had been at the airport and who had been the cause of putting the black bans on the aeroplanes, should be the people to talk to him and if they were convinced they would convince others because they were the crucial people who had the black ban on the aircraft. [More…]
-The clerks union? [More…]
But Mr Cowles is the man of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
But if the visas had been OK it is obvious that the union would not have let the plane go that night. [More…]
But additional to that, even if the airline would have carried them, it was quite obvious that the unions were going to pull a strike on that night. [More…]
The unions were asked to come to the meeting but those who were attending the meeting said that that was not on. [More…]
Later in the day, as Senator Durack has said, Mr Bluck of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia took an interest in the matter. [More…]
He had not been in the picture so far as I know until then, but naturally he had an interest as he was the Secretary of the musicians union. [More…]
They could not care less about the fate of Mr Ermolenko or about the relations between this country and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yes, we are concerned about our relations with the Soviet Union and we are concerned about the fate of Mr Ermolenko. [More…]
Mr Cowles of the Transport Workers Union, to whom Senator Durack has referred churlishly this evening, was one of the people who organised the major demonstration at the Perth airport last night. [More…]
It was Mr Cowles and the Transport Workers Union who decided to declare black any plane leaving Australia which might have been carrying Mr Ermolenko. [More…]
But I gather that, despite that, Senator Durack would still think this was some part of some subtle Russian plot to which Mr Cowles and the Transport Workers Union were parties. [More…]
But had that not been the case it would have been Mr Cowles and the Transport Workers Union who would have prevented Mr Ermolenko from leaving this country, not the grinning Senator Withers or Senator Durack or any of those others who have been speaking tonight. [More…]
There were other people involved as well, but the people who played the leading role in this were members of the Transport Workers’ Union and the secretary of the union, Mr Cowles, who is a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
This matter was raised by members of the Australian Labor Party because they believed that there had been very clear instances in the past of deprivation of civil liberties by the Soviet Union and because they believed, in the light of the statements which reportedly had been made by and apparently correctly recorded of Mr Ermolenko to various people in Perth- the Sub- Warden of St George’s College and a prominent figure in the musical life of Victoria who happened to be in Perth and whose name I think is Mr Badger-that he had expressed some reluctance to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was arranged that people should be present at a meeting with him and that they should be representatives of the 2 unions which had been most actively involved in the issue- the Transport Workers Union and the Clerks Union- the 2 lawyers who had been instructed to act in the matter, one representing Amnesty International and one representing the Guild of Undergraduates, and that a Liberal Party Minister in the State Government, Mr Grayden, should be present also. [More…]
But is it suggested that the man is in such a psychotic condition that after having been tested to determine whether he had been drugged and it was found that he has not been drugged, and after having present a Liberal Party member of Parliament, a right wing union official, a left wing union official and a representative of the Australian Journalists Association he is still unable to answer the question? [More…]
All I can say about this matter is that for many hours last night Senator Willesee and I and various others tried to think of the best possible means that we could provide so that not only Mr Ermolenko would have an opportunity of making a free and open decision as to whether he wanted to stay or whether he wanted to leave but also all those concerned would be aware of it Does anybody think that Senator Willesee and I are trying to curry favour with the Democratic Labor Party secretary of the Federated Clerks Union whom we wanted to be present; that we have some debts of gratitude that we have to pay to Mr Grayden, a Liberal Minister in Western Australia? [More…]
At the moment the information apparently is that the actions which are before the Supreme Court have not been withdrawn and that apparently the Federated Clerks Union has continued to impose a ban on the flight which is leaving Australia, so it appears that it will not be until at the earliest tomorrow that the party will be leaving Australia. [More…]
-Senator Durack says that the Clerks Union took the effective action. [More…]
Transport Workers Union had nothing to do with it. [More…]
If that is the point he is trying to make, that Cowles and the Transport Workers Union had nothing to do with it, I suggest that that is just not true. [More…]
Certainly the Soviet Union is a country which is singularly short on civil liberties. [More…]
But the other issue is the question of our relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If members of the Opposition believe the things which they say, and which I certainly believe in part, about the nature of the political system in the Soviet Union, they should realize that what they are doing is placing this man in a position which, if he does now go back into the Soviet Union after this sort of thing, the position will be very serious for him. [More…]
There is a lack of freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am not here to defend the Soviet Union. [More…]
But we do not believe that either the maintenance of Australia’s diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which are important, or even more importantly the preservation of this person’s life and liberty are served in any way by this disgraceful motion which has been moved this evening. [More…]
Perhaps they do not have such contracts in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Australia has for some considerable time recognised the Soviet Union and it should be enabled to continue its relationship with the Soviet Union in the best possible manner. [More…]
I am absolutely amazed that Senator Hall should say that we should sacrifice the liberty and maybe the life of an individual to maintain good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is proved by the fact that Mr Cowles from the Australian Transport Workers Union is involved in this matter. [More…]
Mr Johnson and Mr Badger, and that he be able freely to make up his mind as to whether he wishes to return to the Soviet Union or remain in Australia. [More…]
All we ask is that this young man be given the opportunity, free from intimidation and threats, to talk to those whom he originally trusted in order to make up his mind as to whether he wishes to remain in Australia or return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he declares that he wishes to return to the Soviet Union, there can be no argument- he has made a free decision. [More…]
But if he returns to the Soviet Union, without this opportunity being given to him, in company with Professor Kabalevsky, this other character from the Russian Embassy and the others who go with him, no one will know whether he is going back to the Soviet Union of his own free will or whether he is going back under duress. [More…]
I speak with an even-handed attitude because I have been equally vocal in relation to Polish seamen and I have even led a Yugoslav delegation to the Soviet Union, as Senator Wheeldon has done, complaining about its excesses. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania nave been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
In a Senate where, as everyone knows, the numbers are equal, it is rather strange to hear this demand from a meeting of prominent Liberals and, I understand, an Australian Democratic Labor Party secretary of some trade union who has interested himself in the matter. [More…]
Is not this Professor Kabalevsky the same Professor Kabalevsky who was reported in the Soviet News Bulletin of September last year as having criticised Andrei Sakharov as acting contrary to the interests of the Soviet Union? [More…]
Can the Minister assure the New South Wales branches of the Australian Workers Union and the Municipal Employees Union, which provide the work force for road construction in that State, that ample finance will be available for road construction in New South Wales provided that the Opposition co-operates with us on certain road construction legislation? [More…]
In view of his attempt to equate the previous Government’s decision in relation to Goa with the decision by the present Government to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union, I ask him whether it is not a fact that Goa was a Portuguese colony populated by people largely of Indian ethnic origin whereas the Baltic states were formerly free and independent states possessing an ancient culture and traditions and whose people are witnessing the destruction of their culture and traditions and individually and collectively suffering from communist brutality and suppression? [More…]
The Board has offered to reconsider the matter if further submissions are made by the union, but the nursing aides have declined to return to work until a further offer is made by the Board. [More…]
It is necessary for me to say only that such an ardent advocate for the civil rights of the consumer community and of the trade union community as Mr Justice Frankfurter, in writing his introduction to a book on this subject, very thoughtfully written in 1928 by Berman, said that the book: . [More…]
Strikes and picketing were too often marked by violence organised and promoted by union leaders when peaceful measures failed to achieve their objective. [More…]
It is on record in that case- it still continues- that that union’s embargo is holding up $3,000m worth of building construction. [More…]
Abuses of power under closed or union-shop contracts, although exceptional, gave force to the attack upon all union security agreements. [More…]
1 can imagine the shrieks and screams that would come from Senator Poyser if it were ever suggested that a union might be subjected to a penalty of $250,000 if it breached an award even though it did not intend to do so. [More…]
The words ‘an organisation of employees’ are the words used in relation to a trade union. [More…]
The defects of labor legislation notwithstanding, the excesses perpetrated behind the shield of union power have become at last too widely known, its grips on the total processes ofthe American economy - [More…]
It was also pointed out that freedom of the Press was guaranteed by the Congress but the union boss could paralyse the whole industry. [More…]
The status quo of union power must be changed by moving it out of the anarchic no-man’s land where present legislation leaves it. [More…]
The other situation relates to the exemption which union monopolies have enjoyed from competitive discipline in America since the 1932 Norris-La Guardia Act. [More…]
Placing union monopolies under the general restraints of the antitrust laws will end the inequity and reduce the economic damage; . [More…]
On the contrary, we are expected to enact here in sub-clause (2) (a) of clause 51 a provision that for the purpose of determining the abuses condemned by this Act no regard is to be paid to strike action and disruptive action by union monopolies or organisations of employees in any circumstances. [More…]
If a trade union gets into some kind of a business activity, it is subject in its business activity, in the same way as any other corporation, to the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognize officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as the 17th May 1974. [More…]
I emphasise that all of these people saw Mr Ermolenko while no Russians, either Embassy officials or fellow musicians, were present: Mr Michael Edgley, a nationally known businessman and entrepreneur, Mr Rob Cowles, the Western Australian secretary of the Transport Workers Union and Mr Harry Bluck secretary of the Western Australian branch of the Musicians Union. [More…]
Mr Harding, the organiser of the Federated Clerks Union, said that he was not satisfied that Mr Ermolenko was speaking entirely without duress even though there were no other Russians present. [More…]
Mr Coleman, the secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, has also seen Mr Ermolenko and is quite satisfied about the genuineness of his desire to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As a further demonstration of Mr Ermolenko ‘s desire to be returned to the Soviet Union, he subjected himself to a 25-minute television interview in which he was thoroughly quizzed on his wish to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
No Russians were present during this interview and Mr Ermolenko at all times maintained that he wished to return to the Soviet Union as soon as possible. [More…]
According to the information which I have been able to obtain the Union Insurance Group of the United States holds a 14.9 per cent interest in the company and we understand that it is reinsuring 95 per cent of the policies which are underwritten by the Oak Insurance Ltd. [More…]
The other interests, apart from the Union Insurance Group of the United States, are Caravan and General Finance which holds 35 per cent of the shares, a Mr Robert Dillon who holds 15 per cent, CIL Brokerage which holds 10 per cent, Wyong Road Holdings Pty Ltd which holds 15. [More…]
We are not in a position to find out whether currently union officials are paid their usual salaries during stoppages. [More…]
I think I have told the honourable senator of my own personal knowledge of circumstances which preceded the most recent disputes, namely, that many officials of unions involved in disputes had their wages cancelled for the time their members were on strike and that when I was a union official in one case I lost, I think, 2 months’ wages because of such a policy. [More…]
-I think the honourable senator, knowing what is happening today, will agree that it shows that all the stoppages are not initiated by trade union secretaries, as people are saying. [More…]
So I do not accept the proposition that most of the activity is promoted by the union secretaries. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration put before the Moore Conference last week a proposition which, if it is accepted by the employers and the unions, either in the form in which it was proposed or in a modified form, will go a long way towards reducing industrial disputes in this country. [More…]
Australian’ newspaper of yesterday, if the Minister wishes to check- was made by Mr Cowles, the West Australian Secretary of the Transport Workers Union and not by the Liberal Party, will the Minister withdraw his offensive claim that this was ‘consistent with the rest of the nonsense that we have seen in the course of this political stunt being operated by the Opposition’? [More…]
If ever a union were convicted and a penalty imposed, it would be required to pay a monetary sum. [More…]
The undersigned citizens of Australia of Baltic origin wish to express their concern at the announced intention of the Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Australian Government to recognize the annexation of the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the right of self-determination belongs to every nation, big or small, the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been deprived of it for 30 years by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: In view of the Australian Government’s decision to grant de jure recognition to the incorporation of the independent states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the stated principle of the Government that the USSR exercises effective control over the areas, does the Australian Government intend by using the identical principle to recognise the incorporation into the USSR of the 4 Japanese islands of Habomai, Shikotan, Kuna Shiri and Etorofu, seized at the end of World War II by the USSR? [More…]
Does he agree with Mr Egerton ‘s opinion that anarchy has prevailed in a number of industrial disputes recently and that the trade union movement is now at its lowest ebb? [More…]
Does he agree that some trade unions are engaging in disputes without any thought to the welfare of fellow trade unionists and the general public and that the integrity of unions and the union movement has been called into question? [More…]
What action does the Government intend to take to meet such industrial anarchy as exists in Australia and to restore and protect the rights of the public and rank and file union members? [More…]
I have seen only the newspaper report of what Mr Egerton said and I have asked for more information of what he said and the letter he sent out to the unions. [More…]
I understand his statement is related to some other comments he has made to the affiliated unions over which he presides. [More…]
So before I comment on what he said or make observations on part of his address to the unions I would like to see the whole of his statement. [More…]
I believe that as an important official of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement he is attempting to encourage the unions in this particular period to take stock of what is going on in the inflationary economy and to consider that perhaps their actions ought to be more measured. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexion. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States-Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Government is granting freedom and independence to Papua and New Guinea, the once free Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union and their citizens are continuously and brutally deprived of personal, civil and religious freedoms. [More…]
The annexation and incorporation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union has not been recognized by any Western democracy, including Australia. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
-Over the last few months there have been considerable problems with the export of live sheep, particularly from Western Australia but also from South Australia, mainly because the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has objected to the number of live sheep being exported, which reduces the throughput of sheep at the abattoirs in those States. [More…]
Because the position was becoming rather desperate I recently asked the Chairman of the Australian Meat Board to convene a meeting involving the union, the Western Australian State Minister for Agriculture, who subsequently was represented by the Director-General of Agriculture in Western Australia, and the South Australian Minister for Agriculture. [More…]
But we recognise the concern of members of that union whose numbers have been depleted recently as a result of the reduction in the throughput of sheep at the abattoirs. [More…]
I was informed in the morning, from the best industrial advice that I could get- I assure the Senate that it was the best in Western Australiathat there seemed to be no chance of the Federated Clerks Union lifting its ban. [More…]
It seemed impossible to get the people involved in the Federated Clerks Union to hold a meeting. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: WHEREAS THE Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
That the Australian Government’s diplomatic action to recognize officially the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union has been taken contrary to the Prime Minister’s assurances to Australian citizens of Baltic origin given as recently as the 1 7th May 1 974. [More…]
The Minister has withheld from the Parliament information on decisions of vital significance to this country, that is, why the Government recognised some 30 years after the event the forceful incorporation into the Soviet Union of the states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. [More…]
The Minister has shown that this Government’s concern for the cause of freedom is subordinate to the maintenance of good relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of law and in order to appease the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics he organised the surreptitious departure of Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
We notice, of course, that this is a right which the Soviet Union denies to its citizens. [More…]
There are Valentyn Moroz and others who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union because they exercised the right of free speech and the ability to dissent which we regard in this country as the right of every citizen and which we have always upheld. [More…]
It is a shameful state of affairs, particularly when linked with the recognition of the Baltic states, that we should mould our foreign policy, decide issues of human rights and override the role of the courts in this country simply to curry favour with the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those circumstances are clouded by deception, stealth and, one can only suppose, an apparent sense of guilt and shame by a government which has no justification for its actions except that it gratuitously desires to curry favour with the Soviet Union. [More…]
For 30 years this de facto situation has existed without any de jure acknowledgment of the rights of the Soviet Union in relation to these states. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
Is it because this Government desires to maintain with the Soviet Union a relationship which it believes will be improved by the servile act of doing something which even the Soviet Union these days has not got on its shopping list of demands for other countries? [More…]
We believe that what this Government has done has been done in order to facilitate a reception by the Prime Minister in the Soviet Union when he visits that country this year. [More…]
Is not the only consistent view of the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of these States the view that it accords entirely with the public attitudes of the Soviet Union? [More…]
He persisted throughout the time that he was alive in assuring these people that Australia would never recognise the legal incorporation of these States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It may be an illusion to seek to maintain the ideal of freedom with regard to these countries because the de facto situation is certainly one in which the Soviet Union has an all powerful control. [More…]
Union in 1945. [More…]
But we have seen in the period in which the Labor Party has been in power a new subservience, and it is a subservience to the Soviet Union, to Communist China and to the nations of the Third World. [More…]
He said that in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics people are held prisoner. [More…]
Accordingly, with the co-operation of the Soviet Embassy, Georgi was interviewed a number of times and on successive days without any other Russian present- first, by the representative of the Foreign Affairs Department and the Chief Immigration Officer in Perth, then by Mr Gilchrist, the Head of the Legal Division of my Department whom I sent from Canberra expressly for the purpose, then by Mr Cowles, the representative of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Bluck of the Musicians Union and Mr Michael Edgley, the well-known West Australian businessman, who speaks Russian well, then by Mr Tonkin, the former Labor Premier of Western Australia, whom I had asked to intervene, and Mr Harding of the Federated Clerks Union and finally at length by a number of journalists on television yesterday evening. [More…]
Of course, I knew the Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union to be completely hostile. [More…]
It is next said that we wanted ‘to appease the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I was not going to be panicked earlier in the week when he said that he wanted to be returned to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which, of course, is what the Russian Embassy asked me to do. [More…]
These apparently included the Secretary of the Clerks Union, about whom he said: ‘who asked me if I was there on that business. [More…]
He met Mr Rob Cowles of the Transport Workers’ Union. [More…]
I thought that the Federated Clerks Union members would finally lift their ban but they did not until they were forced into having a rank and file meeting. [More…]
I was told by the best industrial advice that I could get in Western Australia- it was the best anybody could get- that there appeared no chance whatever of the Clerks Union lifting its ban. [More…]
The attack is levelled because this Government accorded de jure recognition to the incorporation of the 3 Baltic Republics into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
What needs to be said is that the Soviet Union, because of the historical past, regards the 3 Baltic territories as just as much a part of its territory as Britain regards Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. [More…]
I said that the Soviet Union regards it in that way. [More…]
I think it is very unfortunate that the Minister referred to the people at the Perth airport as a mob of louts because among that ‘mob of louts’ were many unionists- members of the Transport Workers Union- many university students whose allegiance, I understand, in some cases is to the Australian Labor Party, and many other people of goodwill. [More…]
The week in which Ermolenko was spirited out of Australia and the week in which there was de jure recognition by Australia of the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union was indeed a shameful week. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has not recognised and does not intend to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that, while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the Government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
It is opposed, as the Prime Minister himself has admitted, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which gives no support to the brutal annexation of the Baltic countries by the military forces of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The decision becomes more extraordinary when we are told and led to believe that there was no pressure from the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, the Soviet Union was just as surprised as we were. [More…]
But the Canadian Government has refused to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government itself, by its shameful act of recognising the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, puts its seal of approval, whether it likes it or not, in the eyes of the world, on this shameful, brutal Russian policy. [More…]
But if this Government were consistent, if it believed in the right of self-determination, if it really believed in the role of self-determination, then it would be giving aid to the liberation movements in the Baltic States so that they could overthrow the savage yoke of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer also to the Prime Minister’s speech earlier when he made representations to both the Soviet Union and the United States and said that the situation is hopeful. [More…]
The next thing that was said, in a very colourful way, was that the Minister has prevented the courts of this country from determinng the issue of whether the young man wanted to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The courts were never asked to determine the issue of whether this young man wanted to go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I find it very interesting that Senator Greenwood, who sent in the Commonwealth Police to arrest demonstrators at the Melbourne University, and who sent the Commonwealth Police to investigate and interrogate members of this Parliament for exercising this freedom of speech which he believes is so essential in the Soviet Union but which at least in the past he did not think was of any value in this country, has today emerged as the champion of human rights, the champion of civil liberties and the man who says that a person should be able to get up and say what he likes whenever he wants to say it and that he should not be interrogated by the police, that he should be free to insert advertisements in newspapers and should be free to demonstrate at the Melbourne University or at the Perth airport or anywhere else. [More…]
Ermolenko said on a television station in Perth- he said it to journalists and to all sorts of people- that he wanted to leave Australia and go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He did leave Australia and he did go back to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Their incorporation in the Soviet Union is one of the most shameful acts in modern European history. [More…]
The argument is used- I think there is a certain amount of justification for it- that the Soviet Union needed to take some steps to protect itself by entering into some sort of treaty with the nazis because the Western powers at that time had refused to co-operate with it and had rebuffed its efforts to organise a common front against the then menace of the Axis powers- nazi Germany and fascist Italy. [More…]
I do not believe that this in any way justified the Soviet Union believing that it could forcibly incorporate those 3 states inside the Soviet Union and I do not believe that it entitled the Soviet Union to occupy the eastern third of Poland and to take part conjointly with nazi Germany in a military attack upon Poland which was then, with whatever faults there may have been in the existing Polish Government, fighting alongside the democracies in defence of the world against nazism and fascism. [More…]
I do not think there is any question that the treatment of the ethnic minorities, the culture and the language of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under the Soviet Union is something of which the Soviet Union cannot at all be proud. [More…]
What we are doing with regard to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is recognising an unpalatable fact of life; that is, that they have been incorporated within the Soviet Union and there is no foreseeable chance, beyond a third world war, of those 3 states coming out of the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are not welcoming the fact that these countries have been incorporated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
No, they are merely asking us to carry on with a farce or a fraud and to say to the people of the 3 states: ‘De jure we do not recognise your incorporation inside the Soviet Union, but de facto we do.’ [More…]
There has to be some recognition of the fact that whether we like it or not or anyone else likes it or not, or whether it is just or unjust- and I believe it is unjust and I do not like it- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have been incorporated into the Soviet Union. [More…]
To continue to say they are not part of the Soviet Union while the Soviet Government and I daresay a majority of the Soviet people believe that they are is something which lessens opportunities for bringing about peaceful settlements with the Soviet Union, and peaceful settlements with the Soviet Union are essential. [More…]
Did honourable senators listen to the smears that came from the Government benches when it was suggested that an official of the Federated Clerks Union was a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
Today’s variation to this theme goes something like this: The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is contemplating a visit to the Soviet Union at the end of this year. [More…]
Accordingly, for some strange reason which is not immediately apparent to me, it is therefore necessary for him to toady to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Despite everything that he had undergone in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn still regarded it quite clearly as a severe punishment to be expelled from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Pasternak was a man who also suffered from the repressive regime of the Soviet Union. [More…]
To suggest that anybody is in possession of evidence that he was kidnapped by the secret police and that our humane, tolerant, non-fanatical Minister for Foreign Affairs whose record will stand up to the epithets that I have attached to him was somehow acting as a stooge of the Soviet Union and went along with the idea of a kidnapping so that our Prime Minister would have a red carpet when he went to Moscow is in my view in the realm of spy fiction fantasy land. [More…]
That, I say, is supported by the evidence of the conduct, behaviour and literary works of men who have suffered, as presumably he had not suffered, at the hands of the regime in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not find it difficult to believe- as I said, I have no more positive evidence than honourable senators opposite have- and I do not find it at all incomprehensible that this man would have decided to go back to the Soviet Union of his own free will. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate do not in any way condone the horrors that have been perpetrated in the name of socialism in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We believe that it is possible to have a just society without the oppression that has been practised in the Soviet Union and we are not heard to condone the tyranny that is practised in that country on individuals or in Russia’s relationships with other countries. [More…]
When Nixon was in power it was all right to go along with the Soviet Union in respect of great issues in order to maintain a peaceful situation; but now it is wrong. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite want to attack the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is quite separate from the argument which I have put against the Opposition’s claim in respect of the American alliance and what has been done to obtain a peaceful relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If somebody did that to a visitor from Australia in the Soviet Union honourable senators would be up in arms, would they not? [More…]
If anybody stopped me from leaving the Soviet Union or China I know that I would expect my country to defend me. [More…]
A torrent of abuse greeted the Transport Workers’ Union secretary, Mr R. Cowles, the Musicians’ Union secretary, Mr Harry Bluck, and the Trades and Labor Council secretary, Mr Jim Coleman . [More…]
The Government could use a RAAF aircraft to take Ermolenko out of the country to beat union bans but I have not seen any move to date to use the armed services to avert the fuel crisis in Australia and particularly in areas of Queensland. [More…]
Any one who has any knowledge of what is happening in the fuel situation with the Transport Workers Union and the associated unions will know that the position today is very critical. [More…]
This Government is unable to assist the thousands in Australia for whom honourable senators opposite are crying crocodile tears today, unless they recognise that the authorities controlling the areas concerned today are the authorities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Later in the debate Senator James McClelland deplored the fact that the Baltic states had been taken over by the Soviet Union. [More…]
All day long Government senators have deplored the fact that the Soviet Union had taken over the Baltic states. [More…]
I do not shrink from the full meaning of the words ‘callous’ and ‘cruel’, for along with other honourable senators and honourable members I have gathered an appreciation of the treatment and policies of the Soviet Union in relation both to individuals and nations and of the intrigue which it employs. [More…]
I have a report that as late as the Monday morning Ermolenko indicated that he did not want to live in the Soviet Union because in his own words, as I read the report, Australia was a better place in which to grow up. [More…]
There are reports from officers of trade unions and from others. [More…]
But the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states in the Soviet Union is the most extraordinary decision I have heard of for many years. [More…]
It is no wonder that when the event took place I described the decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union as cruel and unnecessary. [More…]
Because of the involvement of the migrant policy, the Government’s decision has denied its own stated pOliCY of ensuring the happiness, reunion and peace of all migrants to Australia. [More…]
Most serious of all, the Government has shown its own attitude to the tragic events which led to the dominance of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some 2,000 people will assemble in Canberra to give effect to their own feelings in this matter and to let the Government know how strongly they feel about the Government’s decision to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic states in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Here is an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against the charter of the United Nations. [More…]
Here is an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against the charter of the United Nations dealing with the self-determination of people. [More…]
It is also an admission by the Government that the Soviet Union is acting against its own constitution which provides, amongst other things, that every union republic shall have the right freely to secede from the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Surely the Minister for Foreign Affairs was not serious when he said that the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union will facilitate consular activities, particularly in relation to the reunion of families. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
Two of the significant participants in the action taken in Perth to try to prevent Mr Ermolenko from leaving Australia were Mr Harding, the State organiser for the Federated Clerks Union in Western Australia and Mr P. O’Brien, a lecturer in politics at the University of Western Australia. [More…]
He is a regular proposer of motions to the Council which are designed not to further union interests but to emphasise problems and to bring down the Australian Labor Government. [More…]
I understand that last night at a union meeting Mr Harding sought to do against the secretary- I think it is Mr Coleman- of the Trades and Labor Council in Perth exactly what the Opposition is trying to do to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
He told union members that he read an appeal for help in Mr Ermolenko ‘s eyes. [More…]
On the instructions of Mr Harding and other State Federated Clerks Union officials the Federated Clerks Union members at Perth airport continued to black ban all flights on which Mr Ermolenko could have left Perth. [More…]
Mr Harding was instrumental in preventing the secretary of the Western Australia Trades and Labor Council from addressing Federated Clerks Union employees at the airport. [More…]
They agreed to reverse the instructions from the Federated Clerks Union officials that the black ban be maintained. [More…]
Both the Federated Clerks Union State executive and the Federal executive were in continuous consultation with Mr Harding in order to prevent Mr Ermolenko ‘s departure. [More…]
They denied their union members the opportunity to learn the facts. [More…]
Suggestions were made that Australia would get votes from the Soviet Union, other countries of the Soviet bloc or the developing countries in support of Senator Willesee ‘s candidature for President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 as a quid pro quo for the Australian Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic republics into the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is clear then that there is no point in trying through any action whatsoever to obtain the support of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or of any other country outside the Western Europe and Other Countries group for Australia’s candidacy. [More…]
in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of the law and in order to appease the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics he organised the surreptitious departure if Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
We believe that the conduct which the Minister has shown with regard to these 2 events- the recognition of the Baltic states’ forceful incorporation into the Soviet Union and the attitude which the Government adopted with regard to the surreptitious departure of the young Russian musician, Ermolenko, from Australia- is such that the Minister has a political and personal responsibility which he cannot escape. [More…]
If this is so, and in view of the Minister’s claim that he accepts the realities of the situation as justifying the Government’s recognition of the annexation of the Baltic States by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and as Taiwan has existed as a reality for more than 25 years, how can the Government justify this further attack on the interests of what must now be known as the beleaguered State of Tasmania? [More…]
When was the Australian Ambassador in Moscow informed of the Australian Government’s decision to recognise the jurisdiction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics over the Baltic States. [More…]
Affairs in the Senate on 1 5 August, in relation to a statement made by the Minister in the Senate on 13 August that Australia did consult a number of friendly countries beforehand to inform them of its intention to review its position on the question of the de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, without notice: [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian Textile Workers Union has stated that on 18 September of this year a total of 9,766 workers, representing 23.3 per cent of its total union membership, were unemployed? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the Australian Textiles Council has estimated that the total number of unemployed in the textile industry at the end of this month, including members of the apparel section of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union, will be 15,000? [More…]
In short, it is a Bill which deals with union amalgamation. [More…]
I think that we can all recall the circumstances in which the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was formed out of the pre-existing Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia. [More…]
It was only a small majority of a minority of the membership which ultimately created this mammoth Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I think that the amendments which the previous Government introduced in 1972 and which came into effect were influenced, to a considerable degree, by what had been shown to have occurred in regard to the amalgamation of unions into the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
But the amendments of 1972 were designed to improve the amalgamation proceedings and to ensure that the rights of the membership of these unions were not overriden by union officials and others who were concerned to have an amalgamation take place. [More…]
The existing provisions in the legislation laid down the following procedures: A committee of management of a union was enabled to pass a resolution that an amalgamation should take place with another union. [More…]
We do not believe, for example, that the strikes which have bedevilled Australia in 1 974 are the work of the small unions. [More…]
We believe that the strikes have predominantly occurred in the larger unions. [More…]
If one is to have regard to recent industrial disputes, one of the major disputes was on a demarcation issue within a large union. [More…]
As I recall the position in the Transport Workers Union of Australia, which I suppose can be categorised as a fairly large union, the difficulties which arose in recent months arose because one section of the Transport Workers Union managed to secure an agreement under which its members received a $25 a week increase from an employer while there were other sections of the union- some Public Service and some not Public Servicewhich sought, initially unsuccessfully, to have the same increase awarded to them. [More…]
The elements of a demarcation dispute are as likely to be found in large unions and in different groups within that union as they are to be found within individual unions which have a dispute with other members of other unions. [More…]
The Opposition feels that the case which is made by the Minister is a case which can be argued on the basis that a multiplicity of unions can create problems and that larger unions ought to be developed because there are greater facilities for research and for the informing of members. [More…]
The wider the interest of union membership in the affairs of a union and the greater the encouragement which legislation can give to a wider participation by union members in the affairs of that union, the more democratic will be that union, the more representative will be the management of that union and the more responsible in the national interest will be the conduct of the affairs of that union. [More…]
Surely we have reached a stage in this country where the affairs of unions have such an impact on the public interest that it is a reasonable thing that if an amalgamation is to take place that decision be made by a ballot conducted by the Registrar, his Deputy or by the Electoral Office. [More…]
I do not believe that there is any warrant for a ballot of this character to be conducted in accordance with the rules of the union as the committee of the union wants it, because we know that there are circumstances in which ballots of unions are not secret, in which there is exercised a degree of intimidation, in which persons would wish that they had an opportunity to exercise a postal ballot which is their own vote and not an intimidated vote. [More…]
It is sufficient if the ballot is a union ballot in accordance with the rules of the organisation and the circumstances of some union ballots are such that one cannot guarantee that the vote is exercised in secrecy or without the fear of intimidation or duress. [More…]
Provisions of that character are to be supported, as the Opposition supported them, but why should concentrations of power in the union field be allowed to take place not on a criterion of whether or not they are in the public interest but simply on the criterion of whether or not the organisation which wants to bring into its fold a smaller organisation is able to express that intention and to get some support for it? [More…]
If, to give an example, one examines the record of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of this country over the past few years one sees a record- which can be verified by examination of the various appointees of that union- which indicates that the union is capable of utilising its power to secure not only the 20 per cent of the membership of a smaller organisation dutifully to put in the petition or request but one can imagine also the wholesale moves which would be taken by the organisers of the larger union to move in wholesale on the smaller organisation with a view to securing the desirable result of the ballot. [More…]
I will not go into details but the workings of the Miscellaneous Workers Union are such that I would have thought that a full-scale inquiry would have been warranted- not that we are likely to get that inquiry from this Government. [More…]
It is an alarming matter to see how power has been secured, maintained and exercised in the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
It is unfashionable in some industrial circles to give expression to any view which suggests that ordinary unionists have rights. [More…]
They are good provisions because they give a degree of control and influence to the members of the organisationprovisions which I hope can be extended and will be extended into other areas of union activity and union control in due course. [More…]
It is on the basis that this Bill seeks to take away rights which union membership has with respect to amalgamations of their organisations, that the Opposition is adamantly opposed to this provision. [More…]
This legislation which we are now debating is concerned, of course, with the internal affairs of the running of trade unions. [More…]
It is a cause of concern for many unions that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is seen by Opposition senators as a means of, in some ways, providing unionists with facilities or, in other ways, directing how they will conduct their affairs within the structure of the union itself. [More…]
The number of registered trade unions in Australia at the moment is approximately three hundred. [More…]
Of those 300 unions one-third have a membership of less than 5,000 people. [More…]
If one thinks of the position of one-third of the unions of Australia with membership of 5,000 or less, one realises it is almost impossible to manage a union of that size in today’s circumstances. [More…]
It is a matter of sheer lack of income and sheer lack of capacity to engage appropriate staff and so on to carry on the union’s activities. [More…]
Another example of what the Government is concerned about is that there are 28 unions operating in the Post Office in Australia and 26 unions operating in Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]
Union advocates are not the only ones who are aware of these difficulties. [More…]
I think it was in 1918 that Mr Justice Higgins, the first President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, made the comment in the waterside workers’ case that ‘competition for membership between unions is disastrous to industrial peace’. [More…]
But this is one area of industrial peace which is not susceptible to problems such as inflation and the various problems which cause unions to get involved in industrial problems with employers. [More…]
In the first place, the matter to which he referred was not a demarcation dispute between 2 different unions at all. [More…]
That was a clear-cut case of a demarcation dispute and nothing else between the Waterside Workers Federation and the Transport Workers Union of Australia which held up a large quantity of steel at the Adelaide wharf for a long time. [More…]
In a holiday period of 1972 there was an oil shortage in the State of New South Wales, again resulting from a demarcation dispute between 2 transport unions. [More…]
It has failed to work for reasons which involve criticism of the trade union movement itself. [More…]
Trade unionists are like every other section of this community insofar as they belong to voluntary associations; they are, by and large, apathetic unless a particular situation concerns them in a particular way. [More…]
It is to take a particularly false view of industrial relations to say that when a mass meeting of union members occurs about a wage issue those people are somehow conned- if I may use that expression- into attending that meeting. [More…]
If a demarcation matter concerns members of a union vitally they certainly will take a part in the union’s affairs in relation to that matter. [More…]
If a wages issue concerns them vitally, they certainly will take part in the union’s affairs in relation to that issue. [More…]
What the present legislation does is to limit the capacity of the unions to properly conduct their own affairs in relation to amalgamations. [More…]
Let me indicate briefly the sort of problems encountered and the reasons why the present legislation does not work and why we say that in amalgamation proposals the running should be taken by the committee of management of a union. [More…]
There are in Australia a number of unions which have sought to amalgamate with other unions. [More…]
Some of them are in a situation in which one-third of their membership turns over every 6 months; for example, unions concerned with the wool industry, the food processing industry and other industries of that kind. [More…]
In a situation in which people may belong to a union for three or four months, because they happen to work in the Shepparton canneries or the wool industry for three of four months, it is absolutely ludicrous to say that they should be placed in a position n of equal importance with officials and elected officers of that union who have contributed to its running over many years. [More…]
It is absolutely ludicrous to say that people in this position should be in any way compelled to vote on a proposal relating to union amalgamations. [More…]
It is essential that those changes be recognised in a fairly flexible arrangement which facilitates union amalgamations to accommodate those technological changes. [More…]
As I have said before, both unions and employers operating in the field of industrial relations recognise the necessity for these sorts of proposals. [More…]
-Yes, the AMWU certainly could be described as a giant union. [More…]
But that is not the union which the Opposition’s proposed amendments are designed to catch, is it? [More…]
It is the unions which seek to amalgamate in the future for which the Opposition’s proposals will make it difficult - [More…]
For some time that union has been trying legally to amalgamate with the Federated Artificial Fertilisers and Chemical Workers Union of Australia, but it cannot do so because the legislation which was introduced by the previous Government just does not work in terms of the union being able to carry out a successful amalgamation proposal. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood wants to refer to the Ironworkers Association for a comment on the existing system I suggest that he do so, because that is the problem with which that union is confronted at the present time. [More…]
The first change relates to the proposed new section 158 G under which a proposed scheme of amalgamation will not only have to be submitted to the Industrial Registrar and published in the Australian Government Gazette but will also have to be published by each of the organisations in the appropriate union journal and in a metropolitan daily newspaper. [More…]
Of course, it is a sensible improvement because how many trade union officials- indeed, how many honourable senatorsfor lighter reading dip into the Australian Government Gazette? [More…]
One found out about union amalgamations by reading the Australian Government Gazette. [More…]
As I say, honourable senators do not read it, so why should ordinary rank and file trade unionists read it? [More…]
I am sure that that improvement in the legislation will bring the notice of proposed amalgamations more readily to the attention of members of trade unions. [More…]
-I think, with great respect, that that is a matter which is not of major concern to rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
Surely the point is to alert people, because under any union rules there are procedures whereby meetings have to be held and these matters have to be considered and voted on. [More…]
It provides that a ballot of unionists on any union matter shall be conducted in accordance with the union rules. [More…]
The union rules are supposed to provide for that. [More…]
If they do not provide that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act lays down proceedings for challenging any ballot that is not conducted in accordance with the scheme envisaged in the Act or in the scheme envisaged in the union rules. [More…]
I concede that some unions may not carry that provision out, but if they do not do so there are proceedings for dealing with them under the present Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Our position on this matter is simply that an organisation conducts a ballot in a normal way unless there is a request to the Industrial Registrar by 250 members or one-twentieth of the union membership, whichever is the less. [More…]
That proposal is totally consistent with every provision in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act relating to the conduct of union ballots. [More…]
Union ballots are not conducted by the Industrial Registrar unless a committee of management or a percentage of the membership of a union requests that they be so conducted. [More…]
There should be consistency here, and there should be no interference unless the provision relating to a request for a ballot to the Industrial Registrar is invoked by members of a union. [More…]
Again I put it that unless that sort of a request is made, it is sound policy that a union should be able to conduct its own affairs in accordance with its rules. [More…]
Many unions now prefer that their ballots be conducted by the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
I have not known of any unions in recent times which have proposed amalgamation with other unions and which have not as a first step gone to the Industrial Registrar to seek his advice about the steps which had to be taken and about the way in which any ballots in relation to those amalgamations should be conducted. [More…]
It is almost a standard procedure for trade unions now to consult the Industrial Registrar about a ballot which has to be conducted in connection with an amalgamation. [More…]
-I am talking about the method of conducting union ballots, and the method of conducting union ballots is denned in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as being by secret ballot. [More…]
If unions do not conduct secret ballots aggrieved members can go to the Industrial Registrar and complain about the matter. [More…]
The only thing different about our amalgamation proposals is simply that as policy matters are to be considered and negotiations are required with employers in industry and with other unions, it is very appropriately a matter which in all instances should be dealt with by the committee of management of a union unless there is so much concern about it in the union that its members want to invoke the safeguard provisions which require a ballot to be conducted by the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
If only 10 per cent of the union members are interested in an amalgamation proposal and vote and if 6 out of 10 of those people vote in favour of the amalgamation, the amalgamation scheme is approved. [More…]
Why should unions be placed in a different position? [More…]
It is said that unions should be put in a different position from other voluntary associations in our society because of some concern of Senator Greenwood’s, which I share, that the activities of the unions appear to affect the public interest from time to time in various ways. [More…]
The same sort of inhibitions are not sought to be put on those other bodies, but they are sought to be put on trade unions. [More…]
The corporations of capital are not interested in confronting powerful unions if they can confront small unions. [More…]
But they are interested in having to deal with one union rather than 28 unions. [More…]
The Australian Post Office has had to deal with 28 unions. [More…]
This is the sort of problem which employers face when they have to deal with a great number of unions instead of one. [More…]
We say that the Opposition, by the proposed amendment to the provisions for determining the result of a ballot, is seeking to insert in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act conditions in relation to the administration of the internal affairs of trade unions which are not imposed on anybody else in our society. [More…]
The philosophical view behind that, as I understand it, is either that it is desirable to keep unions weak or that unions are more prey to malevolent men than is any other corporate organisation in our society. [More…]
One cannot legislate to abolish apathy in the affairs of trade unions, if that exists, as it does from time to time, as in other organisations or to compel trade unionists to take part in the affairs of the union unless the members are interested in those matters. [More…]
It is sought anxiously by unions and employers in the community so that the industrial relations system can at least have one area of conflict substantially reduced. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I am drawing your attention to these few things once again because their real significance is that they tend to work to the disadvantage of the Australian unionist in the matter of amalgamation. [More…]
It is not the amalgamation of unions that is so important. [More…]
It is the welfare and the future of unionist themselves. [More…]
Of course, previously in relation to an amalgamation it was necessary that half the members of the union should vote and that there should be a majority of that half. [More…]
It cannot be considered a step forward when, in fact, a simply majority of perhaps 10 per cent of people involved can direct the course of their union and other unions in search of amalgamation. [More…]
I believe that the legislation will contribute very much to improved industrial relations and to the control of unions by the mass of unionists if it concerns itself with the introduction of compulsory secret postal ballots. [More…]
In the election of a union executive surely this must be a realistic way of contributing to the democracy of the union system in Australia and to more successful relationships between employer and employee alike. [More…]
Surely the form of election which is satisfactory for the Australian people to elect their government- at this stage an Australian Labor Party Government- should be an excellent and indeed necessary form by which to elect whether a union is to amalgamate with another union. [More…]
Amalgamation can be sought by only 20 per cent of the union which can request that a ballot be held of the members of the union to be absorbed. [More…]
The signatures of a minority of a target union are sufficient to have that brought about. [More…]
To me this seems to be extraordinary haste when one recalls that in the cast of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union it took something like 2lA years to perform. [More…]
I understand that the amalgamation was sought by 3 unions and that there was general agreement that the amalgamation should be brought about. [More…]
One must tend to wonder whether the legislation towards amalgamation which is envisaged in this Bill is not more concerned with some form of body snatching or empire building within unions themselves. [More…]
I can imagine that this type of thing will increase the possibility of interference within the union by other unions. [More…]
Yet here the Government is opening up the way by this proposed legislation for that very sort of interference within the union field. [More…]
This interference will make it possible to cajole and to bring under the one umbrella any number of unions, large or small. [More…]
In fact, all this is contrary to the Government’s foreign policy, as we read it, although I must admit that it is not really contrary to the sort of policy that we saw only last week in regard to the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Surely today it is the economic situation rather than the amalgamations of unions that is the problem in this country. [More…]
It is legislation which can only make it simpler for the take-over by one or more unions by another union. [More…]
Basically this legislation would tend to place a sort of monopoly control in the hands of certain unions. [More…]
I believe that in considering the amalgamation of unions we should consider this point. [More…]
It is completely wrong to assume that by absorbing any number of unions into another union we are, in fact, helping the individual members of those unions. [More…]
In all probability, we are submerging the special interests and abilities of many of the people within those unions. [More…]
Let me say in conclusion that I am not antiunion amalgamation as such. [More…]
But I do not believe that this Bill does anything but make it easier for take-overs within the union field. [More…]
I believe that this type of legislation can contribute virtually nothing to the general situation of the Australian unionist or of the Australian employer. [More…]
I do so in the hope that it will be passed and that there will be support for the amendments which I have circulated for the inclusion of secret and compulsory postal ballots as a requirement for the making of a decision as to whether unions should amalgamate. [More…]
I say that he was skilful in the sense that, from what I heard of his speech, he did not call the Government’s opponents union bashers in adopting the usual, typical defence that one hears from so many of the members of the Australian Labor Party and the union movement. [More…]
This defence is used against those who criticise or involve themselves in union affairs from a right of centre political position. [More…]
I was amused to hear him say that he did not want the industrial scene in Australia to develop into a situation in which 2 giant corporations were facing each other- industry on the one hand and the unions on the other hand. [More…]
My mind immediately turned to the confrontation this week, if one could call it that, between the Government and the union movement in Australia and to the fact that the Government of Australia will go on bended knees to the union movement and ask it to co-operate in restraining the inflationary spiral in Australia. [More…]
This leads me to the proposition that the most powerful force in this country are the unions. [More…]
The result of confrontation between industry and unions in the last several years has invariably been the success of the union viewpoint. [More…]
It is a somewhat weak defence to say: Hands off the union movement. [More…]
Let us have the same freedom and lack of interference with the union movement. [More…]
I would ask Senator Button and his colleagues whether they would like similar legislation or legislation on a parallel form to be applied to the union movement in Australia. [More…]
For instance, if BHP and every other company in Australia were to say that they would adopt the use of secret, postal compulsory ballots, such as the amendments which I will move require, but that they would ask as a concession that the unions accept the same sort of oversight of the quality of the services they give to the community and the same oversight of what union officials are paid for their services, we know what the unions in Australia would say. [More…]
The unions would not accept restrictions and oversight parallel to those which companies in Australia have to accept. [More…]
It is a fact that the one great, last undisciplined grouping of power in Australia is in the hands of the unions. [More…]
This is the great argument that rages in the community today as the Government of Australia goes cap in hand to the unions to ask for their cooperation. [More…]
I certainly would not approve of this Bill without the safeguard that every unionist should be required to vote in a secret postal ballot. [More…]
Senator Button went on to say that we on the Opposition side did not understand union affairs. [More…]
I certainly do not understand as much about union affairs as he does. [More…]
We know of very well run unions whose leadership is a model for the rest of Australia and we know of some very badly run unions. [More…]
I have developed that story in another parliament in Australia and I will not bore the Senate with the same description of the shameful affairs of some unions in this country, some of which, lamentably, are in my home State of South Australia. [More…]
Therefore, there are all standards in the union movement and some of them are less than desirable. [More…]
But the basis of this Bill is such that it cannot be supported unless the power over unions is widened. [More…]
What is more democratic in this community than to involve every member of the union in one of the most major decisions he will make in his life as a member of that union? [More…]
I would suggest that it would be better for the progress of union amalgamation in Australia, which most people in this country seem to agree is desirable in some form, if the Opposition were to adopt a positive view and try to amend this legislation as it ought to be amended according to its viewpoint, and to put the onus back on the Government on a particularly penetrating point which I will mention in a moment. [More…]
Because the Transport Workers Union of Australia in South Australia and the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, South Australian Branch, could not agree as to who should handle the loading of steel at the new steel wharf in South Australia, 10,000 tons of that commodity which was in short supply then was denied to South Australian manufacturers and it cost the South Australian community, I have no doubt, some millions of dollars, not simply because a certain amount of steel was not sold in my State but because orders were not accepted by industry because it could not fulfil them. [More…]
The upshot was that the picket line was broken by about a dozen drivers of the Transport Workers Union with, of course, practically the whole community of South Australia backing them. [More…]
A meeting of the Transport Workers Union was held in the Trades Hall some 3 weeks ago at which 49 people attended and a decision was made at that meeting to expel the two leading drivers who broke the picket line of that 5 months old strike at the Adelaide wharves. [More…]
It is interesting to note how the affairs of this union were conducted. [More…]
It was deliberately stated at the meeting that no assessment as to who was a member of the union would be made at the meeting because legal action which possibly could be taken against the decision to expel the 2 members who broke the picket line would not be successful if members of the union who attended that meeting were not known by name. [More…]
That is an example of the practices of those unions that are as badly led as the Transport Workers Union is led in South Australia. [More…]
It is leadership of low standard and it is regarded as being of low standard by every good unionist in my State who knows of it. [More…]
Can we condone those sorts of activities and the use of devious methods of union manipulation by a few stirrers at the top? [More…]
In this instance they did not require even proof of financial membership for admission to that union meeting. [More…]
If those standards are applied to union amalgamation we will see a long period of very harmful dissension in the union movement. [More…]
I would have thought that there would be no objection from a Labor Party which believes in compulsory voting in all parliamentary elections and which, I understand, believes in compulsory voting in local government elections and will force people to vote and fine them if they do not, to the application of that principle to the union movement which in many ways is more powerful in this country than the Government itself. [More…]
Certainly something has to be done in Australia to take the democratic way out of the impasse which we are in, in which unions outside the electors’ delegated authority can run this country in very large measure. [More…]
The one method that can be democratically used is to apply the same voting procedures to major union decisions as apply to the election of members of Parliament. [More…]
This Bill deals only with a fraction of the decisions that would be made by the union movement but it gives an important opportunity to this House to provide for the widest possible involvement of union members in their union affairs, particularly on this important decision. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has used as one of his supporting points for the passage of this Bill the need to prevent inter-union competition in price rises and claims for wage increases. [More…]
I am sure that he would be backed by the public of Australia, including a majority of unionists, if his Government had the courage to act according to its general desires. [More…]
I ask the members of the Liberal and Country Parties in the Senate to allow this Bill to go through the second reading stage so that we may make a very significant advance in our approach to the great problem of union control and union development in Australia and so that we can make a very great advance by inserting into this [More…]
I would like to give an example of a union that has a diversification of members scattered in outlying areas and covering many industries. [More…]
It would not be possible for the Australian Workers Union ever to get 50 per cent of its members voting in a ballot whether it were for an amalgamation or for official positions in the union. [More…]
The highest percentage that has ever been recorded in a ballot in the history of the Australian Workers Union is 42 per cent. [More…]
So under the provisions of the existing Act there would never have been any amalgamations within the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
This Bill will make the amalgamations of the unions much easier. [More…]
Surely the unions themselves want it this way. [More…]
The officials of the unions want it this way, and I am certain that a lot of employers in industry want it this way. [More…]
In the PostmasterGeneral’s Department there are 28 unions involved. [More…]
Workers at the Sydney Mail Exchange are covered by no fewer than 20 unions. [More…]
The work force of Trans- Australia Airlines is covered by no fewer than 26 unions. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways belong to 14 unions. [More…]
The fragmentation of union resources, in terms of staff, finance and facilities, imposes limitations on the unions and makes the effectiveness of a union very limited. [More…]
The resources for research by the unions is limited where each small union has to have an industrial officer and a research officer doing exactly the same work as others in small unions are doing to try to compete with the rising cost of living and to keep the working conditions of the members of the union up to a standard that is accepted by the trade union movement. [More…]
The fragmentation of unions leads to an almost impossible position if they are dealing with a well organised employer group or a major company. [More…]
We are trying to enforce restrictions on the trade union movement so that the amalgamations of unions are practically impossible and at the same time the employers and their organisations are given a free hand to amalgamate and merge without any inhibitions. [More…]
The unions will not accept the provisions of section 158k subsection (2) of the existing Act. [More…]
In a ballot of 49 per cent of members of a union all of whom had voted unanimously in favour of an amalgamation the amalgamation could not take place because it would need to be supported by 50 per cent of members. [More…]
The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, as I have pointed out, makes it unnecessarily difficult for unions to amalgamate. [More…]
One is that at least half of the members of the union must vote and the other is that more than half the formal vote must be in favour of amalgamation. [More…]
There is one other objectionable aspect of the existing legislation which is not accepted by the unions. [More…]
The unions believe that they should have a right to determine the affairs of their own union, including the conduct of a ballot, the election of officers and any other issues which affect only members of the union. [More…]
I believe that most unions, if not all, would have some provision in their rules and constitution for a ballot to be decided by the members. [More…]
I refer to the ‘Australian Workers Union Constitution and General Rules’. [More…]
Those provisions are contained in the rules for the Australian Workers Union already registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Those rules deal not only with balloting on amalgamations but also deal with every other aspect of union affairs. [More…]
Opposition senators, of course, have very little knowledge and experience of the trade union movement. [More…]
Very few honourable senators opposite have ever been members of a trade union organisation. [More…]
The only knowledge they have regarding trade union affairs comes from the employers; the Press; or someone like Senator Hall who attended a meeting of the Transport Workers Union in Adelaide as a pimp and a spy, attending the meeting without the knowledge of the organisation. [More…]
These are the provisions in the Bill which give the right to unions to determine how they want to process an amalgamation- whether they want to conduct the amalgamation under their own rules, or whether they petition to refer the matter to the Registrar. [More…]
Senator Hall’s proposed amendment completely takes away the right of a union to conduct its own affairs by conducting a ballot for an amalgamation under the rules and constitution of the union. [More…]
This is where Senator Hall showed his ignorance of trade union affairs and trade union ballots. [More…]
A trade union, such as the Australian Workers Union, has members at Mount Isa, members scattered within the pastoral industries, itinerant workers who follow the fruit picking industry and thousand of other members working on highways and working at quarries and mines etc. [More…]
Probably 200 industries are covered by that union. [More…]
Making it compulsory for union members to vote in a postal ballot would be an absolute waste of time. [More…]
The imposition of a $5 penalty for those who do not vote is strongly opposed by the trade union movement. [More…]
We believe that the members of a union take sufficient interest in the affairs of a union to decide themselves whether the amalgamation of a smaller union with a bigger union is beneficial for the whole membership. [More…]
I believe that a decision to make a 50 per cent vote compulsory with a penalty of $5 for those who do not vote, would be abhorent to the trade union movement. [More…]
I am certain that it would not be accepted by any members of the unions. [More…]
Responsible leadership of both unions and industry Strongly supports a reduction in the number of unions and of demarcation disputes between rival unions. [More…]
Our legislation to help union amalgamation has been twice rejected by the Senate. [More…]
We recognise and realise that some industrial disputes are caused by demarcation disputes between unions on the job. [More…]
Senator Hall gave a good example when he referred to a dispute in South Australia between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation over the handling of steel. [More…]
If those 2 unions had been amalgamated that demarcation dispute would not have occurred. [More…]
I know of unions which have been waiting months and months to amalgamate. [More…]
They will not proceed with their amalgamation proposals until the existing legislation has been changed and made acceptable to the trade union movement. [More…]
Therefore I strongly support the Bill that has been introduced and just as strongly oppose the futile and useless provisions put forward by Senator Hall in an effort to make union ballots compulsory while at the same time not doing anything regarding the amalgamation or merger of employer organisations. [More…]
Senator Hall suggested that voting in a trade union ballot for amalgamation was similar to voting in a Federal or State election. [More…]
Voting in State and Federal elections, where it is compulsory under the Commonwealth Electoral Act to be registered on the electoral roll, to have one’s name, address and occupation on that roll, is quite different from voting in an election in the trade union movement where it is not compulsory to join a union. [More…]
I, for one, would readily accept compulsory voting in the case of amalgamations in the trade union movement if the Opposition supported compulsory membership of a trade union by employees working in industry. [More…]
That would be quite a different matter; the voice of the Opposition would be strongly opposed to any compulsion for employees to join an appropriate union. [More…]
Therefore, in my belief it was irrelevant for Senator Hall to refer to the fact that the Australian Labor Party supports compulsory voting in elections for parliamentary office and the imposition of a fine on those who do not vote, when he suggested that it should be compulsory for members to vote in a trade union ballot for amalgamation. [More…]
This Bill, as introduced, will ensure that the unions have this right and it will make it easier for them to amalgamate. [More…]
Members of the Opposition would know from looking at ballots conducted within the trade union movement over the years that some ballots for official positions often create more interest than that which would be created by an amalgamation. [More…]
While memberships of organisations should be voluntary, employees and employers should be positively encouraged to take a responsible and active part in their respective union and industry organisations. [More…]
That means that they ought to be encouraged to vote and to obtain enough information about their unions to know what is to be gained and what is to be lost by an amalgamation; what one union may have in assets and what it may gain in faculties if it amalgamates. [More…]
When considering increasing the number of amalgamations we should recognise the situation that amalgamations in the past have been mainly large unions joining other large unions and in fact there has not been pressure to remove smaller unions. [More…]
If there were some pressing need to amalgamate the number of unions in the Post Office- and I am sure that there is such a need- then surely pressure should have been brought to bear, surely the information should have been given and surely the evidence, facts and arguments should have been advanced more effectively before now by the very powerful leadership of the trade union movement in order to ensure that support for amalgamation was obtained and that the amalgamation was decided on by the unions concerned. [More…]
Each union or organised group will, of course, continue to talk about ‘productivity’, about ‘fairness’, about ‘the national interest’, about ‘proper differentials’ and ‘the structure of the industry’, these terms being a part of the political language of negotiation. [More…]
The members of the union, on such occasions, see themselves rather as a fraternity asserting their claims against those of others. [More…]
The next categories are physical working conditions, trade unionism and other disputes. [More…]
Only one of the 7 categories is trade unionism. [More…]
In the Bureau’s records the definition of trade unionism includes not only demarcation disputes but also other things. [More…]
It includes disputes concerning the employment of nonunionists. [More…]
Inter-union and intra-union disputes would be demarcation disputes but only half of theminterunion disputes-would be included in the statistics with which we are concerned. [More…]
The recognition of union activities may or may not be included. [More…]
A further factor is that in a situation such as this demarcation disputes will continue if unions amalgamate. [More…]
The recent troubles in the transport industry were the result of part of a union receiving certain concessions and wage increases. [More…]
Consequently other parts of the union expected the same increases. [More…]
They will not be called demarcation disputes any longer, but I suggest that amalgamation does not solve the problem of disputes between people who are doing similar jobs but not the same job and who are members of the same union. [More…]
When unions whose members do quite different jobs are amalgamated no doubt the expectation of those in one particular form of employment where productivity is not great will be the same as the expectation of those members who are in another part or another industry where productivity is greater. [More…]
I have no doubt that in a number of cases the argument which is advanced, that amalgamation and larger unions will lead to greater service and facilities, is true. [More…]
In many ways there would be advantages for the small union because of the facilities the amalgamated union will provide. [More…]
I recall that after the creation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union better service was expected. [More…]
Workers Union, speaking of his members complaints at the Queensland State conference of the union on 23 February 1973, said: [More…]
That matter becomes clearly a greater problem in a very large union when the participation of individuals may well be ineffective. [More…]
-Senator Sir Magnus Cormack reminds me that shop stewards in larger unions gain more significance and greater power, whereas one expects in a small union a much greater sense of empathy - [More…]
‘Empathy’ was the word, not subservience- between the union secretary and officials and the members than in a very large union of which the leader is perhaps a large capitalist gaining large capitalist fees. [More…]
I suggest also that as far as this Bill is concerned one has to be cautious before making it very easy for amalgamations which increase the size of unions without the members being fully aware of what it is about. [More…]
Senator Button in his speech said that the Bill contains a provision that would enable the amalgamation proposals to be put in union magazines and therefore would be prior warning of the proposed amalgamation. [More…]
The existing Act provides that half the members of a union must vote, which means that just over 25 per cent of the members of a union are required to vote in favour for an amalgamation to succeed. [More…]
If in fact- I suggest it is the fact- most amalgamations that are desirable involve small unions, then one would expect that under the existing Act or proposal it would be easier for the union to inform its members adequately on the facts and arguments. [More…]
What he is suggesting is that unions may do it in fact and therefore the law must follow and legalise it. [More…]
But I suggest that the real answer is that the trade union movement should be more constructive in demonstrating the value of amalgamations, and therefore the existing provisions should be retained. [More…]
If the amalgamation is desirable, surely it is not difficult to bring before the members of the union a case setting out the advantages to be gained in the amalgamation. [More…]
That is, of course, a matter for the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Milliner is suggesting that I should be a propagandist for the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I suggest that there are plenty of able men from himself down who could put these factors before the unions if there is a good case for an amalgamation. [More…]
Therefore, a small group of people can bring before the members of a union a ballot the result of which can be decided by a very small percentage. [More…]
It seems to me to be an attempt to go behind the backs of union leaders and to ensure amalgamations in some cases where they are not in the interests of the members. [More…]
But in the case of the trade union movement I suggest that it cannot be denied that it does have a significant influence on the community and the economy. [More…]
It is important that members of the trade union movement should be well aware of the significance of amalgamations which very often are highly desired by powerful and ambitious men. [More…]
We are indebted to those honourable senators who have expressed strangely motivated concern about the rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
To refute that idea I think I need do no more than quote from ‘Pipeline’ which is the journal of a New South Wales State registered union, the Water and Sewerage Employees Union. [More…]
This union’s budget is relatively small. [More…]
I will talk about the very thing on which Senator Missen concluded when he spoke about special services for members of unions. [More…]
A large proportion of the membership of this union are migrants. [More…]
I wish to quote what I call a Dreyfus case which involved a migrant member of this union. [More…]
This made demands on the time of the officials and the exchequer of the union. [More…]
But the point I want to make is that in this union ballots are not conducted by the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
The ballots of this union are run by the Returning Officer for New South Wales. [More…]
A ballot was held and, despite the fact that the man in charge had been appointed by the Premier of New South Wales, one peculiar individual indulged in a good deal of litigation and it cost the union $9,000 in unnecessary expense. [More…]
The lesson to be learned is that as far as I am concerned- I make no apology for this- in the case of this union that $9,000 should have been used for the benefit of its members as a whole and not wasted because some individual could not take a defeat. [More…]
I suppose that in a free society the Trade Union Congress is entitled to question some of the views of my ministerial colleagues. [More…]
I know that Senator Greenwood on one memorable night here was close to suggesting that the venerable secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, George Slater, ought to be committed to the dungeons. [More…]
The plain fact is that people today- whether parliamentarians or trade unionists- are looking to see that they protect their jobs for the future. [More…]
I ram the point home that a union cannot be stampeded in a dispute. [More…]
People talk of 249 members making a decision which affects a union of 20,000. [More…]
Australian trade unionists officials can be heckled, booed and all this sort of thing but honourable senators know the old adage: Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me ‘. [More…]
Most union people have served on management committeeslet us forget the paid official- and they have had long and honourable careers. [More…]
There is a great blending in the trade union movement. [More…]
I know that in one or two unions we can think of what might happen. [More…]
I suppose that in relation to the Federated Storemen and Packers Union there could be justification for a merger with the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
On the subject of gradualism, there was a little union in New South Wales, the Carrington Coal Crane Operators. [More…]
That union had a sort of fear that the Waterside Workers Federation would swallow it up. [More…]
There was a partial absorption of the union but certain ways were left open. [More…]
The last issue of the maritime workers journal shows that people like Mr Outridge have agreed that the union should sever its State registration and become a fully fledged member of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I say ‘fully fledged’ because the union already had rights in the top echelon of the waterside workers union. [More…]
As a moral to the story I point to a relatively small union of about 300 members in Newcastle- I think its correct title was the Carrington Crane Drivers Unionwhich was effectively integrated. [More…]
But there will always be the other dangers which no union can control. [More…]
I suppose we can point to the much maligned George Slater of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that if on the one hand we applaud for cheap political advantage the rank and file for revolting against union officials we cannot have it the other way when we try to reduce unions in stature. [More…]
The young members of unions are reasonably well read. [More…]
They will not take as gospel what Bob Hawke or the union members management committee may say. [More…]
But having said that, let us get away from this ritual of people harping about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
One of the things we learn in trade unionism is that if we get knocked over verbally a few times we come back to the next meeting. [More…]
A gentleman named Drinkwater spearheaded an episode in the Metal Workers Union. [More…]
He has never been seen since at union meetings and he was at very few meetings before then, lt is just like a political reputation. [More…]
I ask for the incorporation in Hansard of pages 3 and 9 of ‘Pipeline’, the official journal of the Water and Sewerage Employee ‘s Union so that I can prove to honourable senators that union finance is a very difficult job in stewardship. [More…]
It is difficult to keep a union in a stable position. [More…]
Honourable senators say that somebody in Brisbane said that certain service property of the Metal Workers Union was not complete. [More…]
I know that my colleague Senator Mcintosh and the husband of Senator Coleman would be more fitted to talk on the overall position of that union. [More…]
When we talk about services in the trade union movement, do we realise that in a sense we are talking about the law of diminishing returns? [More…]
From time to time union organisers should be sent up to Port Hedland and places like that. [More…]
These are areas in which the trade union movement has to spend considerable time and money chasing up members of our nomadic work force. [More…]
While last year may have been most eventful, this past year has certainly proven to be one of major breakthroughs and gains for members generally and the Union as a whole. [More…]
Firstly, to elaborate on the Income and Expenditure of your Union in relation to Mr D. C Carr’s report and audit of your Union affairs. [More…]
At the last Anuual General Meeting in July, 1973 it was anticipated we would finalise our overdraft at the Rural Bank without having to sell any of your Union’s assets. [More…]
However, with further negotiations we were allowed to extend our overdraft and in that way do not have to reduce your Union’s assets. [More…]
I might point out that if we had not had the challenge to the organisers’ ballot from a dual union member that caused a great cost in relation to legal expenses, approximately $9,358 of your money, plus a few other unexpected charges, we would no doubt have finalised not only our overdraft but definitely been on the road to obtaining Union property and also possibly buying property in country area beachside resorts. [More…]
Delegation and Court Expenses $266 The trip that I made on behalf of the Union to the World [More…]
I approach the Union’s Committee of Management for permission to employ a member of the Committee of Management, Ron Cowan, from 13.2.73 to 14. [More…]
He was employed in an acting capacity which greatly assisted the members and the Union generally. [More…]
The need for both Ron Cowan and John Eastwood arose when both organisers took their annual leave and when I was away representing the Union at the World Peace Congress in October for six weeks. [More…]
This also greatly assisted our Union’s Auditor and Accountant, Mr D. C. Carr. [More…]
New Union Home [More…]
In the near future we plan a further Special General Meeting to give the administration of your Union the approval to purchase property. [More…]
The Union will then have a home for all time of a value that will increase as years go on. [More…]
In this way the Union will further be able to realise one of its other goals- supplying holiday accommodation to the members. [More…]
VOTE OF SOLID CONFIDENCE IN UNION LEADERSHIP [More…]
Water & Sewerage Employees’ Union, Room 66, Trades Hall, Goulburn Street, Sydney, N.S.W.2000. [More…]
The counting of the Water and Sewerage Employees’ Union (Wages Division) ballot, which closed on 24 July 1 974, in respect of the positions of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Organisers and Committee of Management, has been completed. [More…]
Electoral Commissioner and Officer conducting the Water and Sewerage Employees’ Union (Wages Division) Election under Section 1 1 1 J of the Industrial Arbitration Act. [More…]
I think we have all recognised, or at least most of us have recognised, that at the moment there are a number of problems associated with the operation of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
Government senators have pointed to some of the problems which exist with the proliferation of unions and have suggested that their proposal for amalgamations will solve a number of those problems. [More…]
Whilst totally agreeing, and I wish to emphasise this, on the importance of the essential role played by the trade union movement in the operation of the mixed economy which we enjoyed until the change of Government but which we now find is creating very considerable problems, I must say that it is about time that we as a community asked: What is the role of the trade union movement in Australia, how far does its proper role extend into the economy and into society, and are there structural changes which are desirable in relation to the unions? [More…]
I emphasise that I make all these remarks with a basic belief in the importance of the retention of that for which trade unionism stands. [More…]
I wonder about the extent to which a number of problems which we face in Australia the moment in trade unionism arise from the fact that trade unions are basically occupation oriented rather than industry oriented unions. [More…]
I wonder whether the sorts of considerations which are set out from page 179 onwards in chapter 12 of the report of the Donovan Commission- the royal commission on trade unions and employers associations conducted from 1965 to 1968 in the United Kingdom- such as of the two types of multi-unionism and the problems which arise in trying to make a major change in the basic structure of trade unionism as it has been operating for some time, would indicate that it would be more desirable at least to hear a great deal more public debate taking place in the country, not with a view to destroying trade unionism in any way or for the purpose of union bashing but with a view to asking: How could they fulfil the accepted role more satisfactorily without the sorts of problems which exist and which are exemplified in the approach of the Government, which is saying at the moment that this Bill is necessary to overcome those problems, and the approach of the Opposition, which says that the present provisions will assist in overcoming the problems. [More…]
Would it not then be better for us to say that if we are to have the development towards bigger unions we should be thinking about a trend towards more industry oriented unions which will be able to play a part in balancing the power which is being continually exercised by the big corporations and by government interfering- we will not debate whether it is desirable or not- more and more in the affairs of industry and in the affairs of the economy? [More…]
I wonder also whether the unions could not do a lot more than they have done so far to encourage public debate and awareness and to display their own awareness of the need at least to review the role and the operation of the trade union movement in our type of society. [More…]
I doubt also whether there has been any indication from the Government so far of an awareness of the need for a review, from a conceptual point of view, of the role most desirably to be played by the trade union movement in a nation developing along the lines on which we have been developing, particularly whilst we have a situation in which clearly the public has, many members of the trade union movement have, and many employers have, grave reservations about the extent to which the operation of trade unions is satisfactory. [More…]
One alleged abuse is being investigated at the moment and there are numerous allegations of misuse of funds, the lack of accountability of some trade unions and the lack of democracy in the operation of trade unions- not in all unions but in some. [More…]
It is time for an increasing amount of consideration to be given to a review of the role of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
Just as the public interest is not served by large corporations or, for that matter, small corporations which ignore the rights of consumers, the interests of the environment, the interests of employees or the interests of the national economy, so too there is ample evidence that the other major section of organised power outside the Government, that is the unions, is currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]
I repeat: Just as the public interest is not served by corporations which ignore the interests of consumers, the environment, the national economy, employees and others, there is ample evidence that the trade unions, that other major section of organised power, are currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]
They have demonstrated a preparedness to act in relation to foreign affairs and environmental matters by imposing green bans and taking other action which has caused severe loss, suffering and inconvenience to the general public, has damaged the national economy and generally has not been of any particular advantage to individual members of the union concerned. [More…]
Therefore I suggest that one of the matters for very deep public consideration is the extent to which that is a proper role for the trade union movement as opposed to the involvement of the democratic system of parliament in that action. [More…]
I fail to see that amalgamation of the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation would overcome this problem because in the trade union movement there is a personality problem amongst the hierarchy. [More…]
I would like to refer to the incident at Port Adelaide which involved a dispute between the 2 unions that I have mentioned. [More…]
I believe that the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, which was the employer involved on this occasion, was perfectly correct in consulting with the Waterside Workers Federation to determine which particular union should supply the labour for that operation. [More…]
Subsequently I spoke to a TWU member who is a friend of mine and who was very much disturbed by the fact that when he went into the centre to attend his union meeting he was not asked whether he was a financial member of the union. [More…]
He was not asked to produce his card or to identify himself with that union. [More…]
As there was an argument on the voting procedure at that union meeting they decided to divide as we do in this House- to walk to one side or the other- but there was no deliberate attempt to determine the actual numbers. [More…]
I think that the Liberal Party is quite right in suggesting that secret ballots ought to be held for the election of union officials. [More…]
I agree that there is provision for compulsory secret ballots, provided that a union member is prepared to get up on the floor of a meeting and request it. [More…]
But how many union members are prepared to do that? [More…]
That is what I was trying to point out- that the average trade unionist is frightened to get up and request it at his union meeting. [More…]
Another thing that I believe we ought to be looking at is the total role of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
In my judgment the unions of Australia are taking government out of the hands of this Parliament. [More…]
I am particularly concerned about the fact that the Seamens Union, for example, can determine which vessels it should unload. [More…]
Greek and Spanish ships have been coming into Port Adelaide, and because the union does not agree with the internal policies of the governments of the countries from which those ships emanate, it has determined that its members will not unload the vessels. [More…]
This seems to me to be a typical example of domination from left-wing unionists at the top of these unions. [More…]
I believe it is high time that the trade union movement in Australia woke up to this problem. [More…]
I believe that our policy with respect to union disputes is quite proper and I shall therefore support the Opposition in opposing this Bill. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators of a state of affairs which existed before the present Government came to office: It was then possible for federal councils to elect union officials. [More…]
We inserted section 133 (1) (a) in the legislation providing that members themselves must vote in the election of union officials. [More…]
Now the trade union movement- its officials and members- are starting to realise that they have to co-operate. [More…]
The trade union movement has to co-operate with the Labor Government in order to enjoy the benefits which have been given wholesale to the whole country. [More…]
5 under the heading ‘Organisations’ it states that the Opposition seeks to work with the ACTU in encouraging industry-based unions. [More…]
The Opposition has been told here today by Senator Button and Senator Donald Cameron about the circumstances of the current amalgamation of the Ironworkers Union with the Federated Artificial Fertilizers and Chemical Workers Union of Australia which is bogged down and the amalgamation of the Australian Workers Union with the Wool and Basil Workers Union which is also bogged down. [More…]
These are not giant left-wing orientated unions. [More…]
They can be claimed to be moderate unions. [More…]
I want to refer to what both honourable senators said.The first thing Senator Jessop said was that the transport workers union is an industry based union. [More…]
The only figures we have available at the present time relate to industrial trouble arising from what are called trade union causes. [More…]
If a union member complains about his union, whether it is the host union or the other union, he can still use the relevant sections of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
None of the State arbitration Acts which enable unions to amalgamate requires a ballot. [More…]
In Queensland, unions in related callings may amalgamate on the passing of a resolution by a majority of members present at a general meeting or by other competent authority in the union. [More…]
In South Australia, where there is a Labor government, unions may amalgamate on the passing of a resolution to this effect and the lodging of it with the Registrar. [More…]
In Western Australia, unions in related industries may amalgamate in the passing of a resolution by a majority of members present at a general meeting of each union, and objections to the amalgamation may be heard. [More…]
After hearing all the fears expressed by opposition senators, in the light of that information about the State arbitration Acts I ask whether they still contend that it is dangerous to make amalgamation proceedings easier and that this will develop left wing unions and powerful unions? [More…]
We were told that the Labor Party knows the unions better. [More…]
We were told that when the Labor Government came into office its policies would be more understandable; there would be less industrial strife; the relationship between unions and government was that of natural partners; and we would see an era of industrial goodwill which Australia had never before experienced. [More…]
We were told that there would be a greater emphasis on what in 1972 was called by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions ‘meaningful negotiations’. [More…]
There is an open confrontation between an increasing number of unions and union leaders and the Government. [More…]
The Minister for Transport is currently intervening to oppose a union claim. [More…]
In the last month Mr Clyde Cameron as I recall it, on 2 occasions intervened before the Arbitration Commission to oppose a union claim and to say that a particular award or agreement was one which the Commission should not regard as the standard to apply to other workers. [More…]
The Prime Minister has written to the Prices Justification Tribunal to tell that Tribunal that it should not allow an employer which had acceded to a union’s demands to pass on the extra costs which that union’s demands in the form of increased wages would necessarily have involved in the form of increased prices. [More…]
The second aspect upon which I comment is: How consistent is what the Minister is now saying with what is the practice of the Government in seeking to overcome the effect of the sweetheart agreements by which massive wage increases are granted simply because a union intimidates an employer and secures an agreement which grants something which the present Government regards as against the public interests? [More…]
Under the law as it now stands, when the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is faced with an agreement which is made between a union and an employer it must decide whether the agreement is in the public interest before it certifies the agreement. [More…]
It is that a member of the Commission is not to certify an agreement which has been made between employers and a union unless he is satisfied that the agreement is in the interests of members and that there has been some form of consultation which indicates that members of the union have agreed to it. [More…]
In that situation does the agreement which has been worked out by employers and by unions fall to the ground? [More…]
I well remember a situation which occurred during the contentious Ford Motor Co. strike of 1973 in which, after there had been a period of dislocation for some time, an agreement was actually made between the union’s management committee and the company. [More…]
A group of members of the union refused to accept what had been agreed upon. [More…]
Of course, it was at that time that the giant Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which had initially approved of the agreement had an aboutface. [More…]
It decided to support the striking members of the union who were dissatisfied with the agreement which had been made. [More…]
I mention that situation only because the same thing could occur if we created the impossible situation under which a President of the Commission would be encouraged to question whether the union’s management committee spoke on behalf of members of the union. [More…]
We have enormous problems of interpretation which in fact multiply the difficulties which the Minister seeks to overcome and which undermine the authority of a union leadership which, when it is appointed, ought to have the respect of the union membership after it is elected in accordance with democratic procedures. [More…]
If there are problems in the area of whether leadership does represent the membership- I certainly recognise that in many unions there is that problem- they will not be resolved by weakening the whole structure of the union. [More…]
They are to be resolved by ensuring that the democracy of the union is a real democracy and that the leadership represents the membership. [More…]
If, as Senator Hall suggested in the earlier debate, that involves our adopting the policy of compulsion in addition to the policy of secret postal ballots to ensure that as wide a voice of union membership as possible is expressed in determining who shall run the union, let us be prepared to accept that rather than accepting the present quite impossible situation. [More…]
If it does offer the real prospect that a union membership control will be effective and the community will benefit thereby, I think any doubts one might have about the compulsory principle ought to be set aside. [More…]
If an agreement is reached between employers and the union and as part of their agreement they want to insert or to agree that there shall not be any bans on work, that there will not be any strikes or any limits on the performance of work, that clause cannot continue in the agreement if it is to be certified. [More…]
There is a greater need for agreement between unions and employers today in this inflationary period than has existed ever before. [More…]
There is also a greater need for the sort of provisions which Senator Greenwood criticises, that is, the need, more than ever before for every member of a union to become involved in cementing these agreements. [More…]
If agreements are pursued in the light of the present inflationary situation, the members of the union and the public generally will be aware of what is involved in the economy and they will be aware of the situation which may arise by reaching an agreement in the circumstances Senator Greenwood has mentioned in which the normal increase is greater than can be justified before the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
This in no way infringes upon the machinery of the Bill, which is one concerned to encourage and facilitate the certification of agreements, and to ensure that these agreements are satisfactory to the majority of the union members concerned, and therefore more likely to be observed and honoured by them. [More…]
The Government is saying now to the union movement, employers and Government departments that there must be wage restraint. [More…]
Why do you not make an agreement with the unions, even though the norm or the usual level of increase cannot be justified?’ [More…]
We all know perfectly well that agreements were made between management committees of the unions and the employers and that half the time the union members did not know what the agreements were edi about. [More…]
It is expected that unions will continue to make agreements whether or not this legislation is passed. [More…]
The honourable senator knows that the representatives of large organisations and the unions will meet across the table. [More…]
The Opposition, as opposed to its argument in relation to the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill which provided for the amalgamation of unions, says that there is no need to place the testing of the agreement in the hands of the union membership. [More…]
The employer and the union can say: ‘Yes, we will ban this practice or ban that practice on one side or the other’. [More…]
On the one hand he is saying that there is this irresponsible action by the unions and that the unions have taken over the countryside. [More…]
He has said that the Government is going cap in hand to the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
What we have done in relation to the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been done only on the basis of our need to reach agreement with the major industrial organisation in the country. [More…]
If we make that agreement with the workers- the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions- then on the other hand we have to go to the employers and say: What about a system of wage indexation?’. [More…]
We are trying to contain this great inflationary contest as a result of which the unions and the union members have had this great escalation of activity trying to get wage increases to keep up with prices. [More…]
As I said earlier, I think that the union movement and the union officials are starting to understand the position and are getting tired of the constant activity to try to get wage increases in a situation of inflation. [More…]
What could be better than to have at the source of industrial power, the union power, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
Bob Hawke today is saying, and said yesterday to his Federal union conference, that unions must take account of the responsibilities they have in this inflationary situation, the need to preserve the Labor Government and to make new arrangements in terms of wage indexation under which workers will surely get an amount of money which will compensate them for price escalations. [More…]
Mistakes will be made, but if we can involve in any plant or union more members of that plant or union in the making of agreements, those agreements will be better understood. [More…]
It has been stated, and some honourable senators have had the opportunity to examine the systems, that in countries like Sweden and Germany wide national agreements are made on wage matters, union membership, escalation and so on. [More…]
I am saying that in my experience and in the experience of most people who have been in the union movement there is still a great need for wider agreements. [More…]
The Prime Minister has petulantly attempted to defend the impossible in supporting his Government’s tariff decisions, but in doing so he has found it necessary to attack his own ministerial colleagues, to attack his own Party and to attack many of the trade union leaders of Australia. [More…]
The Textile Workers Union in Launceston says that the figure for retrenchments is over 900 in Launceston alone. [More…]
So that one can take the Textile Workers Union statement as being that in Launceston about 1,000 textile workers have been retrenched as a result of the Government’s policies. [More…]
Yet Mr Whitlam in making his wild accusations clearly called Mr Holden, the secretary of the Textile Workers Union in Tasmania, a liar. [More…]
Presumably he is one of those who comes within Mr Whitlam ‘s broad accusation of union leaders who are, using Mr Whitlam ‘s words, in collusion with multi-national companies. [More…]
I protest as strongly as I can at actions which are based upon a misunderstanding and at false accusations which are made about the leaders of the textile industry, both on the company side and on the trade union side. [More…]
And one of the most remarkable developments is that in this field how much collusion there is between multi-national companies and Australian trade union officials. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, follows upon the Prime Minister’s statement in which he alleged collusion between multi-national companies and trade union officials. [More…]
I ask: As it is now demonstrably clear that the Prime Minister’s accusations were totally unfounded and inaccurate, will the Prime Minister apologise to those who fell within his sweeping accusations and in particular to the Tasmanian members of both the Liberal and Labor Parties, including in particular Mr Barnard and also the State Secretary of the Textile Workers Union, Mr Holden, and to the management of the Tasmanian textile companies, all of whom came within the accusations of the Prime Minister of being involved in lying and collusion? [More…]
Shortly following this, on 31 October 1973 Mr Wolf Boetcher who was at that time a vice-president of the wheat section of the Farmers Union of Western Australia and a member of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, when asked whether there was anything new about governments issuing directives to the Wheat Board as to where and under what conditions it would market wheat, ridiculed that suggestion. [More…]
I heard that story directly from a member of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr Horrie Smith at a meeting of the Farmers Union executive in Perth in 1 967, which was shortly after the event took place. [More…]
A short time after making the statutory declaration I approached the ‘Farmers Weekly’, which is the official organ of the Western Australian Farmers Union, to insert a paid advertisementpaid for by me- which included the relevant extracts from that declaration. [More…]
The Federal Government has called on the union for restraint, on the private business sector for restraint, and on the State Premiers and their Governments for restraint; but what has it done in this Budget? [More…]
According to union and employer spokesmen he would have to be under 1 7 years of age, an invalid pensioner, have a job not covered by any award in Australia or work only part time. [More…]
In its ‘soak the rich to pay for the poor’ dogma which the Australian Labor Party is still hoping will win it back some of the union support it has lost during its 21 months of government, the Government is returning to the premises of the 1 930s. [More…]
The Government’s attack on so-called ‘unearned income’ will hit many more rank and file union members than wealthy capitalists. [More…]
Now Mr Whitlam, his Cabinet, his Caucus and his union supporters are in a bitter in-fight on this matter over who is lying about what. [More…]
But I suggest that the implications of this are not understood or accepted by the people, nor are they understood by that section of the people we call the trade union movement. [More…]
-Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the deregistration of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation by the Australian Industrial Court in June last and of the revelations made in the judgment of the members of the Court of over 200 instances of unlawful acts, assaults and intimidation engaged in by that union? [More…]
Is he also aware that the union subsequently has resolved to intimidate 6 building companies, which are currently in proceedings before the High Court of Australia, by means of bans and guerrilla-like stoppages, as the resolution of the Builders Labourers Federation communicated to the company has stated? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Agriculture seen a statement in yesterday’s Melbourne ‘Herald’ newspaper attributed to a member of the local branch of the Victorian Farmers Union to the effect that Senator Wriedt has 3 times refused to address farmers in Warrnambool and also that Senator Wriedt ‘s appointment to the Agriculture portfolio was an attempt to downgrade the portfolio? [More…]
Are these statements correct or is it true that the State President of the Victorian Farmers Union recently described the present Minister for Agriculture as being the best Agriculture Minister for 20 years? [More…]
I heard the other day that in one union’s log of claims there is a claim that maternity leave ought to be increased to 52 weeks and that paternity leave ought to be increased to 12 weeks. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
I think Senator Douglas McClelland, who now sits opposite at the table here and is in charge of Government business, was one of the most assiduous senators in areas of health- I recall this assiduity arising out of his interest and knowledge gained through his work on one of our select committees- and in matters concerning the media, his own professional or trade union area. [More…]
Statutory corporations seem to have no body to be kicked or soul to be damned, by Parliament, the taxpayer or anybody else- and certainly not by trade union members or shareholders. [More…]
One is that the Government is proceeding idealogically with its Budget and is adding to its general administrative program for the socialisation of Australia so that we will see more unbridled union power exerted on the industrial scene. [More…]
Senator Button criticised union participation in management. [More…]
‘The idea is to put a unionist on the board to make it look good. [More…]
Senators who care to read the economic journals in the Parliamentary Library and learn the economic facts stated by many economists in Australia will find that in one fashion or another all economists agree that the union system in Australia, which is the last great power system outside the control of the elector, has to be brought one way or another into the general planning of the economic progress of this country. [More…]
Until the union movement is brought under control in the sense that companies and individuals in the community are under control we will not see the period of stability which everyone is looking for. [More…]
I return to the point that the Labor Party is quite openly a product of the union movement and it has the enormous responsibility of trying to juggle its disciplinarian type of government which reduces Cabinet to a rather meaningless interior operating organisation within Caucus. [More…]
There have been endeavours to continue the policy of union bashing and Government bashing, a failure to put forward any contructive ideas on the depths of the problems which face this country in relation to inflationary pressures, an endeavour to ignore the positive features of the Budget and the making of suggestions on how best the Government should spend even additional public funds. [More…]
For example, in one moment we are accused of being dominated by the trade union movement. [More…]
That happens to be one of the submissions made by the Australian Council of Trade Unions to the Government. [More…]
Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I can inform the honourable senator that the Government’s proposal for the elimination of the radio and television licence fees has had a very favourable reception from all sections, including the trade union section of the radio and television industries. [More…]
I assume that Senator Maunsell’s question refers to a contract with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which the Australian Meat Board had taken all reasonable steps to win but which subsequently went to the European Common Market. [More…]
But what about the multi-unions? [More…]
We see communist and left wing controlled unions asking their union representatives in this place to get the Senate to approve the amalgamations of unions. [More…]
Theoretically there may be some merit in legislation which is designed to encourage single unions for each industry, for ease of administration, although the great centralisation of power would negate any benefits. [More…]
The honourable senators say that there are too many unions in Australia. [More…]
They say that this gives rise to demarcation disputes and that there would be fewer of these demarcation disputes if there were fewer unions. [More…]
The fallacy of this argument can be illustrated by the fact that there have been numerous demarcation disputes within the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which have led to industrial dislocation and standdowns since the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Workers Union into the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I can tell the honourable senator, to emphasise this point, that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union sent a telegram to the Deputy President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on 4 May. [More…]
-It involved people within the same union at Renison Bell. [More…]
It was within one union. [More…]
Otherwise why would that union send a telegram saying that it was a demarcation dispute? [More…]
I do not think that these moves for amalgamation can be disconnected from the decision of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that unions charge their members 1 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
With fees of 1 per cent of average weekly earnings the annual income of that union is about $ 11.5m. [More…]
If that amount is multiplied by the number of members that the union would be able to dragoon into its midst if allowed to do what it wants to do the enormous centralisation of power and money which could result is clear. [More…]
It is not the multi-national companies that we need to worry about in Australia as much as it is the multi-unions. [More…]
Senator Townley also raised the question of trade union costs. [More…]
He ought to know the overall cost of sending an Amalgamated Metal Workers Union organiser to Port Hedland and places like that. [More…]
After all, trade union officials have to go from one end of the continent to the other on arbitration work. [More…]
They have to fly and the union members have to meet the cost of the air fares. [More…]
If the honourable senator wants to argue about amalgamations, he ought to know that to enable unions in the manufacturing and food groups, such as the pastrycooks and biscuit makers union and the storemen and packers union, to carry out research and provide services for the rank and file, amalgamations have to occur. [More…]
I hope that within the next month I will be talking to Brother Garland of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I am pretty certain that Senator Townley has got his facts mixed about the Tasmanian demarcation dispute that he mentioned, if he asserts that it was within the components of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
So let us not have any more hypocrisy about trade union demarcation disputes. [More…]
The bus employees union in New South Wales is not overtime conscious at the present moment. [More…]
Both of them know that this is an old ploy in trade union circles. [More…]
This decision, in common with many other actions of the Government, seems to have been dictated by pressures from within the trade union movement which seems not to want to appreciate, or is unable to appreciate, that the whole family in rural areas is often involved 7 days a week for up to 12 hours a day. [More…]
Also the emergence of much talk amongst farmers about taking militant action highlights not only the condition within the industry but also their dissatisfaction over the militancy in many sections of the industrial union movement. [More…]
At that time Mr Anthony was telling the wheat growers that he would not sell his soul for trade by desisting from insulting the Chinese, the previous Government had worked its way out of its major wheat market, and Mr Anthony called off the professional lobbyist that the Australian Wheat Board was employing in the United States because, as Mr Anthony told a meeting of the executive of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia, he was starting to embarrass the Americans. [More…]
I think that any sincere trade unionist would say that demarcation disputes are the most unfortunate happenings in trade union circles in recent years. [More…]
The Australian Minister for Transport (Mr Jones) told State and Federal parliamentarians at Launceston yesterday that ANL and Union Steamship Company vessels coming on to the Australian trade early next year would make a very decided impact on Tasmania ‘s shipping problem. [More…]
Senator Marriott talked about union amalgamations and transport costs. [More…]
One of the leaders of the Opposition, Mr Lynch, said in 1971 that there ought to be more amalgamations; that it was better to have fewer unions. [More…]
Yet only two or three days ago honourable senators opposite again voted against this Labor Government’s proposal, although all the evidence clearly shows that that proposal is supported by employers and unions alike. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite raise all these problems about demarcation disputes between one union and another in the shipping industry but when we provided a remedy they opposed it. [More…]
It is worth recalling the words that he used when addressing the Building Workers Industrial Union- a strong union- on 5 August. [More…]
Under the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1966, port quotas are kept under constant review by the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority in consultation with leaders of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, which is the union for the port, and registered employers. [More…]
In doing this, the Authority follows well established procedures which normally take place once every 12 months, or more frequently if required at the request of the unions or employers. [More…]
The basis has been that this Government has actively incited the militant trade unions to further militancy. [More…]
Mr Whitlam says that the trade unions have never been in better hands, although Mr Hawke thinks that Mr Mundey is a bit naughty. [More…]
But the federal bodies of the Seamens’ Union of Australia, the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, the Ship Painters and Dockers Union, the Australian Railways Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are communist controlled. [More…]
But Mr Hawke has his power base as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions because of Mr Carmichael, Mr Halfpenny, Mr Elliot V. Elliott and Mr Owens, all of” whom are of the same communist ideology as Mr Mundey. [More…]
Mr Whitlam says that the trade unions have never been in better hands. [More…]
The community is being held to ransom, not by decent trade unionists. [More…]
I make the point that if I were working for a wage as a unionist, as I have done, I would be seeking more and more nominal wages to try to catch up with the inflation that this Government has created. [More…]
I make no comment at all upon the decent unionists. [More…]
As a person who has belonged to unions in my time, who has supported Labor members of Parliament to get into office in the early years, who has been a good member of the tally clerks union on the South Wharf at Melbourne and who was a member of the Australian Timber Workers Union in my early days, I have a respect for many of the individuals I have met. [More…]
I do not mind going on record as saying that it concerned me, although I did not have a chance to take part in the debate, that there was such a diatribe of hate against one country, namely, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I think it is also relevant to inform the Senate that the Australian Secretary of the Australian Textile Workers Union, Mr Hughes, spoke at the meeting. [More…]
That was said by the Australian Secretary of the Australian Textile Workers Union who, as he mentioned at the meeting, is also a member of the executive of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
The important aspect about the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party is that for the whole of this century there has been a great party representing about half of the people- sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less than half- and it has evolved a democratic structure whereby delegates are elected properly from the various States and from trade union organisations to conferences at State level. [More…]
Again I ask honourable senators to read the report, in which it is made clear that the church organisations, which presumably are the people to whom the honourable senator refers, dragged their feet in a very odd way in putting in submissions in regard to the original reference, so much so that on 12 June 1973- almost 2 years after we received the general reference- it was necessary for me to write to the heads of the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Union Churches in Australia asking them to put in their submissions to the Committee. [More…]
After all, it was the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) whose contribution to the problem of unemployment in the textile industry in Launceston was to accuse those of us on both sides of the chamber, and those trade union leaders, who have expressed concern about increasing unemployment in the textile industry in Launceston, of peddling lies. [More…]
He accused certain of the trade union leaders of being in collusion with multinational corporations. [More…]
I simply repeat that the Prime Minister’s disinterest in Tasmania was manifested by the manner in which he made that false accusation about some of his own colleagues, other members of this Parliament and members of the trade union movement. [More…]
Is it any wonder, with this sort of thing going on and with the way in which Australia has been affected by this Government’s economic mismanagement, that Mr Bill Hughes, the General Secretary of the Australian Textile Workers Union, should say yesterday that he could not understand why any person employed in manufacturing industries in Australia would vote for the return of this Government. [More…]
But, of course, he is not consistent in his anti-Labor attitude because for some little time he has been flirting with the unions in Tasmania. [More…]
He was away from the Senate for a time yesterday flirting with the unions on a matter which he said was of such importance that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) should have laid aside what he was doing in Canberra and travelled to Tasmania to attend this epoch making rally. [More…]
Even Tasmania’s anti-Labor Press gave it the heading: ‘North Snubs Union Rally’. [More…]
That is the mighty meeting that this senator, who flirts with the unions when he thinks it might advantage him, suggests presumably that all members of Parliament and senators from Tasmania should have attended. [More…]
If he was supported by some of his union friends maybe he would get a game, but it was not a very promising performance yesterday, was it? [More…]
It is an example of how a government run by union pressures, by the powerful trade unions, does not care about anything as small as Tasmania. [More…]
I feel that our inflation rate has increased mainly because of excessive government spending and increasing costs brought about by excessive union demands. [More…]
Much of the inflation in Tasmania has been passed on fron union demands which have been made in the other States of the Commonweath. [More…]
They will say that they are not interested because our Seamen ‘s Union and other unions will not have a bar of them. [More…]
In my opinion, this Government has not lifted one finger, said one word to help the position or said anything in reprimand to the unions that are crucifying trade between Tasmania and the mainland ports. [More…]
I ask whether the present union ban on the handling of imported foreign cars can save the jobs of the workers at the Leyland plant? [More…]
If those jobs can be saved, will the Minister explain why they cannot be saved by action other than a union ban? [More…]
I am not aware of the industrial dispute to which Senator Greenwood is referring and I am not aware that any union has taken such action. [More…]
To my knowledge, the main sales have been made to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In directing my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate I refer to the ban by the Federated Clerks Union on imported cars. [More…]
Provision of such a system and the rectification of invalidities which have grown up under the current systems have been of concern to trade unions and employer organisations since Moore v Doyle was decided by the Industrial Court in 1969. [More…]
Problems highlighted by that decision were examined by a working party consisting of representatives of the then Department of Labour and National Service, the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, the Department of Labor of the States of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, and Western Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Council of Employers’ Federations. [More…]
Under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, a union may be registered and upon registration the union obtains corporate status. [More…]
A union registered under the Act may have State branches but a State branch does not have corporate status separate from the parent body. [More…]
State trade union and industrial arbitration legislation in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia provides for the registration of unions for the purposes of State law. [More…]
Under industrial arbitration legislation in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia a union that is registered acquires corporate status and the courts have held a trade union registered under New South Wales law is a separate legal entity with a legal personality of its own distinct from its members at any particular time. [More…]
In order to represent its members in Federal and State industrial arbitration systems, it is necessary for a Federal union to have its mem bers in a State branch registered as a union under the State legislation. [More…]
Upon registration under the State legislation a legal entity distinct from the Federal union comes into existence. [More…]
The result is that the members of the State branch can be members of two distinct legal entities, the federal union by virtue of membership of the State branch and the newly registered State union. [More…]
Problems, of which Moore v Doyle and other cases provide illustrations, arise from the fact that a State branch of a federal union and a State union are often administered as if they were the same body, with one set of books, one register of members, one membership fee, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
In some cases the rules of the State union are complied with and the rules of the State branch of the Federal union are ignored and in other cases the position is reversed. [More…]
In further cases the affairs of the State union and the State branch of the federal union are conducted under an administrative amalgam of the rules of each but not pursuant to the rules of either. [More…]
For example, elections conducted for a State branch of a Federal union may be conducted under the rules of the State union and not under rules of the branch or partly under the rules of the State union and partly under the Federal union’s rules. [More…]
Secondly, the rules which are treated as governing admission to membership of a Federal union may in fact be rules of a State union. [More…]
Thirdly, some of the members may be entitled to membership of the State union but not of the Federal union. [More…]
However, there may be a common roll of members in which all are treated as both members of the State union and the Federal union. [More…]
A member who is only entitled to membership of the State union may therefore participate in the election for officers in the State branch of the Federal union. [More…]
As a result of these defective procedures, a State branch of a Federal union may be defunct and may have no persons who could validly be described as members or officials. [More…]
Moreover, if a branch has become defunct, participation on the union’s committee of management of representatives purporting to have been elected to the Federal body to represent the branch may result in invalidities in the proceedings of the Committee. [More…]
Some State unions may have become defunct for similar reasons. [More…]
The solution the Committee recommended is a process of amalgamation involving non-corporate State registration of a branch of a Federal union to achieve one body which can represent its members in federal and State industrial arbitration jurisdictions. [More…]
To allow this automatically to happen could be unfair to other unions, whereas to refuse it would mean that not all the members of the State body could be admitted to the Federal organisation on amalgamation. [More…]
Such an order does not prevent a union enrolling members but it can prevent it representing certain members under the Act. [More…]
I refer to the statement made yesterday by the Prime Minister that it was in the national interest that unions should not make unreasonable or excessive wage demands. [More…]
Will he give an indication to unions and union members of what are in present economic circumstances unreasonable or excessive wage demands? [More…]
I suppose it follows as a matter of sheer logic and language that nobody, unions or anyone else, should be making unreasonable or excessive demands. [More…]
Unfortunately, as the honourable senator would know, unions are compelled by the peculiarities of our Constitution to make excessive demands. [More…]
When there is a changing situation especially an inflationary one, a federal union making a demand for, say $10 a week must serve a log and is put to enormous expense to claim that $10, yet after the passage of time with protracted hearings the union should perhaps more appropriately be claiming more than $10 a week. [More…]
Some members of the Country Party went to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics last year to learn what was going on. [More…]
1 ) Did the Prime Minister inform the President of the Council of the Lithuanian Community in Australia prior to the election of 18 May 1974, that his Government did not intend to alter the policy of previous Governments with respect to recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Has the Australian Government now legally recognised the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Why has the Government now recognised the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when, prior to 1 8 May 1 974, it was stating that it would not recognise such incorporation. [More…]
It is a matter for the trade unions to decide what they might do. [More…]
The Australian Government and the Australian Labor Party have done a great deal for trade unionism in this country.There is no doubt that from time to time some unions may not agree with everything that the Government has done, but it has been remarkable how over the whole of this century the great bulk of the trade union movement has stuck solidly with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Indeed, in recent years there has been a tendency for some of the trade unions which were not associated with the Australian Labor Party to become associated with it. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate agree with the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, and the Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union, Mr J. R. Grenville, when they state that the Government in its efforts to find a scapegoat for the nation’s problems is guilty of union bashing? [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, that the trade union movement ‘worked its guts out’- that is Mr Hawke ‘s expression- to put a Labor Government committed to full employment into power? [More…]
Does he admit that the trade union movement now feels, and indeed has been, let down by the Government? [More…]
-I think it is fair to say that the trade union movement in general around Australia worked very hard to have a Labor Government elected in 1972 and again worked very hard to have that Government stay in power in the election in May this year. [More…]
I think the trade union movement did so because it was to the advantage of its members to do so. [More…]
I am sure that at the next election- whenever it comes- the trade union movement in general again will work very hard to have the Labor Government re-elected, as it will be, because again that will be to the advantage of the members of the trade unions. [More…]
Sections concerning union rules and strikes bear no relation Moore v Doyle issues. [More…]
I would have thought that to accuse a comrade unionist of being a lackey of a conservative Minister for Labor was a dreadful accusation to make in union circles. [More…]
I would have thought that in certain circumstances if there is complementary State legislation and if an organisation utilises those provisions it may be able to persuade a State and Commonwealth Registrar to agree to the transfer of assets against which some people within a union may be objecting. [More…]
-One really shudders to think about the qualifications which Senator Greenwood raised after shopping around for a small trade union to object to this legislation. [More…]
Where better could one shop than with the federal president of the Shop Assistants Union. [More…]
It may be that a State such as my own State would say that in effecting that sort of arrangement with the State branch of a Federal union it would be sufficient in fact simply to apply deregistration procedures. [More…]
We are concerned that the persons most vitally concerned in the rectification of the problemnamely, the union movement, members of a number of unions and some employers’ organisations, but not all of them- have not been consulted as to the course which the Minister is pursuing. [More…]
The Moore v. Doyle case in 1969 disclosed that the incorporation of employees’ or employers’ organisations under Federal legislation was not the same thing as the incorporation of such organisations and the creation of unions under State legislation. [More…]
A union which is established under Federal legislation does not control or regulate the affairs of a State branch if that State branch is incorporated under the relevant State legislation. [More…]
The desire to move into the Federal arena of dispute settling and award making attracted the interests and efforts of many union officials. [More…]
This head of power and the way it was implemented gave rise to the growth of Federal unions and Federal employers’ organisations and to the creation of disputes by easy, if somewhat artificial means. [More…]
Little thought or attention was given, when a Federal organisation was being established, to the relationship between the State branches and the State unions. [More…]
When State branches or State unions were combined to create Federal organisations the precise nature of the relationship between the State organisations and the Federal body was not clearly denned. [More…]
In parricular, little thought was given to the consequences of incorporating a trade union or an employees ‘ or employers’ organisation under State legislation for the purpose of obtaining State awards or resolving State disputes when that organisation seeking State incorporation was also in an imprecisely defined way a branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
Factionalism, litigation and the ambition of oncers of various unions, together with a considerable amount of legal ingenuity, brought to these latent difficulties a prominence which was eventually exposed in the problems of the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales preceding the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
Notwithstanding the goodwill of the employers’ organisations, there is very little that employers can do to resolve what is at heart and essentially a problem which affects the trade union movement and its organisation on a State and nationwide basis. [More…]
It is also clear that union co-operation to take advantage of this new system must be forthcoming if the difficulties are to be overcome. [More…]
The real area of doubt which I have is whether unions will be prepared to enter into a deed, a bond, to pay any penalties which were imposed upon and ordered to be paid by a non corporate State union. [More…]
It would be interesting to know whether he regards this particular provision as one which the trade union movement would honour and, indeed, whether any union in the trade union movement would be prepared to enter into. [More…]
There are also the vexing problems which are raised by the proposed new section 142a of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the possibilities which are open to a member of the Commission to determine by decision of the Commission which unions shall represent which members on a State basis in proceedings before the Commission. [More…]
I have not much doubt that if any attempt were made in certain union areas to exercise that power the validity of the section of the Bill which gives to the Commission that power would be taken fairly quickly to the High Court. [More…]
Because of the industrial changes that have occurred and have been inflicted on the work force and because of the strains that have been put on the trade union movement since that time, one would have thought that, whatever may be achieved by this legislation, there would have been a sense of urgency in having it enacted so that if there were any shortcomings in it we could build on it. [More…]
I want to deal with the more practical aspect of the industrial relations attitude of the average trade unionist and, what is much more important perhaps, some of the leading personalities involved. [More…]
With all deference to what Senator Greenwood said about some trade unions having misgivings, I suppose it is a case of Hamlet without the Prince. [More…]
The demarcation dispute to which the honourable senator referred would not have occurred if the key union, the Transport Workers Union of Australia, had not been involved. [More…]
If an unfortunate demarcation dispute occurred involving segments of the Transport Worker’s Union and there was a hold up at an airport Senator Greenwood would stand up in this place at question time and would ask the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) and the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) what the Government was doing. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood had examined that report he would have seen that a number of unions, other than the Transport Workers’ Union, were consulted. [More…]
As recently as the 6-hour day march in which Senator James McClelland and I participated I had a conversation with Ted McBeatty, one of the leading actors in this drama involving the Transport Workers’ Union. [More…]
Trade union goodwill and the goodwill of employers depends a lot on personal relations. [More…]
It is a fact that the Federal Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, Mr Harris, and the Assistant Federal Secretary, Mr Hodgson, have not always seen eye to eye with the New South Wales State Branch secretary, Mr McBeatty. [More…]
I repeat that as far as this legislation is concerned if the Transport Workers’ Unions want to work in harmony this will remove a tremendous source of irritation. [More…]
This reminds me of a time 7 or 8 years ago when I heard Country Party senators questioning whether the Waterside Workers Federation, the Storemen and Packers’ Union and the Transport Workers’ Union would accept containerisation. [More…]
As required, the Federated Clerks’ Union entered into that dispute also. [More…]
Unions have a job to protect the rights of their members. [More…]
Naturally, I suppose, when people want to score a strategic point they will have a look at union registration and all the kindred matters involved with it. [More…]
I think he feels that some non-Labor State Premiers will use a very minute section of the trade union movement in the same way as the Central Intelligence Agency subsidised a small element of the Chilean trade union movement. [More…]
If we get harmony between the 2 elements in the Transport Workers’ Union I feel that the synthetic objections to 1 or 2 other unions that may feel that they want to get a few more members are a minor consideration. [More…]
I say again and again that if we remove this competition for members that did exist in the Transport Workers’ Union- in relation to fuellers and others in the union who work at the various airports- we would be taking a step to reduce any unnecessary or regrettable stoppages. [More…]
The natural corollary of what Senator Greenwood advocates is that a trade union secretary should rule by edict. [More…]
The rank and file members of the union might think that they will put the screws on a bit and make the union officials work a little harder. [More…]
It is mostly unfair to trade union officials. [More…]
Honourable senators have to take brickbats because of how we are performing and trade union secretaries expect the same. [More…]
All he has been told is that he has to humble the trade union movement. [More…]
The point I emphasise is that if this legislation is rejected and delayed, as Senator Greenwood would like, the trade unions which expected constitutional changes via the national Parliament will find that the unions will have to slug it out, as it were, in a campaign to get members. [More…]
Senator Greenwood might have in the back of his mind some of the misgivings of the Queensland Branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Labor has made endless pilgrimages to meet people who have widely divergent ideological attitudes in the trade union movement. [More…]
They cost the union members a lot of money in stupid litigation. [More…]
Some years ago, when there was an endless wrangle in the Postal Workers’ Union a man named Neville Lynch had this attitude. [More…]
I think that members of the major unions such as the transport workers and the meat workers are the people we should placate. [More…]
There were a number of unions that were well aware of the implications of the Moore-Doyle case. [More…]
If one looks back into industrial history one sees that the Electrical Trade Union put its house in order and the Shop Distributors Union did the same. [More…]
Other unions have come in that category. [More…]
I do not know what type of reading Senator Greenwood indulges in but there is a book in the Library on Sir Victor Feather, the retired president of the British Trade Union Council. [More…]
But whether it be theirs or ours, he made the point that the successful role of trade unions is carried out by fighting limited wars. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is Mr Harris or Mr McBeatty who is leading a transport workers union or its equivalent. [More…]
Let us get away from this vexed question and these so-called dirty words trade union amalgamations’. [More…]
I have talked to the leading protagonist in this dispute, Mr Edward McBeatty, the controversial secretary of the New South Wales Transport Workers Union. [More…]
If he is prepared to reach a resonable agreement with his counterparts in the Federal structure of the Transport Workers Union, that alone to me justifies such a procedure. [More…]
But, although we have been grappling with the problem since 1969 and more technological changes are not around the bend, all the Opposition is saying is that we do not know whether the trade unions would accept the conditions for non-incorporated registration and we do not know the position of the States. [More…]
I say very bluntly to members of the Opposition who are adopting this attitude that there will be other disputes involving the Transport Workers Union or other disputes over the internal control of unions. [More…]
Such disputes may involve unions whose members are engaged in essential services. [More…]
I think it is worth while at this stage, in case there are some doubts as to what the problem is, to point out that it is adequately and fairly stated in the second reading of the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop), as Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, where he points out that over the years, because we have this dichotomy in our industrial law, situations arose so that a State branch of a Federal union and a State union often were administered as if they were the same body, with one set of books, one register of members, one membership fee, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
In some cases the rules of the State union are complied with and the rules of the State branch of the Federal union are ignored and in other cases the position is reversed. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter as regards the ordinary unionist is that he conceives of himself as belonging to one undifferentiated body which he calls ‘my union’. [More…]
This was the position in the Moore v. Doyle case which involved the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
To give another example of this problem I mention that my present distinguished Leader in this Senate, the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy), and I were engaged over a long period on opposite sides in an intra-union- it could only be called that- in which this problem tore the union apart. [More…]
The ultimate denouement in this union brawl highlights the absurdity of this position. [More…]
After years and years of litigation in which I succeeded in obtaining legal victory in the courts and Senator Murphy’s clients remained in control of the union because they ducked from the State body to the Federal body, my client finally won an election and went down to take his place in the union office. [More…]
You are now the secretary but it is an unpaid position because all the funds belong to the State registered union of which I am still the secretary. [More…]
After a few weeks of this my client, who had scored a handsome victory in a poll of the members who believed they belonged just to the one union, had to give up and go back to work, and victory temporarily went to the man who had been rejected by his members. [More…]
So I had this empty victory, my client had this empty victory and the members of the union had an empty victory after showing quite clearly that they wanted my client as the secretary of the union rather than the other man. [More…]
This is an horrendous situation cutting the ground from beneath the democratic processes in this country, something which people who are fond of railing against trade unions as the source of all the problems of this country should be worried about. [More…]
I do not know how we can take seriously their constant upbraiding of the unions for their role in our society. [More…]
Even after the incident I have mentioned of the man winning a ballot and not being able to take over the job this union- the Transport Workers Union which was involved in the Moore v. Doyle case- continued to provide the locus of struggle caused by the dichotomy of Federal and State industrial law and this led to the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
The union registered under the laws of New South Wales- I will refer to it as the ‘trade union’- was attempting to enrol taxi drivers in its ranks. [More…]
It had never been able to enrol taxi drivers because they were considered to be self-employed persons and were not covered by the New South Wales Arbitration Act until an amendment of that Act was introduced making specific provision for people like taxi drivers and lorry owner-drivers to be enrolled in the State union. [More…]
The union managed to win this case right up to the Privy Council. [More…]
Finally, Counsel advising the employers hit upon the idea that he might be able to establish that the trade union registered in New South Wales did not in fact exist but had had its identity absorbed in the branch of the Federal union and that, therefore, if that State registered body did not exist it could not go out and enrol taxi drivers or lorry owner-drivers because it would have to rely on the Federal industrial laws which excluded such persons because, by definition, they were not employees. [More…]
But the case had this curious result: Although the court found after an examination of the history of the 2 separate legal bodies- the State registered union and the branch of the Federal organisation- that the State body had continued to exist, it followed that the branch of the Federal organisation had for all practical purposes become defunct. [More…]
The notion that Moore v. Doyle is some sort of an academic problem we can take our time about does not stand up, because after the Moore v. Doyle case a faction fight blew up inside the union and the organisationthis is the word used in all Federal legislationthat is, the federally registered organisation, then began to claim the bodies of persons who were covered by Federal awards. [More…]
When I found out shortly before lunch that I was to speak on this Bill I rang the Transport Workers Union in Sydney to get a little information. [More…]
This is the sort of problem which occurs even in this one union, the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I have noticed that in the last few days another brawl has blown up involving a large important union- the Shop Assistants Union- in which the Federal Secretary, a Mr Egan, has been tipped out of his job, From my experience in this field I can read the signs that there will be a long and bloody battle which will be costly to the union, costly to the community and something to which I would have thought the legislators of this country must immediately advert. [More…]
But even if it does not, we can rest assured that there will be no shortage of union struggles raging around the Moore v. Doyle problem. [More…]
As I said, it is as old as the existence of unions in this country. [More…]
As soon as a faction fight flares up and a union or a group of employers sees some advantage in exploiting the dichotomy between State and Federal industrial law, as happened in the Moore v. Doyle case, we will get similar litigation. [More…]
If the union officials of this country were to look to their actual legal positions a great number of them would find that they just do not occupy those positions in law at all. [More…]
That is all right so long as the union is flowing smoothly enough, but as soon as a faction fight blows up somebody goes to a lawyer, somebody sees a man of the industrial acumen of Senator Murphy, and before we know where we are a free-for-all has started. [More…]
There are enough problems to worry honourable senators opposite arising out of the existence of trade unions and their belief that they should look after their members’ rights- an impression that certainly cuts across what honourable senators opposite have been conveying to us in recent years- so I cannot see why they should be selfsatisfied about letting this additional irritant in trade union affairs go uncured. [More…]
Being a Government which is prepared to grapple with problems and to attempt to find a solution, we believe that it is about time somebody grasped the nettle and did something to solve this problem, rather than wait until the tanker drivers of Sydney or Melbourne, or some other batch of workers, in frustration because of a brawl between officials of their Federal body and of a State registered union do something which will inconvenience millions of people. [More…]
It is a stopgap arrangement more pertinent to the problems created by the power struggles within the Transport Workers Union than to the central difficulties created by the judgment in Moore v. Doyle. [More…]
In the report he talks about the Transport Workers Union and the great problems which arose subsequent to the Moore v. Doyle decision. [More…]
I should add that written submissions were made to the Committee by each union. [More…]
They are the New South Wales Transport Workers Union and the Federal Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I have been told that the Federal Transport Workers Union has decided since the amendment to the Act last year to amend its rules to meet that situation. [More…]
I suppose the only defence which the Opposition has is to ask, as it has asked in the amendment, whether the unions will cooperate and whether the States will co-operate. [More…]
What will the unions do about it? [More…]
It is true that not every union which is concerned about this matter has answered the question, but only yesterday I was told personally by Mr Souter, the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that the ACTU supports the Bill. [More…]
They are registered in a similar way to the way in which the unions are registered. [More…]
It has been estimated, for example, that in England some 40 per cent of illegitimate children are born to stable illicit unions- that is the sort of union formed by people who for some reason or other, say a dog in the manger attitude on the part of the spouse who will not divorce, are not able to contract a second marriage. [More…]
If the policy of a matrimonial law should be to protect the institution of marriage, surely one of the strongest arguments against making it difficult for marriages which have foundered to be sundered is that we are inviting people who cannot be freed of a union with which they no longer wish to be encumbered with to free themselves and to undertake a second union. [More…]
How far, again, does the growing number of divorces indicate a more widespread inclination to prefer marriage to factual union? [More…]
Is it not true that not so long ago masses of people never bothered to get married at all, and that consequently the dissolution of their unions did not appear in the divorce statistics? [More…]
At present we see marriage as a union which tends to be an exclusive and permanent union. [More…]
Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
It changes marriage from a contract between 2 parties for permanent union, determinable in law only by the intervention of a State, to a contractual union determinable at any time by one party subject to a 12 months procedural wait. [More…]
So if members of a trade union, for instance, took action against a company providing any of those sources of power and the action was taken with regard to safety measures or wage issues, it would be enough to invoke these sweeping powers. [More…]
They are: Professor Harding, Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia; the Law Society of Western Australia, in which only 4 members dissented from a report given on the Bill; various trade union leaders; Sister Veronica Brady, lecturer in English at the Western Austraiian University; and Mr Leslie Steen, lecturer in Law at the University of Western Australia. [More…]
The trade union movement has never been opposed to emergency legislation as long as it is not repressive. [More…]
In fact, only one union of which I am aware- it is a small union with fewer than 20 members; I think it has 16- is opposed to the merger. [More…]
The largest union which has members working for the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, the Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia, has about 1,300 staff members in OTC out of a total membership of a little over 2,000. [More…]
This union has come out in support of the merger. [More…]
Yesterday its federal secretary said that he refuted the representations of some individuals who claimed to support the union movement. [More…]
He also pointed out that representations were made to the trade union group which is now negotiating with departmental officers to make sure that the merger is satisfactorily completed. [More…]
All those unions represented on the Council are in favour of the merger. [More…]
As I have said, the PREI is the largest union. [More…]
The next biggest union has 140 members who favour the merger. [More…]
Of all the other unions, some with only one or two members, there is only one of which I am aware which is against the merger. [More…]
It appears to me that previously the union between partners mainly rested on the institution of marriage. [More…]
Although today there is talk about changes in marriage- I believe that there are quite significant changes in the relationships in marriage, and Senator Webster spoke about that this afternoonnevertheless, I still believe that the view of marriage in our society, whether it is regarded as a Christian society or not, is still basically the Christian view, and that is the voluntary union of a man and a woman for their joint lives to the exclusion of all others. [More…]
Before going on to consider the changes that the Bill makes to grounds for divorce and maintenance, to the courts and so on, I would like briefly to refer to the view that not only should the law on marriage and divorce buttress and encourage the marriage state and the permanent union of the parties to marriage for the sake of their own happiness and that of their children, but I believe the Government also should be more active in this field. [More…]
These deficiencies are well known to all of us- to State Governments, judges, lawyers, employers, employees, union officials and everyone associated with compensation. [More…]
I am prepared to accept that those who get married other than in a church, when they enter into this contract, sincerely and faithfully accept this condition of the union. [More…]
Honourable senators who have spoken for the Bill and others who have some reservations believe that marriage requires a lot more than the glamour and all the other things that precede the union. [More…]
Marriage is now, in the eyes of the law and of the Church, the voluntary union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others for life. [More…]
From the Christian standpoint, this union ought not to be terminable during the lifetime of the marriage partners. [More…]
But I seem to recall that whenever a trade union makes an application to a court for an increase in wages all sorts of attacks are made in the Parliament and outside about unions going crazy. [More…]
We are told that the unions should not do it and are asked what the Government is going to do to stop the unions and so forth. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
Secondly, will the Minister intervene at the request of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and myself to give a breathing space to all temporary Sydney Mail Branch officers whose permanency is in jeopardy due to delays in processing citizenship applications- delays which are epitomised in the Iskander case, the details of which he is already aware? [More…]
Did the Minister for the Media yesterday address the annual conference of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia now being held at Newcastle? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this union and other unions involved in the media industries are concerned to ensure protection of their members’ wages and working condition entitlements in the event of the [More…]
In other words, are the unions concerned that their conditions might be affected by well-minded amateurs using public broadcasting more in the form of a hobby than as a career? [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that in considering public broadcasting the views and opinions of the trade union movement will be kept in mind? [More…]
It is true that yesterday I went to Newcastle to address the annual federal conference of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia. [More…]
One of the questions that was raised with me by the union related to the Government’s giving consideration to the introduction of public broadcasting. [More…]
A number of other unions have raised the issue with me- the Professional Radio Employees Institute, the Electrical Trades Union, Actors and Announcers Equity, the Theatrical and Amusement Employees Association and, on an unofficial basis, the Australian Journalists Association. [More…]
I can understand and indeed have some sympathy for the attitude being expressed by those unions. [More…]
For my part I have given an assurance to the unions that the matter is certainly not being overlooked by me or by my Department. [More…]
Yesterday when the matter was raised with me I told the Professional Musicians Union that very shortly I expect to be establishing an advisory committee to tender advice to me, to my Department and to the Government on this matter and in this sphere. [More…]
I undertake that when I do that, a representative of the trade union movement involved in the media industries will be made a member of the advisory committee so that he can express those views to the committee. [More…]
To this day we have been given no adequate reason- there has been no attempt to give any reason, as my recollection serves me- why before 18 May 1974 the Government adopted an attitude that there would be no change from the traditional policy which successive governments had followed, and why in the middle of July a decision was taken that the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union would be recognised by this Government. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
It will be remembered, of course, that our colleague in another place, Mr Jacobi, agitated for many years, both as a member of Parliament and previously as a trade union secretary in South Australia, for the reopening of Birrallee and a large part of the credit is due to Mr Jacobi for his efforts. [More…]
He mentioned the 3 level of government, appropriate voluntary organisations, citizen groups, client and consumer groups, and employer and trade union groups. [More…]
I gather that part of the money was allocated to a group known as the Western Suburbs Union Community Centre which is pre-eminently a body established by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The Union has an income, I understand, of approximately $4m a year. [More…]
It cannot be said to be a union which is in need of funds. [More…]
The union centre to which he referred is comprised of a number of bodies, including the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union. [More…]
Of course, that is typical of the attitude of honourable senators opposite when they refer to the trade union movement. [More…]
If only they knew what the trade union movement had done in the social welfare field they would not be so keen to speak in such a fashion as they do about the trade union movement. [More…]
It was the secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Archie Dawson. [More…]
There are many other trade union officials who were interested in assisting that organisation and who still do assist it. [More…]
He is so prejudiced in his outlook against the trade union movement and against trade unionists that he can never see anything good that they may have done for mankind. [More…]
Let me assure honourable senators that trade unions have done plenty that is to the advantage of: the people of Australia. [More…]
If those representatives were to come from the trade union movement, that is the first thing he would say. [More…]
On behalf of my colleagues in the trade union movement I express my keen disappointment that Senator Greenwood and others on the opposite side of the chamber have attempted to smear this legislation. [More…]
I know that under this present Government in the administration of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act there has not been, on my understanding, one trade union prosecuted for any conduct amounting to breach of an award; but I do know that there have been a number of employers prosecuted, and they are not the big employers but the small employers because, to use the Attorney-General’s argument, they are the people who are the sitting ducks. [More…]
What is your Government ‘s policy regarding the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- are you going to continue not to recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union or should we expect a policy change on this matter? [More…]
At that time Australia gave de facto recognition to the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
) Did this letter indicate by the said paragraphs that the Government intended no change in its attitude to the nonrecognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the attitude of its predecessors: if not, what attitude did the letter indicate. [More…]
Governments with respect to recognition of the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government is that while not formally recognising the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union, it must be cognisant of the de facto situation and deal with the government which has effective control of the territory in question. [More…]
1 ) Is the Prime Minister aware that Senator Willesee, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, informed the Leader of the Opposition that the decision on the de jure recognition of the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was taken on 3 July 1 974; if so, was the Minister for Foreign Affairs ‘ statement to the Leader of the Opposition correct. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister also aware that Senator Willesee said that the decision to recognise de jure the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a unilateral act by the Prime Minister; if so, was the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs correct. [More…]
Previously the Australian Government accorded de facto recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
163 asked by Senator Greenwood ask him to see the Minister for Foreign Affairs’ answer on 13 August (vide Senate Hansard, page 781) and the Prime Minister’s answer on 15 October (vide House of Representatives Hansard, page 2278) when the relevant part of the question was Why has the Government now recognised the incorporation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when, prior to 18 May 1974, it was stating that it would not recognise such incorporation’. [More…]
What part of either of Senator Willesee ‘s answer on 13 August or the Prime Minister’s answer on 15 October explains why the Government has now recognised the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Why has the Government now recognised the incorporation de jure of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when, prior to 18 May 1974, the Government stated it would not recognise such incorporation. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation. [More…]
That the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolved by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
It referred to the appearances before the Royal Commission into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions. [More…]
The item states that the Seamen’s Union is now represented by counsel sustained through legal aid. [More…]
the Royal Commission was told the Seamen’s Union, currently under investigation by the commission had been granted emergency legal aid by the Federal AttorneyGeneral, Senator Murphy. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
That the concept of marriage contained in section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
I refer to reports on the discussions between a senior member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr Suslov, and an Australian delegation led by Mr Renouf in which an assurance was given that Russia had no intention of establishing a naval base in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
-Senator Sim is obviously referring to the fourth round of the official level talks between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which took place in Canberra on 14 and 15 November. [More…]
Never at any stage did he claim that if he went back to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics his life would be in danger which under our sort of loose provisions is the criterion that we would look for at the moment. [More…]
The arrangements being made for finance are as follows: A Swiss loan of approximately 50m Swiss francs- that is, approximately US$1 9m- will be arranged for TAA from the Union Bank of Switzerland at an all-up cost of 9.75 per cent per annum and repayable at the end of 5 years. [More…]
The finance now appears to be coming from the Union Bank of Switzerland at 93/4 per cent interest payable over 5 years which, as the Minister says, in current conditions is a reasonable sort of a loan arrangement, not of course as good as one might have achieved from the Export-Import Bank if one had been dealing with the arrangements in a state of continuity. [More…]
9 will be financed by the Union Bank or by somebody else. [More…]
It is not for nothing that the existing Marriage Act 1 96 1 expresses in section 69(2) as the secular concept of marriage ‘the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
But the basis and principal theme of our debate revolves, firstly, I would say, around the institution of marriage, the preserving and protection of this institution, this ideal of marriage of the union of one man and one woman voluntarily entered into for their lives. [More…]
I think also our society must provide legal processes to enforce the moral duties which flow from this ideal and from this union. [More…]
But the network of responsibilities and disciplines to which I have referred affect also other persons in our community mainly, of course, the children of such a union and marriage. [More…]
I also have a copy of a letter which was sent to all of the newspapers by the Social Responsibility Committee of the Congregational Union of New South Wales. [More…]
I have heard it said on many occasions and repeated in this Senate that marriage according to law in Australia is the union of man and woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life and not to be entered into lightly or inadvisedly. [More…]
The Western Region Subsidised Health Benefits Fund was set up under the auspices of the Trade Union Clinic and Research Centre Limited, Footscray, Victoria, to provide a comprehensive range of free health services to eligible pensioners and their dependants, who would otherwise normally receive free treatment from participating doctors under the Pensioner Medical Service arrangements. [More…]
Initially, representatives of the Trade Union Clinic made application to enter into an agreement with the DirectorGeneral ofSocial Security under the Pensioner Medical Service arrangements. [More…]
I refer to an answer which he gave to a question in the Senate on 30 October concerning the attitudes of unions whose members are employed by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
In the answer the Minister stated that only one union with about 16 members in fact was opposed to the merger. [More…]
These people have been reassured by myself in public statements made at regularised meetings which have taken place between the unions and the people concerned in the arrangements for the transfer. [More…]
Its Federal Secretary and President are taking part in what is called JUG- that is the Joint Union Group- in consultations with officers who are carrying out the preliminary arrangements. [More…]
-Mr President, I would like to correct some union membership figures I gave in answer to a question by Senator Durack in respect of those unions operating in the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
That is the membership of the main unions involved out of a total of 2,067 staff members. [More…]
I am not talking about the very massive persecutions of Jews which still occur in the Soviet Union but which have been lessened somewhat through the force of world opinion and through the influence of countries which are prepared to express hostility to this type of action because the Soviet Union is sensitive to world opinion. [More…]
Last Thursday night I was speaking to a delegation which was comprised of New South Wales and Victorian housing trade unions. [More…]
1 asked them about the position of employment of members of the trades union in the industry. [More…]
No member of a union is unemployed in the building industry in South Australia [More…]
I have always believed that the adjournment debate is an occasion to remedy any injustices and tonight I rise on behalf of the Joint Commonwealth Secretary of the Commonwealth Council of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union to refute an assertion that was made on 2 October by Senator Townley. [More…]
I refer to the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
This union, Senator Grimes, myself and others at the time questioned the authenticity of what Senator Townley was saying. [More…]
On that particular night he said there had been numerous demarcation disputes despite the creation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union. [More…]
It is the word ‘numerous’ that both the union and I take umbrage at, and I have a 2-page statement from the Joint Commonwealth Secretary of this union, Mr John Garland, which I intend to ask leave of the Senate to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
Engineering Union, predominantly over welding, are no more. [More…]
But when there has been an error made or a distortion of fact, a large organisation like the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union is entitled to have its viewpoint put. [More…]
It was kind of you to forward us the Hansard pages of this Senator’s speech and we appreciate your reply, that is in defence of the trade union movement and of amalgamations in particular. [More…]
As a result, it can be said, except for the odd case like Renison Bell, that amalgamations substantially reduce any union conflict on a wide range of matters, not only demarcation, and an elementary examination of the position will show this to be correct. [More…]
The dispute was over whether boilermakers or fitters, who are both members of the same union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, should perform the work of cutting bolts. [More…]
The point that I was making was that demarcation disputes can still occur within one union. [More…]
The fallacy of this argument can be illustrated by the fact that there have been numerous demarcation disputes within the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which have led to industrial dislocation and stand downs - [More…]
Since the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths’ Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Workers Union into the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
After Senator Townley said that, Senator Mulvihill reported it to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
As a result, it can be said, except for the odd case like Renison Bell, that amalgamations substantially reduce any union conflict on a wide range of matters, not only demarcation, and an elementary examination of the position will show this to be correct. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage, as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure of the Soviet Union ‘s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian Citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship of the aggressor country the USSR, [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is the Government able to confirm the report given to the Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation by that Organisation’s military committee that the Soviet Union now possesses 48 ballistic missile submarines with another 15 under construction and that it has recently introduced 3 new missile systems which, if fully developed, would give what is termed in the report a tremendous superiority in warheads and throw weight? [More…]
Bearing in mind the revelations made by the Russian writer in his book ‘Gulag Archipelago’ of the inhuman oppression he experienced in his own country, will the Government now reassess its attitude towards the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and reconsider its recent action with respect to the de jure recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into the USSR? [More…]
-My question to the Postmaster-General refers to his corrected answer to a question I asked yesterday about the attitudes of various unions, some of whose members are employed by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
I remind him that he seems to maintain that the only association or union opposed to the merger is the Professional Officers Association which has 16 members in OTC. [More…]
The unions that I have mentioned, such as the Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australia, the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, the Association of Professional Engineers, the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen, the Australian Journalists Association and some other unions with small memberships like the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Electrical [More…]
Trades Union, which has a few members and the Transport Workers Union of Australia with 2 members in OTC, are all taking part- except those with two or three members involved- in discussions at the present time with my officers to work out the framework and infrastructure of the new Commission. [More…]
One union has resisted the merger and has said that there should not be a takeover and that the OTC should remain on its own. [More…]
The honourable senator knows about the trade union group which is meeting the departmental representatives. [More…]
As far as I can see, there will be a number of questions about the takeover but there will be no general obstruction to the merger by the union movement or by staff members. [More…]
In sub-clause ( I ), insert the following new definition: marriage’, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life:. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of marriage . [More…]
It is just a contradiction in terms to say that marriage according to law in Australia is a union for life when, in fact, the Family Law Bill into which we now propose to insert this definition provides for dissolution of marriage. [More…]
The authorised celebrant is enjoined by the Act to inform the parties of the nature of marriage and, among other things, to tell them that marriage according to law is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others. [More…]
It is a very curious thing that in sections 46 and 69 of the Marriage Act there appear these statements in regard to what the celebrant says to people being married, namely, ‘marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
It might be said that people intend to enter into a union for life but we know that people divorce, and have done so for generations, and they have been divorced under the law in Australia. [More…]
It is fundamental, in my opinion, to retain that which by common law concept the Australian community has adopted throughout our history- that marriage is, as set out in this definition, ‘the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
If this definition is not clearly stated in this legislation marriage may well be defined as the union of one man with one wife until they have separated for 12 months and one has thereupon been divorced. [More…]
By his original amendment he is saying that marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
Is it Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s intent that that union be declared a marriage for the purposes of this Bill? [More…]
The devaluation therefore clearly meets a matter of major concern to the trade union movement in the current economic circumstances. [More…]
Bans have been applied because some people, at that stage, had refused to join the union. [More…]
They agreed to join the union. [More…]
I would like to thank those associated with the union and the other people concerned for the satisfactory way in which this dispute has been settled. [More…]
In regard to paragraph (a), I understand that Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson intends to move to add the words ‘as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
at the end of paragraph (a) add the following words: ‘as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
Honourable senators will observe that my amendment is different from the circulated amendment which read: ‘which, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life’. [More…]
at end of paragraph (a), add the following words- as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
Simply because one of the parties, who have married and have taken the solemn vows, decides that he or she does not want to go on with it and wants a separation, under this provision of the Bill he or she will have the right to the dissolution of the marriage and to all that stems from it, such as maintenance and custody of the children of the union. [More…]
It still regards marriage, at least as an ideal, as a union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. [More…]
The Bill also gives effect to an announcement made by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) last March that the income tax law would be amended to exempt from tax interest derived by a credit union from loans to its members. [More…]
Credit unions will continue to be taxed on income other than interest on loans to members, for example, from rents and outside’ investment of funds not immediately required for their normal lending operations. [More…]
The power of industrial blackmail is endeavouring to elevate the authority of a few union leaders above the authority of the elected and responsible members of the Parliament. [More…]
It is, or it has all the indications of being, a classic case of legitimate power and authority being challenged by those who hold private power, in this case not by a few powerful landholders or by a few important companies but by a few trade union leaders who have influenced and persuaded a trades hall council and now the State Parliamentary Labor Party to an action which seeks to undermine the authority of the Government of Victoria. [More…]
In this case it is a union power attempting to prevail over the power of the people. [More…]
If” Senator Cavanagh is seeking to know specifically of what I am talking, it is the indication initially by about 5 unions, then 7 unions, then 15 unions and then the Trades Hall Council that they would prevent the Newport power station in Victoria being built. [More…]
There has scarcely been any occasion on which the Parliament’s authority has been more challenged by direct confrontation than by the attitude which the unions are adopting at the present time. [More…]
The issue is whether the decision of the Government, backed by the unanimous vote of the Parliament, to construct a power plant at Newport is to be overridden by the decision initially of a few trade union leaders who in most cases have not even consulted their membership and who, in any event, even if the membership had been consulted and had supported them, have no right to place themselves in the role of government. [More…]
The plea is now being made by the unions through the Australian Labor Party in the hope that there will be a decision at the Federal Conference of the Labor Party next year for direct support of the whole Labor movement for what the unions are doing. [More…]
What is involved in what is now threatened in Victoria is something which we ought not to regard as outside that area, because the statements of some of the union leaders have been so threatening that one can only hope that when the Government is challenged the people will know what the issues are and will be overwhelmingly on the side of the people of this country and democracy. [More…]
It was on the day following that a union ban was placed upon the construction of the power station and that is the union ban which is still prevailing. [More…]
This represents a concerted attempt by a number of unions which are concerned only to have a direct confrontation with the Victorian Government to assert their authority and to indicate it is in the hands of the unions that power lies. [More…]
A number of unions said that they would black ban the project. [More…]
At the time that that statement was made the Victorian Premier properly said that the unions attitude represented a defiance of parliament and the elected government. [More…]
These are considerations of considerable weight but when added to the basic question of the right or authority of the union movement to take this action, they are an indication of the unreasonableness of the stand which is taken. [More…]
It is very significant, in view of the political affiliations of those who control these unions, to note the original 5 unions concerned in this matter. [More…]
They are the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the Furnishing Trades Society- one might wonder what particular interest that society has in a power station at Newport- the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australasia. [More…]
Of course, a number of building unions have now joined in. [More…]
One can see how this is working in with a general pattern of seeking power when I recall to the Senate the statement made by the Victorian Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union at a University of New South Wales seminar in Sydney last Thursday. [More…]
I think this statement is an indication of the attitude which the union movement is adopting, and which Mr Halfpenny in particular is promoting, and which the Victorian Labor Party is going along with. [More…]
Trade union power should bc directed at challenging ‘the very basis of society’, the Victorian Secretary ofthe Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Mr Halfpenny forecast increasing moves by the trade union movement to take away power from its political ally, the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
More and more the trade union movement will take power back from its political wing because of the emerging worker challenge to the value of society’, Mr Halfpenny said’. [More…]
The union position is one of arrogant assumption of power- they are right and the Government is wrong. [More…]
He regards the Government’s decision as provoking direct confrontation with the unions but it is the unions which are directly and provocatively confronting Parliament and the people, lt is this issue to which 1 believe it is in the interests of all people in this country to have regard and to ensure that when this challenge does come, as it is developing at the present time, this Parliament is found on the side of the Victorian Government and upholding law in that State. [More…]
I suggest that if his Party on our side of politics wants to do something useful it might come out with some very firm unequivocal statement of what it is going to do about secret ballots for strike decisions and about the implementation of parliamentary disciplines in the election of union officials. [More…]
My Party remains quite firmly and simply committed to the establishment of parliamentary democracy and the disciplines of parliamentary democracy in the union movement, as they should apply in this House. [More…]
1 ) Was Mr J. Grenville, the Federal Secretary of the Clerk’s Union, a member of a recent delegation to a meeting of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
That, the concept of marriage contained in Section 26 subsection 2 is of marriage as a transitory, and temporary union dissolvable by the simple passing of a period of twelve months separation; [More…]
Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure ofthe Soviet Union’s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship ofthe aggressor country the U.S.S.R. [More…]
The Chairman of the Victorian Farmers Union has protested, 1 believe quite strongly, in a statement he issued, as has the President of the Rice Growers Association of New South Wales. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Conservation Foundation has asked him for a legal opinion about the propriety of advertisements by the State Electricity commission of Victoria exposing the humbug of the union bans on the construction of the Newport power station? [More…]
Can the PostmasterGeneral give me an up-to.date briefing on the position confronting the group of Sydney mail officers who are members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and in respect of whom delays in the processing of citizenship applications can affect attainment of permanency in the Postmaster-General’s Department? [More…]
Some members of the union will have a potential financial superiority and others may have less than they need. [More…]
Repayment of the Literature Board loan is to be given precedence over repayment of loans from trade union and other sources. [More…]
It has been argued by the Minister for Labor and Immigration and the Government that, if wage indexation is accepted by the union movement and the employers and is supported by the Government, it will go a long way to easing many of the pressures that are currently being placed on the economy. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration, refers to the public statement of the Prime Minister that sections of the trade union movement are conspiring with employers to force up prices. [More…]
Since this is a serious accusation by the Government against the trade unions, what specific evidence can the Government produce to support the charge? [More…]
When questioned on this matter, the Minister stated that the other persons would include such bodies as the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The Minister was speaking at the opening of the annual conference of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia at Newcastle. [More…]
I am absolutely amazed, if I may say so- by way of parenthesis- to see the Opposition opposing a provision brought down by this Government that not only shall the Australian Broadcasting Control Board confer with representatives of stations when they are considering program requirements but also that they should be enabled to confer with representatives of the trade union movement and others who are vitally interested in that area. [More…]
I have read that because Senator Guilfoyle queried my going to the annual conference of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia and telling the delegates that if this legislation giving the Board power to determine Australian content regulations is not adopted by the Senate, their jobs are in jeopardy. [More…]
I seek clarification on the role which the Federal Government is playing or is proposing to play in respect of the union ban on the construction of the power station at Newport in Victoria. [More…]
The idea for a film on the early Australian expedition to Paraguay first came to me from the Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union, Mr Barry Egan, who has a very keen interest in the history of Australia. [More…]
I do not want the honourable senator to be concerned for one moment that because the suggestion was made to me by Mr Barry Egan, the Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union, the film might in some way or other be a propaganda film. [More…]
Curiously, the trade union movement has been in the forefront of the campaign in various cities to save the environment, especially in relation to projects like the Clutha project in New South Wales. [More…]
I understand that some trade unions have complained that this should not have to be their role and that initiatives ought to have been taken in these areas long ago by governments. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has referred to Australia’s relations with China as most closely representing Australia’s new aspirations and in view of the Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States in the Soviet Union, does the Minister agree with the statement of China ‘s opposition to the Soviet incorporation of the Baltic States? [More…]
The present position is that the Australian Postal Workers Union, in protest against the decision of Mr Taylor, has decided to carry on a number of stoppages. [More…]
One of my ministerial assistants is in constant touch with the unions. [More…]
I have asked him to tell the unions that in my opinion the decision of Mr Taylor is such as to warrant the Australian Postal Workers Union Federal Executive considering taking action other than that currently being taken, lt seems to me that there are other avenues that the Union could canvass to settle its grievances, including recourse to arbitration. [More…]
I have asked Mr Hancock to put that position to the unions concerned, including the Federal Secretary of the APWU. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Attorney-General relates to the refusal of the Secretary of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, Mr E. V. Elliott, to supply documents to Mr Justice Sweeney, the royal commissioner conducting an investigation into alleged payments to maritime unions. [More…]
As the refusal was reported to have been made because the Federal Government had not made a decision on whether the union would be able to get or was to be granted legal aid, can the Attorney-General now say whether a decision has been made on this matter? [More…]
I have indicated earlier to the Senate that a request had been made to me by Mr Elliott of the Seamen’s Union and that I had granted what was described as emergency legal aid. [More…]
It is true that in recent days the Government’s popular sport has changed to union bashing, but generally over the 2 years the Government saw profit as being a hateful thing and set out to show the people of Australia that it was going to put companies in their place. [More…]
The scheme contains characteristics which are objectionable to this Opposition and, I think I can say emphatically, thoroughly objectionable to the trade union movement. [More…]
It is usually at the tail end and most often in one sentence because the problem is too hard politically for these people really to spell it out, but they say that we must also have restraint from the union movement. [More…]
The call of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to the unions of Australia to respond in support of indexation on the basis that they are going to be offered a benefit of about $6 a week at the maximum in taxation deductions is also fatuous. [More…]
My forecast is that the Government’s request of the union movement has already failed. [More…]
You came along here last week and alleged that an arbitration inspector had attended a union meeting– [More…]
Everybody thought the man had attended a union meeting outside his duties. [More…]
It happened to be a union member- a member of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. [More…]
He never had the guts to get up in the Parliament and say: ‘Look, that member is a member of the union’. [More…]
It has also set about to assist not only trade unions but also management. [More…]
In turn we are giving subsidies to the trade union movement for education. [More…]
When I was a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions years ago many waterside workers were to be displaced at sugar ports. [More…]
I was aware of the fact that this person was a member of the union, and a question was raised in the minds of other trade unionists at that meeting concerning the ethics of an arbitration officer suggesting strike action. [More…]
It seemed to those union members to be incompatible with his position in the department. [More…]
I believe that it was not, and so do the other members of the trade union movement who were present at that meeting. [More…]
When we talked about it in the Senate we had Senator Greenwood going off again about some trade union official involved in the Australian Assistance Plan in Altona and worrying about all the things which worried him when he was a Minister in the previous government and which will still be worrying him in 25 years time, however irrelevant they might be. [More…]
-I have been advised this morning that the Postal Workers Union intends to appeal to the President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I presume that the Union is now considering what it has been proposing in relation to stoppages. [More…]
In view of the statement by Mr Slater, secretary of the Australian Postal Workers Union, that he intends continuing guerrilla tactics to achieve the aims of his union, will the Minister assure the Senate that he will strongly uphold the arbitration system with respect to this current postal dispute? [More…]
I can tell Senator Milliner, who has always had a great interest in the printing industry, he having been I think for some 20 years the Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, that the highly regarded journal, the ‘Australian Library Journal’, recently devoted considerable space to a review of the Australian Government Digest’, which is a production of the Australian Government Publishing Service. [More…]
-The situation at the moment is that the 2 detained African nationalist leaders, Joshua Nkomo of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union and the Reverend Sithole of the Zimbabwe African National Union, were released by Rhodesia to attend talks in Lusaka with President Kaunda of Zambia, President Nyerere of Tanzania, President Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel, President of Frelimo. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation, which has its headquarters at Federation House, 300 Sussex Street, Sydney, has as its affiliates the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the Victorian Teaching Union, the Technical Teachers’ Association of Victoria, the Queensland Teachers Union, the South Australian Institute of Teachers, the Tasmanian Teachers Federation, the State School Teachers Union of Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation, the Northern Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation and the Papua New Guinea Teachers Association. [More…]
In the case of Moore v Doyle, it was held that registration of unions under State legislation bestowed separate legal entity and the Industrial Court suggested that Federal/State authorities examine the development of a system of trade union organisation under which one body could represent its members in both Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
Queensland replied that it did not favour the Federal body of a union being recognised under State law. [More…]
That whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]
That many Australians including Church, Union. [More…]
I have been in almost daily contact with the Secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and Bob Hawke. [More…]
As everybody knows, whenever there are important stoppages or national stoppages, the most effective method of dealing with them in an organised way, where there are factions in the work force, is to support in every way the taking over of the disputes by the Australian Council of Trade Unions which then has power to control all the elements in the disputes. [More…]
For that reason I have had discussions with the Secretary of the Postal Workers Union and the President of the ACTU, and the advice given to me was that the postal workers had put the dispute in the hands of the ACTU. [More…]
The President of the ACTU has drawn to the attention of Mr Slater and the union that once the ACTU takes control of the dispute actions of the kind that we saw yesterday, which were unfortunate, should not obtain. [More…]
Without getting into an area of controversy which may make the situation worse, I say it is deplorable that only 400 members of the staff at the Redfern Mail Exchange which numbers about 2,500 should make a decision confronting the policy of the federal executive of the union. [More…]
As Senator Durack knows, in the area of the Redfern Mail Exchange, which has always been a very difficult area, I have allowed one of my officers, whom I should have on my staff helping me with my duties, to work full time on corresponding and communicating with the unions. [More…]
It is unfortunate that any section of a union should imperil a system which has paid off and been of benefit to the union and the postal employees generally. [More…]
We know at the present time that in Victoria there is a move by certain conservation interests and certain trade union leaders to prevent the Newport power station from being constructed. [More…]
The union leaders had every opportunity in hearings before the Authority and the Board to put their case. [More…]
The unions concerned chose to put no case whatsoever. [More…]
But notwithstanding those facts we find that certain union leaders, without the consent or authority of their union members, are prepared to tell the Victorian Government that this Newport power station will not be constructed. [More…]
In the old days every time a salaries Bill came before us, as a very distinguished member of the ex- Whips union, as is our President and other honourable senators here, I always put in a plea for the Whips because I still believe that they are the hardest worked and the most underpaid members in the whole Parliament. [More…]
1) In view of the public statement of the Prime Minister that sections of the trade union movement are conspiring with employers to force higher prices, what specific evidence can the Government produce to support the charge, which is a serious accusation against the trade unions. [More…]
I did, however, refer to instances of firms taking up identical positions with individual trade unions or sections of the trade union movement in some industries. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Agriculture confirm that a contract has been signed for the sale of a substantial quantity of meat to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
I feel that as a result of the negotiations which have taken place in Moscow we can look forward to a reasonably stable market in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the years ahead. [More…]
Between 14 December and 21 January I visited Sri Lanka, Belgium, the headquarters of the European Communities in Brussels, Britain, Ireland, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, Pakistan and Bangladesh. [More…]
No Australian Prime Minister had visited the Soviet Union in the 33 years since diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of the world’s two superpowersone of the nations whose policies determine the fate of all mankind. [More…]
On 12 January I flew to Leningrad and 2 days later to Moscow where I had wide-ranging discussions with President Podgorny and Prime Minister Kosygin of the Soviet Union, and signed cultural and scientific agreements between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
Joint communiques were issued after my visits to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union which I shall seek leave to table. [More…]
Mr Fukunaga is a most distinguished parliamentarian, being a member of the Interparliamentary Council and the Leader of the Japanese International Parliamentary Union delegations for the past 12 years. [More…]
I refer particularly to the sections of that Act which altered the procedures for holding union elections. [More…]
Shortly after he had piloted these amendments through this Parliament, Mr Justice Spicer sat on several matters involving the validity of trade union elections and obviously felt no embarrassment in adjudicating on legislation which he had helped to pilot through this Parliament. [More…]
We have provided subsidies for trade union training and for management training. [More…]
For the first time we have a government which says that it believes in the trade unions being involved in management, running the enterprises and being taught how to run the enterprises. [More…]
I was talking with the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers’ Union of Australia and the multinationals trying to assist the stabilisation of the tyre industry. [More…]
As I said, I attended a conference with 6 tyre companies, the Rubber Workers Union and Ministers. [More…]
Senator Bishop knows that in regard to unions in the field of electronics, such as in the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, and other manufacturing unions, some of us have worked from the heart. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite might say that because trade unions oppose technological changes, they are equivalent to the Luddites. [More…]
Let us make no bones about it: When technological changes such as the assemby line system came about no government could have stopped the trade union movement from seeking a shorter working week. [More…]
I am determined to see that the trade union movement gets its way. [More…]
In 1970 he quite nonchalantly informed an executive meeting of the Farmers Union of Western Australia that the Australian Meat Board had employed a lobbyist in Washington to arouse consumer interest and to secure freer entry of Australian beef to the American market. [More…]
As honourable senators know from its history, the Labor Party was procreated from the trade union movement, and we had a situation during last year where four times more man-days were lost through strikes than the average of the previous 10 years. [More…]
There were more strikes of a nature damaging to the economy than we had had at any previous period of our history, so much so that the Government completely reversed the attitude of encouragement and demand that it had adopted when it first took office, and we had even Labor Ministers turning to the unions and almost pleading for moderation and restraint. [More…]
It is this bloody-mindedness on the part of a small section of the trade union movement that is slowly, but surely, pricing thousands of Australian workers out of employment. [More…]
If unemployment reaches unacceptable levels, it will not he due to any conscious decision taken by the Australian Government, but by the indirect efforts of the action of some union officials. [More…]
And some misguided people in the trade union movement, Senator, I would agree with you. [More…]
Honourable senators are assured of the Government’s intention to reestablish the city, and given the continued cooperation of elected community representatives, the business community, the trade union movement and the many individuals and organisations all with a view about reconstruction, we will proceed with rebuilding as we have done with recovery. [More…]
Arrangements have been made by the Department of Repatriation and Compensation for the payment of repatriation pensions into credit union accounts. [More…]
The arrangements have been made and it has been possible to have repatriation pensions paid into credit union accounts since 31 December. [More…]
Any recipient of repatriation benefits who wishes to have his benefits paid into a savings account, as opposed to a loan account, with a credit union may make such arrangements with the relevant officers of the Department. [More…]
I take it that Mr Short is suggesting that the Government should have discussions with the trade union movement on wage restraint? [More…]
The history of government interference in Wheat Board affairs goes back at least to 1967 when a member of the Wheat Board, Mr H. F. Smith, reported to a Farmers Union meeting in Perth that the Government had instructed a Board delegation to deliver a note to representatives of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong. [More…]
My sources of information regarding Government directives to the Wheat Board on sales to Chile after President Allende ‘s election was the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio program ‘Country Hour’ broadcast by an official of the Western Australian Farmers Union on 3 1 October 1973. [More…]
A nomination may be made by a community, church, business, trade union, sporting or other organisation of Darwin citizens or by not less than 2 persons entitled to vote at elections for the Legislative Assembly - [More…]
We have seen the antics of members of his Party in the trade union movement. [More…]
Is it a case of our being prepared to be so servile and so sycophantic to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that we will accept the most blatant intimidation when we visit Russia? [More…]
Senator Greenwood seems to think or is alleging that there is only one country in the world which does that, and of course, that is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Then Senator Greenwood says he read a book in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is accused of phone tapping and all the rest of it. [More…]
He mentioned that there have been some things going on in trade unions. [More…]
The benefits to unions, employees and employers that would flow from fewer and larger unions would go a long way towards a more efficient industrial relations system, one which would be conducive to a substantial improvement in industrial relations. [More…]
More specifically, in the longer term, a relatively small number of unions could effect a reduction in the number and frequency of wage claims and, I think it is reasonable to suggest, a consequent moderation in the rate of wage increases. [More…]
With nearly 300 unions our industrial relations area is in a state of constant ferment with unions making claims, negotiating agreements or undertaking arbitral proceedings to bring their members’ conditions up to parity with, or to improve upon, wage rates obtained by other unions. [More…]
Wage claims are made in such numbers and with such frequency that it is extremely difficult for union officials or anyone else to know whether a union’s claim will maintain the members wage position relative to that of the members of other unions or will comprise the initial bid in a new round of wage increases. [More…]
They feared that larger unions might also be more militant, using their industrial strength in reprehensible ways. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union is one of our 2 largest unions and few would disagree with its reputation for conducting its industrial relations in a moderate manner. [More…]
On the other hand, that same fear blinded its holders to the fact that comparatively small unions with members employed in carrying out functions whose continued operation is vital for the economic or social wellbeing of the community can exercise industrial strength out of proportion to their numbers. [More…]
The 1974 Statement on Employment and Industrial Relations Policy endorsed by both the Country Party and the Liberal Party said that ‘the multiplicity of unions and the spread of certain unions through many industries makes the task of consultation and negotiation more difficult with problems of one union unnecessarily flowing to others. ‘ [More…]
The attitudes of some union officials need to change. [More…]
It should not, therefore, be surprising that rank and file union members are unwilling to endorse agreements that union officials have decided are in the best interest of the members but which do not take account of the real needs and desires of members because no one thought it necessary to try to find out what the members are thinking. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for anyone to think that where such basic matters as wages and other important conditions of employment are concerned trade unionists will be willing to accept less than they believe to be reasonable and fair. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for anyone to think that trade unionists will abide by fixed term agreements which they believe, after weighing the pluses and minuses’, provide for less than is justly due to them. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for some trade union officials to continue to assume that the rank and file will abide by decisions in the shaping of which they had little or no part. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for those trade union officials not to share the process of decision making with the rank and file because of fears that their authority will be usurped by shop stewards; they must have more regard for the views of members at the shop floor level and recognise that shop stewards are an important, even essential element, in the process of identifying and transmitting views and ideas from the rank and file to union management and vice versa. [More…]
It is unrealistic for employers to disregard the obvious fact that an agreement reached with union officials might not be observed if the rank and file have not been involved in the substance of the negotiations and fail to co-operate with union officials in designing procedures which will enable the rank and file to be involved in the negotiating process. [More…]
It is fortunate that there are many trade union officials who welcome democratic controls and processes. [More…]
One of the purposes of the provisions proposed by this Bill is to encourage those officials to democratise the decision making processes in their unions in relation to proposed agreements concerning the members’ conditions of employment It has been claimed that the provisions of this Bill will weaken union leadership and ‘union leaders would have no authority or incentive to make anything stick’. [More…]
The knowledge that the Commission, if it is not satisfied that the terms of the agreement are acceptable to a majority of the union’s members, may direct that a ballot be held to obtain the members’ views, will be a strong inducement for union officials to ensure that agreements made by them reflect the wishes of the members. [More…]
Union officials would not willingly allow themselves to be caught in a position which revealed a lack of rapport with the members they were elected to represent. [More…]
This will increase their knowledge of day to day union affairs which, in turn, should increase their confidence in their right to act authoritatively in their dealings with others both in and outside the union. [More…]
Having entered into an agreement with the knowledge that it reflects the wishes of the majority of union members, they will be in a very strong position in their dealings with members who may be reluctant to abide by the terms of the agreement. [More…]
The Government desires to encourage such agreements as a means of paving the way for some coordination in the presentation of union wage claims and of achieving moderation in wage claims and as a rational alternative to industrial strife. [More…]
Another organisation to receive an allocation was the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union of 41 Palmerston Street, West Footscray. [More…]
The reason has been the lack of a stable and important middle class, the lack of a significant union movement, the lack of an important group of interested people and many other groups of people with independent rights to contribute and who do contribute to different parties. [More…]
Those statements indicated that the unions wanted to bring down the companies for which they worked. [More…]
If a union has to choose which small group to bring out, which strike to start in which area, I can imagine which company will be affectedit will be the company contributing to the funds of the opposite political parties. [More…]
It is true that the Australian Meat Board has entered into a contract to sell 40 000 tonnes of beef to the Soviet Union, with an option on an additional 20 000 tonnes. [More…]
I ask the PostmasterGeneral whether his attention has been drawn to correspondence from the former New South Wales Minister for Transport, Mr Morris, to the New South Wales Branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union in relation to the travelling post office service of the Australian Post Office. [More…]
Does the Government propose to follow the recent suggestion by Mr Short of the Federated Ironworkers Association and have talks with union leaders so that the Government can put to the unions Mr Whitlam ‘s view that wage increases are the primary cause of inflation? [More…]
If it does not propose to do that, how does the Government propose to obtain wage restraint from individual unions which are clearly contemptuous of wage restraint and which are not, as Mr Short pointed out recently, bound by decisions of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on wage issues? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of the strong protest directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and to other persons by Mr Frank Galbally, an experienced Melbourne lawyer, relating to the recent trial and gaol sentence in Singapore of Tan Wah-Piow, the 23-year old president of the University of Singapore Students Union? [More…]
Judgment was given early in 1969. lt was a case involving the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I apologise for referring to it again, but I have a particular familiarity with this case because I was involved in it representing one of the litigants and I had been involved in long years of litigation in this union - [More…]
There was a long drawn out faction fight in this trade union, as we know there is every day in many major unions. [More…]
This was a union which suffered from the dichotomy from which all unions in this country, except purely State unions, suffer. [More…]
There was a branch of the federal organisation, to use the word of the Federal Act, in New South Wales and there was also in New South Wales a trade union registered under the State Act. [More…]
I will not go into the intricacies of that, but every member of the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales believed that he belonged to one legal body; but in law he did not. [More…]
He belonged to 2 separate legal entities- the State trade union and the branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
They had the same set of union officials who purported to be the officials of each separate body but who in law were not. [More…]
One set of union officials for which Mr Justice Murphy, who was then Mr Murphy, Q.C., acted was defeated in a trade union ballot. [More…]
As far as the members were concerned it was just a ballot for the officials of their union. [More…]
The clients for whom I acted won the election and the man who had been elected in this ballot as secretary of the union turned up in the union office to occupy his office and was told by the defeated secretary: ‘Yes, you can have a seat over there in that corner of the office. [More…]
The assets belong to the trade union registered in New South Wales, of which I am still the secretary because there was not an election for that position but only for the position of secretary of the branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
This astute secretary of the union jumped from one jurisdiction to the other and even though his members did not want him, even though he lost case after case- I was winning all the battles and losing the war for my client- he remained in office to the great disgruntlement of his members and to the great damage of the union and the industry. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Manufacturing Industry had discussions recently with representatives of the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd and with union officers concerning the proposed dismissal of nearly 400 employees at its works at Risdon, Tasmania? [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to the royal commission established to inquire into the blackmail demands for so-called compensation payment by the seamen’s union in relation to foreign vessels trading between Australian ports. [More…]
Many of them are small funds, union funds, funds run by single business enterprises and teachers federation funds. [More…]
There are the funds representing a single trade union, those representing single business organisations and the teachers federation funds. [More…]
What the previous Government did, and what the present Government does not like, was to say that all union ballots for amalgamation had to be conducted by the Electoral Office. [More…]
The existing law provides that a committee of an organisation, either a trade union or an employers organisation, may pass a resolution that an amalgamation may take place. [More…]
The committee is required by the existing law to forward its proposals for amalgamation, that is, the wishes of the officials of the 2 unions, to the Industrial Registrar for his approval. [More…]
There is a provision for a hearing by the Industrial Registrar of any unionist’s or employer’s objection to the amalgamation scheme which is proposed. [More…]
They are to be conducted by the electoral officer to prevent any of the hanky panky which so often occurs in union ballots. [More…]
Arguments for and against the amalgamation, prepared by the various factions in the union or the employer organisations voting for or against the scheme, are to be included. [More…]
I know the argument is put that you are not likely to get 50 per cent of union members voting and therefore it is unreasonable to require that percentage. [More…]
All that is required under the legislation is that the union ballot should take place in accordance with union rules. [More…]
In other words, the committee of the union has decided that it does not want to amalgamate in the way for which a small section of the union has been agitating, and one would suppose that the committee decision ought to prevail because, if the committee members have not the confidence of their union rank and file, there is a periodic election at which that policy can be changed. [More…]
It provides, without adequate justification being put forward, for the wishes of the committee of the union to be overborne by a situation in which a right is granted to a small section of the union. [More…]
Why should an amalgamation take place if, in circumstances in which few members know of the fact that a ballot is to take place, there might be one per cent to 3 per cent of the union voting and it is the majority view of that one per cent to 3 per cent which constitutes the ultimate decision? [More…]
It is one of the myths of trade union agitation in support of legislation of this character to suggest that demarcation disputes will be resolved by amalgamations. [More…]
We do not believe in a system in which the ballots can be conducted by the unions themselves. [More…]
It is a facilitating of the amalgamation procedures against which the Opposition has set itself and will also set itself because the Opposition stands for secrecy and fairness in union matters. [More…]
He is completely unemcumbered with any knowledge of what goes on inside the trade union movement, although he seems to have plenty to say on it. [More…]
I think that he should do some homework on the voting system in relation to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
When the Minister prepared this Bill he was obviously aware of the fact that the days are going, if they have not already gone, when the local union organisation could negotiate with the local employers and come to some agreement which was acceptable to both parties. [More…]
It is not uncommon for a number of unions to be parties to a single award or agreement. [More…]
The trade union movement can no longer allow this situation to continue. [More…]
The trade union movement must put itself into a position where it can afford full time officials to do field work and provide research officers and all the necessary staff. [More…]
Three of the unions in the metal trades group have already amalgamated. [More…]
They were well aware of the situation which was developing and went ahead with amalgamation, but since then the Democratic Labor Party has managed to convince the Country and Liberal Parties that it is a good thing to obstruct amalgamation, and they have been obstructing it ever since without any consideration of what the future holds for the trade union movement, or the arbitration system for that matter. [More…]
What I am quarrelling with is the obstructionist attitude of the Opposition here when it comes to mergers in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Opposition has no idea of the nature of trade unions; it has no idea of what goes on in trade unions when it talks in the way in which it does. [More…]
There is a growing feeling in the trade union movement that the arbitration system has been designed to fragment and penalise the unions, that it is designed to discriminate against workers and wage earners and rob them of an independent trade union movement. [More…]
I do not wish to take up too much time but I would like to make it clear that I am not putting up a case for the survival of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement was fighting for the rights of its members long before arbitration and will continue to fight long after arbitration has withered or has been choked or killed by the Opposition here. [More…]
The unions will amalgamate whether it is done inside or outside the arbitration system. [More…]
With a union-abiding government in power one would have thought that it was unlikely that we would see a level of industrial unrest which is at the highest point since records were first kept in approximately 1913. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has outlined very clearly the major difficulties in this legislation that involve the unionists as much as anyone else. [More…]
This cannot possibly be in the interests of the trade unionists or in the interests of industrial peace and the relationship between the trade unionists and industry. [More…]
The definition of financial members of a union has been made obscure. [More…]
Now only 250 members of a union or 5 per cent are needed to require a ballot to be taken within one month. [More…]
I do not believe that these matters are in the interests of the unionists or of industrial peace and production in this country. [More…]
It is most significant with regard to amalgamation that no longer will it be necessary to have a vote of in excess of 50 per cent of the membership on an issue, but a simple majority of perhaps only 5 per cent or 10 per cent of a union will be regarded as sufficient evidence that an amalgamation should take place. [More…]
This legislation provides that an amalgamation can be sought by only 20 per cent of a union requesting a ballot of a target union. [More…]
Only a minority of that target union would need to sign a request to ensure that a ballot on amalgamation will take place. [More…]
The amalgamation of unions into the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which I understand was done with the concurrence of each of the unions concerned, took in excess of 2 years. [More…]
This haste, I suggest, could well lead to body snatching, empire building and all sorts of problems between the unions themselves. [More…]
This legislation contributes nothing to the great mass of trade unionists. [More…]
This circumstance, in which there is a real possibility of a monopoly takeover in the unions field, is contrary to the Government’s attitude- until the recent Baltic states incident- towards takeovers. [More…]
In this union legislation there seems to be every possibility that a monopolistic situation can be the ultimate result. [More…]
Once again I ask the question: Can that be in the real interests of the trade unionists themselves who are the major parties concerned in this legislation? [More…]
In closing my remarks let me say that I am opposing this legislation not because I am opposed to the principle of amalgamation of itself whether it be in the union field or in any other field, but because I do not believe that it adds in any way to a democratic form of amalgamation. [More…]
In other words, I do not believe that this sort of amalgamation is in the interests of the great mass of unionists. [More…]
After all, the prime objective of this sort of conciliation and arbitration legislation should be the welfare of the unionist himself in the total concept of an industrial situation which should lead to peace and production. [More…]
I suggested that voting should be compulsory and secret and that it should in that way reflect truly the view of those unionists who are involved in the decisions which will be made under this legislation. [More…]
I have been pleased since to notice that Mr Laurie Short has gone further and suggested some sort of triennial, formally fixed elections for the election of union officials. [More…]
I regret that we will not get to discuss that vital issue in the community of secret ballots and the involvement of all union members in the decisions they make. [More…]
When I talk to major employers in Australia again I will again have to say that we are prevented from bringing this Bill into effect and that we are preventing the Government from introducing parliamentary type disciplines into union elections and decisions because our side will not have them discussed. [More…]
A union delegate died and the union had no delegate from the depot which had engaged new female workers working on the installation at the hospital. [More…]
I am saying that if we had the amalgamation of trade union organisers into a big field force we could iron out the problems surrounding the provision of basic amenities that should be the right of everybody. [More…]
The responsibilities of the trade union movement are growing all the time. [More…]
The idea that trade unions should concern themselves only with hours and wages is no longer on. [More…]
I am not necessarily arguing that aspect, but the plain fact of the matter was that the union involved had to come to me and I had to go to the Minister to see whether appointments could be held up until in turn we went to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to get the granting of citizenship accelerated. [More…]
The only lesson I am making out is that trade unions today are confronted with fringe issues. [More…]
In small unions in New South Wales, such as the food preservers union, which may be big in other States, frankly all the secretary is is a glorified dues collector. [More…]
There is hesitancy about amalagamation because if a union goes into the process and finds that there is one malcontent it becomes involved in expensive litigation. [More…]
The little money that the union has is used up in lengthy confrontation in the courts. [More…]
The great tragedy is that these things affect the patience of the trade unions. [More…]
One such case related to the rival transport workers union organisations. [More…]
There are other unions which could go through this industrial Gethsemane but tomorrow when their members and officials read the newspapers they will find out that the House of review was not prepared to review the industrial legislation. [More…]
The unions fear this sort of body snatching. [More…]
This is not the place to argue the pros and cons of the Building Labourers Federation power struggle but there already have been questions about certain action in that union and I know that there will be more when we come back here next week. [More…]
At the moment the postal industry is relatively quiet but ingredients of disputation still remain in trade union ranks. [More…]
The Postmaster-General made this vividly clear when he referred to the multiplicity of unions involved in that industry. [More…]
If a particular trade union official with a bit of ability happens to wrangle publicly with a member of the Opposition the Opposition accuses him of being a czar while at the same time it might support the most anarchistic individual who is involved in some adventure. [More…]
I am sorry that Senator Greenwood is not in the chamber because there were some peculiar people in the Shop Distributive Union. [More…]
When irresponsible people want to squander their union’s money on these rearguard actions it is bad for society as a whole. [More…]
It could be that the attiduce of the Opposition is that if the unions erode their money on these futile civil war expeditions there is less money to fight a successful wage claim or against a new job code. [More…]
Trade unions dig in and say that they are opposed to a particular concept of industrial technique if somebody’s job is on the line. [More…]
The Minister would know about the car and wagon fitters in the railways who were covered by the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
There was a gradual phase-in by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Australian Society of Engineers to take over certain people. [More…]
The important thing was that there was trust and understanding that when some people retired on account of age another union would take over. [More…]
In our shipyards there has been far better understanding between shipwrights and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union about certain changes in industrial techniques. [More…]
On 29 July 1974 the Secretary of the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council assured the Chief Property Officer that the Trade Union Movement will not and has not made the purchase and redevelopment of the Trades Hall by the Australian Government the subject of any Ban or similar action. [More…]
If this legislation is rejected by the Opposition the real casualties will be unions in sectors of the industry that are virtually free of industrial stoppages. [More…]
It will mean that the need in the modern state for better research facilities and one hundred and one other necessities of trade union operations will suffer. [More…]
I have in mind some of the high costs entailed by an organisation such as the Federated Storeman and Packers Union. [More…]
It is obvious that that union, like a number of other unions, would be in a far better position if it merged with other unions. [More…]
Anyone who has examined the trade union balance sheets- I have in mind the strictures of Mr Malcolm Fraser, the Opposition spokesman on industrial affairs, about hidden bank accounts- would know only too well that there are no secret funds to meet union administrative costs. [More…]
A union secretary experiences a certain amount of trepidation when he is trying to put a case for higher contributions. [More…]
Therefore the secretary at the top level of a trade union is not in a position where he can treat his members as though they are performing seals or marionettes. [More…]
That is why we get this resistance from the trade union movement when we talk about sanctions. [More…]
We cannot blame trade union officials for their actions when they see people such as the Bartons, the Glanvilles and all these seedy swindlers living it up with Cadillacs and concubines in Brazil and other Latin American countries. [More…]
But because there happens to be a conflict in relation to a dirt money claim we find editorials and quite a number of honourable senators opposite labelling the trade union movement as irresponsible. [More…]
This is so in relation to the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, although there were a few malcontents. [More…]
But honourable senators know as well as I do that if the Federated Ironworkers Association, on being approached by a small union for amalgamation, had to bear the cost of a ballot it is obvious that as compared with the relatively small cost to the other union the FIA would face considerable expense. [More…]
In addition, what we fear is the expensive litigation which can be incurred by unions such as the Federated Storemen and Packers Union on venturing into this field. [More…]
In this context that is the fear which the trade union movement has. [More…]
It is the very small unions which need amalgamation. [More…]
In the recess when I go around to the trade unions they ask what we are doing in the Senate and whether it is a House of review. [More…]
We think it is scandalous for an Opposition to hold up legislation in relation to the amalgamation of unions- a principle which the Opposition has supported on many occasions. [More…]
In Queensland, unions in related callings may amalgamate on the passing of a resolution by a majority of members present at a general meeting or by other competent authority in the unions. [More…]
In South Australia where there is a Labor Government unions may amalgamate on the passing of a resolution to this effect and the lodging of it with the Registrar. [More…]
In Western Australia, unions in related industries may amalgamate on the passing of a resolution by a majority of members present at a general meeting of each union and objections to the amalgamation may be heard. [More…]
The honourable member said that a 30 per cent vote is a good result for a trade union. [More…]
I do not doubt that an employer organisation or a trade union is doing very well when it gets a 30 per cent return. [More…]
The Minister made the point when the Bill was introduced on various occasions that a situation where we have this large number of unions only adds to the inflationary trend because each union competes with the other. [More…]
If, as is the purpose of the legislation, a situation were to develop in Australia where unions in globo and employers in globo tended more to enter agreements perhaps once in two years it would lead to a stabilisation which we all want. [More…]
Instead of that each union today is in competition and all of the resulting problems are reflected in the economy and in negotiations. [More…]
Senator Greenwood also spoke about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union amalgamation. [More…]
It had been known since 1968 that the 3 unions concerned had been conducting negotiations on amalgamations. [More…]
The federal conferences of the 3 unions agreed to amalgamate in 1969 and early 1970. [More…]
At all stages of the amalgamation proposals the 3 unions acted within the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the accompanying regulations. [More…]
In March 1971 the 2 unions proposing to reregister held ballots of members as required by the Act. [More…]
The then Amalgamated Engineering Union, which was merely expanding its rules to accommodate members of other unions, also held a ballot of its members to see whether they approved of an amalgamation, even though it was not required to do so under the Act. [More…]
The amalgamation proposals and the ballots to be held to obtain the members’ approval were publicised widely in the official journals of the unions which were distributed to all members. [More…]
The ballots of the 3 unions showed that a majority of those voting in each of the 3 unions were in favour of amalgamation. [More…]
The returns were as follows: For the Amalgamation Engineering Union, the yes vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 85.7 per cent and the no vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 12.7 per cent. [More…]
For the Sheet Metal Workers Union, the yes vote, expressed as a percentage of the votes cast, was 69.9 per cent and the no vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 29.5 per cent. [More…]
At the time of the amalgamation and since employers have gone on record as saying that they would rather deal with one group of unions than with a whole host of unions. [More…]
In our case, we have proposed a situation which will reduce very rapidly the number of unions. [More…]
For example, in the Australian Post Office 27 unions are involved. [More…]
From the union point of view to elect a person as a commissioner on the new Interim Commission in the Post Office we have to go to the extent of holding many conferences and asking the unions to select a person to be nominated. [More…]
the United Kingdom and other countries the trend is to reduce the number of unions. [More…]
After consideration of the request made by members of the Bench during the National Wage case the ACTU executive makes the following statement: The trade union movement strongly believes the introduction of wage indexation to be a vital element in securing economic justice for the great bulk of the Australian community dependent directly or indirectly upon wages and salaries. [More…]
The ACTU has discussed the circumstances in which wage indexation could be reintroduced in Australia and possible trade union responses to that situation. [More…]
by the Australian Government), then should any union decide to make claims for increases in wages in excess of average weekly earnings for reason of price increases, it would bc a matter to be pursued by the union itself without involvement 01 the ACTU [More…]
Many of the people in Senator Greenwood’s Party, including the giant employers, have always said: ‘We believe it is better to deal with fewer unions across the table. [More…]
It is better to deal with the ironworkers and it is better to deal with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Sometimes it is better to deal with the militant unions because they have stronger control over their members’. [More…]
Employers said that to me when I was in the union movement. [More…]
They have said it more recently to our counterparts who are presently in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government and unions have never been in greater disarray. [More…]
Constantly we read of disputes between the Government and Ministers on the one hand and the Australian Council of Trade Unions and individual unions on the other hand. [More…]
We have a change from an initial situation of government subservience to almost every union demand and encouragement by the Minister for Labor and Immigration of many of the demands and requests made by the union movement to a situation where virtually there is now the complete reverse. [More…]
This, of course, was vigorously rejected by the unions; so much for the argument that the Labor Party knew the unions better. [More…]
We have seen the conflict between the Government and the unions on the issue of indexation. [More…]
When Mr Justice Moore called a conference in August of last year he had the expectation that with the support of the Government and the unions an agreed compromise could be hammered out. [More…]
We have heard from individual unions equally determined responses that no body and no government will tell the unions what to do in the field of wage claims for their members. [More…]
Once again we find the ACTU sitting on the fence and indicating that it is unable to speak with a united or forceful voice for the trade union movement. [More…]
First it seeks to ensure that a statutory procedure will be followed with regard to the certification by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of agreements which are made by a union and an employer. [More…]
A second provision which I think is significant says that if members of a union agree with their employer that as part of the settlement they will not, for the duration of the agreement, strike or engage in any work bans, that clause is not to be regarded as certifiable or part of the agreement by the Commissioner. [More…]
It means that if the parties agree that the employer will give the union members an extra clothing allowance or provide some other benefits the employer is not entitled to get in return a promise by the unions that for the duration of the agreement or a certain period union members will not engage in strike action and that they will instead enter into an agreement. [More…]
To say that that sort of a concession by unions is not to be included or certified in an agreement to me is virtually inviting strike action. [More…]
I ask him to look at it in this way: If a provision states that the Commission could refuse to certify an agreement if the Commissioner feels that there is to be a major detriment to the public interest- he has to be satisfied that there has been complete or adequate consultation amongst the members of the union and that the union members have agreed to it- it is imposing an obligation upon the Commissioner. [More…]
No union will run the risk of having its agreement not certified and the tendency will be, if these matters have not been complied with, to bypass the Commission. [More…]
If you have the position that the Commission must look behind the agreement not to the public interest but simply as to whether there has been consultation with the rank and file and the rank and file have approved the measures, then the union officials will not take their agreements to the Commission and they will simply tell the employers, no matter how much the employers organisation might wish to have the matter certified before the Commission, that it is just not on, and the union view will prevail. [More…]
But where agreements have to be negotiated between a union secretary, or some representative committee of the union, and the employer or employers organisation, you cannot have the 1000 or 10 000 members of a union meeting in consultation. [More…]
It is effective, and I think highly appropriate, that the persons charged with the responsibility of carrying out the negotiations should be the committee of the union. [More…]
The union committee knows that if it does not arrange an agreement which is satisfactory to the membership, as they view it, or which will not be satisfactory to the membership if there should be some challenge made to the negotiations which the committee has conducted, its position will be at stake. [More…]
I suggest to the Government and to the Minister that if they really wish to improve rank and file consultation and rank and file view of union matters they should provide for compulsory secret ballots in the election of union officials and require that those elections of union officials should take place at regular periods, say every second or every third year. [More…]
Whether an appropriate time is one year, 2 years or 3 years can vary from union to union. [More…]
It may be that the commissioner’s view is different from the union’s secretary’s view, and some people whose relativities are adversely affected may well claim before the commission that they should have been consulted. [More…]
The union secretary may have taken a different view. [More…]
He can make assumptions but if there is a union of 10 000 members and there are 3 union advocates putting the agreement before the Commission and saying: ‘We believe it is acceptable to the members because we have spoken with a group here and group there’, there is no way in which a commissioner looking at it in terms of the obligation imposed on him by the Act could really say that he is satisfied. [More…]
If the parties want to agree in terms that the union will not go on strike or that the employer will not engage in some conduct which might otherwise be described as a lockout, why should the parties not be able to make that agreement? [More…]
With fewer unions and with a more direct relationship between the union and the worker on the job, the worker will be more involved in the settlement. [More…]
In Australia, if the unions and the employers want to embark on a general restriction about matters in the industry they will have to do it on the basis of the relevant award and probably in concert with the national union body, the ACTU. [More…]
Leaving aside the argument on which Senator Greenwood entered the debate, the basic argument ought to be that where we can provide a new legislative framework for employers and bosses to get together in a better and more involved union involving not only the man at the top but also the worker on the ground floor we ought to say: ‘Yes, we will consider it’. [More…]
Why should we not have a national agreement between the employer and the union? [More…]
Secondly, he reversed the attitude he developed in the last debate when he indicated that committees of management or union executives ought to be the responsible groups which settled agreements. [More…]
It is because the trade union membership, the committee of management, the unions themselves and the stevedoring employers- certainly assisted by the officials of the Department of Labor and Immigration- have been able to secure agreements which ought to run. [More…]
if we’re to get activity going, if we ‘re to get production up, if we ‘re to keep people in work or get them back in work, we have to work on the private sector to get results there, so therefore before the Conference at Terrigal and at that Conference, and subsequently, I ‘ve been emphasising the importance of the private sector to the worker, to the trade union leader, to everybody. [More…]
As I understand it, Mr Ermolenko wanted to return to the Soviet Union at the time. [More…]
Since Georgi Ermolenko ‘s decision to emigrate to Australia with his parents, there have been allegations that he did not choose to return recently to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of his own volition. [More…]
He said that he was ‘grateful to Mr Whitlam’ for having helped his son to return to the Soviet Union since only in this way could the family have been reunited overseas. [More…]
This is part of a general story relating to support of $3m which was made available to the Australian Meat Board to give a better price level for the recent contract negotiated with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The honourable senator went on to oppose- oppose, mind youthe recent sales of beef to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I know that the honourable senator, on behalf of the Musicians Union, has been making representations to me on matters of this nature for some time. [More…]
The honourable senator will know that the Musicians Union of Australia has been pressing for this for some time. [More…]
Excessive union wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said at the weekend in Adelaide. [More…]
Mr Wechsler said that it was a very strong organisation financially, deriving its funds from members in sums of $20 and $40 a week each, from rich donors in the United States of America in the Socialist Workers Party of that country, from functions and from the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The Victorian Secondary Students Union, and the fermenting of the long drawn out trouble at the Werribee High School in Victoria, were the product of the Socialist Workers League. [More…]
The union is an organisation designed to attract high school students who have problems and, through it, to entice them to join the Socialist Workers League or the Socialist Youth Alliance. [More…]
The Socialist Workers League regarded itself as editing the ‘National U ‘ which is the newspaper of the Australian Union of Students, with some 200 000 copies distributed each week. [More…]
The ship, which was owned by the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand Ltd was withdrawn and has not been replaced by another refrigerated vessel. [More…]
I conveyed through the Post Office people the suggestion that I might talk to him to consider his claim because I had received a complaint from the union involved. [More…]
I explained the position to the union concerned and it accepted the way in which the matter had been handled. [More…]
For example, a request was made by the Seamen’s Union that the manning scale should apply to a vessel in port which is being used as what one might term hotel accommodation. [More…]
Above all, Australia’s security, as with the peace of the world, rests ultimately upon making the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union a success and with associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
In New South Wales, trade union groups are involved in hospital contributions funds. [More…]
At Port Kembla the agents were Union Bulkships. [More…]
The advertisement appeared in metropolitan daily papers in each State and Territory, major provincial papers in each State or Terrtory, ethnic papers, weekend press, trade union press, and the Bulletin. [More…]
If he does, how can he explain the flagrant violations by the North Vietnamese in constructing new military roads and airfields in areas under their control, and also the continual movement of troops and sophisticated equipment provided by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China from the day the Agreements were signed? [More…]
Yesterday was the first time that the Prime Minister has publicly indicated that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was equally to blame. [More…]
I do not think he knows that in 1958 or a little later a number of countries, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, sponsored both North and South Vietnam for membership of the United Nations. [More…]
He said that the call by the Soviet Union to withdraw all foreign troops from Vietnam was in the interests neither of South Vietnam nor of Australia. [More…]
This great upholder of democracy and of freedom, this well known kicker of the communist can, this well known union basher and professional gaoler of conscripts never went to Vietnam in his own right and had no intentions of going there. [More…]
And they are being given outside help not only by neighbouring communist countries but also by the 2 major communist countries, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, which are supplying them with arms. [More…]
-He did not attack the Soviet Union; he did not mention China. [More…]
He may argue that the two sets of circumstances are not comparable, but the principle sets out very clearly that in that case he was recognising that Soviet Union dominance of the Baltic States was an acceptable fact. [More…]
People who have apparently never heard of the schism between the Chinese and the Soviet Union, people who are supposed to be speaking responsibly on foreign affairs, talk about our using our influence or whatever it is with the Russians and the Chinese to stop the war in Vietnam. [More…]
If we were to suffer the calamity of having the people opposite in government in this country, if we were to have the calamity of the people in charge in the US being as uneducated, as illtutored, and as unsophisticated as are the people who purport to speak for the Opposition here, we would have a repetition of what occurred in Cuba, which, after what was a non-communist revolution, not even originally supported by the Communist Party- the revolution of Fidel Castro- was driven by the actions of people, whose understanding and sophistication were no greater than those of the people we hear opposite, into becoming one of the most loyal satellites of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I can just imagine the reaction of trade union leaders if the corporations of labour were to be subjected to the controls that are proposed in this Bill for the corporations of capital. [More…]
I would be much more impressed by the argument of the Government senators if they had the courage to set up a committee with a majority of Labor senators to make a thorough investigation into the trade union movement in the same honest way as this Committee, which was composed of a majority of non-Labor senators, investigated the securities industry. [More…]
I would be much more impressed with the honesty of the argument that Government senators seek to advance here tonight if they mustered the courage to conduct an investigation into the trade union movement in the thorough way that a committee dominated by Liberal and Country Party senators investigated the securities industry. [More…]
The initial part of the contract, of course, involved a 40 000-tonne sale to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with an option on an additional 20 000 tonnes. [More…]
A similar question was asked of me 2 days ago and it was drawn to my attention by my Department that the Victorian Farmers Union had in fact put in a submission for the purpose of a reference to the Temporary Assistance Authority, something of which I was not aware when I answered the question 2 days ago. [More…]
Likewise, I put on record my appreciation of the work of many of the trade union officials and members on the staff in the running sheds of the railways. [More…]
If he had read the second reading speech of the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) he would have seen that one of these part-time commissioners will be a representative of the trade union movement. [More…]
Because of the foresight of this Government, the interests of trade unionists are well and truly safeguarded in the Bill. [More…]
A question was raised about the trade union representative. [More…]
Yes, I am sure that the trade union representative will be a person who will reflect the views of all workers in the industry, not only the mechanical staff, the operating staff and the fettlers. [More…]
He takes not only his own skills to discussions by that body; he takes to the Commission the views of the unions whenever they are important. [More…]
Honourable senators know that in my portfolio we have set up 2 commissions and we have already put on the interim commissions a representative of the unions nominated by all the unions in the services. [More…]
As a result of this incident the union to which the technician belonged took direct industrial action. [More…]
He discussed it with the union. [More…]
I have had many talks with representatives of the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, which is the union which covers most of the administrative and clerical employees of the private insurance companies. [More…]
After receiving representations from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the maritime unions a conference was arranged by the Department of Labor and Immigration at which time union representations were considered. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions was advised that the application of this formula meant rates would be increased by $50 per week with effect from the date the vessel arrived in Darwin, that is 14 February 1975. [More…]
The terms were accepted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions. [More…]
In the case of Commercial Union Assurance Company of Australia Ltd- one foreign owned insurance company- of premiums of $80. [More…]
If there were a cut-off time, as there is in trade union ballots and in a host of other things, we would not have the Leader of the losing party saying that if he did not win he did not lose. [More…]
I have seen similar situations in the trade union movement. [More…]
If we were to apply to a postal ballot for a trade union election the safeguards that exist for postal votes in our electoral system of the moment, there could be resorts to all kinds of rorts. [More…]
We consulted the best legal brains in Sydney to ascertain our right of challenge and we were given the analogy that in a trade union ballot one can check the signature. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite ask when that has happened, they could refer back to some of the cases in the 1950s in the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and other union ballots. [More…]
Let us have no illusions about the matter: Until we obtain the provision that I suggest and until our electoral system is on a par with a trade union ballot, we will not have the perfect voting system. [More…]
Of course, there were also those with a more practical interest, like the Victorian Farmers’ Union, who wanted to run candidates themselves, but refrained from doing so because they would thereby split the non-Labor vote and let the Labor man in. [More…]
There is no doubt that his admission, when he made the explanation as to the source of his information, is indicative of the source of most of the information he brings into this chamber when he tries to criticise members of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union organisation. [More…]
1 can remember that not many months ago the Commercial Union Assurance Company of Australia Limited in Queensland dismissed a large number of members of its staff and made a statement at the time that it had done this because of the Australian Government’s proposed national compensation scheme. [More…]
Secondly, all of the workers compensation insurance in Queensland was conducted by the State Government Insurance Office of Queensland and none of it was conducted by the Commercial Union Company. [More…]
They were active in Australian Labor Party and trade union affairs. [More…]
We’ve seen what political control has done through manipulation of the media in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am one of the people who believe that if the union movement in Australia really got to understand the problem and this was expressed to unions properly and reliably by the Government, the Government would get their support once it got their understanding; at least that has been my experience in my own life in matters such as these. [More…]
However, the unions need to understand. [More…]
-The information I have is that Australia recognised the Royal Government of the National Union of Cambodia of which Penn Nouth is the Prime Minister. [More…]
As this situation is due in no small part to the loss of sales worth $70m to Chile because of a union ban on wheat exports to that country, what is being done to overcome the impasse and to have sales to Chile resumed? [More…]
It is true that the Australian Wheat Board had an order for 300 000 tonnes of wheat for Chile which could not be shipped because of a union ban on shipments to that country. [More…]
My understanding is that when the trade union problem is resolved the 300 000 tonnes to which I referred earlier will still be sought by Chile, but it is very unlikely that we would supply the wheat on the same terms and conditions as the United States is supplying it. [More…]
He said also that excessive union wage demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]
He said that the Government was prepared to condemn the United States of America but was not prepared to engage in any similar condemnation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Nor did he make any attack on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the People’s Republic of China for supplying the North Vietnamese with arms, until today the North Vietnamese are regarded as the third biggest military power in the world. [More…]
In addition there was a massive buildup of the most sophisticated war equipment supplied mainly by the Soviet Union. [More…]
But what about the frustration of the South Vietnamese who had full knowledge that North Vietnam in complete breach of the agreements was being armed in a massive way by the Soviet Union and the People ‘s Republic of China? [More…]
There was no reference to the massive support from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister made some vague reference to the United States of America in one of his statements but completely ignored the Soviet Union. [More…]
One of the first papers that was issued by the United States Administration concerning its intervention in Vietnam referred to the weapons that had been captured from the forces fighting for the so-called Vietcong, the National Liberation Front, and only 2V4 per cent of those weapons were manufactured in a country with a communist government, such as the Soviet Union, China or Czechoslovakia. [More…]
Was a strong protest directed to the Minister and to other persons by Mr Frank Galbally, an experienced Melbourne lawyer, in respect of the recent trial and gaol sentence, in Singapore, of Mr Tan Wah-Piow, the 23 year old President of the University of Singapore Student ‘s Union. [More…]
It is ironic that members of the Opposition should castigate the Government for the efforts it has made to try to restrain the increase in incomes in this country because when in 1 973 we saw the danger arising and sought powers over prices and incomes we were opposed by the Opposition and by misguided sections of the trade union movement whose motives I would say would have been about as suspect. [More…]
The same applies to the trade unions. [More…]
Those trade unions which are not prepared to try to make this system work will be as guilty as anybody else of the runaway situation with which we will be confronted if it does not work. [More…]
The other thing which I think has to be borne in mind is that in future every person should know- every Labor supporter, every trade unionist and every independent citizen in Australia- that every time he pays a premium on a policy which he holds with the AMP Society he is making a contribution to the funds of the Country Party. [More…]
I intend to see that every Australian Labor Party branch and every trade union in Australia is made aware of the fact that by taking out policies with the Australian Mutual Provident Society their members are taking out policies with the Australian Country Party. [More…]
Did not the Australian Metalworkers Union exercise the freedom of an organisation in this country to give its support to the Australian Labor Party, prior to the 1972 election? [More…]
Did it not, before that election, require the Prime Minister to attend its executive meeting and promise not to enforce the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, before the union granted the Labor Party $25,000? [More…]
Is that the reason why the Government on this occasion has decided not to oppose the Australian Metalworkers Union application before the Arbitration Commission? [More…]
The trade union movement, as everybody knows, broadly supports the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite say that we have this relationship with the union movement. [More…]
As to whether there is any argument in the catch-up application by the metal trades union, that will be settled in the proper place. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has referred to the relationship between the Amalgamated Metalworkers’ Union and the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The association between the Amalgamated Metalworkers’ Union and the Australian Labor Party is open. [More…]
That organisation is affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and all the levies or contributions which are made by the Amalgamated Metalworkers’ Union to the Australian Labor Party are done publicly and are the subject to the laws of this country. [More…]
If Senator Greenwood is arguing that the Australian Mutual Provident Society wishes to be placed in the same category in its relationship with the National Country Party as the Amalgamated Metalworkers’ Union is in its relationship with the Australian Labor Party, that is perfectly in order. [More…]
I am pleased to introduce to the House a Bill to establish the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Bill sets the seal on one of the Government ‘s major initiatives and aims embodied in its industrial relations policy, the provision of adequate training facilities for trade unionistsboth their leaders and their rank and file members. [More…]
It recognises the crucial importance to Australia’s industrial relations system of an efficient and well-led trade union movement. [More…]
It now formally accepts its responsibility for ensuring that trade unionists have an opportunity to participate in training programs designed specifically for their needs. [More…]
Australia is one of the most highly unionised countries in the world. [More…]
In fact, one of the main aims of our unique conciliation and arbitration machinery is to encourage and protect the development of trade unions as social institutions. [More…]
Some 53 per cent of wage and salary earners in public and private employment belong to unions. [More…]
The total resources available for union training, however, are negligible compared with those available for management training. [More…]
Significant changes have occurred in recent years which have resulted in increased pressures on the union movement, as well as on management. [More…]
Union officials’ jobs are becoming more complex. [More…]
Technological change, acceleration in the economic growth rate, the change in industrial relations scene with collective bargaining and worker participation in management, and growing complexity of awards and legislation all add to the demands placed upon today’s union officials. [More…]
The workforce is now better educated and unions are having an increasing impact on society. [More…]
Fifty years ago, when educational opportunities depended upon a parent’s pocket rather than upon a student’s intelligence, many of those who in today’s circumstances would have become the country’s leading lawyers, scientists, academics or professionals gravitated to leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
The fulltime union official is in a unique and unenviable position in that all too often he or she is forced to learn his or her skill on the job. [More…]
By the establishment of the trade union training scheme as detailed in this Bill, they will be instructed in how to analyse the significance of today’s rapid changes, accept new ideas and methods and perform more effectively their organising and administrative duties within the union movement. [More…]
The training provided will be aimed primarily at promoting trade union competence. [More…]
Such training will go towards bridging the gap between unionists’ and managements’ level of industrial relations knowledge and technique. [More…]
We have too many unions and union fees are too low. [More…]
We need fewer and more efficient unions. [More…]
The internal resources of unions are small. [More…]
Therefore, funds must be obtained by means which will not diminish trade union responsibility. [More…]
I feel sure the Senate will agree that trade union training should not be excluded from the many fields of training and education which a responsible Government supports and assists financially. [More…]
I shall now turn to 2 major factors determining the nature of trade union training provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The Bill provides for trade union training to be offered by a national college and State centres which are established solely for that purpose. [More…]
The training of unionists in union functions is a specialised task. [More…]
Instructors and lecturers need to thoroughly understand their subject and the objectives and nature of the trade union movement. [More…]
It must be the special responsibility of the union movement to formulate its own training schemes to accord with its own ideas and not to leave them to outside institutions. [More…]
Thus the conduct of courses cannot be a joint responsibility of unions and employers. [More…]
Whilst there are many similar problems facing employer and union bodies, there is much that they do not have in common. [More…]
Certainly, both unionists and management representatives do attend courses and seminars in industrial relations and associated areas jointly. [More…]
I least of all would support any idea of training activities for unionists being carried out in isolation of the rest from the community. [More…]
However, these activities are not designed specifically to develop the expertise of unionists as officials and members in the union movement itself. [More…]
There has always been a range of governmentsponsored or assisted management schools, entry to which places no emphasis on participation by the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union training proposals can be seen as balancing government assistance to management training. [More…]
I can certainly see some possibility in the long term of the proposed Trade Union Training Authority coming together with management education bodies to run joint programs. [More…]
However, its primary objective will be the adequate provision of trade union training. [More…]
The philosophy expressed in this Bill is well recognised in many other countries and their experience has been drawn on in planning the development of trade union training in Australia. [More…]
Most industrialised countries are providing organised education and training for unions. [More…]
Establishment of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority will provide the means whereby we can catch up with these countries. [More…]
Before I turn to the present union training developments in Australia there is one further issue I would like to raise- paid education leave. [More…]
The skills being developed by union training should be seen as an integral part of union official’s work. [More…]
They now need to recognise the similar right of trade unionists. [More…]
The Australian Public Service and the State Public Services in South Australia and Tasmania have taken the lead through the provision of paid educational leave for trade union training. [More…]
For instance, in the vehicle industry there is already provision for paid educational leave for shop stewards attending union training courses. [More…]
Since November 1973 the Government has taken steps to support and expand trade union training activities already in existence, most importantly by setting up an Interim Committee for Trade Union Training. [More…]
Under the chairmanship of the permanent head of my Department, it comprises 3 representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, one each from the other peak union councils- the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations- and a representative of each of the State Labor Councils. [More…]
It has done much to plan for a national college of trade union training. [More…]
As further evidence of this, I would like to draw to the attention of honourable senators the fact that when the Bill was before the House of Representatives the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) accepted an amendment moved by the Opposition to include in the Australian Council for Union Training one member of Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, another member appointed by the Leader of the Opposition and a member of the Council appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Education. [More…]
It centres around the sharing of responsibilities by a national body, the Australian Council for Union TrainingACUT and 6 State Councils for Union Training. [More…]
The whole will constitute a statutory corporation which will be known as the Trade Union Training Authority- TUTA. [More…]
The State Councils will be responsible for carrying out programs of union training. [More…]
The Australian Council will control the functioning of the national college, approve funds for trade union training programs, for carrying out of research into union training. [More…]
The Australian Council will be chaired by the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration or another officer of the Department appointed by the Minister, and it will be constituted by the Director of the Australian Trade Union Training College, 3 representatives of the Australian Council for Trade Unions, one representative from each of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, one representatives each of the State Labor Councils and the 3 members I have referred to earlier in this speech. [More…]
We have sought to give a flexible definition in Bill of the term ‘trade union training’. [More…]
They are, briefly, to develop, conduct, coordinate, and review trade union training in Australia. [More…]
The Bill envisages, in clause 9, that councils for union training may need to be set up in the future in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the meantime, responsibility for union training in those areas will lie with the Australian Council. [More…]
Part V of the Bill deals with the college and the State trade union training centres. [More…]
I feel sure the Senate will agree that this Bill is a significant cornerstone of the Government’s responsibilities to trade union training. [More…]
Not only is there a desperate need for the provision of training but unionists have demonstrated a very keen desire to participate and learn in programs which have been offered sporadically up to date. [More…]
The Government will not deny the trade union movement, as it does not deny other groups in the workforce, equal training opportunities consistent with needs. [More…]
Our aim is to enable the union movement to perform their duties with greater understanding and efficiency. [More…]
It is based on the proposals of many experts in the union movement, training, education and government. [More…]
It has been carefully framed to meet the needs of unionists under the direction and control of a high level Council which is answerable to Parliament. [More…]
I am sure honourable senators will wish to see this work being carried on and further developed to make Australia the forerunner in the provision of trade union training. [More…]
I am one who believes in the old trade union principle that the shorter hours the more effective the work. [More…]
The trials of the van and the scooters are being conducted and have been worked out in association with the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
The same type of principle applies in regard to the provision of and dealings in land, housing and accommodation, in regard to the provision of goods and services, the provision of employment or membership of a trade union or in regard to dismissal from employment. [More…]
Money greases the way through the slippery slide of easy viza officials, crooked doctors, and Australian officials, Union and otherwise. [More…]
Can sane Labor and solid union leaders force a remake of Labor power, sack the massed hangers on and idiot fringe, and most of all return this country to the care, wisdom and patriotic love of its thousands and thousands of basic Australians, Mum, Dad and the kids and on whom the continuity of Australia depends, even the Tories know that. [More…]
That little union of prejudiced men and women practising as doctors, aided and abetted by conservative governments, denied any opportunity to these people, who were more eminent in many respects than those who were practising medicine in this country, solely because they were displaced persons from war-torn Europe, to carry out their profession. [More…]
Is he aware of a recent claim by the Western Australian Police Union that the Australian Government should pay the costs of police officers who require legal assistance to appear before the current royal commission into relationships between police and Aborigines? [More…]
The present secretary of the Western Australian Police Union waited on me in Western Australia and stated that the Union was not opposed to a royal commission but was concerned about the cost to the Union of legal representation for its members appearing before the royal commission. [More…]
I told Mr Fraser on that occasion that his Union was by no means bankrupt and I thought it could no better use its funds contributed by its members than in defending those members if they were attacked before the royal commission. [More…]
Therefore, I was not in favour of the Australian Government providing counsel for the Union before a royal commission examining the activities of police. [More…]
We have reached agreement on the joint funding of the royal commission but we rejected the proposition that we should fund the representation of members of the Police Union. [More…]
Therefore, the Australian Government will not be funding those costs of the Police Union in Western Australia. [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister aware of the threat, reported in last night’s Melbourne Herald’, by the federal executive of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union seeking the support of the Australian Council of Trade Unions for a total ban on communications of private insurance companies because of their campaign against the proposed Australian Government Insurance Corporation? [More…]
To come back to the question that has been raised by Senator Missen, I have in no way encouraged members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunication Union to indulge in any boycott of anybody. [More…]
Mr Slater, the General Secretary of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, has put a submission to the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Let me conclude by using a peroration in an extract from the journal of the ‘United Postal Union’, a body that works in close conjunction with the Postal Bureau and the United Nations in developing postal services in developing countries. [More…]
The management, staffs and unions involved in this sphere have had long experience, and examinations have been made since the Vernon Commission of Inquiry made its report. [More…]
There have been consultations with management and there have been consultations with groups of unions and the joint union group. [More…]
These consultations included all the unions from the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
No objections were raised by the official union representatives either to the pattern now in the Bills or to the merger. [More…]
He asked whether the unions in the Post Office group or in the telecommunications group will be more militant and whether they have greater strength than they had before. [More…]
Honourable senators will notice that this legislation provides for the first time that Commissions will have upon them a person nominated from all the unions which represent the staff. [More…]
The union movement has an identity of involvement at the top level of management. [More…]
For the first time, as I mentioned earlier, during the consultations which preceded the devising of the legislation we had regular meetings with union groups. [More…]
In addition, by regulation, there will be a consultative process, the first in any government enterprise or commission, which will be set up to ensure that in respect of all matters concerning the Commissions the union members who do the work, the people who carry out the most tedious jobs as well as the specialist jobs, will be consulted. [More…]
In addition, to dispel the other arguments, the unions which represent the staff in the OTC have gone along with us. [More…]
This matter, as Senator Durack said, has been considered by the union groups. [More…]
I come now to the aspect of union activity. [More…]
The answer in respect of those organisations lies with the people in the trade union group. [More…]
I think I have said so here on occasions in the past in giving details of Australia’s initiatives to improve the conservation of whales, especially the sperm whale, throughout the world, and I have also mentioned the difficulties of getting especially the major whale takers, namely, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan, to agree to maintain the quota system. [More…]
In the light of the Prime Minister’s reluctance to discuss the Baltic States issue when he was in the Soviet Union in 1974, will the Minister for Foreign Affairs, through diplomatic channels, undertake to make representations to Soviet authorities for the release of the 5 Lithuanian prisoners of conscience- S. Zukauskas, A. Sakalauskas. [More…]
There is no doubt that we have made it completely clear not only to the Soviet Union but also to every other country that the loss of civil liberties or the gaolings which are not really acceptable in other countriesI speak, quite generally now- make for difficulties in our relationships with those countries because the Australian public who are used to a form of British justice do not accept these things. [More…]
Thirdly, it will be part of my amendment that the Commission may at any time declare that the regular carrying on of the service is urgent; that during a period of 60 days after such declaration it shall be unlawful for any person, company or union to take part in any strike or lockout interrupting such service; and that any party in breach of the foregoing paragraph shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for any person and $10,000 for any company or union for every day for which such breach continues and shall also be liable to pay compensation for any damage caused by such strike or lockout. [More…]
I cannot believe that the clarification of the issues between the Opposition and the Government on this measure will be assisted by a continuation of a lapse into the interstices of legalism in relation to this Bill or by a continuation of the union baiting to which we have been subjected in the last half an hour. [More…]
I was interested in the criticism of Senator Wright’s statement about union matters and his desire to move amendments which would bring within the orbit of the investigations and the powers of the Commission actions of the unions in relation to transport matters in Australia. [More…]
There are very real reasons for his doing so, and it is not anti-union to mention those matters. [More…]
Apparently we are to be subjected week after week and day after day to vilification of anyone who runs a business or who uses capital in this community, but never are we to list the defects of the union system because we are then union baiters. [More…]
The very mention of the most uncontrolled of all the power groups in Australia, the unions, and their great stranglehold on the transport links in Australia brings a rejection- we should not mention this; they should not be brought into it. [More…]
It dealt with a possible nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, and a stage was reached where only about 5 people were left. [More…]
I only wanted to make the point that the present Australian Government, with its mature relationship in dealing with London, Washington, the Soviet Union and other lesser powers, has proved what can be achieved by conciliation. [More…]
He has made the point that if there is to be a nuclear brawl between the 2 super powers of China and the Soviet Union we could be caught up in the action. [More…]
Of course we advanced a similar argument that if there was a trigger-happy American admiral and something went wrong and there was a response from the Soviet Union, we could have been embroiled. [More…]
I make a contrast of the membership of the Curriculum Development Centre Council with that of the body to be set up under the Trade Union Training Authority Bill, which has shown a recognition of the need for representation of people in the community who would be best able to judge the service which that sort of body could give. [More…]
A Pakistani in London applied to be a member of a Welsh Rugby Union club which was a society exclusively for Welsh people who lived in England and were fond of Rugby Union. [More…]
I am damned if I know why anybody should be fond of Rugby Union. [More…]
When I was in Western Australia I received a deputation from the President and the Secretary of the Western Australia Police Union who stated that they were not opposed to a royal commission into the affairs at Laverton but they were concerned at the cost to the Police Union to exonerate members from any imputations against them. [More…]
At that time I said to Mr Fraser from the Police Union that to my knowledge it was not an impoverished union and I thought it could afford to pay. [More…]
As it was a union of policemen in Western Australia I thought no better use could be made of its funds than trying to defend members who had contributed to the funds. [More…]
While Mr Fraser did not deny this, he said that the cost could be astronomical and the Union did not want to use its funds for that purpose. [More…]
When I was discussing the terms of the royal commission with the Premier of Western Australia, he proposed that there should be some payment of the costs of the Police Union. [More…]
I stated then that we would give consideration to an application if it were made by the Police Union, although I was not favourably disposed to paying Police Union costs in connection with a royal commission into police behaviour. [More…]
I have received no application from the Police Union asking us to contribute to its costs but I am of the belief that such an application would not receive a sympathetic hearing if it were made to me. [More…]
The best analogy I can give is that when a log of claims is presented by a trade union it is a sort of testing time to see what the other side- in that case the employer- is prepared to offer. [More…]
Did the Minister, on or about 4 July 1974, state that previous Governments had never attempted to enforce the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act so as to ensure that trade union ballots were conducted properly; … [More…]
In commenting after a decision by the Australian Industrial Court in a case involving interference with a Union ballot the Minister made it clear that the Government would not tolerate a situation where offically conducted ballots were interfered with in the future. [More…]
Any person who commits a breach of the Act in respect of union ballots will be prosecuted. [More…]
However, it is not proposed to embark on a search through the history of union elections since section 1 7 1 was inserted into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1949 to attempt to ascertain those cases in which action could have been taken but in which nothing was done. [More…]
In commenting after a decision by the Australian Industrial Court in a case involving interference with a Union ballot the Minister made it clear that the Government would not tolerate a situation where officially conducted ballots were interfered with in the future. [More…]
Any person who commits a breach of the Act in respect of union ballots will be prosecuted. [More…]
However, it is not proposed to embark on a search through the history of union elections since Section 1 7 1 was inserted into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1949 to attempt to ascertain those cases in which action could have been taken but in which nothing was done. [More…]
In the case before the Australian Industrial Court the defendant was charged with, and found guilty of possessing without lawful authority or excuse ballot papers in a union election. [More…]
A claim has been made by the Hospital Employees Federation in New South Wales, which is the union that covers these fire officers and other employees of my Department in the Concord hospital, to the effect that they should be paid at the same rate as the members of the New South Wales Fire Brigade. [More…]
It could apply to trade unions. [More…]
Trade union A might be a union that takes a view that is not consistent with the Government’s policy; therefore, its workers are in industries which should not get Government contracts. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I indicate support for the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
It is not remarkable, I believe, that we should be supporting this Bill for we have supported for a long time the principle of trade union training. [More…]
We support the concept of trade union training. [More…]
We support the concept of a National Council for Trade Union Training. [More…]
We would seek to have established in appropriate educational institutions programs specifically designed to meet the needs of trade unionists. [More…]
To assist in that purpose, we support the concept of a National Council of Trade Union Education whose task it would be to develop special relationships with the appropriate educational institutions to see that the content of courses specifically met the needs of trade unions. [More…]
Training would be required in a wide variety of subjects at different levels to assist unionists in the execution of their official union duties. [More…]
The question of union rules [More…]
Trade union education and training should not be shut off from other forms of education. [More…]
Where subject matters overlap, courses should be conducted jointly for unionists and industrial officers. [More…]
So it is abundantly clear that the Opposition, in this important area of trade union training, certainly is dedicated to the principle of establishing that capacity in our community. [More…]
We would have hoped that a trade union training authority could have been incorporated basically within the existing educational arrangements in our community, naturally with special reference to the curricula requirements of the trade unions. [More…]
Because the Government has introduced this legislation I am sure that the Government and the trade unions are interested. [More…]
If they are interested in the total integration of a great, free Australian society it is clear that advantages are to be gained from having a government educational institution that relates to trade unionism involved as part of the institutions which have a wider educational horizon. [More…]
The fact that that sort of inter-mix of students is not possible in a circumstance in which a trade union training authority isolates itself from the other educational areas of this country, I believe, is unfortunate. [More…]
It seems to me that, if it were conceivable that this Authority would be part of the greater educational horizon, there would be more possibility- indeed probability- that a proper measure of relevance of trade union training to all the other entities and departments in the Australian society would be obtained. [More…]
In the training of trade unionists for their specific jobs, I believe that we should aim to establish a greater capacity for mobility, because the establishment of mobility between trade and trade and between section and section of industry and commerce can only contribute to the breaking down of the closed doors and clique circumstances of an industrial and commercial society. [More…]
We must ensure that education in any field- certainly in the trade union field- will produce, or will aim to produce, a flexible and reasonable society, because it is only in this circumstance that a free democracy can survive. [More…]
If there were any chance that this sort of isolation in trade union training could bring about a circumstance in which only the hierarchy of the trade unions would receive the instruction that was available, it would damage rather than aid the progress of the Australian community. [More…]
If we were to introduce a set of circumstances which would enable the isolation of trade union training, we would run the real risk of establishing a situation in which the training concerned itself not truly with education but more significantly with indoctrination. [More…]
I am equally sure that the Australian people will observe with great interest and keenness the effectiveness and the working of this Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
There is enormous mutual advantage to be gained from trade unionists, like any other section of the community, being able in their normal educational process to mix with people who are on their way to becoming doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers and so on in the society. [More…]
Although we support the establishment of this Authority, it is for that reason, basically, that we are concerned that it has not been found possible to develop this training within the existing educational frameworkwith due reference naturally, to the particular needs of the trade unionists involved. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the trade unions themselves will not hold too tight a control or too tight a rein over the type of trade union student who will undergo training provided by this educational authority. [More…]
It seems to me that it is important that such an authority should be as open as possible to members of the community who have a legitimate and proper interest in and knowledge of trade union affairs and industrial relations. [More…]
I hope that this Trade Union Training Authority will direct its main attention towards the establishment of circumstances which will create a better, more effective and more efficient atmosphere in the area of industrial relations, in which there are constant problems. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority Bill which we are considering incorporates at least 2 measures which are of particular interest to the Opposition. [More…]
I refer, firstly, to the decision that the Leader of the Government and the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives shall each nominate a member of Parliament to the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
Besides this Council there are to be 6 State Councils for Union Training. [More…]
We appreciate the fact that this sort of contact or liaison will be made possible by the addition of members of this Parliament to the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
We agree that the prime requirement of trade union training is to produce better instructed, more efficient and more competent union officials. [More…]
A section has been included in the Bill which makes it necessary for the Trade Union Training Authority to report to the Parliament annually not just on financial matters but on its total operations. [More…]
I was somewhat alarmed when I read the statement of an official of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union training authority. [More…]
Union training can help widen and deepen the challenge to capitalism. [More…]
If that were the objective of a union training authority, it could do nothing but harm industrial relations in this country. [More…]
It is a sad reflection, I believe, that a responsible union official should take that view. [More…]
I do not believe that that is the typical view of Australian unionists. [More…]
Indeed, it would be a travesty if we were trying to improve industrial relations and that were the attitude we had to a trade union training authority. [More…]
I believe it important that this sort of authority should have within its power a real measure of diversity in training and instruction, lt is perhaps a shame that it is not open to a greater number of people, a greater area of people, who desire to understand more fully the intricacies of union organisation, of union development, of union aims. [More…]
As I draw my remarks to a conclusion I say once again that in supporting the concept of this Trade Union Training Authority and in supporting this Bill we are concerned that the yardstick of the Authority- the yardstick of education in this field, as in any field- should be its relevance to the community as a whole. [More…]
We have seen the failure of industrial relations and we have seen the failure of a government in its relations with the unions. [More…]
If this Training Authority meets the yardstick of improving industrial relations in this country, if it can improve the capacity to educate not only the union officials but also the foremen- the middle management group if you like- in the union movement, it will contribute immensely to solving that industrial relations problem. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the Trade Union Training Authority Bill 1975. [More…]
If he expressed himself as being hopeful about the future of the Trade Union Training Authority I would hate to hear him speaking dismally about anything in this Senate. [More…]
They are, broadly speaking, to undertake and carry out the planning and development of trade union education and training in Australia per medium of training centres and other institutions and bodies. [More…]
The functions of the Authority are set out in clause 5 and they relate to trade union training. [More…]
I refer the Senate to the definition of ‘trade union training’ as it appears in clause 3. [More…]
The definition is as follows: trade union training’ means- [More…]
The scope of trade union training as described in clause 3 in my view falls into 2 parts. [More…]
There is, firstly, the question of technical trade union training- that is to say, making trade union officials better functionaries, if I can use that horrible word. [More…]
Secondly, in sub-paragraph (b) of that definition there is a much wider concept expressed in terms of general technical and practical training for members of trade unions in any other field. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation, as I said, is to establish a national authority to carry out these functions and to provide continuing education facilities for trade union officials and their members. [More…]
Trade union officials are, in many respects, a much maligned group in our society, they are much maligned because the obligations cast upon them in Australia are really quite horrifying. [More…]
It is true to say that a good trade union official in [More…]
He must have a knowledge of the rules of his union. [More…]
That is not an unfamiliar situation to members of Parliament but perhaps the circumstances which face a trade union official are slightly more onerous than the circumstances in which my colleague Senator Georges finds himself, reclining, as he is, on the bench on my left. [More…]
The sort of problems I refer to which have to be faced by trade union officials are encountered in any country. [More…]
Furthermore, we have 300 trade union organisations throughout Australia. [More…]
-As Senator Hall interjected a moment ago, there are far too many trade union organisations in Australia, and this is a problem that adds to the complexity of the life and work of a trade union official. [More…]
I talked about the obligations which Australian society particularly, as distinct from other societies, casts upon trade union officials and I think it is very important to look at the Conciliation and Arbitration Act itself and at its objects because they give some indication of the obligations which that Act casts on the union official and on society. [More…]
I said that one of the complications facing trade union officials is the legalistic nature of the conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
Some day I hope we will have a debate in this Senate about industrial relations, as distinct from selected readings from the works of officials of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which so endear themselves to the hearts of Opposition senators. [More…]
But it is just too glib to say that in pursuing objects of this kind one can turn this into a sort of industrial relations society or a sort of debating club where management and unions get together. [More…]
The first view which Senator Scott seemed to espouse was that union officials can be made better in a sort of functional way; they can learn to keep their offices tidier, they can run their offices more efficiently, keep better balance sheets and records, and be more efficient managers. [More…]
But there is of course a much broader view of what the legislation and the authority should effect and it arises, as I pointed out earlier, from paragraph (b) of the definition of trade union training, which refers to much wider aspects of education. [More…]
All these things have an effect on the trade union movement and on the capacity and understanding of trade union officials but, more importantly, if trade unionists and officials are to keep pace with these changes there is a need for the authority to embrace, as is envisaged by clause (b) of the definition, a wide range of disciplines in the curricula which will be provided. [More…]
I have confidence that these things will happen because I know some of the personnel involved, particularly Mr Mathews, the Interim Director of the Authority, and I know that from a vast experience of trade union education and training he accepts the importance of the cross fertilisation of ideas between all sections of the community, and so on. [More…]
I must deal just briefly with the sort of concept which Senator Scott raised- that there was perhaps some sneaking desire on the part of the Government to establish some sort of isolated intellectual ghetto for trade union officials to which they would be spirited away, indoctrinated by malevolent men and returned to society to bring the capitalist system crashing to the ground. [More…]
Senator Scott said that trade unionists should mix with doctors, lawyers and others in the course of these educational training programs. [More…]
Let him tell me what doctor or lawyer ever mixes with trade unionists in the course of his training; or what other trained person in an Australian university ever mixes with the vast segment of Australian society in the course of his training. [More…]
Why trade unionists should be singled out for this particular experience I do not know. [More…]
In Australia there is very little in the way of other facilities for trade union training. [More…]
On the other hand, there are numerous opportunities for the sorts of things which Senator Scott talked about- meetings between management and unions on a discussion level in the industrial relations societies and in a variety of seminars and so on which are organised by various bodies. [More…]
In the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States trade union training has been proceeding in a much bigger way for a very long time. [More…]
There the money is provided mostly by the union organisations themselves, and that is the difference. [More…]
But the union organisations there do not have the obligations which the Conciliation and Arbitration Act casts upon us in Australia. [More…]
In Sweden there is a highly sophisticated system of trade union training which I believe is reflected in results. [More…]
I wish to quote briefly from a study of the Swedish trade union education system contained in an article in the ‘Journal of Industrial Relations’. [More…]
I quote that comment simply because it may be a definition of the hopes that we can legitimately hold out for the future of the Trade Union Training Authority in Australia. [More…]
We believe that they are sensible and that it is proper for this Parliament to be represented on the Council of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
-The Government has presented to the Senate the Trade Union Training Authority Bill 1975. [More…]
to undertake and carry out the planning and development of programs of trade union training in Australia; [More…]
to provide trade union training at the College and at the Trade Union Training Centres; [More…]
to co-ordinate trade union training in Australia by the College and the Trade Union Training Centres and by other institutions and bodies; [More…]
to promote the provision and undertaking of trade union training; [More…]
to keep the trade union training that is being provided in Australia under constant review and to reassess and re-evaluate that training in the light of experience; and [More…]
It is a reflection on the enhanced conditions of today as compared with 150 years ago, and it is very desirable that we credit to the trade union movement and its development a considerable portion of the improvement that has taken place. [More…]
Reference has been made to our system of arbitration and to the place of unionism in it. [More…]
It was Mr Justice Higgins who in his province for law and order said: ‘The system of arbitration adopted by the Act is based on unionism. [More…]
Indeed without unionism it is hard to conceive how the Act could have worked.’ [More…]
Coming up to date, perhaps too rapidly for the Minister, the work published under the caption ‘Collective Bargaining in Industrial Market Economies’ by the International Labor Organisation, Geneva, in 1974, at page 177, says that it was remarked that unions play a vital part in the arbitration system which would be impossible to operate if it had to deal with individual workers. [More…]
If for no other reason this fact ensured the growth and security of trade unions from the very beginnings of arbitration in Australia. [More…]
That sentence on the authority of the ILO ‘s very intensive and fundamental study shows how fallacies can develop in trade union fields that are mischievous and self-defeating. [More…]
There the very system of which Senator Button has reminded us places quite important duties on the organisations and their officials under the Arbitration Act, and this fact ensured the growth and security of trade unions from the very beginnings of arbitration in Australia. [More…]
Other historians have regretted that one of the things that was not earlier accorded to trade unions was the power and authority of incorporation. [More…]
The Bill before us is the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
As I listened to Senator Wright’s speech he was developing an introduction dealing with historical and other matters concerning the trade union movement that seem to be related to the Bill and he is developing in his own way. [More…]
The fundamental basis of the Bill is to set up an authority for training in trade union principles and purposes and in trade union methods and operation of their organisations. [More…]
There are some who think that you understand these things from yesterday’s newspaper or from the current news sheet printed by the job foreman, but there are others who think that if the training were intensified in trade unions principles and purposes we would have a much more productive effort from trade unions in association with their employers so as to minimise inflation and to create a society of greater egalitarianism and a society of much better mutual production, one for the other, in goods and services, education and amenities of life. [More…]
These are the principles, the objectives for which, I hope, we are establishing this trade union training authority. [More…]
Having stated one or two things with regard to the matter I was about to say that it has been my constant regret that the mechanism of incorporation was not fully accorded trade unions as it was the combines of capital. [More…]
Now we have, due to the disparity, evident from the history of the last century, between trade unions and commercial corporations a great vendetta that is the beginning of the misunderstanding which takes place in industrial relations. [More…]
I should have thought that this authority should produce a curriculum, a group of students and staff who would not limit their minds to the mercenary midget considerations that seem to be synonymous in Senator Georges’ mind with trade union principles, but would go forward from a study of the terrific struggles of trade unionists in past times which are terribly enlightening with regard to the proper purposes of trade unionism today. [More…]
We know that wage claims are right in the forefront of considerations that preoccupy trade unionists’ minds. [More…]
The methods by which those wage claims should be achieved is of fundamental importance in trade union training, and the reconciliation between strikes demanded by the trade unions and the processes of arbitration is one of the very fundamental issues confronting society today. [More…]
The Bill that was being dealt with there proposed to include newspaper editors within the controls of the trade unions. [More…]
A very long sustained debate has been pursued in England with regard to the inclusion of newspaper editors within the authority of trade unions. [More…]
That is why they have united in an unprecedented manner to protest against the Bill, against having to accept a whole range of union instructions, having suddenly to be subordinate to union penalties, running the risk of being expelled without compensation …. [More…]
The reconciliation of the function of editors, who claim, and of course have, great influence upon the public opinion that is moulded by the free opinion of editorial columns, will be, I should think, a very interesting facet of this proposed Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Bill to establish a trade union training authority and, with respect, it is an abuse of the Standing Orders for Senator Wright to carry on with a great collection of incidents about the functionings of trade unions in England of which he disapproves and to say that this should be the subject of discussion in the syllabus of this proposed Authority. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, with respect I agreed with the ruling that you made about Senator Georges’ point of order but I really think that the issue has now become merely a vehicle for expressing disagreement about trade union activities in the United Kingdom, which is far beyond the scope of the Bill. [More…]
The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT- The Bill before the Senate relates to a trade union training authority and each person contributing to the debate takes responsibility for the material which he puts in his own speech. [More…]
It is quite inconceivable to me how anybody could suggest that these matters are not of fundamental relevance to training by a trade union authority. [More…]
If the proposed Trade Union Training Authority were to take a different view I would deny it one threepence and oppose it with all my spirit. [More…]
I believe that this proposed Trade Union Training Authority will be much better equipped in these considerations, will develop them from its own experience and therefore, I hope, will train a body of thought in this country that will lead the next generation of trade unionists on a much different basis than the outlook of Senator Button and Senator Georges. [More…]
We will then have a community in which the trade union movement will be making a most significant contribution to the country’s welfare. [More…]
I was about to say that Mr Timothy Raison, the Conservative member for Aylesbury, pointed out how the development in the trade union field was a matter of very great significance to parliamentary authority in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Anybody who does not bear that in mind has not the slightest realisation of the significance of the tremendous development that is taking place in the political direction of trade union power. [More…]
I do not go on to contemplate that in Australia it will be revelant for us in our time or the next generation to contemplate that trade unions will give way to communism, that is to say, a usurpation of parliamentary power by violence and arbitrary communism; but when we are establishing trade union training all these fields of thought associated with the proposed Authority’s function must be taken into account. [More…]
Having referred to England may I make a brief reference to an authority from the United States of America, Dr Schmidt, who in his recent book entitled ‘Union Power’ referred to the enormous power of trade unions. [More…]
Therefore our society should establish a trade union training authority to enable those who are studying the processes of industrial education and training to see whether this prosecution of the class war has any merit. [More…]
It may be that there are some in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union at present who use the powers that are conferred upon trade unions by our beneficent laws to get the power of the work force that they represent behind them in order to prosecute the class war even to the extent of overthrowing the present system. [More…]
We have to get a proper understanding of that system absorbed by and expanded throughout the trade union world. [More…]
Anyone who has read the Donovan report on trade unionism in England will know that that country is bedevilled by a multiplicity of unions. [More…]
Although Australia does not have as many unions it has more per capita. [More…]
Australia has 300-odd unions. [More…]
I think that one has only to state that those matters are matters that demand real study if trade unionism is to take a much more acceptable place in our society. [More…]
The Council, as constituted originally, was to consist of appointments drawn entirely from the trade union world. [More…]
I shall want to be satisfied in the Committee stage of the debate that the legislation does provide an opportunity not merely for members of trade unions to attend the courses of the trade union training colleges and centres but also for other people who may be interested in pursuing a special study in this field to do so. [More…]
If I were to rephrase that I think that I would say that a shop steward is a vital to the trade union movement and its efficiency as a noncommissioned officer is to an army. [More…]
I view this Bill with tremendous enthusiasm because, as one of those who laboured under extreme difficulties in the early and middle 1950s, I know the extent of the knowledge that it was necessary for a trade union official to have then to combat the arguments of his employers. [More…]
It is not in the realms of talking about a class struggle that I say that as the years have gone on and the employers have modernised their methods of collating material and using various tactics it has ben essential for the trade unions to do the same. [More…]
It might well be argued that the trade union treasure chest is limited because the traditional role of the rank and file members of trade unions is to endeavour to live in a world of cheap unionism. [More…]
As a matter of fact in a sideswipe I would say that some of the legal expenses involved in the arbitration system have been over-costly and have at times kept some trade unions permanently poor. [More…]
But the many shop stewards in the trade union movement who did make the grade for inclusion among the limited number of delegates to go overseas have found, quite apart from the intrusion into their private time and their home lives and the personal expense of subscribing to costly trade and political journals, all of which helped, that they have had to make a reputation. [More…]
I suppose that one could liken them to the zealots in the trade union movement. [More…]
If there is one tribute that I would particularly pay to Clyde Cameron it is for his endeavours to lift up the status of shop stewards in the trade union movement. [More…]
I have seen crocodile tears shed about the need for moderate trade unionism. [More…]
I have always regarded myself, without any inhibitions, as being in the middle of the trade union field in regard to evaluation of the viewpoints that have come from the left and right of me. [More…]
A person who takes this course will not necessarily become an Australian Council of Trade Unions chieftain. [More…]
I know that Senator Wright and probably other honourable senators have delved to a degree into trade union history. [More…]
Sometimes, particularly in Australia, when the head office of a union is a long way from the scene of operations, the shop committee system is a very effective training ground. [More…]
No matter what products come from this college- or to some unions which utilise the Mount Maldon administrative college- I think we will find that practical experience must be gained. [More…]
Jim Healey, a Communist, put his trade union above party and held the Waterside Workers Federation confidence for a lifetime. [More…]
It was many months after the dispute began that Mr Justice Robinson, backed up by authorities, proved on the ground of safety that the original objection by the union was vindicated. [More…]
We have talked about the complexities of trade unionism. [More…]
I hasten to add that Senator James McClelland was the lawyer for the union. [More…]
The point I make is that the curriculum will ensure that trade union delegates get a general knowledge of European history. [More…]
I could refer them to an incident involving the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales, lt has an exceptionally efficient secretary also. [More…]
That union has at least 1 1 nationalities among its members. [More…]
I would say that in these situations the modern trade union delegate can do a tremendous amount. [More…]
It will be essential that trade union delegates have a fair knowledge of certain European history so that they can maintain an objective attitude in such matters. [More…]
The fact is that anybody who comes into the trade union field, from the shop steward onwards, must realise that he can never please everybody. [More…]
My mind goes back some months to a time when the leader of the British miners union, Joe Gormley, left a sick bed to go to a vital meeting of that union in its negotiations with the Wilson Government on a new wage agreement. [More…]
That is the sort of criticism with which members of the trade union must live. [More…]
The point is that not all the complexities in our labour market are made by the trade union movement. [More…]
There have been some misguided causes championed by the Opposition in its efforts to protect some small unions. [More…]
I cannot see any justification for the multiplicity of small unions in the postal services. [More…]
I might be talking purely as an individual on this matter, but I have argued for discipline in the trade union movement, provided the employer met his obligations. [More…]
But there have been occasions on which malcontents in the trade unions have been egged on by alleged civil rights groups and people who did not know what they were talking about. [More…]
I commend the present Government for picking up the tab in respect of some people ‘s right to challenge trade union rules, but eventually we will reach the stage where we will have to call a halt because there is such a thing as community discipline. [More…]
I can assure Senator Wright that, even if the trade union leaders be people such as Bob Hawke, John Ducker, Jack Egerton and Dick Scott of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, they cannot call the tune unconditionally on their members; they have to win respect. [More…]
When an excellent result was achieved by one of the best negotiators in the trade union movement today- I refer to Charlie Fitzgibbon, the Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federationwe heard epithets from the Opposition to the effect that it was an under-the-cover agreement, a sweetheart agreement or something like that. [More…]
One of the disservices that have been done to the trade union movement was the presentation of those absurd caricatures about the rag trade, depicting a shop steward getting his people out on a pretence. [More…]
I honestly believe that this legislation will make it much easier for the trade union fledglings of today than it was for many of us in the 1950s. [More…]
In this great society in which we live, with everybody trying to keep up with the Joneses, perhaps some of the trade union values have taken a battering because people thought that you were a fool if you were honest. [More…]
I shall indicate how employers at times have milked the trade union movement of some of its best brains. [More…]
I think Senator Bishop would remember that in the 1953-56 era Jack Kenehan, an official of the Electrical Trades Union, was awarded a Duke of Edinburgh scholarship and was poached by Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Ltd. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity that we have in the Senate today to debate the formation of the Trade Union Training Authority and to develop some ideas amongst us regarding trade union relationships. [More…]
Trade unionism in Australia covers a very wide field of human activity and personal relationships. [More…]
There are vast responsibilities on the trade unions in Australia. [More…]
I welcome the fact that the Government acknowledges in the formation of the Training Authority that, whilst massive sums have been spent on education in all of the fields that we have been able to devise as being necessary, very limited attention has been paid to trade union training. [More…]
The formation of the Authority leads us to expect that greater educational opportunities will be available to people who require specialised training for their activities in trade unionism. [More…]
I note that clause 3 of the Bill contains this definition of ‘trade union training’: trade union training’ means- [More…]
I wonder whether, within this concept, it is envisaged that this will be trade union training for trade union enterprises. [More…]
I wonder whether, within that definition, we will see people being trained in the skills that are required for conducting trade union enterprises. [More…]
We have seen the development of trading as a trade union enterprise. [More…]
We have heard it suggested that tourism and travel ought to be a trade union activity. [More…]
At one time it was suggested that insurance ought to be another enterprise of trade unionism. [More…]
I simply use this opportunity to reflect on the definition of ‘trade union training’ and on the question of how widely the reference to ‘the powers, functions and duties of officers or officials of trade unions’ in clause 3 of this Bill will be interpreted. [More…]
It recognises the need for different levels of function- the level of the State Councils for Union Training and the level of the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
It has taken the formation of the Trade Union Training Authority to put into practice the co-operative relationships that we have stressed should exist between State activities and the Federal co-ordinating activities. [More…]
It also has taken the Trade Union Training Authority Bill to bring back into legislation the words ‘Commonwealth of Australia’. [More…]
It seems to me that when we deal with the Trade Union Training Authority we can open up our minds and deal with things in the way the Opposition has stressed as being the desirable way. [More…]
In clause 1 9, which deals with the formation of the State Councils for Union Training, I was interested to see that one member will be appointed to the State Council by the Minister after the Minister has consulted with the Minister of State responsible for education. [More…]
I was interested to note that clause 57 of the Bill provides that the Australian Council for Union Training shall make an annual report to the Parliament containing details of the syllabuses and study undertaken at the Australian Trade Union Training College and at each of the Trade Union Training Centres. [More…]
I think it is desirable that an annual report be made to the Parliament, to indicate the work and the development being undertaken by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
It will be of interest to us to review the syllabus to see in what areas of activity we are able to widen the educational opportunities for trade union members, and to see how this might lead us to a new understanding of the problems and aspirations of the people who work within the trade union movement. [More…]
I regret to some extent that there is not more accent on the free exchange of views and understanding between management and the trade unions. [More…]
I know it has been said that it is hoped that there will be some exchange between management and trade union members. [More…]
I am not expressing a new interest in this matter because I recall that when the Government first mentioned a long time ago the thought of establishing a trade union school I asked whether there would be opportunity for management to take courses in conjunction with trade union members. [More…]
I believe it was Senator Bishop who advised me that that was not the concept for the school, that it was rather for the training of trade unionists. [More…]
That aspect was referred to, I believe, by Senator Button when he spoke of the qualities that are needed in the trade union member, the quality of advocacy and the recognition of the need for negotiation. [More…]
There are many existing facilities in the way of educational opportunities that could well be used for a specialised trade union training function. [More…]
I would like to think that the colleges of advanced education with management courses or industrial courses or other functions might also be used in conjunction with whatever syllabus is devised by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Joint programs between management and labour would, I believe, be desirable if they were to avoid the monopoly of interest which could occur in a trade union training school which adopted the latter approach exclusively. [More…]
I want to ask a question with regard to the capital that will be required for the establishment of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I would like to receive a response to that question as a matter of interest, because it seems to me that the Authority needs to be established in the best way that is possible to attract the people who are able to give the sort of training that we hope will not have an ideological bias or will in no way inhibit the development of the person who enters the trade union school. [More…]
The fact that clause 5 1 provides for assistance from experts, although perhaps on a short term basis, also means that we can have interest in the curriculum which is developed in the trade union concept. [More…]
I hope that opportunity is taken to secure people who will provide the skills and training that the average trade unionist may require. [More…]
We are not talking now of trade unionists as being exclusively those who left school at an early age and had no opportunities for training or education; we are talking of the person who may wish to develop more fully his skills as an advocate, as a negotiator, as a person who represents large numbers of people, as a shop steward or as someone higher in the trade union movement. [More…]
It seems to me that we are in many ways approaching this matter with a very starry-eyed view which is not taking into account the realities of power which travel with the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is the most powerful entity in the community. [More…]
An example of such an incident which is quite easily identifiable and not arguable involves a $40m contract of wheat destined for Chile which it is the policy of the Government to have shipped and which it is the policy of the respective unions not to have shipped. [More…]
The union view prevails and the Government is utterly powerless to intervene or to act in any way to have done what the Australian community wants done in relation to this very important economic matter. [More…]
Of course, the trade union movement is a fundamental pan of the ALP. [More…]
However, some Opposition members seem to be under the impression that we as members of the political wing of the ALP are ashamed to admit that the unions are a fundamental part of the Party. [More…]
Every member knows that the political wing of the Party was born of the trade union movement and will retain its ties for as long as the Party exists. [More…]
My second point is that not only are we setting up a Trade Union Authority Act to assist in the training of trade union personnel, we are also setting about training the most powerful group of persons in the community and the parent of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Now let us look at the trade unions. [More…]
A trade union does not necessarily have anything to do with political morality. [More…]
The trade union is a product of 19th century capitalism, lt is part of that system. [More…]
But when those forces are disarmed; when they are in headlong retreat- indeed howling for mercy- the union has no function to perform. [More…]
The trade union movement may be dressed up with economic committees and so forth; but its only real purpose is to bargain for better wages within an all-powerful capitalist system. [More…]
The British trade union movement has now been taken out of that context and placed in an entirely new one. [More…]
I go back to that one instance of $40m of overseas funds that cannot flow through producers, through the suppliers, through the multiplier effects in the Australian community because one union says it shall not. [More…]
British trade unionism has thus become a formula for national misery. [More…]
For, mark you, trade unionists have no means of enjoying the spoils they secure. [More…]
The trade union movement is not a unity. [More…]
And in an inflationary situation, where real wealth is static or, in our case, actually declining fast, unions demanding higher wages are simply competing against each other. [More…]
Any union which does succeed, albeit temporarily as a rule, in raising its real living standards is and must be doing so at the expense of the community. [More…]
I will not burden the Senate with much more of what I think are the excellent writings of a left wing intellectual but in a part of his article which I do not intend to quote he says that anyone who criticises the union movement is subject to the utmost vilification. [More…]
This is one of the things which the union movement reserves to itself - that it must not be criticised. [More…]
Everyone knows of the victimisation incurred by those within the union movement who criticise their own union structure. [More…]
With union leaders asking for wage increases, immediately, of up to 70 per cent, and deaf to threats or entreaties, the magnitude of the inflation involved is outside the experience of anyone in Britain, or indeed anyone in a modern industrial economy. [More…]
The Bill being debated before the Senate at the moment is entitled ‘A Bill for an Act to establish an Australian trade union training authority and for purposes connected therewith’ and I cannot for the life of me in the most charitable way connect to this debate the contribution that Senator Steele Hall is making. [More…]
As I have said, this debate involves a Bill for an Act to establish a trade union training authority. [More…]
I respectfully draw your attention to page 2 of the Bill and to paragraph (b) of the definition of trade union training which states: educational, technical and practical training for members of trade unions in any other fields approved by the Australian Council. [More…]
I would now like to refer to a statement which was published yesterday in South Australia about the objectives of the union movement in our State. [More…]
-No, it will be a political objective of the Dunstan Government in South Australia translated through the union movement. [More…]
I am saying it is the objective of the general union movement in South Australia to force union participation to a very significant level in management. [More…]
So in looking at the objectives of the trade unions, we can say without fear of contradiction that they are power objectives. [More…]
Trade unions are about power as political parties are about power. [More…]
One must therefore ask what will happen in some time to come when the Council has had experience and has been subject no doubt to a great deal of union influence. [More…]
Look at the Council structure; in what field will it be training union management and personnel? [More…]
I suspect that we may some day in the future regret this Bill in its present form unless it is tied to some democratic principles because we seem to be looking at it and saying that we aU admit there are misuses in unions and that there are malfunctions involving the simple matter of dishonesty. [More…]
We can look at that level if we like and say that we want to improve the business management of unions. [More…]
We can look at the economy in general and we can say that the personnel of the union movement should know more about economics, as management should know more about economics. [More…]
If we are looking at this Bill and thinking that out of it will come the cure-all and a recognition of all the economic realities in this community and that within 10 years or whatever time we like to put upon it we will have a sane and sensible union approach to the economy and to its management and to the acceptance of government decisions, we will be sadly mistaken. [More…]
Unless the Authority is allied to the application of democratic principles in the operations of unions it will be futile and it wil simply educate people in how to use or misuse power more effectively than it is used or misused now. [More…]
I say this quite firmly: Unless we pin our hopes on the enforcement of democratic procedures in the union movement we will be following a very weak star in the future. [More…]
We must concentrate on the democratic procedures which elect us to this Parliament and have them applied to the union movement. [More…]
I should like to have seen some way that this training could be related to the personnel of unions which use democratic principles and can show that in their articles and the election of their officers they use democratic procedures. [More…]
I do not think we should go about offering assistance and improvement to the minority of union personnel- I hope they are in a minority- who believe in strong arm tactics, who use dictatorial methods and flout the opinions of the general membership and who approve of victimisation of that membership when it tries to stand up. [More…]
I am quite sure that we ought to have a qualification that in some way those people who come from the unions which are not so much in the news and which are democratic get the approval of this Parliament and the finance that will be expended under this Bill to improve their organisations. [More…]
Anyone who criticises the most powerful group for the most blatant misuse of power in this community is called a union basher. [More…]
I conclude by saying this: We are following a false road in thinking that education will do what only the enforcement of democratic principles finally will do for the Australian trade union movement and the decent Australian trade unionist who is so subject to the strong arm tactics of union personnel today. [More…]
This Bill is intended, in spite of what Senator Steele Hall says, to provide a facility by which trade union members, who are coming up through the ranks of their organisation and who are coming up through a particular industry, can be trained. [More…]
Nevertheless let me get back to the Bill we are discussing, which is the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
Senator Hall in his paranoia has sought to give to the objects of the Bill some sinister motive, but the sinister motive exists only in his mind and is a development of that attitude he has taken against unions almost without pause in the State of South Australia when he was Premier and since that time. [More…]
It is quite unfair of him to attack the trade union movement, which is a responsible movement, in the way in which he has done. [More…]
Admittedly the trade union movement believes that it has a responsibility to its membership beyond its industrial provisions, that it has a moral responsibility to its membership, to society and to the environment in which the trade union movement works. [More…]
However, before I do so I also make the point that trade union training and this college will give not only skills to trade union members but will also give them some standing. [More…]
For too long trade union officials have been carrying out an onerous duty to the benefit not only of their members but also to the entire community and they have received very little in return. [More…]
As Senator Button said earlier, the demands on a trade union official are varied and complex, and for meeting them he receives very little return. [More…]
It is to be hoped that, as a result of the training to be provided, there will be a new recognition of the standing of trade union officials and organisers. [More…]
At present a trade union organiser for a job that can extend from Monday to Sunday, and into the early hours of the morning if he belongs to a union engaged in shift work, receives in comparison, even with his members, a pittance in return for his services. [More…]
The Bill before the House is the Trade Union Training Authority Bill 1975. [More…]
It is not a major Bill but it is important to the members of the trade union movement which all speakers have recognised in some way or other during the course of this debate. [More…]
The trade union movement is a well established and substantial organisation. [More…]
But the views that he expressed must be accepted as coming from a person whose reputation has been one of continual and unreasonable opposition to the trade union movement based upon a lack of understanding of the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Wright also chose the opportunity to speak at length on the principles of the trade union movement. [More…]
In his speech he moved from 1 830 to 1 900 and then to 1970 and in a rather backhanded way he did give some credit to the trade union movement for improving the conditions of the workers. [More…]
I think he referred to the sum of 2% pence being paid for a day’s labour in 1 830 and even he was prepared to admit that there were some improvements in 1975 and that the trade union movement, the organised workers movement, the organised labour movement, was responsible for the improvement in the conditions of the workers from which he himself benefits today. [More…]
But I must return to the Bill and indicate that the Government is giving an opportunity to those who work on behalf of the trade union movement or within the trade union movement to improve their skills. [More…]
It will give such people an opportunity to participate in the work of the college which is to be built at Wodonga and which will serve this trade union training program. [More…]
I said before the sitting was suspended that trade union officials at all levels do work of dedication which is considerably underpaid. [More…]
The trade union movement in this country works for a very small level return. [More…]
The trade unionist in this country has yet to accept the responsibility of paying for good trade unionism, for good trade union officials, for good trade union researchers. [More…]
The amount which a trade unionist has to pay in this country by way of fees is far too low. [More…]
This emerges from indifference, which possibly leads to some of those malpractices about which possibly Senator Greenwood will speak- the possible breakdown in the democratic method within a union which- [More…]
I referred to the breakdown in the democratic procedures within a trade union which can be sheeted home to the indifference of the mass of trade unionists in this country who are not prepared to pay, and would object to, an increase in fees. [More…]
Many a trade unionist in this country is prepared to pay $ 150 a year to insure his car but yet would reject the payment of an extra few dollars in trade union membership fees. [More…]
From this poverty stricken approach stem a lot of the errors and failures of the trade union movement to match the challenge which management today throws out. [More…]
For this reason this Bill must be recognised as something which will accept the position of the trade union delegate, official or organiser. [More…]
I said before the sitting was suspended that the trade union official, especially the person who becomes a trade union advocate, carries out the work of an organiser on the job not only to stimulate his members- they do stimulate their members- to do a fair job but also to accept the quality value of the job they do. [More…]
The trade union organiser does this work, and he does it substantially. [More…]
A trade union official is a public relations man who has not only to go out and spread the message of unionism and the need to become a part of that democratic system but also to front up to those members of the union who refuse to pay their fees or those workers who refuse to join the union and participate in or contribute to the upkeep of the organisation that protects their interests. [More…]
Additionally, the union organiser has more often than not, because of the inability of the union to meet the heavy financial strain, to go into the court and act as an advocate. [More…]
In spite of one, two or three speeches that have been made and perhaps one that is about to be made there is general support for the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
The attitude that Senator Steele Hall has adopted that this training is something to be feared and that this trade union program will be used to indoctrinate or to subvert the worker and make him an enemy of society is a dishonest approach and he must know it. [More…]
What it is going to do is to tame cat the trade union officials. [More…]
But why is it necessary for the Opposition to treat the trade union movement differently from any other organisation? [More…]
So all we are endeavouring to do by this Bill is to provide specialist training for trade union officials and members. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall made some reference to an overseas article that indicated some concern about the over-power of unions. [More…]
He should have qualified his remarks by saying that there is an over-power of certain unions. [More…]
There is in the hands of perhaps one or two unions in this country an ability excessively to use certain powers. [More…]
Let us take a look at the record of that trade union. [More…]
It is the record of a trade union that holds itself apart from the affiliated trade union movement of this country. [More…]
It is a union that misuses its power. [More…]
But never let it be said, in spite of what Senator Steele Hall said, that many of the other unions involve their membership in their day by day decisions - [More…]
A union has a right to do so providing, of course, the aims and objects of the organisation allow it to do so and it is financed in a way in which it is intended that the finances should be used. [More…]
The affiliated unions of this country are the unions that- I agree with Senator Steele Hall on this- are the backbone of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Those unions accept a responsibility outside of their industrial area and it is right that they should do so. [More…]
That organisation- that union- has a right to deny the use of its members, efforts and skills in protection of the environment. [More…]
The action to which Senator Steele Hall objected was the action of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, which has imposed an embargo on the export of wheat from this country to the barbarous regime in [More…]
-Perhaps the Government agreed to the export of this wheat under some international agreement or some international understanding, but the Seamen’s Union has in this case done a service to the Government. [More…]
-The Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union and other unions are responsible organisations that make responsible decisions and ought not to be imposed upon to do those things that are completely contrary to the desires of their membership. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall is saying that the Seamen’s Union should allow wheat to be exported from this country to a country which has imprisoned - [More…]
I support this policy of training for trade unionists. [More…]
Nevertheless, I support the principle because it is necessary that unions in this country have a much better understanding than in the past of the whole industrial and commercial area of this country. [More…]
One thing that has concerned me for a long time is the radicalism of, and the misunderstanding that has crept into, so many of the unions in this country. [More…]
Trade unionism is a very important part of our community and of the industrial and commercial sectors of our community. [More…]
I fully support trade unions. [More…]
But I do not support the radicalism that has crept into so many of our trade unions. [More…]
A few moments ago we heard Senator Georges still trying to defend the actions of certain unions, particularly the Seamen’s Union of Australia, regarding trade in this country- trade that affects not only the delivery of the commodity to another country but so many people in this country. [More…]
Is it the trade unions? [More…]
If we are to be dictated to by union leaders and sections of unions we are in for a sorry state of affairs in time. [More…]
One of the greatest problems which we face is the discrimination by and the attitudes of some of these unions. [More…]
Because of the radicalism of a few union leaders, and more importantly shop stewards, he is pulled out of work. [More…]
They could not make the grade in the union cause in the United Kingdom. [More…]
The sooner they are replaced with good English, good European or the good old Australian shop stewards, the better off the unions, including the individual members, and this country will be. [More…]
It relates to educating industry and the trade union movement about this Bill- not only what is contained within the Bill but also what is implied by the Bill. [More…]
I fully support the setting up of the Trade Union Training Authority, because I believe that it is essential. [More…]
They took the opportunity not to discuss the merits of the legislation but to engage in their usual union-bashing tactics. [More…]
As we know, Opposition senators have had no experience whatsoever in the trade union movement. [More…]
Therefore, they would not know what the Bill is all about, or what the need for trade union training is all about. [More…]
He spent most of his time in addressing the Senate in reading from an article by a journalist who wrote mainly about the trade union scene in England. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall has achieved notoriety in South Australia for his anti-trade unionism and for his trade union bashing in that State. [More…]
Probably it was something new to hear his attitude to the trade union movement being presented to the Senate. [More…]
By this Bill we seek to train trade union officials, rank and file members of trade unions and shop stewards not only in the administration of a trade union but also in the other very complex matters of trade union activity, including the preparation of claims to be presented to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or to be used in negotiations between the employer and the employee. [More…]
Trade union training in industrial law is not given in any college or university in Australia. [More…]
Today the unions in Australia have to compete with employers who have capable and trained industrial advocates. [More…]
In order to do this, union officials have to be trained right from the shop floor through the whole administration of a union. [More…]
Being a former secretary of the Australian Workers Union, I know that in the State of South Australia from which I come we had great difficulty in engaging an industrial officer. [More…]
It is very important that people in the trade union movement should have this training. [More…]
It is pleasing for me tonight to be able to say that a former industrial officer of the Australian Workers Union, Mr John Bannon, is now acting as a departmental adviser to the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
When unions are able to get an efficient advocate on industrial affairs, they usually do not keep him for very long. [More…]
There will be a training centre which will keep members and officials of unions up to date on the latest techniques in preparing a case and presenting it to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I need to refer only to the recent arbitration case on wage indexation to show how important it is today for trade union officials to be educated so that they know what is required and how best they can present a case in the interests of the members whom they represent. [More…]
This evening Senator Steele Hall took the opportunity of the debate on this Bill to attack the trade union movement in South Australia and, as a matter of fact, in all other States. [More…]
The only reason Senator Hall raised this matter this evening was to appeal to and please his supporters in the big companies such as the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, General Motors-Holdens Pty Ltd, Chrysler Australia Ltd and similar big companies that rely on the likes of Senator Hall and other honourable senators in the Opposition to continually bash down the trade unions. [More…]
Opposition senators believe that if they can come into the chamber, particularly when the proceedings are being broadcast, and bash the trade union movement and blame the trade union movement for everything that is affecting the economy of Australia irrespective of what Bill we are debating, they are serving their masters, and they hope to be rewarded for it. [More…]
It provides for something that we hope and we believe will improve the relationship between the trade union movement and the employers. [More…]
We hope that any further contributions in this debate will be based on the merits of the Bill and not on union bashing, as have the contributions from the last 2 speakers from the Opposition side. [More…]
The Senate is debating a Bill to establish a Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The trade union movement in Australia is an immensely powerful institution. [More…]
One might ask: Why do trade unionists have to be trained? [More…]
The trade unions have done pretty well by their members in the various objectives which they have set themselves. [More…]
One reason for these excessive wage demands has been the desire of various trade union officials to impress upon their membership that they are not slacking in looking after their members’ interests. [More…]
One might look at the various other objectives which the trade union movement has been able to achieve. [More…]
Senator Hall earlier instanced the fact that our trade in wheat with Chile, amounting to $40m, has been brought to a termination because of trade union power. [More…]
One might look at what is proposed in the area of wage indexation, which again is a matter which the Prime Minister has said is vital to the Government’s antiinflationary activities, and which the metal trade unions are proposing to challenge by direct strike action. [More…]
There is a host of other activities which, if they are not current at the moment are about to be engaged in, represent the power of trade union leaders. [More…]
I have mentioned these things simply because they indicate that in the areas in which the trade union officials operate they have been pretty successful in establishing the unions as a rival to the power of legitimate government. [More…]
It is this confrontation between the unions and government which I think poses ultimately the greatest challenge which democracy in this country has had to face. [More…]
The vast majority of the people of Australia recognise the real problem in reconciling the power of the trade union movement when it is exercised for political ends, or even exercised for industrial ends which run counter to what is the interest of the community at large, with the power of the Government, the political complexion of which everybody in the country has an opportunity of determining. [More…]
The Bill proposes to establish the Trade Union Training Authority whose functions will be to undertake and carry out the planning and development of programs of trade union training in Australia; to provide trade union training; to co-ordinate trade union training in various places throughout Australia; actually to provide- I presume that means financially- for the trade union training; and to ensure that the trade union training is kept under constant review. [More…]
The people who are to control this Authority are nominated by the Bill, and there is a predominance of Labor Party personnel in the Council which will control this Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Within the Authority there will be State authorities which can conduct trade union training within the States. [More…]
What is the term ‘trade union training’ actually to comprehend? [More…]
The Bill is not tremendously informative because the words that are used in the Bill could comprehend a variety of types of trade union training. [More…]
The term ‘trade union training’, according to the definition, means educational, technical or practical training which is capable of advancing and developing an understanding of the functions and objectives of trade unions in Australian society. [More…]
It also involves educational, technical and practical training which is capable of advancing and developing knowledge and skills in fields connected with the powers and functions of trade unions or the powers, functions and duties of officers or officials of trade unions. [More…]
It could cover the types of activities to which I shall refer shortly and which the communist trade union officials make no secret in disclosing as the objectives which they have, or it could embrace more the reasonable types of objectives to which I think Senator Georges earnestly gave expression in the course of what he said earlier tonight. [More…]
But trade union training also involves educational, technical and practical training for members of trade unions in any other fields approved by the Australian Council. [More…]
I would suspect that that would give to the Trade Union [More…]
Training Authority an opportunity to enhance the broad educational base of persons who are engaged in trade union activity. [More…]
What is important is to ensure that those objectives are given an interpretation which enables trade unions to serve the purposes of their members and to serve the purposes of the society of which they are part. [More…]
Those objectives should not be interpreted in a way which enables the trade union movement to overthrow the system or to undermine the society of which it is a part. [More…]
If I understood what Senator Hall said tonight it was to emphasise the fact that there are elements within the trade union movement which would use the powers and objectives of this Trade Union Training Authority to stimulate a desire and an equipment and an ability amongst more and more trade unionists to overthrow the existing society. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is Australia’s largest union. [More…]
It is a very militant union, lt has, I think, and I may be wrong in my assessment, some 5 per cent of the trade union members throughout this country and in the last two or three years it has been responsible for 30 per cent of the strikes. [More…]
It also has its own trade union training authority- the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union Training Authority. [More…]
It is said in the union’s journal, in an explanation as to what this trade union training authority is all about, that it will not have a bar of any workermanagement courses because that type of cooperation is anathema to the Metal Workers Union of this country. [More…]
It has had, and will continue to have, a radicalising effect upon unions. [More…]
Union training can help to widen and deepen the challenge to capitalism. [More…]
I want to refer to one of the arch priests of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Mr John Halfpenny, the Victorian State Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and a member of the Communist Party of Australia, the same Communist Party of which I think the Assistant Federal Secretary of the Union, Mr Carmichael, was recently the President- he may still be the president - [More…]
The symposium was on new developments in trade union interests and activities. [More…]
Mr Halfpenny spoke on the subject ‘Union Views’. [More…]
Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]
One suggests that trade unions should be involved in a power-sharing arrangement with employers. [More…]
This view supports such concepts as worker participation with unions and workers seeking to gain a voice in management with seats on the Boards of Directors. [More…]
It also supports trade union excursions into business and commercial ventures. [More…]
I welcome the advent of the Australian Council of Trade Unions into commercial ventures like Bourke ‘s Melbourne Pty Ltd. [More…]
If it can get some entry into the areas of tourism and the oil industry that again is to be welcomed because it will mean that organised unionism will be participating in the functions of our society and will have a vested interest in the wellbeing of that society. [More…]
Providing that there is an acknowledgment of those rules, those laws, I think that the more co-operative trade union activities there are in these areas the better will be the ongoing of our type of society. [More…]
The other view, to which I subscribe, is that trade union power should be directed towards challenging the very basis of the present system and replacing the power of employers, particularly the national and multi-national monopoly corporations, with the power of workers and of the people. [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that what Senator Wright said was based on a sound and long understanding of the objectives of militant trade unions and communist trade unions in this country. [More…]
There was so much said by Mr Halfpenny in this address that it is worth reading by anybody interested in what Mr Halfpenny, a significant trade union leader in this country, aspires to. [More…]
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1974 SYMPOSIUM NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADE UNION INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES “UNION VIEWS” [More…]
JOHN HALFPENNY VICTORIAN STATE SECRETARY AMALGAMATED METAL WORKERS’ UNION [More…]
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADE UNION INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES [More…]
The newest development relating to the trade unions is the interest which trade union interests and activities are arousing amongst sections of the community outside of the trade union movement. [More…]
Many who engage in the exercise of discovering and identifying what is new in the trade union movement are often disappointed when their examination reveals that the newness represents in the main a quantitative rather than a qualitative change. [More…]
I am not suggesting that there is nothing new, and that trade unionism has stood still during the past 120 years. [More…]
I do want to indicate clearly that the aim of the trade union movement to acquire political and economic power remains now, as it did at the beginning, the principal objective of trade unionism. [More…]
The developments in trade union interests and activities have taken place to meet these and other challenges of our increasingly complex society, and to allow the trade union movement to mobilise its resources more effectively. [More…]
New developments in trade union interests and activities have been stimulated by a number of factors including- [More…]
It should be recognised that these are quantitative developments which have led to new developments in trade union interests and activities, without in any way qualitatively changing the role and function of the trade union movement. [More…]
I should, before proceeding any further, qualify my reference to the trade union movement. [More…]
This term does not always mean very much, because what we have is a movement of trade unions and trade unionists rather than a singleminded trade union movement. [More…]
There are several trends within the trade union movement. [More…]
Sometimes they come together, but very often they are separated, mainly on fundamental questions which relate to the role and functions of trade unions. [More…]
What is euphemistically called the trade union movement is the organisational expression of a conglomeration of ideologies, opinions and levels of awareness. [More…]
That, of course, means that I am not speaking about the trade union movement, but rather of what I regard as the more significant new developments and interests in the movement of trade unions. [More…]
The most significant new development in trade union activity around what might be regarded as purely industrial matters, has been the movement away from arbitration. [More…]
On the other hand, collective bargaining has long been supported by the more enlightened section of the trade union movement, because it provides a basis upon which workers can become directly involved in the process which determines their wage rates and conditions. [More…]
In the non-industrial area, new developments in trade union interests and activities are concerned with worker involvement, environmental issues, foreign policy, business ventures and union amalgamations. [More…]
Trade union interest and activity in each of these areas has been stimulated by one or more of the 3 factors mentioned earlier. [More…]
In my view, greater worker involvement should be achieved by worker interference and intervention through independent trade union organisation rather than by participation. [More…]
The new interest by trade unions in worker involvement has arisen from the need to improve life at work and to combat the alienation and dissatisfaction which arise from the requirements of modern industry. [More…]
Worker participation is also based on the notion of power sharing which stimulates some sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
The increasing complexity of the social, political and industrial conditions which have been created by modern capitalism are also stimulating trade union interest in environmental issues and trade union business enterprises. [More…]
Trade union interest in environmental issues has arisen because of the growing concern about the effects of capitalism ‘s notions of perpetual economic growth and profit making. [More…]
Trade union interest in such issues may not be new, but trade union action in this field is certainly new and has given a new dimension to the struggle of environmentalists, ecologists and conservationists. [More…]
Trade union action has added a new dimension because there is something final about a black ban or a green ban as opposed to the traditional means of protest such as letter writing, demonstrations and deputations. [More…]
There is something new also about present day trade union amalgamations. [More…]
In the past, union amalgamations have usually taken the form of one large strong union taking over other small unions whose membership and industrial strength have suffered because of technological change. [More…]
While this sort of amalgamation will continue, the new amalgamation will be of the type which created the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union. [More…]
That Union is a combination of three Unions, each was quite strong and large and none being compelled to amalgamate to survive. [More…]
That amalgamation, and many others will undoubtedly follow, was brought about by an understanding of the need to develop aggressive trade union structures that would arm workers with the capacity to cope with the increasing complexity of the social, political and industrial conditions created by modern capitalism. [More…]
While trade union interest in non industrial matters is not new, what is new is that trade unions are now taking a much more direct interest in these matters than in the past when they tended to regard non industrial matters as being the province of the political side of the Labor Movement. [More…]
The extent to which these new developments make an impact on trade unions and the extent to which trade unions become involved in these new areas of wider interest, is very much dependent upon the attitude, mainly within the trade unions, towards the question of trade union power. [More…]
Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]
One suggests that trade unions should be involved in a power-sharing arrangement with employers. [More…]
This view supports such concepts as worker participation with unions and workers seeking to gain a voice in management with seats on the Board of Directors. [More…]
It also supports trade union excursions into business and commercial ventures. [More…]
The other view, to which I subscribe, is that trade union power should be directed towards challenging the very basis of the present system and replacing the power of employers, particularly the national and multi-national monopoly corporations, with the power of workers and of the people. [More…]
As the ‘New Left Review’ stated in an article in 1970- for Senator Brown’s benefit, if he cares to check it is at page 22- at the beginning of 1937 there were more than 20 Communist trade union officials. [More…]
Within the semi-professional and the white collar unions their influence at that time was non-existent. [More…]
Today, members of the Communist parties, and there are three in this country, lead or control unions with a numerical strength approximating nearly 1 300 000 workers, almost half the number of union member affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Outside the ACTU they lead a significant number of unions. [More…]
This Bill deals with the creation of a trade union training authority and, for the life of me, I cannot understand how in any circumstances Senator Greenwood can relate his comments to that context of the Bill. [More…]
I am linking my remarks in this way: There are significant communist elements in the trade union movement, and what I believe is important is that the objectives of this trade union authority should not be interpreted in a way that will promote the objectives of the communist party. [More…]
There are reasonable objectives to which expression ought to be given, and what the Liberal and Country Parties’ joint policies in this area represent is I think a fair indication of the reasonable objectives of such a trade union training authority. [More…]
We believe that such an authority- this has been part of our policy and we therefore welcome what the Government is belatedly doingshould instil and inculcate a knowledge of the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, its principles and purposes, that it should promote an understanding and better recognition of the functions and duties of shop stewards, that it should develop an appreciation and the need for recognition of union rules to inform trade union officials and officers how to run an office, a recognition of the relationship between branch and federal officers. [More…]
If the trade union training authority gave effect to objectives of that character, I am quite sure that not only would it be meeting what is I believe the desire of the substantial majority of members- having regard to what Senator Brown has said, not all members- of this Senate but also it will indicate that the trade union training authority will serve the interests of the community. [More…]
If this trade union authority represents the expenditure of public moneys to promote the activities and the influence of those who would undermine our society, we have not many years before we will become that authoritarian and totalitarian state that marks the communist countries. [More…]
On the other hand, if this trade union training authority can really instil a better understanding and a better recognition of how trade union officers and officials can serve the interests of their members and the society of which they are part, there is no limit to the wealth and prosperity and the standards of living which all Australians can enjoy. [More…]
In this debate every senator has pledged support for the Bill, which is a Bill about trade union education, to set up a college and to set up administration- an Australian and a State council- and it dennes what trade union education is. [More…]
More than half his speech was spent on attacking a left-wing union. [More…]
He may attack a left-wing union on the basis of another Bill during an arbitration debate, but surely it cannot be logical or fair to spend all that time, as other Opposition senators have done, in attacking the union movement, when what we are putting up is a reform, like the other reforms we propose, which will help produce a more stable union movement. [More…]
We are trying to provide remedies such as indexation, amalgamation of unions, worker participation and joint activities. [More…]
We want to have trade union training. [More…]
Yet Opposition senators pick out a small fragment of the union movement and say: ‘There is the cause of all our troubles ‘ [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) said in his second reading speech, the activities outside trade union training- of trade union leaders and delegates meeting employers and management specialists on industrial relations discussions- will go on just the same. [More…]
I have never found any reason for lack of confidence on the part of trade union representatives or delegates. [More…]
Surely nobody wants to see a tame cat union movement with people whom one cannot respect, whom one cannot trust, who are not honest and with whom one cannot make deals. [More…]
The country is moving the way it ought to move; that is, towards collective agreements, with the managers and the union officials respecting each other, being able to make a deal and knowing that they can be sure that the arrangement or agreement they have made will be properly protected and carried into effect. [More…]
In my own experience in the Labor movement -as most people know, I have been in it since I was 2 1 years old and I was a shop steward first and later a union secretary and a trades hall secretary- I have found that the experienced trade union advocate who is always prepared to give an honest deal is the man who makes the best progress. [More…]
We propose to establish a Trade Union Training College. [More…]
I think it was Senator Wright who said that he considered that there ought to be some sort of arrangement whereby a man who was not a union official ought to be able to go to the College. [More…]
The training provided will be aimed primarily at promoting trade union competence. [More…]
Such training will go towards bridging the gap between the unionists’ and managments level of industrial relations knowledge and technique. [More…]
So it is clear that what we propose is a system which will bring into the workforce and into active association with managers, with industry and others a more accomplished set of union officials. [More…]
We should remember that in Australia the membership of unions is at one of the highest levels in the world, with about 53 per cent of the workforce. [More…]
In addition the Government has accepted an Opposition proposition to put on the Australian Council- and there will be an amendment following- a representative from each side of the Parliament, which means that Parliament will have some involvement in the activities of the Australian Council in respect of trade union education. [More…]
The ILO is a tripartite organisation in which are involved governments, employers and the union movement, and we will support its conventions. [More…]
The honourable senator also mentioned the Donovan report, which was one of the reports that recommended the amalgamation of unions and that also did not recommend the use of any penal clauses. [More…]
We will not be choosing union officials from any one single union. [More…]
The Trades and Labor Council, the central national body will be asked to nominate union representatives. [More…]
The best employers in the country, those who have the best policies in industrial relations and the best record in industry, are those who deal with whomever represents the union movement and those whose word they can take. [More…]
The venture is a new venture and ought to be understood and recognised by all sections of the economy, such as the manufacturers’ association, the employer organisations generally, the trade unions and many other bodies. [More…]
The brochure that has been circulated in the Parliament is to be used publicly for telling the employer organisations and other interested bodies such as the trade unions and the Department of Labor an d Immigration. [More…]
To undertake and carry out the planning and development of programs of trade union training in Australia; [More…]
To provide trade union training at the College and the Trade Union Training Centres. [More…]
Regarding suitable persons, clause 10 (2) (c) states: to arrange for suitable persons to undertake, at the College or elsewhere, research, or to make investigations and inquiries, for the purposes of determining what trade union training is required in Australia and the best methods of carrying out trade union training in Australia. [More…]
As Senator Hall well knows, the Workers Educational Association has for many years been conducting courses related to trade unions. [More…]
In earlier days I participated in preparing some papers on the subject of trade unions for some people. [More…]
I would think that in this case the only use of any notation about political affiliations would be simply to identify perhaps for historical purposes where a union movement has been allied to particular parties. [More…]
What the unions do about their political affiliations is in the spectrum of politics. [More…]
We all know that the Labor Party, as Senator Hall has put it, is historically largely based on the union movement in most of the countries that we have been talking about tonight. [More…]
As far we know, permission has not been sought from or given by the Soviet authorities for the establishment of an Amnesty International chapter in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union regards matters such as these as falling within its domestic jurisdiction. [More…]
However, at the same time it is apparent that there has not been the co-operation that one would have hoped for between management and the union involved. [More…]
I believe there has been a very large degree of breakdown between the union involved and the management. [More…]
It was inserted into that Act some years ago in order to facilitate the utilisation of the powers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and to ensure the enforcement of union rules. [More…]
If unionists felt the rules of the unions were not being observed, or that there were unjust or oppressive rules, it was proper that aid should be available to enable the ordinary unionist, who for lack of means would not be able to contemplate the proceedings, in effect, to be indemnified by the Government in the action which he takes. [More…]
There was one attending a legal office one day a week, another one was attending the stock exchange one day a week, and surprisingly there was one who on one day a week was working with the Australian Workers Union in Melbourne to get training in union advocacy. [More…]
Agreement between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Cultural Co-operation, signed at Moscow on 15 January 1975. [More…]
Agreement between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Scientific-Technical Co-operation, signed at Moscow on 1 5 January 1 975. [More…]
The Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) is also arranging for detailed discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and officers of the railway unions to establish methods of consultation and liaison which will ensure all railwaymen and women are fully informed on the progress of the transfer. [More…]
Already trade union officials have been involved in the official discussions which led to the agreement to transfer the South Australian Railways and Tasmanian Government Railways. [More…]
These trade union officials made a significant contribution to the transfer discussions through their detailed knowledge of industrial matters. [More…]
We believe in union amalgamations if the members of the unions desire to have the amalgamations. [More…]
There has been a lot of talk of the desirability of having amalgamations to reduce the number of unions and, in particular, the number of small unions. [More…]
But the union amalgamations that took place throughout the 1960s under the old rules were amalgamations not of large unions with small unions but between quite large unions. [More…]
The most recent amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was an amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the boilermakers union and the sheet metal workers organisation, each of which was in its own right a very substantial union. [More…]
In doing so it ignores the rights and responsibilities it ought to recognise that the individual members of the trade union movement possess. [More…]
The Bill provides for the conduct of ballots in accordance with the rules of a union. [More…]
We believe that is a far more preferable procedure than a procedure which would enable ballots to be conducted in accordance with whatever rules a union might decide to enforce. [More…]
This Bill seeks to reduce the grounds upon which objection to an amalgamation may be lodged by an individual unionist. [More…]
We do not believe that that is a fair or proper recognition of the rights of individual members of unions. [More…]
Furthermore, the amalgamation can change union rules and therefore affect the eligibility of individual union members to remain members of a union or organisation. [More…]
We say that there ought to be a minimum requirement of 50 per cent of the union membership voting in an amalgamation ballot before the point is reached of considering the actual decision of those who vote. [More…]
This Bill would permit an amalgamation to take place if 20 per cent, 10 per cent or even 3 members, and 3 members only, of a union voted on the issue. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has said that the amalgamations of organisations will make for more efficient and more responsible unions. [More…]
After all, the most recent of the amalgamations affecting the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has demonstrated that it has contributed more to industrial unrest in recent years than any other union. [More…]
The Bill provides further for unions with a membership of less than 2000 not to be permitted registration under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
That will lead to a domination of the smaller unions by the larger unions. [More…]
We believe that, inarticulate as they may be, there are hosts of union members in this country who rely upon a Senate constituted as this Senate is and prepared to protect the rights of individual members of unions, to continue to protect the individual rights of those union members. [More…]
When the Government accepts that it is a fair thing that at least 50 per cent of the union members should vote in a ballot and that at least 50 per cent of those voting in favour of the amalgamation is required, I am sure that we will reach a point at which we can get some common agreement. [More…]
The Senate has before it a Bill which would enable the Opposition to enshrine at least in one direction in industrial matters the principle of democracy in union management. [More…]
I had hoped, forlornly and I know foolishly, in the first instance when this Bill came before the Senate that the amendments which I had drawn would at least be considered during the Committee stage and that we might consider putting into this Bill the provision for compulsory secret postal ballots for union decisions of this nature and giving a lead in relation to other types of decisions which are taken in other fields of union management. [More…]
A very prominent New South Wales trade union leader told me privately that he definitely approved of that proposal and would publicly put his name to it if it was proposed in this place. [More…]
I think that Mr Laurie Short has quite openly and publicly acclaimed the principle of secret postal ballots in union affairs. [More…]
Here is one of the greatest opportunities in this legislative session for the Opposition to do something constructive, to take a Bill and to mould it according to democratic principles which the union movement so badly need. [More…]
We have got nearly 300 unions. [More…]
Everybody can understand how difficult it must be not only for the courts but also for employers to talk to more than one union in an enterprise. [More…]
I have told honourable senators previously of my own experiences in which I have found that one employer can talk to one union and, despite the political ideology of the union, when they trust each other they can short-circuit many disputes. [More…]
In referring to the Post Office unions, the Vernon Commission report stated: [More…]
Following the suspension on 22 March of efforts by Dr Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, to bring about a second-stage agreement between Egypt and Israel, the Egyptian Government has formally requested the two Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference on the Middle East, the United States and the Soviet Union, to re-convene the Conference as soon as possible. [More…]
However, I have had lunch with Mr Mormon, the managing-director of Greater Union Theatres. [More…]
Indeed, the purpose of my having lunch with Mr Mormon on one occasion was specifically to get Greater Union Theatres interested in looking at the question of making a film of Hardy’s book ‘The Outcasts of Foolgarah’. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that far from trying to put a stop to the proposal I did my utmost to try to persuade Greater Union Theatres to get the film produced in Australia. [More…]
I will not be intimidated, nor will the Opposition be intimidated, by the political blackmail which a few Public Service union officials are prepared to use. [More…]
When one considers the record of this Government and its ability to twist the facts, to falsify and to misrepresent- leaving aside the outrageous lies which they engage in at election times- I think there is something deplorable in the fact that this misrepresentation is engaged in by a few union officials connected with the Public Service unions. [More…]
If we look at the last mentioned and most critical attack made by the honourable senator about the violent disruptions presently going on in Victoria we find that the disruptions relate to the question of demarcation between 2 unions. [More…]
If we had been able to settle this vexed question 2 years ago by taking action which was designed to allow easier amalgamations- it was once promoted by a Liberal Party Minister and later by the Labor Government- we would have one union covering the workers who are involved in the present dispute in Victoria. [More…]
I point out that recently a meeting was held between certain union executives and the executive of Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd in Hobart concerning the freighting of goods from Claremont to the mainland. [More…]
Is the Minister able to say whether the Government has requested the unions involved with shipping and freighting to and from Tasmania to give Tasmania special consideration when any strike is contemplated? [More…]
The Opposition’s view is that the Australian Public Service has been treated extremely generously with regard to rates of pay, security of employment and benefits and that the position of its members is in great contradiction to that of the large number of people who are in other areas of employment, such as farmers, people engaged in industrial pursuits and people who work in the trade union movement. [More…]
One wonders whether or not the power which was able to be exercised by a very significant and powerful union on the waterfront played a far greater role in securing increases at the level which was able to be obtained than the public interest properly justified. [More…]
I fail to see why a national body, even if operated by government or under the authority of government, is going to be in any stronger position to resist the squeezing which can be engaged in by a union and by a shipowner, each of whom has his own interests to serve, which could be mutually achieved at the expense of the third party, whether that third party be a group of private companies operating in their own interests or whether it be one nationalised company. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with officials of the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union and the Maritime Services Guild. [More…]
The Luddite concept about England being the workshop of the world and people resisting changes in the textile industry was never adopted by the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Nine months ago this Government was faced with a predicament whereby our shipping was boycotted by the other union operating in this field, the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
That union would not allow foreign ships to trade interstate, even though they had the licence of the responsible Minister to do so, except upon payment of a lump sum of thousands of dollars said to represent an equalisation between foreign pay and Australian pay. [More…]
May I remind the Senate that this week Tasmanian shipping was held up because the arbitration processes had not readily agreed to a demand by ship employees, members of the Seamen’s Union, for an increase of $60 a week. [More…]
Even today a ship in Geelong is held up due to some union dispute about increased wages. [More…]
Is it any wonder that I rise, for about the twentieth time in the 25 years that I have been a senator, to protest with all the spirit of which I am capable at the imposition which the monopoly of this union represents upon the trade of Australia? [More…]
At Port Adelaide, because of an inter-union dispute, the labour force of one employer was idle on pay for the last 10 weeks of the year, incurring a wastage of some 2884 man days of employment at cost of over $68,000. [More…]
Honourable senators already have heard that not only the Authority, the Government and the union but also the employers want what is proposed in the Bill. [More…]
I also pay a tribute to the union organisations in the Burnie area who understood the problem as it affected APPM and who, very much against their inclinations, agreed to the proposal which prevented a great number of people from being thrown out of work. [More…]
Let me refer to the main unions with members in the OTC. [More…]
It is well established that they took part in what was known as the joint union group. [More…]
The staff groups, the union groups and the management groups worked together to thrash out a new form of administration, which will give the staff a new identity. [More…]
For the first time ever in the Australian community we have, as a part of the organisation, a trade union or staff representative as a member of the Commission. [More…]
In anticipation of this and in anticipation of the Opposition accepting the recommendations of the Government and of the Vernon Commission, I recommended to the Prime Minister that a union delegation should go overseas to look at the best practices and techniques of telecommunications and post offices. [More…]
I recommended that a unionist from the Professional Radio Employees Institute be a part of that delegation. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner, I stated that, with the approval of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), I intend to notify a number of trade union people, including a unionist from the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, to go overseas to look at postal and telecommunications organisations and to bring that experience back to the 2 new Commissions. [More…]
If the Opposition continues to oppose the merger of OTC with the Australian Telecommunications Commission it will mean that the union side of the OTC will not have that international experience. [More…]
I have seen the news item referred to by the honourable senator and, as one who has had occasion to criticise the Soviet Union for its restrictions on international freedom, I welcome the evidence of a loosening of such restrictions. [More…]
I can recall an occasion in the Australian Industrial Court- the Commonwealth Industrial Court as it was known before that word was ostracisedwhen a challenge was made to the propriety of His Honour Mr Justice Dunphy sitting in a matter involving the Australian Workers Union, the objection being based on the fact that a firm of lawyers with whom His Honour had been associated before he was elevated to the bench had acted for the union. [More…]
Party, trade union and community affairs. [More…]
He was a former State President of the Australian Labor Party and a former State Secretary of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
Bert Milliner held almost every executive position in his union, from shop steward to vice-president. [More…]
He began his working life as an apprentice compositor in the Government Printing Office and later became active in the Labor Party and his union. [More…]
He was respected throughout this Parliament, throughout his Party, and throughout the trade union movement, and he served all three for many years. [More…]
He rose to become SecretaryTreasurer of the Queensland Branch of his union, the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, and his experience in that industry led to his becoming a member, and later Chairman, of the Printing Committee of this Parliament. [More…]
He was a loyal and industrious worker for his party, for his State and for the trade union movement in Queensland. [More…]
To these committees he gave many hours of valuable and unselfish service in an honorary capacity and the committees were all the richer as a result of his participation and the trade union experience that he was able to bring to them. [More…]
We first met over 25 years ago when he was a fairly junior member of the executive of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
He was very devoted to the cause of the trade union movement. [More…]
Incidentally the improvements were to both the working conditions and the wage standards of the many members of that union in Queensland and throughout Australia. [More…]
1 table copies of the documents referred to, together with copies of telexes of the 20th December, to Union Bank of Switzerland and Mr Khemlani, containing necessary details of the Executive Council Minute. [More…]
On the 7th instant I was personally informed by Senator Wriedt that a luncheon was given to him when he was in Zurich, Switzerland, at which he met representatives of the Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse, and other banks. [More…]
Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich. [More…]
His political career and beliefs are based on a deep-seated hatred of trade unions and he is longing to throw into reverse all that the ALP and the union movement have fought for over decades to achieve wage justice and decent job conditions. [More…]
Millhouse: Says workers are being urged, bullied, and pressured by the Transport Workers’ Union. [More…]
Described an Australian Railways Union strike as disastrous’. [More…]
Accuses the Liquor Trades Employees ‘ Union of intimidation, the Boilermaker and Blacksmiths’ Society of ‘grossest interference with the affairs of a company. ‘ [More…]
A year ago Hall claimed Australian industry was in ‘grave danger’ because of a ‘reckless’ union ban on US ships. [More…]
Now he is on the attack again professing concern about union management, demanding checking of accounts by the Auditor-General despite the fact that audited balance sheets are already required by law to be presented to the Registrar of the Industrial Court. [More…]
Hall and Millhouse never miss a chance to knock a union. [More…]
This supplement I have read was put out in many trade union journals. [More…]
I want to say to Senator Hall tonight that the people of South Australia, the real workers of that State, the trade union members and their dependants, know what his Party stands for and they know what he stands for. [More…]
What are the names of (a) the metropolitan daily papers in each State and Territory; (b) the major provincial papers in each State and Territory; (c) the ethnic papers; (d ) the weekend press; and the trade union press, in which the advertisement which included a photograph or other representation of the previous Attorney-General appeared, which was referred to in the answer to Senate Question No. [More…]
It would be a shameful affair if, simply as the result of a frame-up, a union office bearer were suspended from his office and therefore lost the rights which are conferred by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Act to have financial assistance to enable him to test in the courts the validity of his suspension. [More…]
It also ought to be a matter of public knowledge if prominent union officials in this country are engaged in activities which amount to concocting untrue evidence with which to ruin a person’s political fortunes in any political party. [More…]
1, NORMAN JOSEPH BRAY of 5 Stoney Creek Road, Beverly Hills, in the State of New South Wales, Union Official, being duly sworn make oath and say as follows: [More…]
From 1955 approximately to 1968 I worked in an industry whose union coverage is now exclusively that of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
In that period of time I held a number of honorary union offices in the unions then covering my employment. [More…]
In or about February 1968 I was appointed to the office of salaried organiser in the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia by resolution of the State Council of that Branch and held office for some three years until 1 97 1 . [More…]
In or about March 1971 I was elected in a court controlled ballot of the rank and file members the full-time Secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch and a delegate to State Council of the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and I held those offices for some three years until 1974. [More…]
In or about March 1974 I was elected in a courtcontrolled ballot of the rank and file members the full-time Secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch, delegate to Federal Council and delegate to State Council of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and I held these offices until Thursday 6th February 1975. [More…]
On Thursday 6th February 1975 I was confronted by the Federal Executive of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia with a document signed by one Francis Anthony Shanahan, known to mc as Frank Shanahan, which made various allegations against myself and other persons. [More…]
1 say that Frank Shanahan was an unsuccessful candidate in the elections in the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia declared in or about March 1 974 and was one of a number of candidates including myself who campaigned jointly for election. [More…]
In or about July 1974 the said Shanahan was convicted by the Australian Industrial Court of certain offences allegedly committed by the said Shanahan in the course of his campaign involving interfering with ballot papers posted to members of the union. [More…]
After hearing read Shanahan ‘s statement the Federal Executive of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia voted to dismiss me from my offices and to suspend me from membership in the Union until 30th June 1975. [More…]
The practical effect of the latter suspension was to deny me any possibility of obtaining employment in the industry in which I had worked before becoming a union officer. [More…]
From that day I continued to press the Federal Secretary of the Union to give me a copy of the statement made to Gietzelt by Shanahan and supplied to Raymond Hogan to use against me but I have not been supplied with that statement and 1 do not now know if it exists in the form in which it was read to Federal Executive on Thursday 6th February 1975. [More…]
Was the said Shanahan after his conviction employed by the general secretary of the Australian Workers Union one Barry Thomas Egan as an organiser in Wagga, New South Wales, and if so when did such employment commence and on what terms; [More…]
Did the said Egan arrange for the said Shanahan to meet with one Ray Gietzelt, Federal Secretary of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia on or about Tuesday 4 February 1975 and did such a meeting take place; [More…]
Do the records of the Supreme Court of New South Wales show that on and prior to Tuesday 4 February 1975 the said Shanahan was defendant in an action for libel in that Court and that the said action has since that date been discontinued or settled and if so by whom was that action brought, what office (if any) did the plaintiff or plaintiffs hold in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and upon what terms (unless not to be disclosed) was that action settled and when. [More…]
I expressly disclaim any wish for any enquiry to bc made by any person into the internal affairs of the Australian Labor Party, The Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia or any other organisation grouping or event and ask only that the Senate or a senator or senators take such action as is necessary to ensure that the specific questions of fact referred to in this my affidavit are investigated and reported upon to the Senate for such action as the Senate may then see fit to take. [More…]
1 was appointed an organiser in the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia by the State Council of that Branch in 1964 and held office for three years. [More…]
At the same time I began to undertake organising on behalf of a rank and file team to contest the 1970-1971 elections in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in opposition to the Gietzelt team. [More…]
Egan was at the time thc secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees Federation and later in thc same year became Federal Secretary of that union. [More…]
Union or Australia and after it appeared in a number of newspapers, writs for defamation were taken out in the Supreme Court of New South Wales by three officers of the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia namely Bill Rigby, Keith Blackwell and Jack Dwyer against each of Norm Bray, Frank Shanahan and Lloyd Grove. [More…]
1 returned to New South Wales and was then asked by Egan to go to Tasmania to see if I could put together a team there to contest the Branch elections in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in opposition to the proGietzelt officials. [More…]
Egan said that he had arranged for me to meet a number of union officials in that State who would be able to assist me. [More…]
In Tasmania I saw a number of union officials. [More…]
He told me that he had heard the same rumours as myself that there was a defect in the last Tasmanian Branch election in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia due to nominations not being advertised but said that he did not know whether this was correct and could only suggest I search the newspapers. [More…]
I later returned to Sydney and reported to Egan that no one in Tasmania that 1 had spoken to including Mr Harradine had been of any practical help except one member of the union who I had found myself by canvassing on the job. [More…]
In or about mid- 1972 Egan said to me that in preparing for our 1973-1974 election campaign in the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales it would be necessary for the campaign to be placed on a proper footing. [More…]
Egan continued to consult with me on the affairs of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and his relations with Gietzelt. [More…]
Early in 1 975 Egan told me that he had put Frank Shanahan on his payroll as an organiser in the Australian Workers Union of which Egan was secretary. [More…]
You are supposed to have staged a demonstration outside the Arbitration Commission with non-union people. [More…]
I will teach them to interfere in my union’. [More…]
I understood that this was a reference to Egan’s dismissal as National Secretary of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association in October 1974 by that Union’s National Council of which Mr Brian Harradine was a member. [More…]
Has the Minister received complaints from woolgrowers about the Australian Wool Corporation giving free textile machinery, including Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation spinning plants, to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of our major customers and certainly the IWS has been giving technical and commercial advice to the Soviet Union for a number of years. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that no financial assistance is involved other than the cost to the IWS of conveying that technical and commercial advice to the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Recently the Minister for Transport, Mr Jones, requested a report from the Australian National Railways and also commissioned an inspection by the union and departmental officers. [More…]
He certainly is sympathetic to what the union has been putting to him. [More…]
I understand that there is to be a report from the Railways and also one from the union. [More…]
The Australian Government is encouraged in this regard by the dialogue that Governor Pires has been able to establish with the UDT- the Timor Democratic Union- but not yet, it seems, with the leadership of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor- FRETILIN. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Agriculture and refers to yesterday’s announcement of the sale of an additional 250 000 tonnes of wheat to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics following an earlier sale of 750 000 tonnes. [More…]
-Yes, the Australian Wheat Board has negotiated a new sale to the Soviet Union of 250 000 tonnes of wheat. [More…]
The only reason I can think of is that the Department might want to do a gerrymander, as it did in Hobart in purchasing some union building there for what was apparently an excessive amount. [More…]
That is just a summation of the views of the trade union movement on this Bill. [More…]
It indicates quite positively to me that the trade union movement is opposed to the Bill. [More…]
As a matter of fact, earlier in my career I was a member of the trade union movement. [More…]
I know something of the machinations of the trade union movement. [More…]
As honourable senators know there was a trade union representative on the Telecommunications Commission and on the Postal Commission. [More…]
Any trade union balance sheet can be inspected and the funds contributed to the Australian Labor Party are shown in black and white. [More…]
I refer to a case which has been placed before me by a constituent who happens to be the secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union who had property in Darwin. [More…]
But what I am suggesting is that the union subsequently received an account from the insurance company- it was the same insurance company, the New Zealand Victorian Insurance Group- for $64 to cover the same property for the same period of time. [More…]
The union sent off the cheque to the insurance company and then received a letter from the company- the New Zealand Victorian Insurance Group- dated 2 April 1 975. [More…]
The company decided without any consultation with the union, or in other cases it would be the person concerned, that it would take out the storm and tempest cover from the insurance policy and restrict it to just a fire cover. [More…]
Of course, the union made representations on several occasions to the insurance company. [More…]
It was tried only recently in Western Australia by a consortium of West Australian farmers and the Farmers Union Western Australia (lnc). [More…]
In 1972 and 1973 representations were received from the Federated Miscellaneous Workers ‘ Union concerning hours of duty of attendant staff of the Joint House Department who are employed on guide duties and guard duties. [More…]
The view put by the Union was that these officers should not be required to work 40 hours a week, but only 36% a week, which was said to be the hours that the House attendants work. [More…]
A number of discussions with the Union were held at which the points of difference between the relative positions of the Joint House attendants and House Department attendants were canvassed but these were suspended in mid 1973 to await the outcome of a case in which the Australian Public Service (Fourth Division) Officers’ Association moved to bring Parliamentary Attendants within the scope of Public Service Arbitrator’s Determination No. [More…]
The question of the hours of duty of Parliamentary Attendant staff has been the subject of discussion between all Parliamentary departments and the Union since last year and this culminated some few weeks ago in a decision by the Departments concerned to accept the proposal put by the Union that the hours of Parliamentary Attendant staff be changed to 40 hours a week in Session and 34!6 hours a week in recess. [More…]
I find that at this meeting of the Life and General Insurance Committee a number of individuals were present, including representatives of Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd, City Mutual General Insurance Ltd, Legal & General Assurance Society Ltd, the Union Assurance Society of Australia Ltd, New Zealand Victoria Life Ltd, the Royal Insurance Co. Ltd, and AMP Fire and General Insurance Society Ltd. [More…]
If the members on the Government side of the House of Representatives were back in their trade union days they would strike tomorrow, quite properly, about the rotten conditions under which they work. [More…]
The industrial action was taken by that union as a protest against the delay in finalising an organisational review of the regulatory and licensing sections of the Postmaster-General’s Department in all States that occurred when the Australian Post Office was in operation. [More…]
There have been discussions between the head of my Department, the union and the Australian Public Service Board. [More…]
I would be interested to hear from the Opposition members, who talk so freely about secret ballots in trade unions and the democratic election of trade union officials- something with which I largely agree- when they are going to call for a secret ballot amongst the policy holders in these insurance companies - [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Australian Golf Union Council recently voted unanimously to send a team to South Africa in November- in company, of course, with teams from many other countries- but decided not to proceed because of opposition from the Australian Government? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a report of a survey conducted in 1973 by the Department of Education in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, entitled: ‘Why Students Reject Tertiary Places’ [More…]
The National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Mr Scott, already has warned that his union will demand compensation for the price increases that will occur in that respect, and others will follow. [More…]
We would expect the ACTU and trade union leadership to play a national role in arguing for wage and salary restraint in the interests both of their members and all Australians. [More…]
It would be a pre-requisite, an essential factor, that the trade union movement should not only co-operate but also should underwrite such a program. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is on strike; so real work on repairing the bridge cannot be carried out. [More…]
I understand that it involves an inter-union wrangle. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of the imminent lay-off of 4500 workers at Chrysler Australia Ltd at Lonsdale and Finsbury in South Australia, due to a Vehicle Builders Union strike at No Sag Springs, Geelong, and the consequent inability to obtain supplies of seat springs? [More…]
In fact I mentioned this matter yesterday when I referred to the fact that the decisions which are taken by trade unions to affiliate with the Australian Labor Party and to contribute to the funds of the Australian Labor Party are done publicly. [More…]
All I am asking is that if the Society does so it conducts a ballot amongst its policy holders in the same way as trade unions do; that it makes the contributions completely public; that if it so wishes it affiliates with the Liberal Party, and that it be prepared to become as clearly identified with the National Country Party as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Australian Government has a special interest in the settlement of the dispute and, indeed, in the union’s claims as the Australian Government will be footing the bill for the repair of the bridge. [More…]
Recently I asked the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) whether when his Government made its socalled social contract with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade unions and told them: ‘Look, if you forego over-award wage demands we will give you wage indexation’, he told them that his Government proposed that it would not be full wage indexation on the consumer price index but that indirect taxes and charges would be discounted. [More…]
If we want the trade union movement and the ACTU to enter a social contract with us then, first of all, in the homely phrase do we not have to be fair dinkum with each other? [More…]
We on the Opposition side will, of course, be saying to the trade union movement, which gave us for most of the time a pretty fair go indeed because it had the lowest inflation rate the world had seen, the highest sustained level of employment and the highest home ownership rate: ‘Look, we want a proper arrangement and a proper understanding’. [More…]
It was a communist union official in the Building Workers Union who in my presence said: ‘We do not want people to own their own homes because people who own their own homes are satisfied. [More…]
Because they bear the imprimatur and total support of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and they bear the signature of Mr Jolly. [More…]
Not a whimper can come from the Government benches as to the merits of the policies which we are advocating because they are backed to the hilt by the trade union movement. [More…]
I am a little concerned that the trade union movement in Australia has not taken up the cudgels with an argument for earlier retirement of people from the work force. [More…]
I remind the Minister that he stated categorically that the decisions to contribute union funds to the Australian Labor Party are taken publicly and by a ballot of the members and I ask: Will he, as the self-established authority on the subject, table in the Senate a list for the past 2 years of the donor unions, the amounts of the donations and the dates upon which the relevant ballots were held? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate the action the Government has taken to support the Australian Meat Board’s attempts to have the consignment exempted from the disruptive union action? [More…]
It is true that as a result of industrial problems in Victoria at the present time the meat contract with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has, at least in part, been placed in jeopardy. [More…]
I understand that the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union made a wage claim and that it sought the support of the Victorian Meatworks Association. [More…]
My Department has made every effort it can, in conjunction with the Australian Meat Board and the union involved, to try to resolve the problem. [More…]
There was purely an option available to the Soviet Union to buy an additional quantity of Australian beef. [More…]
It has appeared in wages hearings before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to espouse wage indexation and to suggest that the unions should adhere to the guidelines that have been laid down by the Commission. [More…]
The Government has appealed and I especially have appealed- continually not only to trade union leaders but also to trade union members to convince them that it is in their interests to moderate their wage demands at the present time and to show them that it is counter-productive for them to think that great increases in monetary wages serve their interests in the long run. [More…]
That has caused a glut and that glut will continue because recent reports seem to indicate that the Soviet Union is suffering from drought conditions and that it has now developed a very substantial need for grain, including wheat, and other food commodities. [More…]
I would like also to mention, but only very briefly because I think the situation is so serious that it warrants possibly a full-scale debate, that in Tasmania there is a situation currently in which because of the metal trades union strike which has been going on now for 9 weeks - [More…]
Secondly, the Government has done very little to control the union demands that we have seen during the last couple of years. [More…]
The poor have to pay for the excess union demands. [More…]
It seems that almost literally they have directly to contribute to the higher pay packages of the unionists. [More…]
It is time that the Government showed the way it wants the unions to act, or is this the way? [More…]
In the United Kingdom, as I have said, there are further manifestations of the problem of union demands which have been quite impossible to resist whether the government in Westminster has been a Tory government or a Labour government. [More…]
I was in contact with a company in Adelaide several weeks ago which, much to my dismay, eventually gave in under the demand of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union for a significant addition to the already existing over award payments. [More…]
One of the most disturbing related to the oil industry shut-down threat which I think appeared in the Australian .newspaper, and reads: ‘Oil shutdown threat by union militants: Bid to wreck indexation gathers pace’. [More…]
The alternative seems to be simply to say in this community that union demands will be led off in those crucial industries such as oil supply; they will set the standard for the rest of industry which does not quite have that throttle hold on the community. [More…]
We look at Britain and the uncontrolled union demands which have been so ably written about by Mr Paul Johnson, who is continuing the articles he wrote in the New Statesman in I think further articles in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. [More…]
He divides the ideology of the unions from that of a Labor government. [More…]
Mr Johnson has been quoted because of the strictures which he has been casting at the British trade union movement. [More…]
His criticisms of the British trade union movement are not from a capitalist point of view. [More…]
He is critical of the British trade union movement because be believes that the syndicalist approach, as he describes it, of the British trade union movement has been a hindrance to the advancement of socialism in Great Britain. [More…]
I would not think that either Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, whom I notice is attempting to intervene, or Senator Hall would agree with Mr Johnson that the brakes ought to be put on the British trade unions or on any other trade unions to advance the cause of socialism. [More…]
My friend Mr Bert James, the honourable member for Hunter who represents coal miners, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) and I had a singularly disagreeable experience today in speaking to representatives of the Miners Federation and other mining unions- unions which have given a lot of loyalty to this Government and to this Partyand telling them that we cannot at this stage do anything but support indexation of wages and incomes. [More…]
I can assure any Liberal senator that it may be easy for a Liberal to say that sort of thing to a group of workers and members of a trade union but it is not easy for any member of the Labor Party to say it. [More…]
Despite the fact that there may have been some setbackswe agree that there have been- we believe that we do have a command of the economic situation at the present time and that with the co-operation of the trade union movement and the Labor movement generally we will be able to restore - [More…]
We believe that they can be handled with the co-operation of the trade union movement because we believe that the trade union movement, when the case is explained to it, is loyal to this Party and to this Government. [More…]
For the last three or four years he has been president of the Federated Furnishing Trade Society which disaffiliated from the ALP some considerable time ago as a result of dissatisfaction because a member of the union who was previously an endorsed Labor Party candidate was expelled from the Party. [More…]
This union has a bad industrial record and has had for some time under its present control in Queensland. [More…]
There was a time when this union had a very proud record. [More…]
I refer to the days when the late Bill Rogers was Secretary of the union for many years. [More…]
The Hobart bridge was demolished some 40 weeks ago and during ten of those weeks we have seen a strike by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
We have seen the life style of thousands of people being interrupted for almost an extra 3 months due to the action of this one union. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the action of this union is not in the public interest. [More…]
I feel it should receive special union consideration instead of being specially used by the unions to increase the size of the members’ pay packet. [More…]
I consider that Baits should stick to the main theme of Baltic rights to independence and not act in such a way as to be publicly identified with, for example, all foreign policies of the U.S.A. or domestic ones of the Union of South Africa simply because those governments are anti-Soviet. [More…]
AND WHEREAS the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 provided for the administration of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea by Australia in an administrative union, by the name of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, whilst maintaining the identity and status of the Territory of New Guinea as a Trust Territory and the identity and status of the Territory of Papua as a Possession of the Crown: [More…]
AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Papua New Guinea Act 1971, the Territories governed in the Administrative union became together known as Papua New Guinea: [More…]
There has been longstanding agitation by members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union in Sydney resulting from the decision by the Public Transport Commission of New South Wales to take the travelling post office vehicles off the system because of costs. [More…]
Discussions were held between the Australian Postal Commission officials and the Public Transport Commission of New South Wales and the New South Wales Minister for Transport met a deputation from the Union. [More…]
Last week I met the union delegation here in Canberra and informed it that attempts would be made to ask Mr Shirley, the Chief Commissioner of the Public Transport Commission of New South Wales, to defer the date for cancelling the service. [More…]
Whilst there may be a number of causes of the current problems in Britain, there is a general agreement that one major cause of the difficulties in that country is the extent of industrial muscle being used by a section of a powerful Trade Union leadership which is not always concerned with, nor receptive to, the national interest. [More…]
There is, of course, a proper place in our society for a responsible Trade Union movement. [More…]
We also recognise that the vast majority of Australian employees and Unionists recognise the interdependence of labour, management and capital in the important process of creating the wealth of the Nation, lt is also clear that many of the Trade Union leaders in Australia today are responsible men. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly clear that in this country, there is a powerful and vocal minority within the Trade Union movement leadership which is attempting to use that movement for radical political, rather than industrial, ends and, in this regard, is quite irresponsible in its disregard for the laws of the land governing industrial relationships. [More…]
People often assume that trade unionism and socialism are roughly the same thing; that a trade unionist is a socialist, and vice-versa; and that trade union and socialist activities are designed to secure the same objects. [More…]
Indeed it is possible to argue that, in Britain today, the trade union movement is not only self-defeating, in terms of its own aims, but is a positive and growing obstacle to the accomplishment of socialist ones. [More…]
Trade unionism is killing socialism in Britain, and it is time socialists did something about it. [More…]
Now let us look at the trade unions. [More…]
A trade union does not necessarily have anything to do with political morality. [More…]
But they found it more effective to unionise themselves and develop the strike weapon. [More…]
The union was not a socialist instrument. [More…]
It is a lie for trade union leaders to claim that their vast wage demands having nothing to do with the poor and unfortunate. [More…]
Under the Australian Workers Union Construction and Maintenance Consolidated Award a grade 3 construction worker receives $107.80 a week. [More…]
The trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party vigorously opposed the suspension of the quarterly cost of living adjustments. [More…]
Excessive union demands had caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis . [More…]
On the day of remembrance of the deportations without trial of the inhabitants of the Baltic countries, we, the undersigned ask the Senate to request the Government to revoke de jure recognition of the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Postal by-law 222 picks up article 14 of the final protocol of the Universal Postal Union Convention which deals with the arrangements between member countries. [More…]
I have noticed also that those newspapers which, whenever a rise in parliamentary salaries takes place, refer to a pay grab have not referred to any pay grab by these gentlemen; nor, indeed, when they refer to a pay grab by coal miners or members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union have they ever felt prompted to remind their readers of the salaries which are being received by these individuals in hospital or medical benefits funds. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration whom I ask: Has the Government’s attention been directed to claims that the Australian Council of Trade Unions at its congress next week will reject the Government’s wage indexation policy because of the non-introduction of tax indexation? [More…]
What has been the actual response of the trade union movement to tax changes in the recent Budget? [More…]
The trade union movement hence understands and accepts the decision of the Australian Government to radically reform the personal tax schedule rather than introduce tax indexation this year, both reforms being out of the question financially. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the release of these draft reports enables all sections of the industry involved, including the trade union movement, to comment on its findings before final reports are presented to the Minister by the Industries Assistance Commission? [More…]
Unemployment is something of which this Government ought to be aware because so many of its representatives have come from the union movement, and the Government ought to know that to the individual unemployed person there is a loss of dignity, to the unemployed person’s dependants there is a loss of dignity, and there is often real physical hardship. [More…]
He has a record of attacking this union, but he ought not to attack the waterside workers right to have a living wage. [More…]
It is like a log of claims that is served in the trade union field- there is a fair area in which to bargain. [More…]
The prospects for the Australian crop are extremely good mainly, of course, because of the very large purchases by the Soviet Union in the last few weeks. [More…]
It is always the case that when the Soviet Union becomes a major buyer on the world market it forces the prices up. [More…]
Has the Minister for Labor and Immigration seen a statement that is reported to have been made by the National President of the Communist Party of Australia, Mr Laurie Carmichael, who is also the Assistant Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, to the effect that the Government is applying unworkable guidelines with respect to wage indexation? [More…]
Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration assure the Senate that there is no truth in the allegation by the Prime Minister that some union secretaries are receiving kickbacks from lawyers under the present system of compensation and insurance? [More…]
It has been only in recent years by trade union organisation and by trade union activity generally that some sort of standard of working conditions has been obtained for those who are employed in the mining industry. [More…]
It is only through the trade unions’ efforts that some sort of reasonable wage structure has been established. [More…]
During the State election I attended many meetings in South Australia in company with Mr Virgo, the Minister of Transport, and with us was Mr Ray Taylor who was the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
Mr Taylor said that his union was in full agreement with the transfer because members had read the details of the transfer Agreement and they were quite happy with it. [More…]
There is the Vice President of the Federated Clerks Union, who is also a member of the National Executive of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
I know that the ALP has a plan to form a union of prostitutes so that it can cash in on the action. [More…]
What better man is there to lead such a union than the honourable member for Archerfield? [More…]
He refers to him as a ‘union organiser’. [More…]
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Was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ Ambassador to Australia accurately reported as saying in August 1975 that the Soviet Union did not have any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
1 ) Reports that the Soviet Ambassador to Australia said at a Press conference on 6 August that the Soviet Union did not have ‘any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean ‘ have been brought to my attention. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Australian Golf Union Council recently voted unanimously to send a team to South Africa in November, in company, of course, with teams from many other countriesbut decided not to proceed because of opposition from the Australian Government? [More…]
In April a letter was addressed to the Foreign Minister by the President of the Australian Golf Union, informing him that the Union was most anxious to accept an invitation from the South African Golf Union to send a team of six amateur golfers to represent Australia in a tournament named The Commonwealth Trophy scheduled to be held in South Africa next November. [More…]
The letter sought advice as to whether, should the Australian Golf Union accept the invitation, the Australian Government would in any way impose restrictions. [More…]
In reply, the Australian Golf Union was informed by the Foreign Minister that, in keeping with its strong opposition to the apartheid system, the Australian Government will not permit South African sporting teams and organisations, which are organised on the principles of apartheid, to enter or transit Australia and that, conversely, although Australian citizens are free to play sport wherever they choose, visits by sporting teams to South Africa are officially discouraged. [More…]
In July the Secretary of the Australian Golf Union wrote to the Foreign Minister seeking a review of the Government’s attitude. [More…]
He added that, should the Australian Golf Union decide to send a team to South Africa, the Government would publicly deplore and dissociate itself from any such tour. [More…]
I am glad to note that, according to press reports, the Australian Golf Union has decided not to send a team to South Africa. [More…]
Thus I am informed that the South African Golf Union is an all-white organisation, and that there is also a non-racial South African Golf Association which is mainly composed of coloured and Indian members, and a South African Bantu Golf Union for black people. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether the unilateral decision by the doctors’ union, which calls itself the Australian Medical Association, to increase charges by 14 percent from 1 January, coming as it does on top of its decision to increase charges by 12 per cent on 1 July, in defiance of a tribunal which it nominated, poses a threat to wage indexation and inflation control. [More…]
Is he aware of any criticism of the doctors’ union by relevant spokesmen for the Opposition? [More…]
Is he aware that the secretary of the union causing the strike is a Mr Gallagher of the Victorian Cold Storage Union? [More…]
In fact I mentioned this matter yesterday when I referred to the fact that the decisions which are taken by trade unions to affiliate with the Australian Labor Party and to contribute to the funds of the Australian Labor Party are done publicly. [More…]
All I am asking is that if the Society does so it conducts a ballot amongst its policy holders in the same way as trade unions do; that it makes the contributions completely public; that if it so wishes it affiliates with the Liberal Party, and that it be prepared to become as clearly identified with the National Country Party as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I would be interested to hear from the Opposition members, who talk so freely about secret ballots in trade unions and the democratic election of trade union officials -something with which I largely agree- when they are going to call for a secret ballot amongst the policy holders in these insurance companies about the use of their money to bring down the Government for which the majority of the policy holders voted. ‘ [More…]
During a period of 60 days after such declaration it shall be unlawful for any person, company or union to take part in any strike or lockout interrupting such services; [More…]
Any party in breach of the foregoing paragraph shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for any person and $10,000 for any company or union for every day for which such breach continues and shall also be liable to pay compensation for any damage caused by such strike or lockout. [More…]
During a period of 60 days after such declaration it shall be unlawful for any person, company or union to take part in any strike or lockout interrupting such services; [More…]
Any part in breach of the foregoing paragraph shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for any person and $10,000 for any company or union for every day for which such breach continues and shall also be liable to pay compensation for any damage caused by such strike or lockout. [More…]
Those people who are the pawns or the prawns of the trade union movement would be the ones who would say that it is jackboot legislation. [More…]
It is no more jackboot legislation on the workers than it is on Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd or William Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd or the Union Steam Ship Co. or anybody else who locks out the trade. [More…]
I have left it in my patience for fully 10 years, ashamed of the spectacle where the Tasmanian Government pretends to the Tasmanian people that it is out to get regular shipping services and it goes cap in hand to the unions on every occasion of trouble saying: ‘Please exempt Tasmania from the impact of your strike’. [More…]
Of course, the union bosses just say: ‘Come and have a . [More…]
Forget it old man, it is the union that must prevail ‘. [More…]
It was an agreement entered into on 23 May 1975 by a company of which the managing director at the time was Mr R. J. Hawke, the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party, and of which another director was Mr Souter who was the secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We heard all about the fact that ACTU-Solo was going into the retail selling market for petrol, and it was acclaimed as a venture by the Australian trade union movement into commerce; ordinarily a proposition I would welcome because it brings the union movement into the realities of the business world. [More…]
With his knowledge of the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party, and with his understanding of what the Minister has been doing, I am pretty sure he knows who the architect of this scheme was. [More…]
We- by ‘we’ I mean the Union Co-operative in Queensland which operates 7 petrol selling sites- objected strongly to the ACTU ‘s entry into the market in the manner in which it entered the market discounting, as I said previously, wildly. [More…]
If we are removed, will Opposition members be able to convince the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or the Miners Federation to restrain their wage demands? [More…]
Why should the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or the Miners Federation restrain their wage demands if they know that they are living in a society in which anything goes, in which it is the ruthless who - [More…]
Has he seen a League of Rights pamphlet stating that Russian housewives are buying Australian beef at 9c lb and that the Government has subsidised Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consumers to the extent of $6m? [More…]
I would not know about that but if they are it is certainly not due to any give-away price that we permitted in the recent sale of beef to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It is repugnant to all of my trade union principles. [More…]
During a period of 60 days after such declaration it shall be unlawful for any person, company or union to take part in any strike or lockout interrupting such services; [More…]
Any party in breach of the foregoing paragraph shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for any person and $10,000 for any company or union for every day for which such breach continues and shall also be liable to pay compensation for any damage caused by such strike or lockout. [More…]
It is obvious that that is a parliamentary matter and not a union matter. [More…]
Without trying to attract too much attention from the Senate to this proposal, it is an instance of how Tasmanian shipping is dependent upon the whims of unions to that extent. [More…]
I cannot think of an amendment more designed to break down the recent agreement that has occurred between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and strikers in relation to disputes between the mainland and Tasmania. [More…]
It is proposed that we shall go through the whole machinations that we have been through in this country before, with union bashing legislation which created the situation of a national strike at the gaoling of Clarrie O’Shea of the Tramways Union. [More…]
It is quite easy for the Seamen’s Union or any of the maritime unions associated with it to circumvent this type of legislation in any case. [More…]
The amendment seeks to impose a penalty of $10,000 a day for any company or union involved in such a dispute. [More…]
It is quite obvious from the experience which the Opposition had when in government that the trade union movement will not be prepared to meet such penalties. [More…]
It is the type of provision that would be considered by the unions to be union bashing. [More…]
Under no circumstances could this type of union-bashing legislation be accepted by the Government, because it would have the very reverse effect to that which Senator Wright seeks to achieve. [More…]
It would kill for all time any further agreements with the Australian Council of Trade Unions in relation to maritime disputes involving Bass Strait trade. [More…]
Exemptions have been granted because the trade union movement accepts the fact that Tasmania suffers disabilities when there are shipping strikes. [More…]
I hope that the Committee in its wisdom will refrain from putting this amendment into the legislation because I believe that it will be unworkable and that it will be completely unacceptable to the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
-Mr Temporary Chairman, I should like briefly to indicate that so far as Tasmanian shipping is concerned there are the aspects of the union based stoppages which create uncertainty, irregularity, delays and added costs. [More…]
There is the added cost as a result of the union aspects. [More…]
Unless Mr Nimmo has some suggestions of which we are not aware at the moment, this will not overcome the disastrous effects which union stoppages and strikes are having on Tasmania. [More…]
Once this declaration is made nobody can act- no union can negotiate or have a matter considered under arbitration. [More…]
The union is subject already to a penalty. [More…]
Unfortunately, there was grave union trouble. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has a nationalised drug industry. [More…]
Apparently, though, if one is a public servant or an accountant or a trade union secretary one may well be chosen to be a director of this corporation. [More…]
Is this Government using here the precedent it set in regard to other statutory corporations which it has set up to operate in the commercial area, namely, the ill-fated Petroleum and Minerals Authority which was never fully constituted, the directors of which, I think, in the end were simply 2 public servants and a trade union secretary with not one mining man amongst them? [More…]
If they deny us the opportunity to govern for the elected period of time to see these innovations work they should not expect Labor senators to go to the trade union movement or to any group and say that by evolution they can achieve their objectives because they cannot. [More…]
If the ironworkers, the boilermakers and other craft union members had sat down in that establishment and said that they would not leave, the Opposition would have called it anarchy. [More…]
I simply say that whether it has been in dealings with the trade union movement, the conservation groups or any other people, it has been my lot as a Labor senator to have to defend the Government’s actions. [More…]
That is the free Press that has never yet seen fit to publish an advertisement offered by the trade union movement without the threat of industrial action being taken by the trade union movement in Western Australia. [More…]
There was the event which occurred only quite recently when the trade unions wanted to mention the name of a person who was not a member of the Labor Party in a political advertisement to be inserted by the trade union movement. [More…]
The advertisement was in danger of not being published on the advice of Mr Fred Morony because he did not think that the trade union movement or the working people in the West should be allowed to express their points of view in paid advertisements- although he felt that advertisers could do what they liked as far as the consumers of news in that State through the West Australian are concerned. [More…]
If I may respond to the interjection, Mr President, I think it possibly could be a matter that the people who conceive legislation in the Opposition ranks could well consider the possibility of making it mandatory for members of the Opposition to have secret votes in their party meetings since they seem to think it is a good idea in union elections. [More…]
They have the view that in labor unions a few standover men force the rank and file to do things that they do not want to do. [More…]
When the Constitution was being framed, I was not slow in endeavouring to see that the other Chamber should, in some effective sense, represent the States in their position as contracting parties to this union. [More…]
The last information I have is that the Indonesians are prepared to enter into talks with them and with the Democratic Union of TimorUDT. [More…]
In view of that situation, quite obviously the Soviet Union will be involved in massive purchases of grain, and this must affect the areas and priorities of her demand. [More…]
Apparently, though, if one is a public servant or an accountant or a trade union secretary one may well be chosen to be a director of this corporation. [More…]
I recall when Mr Anthony addressed a meeting of the Farmers’ Union Executive of Western Australia in September 1970- certainly, it was about that period- at another time when it was extremely difficult to sell beef on the overseas markets. [More…]
Mr Anthony told the Farmers’ Union Executive that this lobbyist had been so successful that he was embarrassing the Administration. [More…]
Let us take the arch example of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
What does the Opposition think of the massive wheat/oil deal just concluded by the United States Government with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
At the moment the British House of Lords has before it 2 Bills, the Trade Union and Labour Relations Bill and the Community Land Bill, both of which are opposed by the Conservative Party. [More…]
Is the Minister concerned that the trade union movement is claiming that indexation should show an increase of 2.9 per cent for this quarter? [More…]
If the judgment of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is against any increase, does he anticipate further union activity in wage demands related to a 2.9 per cent increase? [More…]
I welcome any questions directed to the role of the Government with relation to union demands and suggest that our record in this respect will stand up to anything that we could expect from a Minister for Labor from the other side of the House. [More…]
We are not, of course, in any position to forbid the unions from suggesting that a 2.9 per cent increase or any other figure should be taken into account as the correct indexation figure in the hearing commencing before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission today, any more than we can forbid an employers federation from claiming that nothing should be passed on. [More…]
Consider in the first place his position: He is President of the Australian Labor Party; President of the ACTU; a highly placed and favourably placed individual; a trade union official committed to involving the ACTU in business enterprises- in retail selling, travel, insurance and other activities; a person who in the past has used industrial muscle or trade union power to advantage the profitability of those ventures and as I have said in this place previously, a true twentieth century robber baron in the style of the commercial and industrial muscelment of nineteenth century United States of America. [More…]
Morever, he is a man in a position to assert and insist that the ALP government should assist the union movement, just as he has indicated recently that he is prepared to use the union movement to assist an ALP government. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, when this matter first became the subject of public debate I was rather surprised to hear Senator Greenwood in particular and the Opposition generally arguing in defence of a senior member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- that is the trade union movementnamely, Mr Souter. [More…]
It seemed to me to be out of character for Senator Greenwood and the Opposition to adopt that attitude because we know of the long antagonism that has existed over the years between the Opposition and the trade union movement. [More…]
Does he recall the suggestions made about the purchase by this Government of the trade union premises in Hobart? [More…]
We hope and expect that this change will be especially welcome to trade union leaders and the members of their unions. [More…]
I have read the report to which the honourable senator refers and the passage which he has quoted, and I would agree that the attitude of trade unionists to migrants leaves a lot to be desired. [More…]
This in no way condones or justifies the shortcomings of the unions. [More…]
I point out in this regard that this Government has set up a trade union training centre, something which our opponents talked about for years but never got around to. [More…]
We have set up this trade union training centre. [More…]
So, in answer to the honourable senator’s question, I would say that the trade unions, like the rest of the community, do not accord to migrants the treatment which they deserve. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his party and trade union followers have decided however to defy convention and to tough it out’ (as they put it) with the avowed intention of smashing the power of the Senate forever, thus destroying the Federal compact, centralising all power in Canberra and effectively robbing us of one of the chiefest safeguards of our constitutional system. [More…]
This Bill, by the way, was to facilitate the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
The trade union movement was in agreement with amalgamation; the Employers’ Federation was in agreement with amalgamation; and indeed a number of the Opposition senators agreed to amalgamation in principle. [More…]
Why, in a society which claims to have open government, are the Budget Papers not released to a wider section of the community so that others can have equality with the leader of the trade union movement and so that others can have equal opportunity, which is something that I seem to have heard repeated on many occasions on the Government side of the chamber. [More…]
I have a copy of a letter on what purports to be the letterhead of the Union Bank of Switzerland. [More…]
It is on a letterhead purportedly of the Union Bank of Switzerland. [More…]
UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND [More…]
Union de Banques Suisses [More…]
I understand that a wide range of industry, consumer and trade union organisations have accepted the Commission’s invitation. [More…]
I allude to the very belated admission by the Treasurer that he had allowed the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to have recourse to all the Budget documents some 7 hours before the Budget was presented in this place. [More…]
People said to him: ‘Surely in doing these 2 things- with, on the one hand, your industrial commitment to the trade union movement as President of the ACTU and, on the other, your presidency of the Australian Labor Party- there will be a conflict of interest’. [More…]
and (b) The decision to establish the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation was made by Cabinet, with the support of the six State Governments, and of the national employers’ and trade union organisations, in May 1973, at the same time as it decided that Australia would ratify ILO Convention 111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
Then there was another alleged scandal that Mr Hayden had given some information of a confidential nature to Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
That was a very sensible step towards achieving the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
Amongst those supporting indexation are trade union organisations, industrial associations representing rural, commercial, manufacturing and mining and service industries, many large and small companies, professional bodies and Australian and State government departments or agencies. [More…]
When Premier and contemporary with Parkes … he vigorously espoused the cause of Austn Federal Union. [More…]
Upon it Sir Samuel stamped the impress of his constitutional mind- in itself sufficient to give him enduring fame- and first draft though it was, the Bill of 1891 in its main outlines was accepted as the framework and basis of the Constitution drafted by the National Convention of 1 897-8, and finally approved by the people as the charter of Federal Union. [More…]
Does not this Government accept that the surreptitious activities of the KGB are a threat to Australian security and that the KGB has been proven to be the Soviet Union’s effective means of committing espionage abroad, subverting public officials, plotting sabotage and assassinations and promoting strikes, demonstrations, riots and other subversive activities? [More…]
Mr Kulakov, head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, and Mr V. A. Kouzin, deputy chief of the Foreign Relations Department of the U.S.S.R. State Committee for Science and Technology, were to have arrived in Australia this morning, 1 1 November, to represent the U.S.S.R. at a review commission under the Australia-U.S.S.R. Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation. [More…]
I refer to the report of the Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections on which served a valued and former great trade union leader in Queensland, Mr Frank Waters. [More…]
It was, for instance, a point made by the Prime Minister in his discussions during his visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in January of this year. [More…]
I refer to the maritime union ban on shipping to Indonesia. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that trade unions should interfere with foreign, affairs matters such as this? [More…]
Will he deregister those unions which are involved in these affairs that do not concern them and which are obviously dictating foreign policy to the Government? [More…]
I thought that the members of the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament were supposed to have some sort of contact with the trade union movement and the people at large who work in Australia, but it is quite obvious that they are nothing but a bunch of doctrinaire socialists who have no interest whatever in getting some 350 000 people re-employed in the Australian economy. [More…]
I believe there to be complete compatibility between the activities of the Prices Justification Tribunal, the trade union movement and small businesses when those guidelines are properly understood and interpreted. [More…]
I am sorry to say that as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Inter-parliamentary Union I cannot go into the countries again that I have been to previously or meet the colleagues that I have met before and say that our parliamentary system is as good as it was when Labor was in power. [More…]
It is also a major area of struggle between the Soviet Union and China, and today it is becoming an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
They further highlight my statement that this is one of the major areas of struggle between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China and that it is an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
Last night I referred to the Indian Ocean as being a major area of conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
So the Soviet Union now has the ability to reinforce its Indian Ocean fleet rapidly if it needs to do so. [More…]
The Soviet Union with its agents or lackeys, as it used to refer to anybody who supported the United States, has taken over Angola. [More…]
It is the first time in history that the Soviet Union has been able or willing to exert its influence in areas far removed from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Angola will provide the Soviet Union with naval and air facilities in the South Atlantic from which it could threaten the Cape route. [More…]
Any move to decrease the influence or will of the United States can only create a decided imbalance in favour of the Soviet Union, and one about which we should be concerned. [More…]
As a former Electrical Trades Union official, he would be well known to my new colleague Senator Sibraa. [More…]
I would like to attempt to draw a comparison between their relationship with former colleagues in the trade union movement and the relationship of the Queen’s representative in Australia with his former associates. [More…]
The comparison I am drawing is this: The Commisioner Johnsons and the Commissioner Holmeses have had to deal with former trade union colleagues. [More…]
They operate in this way: A strike might go on for two or three weeks or a ban might be on for five or six weeks before they, in their capacity as industrial umpires, will give a hint to the trade union that if it cannot get any more out of the employer they will have to give a ruling on the matter and the ruling they will give will not be all that the trade union wants. [More…]
Liberal Party was previously in government I sat with Mr Adamson of the Australian Metalworkers Union and Mr Harry Hurrell of the Federated Ironworkers Union when Lysaght Industries were phasing out employees at Newcastle. [More…]
The point that I want to make is that in this technological age time and time again the trade union movement has not been Luddites and behaved as they behaved in the last century. [More…]
We have heard Senator Cotton expounding his idea, when we have been talking about trade union independence, that the Australian Labor Party is not with it when it comes to considering economic theories. [More…]
I did not squeal about the sections of the trade union movement which felt that there would not always be a Labor Government and that therefore they might be encasing themselves in some ironclad shoe if they agreed to support the referendum. [More…]
But now Government senators are so brazen as to suggest a national plan of wage restraint, that the trade unions have to give up certain adjustments and we as a Party should remain silent. [More…]
It is not a case of whether we placate the Chrysler Company in South Australia, whether we look after the workers in the electorate of Corio or, when we come to Sydney, the Vehicle Builders Union and the Leyland Motor Corporation. [More…]
I do not say that the union secretary concerned was the most active of men; far from it. [More…]
With their own national aspirations they will go to the brink, some with China and others with the Soviet Union, and then they will stop. [More…]
The difficulty is to decide whether a person is an ordinary migrant from Chile who has to take his turn if he does not have a skill or whether somebody who is a motor mechanic or a panel beater should be allowed to migrate to Australia ahead of a trade union activist who has just been released from prison. [More…]
The decision has to be made whether we take the trade union activist who may live in fear of his life before other refugees. [More…]
The Government has been told that it has lost the co-operation of the unions and that this will have a devastating effect on the economy of the country. [More…]
With our new initiatives in industrial relations I look forward to good relations with the unions. [More…]
With the introduction of secret ballots and a little democracy in union representation, I look forward to a dramatic change in the relationship between the employers, the Government and the unions. [More…]
The industrial action will need to come from the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
As I said before in this Senate, I spent 16 years as a trade union secretary, with a reputation of militant trade union activity during that time. [More…]
I have spent 14 years in this Senate and, looking back on my history, I think I achieved more for the less privileged people of Australia in 16 years as a militant trade union leader than I have achieved in 14 years trying to be a respectable and honourable politician. [More…]
The working class has achieved an enormous amount through the activities of trade unions. [More…]
The Carmichaels, the Halfpennys, the Mundeys and the Gallaghers who are condemned by honourable senators opposite have achieved more for the members of their unions than possibly a number of other trade unions in Australia. [More…]
The stage was reached where the hope of those involved in the trade union movement was that we could reach a position where with the election of a Labor government we would be able to achieve peacefully what we had to achieve by industrial action on the job. [More…]
But I ask the Government in its proposed legislation dealing with the trade union movement never to underestimate the power of that movement. [More…]
If an attempt is to be made, as was suggested in the conversation that Senator McLaren overheard in the Parliamentary dining room, to get on top of the trade union movement, I would remind honourable senators that that trade union movement was the salvation of the working class. [More…]
On other occasions with respect to secret ballots, we have heard it suggested that organisers would go on a Sunday morning to trade union members who have received their ballot papers and say: ‘You are not interested in voting in the election, are you? [More…]
The attempt to introduce secret compulsory official voting has as its purpose an effort to seek to defeat those sections of the trade union leadership that the Government does not like today. [More…]
For all the secret ballots that have been held for positions, the militant trade unions are still a long way ahead of the respected trade unions in Australia. [More…]
In dealing with arbitration and the power of the trade union movement, we must recall that arbitration was a force applied against those who engaged in strike action. [More…]
Trade unions were formed for the purpose of united action against such force and protection. [More…]
The loyalty of those in the trade union movement is such that no-one else will go in to do or to take the job of those few employees on strike. [More…]
The whole of our system of production in this community must crash unless the co-operation of the trade union movement is received. [More…]
As an alternative, it seeks to crush the trade union movement by introducing legislation before it has been considered by the trade union movement. [More…]
Look at the attitude of the union movement to the actions of the Government now. [More…]
We saw the cynicism of the unions and the absolute dismay of people such as Sir Gordon Chalk and Mr Hamer, many of the newspapers and, one suspects, Mr Street, when Mr Fraser threw this wage indexation promise out the window. [More…]
Although the Strathfield house no longer serves as the Consulate and a new Consul arrived last year, Mr Deolindo still works three days a week in the Portuguese Consulate, now situated in Union Carbide House, Liverpool Street, Sydney. [More…]
No doubt the pressures applied from within the trade union movement are dragging that once great country down to its knees. [More…]
He said: ‘I notice in the Press that you are having problems out there with your trade union movement. [More…]
He said: ‘Ban every communist trade union leader you have in Australia because they have been - [More…]
Honourable senators opposite may be interested to know that taxi drivers with whom I was able to talk- I know many have glass screens in their taxis which they close- had a similar view, and they said that the reason Britain has been dragged down to its knees and is suffering almost impossible inflation is the undue influence of the left wing trade union movement in that country. [More…]
He said that he was very worried about the situation in the UK because the people who are running the country happen to be trade unionists who are trained by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The European Economic Community has a real fear of the insiduous influence, the dragging down influence of the union element, the wrong union element in the UK. [More…]
I was a trade union member at one time. [More…]
Workers Union. [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement is an essential part of our society. [More…]
I think the majority of the trade union movement would recognise that. [More…]
I also believe the majority of the trade union movement would recognise the need to replace some of the militant people who act quite contrary to the interests of their members. [More…]
That is the reason, of course, that we have brought out a policy whereby we advocate that the trade union movement ought to be provided with a facility to have secret ballots for the election of union officials. [More…]
I know a lot of trade union people who are genuine and I know a lot of people who have got sick and tired of being manipulated by the minority. [More…]
The reason the members do not go along is that they happen to be sick and tired of being intimidated by some militant union officials. [More…]
-That may be rubbish to the honourable senator but I have heard from Transport Workers Union members that they have been threatened and intimidated at meetings and that their families and their homes have been attacked by militant members of their union. [More…]
That is why we believe some responsibility ought to be injected into the union movement. [More…]
I know that people over the years have got sick of this and they ask themselves: ‘What is the use of our going along to trade union meetings with respect to strikes, because the same people are pressurising, the same people are intimidating’. [More…]
You are one of the responsible members of the trade union movement who ought to be sticking up for your mates and making sure that members get a better deal than they have been getting in Whyalla recently’. [More…]
At the time wives of trade unionists were demonstrating against the inordinate and irresponsible - [More…]
My opinion is reinforced because recently the Australian Rugby Union team returned after a very succesful tour of Europe. [More…]
With regard to boilermakers I spoke this week to the National Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Mr John Garland, and a senior Sydney official, Mr Merv Malcolm. [More…]
I repeat that this boilermaker is a man who has served a gaol sentence for his trade union activities. [More…]
The biggest countries in the world, such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China and the United States of America, have completely different economic problems from those of the smaller countries, such as Ireland and Chile, which have less government in terms of the way in which the lives of the people are determined by government actions. [More…]
I refer to his contributions in a speech that he made at the Union Club in Sydney. [More…]
It was not at the Melbourne Club but at the Union Club- not the real power centre of Australia, which everyone recognises is the Melbourne Club, but the Union Club in Sydney, which is not of such significance. [More…]
But I am a trade unionist. [More…]
I have been a full time union official for over 1 7 years. [More…]
I am here because, after years of constant, unremitting, relentless pressure being directed at me by the extreme Left coalition forces- a pressure designed to so muddy the industrial pool with political invective as to cut away support from me in a key position in the trade union movement- a situation arose last year in which for days and weeks on end I simply had to put aside the work that I was doing for the people that I represented just to defend myself. [More…]
When the trade union movement- nobody else, but the trade union movement- won the true equal pay case in 1973, a situation developed where, because minimum wages had not been raised to acceptable levels many of those women remained in the workforce simply to maintain family economic standards. [More…]
I know that there are massive diplomatic offensives by the Soviet in those countries and within particular institutions to get their members to go to the Soviet Union to learn their system of totalitarianism. [More…]
What are we doing to assist trade unionists and their organisations in these countries? [More…]
Is this the same Mr Zannaniri who, as Vice-President of the General Union of Palestinian Students, visited Australia in May 1975? [More…]
There has never been any attempt to place a ban on the Soviet Union because of certain acts, whether they be in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The point I make about that sort of comment is that if a court which seeks the respect and the confidence of the parties involved in industrial relations and, more particularly, the respect and confidence of the trade union movement, which, by virtue of the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, is under the general supervision of that court in relation to its rules, conduct and so on, makes comments like that in judgments which reflect perhaps inquisitiveness on behalf of the court or perhaps an onrush of senility, then there can be no such confidence. [More…]
-It is the Meat Employees’ Journal of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
He was a former senior official of the union. [More…]
The then Premier of New South Wales, Joe Cahill, the then President of the Labor Party in New South Wales, Fred Campbell, and myself had sought at the request of the union that a person engaged in the industry be appointed to the Metropolitan Meat Commission. [More…]
The union said that it did and we said that we did. [More…]
He held that position as a result of the actions of a number of people including members of his union and the [More…]
Joe Cahill was never renowned for being outspoken on civil liberties but he understood the basic fundamental, as demonstrated by the attitude of the union, that we are entitled to look twice at a person’s background, in essence he respected trade union militancy. [More…]
Bill Carter had a sound knowledge of the meat industry and the Trade Union movement. [More…]
For many years he worked as a mutton slaughterman, travelling during the early years of his working life, following his occupation between New Zealand and Australia, and during this period took an active part in the Union. [More…]
When the Federal Council of the Union moved in on the N.S.W. [More…]
Branch of the Union. [More…]
Bill was an able administrator and advocate, who worked consistently in the interest of the Union, its members, and the trade union movement generally. [More…]
Bill was well liked and respected over a wide spectrum of the meat industry and the trade union movement. [More…]
It is basic to the implementation of any industrial policy, good or bad, that an entity such as the Australian Industrial Court should exist and that it should command the respect and obedience of the trade union movement. [More…]
As Senator Sim said, if there happen to be organisations which painstakingly, as the record discloses, send their agents into the countries of the free world to promote the interests of the Soviet Union, its satellites and Communist China, you just ignore what they might be doing because they are not matters for debate. [More…]
The question arises from claims by a spokesman for the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and reported in the Adelaide News of 2 March that cuts will be made in the funds available for the railways standardisation program in South Australia and relates to a question asked yesterday by Senator Bishop. [More…]
As I have spoken of the court in a collective sense in some of my earlier remarks I desire to say that to the extent to which the Australian Industrial Court still enjoys the confidence of the trade union movement is in no small measure due to the integrity and application of such jurists as the Chief Judge, Mr Justice Spicer. [More…]
It seems to me that the Government is intent on a collision course with the trade union movement. [More…]
One sees from the Governor-General ‘s Speech that the Prime Minister or his Government now wants to interfere with the internal affairs of the trade union movement. [More…]
I am quite certain that the trade union movement will not tolerate this interference. [More…]
There are ample provisions in the constitutions and rules of unions to provide for secret ballots. [More…]
Election of union members will be conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for each State. [More…]
I had experience of this while in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
An organisation can obtain 250 signatures in half a day, so no real hardship is placed on a union that wants to have a secret ballot or make certain that the ballot is secret and that irregularities are avoided. [More…]
It seems to me that the Government has taken this provocative stand against the unions for the purpose of provoking the unions into causing some industrial unrest. [More…]
I can think of no other reason for the Government being so stupid as to want to go on a collision course with the trade union movement. [More…]
I only hope that as a result of the new industrial relations aimed at by this Government, responsible trade union leadership will minimise these losses. [More…]
Labor initiatives between 1972 and 1975, which had resulted in a relationship of trust and confidence between Australia and other littoral states of the Indian Ocean, have been replaced by a policy which seeks to ignore, indeed more accurately to reverse, the passage of time in order to return to the futile era of confrontation between the major powers- the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In place of Labor’s reasoned approach to the question, which sought strenuously to encourage mutual restraint in military commitment to the region by the United States and the Soviet Union, one now discovers that the present Government has adopted the curious position of both encouraging the United States to increase its arms strength in the region while at the same time asking that the super powers display mutual restraint. [More…]
The Australian trade union movement has been further deceived. [More…]
Having been prepared to accept the word of the responsible Minister, to the effect that legislation which is designed to interfere in matters which are strictly internal concerns of the Labor movement- my colleague, Senator Donald Cameron, commented on this aspect this afternoon- did not have a high priority in the Government’.s program and would not be introduced before consultation with union leaders occurred, the union movement now discovers that such ministerial assurances are worthless. [More…]
This intended legislation is to be introduced at the earliest possible opportunity, regardless of the outcome of discussions between Government and trade unions, that is if such discussions were ever intended to take place. [More…]
Little wonder then that the trade union movement feels obliged to act with extreme caution in dealing with this Government. [More…]
Few within the Australian community would blame the union movement if it already regarded the process of talking with the Government as meaningless. [More…]
That is that of confrontation, of provoking the Australian trade union movement into an industrial dispute through the process of creating an intolerable economic situation. [More…]
The Government now appears henton this destructive course of action, by sabotaging wage indexation and by misleading the trade union movement, by vacillating on the introduction of tax indexation and, finally, by seeking to direct the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission away from its primary function, that of conciliation. [More…]
It is to this bitter industrial past that the Government now desires to return, for, in the simplistic, conservative political analysis, the Government should harass and finally attempt to emasculate the trade union movement of this country in a decisive confrontation. [More…]
The industrial Labor movement should not be regarded, as this Government apparently views it, as a rival to its authority which must be bested in a display of strength; rather, Australian trade unions should be considered an integral part of our economic community, able and prepared to contribute to the processes by which industrial and social decisions are made. [More…]
Unions were considered in this light by the former Labor Administration; I believe that it should remain so. [More…]
Those increases are on top of the bulk Union Steam Ship increases that were brought in on 1 February, and are increasing still further Tasmania’s transport burden. [More…]
With the encouragement of a misguided government, trade unions have been vigorously pursuing a policy of pricing workers out of jobs. [More…]
In short, the trade union movement and our opponents in the Senate put the drive for ever increasing money incomes ahead of employment and job security. [More…]
In addition, we urge that, as it is an area of national importance, the Park be designated so that its legal status agrees with the definition of a National Park set out by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. [More…]
If the honourable senator looks at an answer which was given by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in the House of Representatives yesterday to a question of the same character he will see that the Minister indicated that the matter is giving him great concern, that it is currently under investigation and that, in particular, members of the Clerks Union are not members of the Public Service and therefore comprehended within the provisions which he has in mind. [More…]
I think the Minister indicated yesterday in his answer in the other place that he was well seized of the problems of the members of the Federated Clerks Union employed by the Stevedoring Industry Authority. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations bring to the notice of his colleague the serious situation which is developing in respect of wool sales because of the dispute between the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and the wool stores? [More…]
An InterParliamentary Union delegate talking to a conference in some other country can of course refer to the Government of Australia as the Australian Government, but if he is in Australia he has to refer to the Government as the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It is a particularly insidious disease if it is passed on to human beings in the form of undulant fever, and one only has to talk to the secretary of any meat workers union to gain a realisation of that. [More…]
Of course, he is one who denigrates the Soviet Union on many occasions; yet on the other hand he expects the Soviet Union to buy our primary produce. [More…]
Has the Minister for Industry and Commerce studied the submissions emanating from the Federated Moulders Union of Australia in which concern is expressed that the increasing number of imported castings is a threat to the future employment of the existing skilled foundry workforce? [More…]
The MTIA is also in touch, I believe, with the Federated Moulders Union of Australia, and we are jointly watching the situation. [More…]
Within the last couple of days Senator James McClelland said that the Labor Party ought not to consider itself any more a party based on the trade unions. [More…]
He referred to the fact that it is estimated that at least 50 per cent of trade union members did not vote for Labor in the last Federal election but, in fact, voted for the return of a Liberal-National Country Party government. [More…]
It will not matter whether they are academics, professional people, union leaders or workers. [More…]
If women had a trade union, this situation would not have gone on for so long. [More…]
He is probably aware also that I have seen a number of people in the industry and from the trade union movement about shipbuilding in Australia. [More…]
Furthermore, I would be very concerned if the Senate were to accept this statement as being properly tabled without there being adequate discussions with the trade union movement and others concerned with this vital issue. [More…]
The Senate will recall that the Australian Council of Trade Unions at its February meeting adverted to the fact that decisions were being taken by the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in respect of this very matter without consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
The ACTU asked the Government to bear this in mind and, particularly on this subject, to consult with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Government spokesmen during the election campaign claimed that they would do what they could to obtain belter relations with the trade union movement and that they would consult with the ACTU at all times. [More…]
True it is that during the time I was Minister for the Media I adopted the policy of the Labor movement of appointing people- in addition to others- who were representatives of the trade union movement to boards or commissions which were established by the Government. [More…]
I have no hesitation- in fact I have great pride- in saying that I recommended to Cabinet, and Cabinet agreed to, the appointment of Mr Harold Souter, the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, as a part-time member of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
As far as the Australian Broadcasting Commission is concerned, I was one of the first Ministers in the Labor Government to have the honour to appoint a member of the trade union movement to a commission. [More…]
I say that it is to the credit of the present Minister, Mr Robinson, that he has seen fit to follow the Labor Party’s stand by appointing a unionist to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that these conventions concern employment policies, unemployment, including unemployment benefits, and the organisation of employment services and that they specifically require member countries to consult trade union and employer organisations on these matters? [More…]
-Is the Minister aware that there has been no consultation with the trade union movement on the work test and unemployment policy which were the subject of the ministerial statement presented by her yesterday? [More…]
Finally, in view of all those factors, are the Minister and her colleague prepared to give an undertaking now- at this late stage- that they will immediately enter into consultations with the trade union movement on the matter of the ministerial statement to overcome the recognised problems associated with the work test, the payment of unemployment benefit and relevant matters? [More…]
The honourable senator has also raised the matter of consultation with the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
I will bring the matters which have been raised by the honourable senator to the attention of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and ask him to respond to the request for an undertaking to be given with regard to a consultative process with the trade union movement on the matter of the ministerial statement presented by me on his behalf yesterday. [More…]
I refer to the recent decision by the Trades and Labour Council in Western Australia and the Transport Workers Union to ban the distribution of the West Australian newspaper because of editorial criticism of Mr Whitlam. [More…]
I recall an occasion when a columnist in that well known paper the West Australian, one Bill Bailey, who writes a very interesting and occasionally amusing column, had the ‘temerity’- if 1 may use that word in inverted commas- to write a jocular article concerning the waterside workers’ union. [More…]
That union promptly banned the supply of newsprint to the newspaper. [More…]
It seems to be quite right and normal for the trade union movement, for instance, to run a printing press and newspapers for its own members and write all sorts of things about people whom they oppose and for it not to be subject to a Press council. [More…]
But the moment newspapers in which people own shares via the stock exchange write criticisms of the trade union movement in comes the Big Brother standover tactic. [More…]
Does the Minister appreciate that the strike by member’s of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union in the wool stores has created insurmountable difficulties for many people in this category? [More…]
The Commonwealth Medical Officers Association- a proper union body acting on behalf of the medical officers in the [More…]
I hope that as a result of the union representations, my own statements and other comments made today in the Senate, reconsideration will be given to this matter by the Government. [More…]
University of Queensland Union, Brisbane, Qld. [More…]
They had not been operated on at that time and my further understanding is that, during the period of the caretaker Government, the then caretaker Postmaster-General issued 2 licences, one to the University of Queensland Union and the other to the Mitchell College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I refer to a report that the Bread Carters Union in South Australia has threatened to stop flour and fuel supplies to an Adelaide bakery if it continues to sell bread at reduced prices. [More…]
Is this not a form of industrial blackmail by the union, and is not the public the eventual victim which will pay more for bread than it needs to do? [More…]
If it is true that the present Trade Practices Act does not allow action to stop this rip off by the union, will he refer the matter to the Minister with a view to finding mechanisms for making unions as well as private business subject to the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act? [More…]
Yet the Minister saw fit to make a personal attack on one more trade union. [More…]
That this Seminar recommends that the National Library of Australia or a body recommended by the Library Association of Australia as a matter of urgency compiles a simplified union catalogue of braille and talking books held in Australia. [More…]
Have members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union employed at the Thomas Borthwick & Son Pty Ltd works at Portland in Victoria who decided to work the minimum tally as allowed for in their award been laid off by that company? [More…]
In the amount of $ 19.4m, $600,000 has been allocated for new buildings at the Union so that the Student’s Union can have facilities for clubs and societies. [More…]
The Union will have to stay in cramped conditions. [More…]
The first institution was the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education at Toowoomba, the second the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education in Victoria, the third the Mitchell College of Advanced Education in New South Wales, the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in New South Wales, the University of Queensland Union in Brisbane, the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in Hobart and Launceston, the University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the Australian National University, the University of New England, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Newcastle. [More…]
I refer to the position of Mr Norman Bray who sought redress from this House last year and sent a statutory declaration to all honourable senators setting out how he was dismissed from office in a particular union on the basis of false evidence. [More…]
He stated clearly that he was elected by a court controlled ballot of the rank and file as full-time secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
On 6 February 1975 he was confronted by the Federal Executive of the Miscellaneous Workers Union with a document signed by one Francis Anthony Shanahan. [More…]
After hearing read Shanahan ‘s statement the Federal Executive of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia voted to dismiss me from my offices and to suspend me from membership in the Union until 30 June 1975. [More…]
The practical effect of the latter suspension was to deny me any possibility of obtaining employment in the industry in which I had worked before becoming a union officer. [More…]
He is blacklisted throughout the whole of this industry which is exclusively covered by the Miscellaneous Workers Union, whose federal secretary is one Mr Ray Gietzelt. [More…]
Early in 1975 Egan told me that he had put Frank Shanahan on his payroll as an organiser in the Australian Workers Union - [More…]
He was supported by 2 private inquiry agents hired by Mr Ray Gietzelt of the Miscellaneous Workers Union to spy on me. [More…]
It was that I allegedly held a meeting on 30 March 1971 to campaign against Mr Ray Gietzelt and his election to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the R. A. [More…]
The third issue I want to raise in the short time available to me is this: Surely the current Commonwealth Government and the New South Wales Government must be aware that breaches of the law have been committed by a person who has been instrumental in railroading an innocent union official and by persons who have been instrumental in railroading me. [More…]
The private inquiry agents did say that they were given photographs of the people who were going into the room by the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
The third alternative is that those photographs were of the wrong people; that they were of the people who actually went into that room, people whom the Miscellaneous Workers Union knew would go into that room because Mr Gietzelt would have received the notice of the meeting that was to be held in that room. [More…]
Let me say this: What a travestyof trade union principles it is to have secreted private inquiry agents in the hallowed halls of the Sydney Trades Hall, the birthplace of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
Let us see whether it matches up with trade union or Labor Party principles. [More…]
What would I know about trade union principles? [More…]
Have you ever heard anybody criticise me one iota for deviating in any way from the principles of the trade union movement in my 18 years as a full time union official? [More…]
All there was was political invective to muddy the industrial pool so as to attempt to wean away my support in the key trade union movement of Tasmania. [More…]
There has been not one person who has put forward any criticism of my trade union record. [More…]
It would be a shameful affair if, simply as the result of a frame-up, a union office bearer- [More…]
It also ought to be a matter of public knowledge if prominent union officials in this country are engaged in activities which amount to concocting untrue evidence with which to ruin a person’s political fortunes in any political party [More…]
It is well known as a matter of public record that Mr Shanahan had been convicted by the Industrial Court of offences with regard to a union election. [More…]
Yet, thereafter, Mr Egan is prepared to employ him as an officer of his union. [More…]
-Mr Bray indicates in his affidavit that he was dismissed from his office and suspended from membership in the union and that the practical effect of the suspension was to deny him any possibility of obtaining employment in the industry in which he had worked before becoming a union officer. [More…]
Where is there someone in the Australian Labor Party today who is prepared to stand up and say that that is a travesty of justice and a denial of the rights of ordinary union members? [More…]
I feel that what has happened to Mr Bray, who is a unionist who has been denied his livelihood and his rights of membership and office in his union for what appears to be a frame-up, is a travesty which ought to be investigated. [More…]
At that time Mr Mayne discovered that there were opportunities in Tasmania for someone with political ideals to organise the unions in Tasmania- the small unions whose officers held honorary positions or received some allowance. [More…]
It was believed that the Tasmanian unions could be captured by any ideology, and the Federated Clerks Union stepped in and made the first move to see that it followed the true DLP line. [More…]
Shannahan states that at this meeting I mentioned ‘financial assistance from NCC or News Weekly’ for the campaign in the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
King room Mr H. J. Souter in the Chair, Mr R. W. B. Harradine of the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council, Mr J. Grenville of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, Mr P. Toplis of the New South Wales Trades and Labor Council, Mr L. Short of the Federated Ironworkers Association, and Mr F. Purse of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
There was also Mr J. Maynes of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
In 1971, I was a manager of Webster Investigations Pty Ltd. Mr Don Hancock engaged the company to carry out investigations on behalf of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Since when have the unions of this country employed private inquiry agents to spy upon members of the ACTU executive? [More…]
That action is consistent with the past history of certain people who have held and who still hold influential positions in the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Research Officer of the Union together with William Leycester White another Private Inquiry Agent at Mascot Airport. [More…]
I suppose he is an inconsequential unionist to the members of the Australian Labor Party, a man who is expendable, who can lose his job in the union, who can be suspended in denial of the rule of natural justice and who can be denied the opportunity of pursuing his employment because he cannot secure membership of his union and therefore cannot get a job. [More…]
No matter whether the man is a disqualified member of the Australian Labor Party, whether he is a unionist whose union expels him, when people appeal, as Senator Harradine has said, for the protection of one of the Houses of Parliament they are entitled to get it. [More…]
Is it correct that funds have been deferred for the proposed improvements to the facilities of the Montagu Medical Union at Rosebery on the west coast of Tasmania? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this isolated mining community of some 6000 people is served by the Montagu Medical Union and that, over the next 1 8 months, the population will rise by a further 2000 persons as a result of the Tullah hydro-electric development, and that reasonable medical services are vital? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and it concerns the dispute between the Storemen and Packers Union and the wool selling brokers which is holding up the movement of wool, with disastrous results on the industry’s economy. [More…]
Is he aware that the South Australian Minister for Agriculture is on record as saying that if the wool growers wanted to be paid for their wool they should put their support strongly behind the Storemen and Packers Union? [More…]
I repeat: Is the Minister aware that the South Australian Minister for Agriculture is on record as saying that if the wool growers wanted to be paid for their wool they should put their support strongly behind the Storemen and Packers Union to see that the union’s claims were met by the wool selling agents? [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware that 3 men employed by the Dewez Export Co. of Brisbane were given one week’s notice because they refused to pay a voluntary levy of $10 a week sought from members of the Storemen and Packers Union to fund workers sacked in the wool bale dispute in which that Union is demanding a reduction in the maximum bale weight? [More…]
Members of striking unions at the establishment at which the industrial dispute is in force are not eligible for unemployment benefit according to section 107c of the Act. [More…]
Persons who are stood down at other establishments as a result of the dispute in the first case are to be granted unemployment benefit subject to the normal conditions, irrespective of their union membership. [More…]
Whilst the honourable senator has asked a precise questionI will obtain an answer on that for the honourable senator- I would point out that the conditions I have just mentioned with regard to members of striking unions are matters that have been upheld by honourable senators opposite on previous occasions. [More…]
We equally share, though for different reasons, concern at the developments in China and the Soviet Union, their impact on each of us and their impact on the region in which Australia and Japan are. [More…]
But in this half-way house situation, the information that I get from the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and from other unions which have been interested in this matter is that from time to time people are being released in Chile after being imprisoned for their political activities. [More…]
Before making a decision, the Government expects, in the near future, to discuss the role of the Tribunal with representatives of the union movement and employers. [More…]
I have attended union meetings before today. [More…]
In my early life, as a member of the Australian Timber Workers’ Union I had to attend left wing union meetings quite often. [More…]
I presume that all honourable senators opposite support that because the trade union movement is, as I understand it, arguing for tax indexation. [More…]
-The Commonwealth Government implemented its decision to withdraw de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union soon after its assumption of office in December 1 975. [More…]
He also knows that when cattle get into the hands of Mr Cullen of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union- a union well known to Senator McLaren- it is almost impossible to get the meat out at the other end of the chain system because it becomes so expensive. [More…]
After the Meat Industry Employees Union has taken its whack, the meat, when it lands in the butcher shop, is very expensive. [More…]
It has been enlarged and broadened, in the same way as the industrial dispute concerning the Federated Storemen and Packers Union in Australia has broadened. [More…]
The Union is holding up all wool in Australia today because of what was a simple demand for an extra $6 a day or $6 a week. [More…]
I have been at meetings in the country at which the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has been represented. [More…]
All Mr Cullen has offered to the farmers is the assistance of his Union to solve the problem of the disposal of meat. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt referred to the trade unions sending a mission to Russia to engage in trade negotiations. [More…]
Since the establishment of what I believe was called the union of Christmas Island workers, the rate paid by agreement with the Christmas Island Phosphate Commission to the lowest paid worker has been and is still, as of January 1 976, a monthly salary of $ 1 10. [More…]
I rise tonight to advise the Senate of an all-party petition which has been sponsored by the parliamentary group of Amnesty International and which is being forwarded to the leadership of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
We have known for some time about problems with civil liberties inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those documents have been brought out and published by Amnesty International, and they set out in detail facts about a number of the prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are concerned about human rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and last year 90 members of the Parliament forwarded a petition to Mr Kosygin, who was Chairman of the Council of Ministers in Moscow. [More…]
We are led to believe from sources which we understand to be reliable that the trial was conducted not completely in accordance with the established legal code of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I remind the Senate that our view of any society, whether it be Indonesia, Chile or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is based to some extent on the impartiality of its justice and of its legal system and by the liberality of its laws and practice. [More…]
And whereas democratic control can only be guaranteed by the opportunity for all rank and file members of organisations to vote in elections for officials and Committees of Management, and whereas some forces within the Trade Union Movement are attempting to deny rank and file members the right to vote in Union elections. [More…]
Resist the pressures from those elements in the Trade Union Movement seeking to deny members the right to vote. [More…]
Ensure the widest participation in Union ballots by making it compulsory to vote in union elections. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Montagu Medical Union located at Rosebery on the west coast of Tasmania currently has before the Government a proposal for financial assistance to replace the quite inadequate and out of date health centre which serves a substantial and growing area of the west coast region of Tasmania? [More…]
This question may have been raised on some previous occasion, but I would like to know the present position with this application and when the Montagu Medical Union can expect to receive advice of the result of its application. [More…]
The issue is one in which the union is seeking a wage increase which is, on the face of it, outside the wage indexation guidelines. [More…]
When a union is apparently prepared to seek what it wants outside the Commission and outside the processes of conciliation and arbitration, problems occur for the industrial system and also for our society which have to be faced. [More…]
The same obligations apply to student organisations as apply to any industrial or commercial organisation in Australia, whether it be a trade union or a union of employers. [More…]
As far as my Department is concerned, the members of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia involved in or affected by this current dispute are ineligible for unemployment benefit as they are unemployed because of industrial action taken by their union. [More…]
The situation is that unemployment benefit will not be paid to the members of the union. [More…]
There is no such thing as collective thought unless farmers go along to a farmers’ union meeting or a pastoralists’ and graziers’ meeting where perhaps they will agree for a short time. [More…]
I invite the honourable senator to reflect upon what he has said, because in his question he has impliedly assumed that there are thousands -maybe hundreds of thousands- of restrictive practices with which the trade union movement is concerned. [More…]
I am broadminded enough to believe that even Mr Street at least tries to be reasonable with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
If one reads the Sydney Morning Herald or the Australian one finds that all that the New South Wales Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr Hewitt, does is spend his time pontificating on the evils of trade unionism in New South Wales. [More…]
In relation to the latter group, I have spoken with officials of the Miscellaneous Workers Union such as Mr Blackwell. [More…]
There is no doubt that because of language difficulties it is impossible for the unions to control exploitation unless there are joint operations between the inspectors from the Australian and State departments of labour. [More…]
I take a little further this thesis that Mr Hewitt is always talking about trade union power. [More…]
Mr Hewitt has this stock answer to anything that is put up by trade union leaders such as John Ducker and Barry Unsworth: It is not time. [More…]
That is one of the reasons why the trade union movement wants Labor leadership in New South Wales. [More…]
Whilst it is not absolutely relevant to the discussion of these Bills, it is interesting to notice that in the Soviet Union, a country that produces a massive amount of wheat, 32 per cent of the population is engaged in producing wheat. [More…]
I am reminded by my colleague, Senator Chaney, as a former Whip and a member of the Whip’s union- I think he is vice president of the Whip’s union at the moment; Senator O ‘Byrne is the Presidentthat we ought to acknowledge the contribution of Senator Georges to this debate. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister seen a report of comments by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s Ambassador to Australia in August 1 975 that the Soviet Union did not have any significant naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Has the Minister been able to give consideration to the request of the Australian Union of Students that it be permitted to represent country students who are disadvantaged at metropolitan sittings of student assistance review tribunals which are hearing appeals against tertiary education allowance scheme decisions? [More…]
Some weeks ago I was happy to meet representatives of the Australian Union of Students and to discuss this very problem. [More…]
I am advised that dispute arose in relation to claims by the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union on employers in the wool broking industry for. [More…]
The Government places the very highest priority on bringing some long overdue representative democracy into the trade union movement. [More…]
There are some trade unions which demonstrate and have demonstrated over many years that basic representation of the rank and file worker, but no one can say that where there is a union membership of something like 170 000 people and only -2000 of them vote the people elected by those 2000 in any way represent the 170 000. [More…]
The Government believes that, by introducing a system which will apply uniformly to employee and employer organisations and under which a ballot will be conducted by the Electoral Office so that every unionist will have the opportunity to vote, there will be the opportunity for representative democracy in union affairs. [More…]
Has the Minister seen an article in the Adelaide Advertiser of 24 April of this year giving detailed proposals by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations concerning Government policy to control secret ballots for unions? [More…]
The report alleges that the Minister forecast that the cost of the scheme could be considerably in excess of $ 1.5m per annum and also that the proposal may not be the best system for union elections. [More…]
In view of these and other problems referred to in the report I ask: Will the Minister agree that when Mr Fraser put forward his policy on union elections in an attempt to win votes, he was unaware of the major difficulties involved? [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Government to reconsider its irrational and ill-prepared attempt at union bashing? [More…]
In view of his earlier answers on the desirability of secret ballots for electing union officials, can he name those unions in Australia which currently do not elect their officials by either a secret ballot or the collegiate voting system, which I understand the Government intends to provide in its proposed legislation? [More…]
I think there are said to be something in excess of 300 unions in this country. [More…]
Surely the honourable senator does not expect me to possess the knowledge as to which unions conduct secret ballots, which unions have ballots authorised and conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office, and which unions do not, and be able to specify which unions they are. [More…]
The fact is that there are some significant unions in this country which do not have a postal secret ballot and which purport to have a secret ballot in accordance with rules and in accordance with legislation. [More…]
The real point which the Government desires to establish is that, without attending a meeting place, every unionist shall receive a postal ballot paper so that he can choose whom he will elect as his union official. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said he had pursued Australian trade union calls for troop withdrawals and said he had rejected suggestions that the Indonesian troops in East Timor were volunteers. [More…]
The horse is brought out by Mr Halfpenny, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union- he has the support of other unions- who stated that they have collected money, that they have chartered a ship and that they intend to float the ship into East Timor. [More…]
They were applied unilaterally by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in south west Africa when it airlifted Cuban troops from Cuba into south western Africa. [More…]
Mr Halfpenny is half inviting us to do that by creating the conditions of casus belli between Indonesia and Australia in demanding that an Australian covering force be provided to protect the ship which, unilaterally, the trade unions in Victoria and other parts of Australia are loading with supplies. [More…]
I remember a rather prominent Portuguese official, the President of the Portuguese National Union which in fact was the Portuguese Fascist Party, describing somebody to me. [More…]
accordingly Australia appreciates Indonesia’s concern over the future of the territory and shares its belief that voluntary union of Portuguese Timor (with Indonesia) on the basis of an internationally accepted act of selfdetermination would seem to serve the objective of decolonisation and at the same time the interest of stability in the region?’ [More…]
After a 3-day trial in which Sir Shane Paltridge gave evidence along with his co-prosecutors, Mr Dougherty, of the Australian Workers Union, and Mr Downing, the Attorney-General of New South Wales - [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that, in the period since Solzhenitsyn ‘s release from the Soviet Union, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has screened only one interview with Solzhenitsyn, despite the fact that several other interviews were available and at least one was offered by the BBC to the ABC but was rejected as not suitable? [More…]
Will he ascertain also who made that decision and whether any pressure was applied by the Soviet Union on the ABC similar to the pressure applied without success to the BBC? [More…]
It is my understanding that what Senator Harradine has said regarding the attempt by Sir Charles Curran to visit the Soviet Union and the refusal of that visit is true. [More…]
I now ask the Minister whether he can say whether the Government has taken any action to curtail imports of juice concentrates or whether action is to be left to the trade union movement to assist the citrus industry by refusing to handle imported concentrates? [More…]
The difference is explained by the fact that at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea Indonesia was very close to the Soviet Union, and the PKI- the Indonesian Communist Party- - exerted strong influence over President Sukarno. [More…]
At that time in 1962 there was an arms deal between the Soviet Union and Indonesia. [More…]
They were silent because in 1962 the Soviet Union supported the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea. [More…]
That declaration of attitude by the Soviet Union and by the Communist Party of Australia had the effect of signalling to the Left that it should either support the takeover of West New Guinea or turn a blind eye to it. [More…]
That is precisely what the Left did in its statements and propaganda organs, including the union journals which it influences. [More…]
However, in the present circumstances the Soviet Union opposes the Indonesian takeover of East Timor, and only recently when Mr Fry left Australia to speak at the United Nations in support of Fretilin the Canberra Times reported on 13 April that the Soviet Embassy in Canberra offered him all possible assistance while in New York. [More…]
As an example I illustrate the attitude of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, which is controlled by Mr Ray Gietzelt. [More…]
Past and present officials of his union are prominent in today’s campaign over Timor. [More…]
For example, the Wollongong contact for the Australia-East Timor Association is Len Norriss and his address is given as care of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, Room 11, 14 Station Street. [More…]
Len Norriss is the district organiser of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, and, incidentally, is a member of the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
Mr Wilson is the secretary of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council, a former full time Communist Party organiser and secretary of the Newcastle branch of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union. [More…]
But where were the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union and its organisers in 1962 when a pro- Communist Indonesia was taking over West New Guinea with the support of the Soviet Union and the support of the Communist Party of Australia? [More…]
What was the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union doing? [More…]
In March the New South Wales branch, under Ray Gietzelt ‘s leadership, was sponsoring the visit to Australia of a delegation from the Soviet Union which was actively backing the takeover at that time of West New Guinea by the Indonesians. [More…]
In May the New South Wales branch organiser of that union, J. J. Dwyer, was in Moscow attending the May Day celebrations at the invitation of the socalled Soviet All Union Council of Trade Unions which, incidentally, was under the control of Mr Alexander Shelepin, a former KGB boss. [More…]
in our country, since the Revolution, there’s never been such a thing as a free trade union’? [More…]
Mr Dwyer was sent to Moscow by the Federal Executive of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
If so, he was not very successful because on 8 May 1962 Indonesia signed an agreement with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the supply of Soviet arms. [More…]
Right throughout the period of the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea the Miscellaneous Workers Union journal Federation News made not the slightest protest about the takeover. [More…]
Yet during this period Federation News published many items about the involvement of the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the New South Wales Peace Committee. [More…]
In the September 1961 issue a photograph was published of a Miscellaneous Workers Union banner stating ‘Peace is Trade Union Business’. [More…]
Indeed, peace is trade union business, but it must be peace with justice. [More…]
Let us have a look at that Peace Committee with which the Miscellaneous Workers Union was affiliated and which the union was lauding in its journal. [More…]
This Committee with which the Miscellaneous Workers Union was involved- the New South Wales Peace Committee- had an equally two-faced attitude. [More…]
Similarly, we have the Amalgamated Engineering Union which now forms part of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Unions. [More…]
What is that union doing at the present time? [More…]
If one searches the journals of the Union one finds silence on this question. [More…]
But like the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union in its journals during the period of the Indonesian paratroop landing on West New Guinea was busy following the Soviet line and also was busy feting delegations from the Soviet Union which in turn was supporting the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea. [More…]
What right have the Left-controlled groups, such as the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament to preach to the Australian people about independence in East Timor when they or their predecessors did nothing- absolutely nothing- at the time of the Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea and the destruction of the independence of the people of that country? [More…]
I do not know whether he was absentminded on this subject or whether his memory failed him, but he would know also that regardless of the machinations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or any other country, the United States of America was implicated to the extent that Mr Ellsworth Bunker, a top negotiator who at this very hour is endeavouring to salvage the United States reputation in regard to the future of the Panama Canal, was equally involved in the West New Guinea matter. [More…]
We should not worry whether it is Ray Gietzelt of the Miscellaneous Workers Union or his brother, Senator Arthur Gietzelt, who is involved in the matter. [More…]
I think the findings of Mr Summers make it perfectly clear that it is quite wrong and inappropriate for people to blame the deficiencies of our shipping industry on various unions and union activity. [More…]
Sometimes the unions are at fault but the tendency is to blame all our troubles in this area on them. [More…]
Judging from Press reports today, Mr Fraser has backed down to Mr Hawke over compulsory union ballots, or at least has gone a long way down the ladder. [More…]
No objection was raised by the appropriate unions to further American teachers coming in May and August of this year. [More…]
Indeed, I did not know until yesterday, when I received a telegram from the Australian Union of Students and the teacher trainees union in Victoria, that the arrival was to take place. [More…]
It is based on conversations with officials of the Australian Railways Union in Sydney on the stoppage to which he referred. [More…]
In view of the discussions in Estimates Committee B on Tuesday of this week when Senator Carrick indicated a timetable for the final decision by Mr Justice Fox regarding uranium extraction, will either Senator Carrick or Senator Withers take up with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, a comparison between the position of trade unions and conservationists marking time until this historic decision is made and the action of Mary Kathleen Mines in tooling up in anticipation of a favourable decision? [More…]
I simply say to each Minister that the Australian Council of that Union meets at 4 p.m. today. [More…]
An authentic industrial complaint of a trade union should beyond any doubt, bc investigated and acted upon immediately. [More…]
Until 1970, the powers and functions of the Authority were vested in a Chairman, and 2 other members, one of whom was to be experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been an employer in an industry or having been otherwise associated with management in industry; and the other experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been associated with trade union affairs. [More…]
The most significant union in the industry is the Waterside Workers Federation, whose members provide the bulk of the manpower for stevedoring operations. [More…]
When meeting with the Federated Clerks Union, the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, and the Professional Officers Association earlier this year, they all referred to what they saw as the special position of these staff in the their future had been uncertain for some time; that if the Authority were not to continue then special arrangements should be made for the staff; as well they expected that the earliest possible consultation would take place concerning decisions as to the future of the staff. [More…]
I have already forewarned the Director of the Authority, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the relevant unions of the course the Government intends to adopt and I have outlined the steps that will be taken as to the future of the staff. [More…]
These include- application to them of the Government programs dealing with assistance to redundant employees in Commonwealth Departments and agencies and including discussions with both employers and unions as to the totality of the arrangements to apply; a special section of the Department will be devoted to co-ordinating the operations of the Commonwealth Employment Service in an exercise designed to provide maximum assistance aimed at locating the staff concerned in suitable alternative employment; and raising with employers in the industry the steps that they might take to offer to staff presently employed by the Authority new employment opportunities. [More…]
It points out that semi-military organisations were established in Australia when there was a threat to the Establishment of Australia or when there was some militant action by unionists when Labor was in power. [More…]
Armed civilian personnel were there to protect those who were working despite the union ban involving work on the waterfront. [More…]
A Queensland union leader believes Brisbane’s mail bomb blast could have been set up by the National Party. [More…]
Mr Michael O ‘Loughlin, Federal research officer for the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, said yesterday the raid was politically motivated. [More…]
But tax indexation will not reduce the pressure on wages and incomes any more than the restructuring of the tax scale did because the lower paid workers are entitled- in fact, the trade union movement is entitled- to ensure that they receive at least their proportion of the increasing prosperity of the community. [More…]
I feel that the proposition that tax indexation will reduce the pressure for increased wages will be rejected almost unanimously by the trade union movement, no matter how appealing on the face of it tax indexation might be. [More…]
We are confronted with an attempt by this Government to suggest that we need to help the economy by simply getting some stimulation within the private sector and by endeavouring to produce some sort of arrangement, package or deal which the trade union movement will accept. [More…]
Who has ever seen anyone happy in the Soviet Union? [More…]
These representations were, in the main, from various members of Parliament on behalf of residents ofthe town and also on behalf ofthe Far Northern Development Association and Leigh Creek Combined Union Council at Leigh Creek. [More…]
He said that this in no way will reduce the pressure of wage demands emanating from the trade unions. [More…]
Surely the trade union movement, as has been clearly evidenced, already is sharing with all the other people of the Commonwealth in the greater amount of public funds spent on education, health and welfare and other matters to the detriment of the Budget. [More…]
On the Friday afternoon, officials of the Miscellaneous Workers Union tried to persuade the management of Hanimex to postpone the retrenchments until all concerned could put forward their views. [More…]
It is generally believed by other employees of Hanimex that these people were dismissed because they supported the union against the company in particular disputes which were taking place. [More…]
What percentage of total trade union membership elect their trade union officials by secret ballot. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that whereas earlier the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Fraser Government were heading for a headlong clash on union elections the Government has now agreed to meet the ACTU. [More…]
As all honourable senators know, the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill contains new strictures to be imposed upon the trade union movement. [More…]
It contains new provisions in relation to union ballots. [More…]
So what the Government is offering to the trade union movement for its support is an effective increase in income tax because of the need to provide for a levy for Medibank. [More…]
I think it is unlikely that the Australian trade union movement will accept the proposition which has been afforded to it at the present time. [More…]
He talked about unhappiness in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and about various unhappy people he seems to know in Yugoslavia. [More…]
Certainly the trade union movement is very strongly in favour of it, and the Australian community is very favourably disposed to it. [More…]
Similarly in the matter of the trade union ballots. [More…]
According to the benighted lights, I believe, of the Liberals in the matter of trade unions- one would believe sometimes that they had never met a trade unionist- they had this magic formula of secret postal ballots that were supposed to solve all the problems of the trade unions and of the community, to get rid of troublemakers and to free unions of militants like Halfpenny and Carmichael. [More…]
It was based on the notion that if a higher percentage of members of trade unions were persuaded to vote they would not vote for militants. [More…]
That is an unwarranted assumption and it is one that could be based only on total ignorance of the nature of the trade union movement. [More…]
To his credit, Mr Street also finally, I believe helped by my nagging, saw the folly of this and in the interests of trying to come to some sort of an arrangement with the unions- without which this Government will not be able to govern- dropped this idea, for which the returns would have been miniscule and which could have involved the country in an unnecessary confrontation. [More…]
As long as union power is sacrosanct in support of a full indexation I believe that no government policies will be successful in meeting the problems which are being debated here. [More…]
The warning is clearly there, that to develop business investments today in Australia and expect to compete on a world market is almost an impossible prospect given the rate of inflation which we have and the full indexation of wages which apparently is to be supported by the strong trade union movements in Australia. [More…]
Unless we can receive moderation in these fields; unless we can recognise that Australia has a very small percentage of its work force with a high level of salaries and wages- in fact, I think that only 3 per cent of the Australian work force is paid over $30,000 a year, which by international standards would be a very low figureunless we can understand that there are no sacrifices that we can ask the tall poppies to make which would be sufficient to cure Australia’s economic ills, and understand that all of us have to take some part in creating the stability which this economic package calls for; and unless the union movement can understand that it is directly involved in that, there will be no satisfaction and this economic package will all in vain. [More…]
A great part of the problem will now pass to the trade union movement, to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, to State governments, to consumers, to the business community and to the people of Australia as a whole. [More…]
Has the Minister been able to give consideration to the request of the Australian Union of Students that it be permitted to represent country students who are disadvantaged at metropolitan sittings of student assistance review tribunals which are hearing appeals against tertiary education allowance scheme decisions? [More…]
I know of no reason why building trade unions in Sydney would object to these nominees. [More…]
It is easy to define qualifications in the main building trades but it is more difficult in classifications covered by the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association and by the Australian Workers Union in certain fields. [More…]
We are cheerfully submitting to a loss on an annual basis that is computed to be $600,000 because of what is called in the records the interference of a union blocking timetables for the omnibus service which otherwise would have been capable of making up those losses. [More…]
The alarming fact that timetables proposed to ensure economies in the bus service were not able to be implemented because of ‘union interference’ and resulted in a loss of savings of $600,000 in a full year. [More…]
In effect, the vote of $400,000 had to be made available by the Government to offset this loss which resulted, as has been plainly indicated by the officials, from union interference. [More…]
Of that amount, $600,000 was caused because of union interference in the application of timetables which would have made a saving in the industry. [More…]
At that time the balance was about 80 to one in Australia’s favour and against the Soviet Union. [More…]
They consist of people from the associations of manufacturers, the consumers, the buyers, those who in effect are the users, the government departments concerned, members of the trade unions and, equally, members from both this side of Parliament and from the Opposition side of Parliament. [More…]
I refer to the State governments, the consumers, the businessmen, and the trade union movement. [More…]
Now that indexation is all the rage will the Government, in accordance with the recommendations of the Farmers Union of Western Australia, among other organisations, and in conformity with the strident demands of many of the Minister’s own colleagues just 12 months to 15 months ago, index the reserve price of wool for the 1976-77 season and thereby maintain the real value of the Labor Government’s assistance to the industry? [More…]
When we look at the situation at the moment we find a communique emanating from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Clerks Union, the Miscellaneous Workers Union and the Foremen Stevedores Association. [More…]
These unions were adamant that the present statutory body should be no more. [More…]
True, the Federated Clerks Unions did not accept the elimination of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, nor did it indicate any final view of that body’s future. [More…]
But the union was rightly concerned about the future employment of its members. [More…]
Our coastal operations, both foreign and interstate, are particularly subject to the control of the 2 monopoly maritime unions, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. [More…]
We have a situation on the waterfront in which the union has been using its monopoly power to hand spike out of the industry conditions which are far out of line with general conditions in industry in Australia. [More…]
For a continuation of government organisation on the waterfront there was strong advocacy from the present government authority, the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, which said some governmental agency was needed to organise the general activities the.e and to match the union power. [More…]
If the stevedores employ their own personnel, although there is a considerable doubt as to whether the monopoly of the union can be contained, we believe that with the assistance of proper agencies there should be success. [More…]
It may finally come to be realised that union power has to accept the responsibilities that other sections of commerce accept, namely, the payment of compensation for breaches of agreements and proper amenability to the conditions of employment. [More…]
I state, and state categorically, that the majority of the trade union movement does not wish to see a situation develop where the law of torts operates in place of a regulation of disputes by procedures governed by the trade union movement itself. [More…]
I believe that if a proper examination of the situation facing the stevedoring industry were undertaken, then proper responsibility for the conduct and control of industrial disputes would emerge and the challenge would be laid at the door of the central trade union organisation to see whether it would accept that responsibility. [More…]
It further adds the suggestion that the Waterside Workers Federation should be the only union on the waterfront. [More…]
I can tell honourable senators that suggestion went up like a lead balloon with the other unions on the waterfront. [More…]
I believe that the Minister should go into immediate consultation and negotiation to this effect with the union concerned. [More…]
grossly improper maritime union system of demanding payment from ships’ agents under threat of bans. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power which can provide a balance to the Soviet Union- to act with full effect abroad. [More…]
Australia lives in a world where predominant power is controlled by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is not in China’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in South East Asia, nor in Japan’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
On the other hand, it is not, presumably, in the Soviet Union’s interests that relations between China, Japan and the United States should be too close. [More…]
It means that Australia will involve itself and take sides in the dispute that exists between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Dr Kissinger went on to talk about the efforts that had been made in order to reach some measure of agreement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Many incipient crises with the Soviet Union have been contained or settled without ever reaching the point of public disagreement. [More…]
The process of detente- and it is a process- looks toward a saner and safer relationship between us and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Now, presumably, we are to be gobbled- up by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The speech deals also with the increased military strength of the Soviet Union which, as I said earlier none of us wishes to see. [More…]
Why does the Soviet Union desire military power far greater than any needed to secure its frontiers or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers? [More…]
There is an entirely different tone to the attitude of the Soviet Union than there is to that of China and that is quite clearly the intention. [More…]
I do not know where Chinese warships happen to be but if the information given to us by the Research Section of the Parliamentary Library is any indication, the countries with the biggest naval force in the Indian Ocean are France and Iran rather than the Soviet Union or the United States. [More…]
The Soviet Union has a trade balance of about $35 billion, twice the size but not very great in view of the vastness of its own economy. [More…]
The Soviet Union has 3 avenues by which it can transport goods and maintain its communications from one end of Russia to the other. [More…]
Geoffrey Jukes in his book which is called Soviet Union in Asia makes the point that before the Suez Canal was reopened 25 per cent of all merchant shipping around the Cape of Good Hope was Russian shipping. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister received any representations requesting him to prevent ships of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics entering the Australia-Japan shipping trade, if so, from whom have submissions been received. [More…]
There will be further discussions and conferences involving the Union, the ACTU and senior Departmental officers to find a method of recruitment and deployment of painters and dockers at Garden Island Dockyard which will be accepted as a permanent solution to the problems which caused the strike. [More…]
The Government is committed to genuine consultations with employers and trade unions on its industrial legislation. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has consulted with the peak trade union organisations, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, and the National Employers Policy Committee, representing the employers, on the Government’s proposals. [More…]
The proposals which it incorporates have the following purposes: Firstly, to rectify weaknesses in the Aci regarding representation by the Minister of the public interest, in relation to appeals and references; secondly, to extend the present requirement that in Full Bench proceedings, the Commission must have regard to the state of the economy and the likely effect of any award made, to include specifically the level of employment and inflation; thirdly, to make sure that every member of a union or employer organisation has a real opportunity to choose, without intimidation, who should conduct the affairs of the organisation; fourthly, to limit the term of office of office bearers of organisations to a maximum of 4 years; and, finally, to provide for the appointment of an additional judge of the Industrial Court. [More…]
Essentially the Government is concerned that every member of a union and employer organisation has a real opportunity, without intimidation, to choose who should conduct the affairs of the organisation. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, it is already the practice to provide for officially conducted elections at Government expense- provisions which, I might add, the unions indicated, when they saw the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations on 5 May, had their support. [More…]
During the Minister’s discussions with the unions they expressed very strong opposition to the proposal that the Electoral Office should conduct all elections. [More…]
For example, in the last election of a Commonwealth chairman of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, less than 2 per cent of the total membership exercised its prerogative to vote. [More…]
I believe that there will be many more people in the country, including the trade union movement, who will be very interested in this sort of thing, but I would like to know from the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) what is planned there. [More…]
From time to time those of us, particularly on this side of the chamber, who attend meetings of the working class and trade union meetings, hear it stated that the inequalities, the social inequalities of our time are on the increase, that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. [More…]
But I think that those whom he mentioned in the trade union movement who are looking at social inequities should note that there is a burden of cost in this respect and that social inequities cannot always be met simply by a universal burden that is expressed in terms of those who pay taxes in the way in which the Medibank levy would require for a universal cover as we have seen in the past. [More…]
Recently I attended a seminar in Hobart relating to women in the unions which was conducted by the trade union movement. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the fact that the Soviet Union is currently seeking a very large sum on the international money market to finance further purchases of beef and wheat. [More…]
Is he also aware that the Australian beef industry desperately needs an order similar in quantity to that obtained from the Soviet Union last year? [More…]
-I am not aware that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is seeking money to buy both beef and wheat on the world market. [More…]
Is he aware that the last negotiation of a meat sale by the Australian Meat Board to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics last year was done entirely by the Australian Meat Board without any commercial interference on the part of the Australian Government? [More…]
-It seems rather contradictory that one moment the Leader of the Opposition is saying in his first question, in effect, that because the Prime Minister makes a statement on foreign affairs and defence, this will affect our commercial relations, including the sale of beef, with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and then in the question he has asked just now he is saying in effect, as I was trying to say, that the sale of beef is a matter of commercial arrangements between the Australian Meat Board and the U.S.S.R. [More…]
It is commonly known that the Australian Clerical Officers Association, a trade union responsible for the industrial protection of a great number of members of the Public Service, has made complaints to the Auditor-General about certain things taking place at the Australia Council. [More…]
That was one of the very reasons why the trade union movement fought to achieve equal pay. [More…]
The trade union movement was conscious of the fact that if the employers and the Department of Labour and National Service were allowed to get away with their campaign to attract a large number of women into the work force as a source of cheap labour, obviously that would have a most disastrous effect on employment opportunities and wage standards of breadwinners. [More…]
In addition, and most importantly, the trade union movement sought to achieve equality- that is, equal pay for work of equal value- for women as of right. [More…]
I, in my capacity as a union secretary now have a copy of that letter. [More…]
I am told that when a relief ship was suggested by the trade union movement and also by the Catholic Church the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs gave certain advice to the Indonesian authorities on how to handle the complex situation that would arise if the mercy ships got on their way into East Timorese waters. [More…]
One of the first acts of this Australian Government when it was officially elected was to reject the incorporation ofthe Baltic States into the Soviet Union because of the rights of the people. [More…]
Yet we retain friendly relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government has decided that substantial voting in union elections is necessary. [More…]
So not only is it going to make it a moral and social obligation but also a legal obligation on organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
The Government hides behind the guise of democratising the unions. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that the Government objects to one or two leaders in the trade union movement and has hit upon a marvellous plan to remove those leaders. [More…]
It can try any way it likes to interfere with the trade union movement, whether through penal clauses, fines, or rules and regulations, but it will never break the spirit of the trade union movement because the trade union movement was working for its members long before this 76-year-old Parliament started and will continue to operate for many years to come. [More…]
In respect of fines, I remember the thousands of dollars it cost my trade union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which eventually became the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, in fines. [More…]
That was the feeling in the rank and file ofthe trade union movement. [More…]
We have had our share of court controlled ballots and at the same time we ran our own ballots as a check in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
The non-voters in the union tacitly agree to accept the verdict of the voter as to the representation and, consequently, the policies on the strict understanding that the channels are kept open. [More…]
I object to the innuendos which have gone around the chamber about the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Senator Messner talked about the bank union. [More…]
I do not know what kind of union principles he learnt there. [More…]
It is only this matter in which I am interested: All other decisions can be appealed against but here the Registrar has the right to say: ‘This union’s rules are such that it need not comply’. [More…]
But when the application is made to the union it has the right to reject it, too. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has drawn attention to the fact that the Government has had a series of negotiations with the trade union movement about the legislation and that the legislation has in part been modified in line with those negotiations. [More…]
The third point in the Minister’s second reading speech relates to the amendments contained in the Bill to ensure ‘that every member of a union and employer organisation has a real opportunity, without intimidation, to choose who should conduct the affairs of the organisation’. [More…]
There is not one tittle of evidence in the Minister’s second reading speech to indicate that members of unions or employer organisations do not have a real opportunity to choose now. [More…]
There is not one tittle of evidence to indicate that any members have been subject to intimidation during union ballots. [More…]
I agree that if we want to go back to the late 1 940s or even the early 1950s we will find that there was substantial evidence to indicate that members of certain unions may have been subject to intimidation by one side or another, but there is no evidence in the Minister’s second reading speech or in the debate in the House of Representatives or in any other allegations to indicate that there has been intimidation and so on in the conduct of union ballots. [More…]
The Government hopes that the introduction of what it calls secret ballot legislation will have the result of involving members of unions much more in the conduct of ballots, and that the consequences of that will be that certain union officials who may be unpalatable to the Government will be so regarded also by members of their unions and there will be a consequent change in the composition of the boards of management and the officials of unions. [More…]
The present legislation provides that members of a union who desire a ballot to be conducted by the Industrial Registrar can petition for a ballot. [More…]
If people do not want to petition for a ballot one must assume in a democratic society thai they do not want to do so for the very valid reason that they are content with the union officials they have or with the candidates Ibr an election; that they are content with the present system. [More…]
It is desired that the present position should be replaced by a position in which ballot papers will be forwarded to all members of unions, and a secret postal ballot will take place. [More…]
It is my view that some unions will welcome this legislation and find it convenient because it is accompanied by the undertaking that the Government will pay the costs of such ballots if they are conducted by the Industrial Registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
Many unions are already taking advantage of those provisions as they exist in the present Act. [More…]
The point we seek to make about the legislation is that it seems to us and to some unions to be an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the unions. [More…]
The assumptions underlying the proposed changes, that as a result of this legislation somehow there will be a dramatic change in results of union elections, are in our view totally unwarranted, totally unproven and unlikely to be fulfilled. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the factors which motivate people in union elections are vastly different from the factors which motivate people in national elections. [More…]
As I have said, nonetheless we do not think that, insofar as most unions are concerned, the provisions will be particularly onerous. [More…]
So trade union officials can be elected for a term of 4 years and no longer under this legislation. [More…]
We understand the period of 4 years to be a compromise arising from the negotiations between the representatives of the trade union movement and the Government. [More…]
The unions, in fact, suggested 5 years and the Government 3 years; and the compromise was 4 years. [More…]
There is something to be said for the term of office of a trade union official being prescribed by the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, because for years there has been litigation in the Industrial Court about what union rules should provide as to the term of office of a union official and about what is an appropriate period for a union official to hold office. [More…]
The Court has said, in a confusing variety of decisions, that the term of office of officials in some unions is appropriately 3 or 4 years and in others 5 years. [More…]
I believe that in the case of some unions the Court has said 6 years, but that may not be a correct recollection. [More…]
I think there is an advantage for unions in having a fixed term prescribed by the Act. [More…]
That will get rid of many of the difficulties that have been occasioned by a great deal of litigation over the term of office of union officials. [More…]
I would have hoped that the Government might have adopted a somewhat more imaginative approach in dealing with this question of the term of office of union officials. [More…]
Union officials also are aware of this, and thus they are put in a very difficult position. [More…]
I refer to the fact that trade union officials constantly have the knowledge that they have to face an election in a prescribed period of time. [More…]
That sometimes makes it very difficult for them, because they are subject to all sorts of pressures about the decisions they have to make which are of fundamental importance to the union, to the industry in which they are engaged and indeed to the country. [More…]
It is not just a question of defining a term of office; it is a question of trying to determine what happens to a union official who is caught in an unfortunate position and who with the utmost good faith has not delivered the goods. [More…]
It was always the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union that was singled out then. [More…]
It seems to me that the great majority of Australians, indeed the great majority of the rank and file members of the Australian trade union movement, are concerned in real measure that they should have the opportunity to elect by a secret postal ballot those who represent them. [More…]
Ballots may be controlled by the Commonwealth Electoral Office, in which case there would be no charge on the unions. [More…]
In itself, that must hold within it a measure of attraction because, so far as I can ascertain, the conduct of union elections is an extraordinarily expensive exercise. [More…]
I understand that last year the Australian Railways Union conducted a ballot at a charge to itself- in other words, to its members- of some $40,000-odd, and of course that union is not one of the really big unions. [More…]
This Bill contains a provision that secret ballot elections may be conducted within the structure ofthe union, and I believe that that is a sensible and important provision. [More…]
Within certain guidelines, it is probably quite unnecessary for us to prescribe or attempt to prescribe the actual structure of a trade union. [More…]
The immensely important thing, and I belie ve that this is the aim of the legislation, is to ensure that all members of a union are able, through whatever structure they may choose as a majority within the union, to express their attitude to the various people who nominate themselves to be their representatives. [More…]
That is the objective of this legislation, and I believe it is an objective which is fundamentally desired by the great mass of Australians, certainly by the great mass of Australian unionists. [More…]
I understand that in some unions and in some circumstances that as much as 90 per cent to 95 per cent of union membership can be found in three or four specific areas. [More…]
The concentration of union membership in those three or four specific areas would enable a vote to be taken quite simply, and probably without the implementation of the postal ballot. [More…]
Nevertheless, even in that situation, 5 per cent or 10 per cent or indeed all the unionists involved naturally would have the freedom to apply for a postal ballot and use it in that manner. [More…]
The farmers’ organisations arrive at their own structure and it is that sort of structure which is important in the context of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is the objective of this legislation to make sure that there is no rigid dictatorial view of union operations. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation surely is to establish a situation in which the rank and file unionist wherever he may be can vote according to his conscience without pressure of any kind from groups within or without. [More…]
However, I recently noticed that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in electing its executive had 2 per cent of its membership vote. [More…]
It does not seem to me or to the great mass of Australian unionists or Australians in general that a representative elected by 2 per cent of the people is necessarily a satisfactory representative. [More…]
It may well be that in certain circumstances referable to the far flung membership of unions the operation of a collegiate system on a regional or State basis would succeed in giving truer representation across the board. [More…]
It is merely stating in so many words that unions must find a way of achieving for their total membership the right actively to elect their executives. [More…]
The structure of their union and the manner in which they do this within the postal voting system is certainly their own business. [More…]
My contribution to the debate on the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill will relate mainly to the provisions for compulsory postal secret ballots and the limitation on the term of office of elected union officials. [More…]
It is claiming that it does not intend to proclaim the legislation other than minor provisions relating to the appointment of an additional judge to the Commonwealth Industrial Court until it has had a chance to hold discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
So it appears that the Government is not genuine in its attempt to improve industrial relations but is introducing this legislation only to provoke the unions into confrontation so that later on when the Government finds its economic measures are failing to get results it will be able to blame the trade union movement. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Government will enter into discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions with a closed mind, otherwise it would have delayed the legislation until after the discussions. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) in the House of Representatives had to amend the Bill to provide that all union members would have the ability to have a postal vote in union elections. [More…]
I believe that this Government will try to put the blame on the trade union movement if it fails-there are ominous signs that this will be the case- to fulfil its election promises to contain inflation and to reduce unemployment. [More…]
It will try to put the blame on the trade union movement for strikes and election ballots that do not please the Government; ballots in which the wrong officials are elected or officials are elected who place too much importance on conditions and the welfare of the members of the union. [More…]
The Government will try to put the blame on the unions as an excuse for not having a formula that will reduce inflation and also reduce unemployment. [More…]
The unions are very perturbed that this legislation is only a gimmick. [More…]
It is obvious from a reading of the second reading speech and from the comments made by honourable senators that the union the Government is out to get is the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Reference is made in the Minister’s second reading speech to the elections of that union and the percentage of members who vote in those elections. [More…]
Let me cite the case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which has the highest membership of any trade union organisation in Australia. [More…]
It is estimated that that union has 1 75 000 members. [More…]
Under existing regulations made under the legislation, the union is required to obtain only 250 signatures to petition for a secret postal ballot. [More…]
1 4 per cent of the total membership- requesting that the elections for officers of the union not be conducted under the terms of the rules of the union but be conducted under the terms of this Act. [More…]
I venture to say that, whether that election be for the officers of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or any other union officials who are giving a service to the members, the result of the election would remain exactly the same. [More…]
I am not concerned with whether only 2 per cent or 95 per cent ofthe membership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union voted at an election. [More…]
I venture to say that, irrespective of how the ballot was conducted, whether it be under union rules or under the control of the Registrar, the result of the election would be the same. [More…]
The reason why I say this is that any trade union official in Australia elected to office and doing his job in the interests of the members whom he represents has no worries about how a ballot will be conducted. [More…]
It is only the officials of unions who have been elected by some devious means through the rules of their organisations and who do not carry out the objectives of their members and look after the welfare of those members who have anything to hide, who have any need to worry and who need to seek protection from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to retain their jobs. [More…]
I ask the Minister in his reply to explain to the Senate why urgency exists requiring the introduction of legislation enforcing compulsory postal ballots in respect of union elections when already adequate provisions are made in the regulations and the Act of which any union member may avail himself or herself. [More…]
The last reference that I wish to make to the Bill now being debated concerns the provision seeking to limit the term of office of any elected official of a trade union. [More…]
As Senator Button mentioned here tonight, several applications have been made to the Commonwealth Industrial Court regarding the tenure of office of elected officials of trade unions. [More…]
Let me refer to a recent case between the Australian Workers Union and a member of the South Australian branch of the AWU. [More…]
This case followed a change in the rules of that union. [More…]
I refer to the case of Watson v. the Australian Workers Union in which the judges heard evidence on a challenge to the decision by the Australian Workers Union to vary the term of office from 3 years to 5 years. [More…]
In order to determine whether the period during which a union official holds his office is so long as to be unreasonable within the meaning of section 140(l)(c) of the Act, the court must consider all the relevant circumstances affecting the union, including rules of the union which bear upon the matter, whether or not they are being challenged. [More…]
The size of the union, the extent of territory and number of occupations and awards relating thereto which it covers and the period of time members retain their membership are important considerations, lt must be borne in mind that the officers ofthe union have to carry out important administrative functions and need to be strong enough and experienced enough to be able to control their members so that awards will be obeyed. [More…]
These are all matters to be taken into account from the point of view of stability in the administration of union affairs, which is a most important element for consideration in deciding upon the reasonableness of the period of an official ‘s term of office. [More…]
I have come to the conclusion that, having regard to the size of the union, the duties of its elected officials, and the control over them by members as provided by the rules, their five-year term of office is not unreasonable, notwithstanding that it is a substantially long period of office for persons who are elected representatives. [More…]
I have read the judgments of Dunphy and Joske JJ., and agreed with them that the five-year term of office provided for by the rules ofthe Australian Workers Union for holders of elective offices in the union is not unreasonable having regard for the nature ofthe union, its size, the many callings and industries it covers, its widespread geographical coverage, the great numbers of awards it obtains and administers, its complex and extensive administrative problems, the duties of its elected officials and the control over them by members as provided by the rules. [More…]
There we have a fairly recent decision of the Commonwealth Industrial Court which was hearing argument in a case in which a rank and file member of the Australian Workers Union complained that the Union had increased the tenure of office of officials from 3 years to 5 years. [More…]
Yet, in this legislation although we are being asked to concede the rights of organisations to fix their rules and the terms of office of their officials and to conduct their own ballots, whether by postal ballot or secret ballot- which is the way in which most unions do conduct their ballots- we are also being asked to agree that no union should in the future be able to provide in its rules for a term of office for its officials of more than 4 years. [More…]
I would like to know what right the Commonwealth Government has to interfere in the internal affairs ofthe trade union movement by enforcing a term of office of 4 years on quite a number of unions which at present provide for a term of office of 5 years or 6 years. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side of the chamber have had no experience of being officials in the trade union movement. [More…]
They are probably not even members of any trade union organisation. [More…]
Therefore they would not know the ramifications and the administrative problems of the trade union movement. [More…]
It could well be that the affairs of a particular branch of a trade union have become run down as a result of mismanagement by an elected officer or an appointed officer. [More…]
After a change of officers the new officials of the union would have the problem of rectifying the mistakes. [More…]
For this reason I fail to understand why the Government has included in this amendment to the legislation the provision that unions can elect officers for only a 4-year term. [More…]
I have never heard of any request from the trade union movement for a reduction in the term of office holders to 4 years. [More…]
I can only assume that the Government has introduced this legislation because it wants to put it on the shelf and wait to see how the Australian Council of Trade Unions behaves during the next conference that it has with the Government. [More…]
If, as the Government expects, the ACTU does not accept the economic package of restraint that the Government has introduced I think the Government will then try to bluff the trade union movement by saying that it will proceed to have the legislation proclaimed. [More…]
But it does not matter whether it does because there is no provision in this legislation that can improve the type of ballots that are conducted by many of the major trade union organisations in Australia. [More…]
I have had considerable experience in regard to union elections conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office and I am a supporter of those types of elections. [More…]
During my term of office as Secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia all of the organisation’s elections were conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
There is one union in Australia that is registered under this Act that has only 10 members. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Education to explain to the Senate when replying in the debate why there has been haste in introducing this legislation and why it is being forced through the Senate so quickly when there are already ample provisions in the trade union movement for members to request a secret postal ballot. [More…]
I would also like him to explain why the Government has seen for the first time that there is a necessity to include in the legislation a provision that the term of office of a union official cannot exceed 4 years. [More…]
Obviously the union ballots is related to the question of democracy in unions. [More…]
We are seeking to establish the individual rights of the trade union member, and to give him the right to express himself clearly at every opportunity. [More…]
We are seeking to guarantee that right to trade union members of they wish to exercise it. [More…]
When one considers the tremendous costs involved in union elections, it seems to me to be quite incomprehensible that the unions should be disagreeing with our proposal. [More…]
I think that Senator Donald Cameron referred to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I am coming to the view, albeit gradually, that this system presents great benefits for the individual member of a trade union. [More…]
I am not speaking on this matter with the experience that other people have, and I will be looking with great interest to the discussions on this matter that will take place between the unions and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) in the next few months before 13 November. [More…]
It seems to me that the introduction of any method by which machine politics can be kept out of trade union affairs must be to the advantage of the individual members of unions, and if that is what we are seeking I would be in favour of it. [More…]
In regard to the collegiate system I make the general observation that it seems to me only reasonable that in order properly to obtain democracy in unions there should be only one tier between the individual member of a union and the final election to Federal leadership. [More…]
Bearing in mind that 40 per cent to 50 per cent of trade unionists are breadwinners in any family, it seems to me that this legislation is in the interests not only of the nation but also of the individual unionists. [More…]
The decisions that we make tonight will be fundamental to the obtaining of a social compact in Australia and to the establishment of a system whereby these things can be worked out with proper discussions within the trade union movement and with the trade union movement, the Government and the employers all consulting together. [More…]
I belong to 4 unions. [More…]
One of those unions has a collegiate system of voting and another has the direct system of voting. [More…]
The matter is for the choice of the union. [More…]
When one says that the matter is for the choice of the union, the question is asked: Is that the choice of the officials of the union or is it the choice of the members of the union? [More…]
The surprising part about all of this argument is that no one has bothered, either during this session or when the Act was amended in 1 973, to present the situation to the Parliament in its true perspective; that is to say, the right of the union to determine its own form of self-government according to its own traditions, preferences, geographical and industrial coverage and administrative convenience. [More…]
I know of one union which if it did not have the collegiate system, would not have been able to get 3 branches to federate with it. [More…]
It cut right across the provisions of many unions’ rules which enabled the rank and file to have recall powers over their union officials. [More…]
As a union official I say that that is not fair on the rank and file. [More…]
Admittedly, there have been discussions on this particular subject with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Senator Donald Cameron referred to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, and in support of his opposition to this legislation he indicated that if only 250 members of the AMWU made a request to the Registrar a secret postal ballot would be held. [More…]
It ought to recognise that in the final analysis victory depends upon unionists imbued with that spirit of defence of true trade unionism, with the resource capacity to oppose those with other major resource capacities whose involvement in the trade union movement is to subvert it and to pervert it. [More…]
Everyone thought when discussions were being held on this provision that the Minister had to find a way out for the purpose of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia which has the collegiate system of voting but was caught up by the provisions of section 133 from which it had no escape. [More…]
I am not saying that there were not others but there was a strong feeling that this provision had to be made for the Clerks Union because it and the Government were somewhat sympathetic to each other and the Government could not have an alternative system to that which elected officials for the Clerks Union. [More…]
We heard Senator Messner with his limited knowledge of the Australian Bank Officials Association telling us all about trade unions. [More…]
I was always of the opinion that officers of the Clerks Union were appointed by a collegiate system of voting. [More…]
The 3 organisations that occur to me as being covered are the Waterside Workers Federation, the Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia and the Clerks Union. [More…]
The Minister in his second reading speech points out at some length how the Government has conferred with the trade unions. [More…]
However it is not conferring with the trade unions on the Bill if the Bill is introduced first, passed through both Houses of Parliament and then the Government talks to the unions about it. [More…]
If the Government wanted to introduce a Bill which was in conformity with the resolutions of a conference between the trade unions, employers and the Government, it should talk to those 2 groups first and then introduce a Bill. [More…]
A complete system of blackmail is being held over the trade union movement not only in respect of discussions next week but also in relation to future applications to the Court. [More…]
A union could expect some degree of success before the Court but it could well be influenced by other unions not to ask a member ofthe Commission to make an award on a matter because the Act could be applied, with all its repercussions, against other unions. [More…]
For that reason this Bill could be a threat to the unions. [More…]
Whilst those who have not caused much trouble have a predominance in the ACTU, there is such complete disagreement on the part of unions because they are fed up and lack faith in the Government that the Government will find it very difficult to achieve its aim. [More…]
It is certainly not a measure such as we have before us tonight which will alter the unions’ attitude and lead them to accept this threat to their organisations which the Government is holding over their heads. [More…]
Over all, the general concept of the legislation through the eyes of the Government has been that once the Australian Electoral Office conducts a union ballot no one will be able to cry stinking fish if he is defeated. [More…]
She might get a degree in trade union principles. [More…]
When I was interrupted I was making the point about the promised land for perfect trade union ballots. [More…]
Senator James McClelland knows the union concerned, as I do. [More…]
The New South Wales Branch of the Australian Railways Union held elections. [More…]
One of my colleagues in the other place raised the matter with the controlling faction in the union. [More…]
Union in its current form is singularly free of extreme factionism. [More…]
The union had no animosity towards the rank and file applicant. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe is a member of this union and he would agree that most of the ARU members are very responsible people. [More…]
They did not want to involve the union in paying money for senseless litigation. [More…]
I mention an earlier Australian Workers Union conflict in New South Wales. [More…]
Mr Charlie Oliver, an extremely sound member of the trade union movement, was equally hostile about rulings by the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
I make this point: If we are going to argue for a college system I return to the Australian Railways Union in the 1950s. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that many people such as myself suffered in their trade union advancement because of events at that dme. [More…]
It is a history of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
It is a paper back book about the American Steel Workers Union and some of the devious things that happen in the United States. [More…]
I am trying to emphasise that, no matter what sort of ballot system is used in union elections, unions get officials who are the product of their environment. [More…]
I do not wish to refer to the internal workings of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or to offend Senator Mcintosh. [More…]
I wish to develop a football analogy in relation to trade unions. [More…]
Whether it be in the metal trades, transport, on the waterfront or in the mines, most union officials have to be of the same physical dimensions as a ruckman or a rugby forward. [More…]
I suppose that, if I took the analogy further and included soccer players to please Senator Lajovic, the union officials would have to have the physical dimensions of a centre half, or something like that. [More…]
The message I am trying to get across is that service as a union official is not the promised land. [More…]
If we were to have a much tighter economy and if General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd and the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd did not always get so easily the price increases they seek, we might have a more docile trade union movement. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite talk about trade union leaders, whether they be John Garland, Carmichael, Taylor of the Australian Railways Union or Charlie Fitzgibbon, it could be imagined that they get up in the morning and say: ‘It is June. [More…]
Recently he made a point about the sorts of people who entered the trade union movement m the late 1940s and early 1950s. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that the trade union movement is so harsh that a person needs the skin of a rhinoceros to make it to the top. [More…]
Senator Donald Cameron’s brother ushered in a trade union college system. [More…]
I want to recite the simple fact that the Government was asked not to proclaim certain sections of the Act, they having been passed by the Senate, until after discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I would have thought that every honourable senator in this chamber would want to have the fullest co-operation between the Government and the ACTU and to have the Government at all times take whatever steps can be taken to help in bringing about what could be of massive benefit to the Australian people, if indeed the Government and the trade union movement Budget come to some fair understanding on the real problems involved, including containing inflation and restoring full employment. [More…]
It is true that throughout the trade union movement there are widespread differences of view whether there is benefit in the collegiate system or in the direct system of voting. [More…]
If my memory serves me, in 1973 the then Minister for Labour and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, introduced an amendment into proceedings in this Parliament which caused some dismay throughout the trade union movement. [More…]
The effect of that amendment was to give notice to the trade unions that they must abandon by, I think, mid-November of this year, the collegiate system and return to direct voting for their office bearers. [More…]
This, as I think a number of senators, notably Senator Harradine, have pointed out, caused anguish in the trade union movement and caused a number of trade union movements to say that they would disobey and look to find ways around this proposal. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh intervenes and says that every union has them, but the illustrations and the evidence before the Government and the people of Australia is that in a very considerable number of unions the participation of the electorate- the trade union rank and file- in the ballot is so minimal as to negate the whole idea of the secret ballot. [More…]
A 2 per cent participation in a major union ballot is of course a negation of the ballot itself. [More…]
Therefore when we consider that the office bearers will be elected by about 1 per cent of the union membership, it is quite clear that there is something wrong. [More…]
Let me make this perfectly clear: With respect to the trade union movement, in the field of trying to get good relationships in conciliation and arbitration, one would hope for and one would find many common points of agreement between both sides ofthe Senate. [More…]
We would find common agreement in the need to get an articulate electorate inside the trade union movement. [More…]
Because of the encouragement of the Soviet Union and the intervention of Cuban troops, the present regime- the Angolan Popular Liberation Movement- has been established. [More…]
I realise that Dr Castro has announced- I understand this from a Press statement last week and I have substantiated this by checking with other sources- that many of the 15 000 Cuban troops in Angola, who have acted in my opinion as proxies for the Soviet Union, will be withdrawn in 2 years. [More…]
Will the Minister examine the existing situation in regard to trade union ballots conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office wherein a late nomination attributed to mail delivery malfunctions cannot be accepted as a valid nomination after the deadline whereas, in ballots conducted by the trade union, with mutual agreement by all the parties such a nomination can be accepted? [More…]
In view of the fact that there have been complaints from the Department of Foreign Affairs and also, I see, from union delegations in relation to the statutory authority Telecom Australia that the present ceilings are hampering necessary developmental work, will the Minister consider holding discussions with staff associations in the same way as talks were consummated in February? [More…]
As to consultations with staff organisations, I am quite certain that the Ministers for the departments concerned are always quite willing to see members of union staff associations or anybody connected with the particular departments. [More…]
The Wool Industry Amendment Bill amends section 20A of the principal Act by providing that the Minister consult with and have regard to the views of employer organisations, and not only appropriate trade union organisations, before taking action likely to affect the conditions of employment or demand for labour. [More…]
I refer firstly to what was, on the whole, a well considered submission that was sent to me and, I understand, to other members of Parliament by the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
The report shows that Japan takes 29 per cent of our wool, France 1 1 per cent and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 13 per cent. [More…]
Before entering the Senate, former Senator Whiteside had a long record of service to the trade union movement and to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He played a long and active role in the Queensland trade union movement and in the Australian Labor Party within that State. [More…]
During his term in Parliament he was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the House Committee, a Temporary Chairman of Committees, a member of the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Warsaw and a member of the Select Committee on House of Representatives Accommodation. [More…]
I and my colleague, Senator Douglas McClelland, have often and still do put forward the views of unions with rural membership. [More…]
I refer to the Meat Industry Employees Union and the Meat Inspectors Associaton [More…]
And the Australian Workers Union, as Senator Douglas McClelland mentioned. [More…]
Whenever Senator Douglas McClelland and I rose to put a point of view on, say, Meat Board representation, we knew that Tom Bull would not come into us with both feet and dismiss the trade union movement. [More…]
Prisoners in the Soviet Union [More…]
The second is the statement by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, that he would be happy to sell uranium to the Soviet Union and would accept guarantees by the Soviet Union that it would not be used for nuclear weapons. [More…]
The third is the frequent statements by the Prime Minister that the Soviet Union constitutes a threat to the security of Australia and the peace of this region. [More…]
One thing to which I should like to refer now is the joint Press statement issued on 12 June 1976 at the time of the Government-union talks. [More…]
Representatives of the Government and the ACTU and other peak national Trade Union Councils met in Canberra over the last 2 days. [More…]
The Trade Union representatives were led by the President of the ACTU, Mr Hawke. [More…]
For a long time they have got stuck into the trade union movement. [More…]
In contrast to the strong reaction against the Commission by many union leaders, Mr Hills said the decision ‘may have avoided the destruction of wage indexation ‘. [More…]
I am told by the Building Workers Industrial Union in New South Wales that it has on its books 600 apprentices and 8000 adult building workers out of work. [More…]
In Queensland, the State which Senator McAuliffe represents, I am told by the Building Workers Industrial Union that in the last 12 months some 2500 building workers have been put off work on Queensland public works construction activities. [More…]
The Shop Distributors Association in the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union tells me that in the retail industry in my State between 1 7 June and 1 3 August 2500 people were retrenched. [More…]
However, today I think it is important to look at some of the statements that have been made by honourable senators opposite, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and the leader of the trade union movement and ask ourselves whether they have addressed themselves seriously to the matter of unemployment and whether they understand some of the basic economic truths which surround it. [More…]
We do see as the greatest obstacle to a lasting reduction in unemployment the behaviour of our labour force itself, very often misled by militant trade union officials who seem unable or unwilling to accept that demands for increases which it is beyond the capacity of industry to pay have a detrimental effect on job opportunities. [More…]
As mentioned by Senator Cotton, some of the statements made last night by, for instance, the leader of the trade union movement, Mr Hawke, and others, are to be deplored in the strongest terms. [More…]
At that time our strategy was not understood or not accepted by a vast majority of the Australian people, notably the members of the trade union movement. [More…]
All these things that are requested on behalf of trade union members are difficulties which need to be faced when placed beside the increases in costs of production that can be consequential upon them. [More…]
The article went on to describe how the Treasurer, Mr P. Lynch, sheeted home the responsibility for the latest deterioration to the continuing push for wage increases, particularly by the militant left-wing of the trade union leadership’. [More…]
It went on to say that with some minor exceptions all that the trade union movement had pressed for was wage indexation. [More…]
Neither Mr Fraser nor any other member of this Government is in any position to castigate any union for demanding full indexation of wages. [More…]
Under the conditions of the present legislation savings with a credit union are acceptable only if the credit union has been approved for the purposes of the Act. [More…]
People contracting to buy or build their first home on or after 1 April 1976 will be able to claim savings held with any credit union within their 3 years savings period. [More…]
They relate to information which I have obtained and brought back from the Soviet Union in the course of a trip I made some two or three weeks ago. [More…]
They relate to the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union and to the Soviet’s action in regard to the Helsinki Agreement to which it is a signatory. [More…]
In the course of obtaining this information I was travelling in the Soviet Union after discussions with the Amnesty organisation, I being a member of the executive of the Parliamentary group here in Canberra. [More…]
It was at the suggestion of members of Amnesty International headquarters that people who are in a position to do so ought to make visits to those who are struggling in the Soviet Union to obtain human rights and to ensure their enforcement. [More…]
I certainly recommend to other members of the Senate and to people generally that they go and see the situation in that country and particularly to give some solidarity and support to those who are endeavouring legally and openly to proclaim the need for human rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I found that there was difficulty of contact, even in Leningrad, because the general position is that those who are involved in human rights groups in the Soviet Union do not have a telephone any longer. [More…]
This is a common feature of those who have taken rather outstanding parts in this human rights struggle in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Although various organisations in the Soviet Union would readily employ him, they are not permitted to do so. [More…]
It has existed for some years and has produced documents, one of which is The Chronicle of Current Events which is not allowed to be distributed in the Soviet Union. [More…]
These organisations support those of their members and others who are prosecuted on the sorts of charges that are prevalent in the Soviet Union- slander of the Soviet system and like charges. [More…]
Among these are the prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is a committee that has been formed this year for the implementation of the undertakings of the Soviet Union under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
In addition to these groups there are many other groups in the Soviet Union, known to the [More…]
The Helsinki group is concerned with the obligation of the Soviet Union under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
They are aware, of course, as we all are, that under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights obligations are imposed upon the Soviet Union to carry out and to enforce rights of freedomrights of freedom of movement, rights to leave the country, rights to have a nationality and many other rights. [More…]
In addition to this the Soviet Union was one of the signatories a year ago to the Helsinki Agreement, an agreement signed by 35 nations, mostly in Europe but including the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In some documents I read in the Soviet Union that were produced by the Government on the celebration of its first anniversary, no reference was made to the human rights provisions of the Agreement. [More…]
The Helsinki group has analysed the failure of the Soviet Union to implement in any way the duties it has undertaken under the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
I brought from the Soviet Union a document written in the Russian language. [More…]
Any attempts to create an association independent of the leadership of the KPSS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) are persecuted. [More…]
The setting of the same trend was also helped by different factors, such as the preparation for the conduct of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the cessation of war in Vietnam by the U.S.A., war in Angola which had begun after the European Conference, large failures in the agricultural economy of the U.S.S.R. which brought about massive purchases of grain from abroad, and other factors. [More…]
Let us now bring the list of the dissidents repressed ate] the Soviet Union had signed the Final Act (we are convinced that this is only a small part of those who were subject to repression at this time). [More…]
In the course of the last year, there was an increased frequency in campaigns in the central and local press, against people wishing to leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
This directly contradicts Conventions Nos 87, 98 and 111, relating to the rights of association, which have been ratified by the Soviet Union. [More…]
According to the above mentioned article of the Constitution, neither workers, nor farmers, nor even scientific workers are allowed to form any professional organizations (political organizations are not even mentioned) for the protection of their interests, apart from the Government Professional Unions which are directed by the Communist Party. [More…]
That document is one that I believe honourable senators and others who read it will find striking for it is in strong language and was signed by 9 citizens of the Soviet Union who have endeavoured to publicise the material in it. [More…]
These 9 men have prepared this document in which they set out, among other things, the conclusion that, the Soviet Union does not intend to carry out its international obligations relating to the human rights of man and refer, to Article VII. [More…]
While he has been there another man whose name I have brought to Amnesty from the Soviet Union is Pavel Bashkirov a man who travelled to Jakutsk to see the exiled Amnesty secretary. [More…]
This is by all accounts the way in which I can best help these people who are fighting for liberty in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the Soviet Union today many thousands of people are persecuted because of their convictions, both by judicial and extrajuridical means; for their religious beliefs and for their desire to bring their children up in the spirit of religion; for reading and circulating- often to only a few acquaintances- literature which is unwelcome to the State, but which in accordance with ordinary democratic practice is absolutely legitimate, e.g. [More…]
Material is available and documents have been produced by Amnesty over the last few years indicating that, in the Soviet Union, there are 330 prisons or prison camps to their knowledge where political prisoners are known to be incarcerated. [More…]
The number of prisoners is not known with any exactitude, but it is believed that, with the inclusion of religious groups, there are something like 10 000 prisoners of this typeprisoners of conscience- remaining in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In conclusion, I wish to say that I believe there is an obligation on those of us who work in a free community, whether we be members of Parliament or businessmen or ordinary tourists, who have the opportunity to go not only to the Soviet Union but also to other countries in the world where this type of persecution is going on. [More…]
I do not expect to have the opportunity of going to the Soviet Union again, but I do hope that others will make use of such an opportunity to highlight the fact that these people live in a state of injustice. [More…]
I hope that all honourable senators will read the document which has been incorporated and will take an ever-increasing interest in the concern being shown for prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As someone who has been to the Soviet Union, and especially to Estonia, to look for some of the problems referred to by Senator Missen, I listened to his speech with a great deal of interest. [More…]
However, I might suggest that recent statements by the Leader of his Party probably did not help him in his undertaking while he was in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Four years ago on a night such as this my illustrious South Australian colleague, Senator Bishop, and I complained, on a trade union basis, about aid being given to South Korea at a time when both Methodist and Catholic nonKorean missionaries were hoisted out of the country because they told the textile workers to organise themselves into a trade union. [More…]
Within a month- Senator Bishop will agree with me on this- certain trade union leaders were released and there was a great deal more harmony on the part of the gentlemen of the cloth who were adopting a more proletarian attitude to their role on this earth. [More…]
The Australian trade union movement has been under siege for its attitude to the cessation of wheat sales to Chile. [More…]
It may be asked- I do not say that Senator Missen would ask it- what about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
Payments could be made by way of a 4-weekly cheque, a 4-weekly credit to a credit union or building society or a 12-weekly credit to a bank account. [More…]
People who elect now not to have a 12- weekly credit to a bank account can simply elect to receive a 4-weekly cheque or a 4-weekly credit to a credit union. [More…]
It relates to the position of 1 1 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union employed by M. B. John Ltd and John Valves Pty Ltd at Ballarat who were fined a maximum $20 each before a closed committee of the union for refusing to take part in a political strike in connection with Medibank despite the fact that their action in refusing to strike was supported by a two-thirds majority of employees at a lunchtime meeting. [More…]
It appears that the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, in particular sections 138, 140, 141 and 188, have been breached by the union in this matter. [More…]
What action can the Government take that will obtain the release of urgent cargo on the Australian Trader, which has been tied up by the seamen’s union at Bell Bay since late July? [More…]
What redress have the owners of the cargo from the Australian National Line or the unions involved? [More…]
I am afraid it exemplifies only too clearly the arrogant disregard for the community displayed by certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
The central issue is the unions’ campaign in pursuit of a 3 5 -hour week. [More…]
The proceedings have had to be adjourned because of the action taken by the union. [More…]
The Government can only condemn in the strongest terms the union action to hold the public to ransom. [More…]
This Government is clearly determined to pursue a collision course with the trade union movement. [More…]
Predictably, it has begun to blame not only the previous Government- this Government has had 9 months to get things movingbut also the trade union movement for its inadequacies and for the present economic difficulties. [More…]
Contrary to what Senator Webster said, the Liberal-National Country Party Government has turned its back on the very problems which Mr Fraser claimed to recognise in a speech he delivered to the Victorian Farmers Union conference on 6 July. [More…]
In his speech to the Victorian Farmers Union conference Mr Fraser claimed: [More…]
I went with Senator Jessop on a deputation to Senator Cotton in the course of which we put to him that there should be consideration of a plan for shipbuilding which would embace the union movement and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The only comment I make on this issue is that the Japanese, I suppose, are concerned about their relations with Australia in other than the shipbuilding area and may be concerned also about what the results might be if the Australian trade union movement, including the unions representing seamen, waterside workers and shipbuilders, decided to take some action against a country other than our own in connection with that order. [More…]
I suggest that the people of Australia will respond to the demands of the trade union movement and of those on this side of the chamber who want the Government to change its policies. [More…]
It is costing jobs all over the place and most of all, it is a reflection of the difficulties in Whyalla enhanced in particular by the problems of union unrest and so on. [More…]
Perhaps the best example I can give is to refer to what happened last month when I was in Sydney talking to union delegates at a certain factory with international ties. [More…]
I believe that the moderate and responsible members of the trade unions movement recognise this fact. [More…]
They also realise that the right of a union to strike is the prerogative of a free trade union movement in a democracy, not that of a socialist country. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware of a statement made by a senior Commonwealth police officer which confirms that view and asserts therefore that the involvement of unionists was minimal compared with the great number of students demonstrating? [More…]
In view of the statement made by the Prime Minister that unionists were principally involved, will the Minister seek confirmation of the remarks of the Commonwealth Police officer to substantiate the report, or are we entitled to draw the conclusion that the Prime Minister has misled the Australian people and the Prime Minister’s statement is just another example of union bashing by some members of this Government? [More…]
When Mr David Jull spoke during the debate on this matter in another place he quoted statistics relating to the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is not known as one of the bastions of a free enterprise society and, indeed, where they have no advertising at all, consumption has gone up quite substantially. [More…]
I had pointed out that only in a free democracy were demonstrations considered a right of the people; only in a free democracy were trade union strikes considered a right. [More…]
When opening the conference of the Victorian Farmers Union on 6 July this year he commented upon the very real problems of the manufacturing sector of the Australian dairy industry. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, in the period since Solzhenitsyn ‘s release from the Soviet Union, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has screened only one interview with Solzhenitsyn, despite the fact that several other interviews were available and at least one was offered by the BBC to the ABC but was rejected as not suitable? [More…]
Who made that decision and was any pressure applied by the Soviet Union on the ABC? [More…]
-Well, Robert Darroch pointed out in an article which appeared in the Australian on 25 August that there have always been violent demonstrations in Australia from the time of the strikes of the 1890s- the shearers’ strike and the maritime strike- when the LiberalCountry Party Government sent armies out to shoot down on the banks of the Yarra in Victoria the people who dared to form a union and when armies were sent out in Queensland to shoot down the shearers who were holding meetings. [More…]
The words at the end of that paragraph are something which every trade union member should put on his desk or wherever he works. [More…]
The officer-class of the trade union movement would have to give the orders, and the rank and file would have to obey them. [More…]
This is the democratic trade union movement. [More…]
I welcome the emergence of the Pastoralists Union, the emergence of the small independent producer. [More…]
Early in 1975 a bilateral agreement on scientific and technical cooperation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Australia was signed. [More…]
Under the agreement between Australia and the USSR, the fares to and from the Soviet Union would be paid by the Australian Government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, and accommodation and expenses in the USSR would be met by the Soviet Government. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the New South Wales Premier undertook to the Prime Minister to convey the Prime Minister’s proposals to a meeting of union delegates at Newcastle and that this in fact was done by the New South Wales Premier? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the union delegates then referred the matter to a mass meeting of all workers at the Newcastle dockyard which in turn referred the matter to the Australian Council of Trade Unions shipbuilding committee which was to meet this morning? [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware of the concern that is being expressed by the Council of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales about proposed cuts in the Australian Government recurrent subsidy for sessional pre-schools? [More…]
Is the Minister aware, further, of the results of a survey taken on 27 July 1976 of the 6082 children attending the 78 Kindergarten Union centres in New South Wales which showed that only 37.42 per cent of children meet the Government’s criteria of need? [More…]
Does the Minister accept that, if the federal subsidy is reduced, there is very real doubt that the New South Wales Government will be able to meet the differences and the majority of children attending Kindergarten Union centres will be withdrawn? [More…]
It is of major concern not only to the Government, but also to individual rank and file workers and the community generally, that orderly methods of wage fixation are under attack by certain elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
that orderly methods of wage fixation are under attack by certain elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
Insofar as the Government’s statement seeks to blame elements of the trade union movement for the economic failures of the Government it is as I said an absurd exercise in industrial relations. [More…]
The essential industrial relations question is this: How can any responsible trade union official in Australia be asked to tell the members of his union to accept a real reduction in their level of wages? [More…]
How can a trade union official be asked to tell his members that they should take a real reduction in the value of their wages? [More…]
Our Government had a policy of reaching consensus with the trade unions about wage indexation. [More…]
More particularly, how can a trade union official say that to his members in the context of the Government’s promises made at the time of the last election or in the context of a government which, in Opposition in 1973, opposed a referendum to give power over prices and incomes to the Australian Parliament? [More…]
We are told now, of course, that the problem is that orderly methods of wage fixation- for which honourable senators opposite assumed responsibility when they came to government- are under attack by certain elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
In assuming responsibility for government the Liberal and National Country Parties assumed responsibility for Australian society in which the trade unions, the corporations, profits and wages are integral parts of the system. [More…]
It was accepted by the trade union movement because it was based on that fact. [More…]
More importantly, at the same time it maintained the real value of wages and it maintained a social contract- admittedly a fragile social contractwith the unions and a consensus on the question of wage fixation. [More…]
The problems of inflation and unemployment are well and truly recognised by the general trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
The nexus between inflation and unemployment although becoming increasingly understood is not sufficiently appreciated by the trade union movement . [More…]
It is not tackling the problems of what the Government terms ‘union militancy’. [More…]
The central problem is not what are termed militant trade unionists’. [More…]
Do not call people ‘militant trade unionists’. [More…]
I am a militant trade unionist. [More…]
I would fight for the right to preserve the functions of the trade union movement which are to get the best deal with the least cost. [More…]
Do not union-bash right across the board. [More…]
I believe that it requires the Minister to come out and say clearly and unequivocally to the Senate and to the nation which is listening that this statement is not designed to make an excuse for the Government’s reluctance to attack the real issues and solve the real problems by creating an industrial atmosphere by amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and in other ways, so that the moderate element within the trade union movement could restore the authority of the central trade union organisation. [More…]
The attacks which have been made on the central trade union organisation by the procommunist left are designed to weaken the power of the central trade union organisation in respect of the conduct and control of industrial disputes. [More…]
They are designed also to ensure that the central trade union organisation cannot come to a proper compact with whatever government is in power. [More…]
The result has been a monster which is controlled by people like Halfpenny and Carmichael who take no notice of the Australian Council of Trade Unions when it deals with the Government on matters affecting the pay packets of the workers of this country. [More…]
Industrial action by union members in an endeavour to secure more realistic staff levels. [More…]
Tasmania suffers all the vagaries of transport and whether it is traffic controllers, hostesses or pilots in the air, pantrymen, seaman or engineers at sea or the Transport Workers Union or waterside workers on the ground, the results are the same- one out all out, and Tasmania is cut off. [More…]
There was the Williams Committee report last year and the Australian Union of [More…]
The social democatic Government in co-operation- I stress ‘co-operation’- with the Opposition parties in the Swedish Parliament recently negotiated a basis for a wages policy with the trade union movement. [More…]
The co-determination that the West Germans enjoy has been achieved through co-operation with the trade union movement. [More…]
In effect the socialist democratic parties are completely banned because after the fascist coup social democratic parties and invariably the trade union movement were proscribed and disbanded. [More…]
It has no industrial relations policy except to bash unions as we saw in the statement brought down by Senator Durack this afternoon. [More…]
What trade union leader in Australia could go to his trade union and ask his members to accept a cut in real living standards at the moment? [More…]
I was also asked to address a union seminar at which I was asked questions after the meeting had ended. [More…]
We have heard of and marvelled at the disruption in the UK and the way in which governments have been held hostage by the Labor movement and the union movement yet our increase in wages is at the rate of 44 per cent a year and the UK’s rate of increase is 26 per cent a year. [More…]
One of the main factors in this disastrous double figure rate of inflation is the militant union movement. [More…]
The first is the militant unionist; the second is the weak employer who will move outside the arbitration system, too, to accede to the standover tactics of the militant unionist. [More…]
If Senator McLaren cares to look at union militancy in Australia today he will see the current situation. [More…]
We then heard a great tirade, which I must admit I have heard before in this place, against the union movement of this country and how all the evils of industry are due to the unions, the militant unions, and the terrible people in the unions. [More…]
The bulk of those people are able to travel because of what has been achieved for them by the trade union movement, in many cases backed up by State Labor governments, in increased long service leave entitlements. [More…]
Perhaps the Canadian system could be followed, with 3 members of the panel being legal persons, 3 members drawn from leaders of the ethnic community and the remaining three a blending of representatives from such bodies as the Returned Services League and the trade union movement. [More…]
Those who were in trade unions with me received the same service as anyone else received. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff had a shot about the trade unions. [More…]
My union, the Australian Railways Union, shortly has to make a decision about whether it will assist in the transport of uranium. [More…]
In my trade union career I was one of those people who tried to get to the middle ground. [More…]
I can remember giving a paper to the trade union movement relating to a simple matter. [More…]
I think Senator Mcintosh would know that that party consisted of people from the Australian Engineering Union, the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Vehicle Builders Union. [More…]
I say this to the Northern Territory senator: The trade union movement has accepted automation. [More…]
Some sections of the trade union movement were apprehensive. [More…]
One day the Prime Minister and Mr Street condemn the whole trade union movement- the ordinary shop steward, Bob Hawke, Harold Souter, the whole lot. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is a trade union official, an airline pilot or someone else. [More…]
Surely the trade unions are entitled to have colleges to which they can send their officials. [More…]
He talked about some snivelling union members in Victoria who are squealing about the right of a union to fine its members. [More…]
Let them become active in the union and try to depose the people who are officials. [More…]
I do not like these snivelling people who never go to union meetings and never aspire to office. [More…]
The game is a rough and tumble one, but do not say that it is only the trade union movement that has to pay the piper. [More…]
As an official, he enjoys the confidence of his union. [More…]
The Government patronises and sermonises about the trade unions. [More…]
It says to a rank and file member: ‘What is your trade union doing?’. [More…]
If the union advocate is not delivering the goods the Government says that he is lackadaisical and ought to be turfed out. [More…]
In addition, his service to the Labor Movement included the positions of State Secretary and Federal President of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
He was a delegate to the Fortysixth Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in London in 1957 and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Council in 1957-58. [More…]
For many years he was an official of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
In that capacity in his early days he was closely associated with the former Labor Prime Minister, the right honourable Ben Chifley, who also was a prominent official of that union. [More…]
As a trade union official and as a Labor Party stalwart he was chosen to represent the Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council in December 1942. [More…]
I know that during that time while still a member of Parliament he acted as an industrial advocate for his union which he loved. [More…]
Firstly, in his early days as a shift worker who worked all night considerably more enthusiasm was needed to participate in politics and in the trade union movement. [More…]
Secondly, members nowadays have better research facilities and postal facilities but when Jim Harrison came to Canberra he maintained a strong link with all trade unions, not just those in the railway group. [More…]
Some members had to give considerably more time than is required today to Labor councils, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and research work. [More…]
In that area alone he will be remembered both in the trade union movement and in the Parliament of the nation. [More…]
I can recall that as a trade union official there were many occasions when he was asked to come to Queensland. [More…]
It is a matter of interest that the latest figure as at 30 August 1976 on the number of endowees who were paid by 12-weekly bank credit and who have transferred to 4-weekly payments is 52 570, representing 38 381 people who have requested a cheque and 14 189 people who have requested deposit with a credit union or permanent building society. [More…]
Can the Minister recall that a Mr Mundey and his militant union boasted that they, on their own, over the past few years had prevented the commencement or completion of up to $300m worth of building activity in New South Wales. [More…]
This attitude, no doubt, is supported by the left wing element of the trade union movement which, of course, has a vested interest in disruption in this country because when it tries to inflict its philosophy and attitudes on the Australian people, then of course we will be subject to disruptions in industry and unemployment. [More…]
Of course, the left wing element of the trade union movement is deliberately fomenting industrial trouble in order to create that situation. [More…]
No, he is Mr John Isaacs’ offsider in the union; and there are others I could mention as well. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that in many cases where employers have closed shop agreements with trade unions there is no legal requirement that employees be provided with copies of the rules of the trade union when starting work? [More…]
While I am aware that some unions may object to this on the ground of cost, is it not an infringement of the rights of individual workers that this is not done? [More…]
There is no doubt that the World Peace Organisation has been largely financed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and east European countries. [More…]
Recently I was honoured to know that trade union members were directed to come and join me and to help me along at the Wollongong University. [More…]
A few months ago I was invited to the University of Sydney to take part in one of the Union Night debates. [More…]
I take as an example the plight of the shipbuilding industry in Australia today because that subject cuts across several of the points made in the Opposition’s amendment -for example, the reference to selective stimulatory expenditure in various industries, high costs, unemployment and the threat of it, and trade union activity. [More…]
Every Monday morning he met the union representatives and they got to work on each other’s problems. [More…]
The union representatives and the mine management agreed that, if each man put sixpence from his pay packet into a fund, the mine would match this amount of money. [More…]
The lesson to learn from this example is that the locus for union activity is at management level, not at board level. [More…]
But the unions are attacking the boards. [More…]
But board functions are entirely different from union functions. [More…]
I think it is a silly move for unions to attack boards and not to work at management level. [More…]
I hope it does work and that we do not develop a new age of tyranny by trade unions. [More…]
In Great Britain a law has been passed to make trade unions the sole negotiators in all contracts between labour and management. [More…]
For instance, people who are not in a union and even people who are in the wrong union. [More…]
There is a feeling of fear in England right now and people are racing to join trade unions. [More…]
A trade union card will become more important than even a birth certificate or a passport. [More…]
Anyone in England who is not a member of a trade union will be a type of second class citizen. [More…]
For a person to be acceptable, he will have to be a card- carrying unionist. [More…]
It would have been rather a unique and novel event if Senator Sheil had spoken this evening on matters other than trade unions. [More…]
I cannot recall him ever speaking about any subject, irrespective of the subject matter of the Bill he was discussing, without his finding a way to launching an attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
He is concerned about unions having the audacity and temerity to interest themselves in political matters. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware that a ministerial delegation from Australia visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics last year with the intention of examining the prospect of an agricultural agreement between that country and Australia? [More…]
Because of his past position Senator Wriedt knows extremely well the interest of the Union of [More…]
-Yes, these allegations have been made by the local trade union secretary as part of his normal operations to keep his union members happy and no doubt to show that he is earning his pay. [More…]
I understand he is at present on Christmas Island hearing claims put forward by the union. [More…]
I think I should not comment further except to say that Mr Grassby, the Commissioner of Community Relations, was written to by the same union secretary. [More…]
Coombs report were given to various sectors of the Public Service unions which are more intimately involved in its recommendations. [More…]
It is not as though the people directly affected, through their union representations, were being disadvantaged by being asked to pay for it. [More…]
The future of the Tribunal was discussed at length during the June meeting between the ACTU, other peak councils of the trade union movement and the Government. [More…]
I hope the game was Rugby Union because I want to be sure that the correct code was played. [More…]
I refer to the current oil dispute in New South Wales where some refinery operators work under a State award and are members of the Australian Workers Union while others in other refineries are covered by a Federal award and are in the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association. [More…]
Am I to understand that in view of this Government’s policy of creative federalism it is going to stand idly by or is it going to give unions the right to determine whether they remain under a State award or a Federal award? [More…]
Has the Government agreed to discuss all these problems with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, including the trade union reaction to a former proposal by the Government offering to place orders for ships? [More…]
Is this not a significant attempt to protect the rights of individual workers which, with other matters, could be considered by other employers, particularly those with closed shop arrangements with unions, to ensure that union rules and industrial awards appropriately safeguard their employees? [More…]
These representations were, in the main, from various members of Parliament on behalf of residents of the town and also on behalf of the Far Northern Development Association and Leigh Creek Combined Union Council at Leigh Creek. [More…]
Senator Cameron, my colleague, was a shearer and spent many years in the outback and later was secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia. [More…]
I then had to send an urgent telegram to the secretary of the Leigh Creek Combined Union Council which Mr Connolly said in his statement had made representations over the years to the then Government which Senator Jessop supported and which Mr Barber admitted did not do very much- that we had done more in 3 months than it had done in 5 years. [More…]
Whenever I have raised this matter, whether by question or by speech in this place or by letter to the Minister, I have sent copies of the correspondence to the Leigh Creek Combined Union Council and to Mr Barber, who was then secretary of the Far Northern Development Association. [More…]
Then, as later, he argued about rank and file consultation in a trade union. [More…]
I do not think that is a very good practice because at a later stage when typical confrontations on industrial matters occur an employer could use this as a lever to suppress a legitimate trade union demand. [More…]
So we have one of the major union bodies of this country representing many thousands- perhaps millions- of taxpayers complaining specifically that its members have been denied freedom of choice by the new Medibank arrangements of this Government. [More…]
By way of preface, I point out to the Minister that it is claimed that the United States of America has the nuclear capacity to destroy the Soviet Union 35 times and that the Soviet Union has the nuclear capacity to destroy the United States 15 times. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and refers to a report that the Transport Workers Union in Western Australia has agreed to support the operations of ACTU-Solo in that State. [More…]
We have consulted with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union movement. [More…]
Since we introduced the idea of a modified Medibank and the Medibank levy we have had Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions putting proposals to our Government which supported the levy, though they have argued with the level. [More…]
Is it this miserable rump of an Opposition or is it the trade union movement? [More…]
The only deductions that will be allowable before the tax levy applies will be contributions to a trade union movement, some gifts to charitable organisations and some interest that might be paid on home loans. [More…]
When we look back to the phoney one-day Medibank national strike, which all the statistics show was not supported by the great majority of Australian unionists but was foisted on them by the trade union leadership, it is apparent that there has been a strengthening of public opinion in favour of this legislation. [More…]
I remember signing them up 1 5 years ago into a union. [More…]
ls the Minister aware that the Communist Party has adopted double standards on the matter of self-determination, having refused to support this right for the West New Guineans at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea by the Sukarno regime, which was then in close contact with the Soviet Union, a communist country? [More…]
I understand that a meeting was held this morning, which was adjourned until tomorrow, and that it is the intention of the State branch of the Australian Workers Union to recommend to the meeting tomorrow that an application be made to the High Court to endeavour to resolve the very vexed and real legal problems which arise in regard to the conflicting jurisdictions of State and Federal laws in these matters. [More…]
Certainly if India were compared with China or the Soviet Union or, for that matter, with its neighbour Pakistan or with the Philippines or Spain or most of the countries in Latin America, India indeed is a very democratic country and it probably still ranks amongst the most democratic countries in the world. [More…]
Those imprisoned cover a whole gamut of political parties, from the Swatantra Party, the conservative private enterprise party; through the Jana Sangh, a very right-wing Hindu communal party; through the Socialist Party of India; through the Congress (O)- the Congress Party (Organisation), the Opposition Congress Partythrough to the Communist Party (Marxist), a party which broke with the Soviet Union some years ago. [More…]
The only political parties which are supporting the Congress Party of the Government in the actions that it is taking are the Communist Party of India, the pro-Moscow Communist Party- without trying to judge why it is doing these things, I would imagine that the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union would play some part in it- and the Moslem League, a small communal party representing the Moslems who apparently, for whatever reason, do not wish to become involved in a serious disagreement with the Government. [More…]
All of the other major political parties and movements, including the bulk of the trade union movement in India, are opposed to the present action which is being taken by the Indian Government. [More…]
I recall discussing with the head of Amnesty International only a few weeks ago while I was in the Soviet Union the situation in which people who believe in democracy in that country found themselves. [More…]
The point was made to me that in fact they may be a very small minority in the Soviet Union but also that those who believe in democratic rights are now in a minority in the world. [More…]
In view of these statements, I ask the Minister the following question: How does he reconcile his view that ‘there is no military significance’ attached to Omega with the United States Navy reports and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Defence Ministry reports which give a high strategic value to the Omega system in coordinating nuclear strikes? [More…]
The main thrust of evidence before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament was against the honourable senator’s first premise which was that both the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regard Omega as being essential for nuclear strikes. [More…]
Mr W. J. Neilly, a Darwin resident and an official of the Northern Territory Workers’ Union, has been refused a licence to operate the seized equipment. [More…]
It was a high powered committee consisting of, apart from Dr Williams, Emeritus Professor G. A. Barclay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Macquarie University, Mr N. K. McLean, President in 1974 of the Australian Union of Students, and Mr E. S. Rolfe, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education. [More…]
They have been compiled through the trade union organisation. [More…]
I have mentioned our policies of wage restraint, policies which the Government is pleased to note appear to be working despite the provocations of many members of the Labor Party and the union movement. [More…]
The policies on wage restraint now seem to be understood and accepted by large numbers of rank and file members of the union movement. [More…]
I suggest to this Government that rather than engage in a constant campaign of union bashing it set out to seek the cooperation of the trade union movement. [More…]
So it is no good for the Government to say broadly that the unions are to blame. [More…]
Sure, the pro-communist Left within the trade union movement directed from outside should be exposed for its political exploitation of the trade union movement for its ends and for the damaging affect that its actions have on employment in Australia. [More…]
But for the Government to say that trade unions generally are to blame is to ignore the clear fact that youth unemployment, in the words of the Government’s own expert, will ‘persist in a greater or lesser degree irrespective of economic recovery and improved labour demands’. [More…]
If Senator Cotton, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, were here I would remind him that 6 or 8 weeks ago he and I had a meeting with the secretary of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers’ Union of Australia. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite want to talk about freedom and the employer having the right to rationalise his industry and the unions having to live with it, they should not come here and bleat about lack of union co-operation. [More…]
Let me refer to the largely female work force in the non-skilled section of the Electrical Trades Union- the girls who do the PABX wiring with soldering irons. [More…]
If you as a former Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive member have given a false impression I will have to go back at the weekend and talk to the rank and file members of the clothing trades and rubber workers union and defend their position. [More…]
Their union is not trying to hold a gun at the head of the employer. [More…]
If their union were militant they would be saying: ‘We want 12 months work. [More…]
The moment that happened I imagine that honourable senators would be bowling up full tosses to Senator Durack about irresponsible trade unionism. [More…]
The union did not do that and the pay off is that the girls have only 3 months work. [More…]
I have had a tremendously high regard for the Australian Workers Union which is responsible for the majority of shearers in Australia. [More…]
I respect the union tremendously. [More…]
I do not say it was due to unionism. [More…]
In fact, I suggest it was because of a lack of unionism. [More…]
The union leaders are not in a strong enough position in that area to enforce the awards and agreements that are made. [More…]
I refer to bulletin number 276 of the Australian Industries Development Association- this is not a trade union body; it is a body that represents ten of the major industries of this country. [More…]
Workers for the Queensland Spastic Centre at New Farm were being forced to act as beggers to maintain their service, a union leader said yesterday. [More…]
The union leader was Mr A. Bevis of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
-Of course it is public knowledge, but the honourable senator said that I took it from a document which was circulated by the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
The honourable senator quoted a statement by the State Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, a man who is an avowed communist, to back up his argument. [More…]
I understand, although I have not heard these reports myself, that today some Public Service trade union officials have expressed concern at the proposed changes. [More…]
I am really being asked to involve myself in an area that is equivalent to the question: What would you rather watch- a game of Australian rules, a game of rugby union or a game of rugby league? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the growing concern that an important decision of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission recommending removal of the bans on the handling of wool bales of 204 kilograms is being flouted by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the rank and file of the Storemen and Packers Union have not been consulted by their leaders since the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s decision was announced? [More…]
Is it not true that there has been complaint only from the Storemen and Packers Union out of the 10 unions involved since the 1966 agreement on 204 kilograms as the maximum bale weight, an agreement to which the Australian Council of Trade Unions was a major party? [More…]
I have been advised of the current developments relating to bans which have been imposed by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union in support of its demand that the maximum weight of wool bales handled by union members should be reduced from 204 kilograms to 180 kilograms. [More…]
Representatives of the union and of the Wool Selling Brokers Employers Federation have conferred on a number of occasions in relation to a number of recommendations made by Commissioner Heagney concerning the weight of wool bales and other issues, especially those relating to the provision of adequate safety facilities in the industry. [More…]
Would that legislation have required a disclosure of the names of guests at the dinner and, more importantly, whether any of the $100 payments came from trade union funds paid by hard working trade unionists to keep their leaders in the style to which they are becoming accustomed? [More…]
I think that much of our trade union regulations and work conditions lead us to place great emphasis on safety. [More…]
How can the Government justify the provision of $1 1,400 to the overseas Students Service, which is a division of the Australian Union of Students, a wealthy organisation with a budget of over $650,000 compulsorily levied from students, particularly when such funds should be earmarked for aid purposes and could be spent on helping starving peoples in Asia? [More…]
We granted $1.25m to the Meat Board to cover the cost of export charged on last year’s beef sales to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- exports negotiated by the then government. [More…]
Club that the Workers Student Alliance has successfully taken over the Australian Union of Students and is effectively controlling student politics throughout Australia? [More…]
The newspaper report states that the students arrived in a blue and white government bus and that one of the students said that the Australian Union of Students sponsored them together with other organisations such as the Malaysian Union of Students. [More…]
A union of Christmas Island workers has been created and it has put forward certain proposals, including a log of claims. [More…]
The unions said that they were not ready to proceed. [More…]
The union will not be ready to proceed until, I think, 7 November. [More…]
I happened to be talking with them about trade unionism. [More…]
They said that their trade unions have no ties. [More…]
They were not talking about the World Confederation of Trade Unions but about the International Federation of Trade Unions. [More…]
They said that all the trade union movements of the world were communist. [More…]
I refer to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in another place, Mr Whitlam, claiming that trade unions have the right to take industrial action on political issues. [More…]
As a preface to my question, I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that union leaders are often elected by only a small percentage of their members and that the total labour force constitutes approximately only 50 per cent of the population over the age of 15. [More…]
Can the Minister explain what legal rights trade unionists have in dictating their political beliefs- or more likely those of their irresponsible leaders- to the community of Australia or against the democratically elected Government of Australia? [More…]
The actions that trade unions may take to further their political beliefs or the political beliefs of their members is a matter, of course, essentially for the discretion of the trade unions and their members. [More…]
What we as a government are concerned about and what a large section of the community is concerned about is the use of power by unions to strike or to exercise that type of activity to futher a particular political purpose. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has said, over and over again, that it is his view and it is the view of the Government- it is my view also- that that is an improper exercise of union power and an improper use of the positition of privilege that they have in the community. [More…]
Court upholding the decision of a South Australian magistrate that fines imposed by the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia on a member for non-attendance at a stop-work meeting during normal working hours were illegal because of the provisions of section 188 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether his Department has any means to advise rank and file unionists of the legal protection afforded them by the Act to enable them to offer for employment free of coercion, particularly in stop work and strike situations? [More…]
It concerned a gentleman named Leonard James Aylen who had refused to pay the fine imposed by the union. [More…]
The union had sought to recover the amount in the Magistrate’s Court in Adelaide on 10 February 1976. [More…]
The magistrate, however, considered that because of section 188 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act an employee could not be fined by his union for working in accordance with an award, and he dismissed the application. [More…]
The union then appealed to the Australian Industrial Court, and the appeal also was dismissed. [More…]
The Senate will be very well aware of the Government’s concern about the imposition of fines by a number of unions on individual members who chose to work during the Medibank stoppage. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article on the front page of the Hobart Mercury entitled House angered by abortion pamphlet’, referring to an abortion pamphlet jointly sponsored by the Australian Union of Students, the Womens [More…]
I have no knowledge of the Australian Union of Students using the Womens Centre in Hobart for the distribution of a pamphlet. [More…]
At the opening of a trade union national conference last Monday I delivered a speech. [More…]
We know the hang ups they seem to have about the National Party Government in that State, but the fact is that I would have thought that one of the major threats to civil liberties in this country has come from the actions of unions which have been the subject of questions in this House recently. [More…]
I am referring to people who are being fined by unions because they are exercising their right to work- people who wanted to go to work when the Medibank stoppage was called on by Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
A case was drawn to my attention today in which a member of a union who had attended work during a strike was fined by the Federated Moulders’ Union of Australia. [More…]
The Minister mentioned the record of the Labor Party in relation to the trade union movement. [More…]
One has to remember the enormous economic power which is concentrated in the hands of the trade unions. [More…]
They can deprive a man of his livelihood if he does not toe the trade union line. [More…]
I repeat what the Minister said because I think it is of fundamental importance that the people of Australia and honourable senators on the other side of the chamber understand that the spurious attempts by the trade unions to fine people for legitimately offering themselves to an employer for work is a complete negation of the principles of democracy and civil liberty. [More…]
A collaborative experiment with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is being conducted, which is designed to monitor the ionosphere at different but conjugate ends of the earth’s magnetic field. [More…]
A situation recently arose in which the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen- a member, I believe, of the same political party as Senator Webster- refused to allow cotton scientists to go to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is the world ‘s biggest producer of cotton, to study cotton production. [More…]
I rise tonight primarily to obtain information from Senator Durack, who is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), on a very important trade union case. [More…]
Last weekend, together with Senator Gietzelt, I was in Wollongong, which is a very militant trade union centre. [More…]
They may go to a parents and citizens association, a trade union or a fruit growers co-operative. [More…]
Talking about the facilitating of trade union amalgamationsone could call them consolidations- I would like to know, as Senator Durack knows, how and when the Government can activate the judicial authority in such a way that we can get a speedy decision in this matter. [More…]
This is a matter that besets the trade union movement. [More…]
I would like to think that this matter could be wrapped up by some time in November so that the component parts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions can get moving on it. [More…]
In attempt to break the revolution, numbers of Hungarians, including some women, were deported to the Soviet Union and some may not have been returned to their homes. [More…]
A massive armed intervention by one Power on the territory of another with the avowed intention of interfering in its internal affairs must, by the Soviet Union’s own definition of aggression, be a matter of international concern. [More…]
I was sorry to hear Senator Mulvihill use simplistic terms to describe a major problem facing trade unions in Australia. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill ‘s saying that the goodies are against the baddies, or vice versa, and then naming the goodies and the baddies, does little credit to him and certainly does little credit to the whole of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
If the Act were changed to enable a simple re-registration procedure to take place when a union found through some technicality that it was not able to function, that problem could be overcome by the use of an 18c stamp. [More…]
I agree with Senator Mulvihill when he says that it is extraordinary that so much money has been expended when the matter could have been resolved either by Mr Egan attending meetings and thus enabling the union to function with a quorum or by the reputed rule making bodiesthat is to say, the other branches- being able to seek registration of such rules as would enable the organisation to function in a technical fashion. [More…]
It does indicate the need for that legislation and for complementary State legislation which will enable one system of trade union organisation in Australia. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Williams Committee had on it the then President of the Australian Union of Students and I imagine, since there is no dissenting report, that this is the view put forward by the AUS. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the publicly reported fact that one of the organisations behind the current demonstration is the Malaysian Union of Students in Australia which is heavily influenced by Australian Union of Student operators? [More…]
It is also a fact that the President and the Secretary of the union indicated that members of the union may consider, as I understood it, placing a black ban or whatever one likes to call it on the admission of civilian patients to repatriation hospitals in the event of the problem, as they saw it, continuing. [More…]
It has failed not only to carry out its promises but it has compounded its failure by deliberately encouraging unemployment in this country as a means of attacking inflation and as a futile means of suppressing union activity. [More…]
An article published in the Melbourne Age on 30 September about a survey conducted by John Jackson and AssociatesI am sure they were not put up to this by the Labor Party or anyone associated with the trade union movement- states: [More…]
It is pointed out in the report of Estimates Committee A that during the examination of the estimates for the Electoral Office the Committee was informed by the officers that approval had been given by the Public Service Board to the Electoral Office for 25 additional positions to be created in the Electoral Office to cope with the anticipated- I emphasise the word ‘anticipated’ increased workload flowing from union ballots to be conducted by the Electoral Office. [More…]
-I draw the attention of the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Federal Affairs to a statement, reported in the West Australian yesterday, by the President of the State School Teachers Union, Mr Bennett, in which he said, among other things, that the setting up of a committee of inquiry into Australian education was merely a token gesture towards youth unemployment. [More…]
The Minister made that statement because it was revealed a few weeks ago that Mr Keith Smith, the chairman of the Australian National Railways Commission, in discussions with a union representative in Port Augusta indicated that there was a likelihood- the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just referred to this-that the railways were looking at the feasibility of putting a rail head at Manguri Bore while the line was constructed from Manguri Bore to Alice Springs. [More…]
The peak union councils have also been informed of the Government’s proposals. [More…]
When I previously discussed the question of collegiate voting with the unions last May, Mr Hawke pointed out that there is a division of opinion within the trade union movement on this issue and that he could not put a monolithic trade union view on the matter. [More…]
With the passage of this legislation, organisations, whether of employers or unions, will of course no longer have to comply with the current requirement of amending their rules to provide for direct elections for officers. [More…]
Mr Nixon was commenting upon recent reports that the Chairman of the Australian National Railways Commission had told a representative of the Australian Workers Union that the line from Port Augusta to Alice Springs would be terminated at Manguri next year. [More…]
Of course, this is a very important responsibility and an activity of the union movement. [More…]
The company said in a statement to the employees, which was phoned through to my office by the secretary of the Australian Workers Union on Thursday morning: [More…]
Last Sunday morning I happened to chair a meeting of the combined mine unions associated with the Mount Lyell mining company. [More…]
The unions involved included the Australian Workers Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which in Tasmania in the past have been known to have differences, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australia, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia- unions which in the past have not been noted for getting together as well as they should. [More…]
They were concerned, as the unions in mining towns generally and in Queenstown in particular are, to look after the 400 people in Queenstown who have been removed from their work. [More…]
Goldfields Medical Fund (Incorporated)- The Committee of Management, which consists of 3 representatives of each of the Boulder United Friendly Societies and the Kalgoorlie United Friendly Societies Association, one representative from each of the Australian Workers Union, Boilermakers Society, Carpenters and Joiners Union, Engine Drivers and Firemens Union, Mines Supervisors Association, Plumbers and Sheet Metal Workers Union, the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia (Inc.), and 2 members of the Coolgardie Medical Fund, and one contributors’ representative of the Goldfields Medical Fund, are elected at a special meeting following the annual general meeting by the respective bodies referred to above. [More…]
There would have been an increase for more families if the Department had not backed down with respect to some mortgage agreements because the Public Service union- the Adminis.tative and Clerical Officers Association- threatened to take legal action on the grounds that the increase in certain mortgage agreements was illegal. [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, I am not here to invite your arbitration as to any industrial dispute, nor am I an advocate for either side, but we both should weep to think that a cost of $600,000 is being inflicted upon the taxpayers- fellow unionists- to increase the exorbitant amount of $5.4m as a subsidy for the Canberra bus service. [More…]
I am sad to note that the Department of the Capital Territory has advertised for extra drivers, which I believe is to yield to the union demand. [More…]
This is a difficult situation where probably the Hospital Employees Federation is an all grades union. [More…]
I do not doubt that a small specialised unit within that union may not have the full concern of the union because it has to look after all its members who are defined as patrolmen. [More…]
I know that some honourable senators will ask: ‘What is the trade union doing?’ [More…]
I say this to honourable senators that if that happened in the mines, the railways or the building industry they would know in the first 48 hours or earlier whether a man was a member of a union within the industry. [More…]
In the context of civil liberties, I know that if a girl started working at a kiosk there selling newspapers for a newspaper agency, if the union approached her within the first hour some honourable senators would say that that was trade unionism gone mad. [More…]
During the hearings of the Estimates Committee I said that any arbitration inspector who operates in those manufacturing industries which have trade union representation and shop stewards is not being gainfully employed. [More…]
The amendments which the Bill basically proposes deal with the question of elections of officers of trade unions and employer organisations. [More…]
The essential feature of the legislation is to introduce a system of collegiate voting as an alternative to the present direct system of voting for union officials who are appointed on a full time basis. [More…]
In this case, quite clearly the Government has bowed to minority pressure groups in the trade union movement- minority pressure groups which the Government correctly believes would be supporters of the Government in any political situation and would only criticise the Government for its shortcomings of conservatism. [More…]
The real issues of industrial relations in Australia are not necessarily the methods of election of union officials or catering for the wishes of minority interests in trade unions. [More…]
They are the issues of a unified system of industrial relations, the Commonwealth industrial relations power and union amalgamation. [More…]
Since this Government came to office, we have seen a number of attempts to exorcise what the Government believes to be the devils of the industrial relations system, namely, militant trade union officials. [More…]
With regard to the question of union elections, the present system of voting for office holders is by direct vote of members of the union in respect of the election of full time officials. [More…]
That system has never been tested in any real sense because the unions which were required to alter their rules to introduce a system of direct voting for their officials had until the end of November this year to carry out the necessary alterations to their rules. [More…]
There are differences of opinion within the trade union movement and within employer organisations operating in the industrial field as to the desirability of alternative systems of voting for the election of officials. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
Union officials have told me that. [More…]
Union officials have openly discussed that fact because some of them have been told by representatives of the Government that this would happen. [More…]
The first fundamental criticism we make is that by denying or offering an alternative system to direct rank and file elections of full time officials, the Government is not only going back on its stated intentions but it is also catering to a rather 1 890-ish view of how trade unions operate because it is expressed by the Minister that the fear the Government has is that the majority of members of a union situated in one State might in fact control the committee of management of that union to the detriment of its members in a smaller State. [More…]
Nowhere in the course of debate in the House of Representatives, nowhere in remarks the Minister has made as yet and nowhere in my experience has there been a situation of a trade union in which the committee of management was controlled entirely by representatives of a State which had the largest membership to the exclusion of members of the committee of management from a smaller State. [More…]
We were told only a few months ago how important it was to have a secret ballot for all members of trade unions. [More…]
The important emphasis which was stressed by Government Ministers at that time was the involvement of the members of the union themselves in those elections. [More…]
It seems to us strange that at this stage in a variety of ways the members of the unions will no longer be directly involved in the election of their officials. [More…]
The danger that we see in the alteration which is now made is that under the proposed alteration an appointed administrative officer of a union will be able to operate and, in fact, perform almost identical functions to the functions which are performed by an elected officer. [More…]
It is one of the grave difficulties which an elected officer of a trade union faces and one of the grave responsiblities which he assumes that by virtue of his office and his election he is entitled to do certain things; indeed, he is bound to do certain things. [More…]
It was during the course of the debate in the House of Representatives that various additional amendments were moved at the instigation of certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
That provision is designed to protect current office holders in certain unions, such as the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
He has been on the federal council of the Federated Clerks Union for 22 years without having had to face an election. [More…]
It is a fact and it may be, if we have to persist with the word used by Senator Walters, that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark, or in the Federated Clerks Union, which this Government wants to protect. [More…]
I reiterate our fundamental objections in these terms: The legislation seeks, in the terminology of the Minister, to introduce more democratic systems of elections into trade unions. [More…]
The Government now seeks an alternative system as an alternative to direct elections and it seeks to make a number of changes which are not of universal significance to the trade union movement. [More…]
It is quite glib for the Minister to say in his second reading speech that the peak councils of the trade union movement have also been informed of the Government ‘s proposals. [More…]
As an excuse for that, the Minister told us that when he discussed the question last May- if you please- with Mr Hawke, Mr Hawke pointed out that there was a division of opinion in the trade union movement on this issue and he could not put a monolithic trade union view. [More…]
Of course there are other peak councils beside the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
There has been no proper consultation about the legislation except with a certain section of the trade union movement whose views are reflected in certain specific amendments which are made by this Bill. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in his speech Senator Button referred to Mr Wran’s comments today that the answer to trade union problems lies in unification and amalgamation. [More…]
If the honourable senator looks at the rules of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union he will find that they hardly give the individual worker the opportunity to express himself. [More…]
In that legislation it was provided that individual unions could decide for themselves the system that they would select for the election of office bearers. [More…]
It has been followed in this legislation by providing in 3 circumstances for the election of full-time office bearers, a system whereby a union can decide upon a direct vote, or through a one-tier collegiate voting system. [More…]
It has provided that unions should have the right to choose themselves which way they will act. [More…]
Part-time unionists are to be selected in another way at the option of the union, in addition to the 2 other methods. [More…]
The final point which seems to me to be of great importance in this legislation, and which of course would lead to greater efficiency in trade union affairs, is that the definition of ‘office’ has been amended in order to provide for appointment rather than election. [More…]
I am very pleased that tonight Senator Messner supports the principle of the trade union movement. [More…]
He referred to what Neville Wran, the Premier of New South Wales, said today about the trade union movement and about strikes. [More…]
Mr Wran said that there ought to be fewer unions with larger membership. [More…]
I think Senator Messner ought to look at the DGB which is the West German trade union movement. [More…]
There are 16 unions in West Germany. [More…]
Each of those unions has a huge membership. [More…]
It certainly has a centralised union system. [More…]
The British trade union movement was consulted at the time. [More…]
Time has proved the British trade union movement right. [More…]
There are only 16 unions for the whole of West Germany. [More…]
This legislation seeks to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in respect of the method of electing officers of registered organisations- both trade union and employer organisations. [More…]
We in the Opposition oppose these amendments as they are at variance with our commitment to a proper democratic control of trade unions and all organisations, whether they be employer or employee organisations. [More…]
We stand for the right of the rank and file trade unionists to elect their full time officials, because these full time officials represent the interests of the rank and file in the work place, in the arbitration courts or in their meetings with government. [More…]
The full time officials are the administrators of the trade unions. [More…]
The previous Labor Government’s commitment to democratic control of trade unions prompted the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1973 which have been referred to and which provided direct election of full time officials. [More…]
No criticism was made of the method of electing trade union officials then. [More…]
In fact, the relevant clause of the 1 973 legislation which provided for the direct election of union officials was agreed to by the Opposition in the [More…]
Firstly, the present Government went on a union-bashing campaign during the last election campaign. [More…]
It said that secret postal voting for trade union officials would destroy communist militants’ influence in the union movement. [More…]
This was despite the fact that many unions in this country have had secret postal ballots for years and still elect persons who are, in the eyes of the present Government, left wing militant trade union officials. [More…]
One should look at the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, for example, and at the percentage of members who vote in that union’s elections. [More…]
The present Government did not realise that the people who were really opposed to secret postal ballots were people such as Mr Maynes and other National Civic Council trade union officials who were scared that they would lose their positions. [More…]
He has not been elected to the Federal Council of his union for 22 years. [More…]
-Seeing that Senator Harradine is so interested in Mr Maynes, I will now quote from the November issue of The Clerk, which is put out by the Central and Southern Queensland Branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia. [More…]
That is of his union- that the Federal Office of this Union is being run by an outside clique, the leader of whom has personally boasted to the writer that he is a millionaire, then let me state one further situation. [More…]
Earlier this year, John Grenville advised me that when he was elected he was not a member of the Clerics’ Union and was not eligible to run. [More…]
I have not made these allegations, nor has your Branch of the Union. [More…]
Grenville went a step further and identified John Maynes, the Federal President of this Union, as being the person responsible for this falsification. [More…]
As your Branch Secretary, and as a member of the Federal Council and the Federal Executive of this Union, I have raised this matter on a number of occasions with Terry Sullivan who purports to be the Federal Secretary of the Union now. [More…]
This is where we come to the joke of the whole situation, because the collegiate system of voting serves also to entrench communist militants such as Mr Carmichael, who on 5 May this year in the communist newspaper Tribune drew attention to the fact that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union might opt for the collegiate system. [More…]
He said that if the union did this the national president could be elected by 0.02 per cent of the membership. [More…]
So much for union democracy. [More…]
I said that Mr Carmichael said in the Tribune that his union might opt for the collegiate system. [More…]
I now turn to another union and a reverse situation. [More…]
I think even Senator Harradine would say that the New South Wales branch of the liquor trades union would be described as a moderate trade union. [More…]
In 1970 the New South Wales State executive of that union was controlled by Communist Party members and their supporters. [More…]
Those people subsequently took control of the union. [More…]
Previously a union member who wanted a vote had to apply for a ballot-paper and prove that he could not attend the meeting where the voting was to take place, with the result that some elections for the New South Wales branch were held and decided by under 200 members, not under Electoral Office control. [More…]
After the John Morris team took over that union the rules were changed. [More…]
Union membership in New South Wales grew from 24 000 then to approximately 60 000 this year. [More…]
In 1973 the union changed its rules at a federal level under the legislation that was brought in by the Labor Government, and now all paid federal officials are voted for in a rank and file Australia-wide ballot. [More…]
There are approximately 80 000 members of that union who now get a ballot-paper. [More…]
What could have happened if the union had not changed its rules? [More…]
It is quite obvious from what has been said in other places that this Government went to great lengths to protect the NCC in the trade union movements. [More…]
It knew that the NCC influence in the trade union movement could be destroyed if its candidates were forced to face a direct voting system. [More…]
Therefore it preserves the position of those union officials about whom this Government is always complaining. [More…]
One only has to look, for example, to somebody who wins a minor position in a union, say an assistant secretary’s job, who does not like the general secretary so he gets the numbers and appoints somebody as an administrative officer, a clerical assistant or whatever and takes over the union because of this loophole that has been left. [More…]
This decision is made only by the leadership of the unions. [More…]
Therefore this legislation runs counter to our commitment to full rank and file participation in the affairs of the trade union movement. [More…]
After all, the unions are their own organisations. [More…]
The Government wishes only to consult with extreme right wing officials of the NCC, an organisation which aims to destroy the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Harradine talked about people who came to Canberra and gave evidence and about whether the trade unions were consulted, What about the evidence’ that was given to this Government’s own industrial committee by people such as Charlie Oliver, Barry Egan and John Forrester? [More…]
Firstly, the Opposition considers the collegiate system which the legislation allows has the effect of depriving trade union members of electing their union officials by direct voting. [More…]
Secondly, the collegiate system is open to abuse and manipulation by minority extremist groups in unions to entrench themselves and therefore remain permanently in control of those organisations. [More…]
Thirdly, the Government’s action in ensuring that such a system is retained reveals the emptiness of its commitment to internal trade union democracy. [More…]
Firstly, it is concerned to shore up the position of ultra right wing cliques in important unions such as the NCC and to place a buffer zone between them and rank and file ballots. [More…]
Secondly and more importantly, it is concerned to preserve the position of those left wing union officials whom this Government likes to kick. [More…]
This Government needs them so it can kick the whole of the trade union movement and bring it into disrepute. [More…]
Like so many of its promises in the industrial relations field they are designed only for short term electoral support and not for the benefit of the workers of this country and the members of the trade union movement. [More…]
He referred as being empty rhetoric references to democracy, to the minority interests, to the involvement of the mass of the people in the establishment of those who represent them, whether it be in a union, some other organisation or association or in the Parliament itself. [More…]
I recall that he referred to conversations with Mr Hawke some months ago in which Mr Hawke, talking about the establishment of a trade union conciliation and arbitration amendment Bill, said- I cite Senator Button’s words referable to Mr Hawke- that there was no monolithic trade union view. [More…]
If there is no monolithic trade union view, how sensible and reasonable it seems that in producing legislation in this area we should look to cover the widest possible range of involvement and the widest possible range of problems that occur within the trade union movement, as indeed they occur within any movement or association in our community. [More…]
It is not a question of condemning that sort of election of a trade union representative or of any other representative. [More…]
Therefore our legislation basically seeks to give to the trade union movement as a whole a real measure of choice, a real measure of adopting that particular view or that particular method that seems best to fit the circumstances as the membership should see them. [More…]
If he did mean that, I wonder how he views a circumstance in which I understand that in one union, which is perhaps the biggest trade union in Australia, less than 2 per cent of the membership elected its leaders. [More…]
I do not quite understand how that fits the circumstances as promoted by Senator Button that it would be ideal that the leadership should represent the views of the rank and file of a union movement or, as I have said before, of any other association or organisation. [More…]
It seems to me that the membership participation, that the involvement of the great majority of the people in a trade union or in any other organisation, should most certainly be those people who elect or produce those who are to lead them, who are to negotiate on their behalf on all the hundreds of important issues that come before those organisations. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a tendency to want to establish a circumstance in which the left wing or the radical element of the political entity in this country becomes totally associated with the promotion of the union official, the promotion of leadership within the union itself. [More…]
I make those comments quite sincerely because I think that it is a great shame that the opposition to these particular conciliation and arbitration amendments is an opposition which relates itself to support by the radical left wing trade union element supported by the radical left wing political element in the Australian context. [More…]
I believe that the legislation goes a significant distance in the direction of establishing in the election of trade union members and in the election of officers of other organisations and associations, a circumstance which will tend to have a reasonable measure of flexibility about it. [More…]
We believe no more than that Australian unionists and others should have a right of choice in the method by which they elect those people who are to represent them in these important areas. [More…]
We feel that in the smaller branches of some unions located in the far flung areas of Australia it is almost impossible, by means of a purely direct voting system, to elect people who may have a real capacity and a real contribution to make to industrial relations. [More…]
Those people who might be able to make such a contribution sometimes face great difficulties, whether they be financial, geographic or otherwise, to present themselves to their friends and to the vast membership of the union in such a manner that they have any chance of being elected. [More…]
Consequently it seems that from the point of view of the far flung smaller branches and from the point of view of trade union members in the smaller States there is perhaps a case worth considering for instituting what we have suggested should be a one-tier collegiate system of voting under which a college is elected by a total vote of the grass roots membership of the organisation. [More…]
It merely suggests that there should be a measure of choice in the way in which the vast bulk of trade unionists may elect those who are to represent them. [More…]
It seeks to achieve a widespread and realistic involvement of the grass roots membership of Australian trade unions in order that the great majority of that membership may be assured that, according to the method that they choose, they will be represented in negotiations by people whom they are totally sure that they want to represent them. [More…]
It reflects the acceptance of the principle of a form of collegiate voting, provided that the system is consistent with the development of the involvement of the total grass roots section of the trade union membership. [More…]
We do what we think is best for the country and, in this case, what we think is best for the trade union movement. [More…]
I noted also that in the other place on 3 November the honourable member for Port Adelaide, Mr Young, in talking on this Bill made reference to 2 trade union secretaries and said that they were closer to the Liberal and National Country Parties and the Australian Democratic Labor Party than to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Is the inference that a trade union representative or member has no right to belong to any other sort of political philosophy or entity at all? [More…]
Indeed one would assume that if Mr Young meant, by inference, what I have assumed he meant, that he places trade unionism in its traditional role of concern for the development of the conditions of the work force, wages and salaries, a measure of leisure time, how best to use it and how much to have, if these are the circumstances that are indeed basic to the trade union organisation- I believe they are and they are extraordinarily important- then Mr Young would regard trade unions as totally subservient to the political views and objectives of the people who lead those very trade unions. [More…]
I close my remarks by referring once again to the remark of Mr Hawke some months ago when he finally decided that there was no monolithic trade union view. [More…]
It is because I doubt that it should be expected there would be no monolithic trade union view that I suggest that the legislation that is before us, with its flexibility, with its concern that every trade unionist in Australia should have a right and proper capacity to register his vote for the person who wants to lead him is a reasonable and proper adjunct to the Australian industrial relations scene and I have pleasure in supporting it. [More…]
Given that he is a supporter of a Government that is patently antiunion some of his remarks about co-operation between the various elements of industry and so forth are very reasonable indeed. [More…]
Senator Scott spoke of the need for flexibility and of the complex nature of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
In fact it prevents flexibility and it will add to the difficulties and complexities of the trade union movement. [More…]
It embodies a complete reversal of the constantly repeated promises during 1975 and 1976 by the coalition parties to make the unions more democratic. [More…]
The legislation embodies decisions taken without proper consultation with the unions. [More…]
By that assertion I mean that the peak councils of the trade union movement were simply told by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, what was going to happen. [More…]
I think it is easy to see that this piece of legislation is a cynical piece of manipulation of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act by a Government that thinks it can do what it likes because it has the numbers and also because it has conducted such a successful, if dishonest campaign of union bashing. [More…]
I find it disgraceful that such major reversal of the rights of the rank and file unionists can be perpetrated with so little public discussion or criticism. [More…]
The very same media that aided and abetted the coalition parties all of last year and most of this year in their union bashing campaign are now strangely silent about this legislation. [More…]
I saw virtually no coverage of the debate on this legislation in another place even though the campaign which the media aided and abetted was based on the idea and a promise that unions were to become more democratic. [More…]
Here we have a piece of legislation which cynically reverses the moves that had been made by the Whitlam Government to make unions more democratic but the media are virtually silent. [More…]
Therefore I take the opportunity presented to me in this debate to use the forum of Parliament to spell out the hypocrisy and double dealing of the Government which is embodied in this legislation and the serious attack it constitutes on the democratic rights of the rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
Workers Federation and the Seamen’s Union of Australia it is important to note that this method of voting was in fact highly democratic in that it achieved up to 90 per cent union membership participation in elections as opposed to about 40 per cent average participation achieved through a system of postal voting. [More…]
I think it is important to point this out because so much of the coalition parties’ campaign against the unions was intended to suggest that there was very little participation by the rank and file in elections that did not include postal voting. [More…]
Prior to 1973 officials in unions were elected either under the rank and file system or under a number of collegiate systems according to the rules of the particular organisations involved. [More…]
The Cameron legislation in 1973 contained two very substantial measures of progress towards full democracy in the trade union movement. [More…]
Unions which were still operating under the collegiate system were given a period of 3 years to change their rules and to provide for rank and file elections. [More…]
Secondly, the Cameron legislation offered very significant encouragement to the unions to have ballots officially conducted by the Industrial Registrar or the Electoral Office by guaranteeing the cost of such ballots. [More…]
Both of these measures constituted major progress in increasing democracy in the unions but in its union bashing campaign in 1975 and 1976 the coalition chose to deceive the public about the effects of the Cameron legislation. [More…]
Coalition spokespeople continued to accuse the unions of being controlled by left-wingers who are unrepresentative of their leadership and so on. [More…]
And of course they were aided and abetted by the media in their attempt to confuse the electorate about what went on in union elections and what the Cameron legislation provided for. [More…]
Indeed the media together with the coalition parties succeeded in confusing the general public who I think did come to believe that there was no provision for rank and file voting in union rules and that the Cameron legislation had not made any progress towards democracy in trade unions. [More…]
I think it is worth drawing the attention of honourable senators and any other people who may be listening to this debate to the numerous undertakings given by coalition spokespersons to establish democracy in the unions. [More…]
These examples demonstrate very clearly the way the present Government went about confusing the public over the issue of union ballots. [More…]
Events over recent years have emphasised the very basis of trade union democracy is under threat. [More…]
Some of Australia’s most powerful unions are now controlled by officials who have gained their positions as a result of election at which only a very small percentage of members entitled to vote did in fact cast their vote. [More…]
The democratic principle is at the heart of the foundation of unions in Australia. [More…]
The principle has been dangerously eroded and it is heartening to find recognition of that fact in the Union movement, and even more heartening to have the constructive suggestions coming forward designed to restore more democratic control. [More…]
secret postal ballots would end other prospects of fear tactics and intimidation being used against rank and file Unionists . [More…]
We believe that by conducting elections along these lines and by giving maximum publicity to union elections more members will participate in the voting, and that the elected officers will reflect the wants of the rank and file. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties wholeheartedly supported these demands and would introduce legislation as soon as possible for secret ballots for the election of trade union officials. [More…]
In May and June of this year the Government introduced legislation requiring postal ballots in all unions; but the legislation before us will allow unions to opt out of the requirement of postal ballots through choosing the collegiate system. [More…]
For months the Government talked about the importance of establishing postal ballots and how democracy would be achieved by imposing postal ballots on the unions. [More…]
In the legislation now before us unions are given the opportunity to choose to continue with the collegiate system, which of course does not require postal voting. [More…]
This point was made on 5 May of this year, in the Tribune by Mr Laurie Carmichael, who comes from a union at which many of the Government’s measures have been specifically aimed, although quite unsuc.cessively aimed as it turns out because of the legislation before us. [More…]
It is interesting that it comes up right at this time, because we are now at the end of the 3 years prescribed in the Cameron legislation of 1973, during which time all unions would have to adopt the rank and file method of election. [More…]
At this time some unions, including all National Civic Council controlled unions such as the Federated Clerks Union and the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, have not changed to the rank and file method. [More…]
Whilst that may not be a matter of particular distress to the Opposition, it certainly appears to be a matter of distress to certain members of the Liberal Party, particularly the very few of them who are involved in the trade union movement. [More…]
My colleague in another place, the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis), quoted in its entirety a letter to Mr J. Atwell, Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia, from a Mr Noel Wilson, an official of the Federated Clerks Union in Queensland who is also a member of the Liberal Party. [More…]
1 remind the Senate that this is a letter from an active member of the Liberal Party who is also an official of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Street, introduced an amendment which for all time, in my opinion, negated the right of rank and file union members to elect on a national basis their Federal Officials and ensured the perpetuation in office of those officials under this system who have never faced a rank and file ballot and under the swindle concocted by the Government will never have to. [More…]
As a Federal Councillor of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia, I received in the mail today a purported amendment to our Federal Rules which is completely in line with the amendment introduced into the House by the Minister. [More…]
It is that person intimately involved in the business of the union movement, and the Federal Clerks’ Union in particular, who has made the claims of prejudicial behaviour by the Government in favour of the NCC controlled movement. [More…]
How can it be that a system of election which allows every member of a union a voice is less democratic than a collegiate system which does not allow every member a direct voice in the election of union officials? [More…]
In answer to that claim I stress again that there was no consultation of peak unions with regard to the specific amendments- in particular the amendment providing that office bearers shall not constitute more than 15 per cent of the members of the college to which I shall refer later- which were introduced during the debate in the other place. [More…]
However, there is evidence which I have just quoted of intimate and lengthy consultations with sectors of the trade union movement, that is, the NCC unions which of course seemed to know about the Government amendments before they were introduced. [More…]
He said that, given the complexity of the trade union movement, it is important to have as much flexibility as possible and that this provision for maintaining the collegiate system will provide choice. [More…]
It is not the rank and file members of the organisation but the committees of management- the officials of the unions. [More…]
There is no provision in the legislation for rank and file ballots as to what kind of election that union will have subsequently. [More…]
The defintion of ‘office’ is now extended to enable unions, that is, management of unionsagain not the rank and file members of unions- to appoint persons to undertake duties similar to those performed by an elected officer. [More…]
Of course this is another means by which the controlling faction of any particular union can strengthen and reinforce its position without recourse to election by the rank and file membership. [More…]
It is another measure towards permanently entrenching the factions currently controlling some unions. [More…]
As I have pointed out this particular amendment, which has such serious consequences, was introduced by the Government without anything remotely resembling proper consultation with the union movement. [More…]
In summary, I and other members of the Opposition, are opposing this legislation because it removes the right of the rank and file members of unions to participate directly in ballots for their full time Federal officers because it enables minority factions at present in control of some unions to retain control of those unions against the wishes of the rank and file members, because the legislation was drawn up without proper consultation with the union movement, and because particularly the 15 per cent amendment was introduced with no consultation and is an erosion of the democratic rights of the trade union movement. [More…]
Most of all, we in the Opposition oppose this legislation because it is a complete reversal of all the undertakings given by members of the coalition parties during 1975 and 1976 about introducing democracy into trade unions. [More…]
It is a complete breach of faith with unionists and, perhaps more importantly, with the entire electorate. [More…]
This legislation is part of the Government’s general attempt to manipulate and control the trade union movement with a view to creating a docile and passive trade union movement which will never object to any attack on the living standards of its workers and which will never object in any effective way to any bad and destructive decisions of this Government. [More…]
I see it as an extension of the union bashing campaign of the Government. [More…]
They do not increase the rights of unionists; they reduce them, and they reduce them in a way totally contrary to the claim made so often by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that every individual unionist shall be able to have a say in the affairs of his or her union. [More…]
There has been considerable debate and discussion for some time on the subject of elections of union officials, particularly following the legislation brought in by the Hon. [More…]
Under that legislation unions were given 3 years to alter their rules to fall into line, if necessary. [More…]
The effect of that 1973 legislation was to require rank and file voting by all members of the union to enable them to vote directly for the office bearers of the organisations. [More…]
All unions are different. [More…]
All unions have different problems. [More…]
The amendments that we are proposing will give a choice- a choice of the way by which unionists can elect their office bearers. [More…]
These choices are: The full-time office bearers may be elected by either a direct vote of the rank and file members of the union or, alternatively, by a one-tier collegiate electoral system. [More…]
This voting is carried out by the rank and file members of the union. [More…]
Take a large Australia-wide union which, under the previous legislation, elected its office bearers by rank and file voting. [More…]
Supposing there is a candidate in New South Wales and an opposing candidate in Victoria, what do the members of the union in Tasmania, Darwin and Perth know about either candidate? [More…]
What do members of that union in Perth, Darwin, Tasmania and Brisbane know about the 2 candidates standing in Victoria and New South Wales? [More…]
This certainly would put paid to any chance of a moderate non-political member of that union standing for any executive post. [More…]
We have seen it happen in a number of large unions and a very good example is the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite know what percentage of the members of that union voted for Carmichael and Halfpenny? [More…]
The members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are frustrated by the fact that these man have money behind them, that they have the capacity to organise their election and that they wield such tremendous power through the finances, possibly brought in- I am not saying this is definite- from overseas communist countries. [More…]
Let us see whether under this new system a moderate member of that union can stand against these 2 wealthy, financially backed men and have effective opposition in that union. [More…]
To ensure that the number of office bearers standing is not out of proportion to the rank and file valid members, which is the amendment about which Senator Cavanagh is talking, we have introduced an amendment to overcome the fact that when each State elects its office bearers, and when one of those office bearers is elected president or secretary etc., that State loses its effective representation because the president must become the president of the union as a whole. [More…]
The time lag for these union rules is 2 years from the date of operation of the amendment. [More…]
This is necessary because at the moment there are two 3 -tier collegiate systems in some of the unions -in other words, that multi-tier collegiate system. [More…]
If at the conclusion of the 2 years the necessary alterations have not been made, the Industrial Registrar will have the power to make these alterations but will not have the power to alter substantially the entire method of voting of that union. [More…]
Senator Ryan claimed that the Government had assisted the executive of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, which had not been democratically elected, to stay in power. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a letter from the President of that union. [More…]
I think her main dilemma appeared to be the pathway to success in the trade union movement, if one came from a small State or a small branch of a union. [More…]
I think the most effective answer which I could give today is to refer to one of the most powerful figures in the trade union movement. [More…]
When he aspired to be and broke through as National Secretary of the union in the 1960s he had Tom Nelson from the port of Sydney and Chas Alford from Melbourne opposing him. [More…]
Another trade union truism which must be faced up to is that it does not matter if one is running only as a shop delegate one cannot win a campaign based on negatives, one must have positives. [More…]
In that regard I point out to Senator Walters that most unions have newsletters or a journal. [More…]
I commend as ideal reading for Senator Walters Labor Baron, the history of John L. Lewis the tzar of the United States United Mine Workers’ Union. [More…]
He would call a conference of his union, possibly in San Francisco. [More…]
He would juggle the agenda so that the delegates from the Deep South- some pits there were unionised- would not be present on the fourth and fifth days, when the vital proposals were to be discussed, because they had only enough money for board and lodging for 3 days. [More…]
If we are honest with ourselves we will admit that the anatomy of any trade union is such that there are people who have these left, right or centre leanings. [More…]
When there is a dispute of national dimensions, at some stage people in a union must meet eyeball to eyeball, if I could use that extreme term. [More…]
It may be that people who make good in the trade union movement have to be fairly thick skinned. [More…]
Somebody said that he was interfering in a trade union matter. [More…]
Senator Sibraa and others talk about the role of the European trade unions. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about having good industrial relations with the trade unions, but it would not have cost them anything to accept the Bob Hawke proposal for a reasonable Medibank levy. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite should consider the relations between Scandinavian trade unions and successive governments in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. [More…]
In relation to the concept of welfare, relations between unions and governments in those countries are much closer than they are in Australia. [More…]
In fact, even in the Eastern European countries there are always trade union representatives on local boards which decide health claims. [More…]
In the 1950s the Australian Railways Union had 2 schools of thought with a group in the middle. [More…]
One group thought that Dr Lloyd Ross was the greatest gift to trade unionism and that he should occupy his post at the wish of the State council but never have to face a ballot. [More…]
Brown was a divine redeemer in the trade union movement and that he should never face a ballot. [More…]
I know of 40 people who put their careers on the line and at a State council meeting of the Australian Railways Union in Sydney said: ‘A plague on both your houses’. [More…]
That is what happened when Jack Kane tried to interfere with moderate trade unions, he was cut down in the way that one would cut down a little sapling. [More…]
When, in the past, I have argued about the Waterside Workers Federation, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Australian Workers Union and the Federated Ironworkers Association when there has been a case before the court involving them, I have been chastised. [More…]
Now, Barry Egan and his colleagues are fighting against an oppressive gentleman named Maher and there are all sorts of happenings in the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
What is wrong with the Federated Clerks Union emulating the Waterside Workers Federation and holding a ballot? [More…]
One of the toughest trade union ballots occurred when Charlie Fitzgibbon beat Tom Nelson in the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I know that some of my colleagues such as Senator Donald Cameron are saturated in trade unionism and I could add many more such illustrations. [More…]
I wish to incorporate in Hansard a chart which shows the prostitution of trade union democracy in relation to the intervention in the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
I challenge Senator Harradine to show, as to the factions in the Federated Clerks Union, that the people who are anti-Maynes have ever had any alliance with the people of the Left. [More…]
He could not put a finger on people such as Joe Riordan and Phil O Toole and accuse them of taking up causes that may have emanated from the left wing of the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Harradine will remember a famous archbishop in Chicago, Archbishop Shiel, who was made a life member of the meat workers union in Chicago because he never lost the common touch. [More…]
In my concluding salvo I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard this chart which deals with the anatomy of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
First of all, I point out that I have dual membership of the Australian Railways Union and the Federated Clerks Union, so I am quite capable of analysing the forces in both unions. [More…]
The situation is that within the Federated Clerks Union there is what might be called an anti-National Civic Council group and a National Civic Council group. [More…]
Officials of most other unions take their chance at the ballot, even if they are on the brink of defeat. [More…]
If Senator Harradine, who is an ex-member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, is afraid of allowing me, as a member of the Federated Clerks Union as well as a member of the ARU, to have the document incorporated in Hansard, I am staggered. [More…]
I get trade union journals from all over Australia. [More…]
Senator Harradine would know that I read News- Weekly and the Tribune and that I get the journal published by the Queensland branch of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
I have been around the trade union movement long enough to know what it is all about. [More…]
If I was interfering in the affairs of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or the Transport Workers Union he would ask how I got the information. [More…]
As a member of the Federated Clerks Union and of the Australian Railways Union I have in my own right access to all sorts of information. [More…]
I suggest that Senator Harradine should go and see an ear specialist, because on 3 separate occasions my colleague, Senator Mulvihill, has said that he is a member of 2 unions, the Australian Railways Union and the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Firstly, it seeks to restore to unions an opportunity to choose a collegiate electoral system or a federalist electoral system which was taken away from them by the previous Government by way of an amendment moved in the House of Representatives by Mr Clyde Cameron without any consultation whatsoever with the trade union movement. [More…]
Secondly, we are dealing with an amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which proposes to alter the definition of ‘Office’ as has been requested by some unions- certainly not the unions with which I am associated- particularly those in industries which are seasonal in nature and in which organisers or collectors have to be appointed from time to time, depending on the seasonal basis, and in which those appointments then have to be terminated from time to time. [More…]
May I say that I was on the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and we criticised the fact that the Government at that time refused to consult with the union movement in respect of the amendments. [More…]
At an executive meeting in May 1974 we went further and condemned Mr Clyde Cameron for not consulting with the trade union movement on certain amendments to section 133 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Was it Labor Party policy to deny to unions their right to determine the method of self government most suited to their own traditions, preference, geographical and industrial coverage and administrative convenience? [More…]
What right did the Government in 1973 have to deny to the trade union movement its fundamental right to choose the method of self government that was best suited to it? [More…]
Here is that conference trying to impose its view on the trade union movement without any consultation with it whatsoever and getting what it deserves- a condemnation by the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
That is of, the Medibank strikewas the action of some union officials in allowing the membership - [More…]
How dare those trade union officials allow meetings of the rank and file! [More…]
The officer-class - officer-class, mind you- of the trade union movement would have to give the orders and the rank and file would have to obey them. [More…]
Let me put this to the Senate as a whole: Does it deny the proposition that registered industrial organisations- trade unions- have the right to choose the methods of self government most suited to their own traditions, preference, geographical and industrial coverage and administrative finance? [More…]
We have a situation in which the Government at least is trying to restore some choice to the trade unions in respect of their method of self government which we are talking about at this present point of time. [More…]
On the other hand, the federalist system of voting or the collegiate system of voting may be more satisfactory in an organisation, for example, like the Transport Workers Union which has a collegiate system. [More…]
Cannot honourable senators get it into their heads that this is a system which gives a more democratic control of that particular union? [More…]
For argument’s sake, let me look at the Building Workers Industrial Union, as it was. [More…]
Traditionally, the arrangement previously had been that the union made sure that some of those classifications were represented at the officer level. [More…]
I said before that I am not completely happy with this amendment because I believe that the Government should have taken out the knife and extracted the Cameron amendments which were put in without consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
One might ask: How is democracy to be upheld in the trade union movement in those circumstances? [More…]
The Act and the Regulations require that committees of associations, that is unions and branches, must be subject to control by the membership of the organisation. [More…]
There is a bank of case law on this very matter, where the collegiate or federalist system has been determined by the court as satisfying the requirement of membership control over the union and over its branches. [More…]
I argue that the collegiate system in many unions gives more effective rank and file control over the officers. [More…]
I think of the LiberalNational Country Party policy which states that the coalition was for greater effective control by the rank and file over the unions and their officers. [More…]
What it effectively does is to entrench union officials in their positions and put them in a cocoon so that the membership has very little chance of recall over them. [More…]
Here is the action of this person who was quite determined to get, according to his words, democracy back into the trade union movement. [More…]
It is his sort of democracy and the sort of democracy of his political friends that he is seeking; not the democracy that the trade union movement has known and has fought for over the years. [More…]
What right has this Parliament to impose upon the trade union movement a method of self-government which is contrary to the traditions of the organisation, to its industrial coverage and to its administrative convenience, when those organisations must have rules that uphold the democratic control of their officers and their committees by the membership as determined and established by court precedent over many years? [More…]
I am concerned to hear attacks on any trade union official irrespective of who that trade union official might be, unless those attacks are made in the right place where that official can answer for himself. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that it was the Chifley Government that put the first provisions in the statutes for court controlled ballots for the trade union movement. [More…]
It was the spirit of the Chifley Government in ensuring that there were fair and clean elections in trade union ballots. [More…]
It is common knowledge that there have now been startling disclosures that John Forrester tried to draw over $60,000 in union funds in cash from 3 societies over the last couple of months. [More…]
This was done illegally and behind the backs of the union trustees appointed under the rules and under the State Industrial Act. [More…]
When the balloon went up, the funds were later paid into the union’s bank account. [More…]
The central and southern Queensland branch of that union will not be able to pay its debts as at 31 January 1977. [More…]
Certainly, the Bill does not go completely to the central issues but it will provide to the trade union movement some choice on the best method of operation. [More…]
We have heard Mr Wran, who has not been a member of a union in his life as far as I know, and Donny Dunstan, coming out and supporting this prospect. [More…]
A member of the cooks union, is he? [More…]
The principles of the trade union movement require that if one union is going to take industrial action that will affect the jobs of somebody else it has a responsibility to consult the unionists affected. [More…]
That is done through the central trade union organisation. [More…]
It is done by notifying disputes in accordance with the rules of the trade union movement and not by going outside the trade union movement to build amalgamated bodies so that they can use their unrestricted power on their own without regard to anybody else. [More…]
People have asked what we think about unions, what we think about the President of the ACTU or the president of some other organisation. [More…]
I believe the individual trade unions should contribute to the success of this principle by notifying disputes and working within the rules of the trade union movement. [More…]
Their attitude is: All unions on the waterfront into the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
How many demarcation disputes have taken place between the Waterside Workers Federation, the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Foremen Stevedores Union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Electrical Trades Union on the waterfront? [More…]
Senator Georges is talking about the Storemen and Packers Union and the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I would like to know whether Senator Georges agrees that the members of the Waterside Workers Federation should take over the jobs of the members of the Storemen and Packers Union or the Transport Workers Union in carting goods to and from the wharf. [More…]
All I can say is that the economy of this country had better look out if the stevedoring industry is handed over to the monopoly power of one union and the conglomerate monopoly power of overseas shipowners. [More…]
All honourable senators, particularly those Labor senators from my State, will realise that what I am saying in respect of amalgamations is that I do not believe that the Seamen’s Union should control all those persons who are operating in harbours and so forth. [More…]
If that is what amalgamation means, my union members will not want to become members of the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
I am Secretary of the Marine and Harbour Trust Workers Union. [More…]
If the members of my Union had been members of the Seamen’s Union the Government certainly would have had objection to such a visit on political grounds. [More…]
The ship was built by union labour. [More…]
We were not going to see it worked by other than union labour and that was that. [More…]
If Opposition senators want to talk about the amalgamation of unions it should be pointed out to them what the situation would be in the future. [More…]
It enables the bench of the Australian Industrial Court to perceive whether a union is able to function as a result of some technicality. [More…]
It clothes the Court with power to reconstitute the union, without giving members of the union an opportunity to determine for themselves in an effective way what they want. [More…]
My attitude would be that the Court should certainly be able to discern the problem and then let the union put its own house in order according to the desires of the membership. [More…]
That would be true democracy, not something imposed upon the union by the Court. [More…]
I was sidetracked when I was speaking about the entrenchment of union officials and whether Mr Cameron put into the legislation a provision which in effect denied to unions their right to recall officials for inefficiency or for any other legitimate reason. [More…]
Prior to 1973 a union official who was aggrieved by any decision could claim in the Industrial Court that the rule under which he had been dismissed or removed from office was unreasonable, oppressive or unjust. [More…]
That system is adopted by a handful of unions which are affiliated but not federated. [More…]
Under the rules, he must transfer from the Tasmanian branch to the Victorian branch of the union. [More…]
Those people in the House of Representatives who opposed these provisions have been elected by or participated in the collegiate system in their own unions. [More…]
I bring to mind the honourable member for Melbourne, Mr U. E. Innes, who was Federal President, from memory, of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia. [More…]
That union had been to the courts many times, and it had been determined that that was a proper voting system. [More…]
The facts are that apart from unions which have compulsory voting and which impose fines on members who do not vote, such as the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, unions with a direct system of voting have a lower rank and file return of ballot papers than unions with a collegiate voting system. [More…]
There is more participation by the rank and file in unions which elect their officers by a collegiate voting system- with a direct voting system at the State level- than there is by and large in unions with the direct system of voting. [More…]
I cite the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union with a 1.8 per cent return on the direct system. [More…]
The union members in the States can have an effective choice. [More…]
The union members know who is doing the right job and who is not. [More…]
Another reason is that the turnover in that union is 60 per cent a year. [More…]
He did not understand what Clyde Cameron was trying to do in 1973 when he was supported by Mr Malcolm Fraser who appreciated the amendments in relation to postal voting which were moved at that time so that all unionists would have the right of selection. [More…]
He cannot understand the attitude of Mr Clyde Cameron when as Minister for Labor he took away the right of recall from union officers. [More…]
The arbitration law reports are full of cases of wrongful dismissal of union officers. [More…]
Clyde Cameron knows the history of the dismissal from office of the South Australian branch of the Australian Workers Union because it disagreed with its Federal Secretary. [More…]
I can remember Senator Harradine complaining, not long ago, about the dismissal by the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia of one Norman Bray in New South Wales- a wrongful dismissal by a union. [More…]
Mr Forrester from Queensland, who has no right to answer for himself, was the subject of a vicious attack today and that attack may prove just as false as was the attack against Egan in New South Wales on a previous occasion when he was accused of taking union funds. [More…]
In today’s Courier-Mail, under the heading ‘Federated Clerks Union of Australia (Central Southern and Queensland Branch) Branch Council Elections- Message to all Clerks’ it is stated: [More…]
Exercise your democratic right by voting for an effective administration of our union free of outside interference. [More…]
Reject the attempt by the extreme para-political National Civic Council to take over our union. [More…]
John Forrester for branch secretary and to stop the takeover of their union by the National Civic Council, a representative of the National Civic Council is here today, making accusations that thousands of dollars are missing in order to defeat in the union council elections the people in whom the Queensland branch of the union has confidence. [More…]
This letter is not written in the words of some crook who has taken money from the union. [More…]
It is written in the words of a member of the Liberal Party who is appealing to his leaders in Canberra to give him some protection against the scurrilous group which emanates from Victoria and Tasmania and which is trying to take over his union and other unions in Australia. [More…]
The Federal President of the Union, Mr J. P. Maynes, who is also the National Vice President of the National Civic Council, ruled that the college could not remove her. [More…]
There is an example of the democracy that exists in this Union. [More…]
Let me summarise the position that has been raised: This man has the confidence of his Union members in Queensland. [More…]
We receive information that it is not Forrester who is rooking the organisation, but the federal office of the Federated Clerks Union which seeks to take over the money and buildings owned by the branch. [More…]
The remainder of the delegates- 16 in number- who voted against the proposition represents about 67 per cent of the membership of the union throughout Australia. [More…]
This is the great democratic Union that we have heard about today. [More…]
The officers who represent 67 per cent of the union membership said: Keep out of Queensland. [More…]
Mr Wilson sets out further on in his letter the establishment of the National Civic Council, who composes its membership- the various representation- and how, without an increasing membership, the numbers of the Western Australian delegation were recently increased to give them greater NCC support on the federal council of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The federal president of the Union has never faced an election for some 22 years. [More…]
He repeatedly made remarks about the Plasterers’ Union. [More…]
I was secretary of that Union in South Australia for 16 years. [More…]
The Union had a system of voting in its officers at an annual general meeting. [More…]
But some of the imperfections in the system arose because Senator Harradine, as a member of the Democratic Labor Party and other DLP members would go to the local office of a legal office in Victoria Square trying to plan and organise how they could infiltrate the union with people who were not members of the organisation. [More…]
In particular, they did this on annual general meeting nights for the purpose of ensuring my disposal as secretary ofthe Union. [More…]
The system used by the Plasterers’ Union was not one to be upheld. [More…]
I was not appointed by a secretary in Victoria and sent to Tasmania to become secretary of that and a number of other unions. [More…]
I do not suppose that the Government is much concerned about who controls the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
As Senator McLaren told the Senate, the planned policy is an attack upon the trade union movement. [More…]
This man is one of the lieutenants in the trade union movement for the purpose of the Fraser attack. [More…]
It is apparent that Mr Clarke said that the Union rules imposed a condition that was oppressive, unreasonable or unjust or a combination of all three. [More…]
The application states that the rules of the Federated Clerks Union which currently allow for officers to be added to the elected members of the federal council for the purpose of forming an electoral college for the election of the office in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]
Now the Government is taking the case out of the hands of the court by this legislation which makes the position in the Federated Clerks Union reasonable. [More…]
He referred to the affidavits which Senator Greenwood had had incorporated in Hansard and which made serious accusations against both the Federal and New South Wales State Councils of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
Senator Greenwood supported Senator Harradine in his attack on democratic unionism. [More…]
Senator Harradine used the occasion to claim that a man had been dismissed from a paid position in his union, was dismissed from membership of his union and could not get a job. [More…]
Senator Harradine said that this was because of the false accusations of some other members of trade unions in New South Wales. [More…]
He claimed to have suffered from the Labor Party as Mr Bray had suffered from the false accusations of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
The last two were private inquiry agents employed by the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
We picked on one union which adopted the most democratic method of electing its members. [More…]
By a decision of the State branch of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, in 1971 and again in 1973, that union made application to the court to have the Electoral Office conduct its election. [More…]
In 1970 the National Civic Council held a meeting for the purpose of organising a team to oppose at the election the sitting officials of the union. [More…]
They paid his expenses to go to Hobart to meet the trade union officials, and have dinner that evening at Brian Harradine ‘s home for the purpose of ascertaining what he could do. [More…]
The expenditure of some $45,000 to $50,000 was paid to defeat the members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
The Miscellaneous Workers Union asked where the money was coming from. [More…]
Having a responsibility to their members to ascertain what was happening, the officials of the union employed an inquiry agent to find out who was behind the campaign. [More…]
Apparently money was no object in gaining control of that union, and that money came from people outside. [More…]
After the election the Commonwealth police made certain inquiries and as a result 2 men were charged with depriving members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of their votes. [More…]
If it had been collected from the letterbox, they would knock on the door and when the housewife answered they would claim that they were union officials, that there had been a mistake in the ballot paper, that the union was withdrawing them, and that another one would be posted. [More…]
In each case the defendant visited the home of a member of his union on the day ballot papers for an election of officers of his union could be expected to be received by those members and by various subterfuges he took possession of the mail containing the ballot papers forwarded to those members by the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
I was one of a number of other union officials who sat with him in Melbourne at Belloc House at Sakville Street, Kew at a national trade union meeting of the National Civic Council. [More…]
It was going to get them a job in the union. [More…]
The poor unfortunate person for whom Senator Harradine put up a case, having been dismissed from the union, could not get a job. [More…]
He was a paid officer of the union but because of his activities it suspended him. [More…]
Afterwards the federal executive of the union suspended him from the benefits of membership of the union. [More…]
As a result of this suspension this officer appealed to the Industrial Court against the action of the union. [More…]
In this matter, the claimant seeks to obtain an order setting aside certain decisions of the federal executive of the union, by which he was suspended . [More…]
It is not without significance that in the rule to show cause itself the respondents, and each of them, are called upon to treat and continue to treat the claimant, Norman Bray, as being entitled to all the rights and benefits of membership of The Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, including the right and benefit of holding the following offices- then they are set out. [More…]
I find that the union resorted to conduct which was designed to ensure that the claimant had every opportunity to take advantage of the rules of natural justice. [More…]
It is rather refreshing to find that the union in this case was most meticulous in the steps which it took in the conduct of the inquiry and also later, when dealing with the charges. [More…]
In those circumstances, I can find no ground whatever for reaching a conclusion that there was any departure by this Union in this case from conformity to the principles of natural justice. [More…]
The Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
All I want to say is that I have tried to show- I think I have been provoked- that there is corruption in an organisation that is trying to control the trade union movement. [More…]
Clyde Cameron, whatever his weaknesses and however he got on with his Leader, nevertheless tried to get democracy in trade unions because its absence was one of his peculiar aversions. [More…]
I compliment him on his speech in which he pointed out matters related to the trade union movement that certainly were of interest to me. [More…]
Senator Harradine referred to the Bill before the Senate as setting up a more democratic system that will provide a choice for organisations and give more democracy to the rank and file members particularly of the small branches of unions. [More…]
He admitted that there were imperfections in his own union system, that of the Plasterers Union in South Australia. [More…]
I was interested in his reference to Mr Justice Feathers, when he was talking about the Federal body of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Senator Ryan referred in her speech to union bashing. [More…]
I think it is unfortunate that, when people draw attention to the inadequacies in the trade union movement and the deficiencies of the trade union leadership, particularly in the left wing area- I think that is the only area I would be prepared to criticise- they are accused of being union bashers. [More…]
I believe that the majority of people in Australia have some concern about the way the trade union movement is going. [More…]
This is due largely to the fact that the irresponsible leadership- the minority leadership to which I referred earlier- has succeeded in discrediting the trade union movement in Australia; so much so that even Mr Hawke fears that the credibility of the trade union movement is at an all time low. [More…]
When Senator Ryan referred to union bashing it reminded me of an article that I had read in the Stock and Station Journal. [More…]
This article was entitled: ‘I Wouldn’t Like People to Say I’m a Union Basher’. [More…]
So I must learn not to be a union basher. [More…]
I must be silent when the soldier settler farmers on Kangaroo Island are set upon by a ruthless union organisation because they employed non-union shearers. [More…]
The union action of declaring them black would have broken them if they hadn’t had the guts to stand up for themselves. [More…]
Whenever anyone draws attention to some things that have been described in that article he is accused of being a union basher. [More…]
This is a classic example of trade unions using political excuses to delay ships going overseas or in fact in some circumstances to prevent ships such as the Enterprise from coming into port. [More…]
He described the attitude of what I believe to be his responsible union in not having a bar of that sort of attitude. [More…]
This attitude also was expressed, very well I thought, in a Bulletin article on an interview of Sir John Egerton, who pointed out that the fundamental purpose of the trade union movement in Australia is to ensure that the workers have proper wages or fair wages for what they do and good and fair conditions, and that the unions should be there to protect the interests of the trade union members against irresponsibility on the part of some employers. [More…]
That is the role of the trade union movement as I see it. [More…]
Until we as a Government can restore the confidence of the genuine trade union members in their own organisations- I think this lead has to come from government- I believe that the trade unions’ future in Australia is a very black one indeed. [More…]
I suggest that the action that the Government has taken already by making amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, particularly earlier in the year when we started off by introducing the requirement for a compulsory postal secret ballot for the election of union officials, is an attempt to encourage the trade union rank and file members to take an interest in their leadership and to deal with those who are not acting in their best interests. [More…]
Talking about the problems that we face within Australia and how the Government has to come to grips with them, I point out that in December last year many trade unionists massively supported the Liberal-National Country Party Government in its return to office. [More…]
I believe that many of the people who supported this Government were trade unionists who are concerned about the way the trade union movement is going. [More…]
They are concerned about not only political strikes but also inter-union disputes. [More…]
The responsibility for dealing with inter-union disputes in the Federal sphere surely lies in the hands of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Disputes Committee. [More…]
I remember that a year or so ago in South Australia there was a dispute between the Waterside Workers Federation and the Transport Workers Union as to who should unload the cargoes at the roll-on roll-off terminal of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Port Adelaide. [More…]
Well before the completion of that facility the company had gone to the unions, including the [More…]
Waterside Workers Federation, and asked which union was the proper one to deal with this work. [More…]
The company was assured that the Waterside Workers Federation was the appropriate union, as it was its role to do this work in other ports in Australia. [More…]
Then began an argument between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
This meant that other workers in other unions who were completely innocent in the argument had to suffer loss of pay. [More…]
These things ought to be dealt with positively by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It seems to me that the current problem we have with respect to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union people in the fuel industry is an absolute indictment of the trade union movement. [More…]
These are matters that not only concern me as a person who respects the trade union movement and who has had something to do with the movement. [More…]
My association has not been one in a technical sense as has that of Senator Harradine, but I have had a lot to do with union problems. [More…]
I have lived in a trade union environment for a long time; I was a member of a trade union movement a long time ago. [More…]
I realise that perhaps a lot of the trouble in the trade union movement is that people get despondent about going along to trade union meetings because they find that the militant cliques are in control of the trade union. [More…]
We want to see responsible trade unionists taking a more aggressive interest to ensure that proper leadership persists in their unions. [More…]
If the leadership happens to be irresponsible, these members ought to go along and vote at their union elections and see that the union leaders are replaced with people who have their interests at heart. [More…]
I think this Bill we have before us will help in the gradual process that we hope will permeate the unions to ensure that some responsibility returns to unions, that people will be encouraged to work harder and will be rewarded in a greater way for working harder, and in so doing will improve their own lot and help to restore the Australian economy to sound health once again. [More…]
It is my view that the Government has done a complete somersault on its promises during the campaign for election in December last year, when it made non-interference with trade union affairs part of its platform. [More…]
I have been a ticket carrying member of the Miscellaneous Workers Union for a number of years. [More…]
I have had some personal experience of what has been happening in the trade union movement through the actions of certain groups of people. [More…]
The attack is always on the trade union movement. [More…]
The term ‘union bashing’ has never been so evident in the history of Australia as it is at present. [More…]
It is the dirty tricks section of the trade union movement. [More…]
I was one of a number of other union officials who sat with him in Melbourne at Belloc House at Sakville Street, Kew at a national trade union meeting of the National Civic Council. [More…]
I believe Mr Harradine, while a union official, did a fairly effective industrial job in Tasmania. [More…]
I was in fact doing something in this area for him when the extraordinary attacks on other officials of the union by John Maynes began. [More…]
These are the people who are claiming that they can run the trade union movement better than the traditional leaders. [More…]
At no stage during the period of the dispute between John Grenville and John Maynes, and later between this branch of the Union and the National Civic Council have I made any attacks on Harradine even though such attacks could have been damaging to his ALP membership. [More…]
It has been reported to me that in support of the Mayne ‘s proposition for opposition to rank and file ballots, Harradine has engaged in the most mischievious personal attacks on this branch of the Union, and on myself particularly, with members of the governing coalition in Canberra. [More…]
I stress that the support of this legislation against rank and file ballots has been the reason why Senator Harradine has engaged in the most mischievous personal attacks on the Federated Clerks Union and together with members of the Government coalition on Mr Forrester in particular. [More…]
Senator Harradine is alleged to have made threats about going north to straighten out the Clerks Union in Queensland and to straighten out Forrester, but Mr Forrester has issued this challenge: [More…]
This brings me to another form of pressure that is being applied to the national secretary of my own union, the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, Mr Ray Gietzelt. [More…]
He has seen various statements that have passed backwards and forwards and which have been used under parliamentary privilege in relation to the Miscellaneous Workers Union and the part played by people such as Moxon and Bray, who was the subject of a special adjournment debate earlier in the year. [More…]
The influence that the National Civic Council is having on the trade union movement can be illustrated by an article by Angus Downie in the Hobart Examiner on 28 September in which he says: [More…]
The Australian Electoral Office will change the design of its envelopes used for secret postal ballots in trade union elections in Tasmania. [More…]
The Chief Electoral Officer in Tasmania, Mr J. R. Lennard, said yesterday the design would be changed following claims that envelopes used in the current Liquor Trades Union election had been tampered with. [More…]
Of course, other unions which are not notably left wing have also changed their rules. [More…]
But some of them have not and they are not all right wing unions. [More…]
For instance, the Transport Workers Union of Australia which would be regarded as a moderate union still has not changed its rules. [More…]
Nonetheless, it is difficult to conclude other than that the Government has been greatly influenced in bringing down this legislation by the National Civic Council controlled unions such as the Federated Clerks Union and the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association in which unions the collegiate system enables a minority group to establish control. [More…]
This letter is written by Mr Noel Wilson who is an assistant research officer for the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, central and southern Queensland branch. [More…]
They are using the National Civic Council as their tool to infiltrate the whole of the trade union movement, and in turn the National Civic Council is infiltrating them as a political body. [More…]
It is increasing the growing tension between the trade union movement and the employers in this country. [More…]
To be used as a tool by a very small minority of self-seeking trade union people acting under the guise of being a politico-religio fanatical anti-communist group is not in the best interests of the country. [More…]
It has been reasonably illuminating today to be a casual observer and to see the other side wallowing in the divisions in the trade union movement. [More…]
But, setting aside the lighter moments, it has been very sobering to listen to the airing of the troubles of the union movement. [More…]
Society cannot be too concerned at the internal strife of unionism in Australia. [More…]
The launching was picketed by members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union. [More…]
So Whyalla said to the rest .of Australia: ‘We want you to subsidise us by a huge new sum per person, but because we have some inter-union strife we will not let you launch the ship today’. [More…]
The Premier of a so-called free State in Australia says in the Assembly of that State that if a person does not have a licence to work, if he does not join the appropriate union, he is a scab. [More…]
We in Australia know about the manifestations of union power and how ruthless that can be as one union vies with another and as one official vies with another to seize power. [More…]
No doubt outside Newcastle tonight, as on every other night of the year, there are hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping which cannot move through the port because of union decree. [More…]
In recent years Newcastle has been dogged by the refusal of the union management of that port to allow a private coal loader to go into the port to increase dramatically the throughput of trade at that port. [More…]
As Senator McLaren knows, this is a matter of inter-union rivalry. [More…]
We who are outside the union movement must look at the results. [More…]
We, as a legislature, as a parliament and as parties, can offer the opportunity for the union movement to regulate fairly and to react democratically in the election of its officers. [More…]
That is the result of which people outside the union movement must take account. [More…]
We cannotthe public cannot- do that as regards the union movement. [More…]
The union movement needs to produce the results for its members and for Australia. [More…]
Not only are the unions directly involved with the employees of the Fairfax organisation striking but also they have been able to enlist the assistance of unions quite outside the ambit of that organisation. [More…]
Yet we have an organised campaign against the Fairfax Press by the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, the Transport Workers Union of Australia, the Australasian Society of Engineers, the Union of Painters and Plumbers, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and the Building Workers Industrial [More…]
Union of Australia. [More…]
Those unions have the assistance of the people who work for Australia Post in freezing the mail for the Fairfax organisation. [More…]
As a Parliament we can offer fair procedures for union management. [More…]
I am a supporter of honourable and decent unionism which goes about its business of bettering the conditions of its members. [More…]
I do not support blackmail by unions acting outside of their organisations, or the political strikes which are entered into at the drop of a hat today. [More…]
Union activity has been responsible so much for bringing that about. [More…]
Speaking personally, I support entirely the remarks made yesterday by the New South Wales Premier when he said that there needs to be industry based unions, and very few of them, in Australia. [More…]
What support is given today to any of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commissions in Australia and to the concept of industry based unions. [More…]
All of the talk today in relation to this matter of union elections, which is involved with this collegiate system of voting, has revolved around the National Civic Council and its enemies in the union movement, or vice versa. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that at this time Australia cannot afford the disruptions which are being caused by union leaders. [More…]
What I am saying is that rather than look individually at the increase in monetary terms of the wages of the members of our 350 unions, we should look at the economic capacity of Australia so that we understand what our trading capacity is. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite should present some united view of where our union structure should go. [More…]
They should not bring into this chamber the divisions in the union movement. [More…]
There has been some prolonged criticism in the chamber of the collegiate system, as if the collegiate system gives the opportunity to some union members to dismantle the most democratic one vote one value system in the union movement. [More…]
The South Australian branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union held an election for an organiser a couple of years ago. [More…]
That union had 15 000-odd members on its roll who could vote. [More…]
There is no doubt that at this moment organised small power groups can take over most of the unions in this country; and most of the union leadership represents just that. [More…]
That is not to say, of course, that all union leadership is irresponsible. [More…]
But most certainly most union leadership is prolonged in office by a small elite power group. [More…]
But all they do is to come into this place as servants of the divisions represented by the multiplicity of unions in Australia. [More…]
I urge them at least to agree to look at the proposals which will lead us out of a situation which at the moment resides almost entirely with the union leadership and which is inevitably leading Australians to a lower real standard of living. [More…]
As usual, most of Senator Hall’s time was taken up with a tirade of condemnation of the trade union movement, union officials and supporters of the Australian Labor Party because they have not assisted his supporters to increase their profits at the expense of the workers. [More…]
Senator Hall also mentioned a ballot that was conducted by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in South Australia. [More…]
He said that an organiser was elected by a vote of one per cent of the 15 000 members of the union. [More…]
I can assure him that under the legislation he will be supporting later a federal council or a college of a union with a membership of 180 000 members, similar to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, could appoint or elect its federal secretary provided the majority of the members of the council supported the one candidate. [More…]
For instance, Mr Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, was elected to his position with a majority of the vote of the members of its Federal Council. [More…]
What percentage of the membership of the Federated Clerks Union serves on that Federal Council? [More…]
I think the union would have a membership of about 85 000 and the number on the Council would probably be 0.005 per cent of the total membership. [More…]
Senator Hall criticised the way that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in South Australia elected an organiser who is not on the management committee of the organisation. [More…]
The amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act that the Government is proposing do not give the rank and file member the same participation in his union’s elections as he had before. [More…]
They do not give him any democratic right to elect all the full time officers of the union. [More…]
The council can then elect its federal secretary, the most powerful official of any organisation of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
It can also elect the federal president of the organisation, who is also a very powerful official of any trade union. [More…]
He is so powerful that he has an influential say in the deliberations of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We often find that the general secretary or the federal president of an organisation is also on the interstate executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Where is this great democracy and rank and file participation in the election of the officials of a union that Senator Hall is talking about? [More…]
We know from the debate that has taken place on the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill today that there is only one purpose behind the amendments that have been put forward and that is to make certain that the right wing officials of the trade union movement do not have to face the rank and file in a ballot. [More…]
Mr Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, has never faced the rank and file of that union in a ballot for his position as Federal President. [More…]
The union of which I have been a member for many years elects all its full time officers by a direct vote of the rank and file. [More…]
Most of the bigger trade unions, such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, also elect all their full time officers by a direct vote of the rank and file members. [More…]
As a matter of fact, more than 80 per cent of the trade unions elect their officers by that method. [More…]
But if this legislation is passed there is nothing to prevent the Australian Workers Union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or any other organisation which has changed its rules to comply with the alterations that the Labor Government introduced in 1973, to revert to the 2 systems of voting. [More…]
In that situation we would be reversing the trend of giving rank and file membership a direct vote in electing the full time officials of the union. [More…]
Now, almost 3 years later, there has been a change of heart because pressure has been put on the Government by the right wing, extremist unions to change the legislation back before 13 November, which is the last day on which unions can have their rules registered to comply with the amendments of 1973. [More…]
No arguments have been advanced as to why we have to have 2 systems of voting- the collegiate system and the rank and file system- in the election of union officials. [More…]
He indulged in a tirade of abuse and union bashing, as usual, and talked about strikes on the wharves and all sorts of other things. [More…]
But, if for any reason he was referring to somebody else and if it should be the trade union movement, I have to be in complete disagreement and I doubt very much that the trade unionists in South Australia, particularly in the Port Augusta-Whyalla-Port Pirie area which Senator Jessop represented for a time, would appreciate his reference to them as rabbits trying to run the country. [More…]
My understanding is that most of the unions, representing probably 95 per cent of the trade unionists in Australia which have Federal awards and are registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, have already changed their rules to comply with the Act. [More…]
If that is so, it is quite obvious that the Government is looking only to that minority group of the trade union movement which has not changed its rules to comply with the Act. [More…]
I think it would be safe to say that the officials of those unions which have not changed their rules to comply with the 1973 amendments to the Act have not made the changes because they are afraid of what might happen if they had to face the rank and file in a ballot for the positions which they hold. [More…]
Any trade union official, whether he be a branch organiser, a branch secretary, a Federal secretary or a Federal president, who is doing his job capably and attending to the job of looking after the conditions of employment of the rank and file members of his organisation, has no fear about the method which is used to conduct the ballot to elect officials of the union because he knows very well that the rank and file members of the union know about his performance during his term of office. [More…]
A different situation applies, of course, in respect of the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, who is not elected by the rank and file members of that organisation and who knows very well that unless this Government comes to his rescue and changes the Act before 13 November his position as Federal President is doomed. [More…]
Surely, after all these years, when the unions have complied with the Act as amended so that their rules were completely in compliance with the Act before it was amended, this legislation will create unrest and disharmony in the trade union movement. [More…]
I would have thought that Senator Steele Hall and Senator Jessop, who have criticised the trade union over disputes, stoppages and so on, would have been among the first to support legislation that sought to create harmony within the trade union movement and not to reverse the legislation which was supported unanimously by the then Senate Opposition and which changed the Act so as to give greater participation by the rank and file members in the election of the officials of their union. [More…]
This goodwill of the trade union membership I believe will be jeopardised by the reintroduction of legislation that makes the Conciliation and Arbitration Act far worse than it was before the changes in 1973. [More…]
It can elect all the delegates for a federal conference of that union without any reference at all to the rank and file members of the union. [More…]
As I am more conversant with the Australian Workers Union than most other unions I shall refer to that organisation. [More…]
The Federal Council of the Australian Workers Union is elected with members coming from States on an equal basis, the same as the Senate. [More…]
Although Tasmania may have a membership of only 4000 or 5000 in the Australian Workers Union, it elects the same number of Executive Council officers, two to the Federal Council as does New South Wales or Queensland. [More…]
So how is it possible’ in a umon like the Australian Workers Union to have any big State, irrespective of the membership of the organisation take control of the smaller States? [More…]
I am proud to support the fact that at all times the Australian Workers Union has elected all its full time officials. [More…]
One of the rules provided that the term of office of officials of the Australian Workers Union be for a period of 5 years and if any full time officer died, resigned or was removed from office during that 5 years there had to be a ballot by the rank and file members not only of the Executive Council but also the whole of the membership of the 150 000 members of the Australian Workers Union throughout Australia to fill that vacancy within 12 months. [More…]
How different that is from these proposals that we have been considering this afternoon and tonight by which the Government wants the bigger unions to be able to elect their top officers with this tremendous power to stay there indefinitely. [More…]
I think it was fully justified for some of the honourable senators speaking in this debate to speak generally about the nature and the role of the trade union movement. [More…]
I was impressed with the speeches of some honourable senators who stressed the need for self-responsibility and selfregulation by the trade union movement and by its leaders, and for a proper example and leadership to be provided by the leaders of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Of course the Government is certainly most concerned to encourage as far as it possibly can a responsible attitude within the trade union movement and responsible leadership within that movement. [More…]
We as a Government desire, and at all times have indicated clearly our desire, to co-operate with the trade union movement and its leadership. [More…]
I was disturbed during this debate to hear the comments that were made constantly by Labor senators taking part accusing the Government, supporters of the Government and even Government senators of being union bashers, of taking anti-union stands, and so on. [More…]
I point out that the policies of the Liberal and National Country Parties have emphasised the importance that we attach to the role ofthe trade union movement and our desire to co-operate with the trade union movement, acting responsibly under responsible leadership. [More…]
For instance, it is a disappointment to the Government that the National Labour Advisory Council, which we hoped would be set up when we came into Government and would work effectively as a consultative body between government, employers and trade unions and would be in fact supported by the trade union leadership and would be an effective instrument for cooperation and consultation has not been established. [More…]
I think it is rather strange and certainly ironic that the charges that have been freely made against the Government of not consulting with the trade union movement should have been made by Labor senators in this debate. [More…]
It is strange to have those charges made by the Labor movement and Labor senators, apparently expressing the attitude of the movement, when in fact the efforts the Government has made to reestablish the National Labour Advisory Council have been frustrated by the leadership of the labour, trade union movement itself. [More…]
We have sought co-operation in the setting up of the National Labour Advisory Council, and in other ways as well, with the trade union movement. [More…]
Nevertheless, despite that lack of co-operation in setting up that continuing consultative body, the Government has consulted on numerous occasions with the leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
It cannot be gainsaid by any Labor senators here this evening that the Government has not consulted and had discussions with the leadership of the trade union movement on many occasions and on many subjects. [More…]
The Government has consulted with the trade union leadership, particularly with Mr Hawke, about this Bill. [More…]
It sought the views of Mr Hawke on behalf of the trade union movement in relation to this problem. [More…]
The Government was told by Mr Hawke that there was no one monolithic union view on this subject. [More…]
It is quite wrong to say that the Government has ignored the union movement in relation to this particular measure. [More…]
The Government has made it clear for at least 6 months now that it had accepted in principle a form of collegiate voting for the election of trade union officials. [More…]
There has been the fullest opportunity for anyone, whether from the trade union movement, from the employer organisations or from among any other interested and concerned citizens to make known to the Government his view as to what form of amendments should or should not be made in this area. [More…]
The Government has received numerous representations about this matter from a large number of people in the trade union movement. [More…]
The fact is that the Government Parties Committee has discussed these matters with leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is probably a great surprise to Senator Grimes to find that union leaders are very interested in talking to the Government Parties Committee on these matters. [More…]
I can assure Labor senators that it will not only be on this subject; on many other subjects there will be mutual discussions between the Government parties, the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
I know it hurts Labor senators to find that the trade union movement does talk to Government members as well as to the Government. [More…]
The Government is going to be here for a very long time and the trade union movement is going to be here for a very long time. [More…]
There are a great many people in the union movement who will co-operate and consult with the Government. [More…]
The question at issue here is by what method we can best achieve the mutual aim- I say mutual aim ‘ because it is shared on both sides of the Parliament and, I am sure, both sides of the nation- that is, to obtain the most effective democratic control of both trade unions and employer organisations. [More…]
Until 1973 the trade union movement and the employer organisations had been free to adopt within the general guidelines and constraints of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act such methods of electing their leadership as the organisations within themselves decided. [More…]
It is strange that the Labor senators in this debate should have attached such enormous significance to this particular method of ensuring the election of the leadership of trade unions because, as I have said, from 1904 until 1973 trade unions had been free to adopt the alternative method of collegiate voting for their leadership. [More…]
Whether it was a one-tier system or a multi-tier system, for 70-odd years that had been accepted as a perfectly democratic form of election for union leadership. [More…]
But because Mr Clyde Cameron had had his notorious vendetta with the Australian Workers Union all his life and when at a very late stage of his life he suddenly came to power in this country- the country very soon tired of the power of people like Mr Clyde Cameron, as we found this time last year- he decided that this was the way of working out his long-standing vendetta with the AWU. [More…]
It rather sickened me that throughout this debate there has been a constant attack on the National Civic Council and particularly Senator Harradine who in this debate revealed a far greater knowledge of the whole of the trade union movement than any of the Labor senators who pretend to know so much about it. [More…]
It has no doubt been rather embarrassing for Labor senators to be shown up in this chamber because they have thought for a long time that they had some monopoly of knowledge and wisdom of the trade union movement and that nobody else was even able to learn anything about it. [More…]
It has been brought in as a result of a vast number of representations that have been made to the Government by many trade union leaders. [More…]
I propose to read a list of unions to the Senate. [More…]
I propose to read a list of unions which have still retained the collegiate system and which have found the greatest difficulty in complying with the Cameron amendments. [More…]
I do not have an exhaustive list but I intend to read out to the Senate the names of some of the unions. [More…]
It will give the complete lie to the case put here by Labor senators in this debate that this is all the result of the Government bowing to a few right wing cliques in the union movement and the NCC. [More…]
These are the unions which still have a collegiate system and which would not have been able to comply with the Cameron amendments before they came into force on 13 November if it were not for this Bill: The Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, the Australian Bank Officials Association, the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation - [More…]
The list continues: The Australian Shipping Officers Association, the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association, the Australian Textile Workers Union- I have just referred to the Australian Textile Workers Union. [More…]
But I am interested to know what honourable senators opposite thought about the Australian Textile Workers Union being included. [More…]
Other unions are the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees Association, the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia, the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, the Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees Union of Australasia, the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia, the Federated [More…]
Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia, the Food Preservers Union of Australia, the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, the Municipal Officers Association of Australia, the Operative Painters and Decorators Union of Australia, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Woolclassers Association of Australia. [More…]
Indeed, 2 further unions are mentioned that I think would be of great interest to honourable senators opposite. [More…]
They are the United Furniture Trades Union, of which I believe Senator Brown is a member, and the Operative Plasterers and Plaster Workers Federation of Australia which, as we are all aware, Senator Cavanagh is a member. [More…]
That is not an exhaustive list of unions which have always had the collegiate voting system and have retained it since the Cameron amendments. [More…]
It is those unions and the leadership of them and many others which are very anxious that this Bill should pass through the Senate this evening in order to preserve them from the effects of the Labor Government’s messing around with this Act 3 years ago simply to satisfy the vendetta and the ego of Clyde Cameron. [More…]
It is no good Senator Mulvihill coming back to the Clerks Union and the shop assistants union. [More…]
I have just read out to the Senate a list of a dozen or more major unions of this country that want these amendments. [More…]
It is a lot of rubbish, and all honourable senators opposite know that it is a lot of rubbish, to portray this Bill as something that is being done at the behest of the NCC, Senator Harradine, the Clerks Union or anyone else. [More…]
Senator Sibraa spoke mostly about the need for the amalgamation of unions and related matters. [More…]
I should simply like to say that the Government has broadly indicated its support for amalgamations which would lead to industry based unions. [More…]
It can see merit in that action but it certainly does not believe in union amalgamation for its own sake. [More…]
The mere fact of having fewer unions and bigger unions for their own sake is not necessarily by any means a solution to the problems in the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Sibraa mentioned the German Federation of Trade Unions which, I think, is commonly referred to as the GDB. [More…]
I was very interested in the structure of the German trade union movement. [More…]
That official made it very obvious to me that there were indeed great problems with a union movement which was organised as the German movement was. [More…]
The German movement had only 16 unions covering a large number of members. [More…]
It certainly was not due solely, by any means, to the fact that there are so few trade unions in Germany. [More…]
The fact is that this Bill requires that if a union adopts a one-tier collegiate system there must be a secret postal ballot for the election of members of the college. [More…]
That college will in turn elect the full time union officials. [More…]
There is no suggestion that under this system the democratic right of a postal vote will be denied to the mass of members of a union. [More…]
So I think it must be clear now even to those Labor senators who seem determined to misunderstand or misrepresent the nature of this Bill which seeks to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act that this Bill simply provides an alternative democratic method of electing the leadership of trade unions. [More…]
We are not ramming down the throats of trade unions a collegiate voting system. [More…]
The unions, under their rules, have the fullest opportunity to determine for themselves which system they will adopt. [More…]
The provisions of the Act and its regulations ensure the fullest control of committees of the unions and their branches by members of the associations. [More…]
The provisions of the Act state that if union rules are oppressive, unjust or unreasonable recourse can be had to the Industrial Court. [More…]
There is the fullest opportunity for the trade unions’ democratic control of their own rules and of their elections in future. [More…]
He mentioned correctly that I have referred to the West German trade union movement. [More…]
What I was saying was that there should be fewer unions with more membership in those unions. [More…]
I want to take up Senator Mulvihill ‘s point about the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and I want to look at the situation of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union. [More…]
I think the latter union was amongst those which the Minister read out tonight as being those that have not complied with the rules. [More…]
The membership of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union in New South Wales at the time when it changed the rules had grown to approximately 60 000, which meant that it had over 70 per cent of the union’s national membership. [More…]
I realise that the union still has what it calls a federal council but it changed its rules to get over what would be a very serious situation. [More…]
Senator Harradine mentioned the situation concerning the secretary of one of the branches of the Federated Clerks Union in Queensland. [More…]
But I do know that the previous national secretary of the Federated Clerks Union, Mr Egan, went to a meeting of the federal council and was given from 2.30 p.m. on the Tuesday to 10.30 p.m. on the Friday to answer 2 charges. [More…]
The first one was that approximately $130,000 of union funds had been misappropriated. [More…]
The second charge was that he had set upon a course to destroy the union in New South Wales. [More…]
It seems surprising to me- I realise that this matter has now gone to the Industrial Court- that every time any opposition arises to the present rules of the Federated Clerks Union these charges about misappropriation of funds are directed towards union officials. [More…]
As I understand the problem raised by Senator Mulvihill, it is broadly that one State may have a preponderance of the total membership of a union and yet have only equal representation on the national body. [More…]
If those rules offended the provisions of section 140 of the Act, members of the union who believed that the rules were oppressive, unjust and so on, could exercise their right of redress. [More…]
The reason for it is that there are a number of unions- I think probably the most notable example is the Australian Workers Union- which have provision for a variable number of full time employees of the union for the time being but not permanent employees. [More…]
Apparently it is very impractical to require that all such persons should have to be regarded as holding an office in the union and as having to be elected on every occasion. [More…]
The Government believes, in accordance with the representations it has received from unions, that it is quite unnecessary and in fact impractical to require such officials to be elected in the same way as the full time permanent officials are. [More…]
As to his specific question which arises out of this Bill, I have been advised that the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia made some changes in its rules, even though technically it does retain a collegiate electoral system. [More…]
Of course, there is no requirement in this Bill for a union to adopt one system or the other. [More…]
As far as I know and understand the changes that the liquor trades union made would comply with one system or the other. [More…]
I just want to emphasise that there is nothing in this Bill that requires a union which has changed its rules in accordance with the Cameron amendments to change them back again to the way they were before. [More…]
In future, unions can choose, as I said, one system or the other. [More…]
Senator Donald Cameron asked whether I could provide the Committee with statistics as to the number and membership of the unions which have complied with the amendments introduced by Mr Clyde Cameron, compared with those which have not. [More…]
It has a knowledge of a number of unions which have not complied. [More…]
I read out the list of those unions which we know have not complied with the Cameron amendments. [More…]
There may well be a number of other unions which have not done so, but we do not have those statistics and I cannot provide them to the Committee. [More…]
I was rather surprised to hear Senator Donald Cameron say that I had read out a list of insignificant unions which had not complied. [More…]
I remind the Committee of some of the unions which have not complied. [More…]
I think that union would be surprised to learn that it is regarded by a Labor senator as an insignificant union. [More…]
The Food Preservers Union of Australia apparently is another insignificant union. [More…]
The Hospital Employees Federation of Australia apparently is another insignificant union. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union of Australia is, in the opinion of Senator Donald Cameron, an insignificant union. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill asks me whether I believe that it is fair that, where half the members of a union are in one State, that State should have only equal representation on a committee of management with another State which may have a very much smaller proportion of the total membership. [More…]
There is provision in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act- I have already mentioned this once and I do not think I need to keep repeating itwhereby, if members of a union believe that their rules are not in accordance with the Act or are unreasonable, unjust or oppressive to some members, they have a right of redress. [More…]
That action has proved its worth already in the speedy lifting of the bans imposed by the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union on the delivery of mail to John Fairfax and Sons Ltd. [More…]
Certainly the impact of the Medibank political strike is shown quite strikingly in the number of days lost by ordinary wage earners as a result of that misguided attempt by union leadership to influence the decisions of this Government. [More…]
I would hope that the number of days lost as a result of that major political strike would be a clear warning to any other unionists who, in the future, may be contemplating support for that type of activity. [More…]
2) was introduced into the House of Representatives the major unions were presented with a fait accompli by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street). [More…]
Although the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations did not bother to tell the unions most vitally concerned- the bulk of the Australian trade union movement- or to consult with them until the very week in which the Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, it is apparent that he had been in consultation with the Federal Secretary or council of the Federated Clerks Union, whose council was able to display before the Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives knowledge not only of the Bill itself but also of the amendment which the Minister threw down on to the table one hour before he moved it some 3 weeks after the Bill was originally introduced. [More…]
In order to satisfy myself, I ask the Minister: Does he regard an officer of the Municipal Employees Union as a person associated with local government? [More…]
In trade union affairs there would be a big difference between Jack Mundey and myself, but I often wonder whether the parliamentary system or the local government system would have been quick enough to have held the line in relation to works on which Jack Mundey imposed green bans. [More…]
There certainly seems to be widespread recognition that there are too many unions in Australia. [More…]
The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been quoted as supporting that principle. [More…]
The Government’s policy on this matter was enunciated by me on behalf of the Government in the debate last week on the Bill to provide for collegiate voting in union elections, but I reiterate that the policy in this area is to foster and encourage the formation of industry-based unions. [More…]
I now seek leave to incorporate the second one which shows public expenditure on education as a percentage of gross national product for 4 countries- the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America and Australia. [More…]
By the time they are able to do that, they run into problems created by trade union obstruction. [More…]
Perhaps this is an area at which the trade union movement ought to have a look, rather than be rigid about the age at which these people can enter the work force. [More…]
The Australian Union of University Students came into the act. [More…]
I must confess that I do not know what position Senator Gietzelt took in 1962, but I do remember a heated argument I had in 1961 with his brother, Mr Ray Gietzelt, the General Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
It is true that in the case of many unions concerned in the Medibank strike and in strikes on other issues the decision to strike has been made autocratically by a union executive without reference to membership and a direction has been issued to membership to take strike action. [More…]
We know how it failed when the rank and file would not go along any longer with the union directive in relation to postal bans. [More…]
Union executives which operate in this manner leave themselves open to the charge that they are seeking to manipulate their membership for private or political ends. [More…]
Since taking office the Government has directed its attention towards improving the accountability and responsiveness of union officials. [More…]
In addition, the Government is examining the recommendations of the Royal Commission into alleged payments to maritime unions concerning accounting practices and financial reporting in organisations. [More…]
The Government will continue to examine means by which proper rank and file articipation in and control of union affairs can e strengthened. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, concerns an earlier question about the strictures on the trade union movement relating to Medibank negotiations. [More…]
I refer to the information today that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, through its leading official, Harry Wilson, in Sydney, has arranged with Malleys Ltd for that employer to pick up the tab for a sizable amount of its employees’ Medibank requirements. [More…]
Does the Minister feel that that is unethical, or does he believe that it is a sound trade union program of successful collective bargaining? [More…]
The statement was reported to have been made that the labourer was paid by the Builders Labourers Union to attend demonstrations and received $150 a week. [More…]
I ask the Minister: If the report is correct, is this use of union funds, which presumably were paid by workers as union dues, to employ a person for the disruption of employment within the law? [More…]
Does the Government have any control over such practices or is it an area in which it is left to the rank and file of a particular union to discipline the management of the union which is spending their funds in such an extraordinary way. [More…]
If this money is coming from union funds, I think there may well be a question as to whether that is a proper legal use of union funds. [More…]
I think the other aspect of the question is more important as it concerns rank and file members who are paying sometimes very considerable union dues week by week and also concerns whether the average member of a union regards it as in any way proper that the contributions he has made should be spent in this way. [More…]
Where there is evidence that funds may have been used in this way I hope that this will be considered by members of the unions involved and that they will take appropriate action to stop the practice. [More…]
I also remind the Senate of the difficulties that members of the trade union movement saw in the national compensation scheme of the former Government and all the other matters that need to be carefully considered before we are able to say that a scheme would be suitable. [More…]
I understand that at an area called Kelly’s Bush in New South Wales members of the Builders Labourers Federation, the Building Workers Industrial Union, members of a plasterers union and local womenfolk took such a stand. [More…]
I think one of the greatest centralists of all time was United States Union General Sheridan. [More…]
Recognising that when any union or employer group wants to get a particular point across to the public, other than by way of using news releases, it has to pay either for time on the electronic media or space in the Press, did the ABC Staff Association pay for the time used in these advertisements and, if not, why not? [More…]
First, it lent general support to excessive union claims, particularly in submissions before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The then State Labor Government encouraged the early development there of the cotton industry, and I know that New South Wales senators would be aware that the trade union movement was fairly easy-going when the industry was established. [More…]
The Government’s rhetoric blames the legitimate rights of the trade union movement to obtain wage increases commensurate with inflation for all its problems. [More…]
It is they who, having sat in judgment upon the wage claims of the trade union movement, which they are obliged to do, have taken into consideration the evidence and made judicial decisions based on that evidence. [More…]
Who can say that from time to time the trade unions have not been dissatisfied with the decisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
Again, honourable senators would need to knock on many doors before they would find in those organisations people who have any connection with the Australian Labor Party or the trade union movement. [More…]
When we take people who have been gaoled for their political convictions or trade union activities in a country that is in turmoil- I am referring to Chile- some of those people may have come from Honduras, others from the Argentine or from wherever else they have surfaced. [More…]
Since then I have belonged to these two revolutionary, marxist, political movements, having the opportunity of representing them at the following posts: -President of the Student Union of Instituto de Antropologia, Universidad de Concepcion (Institute of Anthropology, University of Concepcion), for the period 1966-1968. [More…]
-Representative of the Student Union of Inst, of Anthrop., U.de C, to the Academic Assembly. [More…]
-Delegate from the Student Union ofthe Universidad de Concepcion to the Committee of University Reform of the Universidad de Concepcion. [More…]
We support the actions of residents and the Trade Union Movement in opposition to the rent increases including the refusal to pay the increases and union bans. [More…]
Some sections of the industry are unable to compete favourably with other suppliers such as the United States of America, Poland, Canada, South Africa and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics because of the duty. [More…]
We were most anxious to get the view of the trade union movement. [More…]
If this claim is correct, can it be construed that it is the Government’s intention to use ASIO as part of its weaponry to enforce its policy of cracking down on outspoken members of the trade unions in an attempt to weaken the trade union movement? [More…]
I seek from the Minister information as to the constitution of this body with a particular assurance that in the selection of the 10 people who I believe will comprise this authority he will consider the claims of the growing number of people who have the very difficult job of translating industrial agreements and awards into various languages for certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
Was the person a member of a union and, if so, what union? [More…]
Yet just a few weeks ago the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a statement abusing one of Australia’s best customers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I asked a question today about the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation but I could not get an answer to it The Government is even co-opting the assistance of ASIO now to spy on trade union officials and to break the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not think the Government can afford to blame the Whitlam Government, the trade union movement or certain governments overseas for its own failures to accept its responsibilities. [More…]
The chairman of the pastoral division of the Victorian Farmers Union raised this matter in an article in the magazine Victorian Farmer of October last. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner, I was quoting from a statement by Mr Des Crowe, the chairman of the meat committee of the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
That is the Victorian Farmers Union- and AWMPF- [More…]
I attended a meeting two or three weeks ago which was called at the insistence of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union to have a look at the possibility of selling livestock overseas. [More…]
It seemed to me to be an excellent way for the industry to have a look at itself for the buyers, the producers and the unions to get together to see what could be done. [More…]
It was the union which took the initiative here to get the live export market moving. [More…]
It was not the producers or the department, it was the union. [More…]
If the honourable senator wants to speak on that he can do so, but I am just setting down these things that have been enumerated because members of the Government have been talking about wage indexation and pressures by the trade union movement for a long time. [More…]
That today, twenty years later, Soviet troops are still located in Hungary and the Soviet Union exercises undue influence over the affairs of that country. [More…]
Is it a fact that Commonwealth police in the persons of Sergeants Drew and Facey are harassing organisations and people involved in a wide range of activities in Melbourne, including Community Aid Abroad, Action for World Development, the Australian Union of Students, Aboriginal Dental Services and people involved in the Campaign for an Independent East Timor, allegedly seeking information as to any demonstrations planned in support of the people of East Timor? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and it follows several questions I have asked previously in this chamber regarding a student at the Australian National University who for conscientious reasons has refused to pay the student union fees. [More…]
-It is all very well for honourable senators opposite to say that, but it was not just my side of politics that opposed that lunatic referendum proposal of the then Whitlam Government; it was opposed also by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union membership. [More…]
I also wish to mention the trade union representatives, all of whom gave evidence before us in a constructive fashion. [More…]
Since May, the Minister has had extensive discussions with employer and union interests. [More…]
He is a member of the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
In that statement I referred to the extensive consultations which had taken place with the trade union movement, business organisations and other sections of the community. [More…]
Associate members will be appointed for either extended periods or for specific inquiries and will allow for the appointment of persons- including experienced representatives of the trade union movement as well as experienced businessmen- having expertise in a particular area to serve on the Tribunal as occasion arises. [More…]
I should have thought that honourable senators opposite, of all people, would have agreed that members of a union ought to abide by their award and be paid according to their award. [More…]
In that strike in 1972, the monopoly union on the waterfront coerced all interests concerned to agree to forgo the right of voluntary initiating retirement and agreed that those provisions would not be invoked, with the result that no man on the waterfront can be retired from that occupation without his consent. [More…]
The real reason why this delay is sought is one that will be with us at the end of this 6 months, namely, that apart from ancillary unions there is one union that predominates on the waterfront. [More…]
That one union has the monopoly on waterside labour. [More…]
I am making that point at the instigation of John Morris, Secretary of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
If Charlie FitzGibbon and his union had said that they would not accept containerisation all hell would have broken loose. [More…]
Admittedly we felt at one stage that the Prices Justification Tribunal was not helpful but when we came into office we found as a result of our discussions with the union movement and others that there could be some value in the Tribunal. [More…]
Other countries like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, Canada and Iran have opted for nuclear power to a certain extent to protect their dwindling fossil fuel sources, their dwindling oil sources. [More…]
Uranium is being mined on increasing scale in the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Niger, France, Gabon, Soviet Union and many other places . [More…]
The U.K., U.S.A., Soviet Union, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and many others are investing massively in nuclear power. [More…]
There was one in the Soviet Union the other day. [More…]
When people opposite talk about penal clauses and about getting stuck into the trade union movement, why do they not get stuck into Sir Philip Baxter? [More…]
A report by the Queensland branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union read to a meeting of all affiliated unions of the Trades and Labour Council yesterday said a number of workers had absorbed greater than normal radiation levels. [More…]
There is disquiet, of course, in the trade union movement and in the community generally. [More…]
Which unions were involved in the maintenance bans? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether votes were taken of rank and file unionists to endorse this action? [More…]
What is the total membership of each union involved? [More…]
How many unionists attended meetings called to discuss imposing maintenance bans? [More…]
-I think the honourable senator was referring in his question to a ban placed on maintenance by members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union, and the Australasian Society of Engineers at the Shell refinery at Geelong. [More…]
In view of the announcement this morning of a significantly increased sale to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the present improvement in the price of beef and mutton, no firm decision has been taken on the final arrangements to apply for 1977. [More…]
Deposits with savings banks, excluding savings bank cheque accounts; fixed deposits with trading banks; deposits and shares with building societies; deposits with a credit union and money paid towards the purchase of land or the construction of a home are all eligible and acceptable forms of savings for a person wishing to qualify under the scheme. [More…]
The Methodist Church of Australia, the Quaker Race Relations Council, the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Congregational Union of Australia and the United Church of Australia have all come out in support of full land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister representing the Attorney-General may recall that the subject matter of an adjournment debate which occurred in the Senate was perjured evidence which was used and which constituted a crime against the trade union movement. [More…]
I instance the case of a number of eastern European illegal migrants, metalliferous miners, who after speaking to the Australian Workers Union and certain employers, and following liaison with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, were given crash courses in their occupation. [More…]
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Student Union support you in your land rights debate. [More…]
This man has maligned members of the Australian trade union movement - [More…]
Some uranium mines are in hot arid parts of the world such as Africa, some are located in cool temperate and cold regions such as Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and others are in mountainous regions, for example in the United States of America. [More…]
In particular, will the 6 unions whose members man such cranes, namely the Waterside Workers Federation, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, the Transport Workers Union, the Australian Railways Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association, and the Australian Workers Union, be kept fully informed of what is happening? [More…]
When the next conference takes place will the trade union movement, through the Australian Council of Trade Unions, be a direct participant in the discussions? [More…]
I say to Senator Arthur Gietzelt that what I have been doing is trying to rid the trade union movement of the members of the pro-communist Left who sought to white-ant it during the war while other people were overseas. [More…]
We hear a great deal about the need for the rank and file to assert themselves in the trade union movement. [More…]
The President of the Victorian Farmers Union was critical-as far as I know, he still is very criticalof the Liberal-National Country Party Government over that action earlier this year. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that he might commend to that gentleman a discussion with his own union officials who talk to me regularly about these problems and whom I have found extremely reliable men to talk to about the industry. [More…]
Even then, there were those who predicted that if the Government based its policies on economic commonsense, the result would be confrontation with the unions. [More…]
Unfortunately, too much credence has been given to the threats of extremist union leaders to create further conflict. [More…]
Not enough weight has been given to the great common sense of the vast majority of rank and file trade union members who know full well the importance of restraint at this time. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education seen reports of physical violence and intimidation by left wing elements at the conference of the Australian Union of Students? [More…]
-I have seen fairly lengthy and continuing publicity arising out of the recent annual meeting of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Yet this process whereby trade union leaders have been energetically pricing their members out of jobs is still continuing. [More…]
That Convention was signed by the Government of Australia in 1974 and has been signed by a number of other countries including Canada, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. [More…]
1 ) Is the Training Section of the Bureau of Customs which has been separated for approximately 6 years from the main Departmental office in Brisbane to be moved from the Commercial Union Insurance Building to Australia House. [More…]
This will permit the surrender of leased space at the Commercial Union Building and help in the operational efficiency of the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs due to the proximity of the buildings they will occupy. [More…]
The present industrial action in Darwin has followed discussions between the Public Service Board and peak union councils last Monday. [More…]
As honourable senators would know, the Inter-Parliamentary Union will meet in Canberra from 10 April to 17 April this year. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, follows the question asked yesterday by Senator Walters concerning alleged physical intimidation of delegates to the Australian Union of Students conference. [More…]
Can he assure the Senate that control of the Australian Union of Students is vested by democratically impeccable procedures free of intimidation, threats and violence? [More…]
I suppose that it is considered par for the course for any Liberal Party Premier or Prime Minister to indulge in a bit of union bashing. [More…]
Secondly, there appears to be, according to the Paper, little prospect of an agreement between the 2 super-powers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, to limit existing armaments in the Indian Ocean or to deal with any possible build-up in the Pacific. [More…]
If those changes occur and if China continues to see itself as having to maintain some strong military force because of its problems with its principal neighbour, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the balance of power in the western Pacific region again may be altered. [More…]
We find that the major powers such as the United States of America, Japan and probably the Soviet Union regard as important free and unhindered access to certain areas such as the Arabian Gulf, Indonesia, Malacca and the Sunda and Lombok Straits. [More…]
It is that area which involves the problem of the conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese Peoples’ Republic on the one hand and the problems posed by North Korea and the Republic of Korea on the other hand. [More…]
But it is the philosophy of Clausewitz, the great discursive writer on war, that influences the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, that war is an extension of foreign policy by other means. [More…]
I should have thought that there would have been some other countries which subscribed to that doctrine, not just the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I think that honourable senators will find that what Representative Aspin puts forward- he has not been contradicted- shows quite the contrary, that is, that the U.S.A. still has overwhelming preponderance over the Soviet Union in both nuclear and conventional weapons. [More…]
In saying this I am not here as any sort of apologist for the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union has itself to blame for its actions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and its lunatic meddling in the Middle East where not only has it been immoral but also incompetent and has finished up without a single friend anywhere in the Middle East after having antagonised everybody and having been the original country to move the resolution in the United Nations, it having been moved by Mr Gromyko, that Israel ought to be established. [More…]
Great power has never improved anybody and I think the present people who occupy high positions in the Soviet Union are living embodiments of that adage. [More…]
They come back to this new threat which is the threat of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Once you have the U.S., in opposition to the democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, if it were to take the advice of this Government, establish what are euphemistically described here as some modest installations in Diego Garcia, that would be the surest way of ensuring that the Soviet Union would be in the Indian Ocean as well. [More…]
After all this discussion about the super powers that we have in this document, does anybody seriously believe that one super power can go into the Indian Ocean in the way in which the U.S. has already gone-through its installations at North West Cape for example, which this Government wants it to add to by establishing a base in Diego Garcia- without inviting the Soviet Union to come into the Indian Ocean? [More…]
The Indian Ocean is no more the property of the U.S. than it is of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is closer to the Soviet Union than it is to the U.S. [More…]
If the U.S. is to be brought into the Indian Ocean then, as night follows day, the Soviet Union is going to build up its resources and seek to do those things which are deplored here- influence governments along the littoral of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Neither the Soviet Union, the U.S. nor anybody else should be allowed in there. [More…]
The Indian Ocean is not within the immediate range of interest of either the U.S. or the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is interesting to note that Senator Wheeldon felt that the capacity of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was so infinitely below the capacity of the United States of America. [More…]
For instance, we have not sought to do what I understand the Soviet Union nas done. [More…]
It has raised something in the vicinity of $36 billion worth of long-term loan money in the Soviet Union for capital and consumer goods. [More…]
This has enabled the Soviet Union to devote enormous amounts of its capacity to the production of aircraft and tanks and to the training of soldiers. [More…]
In fact they said that if a conflict took place in the Atlantic, both the Soviet Union and the United States would pull whatever ships they had out of the Indian Ocean and return them to the Atlantic. [More…]
No matter what we have to say about that now, because the United States took this low posture on the Soviet Union’s stance in Berbera, Diego Garcia as a base is practically completed and we do have a super power buildup in the Indian Ocean whether we like it or not. [More…]
Despite the Prime Minister’s best efforts, relations with the Soviet Union remain at least correct. [More…]
As I have said, these relations with the Soviet Union are not as previously both under Labor governments and under Liberal-National Country Party governments as cordial or friendly as perhaps they should be. [More…]
The Chinese Government would question the wisdom of providing large-scale support for insurgency in Malaysia for fear of alienating the established government and driving it maybe further towards the Soviet Union to the disadvantage of China. [More…]
We do not know whether at the moment China is concentrating on its domestic problems or whether the Chinese have decided that because of a dispute within the communist parties of South-East Asia they can rely upon them to follow the correct MarxistLeninist line and not turn more and more to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As has been pointed out, the same aims and objectives apply to the Chinese as apply to the Soviet Union and none of these is in our interests. [More…]
There is a competition between the Soviet Union and China which is a matter of concern for the countries of the ASEAN region. [More…]
The fear is that, if the United States regards South East Asia as an area of low priority, the only two major powers left to compete are the Soviet Union and China, without the balancing effect of the United States. [More…]
I think it was either Senator Scott or Senator Sir Magnus Cormack who said that detente did not mean that the Soviet Union was not going to support wars of national liberation. [More…]
The Soviet Union itself does not claim that they come within the umbrella of detente yet such wars could be one of the more destabilising influences, particularly in the Indian Ocean region. [More…]
A lot of threats of a similar kind were uttered in July 1976 by the Prime Minister in an attempt to cultivate in Australia the fear of some invasion, whether it be by the Soviet Union or some mythical power about which we have never heard. [More…]
It was only after the Vietnam war that we found people like Malcolm Fraser, the western district grazier with all his prejudices and class concepts, attempting to raise- contrary to his own Defence Minister and Foreign Minister- the concept of a threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is what he was doing in terms of his announced policies in relation to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Included in those activities are trade unionists, manufacturers, financiers, consumers and primary producers. [More…]
On the industry advisory council there is a wide representation with people from the trade union movement, consumers, producers, manufacturers and importers trying to see to it all the time that we have the best input of information on which to base decisions. [More…]
Anybody who sits at the industry and commerce desk on a matter such as the clothing and textiles industry hears the manufacturer’s pleas, the importer’s pleas, the retailer’s pleas, the worries of the union movement which very often are genuine, the concern of consumers, the concern of other countries which export products to us and realises that he cannot satisfy everyone. [More…]
I am not talking necessarily about the editorials but about statements by business leaders, bank officers,, trade union leaders, community leaders generally as well as State government leaders to appreciate that nobody accepts that we have made any appreciable progress in this direction. [More…]
In fact, it was terrified that the success we had in persuading the work force to accept wage indexation would be eroded because there was a great deal of uneasiness in the union movement as to whether merely keeping up with the cost of living constituted wage justice. [More…]
They include fines, deregistration and even ultimately the gaoling of union officials. [More…]
The Convention is now in force and the three depository States, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, are actively encouraging all signatory nations to proceed to ratification. [More…]
It is possible for the students to use pan of that money to pay their sporting and recreation fees or student union fees, depending upon the nature of the rules of the individual university or college. [More…]
I refer to the reported decision of the Federal Government to issue visas to a 3- member delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organisation to attend the InterParliamentary Union conference in Canberra in April 1977, and ask: Is this not a conference of representatives of the parliaments of recognised states? [More…]
Finally, if the Government is not prepared to deny visas to PLO observers, will it consider testing the existence of any real sincerity or interest by the PLO in the affairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Union by confining the visas to attendance in Canberra, where the conference is to be held, along the lines of the limited access imposed on Cuban delegates visiting New York while attending United Nations meetings? [More…]
About a week ago in Western Australiaprobably a little earlier in the eastern States because we seem to be a week behind with most of the current affairs programs- members of the telecommunications union expressed some concern on television that they were the people who had to apply the bugging apparatus. [More…]
Those accounts were given by people now in Portugal who were supporters of Apodeti and the UDT movement- the Timorese Democratic Union- the 2 movements opposed to the Fretilin movement. [More…]
At that stage he met with members of the House of Assembly, some union members and some other leaders in the community. [More…]
If a union tried to extend the current term of office of officials who were elected the industrial registrar would reject the proposal under regulation 115 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Regulations on the ground that it was unreasonable, oppressive and unjust. [More…]
If an industrial union tried to do this in respect of its own officers it would be rejected by the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
I think that the events during the recent conference of the Australian Union of Students should sound a warning note to all of us that the university campus, which is where one would expect there to be complete unanimity on the defence of such fundamental democratic principles as freedom of thought and freedom of expression, is not the place where one now finds it. [More…]
If one looks at events in the trade union movement, which Senator Harradine referred to today, one will see examples of the denial of democratic rights. [More…]
I say to him and to honourable senators generally that I can recall in the early 1950s arguing various matters on the workshop floor from a trade union point of view. [More…]
I would be surprised, Senator, if you could go round Tasmania and convince people in the trade union movement- you did pretty well in the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- that the trade union movement can look to its elected representatives to get unfettered progress of industrial legislation and at the present time fight an interim Senate election where a lot of what we want can be vetoed. [More…]
I will first read the reply that the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union made to this letter. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Administrative Services: Have the Government and the British Phosphate Commission been advised by the Union of Christmas Island Workers that, following the holding and carrying of a referendum by its members, that organisation will refuse to work with any new guest worker recruits arriving on Christmas Island from outside Australia after 16 March next? [More…]
Has the Government also been advised that the Union will agree to the recruitment of new workers from overseas on the basis only that those people are eligible to enter mainland Australia at the conclusion of their period of employment on Christmas Island? [More…]
If so, what consideration is the Government giving to the decisions that have been conveyed to it by the Union of Christmas Island Workers following the carrying of the referendum? [More…]
-I think the first thing that ought to be said is that Government policies on Christmas Island will be determined by the Government and not by that trade union. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policies will be implemented by the Government and not under threat from any union. [More…]
I reiterate that the Government will determine policies on the island and not a trade union. [More…]
We are prepared to seek the views of the trade union. [More…]
1 ) Did a Russian scientist, Dr Medvedev, recently state that a nuclear fuel waste dump exploded in 195 8 in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Former Senator Cant was one of the old school of working class trade union Labor activists. [More…]
He was a hard, tough, vigorous fighter who grew up in the ranks of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
He became an organiser for the Australian Workers Union and, before coming into the Senate, was the industrial advocate- and a very effective industrial advocate- on behalf of the AWU in Western Australia. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that tertiary institutions and student unions have not been contacted directly to seek their views on the inquiry into the desirability of implementing a system of student loans? [More…]
If so, is the Minister aware that many universities and student unions were forced to prepare rushed submissions? [More…]
I particularly instance here the University of Queensland and also the University of Queensland Union. [More…]
That matter is the complete condemnation of the President of the Victorian Teachers Union and his committee for calling yesterday’s teachers’ strike in Victoria. [More…]
The Government appeared prepared early last year to discuss industrial problems with the trade unions but it is now apparent that those efforts were a disguise to give the impression that the Government was seeking co-operation with the trade union movement and not confrontation. [More…]
It would be idle to suggest that it is easy for a Liberal government and the trade union movement to enter into a harmonious relationship, particularly in the light of the present Government’s attitude towards incomes. [More…]
As the fundamental role of the trade unions is to ensure that that does not happen, and as it is abundantly clear that the Government’s intention was to do that from the day it took office, the alleged co-operation with the trade union movement was no more than a charade. [More…]
This is not to suggest that all claims by the trade union movement are justifiable or to be supported. [More…]
But it is accepted by the overwhelming majority of Australians that notwithstanding the faults which may exist on the part of the unions, the unions are completely justified in ensuring that the living standards of their members are not allowed to decline. [More…]
They expressed to me very grave concern at the way in which Government policies were not coming through, at the way in which the Government was not relating effectively to the business sector, to the trade union sector or to the rural sector of the Australian community. [More…]
Then, realising that that argument was not getting over to the Australian people, in the last period we have seen a deliberate and concerted attack on the trade union movement and the workers of this country. [More…]
It has blamed the Whitlam Government, it has blamed the Wran Labor Government, it has blamed the trade union movement and now it is blaming the workers who want to work but who cannot work. [More…]
The ACTU and the Newcastle shipbuilding union made the most liberal offer ever made to any government in Australia about arrangements to build ships. [More…]
We can see an example of that in the campaign being conducted at the moment against the trade union movement and others involved in trying to improve the conditions of wage earners in this country. [More…]
Senator Cotton will remember that late last year he had consultations with the trade union movement about the general problems affecting the shipbuilding industry, including discussions about future consultations. [More…]
This was confirmed by the Victorian Farmers Union a few weeks ago when it drew attention to the fact that the jobless benefits were obviously high enough to make people not want to seek work. [More…]
Fruit growers, the Union maintains, are having the greatest trouble in finding fruit pickers. [More…]
John Armstrong was very much connected with the film industry through his long association with the Greater Union Theatres organisation. [More…]
On Monday afternoon next there will be a meeting of the Heavy Industry Engineering Advisory Council at which these general matters will be discussed by representatives of the manufacturers, union people and general consumers. [More…]
Did Commonwealth Police in Sydney by direction from the Attorney-General interview and question 2 union officials on the allegation that they had given a photograph to an inquiry agent which was not a photograph of the person whom the union officials claimed it to be? [More…]
I assure honourable senators that from time to time I had complaints from members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union about certain graphs which were contemplated for incorporation in Hansard. [More…]
On the question of responsibilities, we have had what is popularly known as trade union baiting or union bashing. [More…]
When the Government argues about excessive wage demands, I cannot help but think of the Mindful Militant, the history of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
In the period from 1930 to 1940 various sittings of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission defined a living wage and margins for skill, and during that period coming out of the depression the requests of the unions were probably very modest. [More…]
I think that the most effective way in which I can espouse the cause of acceptance of trade union militancy is to refer to the same journal I mentioned in a question I asked Senator Carrick earlier this afternoon. [More…]
It is a very fine letter and I think it rebutts in a far more eloquent fashion than I could some of the criticism of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
This is despite the fact that the Soviet Union, U.S.A., U.K., Canada and N.Z. [More…]
I look from a trade union angle at the situation of people with academic qualifications having to go into manual occupations. [More…]
I believe that with their ability to express themselves some of them would be valuable assets in the trade union movement as trade union officials of the future. [More…]
The one fact that the Government cannot get away from is that it is the most violent critic of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement believes that it has always had an independent role. [More…]
Some sections of the trade union movement feared this. [More…]
But since they took office the same people have frequently pleaded with the trade union movement for a wage pause. [More…]
I can assure them that in the eyes of the trade union movement their credibility has been shattered beyond belief. [More…]
There is always a lot of talk about how the West German trade unions have been more docile and more responsible. [More…]
It talks about trade union misjudgment in pricing people out of jobs. [More…]
This is a double standard of morality that the trade union movement will not accept. [More…]
They will not rejoin the Builders Labourers Federation or the Builders Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
We have trade union legislation actual and proposed which will assist in orderly development in this area in Australia. [More…]
That is a tribute to the capacity of the trade union movement to hold the living standards of its members. [More…]
Yet this Government is hell-bent on attacking the trade unions and on attacking the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I am sure that he does not belong to the ‘infamous Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or any other such organisation ‘. [More…]
The Jackson Committee found that the failure of the trade union movement to perceive and communicate the problems of migrant members is one question long overdue to be solved. [More…]
A question often asked is: How many migrants participate in unions not only as fee-paying members but as members of the hierarchy? [More…]
In Victoria in that period there were approximately 300 union official representing 50 different unions. [More…]
Those 9 people worked for 6 separate unions. [More…]
Nobody can contest that 3 per cent represents a leading role in the trade union movement. [More…]
June Hearne, who compiled that report, noted also that there are a number of unions in industries with a large migrant component, such as sections of the building and metal trades, the food, transport, footwear and service areas, with no representation in the leadership. [More…]
If we look at the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress we find that only five of the delegates were non-British migrants. [More…]
The fact is, that after 25 years of mass immigration, one needs a magnifying glass if one is to find a migrant in the leadership of a union. [More…]
Migrant advances within union organisations have depended, and do depend, very largely, on the initiatives of Australian union leaders. [More…]
Unions dominated by communist executives conform to an idea which was clearly expressed in a conference held on 3 October 1976 in Yugoslavia, in that beautiful town of Dubrovnik on the coast, under the title ‘Socialism in Today’s World’. [More…]
The officer-class of the trade union movement would have to give the orders, and the rank and file would have to obey them. [More…]
A book has been written about the power of trade unions. [More…]
It refers to trade union leaders in the United Kingdom. [More…]
I am afraid that the union rank and file and leadership feel that migrants could hardly represent their interests. [More…]
It is a fact that the bigger a union becomes the easier it is for the leadership of that union to safely ignore the migrant section of its membership as potential leaders. [More…]
This general attitude of trade union leaders endorses the apprehension which many migrants feel towards unions. [More…]
Many migrants have no fundamental understanding ofthe Australian union and of the arbitration system. [More…]
Often they have never known unionism before. [More…]
This is how migrants feel about unions today. [More…]
It is up to the union leaders if migrants are to be included in positions of decision making and authority. [More…]
These reports state categorically that trade unions are not recognising or understanding, let alone communicating, the needs of their migrant members. [More…]
As one writer notes, often when one talks about special migrant needs on wages, housing, social services and language communication some in the trade union movement interpret this as seeking to put migrants into a different and more privileged position than that of the rest of the workers. [More…]
In these circumstances trade unions can hardly claim to be representative of the interests of their rank and file, let alone those who make up the Australian work force. [More…]
Representation depends on the initiatives of both the union leadership and of the migrants themselves. [More…]
Union leaderships could be forced to encourage migrants to participate and fundamentally to assist them with organisational problems and so on. [More…]
It is a pity that unions should need to be forced to represent the interests of the workers in order to survive. [More…]
A fourth alibi is the failure of the trade union movement in Australia to appreciate that it was necessary for Mr Fraser to abandon his promise of wage indexation exactly 2lh months after it was made. [More…]
So the unions are blamed for their failure to appreciate that abandonment of a promise. [More…]
That last paragraph smacks of the activities of a former Prime Minister of this country, the late Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who set out on a union bashing program and to eliminate the power of the union movement. [More…]
If the present Prime Minister proposes to use that son of operation to remove the power of the unions the same thing will happen to the Fraser Government in 1 978 as happened to the Bruce Government in 1929. [More…]
To add to the effectiveness of this tactic is the lack of anyone to appeal to (no union officials, no ombudsman) and, due to the lack of literate skills, the inability to take any action, even if the reason for the penalty was fully understood. [More…]
He said that a lot of work in this field was not being done by the trade union movement. [More…]
I have to agree with him to a certain extent but I know that in my State of New South Wales the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia, the Storemen and Packers Union of Australia and the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia- 3 unions that come to mind very quickly- are doing a lot about migrant education in the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Lajovic ought to take note of the fact that migrants have difficulties at all levels throughout Australia and not only in trade union elections. [More…]
He cited tonight the percentage of migrants who are elected in union elections. [More…]
I think it is true to say that Government policy in industrial relations consists mainly of attacking the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
That is evident in the Government’s attempts to blame all of Australia’s economic problems on the trade union movement. [More…]
It is evident in the Government’s approach to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, arguing that trade unionists should not be compensated for increases in the cost of living. [More…]
If honourable senators talk to members of the trade union movement in this countrythey do not have to talk to the extremist unions; they can talk to what people consider to be moderate unions- they will find out that a confrontation is coming as a result of the introduction of this Bureau. [More…]
The trade union movement sees it as a strong arm of the Government, and is not prepared to tolerate it. [More…]
But I believe that much of it is the result of the abuse that has been hurled at the trade union movement, particularly by Ministers such as Mr Nixon, the Minister for Transport. [More…]
Its membership also includes prominent industrialists, members of the legal profession, trade union leaders and members of various community organisations. [More…]
I have been involved in trade unions for many years and have always sought to uphold the principles of conciliation and arbitration- proper, meaningful negotiations and a system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
I have lectured on the subject at trade union training courses and have drawn attention to the fact that the system was introduced at the behest of the workers of this country in order to protect them from the might of the employing class exhibited at the times of the great strikes of the 1880s and the 1890s. [More…]
Sure, the Government might say it is being dismantled by the pro-communist left within the trade union movement- that is true-but it is aiding and abetting that process, and it is doing so in 2 ways. [More…]
The Government has said through its Ministers, the latest being the Minister for Productivity, Mr Macphee, in an address that he recently gave, that the ultimate weapon is of course more ready deregistration procedures against a union which may be acting contrary to principles that the Government considers are proper. [More…]
Before lunch I had mentioned that the Government was embarking on policies which were playing into the hands of pro-communist Left operators within the trade union movement and that if it sustained its policies and continued to pursue those policies and attitudes the inevitable result would be a deterioration in the system of conciliation and arbitration in Australia. [More…]
In my question I adverted to the fact that the Minister had quite clearly stated to the House that unions need not amend their rules. [More…]
Yet we are dealing with over one million unionists. [More…]
1 am a member of the national council of the third largest union in Australia and, I might say, I have just contested the presidency of a union which covers the largest group of workers in Tasmania. [More…]
With all the Government statements about the possible need for more rigid deregistration procedures as a disciplinary threat to unions, it could fall flat on its face. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for lunch I mentioned that I had upheld the principles of conciliation and arbitration and of the registration of industrial organisations throughout the 20 years of my trade union life. [More…]
Of course, it knows as well as we do that the members of an individual union which decides to become unregistered are immediately the prey of other registered industrial organisations. [More…]
But what if the Australian Council of Trade Unions were to do what the British Trade Union Congress and the American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organisations do and act as the arbiter in demarcation and membership disputes? [More…]
What if the ACTU, by agreement with all of its affiliates, were to be the protector of the field of coverage of affiliated unions and not the Industrial Court? [More…]
As I mentioned before the suspension of the sitting for lunch, the policy of a specific group of unions within the trade union movement is to opt out of registration under the Act. [More…]
I have not given them to level criticism at trade unionists in particular, with the exception of some of the radical trade union leaders in this country who have encouraged and created disruptions. [More…]
This is the point I want to stress: A great deal of political agitation and political capital has been made about problems surrounding the meat industry brought about by the ban by the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union related to the export of live sheep. [More…]
I understand that that union stipulated that there should be 2 sheep killed in Australia for export to these countries for every one exported live. [More…]
Currently, to my knowledge, the union is asking that the ratio be lifted to 3 killed in Australia for every one exported live. [More…]
There is not the slightest doubt that shipping companies with obsolete oil tankers- I think we all are aware of the situation around the world and know that there are oil tankers in mothballs everywhere one looks- are closely watching the attitude of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union with the intention of conversion to the lucrative livestock trade. [More…]
Because of an inborn hatred or detestation by sheep meat producers and farmers generally of the trade union movement, the 2 bodies do not get down and talk about their problems. [More…]
At some stage a rapport has to be built between primary producers and the trade union movement because each has a great deal to give to the other. [More…]
In this specific instance the sheep meat growers and producers by opposing the bans imposed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on the export of mutton have placed themselves in the absurd situation of preserving the privileged position of the middlemen in the trade. [More…]
I refer to 1965 when I was illegally sacked from the position of elected secretary of the South Australian branch of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The unions already have seen through the veneer of this attempt to hoodwink the people of Australia. [More…]
The Government is trying to put the blame for the economic mess it has got the country into on to the trade union movement. [More…]
It will try to place responsibility for the inefficiency of a lot of industries, through lack of supervision and so on, on to the trade union movement. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there is certain regional criticism of the inquiry and the representation of the committee and that in particular a large railway union has contended that the inquiry might be biased because of the composition of the committee? [More…]
Will he consider expanding the committee to include certain local authorities and /or trade union representation? [More…]
I have seen Press comment in which some criticism was made by the South Australian Secretary of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
While on that area the Minister went on to question the Government’s position in relation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Minister is sincere in his efforts to ensure that the relationship between this country and the Soviet Union is not allowed to deteriorate simply because of the old cold war mentality of the 1950s. [More…]
Therefore there is a strong desire not only to maintain United States presencean investment presence as well as a political presence- in the region as a balancing factor but also to ensure that there is a growing Japanese interest in the region, again to balance the presence of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which in itself creates uncertainty and some degree of instability. [More…]
Preeminent amongst them, without any doubt, has been the growth of the People’s Republic of China in strength and in influence, and the dispute between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, the division between China and the Soviet Union would probably be the most serious division which exists in international affairs at the present time. [More…]
If there is a danger of a third world war, a major conflict, taking place I do not think that any longer can we look at the disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union, between the so-called capitalist world and the so-called socialist world, or between the democratic world and the authoritarian world; we have to look at something about which we as members of the Australian Parliament can do very little, and that is the problem of the dispute between Peking and Moscow. [More…]
Another change which has taken place only recently has been the change in the role of the Soviet Union itself, or at least in the successful pursuit of that role. [More…]
For a long time we have been used to the fact that the Soviet Union has dominated in a quasi-colonial way a large number of countries in Eastern Europe. [More…]
That was the case, but the Soviet Union’s influence did not go very far beyond that field. [More…]
Despite the ideological differences which are supposed to exist between the policies of Colonel Gaddafi, a man held in reverence in some quarters, and the Soviet Union, the fact remains that there are various very close relations between Colonel Gaddafi and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The relationship which the Soviet Union has been able to build up with various Arab countries has extended its influence into areas where only 10 years ago it had virtually no influence whatsoever. [More…]
It has recognised that China is there, in the same way as the Soviet Union is there, and that we have to deal with both of those countries as governments which have their own interests and set out to pursue their own interests. [More…]
One can only hope that President Carter and his Administration will have the courage, the luck and the fortitude to carry through what they have said to be the objective of their Administration, that is, to pursue a policy in support of human rights wherever they may be throughout the world; that they will protest- and justifiably protest- about deprivation of civil liberties in the Soviet Union, in Czechoslovakia or Poland and will take action accordingly, provided it does not crash us into a third world war. [More…]
This is exactly the same argument as was put by the Soviet Union at the time of its intervention in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and which, as far as I understand, was rejected by honourable senators opposite. [More…]
We cannot allow all sorts of things to be going on in Czechoslovakia which might lead to another terrible attack on the Soviet Union’. [More…]
No doubt many people will say and many critics of Carter have said that he is damaging America’s interests by pursuing this human rights issue; that on the one hand he is damaging relations with the Soviet Union and, on the other hand, he is damaging relations with countries such as South Africa and even, in some more extreme cases, with Rhodesia- countries which apparently are essential to the American military defence. [More…]
Just recently Nkomo stated that the people who supported him- the people who were opposed to the Smith regime- were developing closer and closer relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was because the Soviet Union was supporting them and the western countries, which talk about democracy, were not supporting them. [More…]
As democratic socialists, he and I agreed on a number of objections to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I asked him why he continued to work for the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said that whatever might be said about the Soviet Union or about how much better things were somewhere else, as far as their struggle with the fascist dictatorship in Lisbon was concerned, the fact was that the Soviet Union was supporting him, giving him a job and giving him assistance, whereas the Portuguese Government, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation would have arrested him at least and possibly would have executed him if he had set foot in his own country. [More…]
If we find when that conflagration takes place that the Soviet Union has always been the friend of the Africans and that those people who talk about democracy have been the friends of the Nazis, that will damage us very severely where it hurts us most. [More…]
Why have the people of Angola and Mozambique turned to the Soviet Union and China? [More…]
Why has Joshua Nkomo turned to the Soviet Union? [More…]
They are back again, out again, disappearing in planes on the border with the Soviet Union, returning from the grave, leading the cultural revolution and then becoming members of the Gang of Four. [More…]
It happened throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the best way of watching Australia’s interests is by seeking to achieve human rights in Timor, Chile, the Soviet Union, China and in every place in the world where they have been denied. [More…]
I think I am perfectly conscious of the possible intentions of the Soviet Union within the Indian Ocean. [More…]
There is always a great deal of talk, and sometimes a great deal of emotion, when we speak of our relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In relation to the Soviet Union, while clearly we have some basic philosophical differences- as far as I can see we are likely to retain those philosophical differences- at least we can and must talk and we must recognise our points of view. [More…]
In the context of the Soviet Union I come to a brief thought and commentary on the Australian circumstance in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
guidelines, his sail or his flag towards achieving a decrease in military activity around the world and a rapport with the previous enemies of the United States, in particular the Soviet Union. [More…]
While the Soviet Union may have had more ships there over a longer period, it was clearly obvious that when the U.S. moved into the Indian Ocean with its massive forces, it could outgun, out-manoeuvre and out-everything the Soviet Union could put up. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill prompts me, he was President of the All Indian railways union. [More…]
Defence went so far as to state in most categorical terms that the Soviet Union posed a direct military threat to Australia. [More…]
However, the Minister has not taken into consideration statements continually made by political leaders in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and leaders of past and present United States Administrations that the present Western military strength is at least equal to and in many respects far superior to that of the Soviet Union and its allies. [More…]
No direct threat to Australia exists at present from the Soviet Union’s naval presence in the Indian Ocean, nor is there a threat of Soviet interdiction to the multi-national merchant fleets that ply their trade throughout the region. [More…]
The Japan-Australia ministerial talks were used as a device for attacking the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Will it have to go to the Soviet Union? [More…]
The first is that the United States should agree to the proposal; secondly, that the Soviet Union should agree to the proposal; and, thirdly, that both super-powers then should completely remove all their forces, bases and any other facilities from the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia has the case of a couple of Uraguayan building workers. [More…]
He was able to gain the confidence of countries which were a little wary of the super powers, whether it was the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
With regard to fishing rights we went the other way and asked what the Soviet Union thought. [More…]
Nations, the technical knowledge of the Soviet Union and the Western world were united. [More…]
Is any special study being undertaken of the needs of dependent children of lone fathers or are the grants given to the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne and the Working Women’s Trade Union Commission in Sydney, a combined sum of $32,400, for investigating the problems of lone fathers or just those of working women? [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development give an assurance that the inquiry into land and housing costs which is to be established by the Government will include some representation from the Australian trade union movement in order that the experience and knowledge of workers in the housing and construction industry will be available to the committee in its investigations? [More…]
Two weeks ago the annual conference of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia (Inc.) carried a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair). [More…]
Is it a fact that five other nations, which include both the United States and the Soviet Union, believe that there should be no territorial claims by any individual nation under that agreement? [More…]
Last week, during the Address-in-Reply debate, I was about to warn the Government that if it proceeds with proposed legislation for the establishment of an Industrial Relations Bureau and with the proposed amendment to the Trade Practices Act, namely the new section 45D, it is simply buying a fight with the whole of the trade union movement when consultations about these matters should take place. [More…]
There is a large group of unions in that category. [More…]
Those unions which cover in excess of one million workers could have their rules challenged by virtue of the fact that they place faith in the assurances of the Minister or his predecessor. [More…]
This does not involve only trade unionists. [More…]
If the Government is not interested in trade unionists it should think about the union funds that are involved- the funds of those unions whose rules could be under challenge. [More…]
We are dealing with a large number of members of trade unions throughout Australia. [More…]
Senator Button was speaking for a wide section of union opinion in the industrial labour movement when he said in the Senate on 3 June [More…]
You will recall that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a Union amalgamation. [More…]
In my own simple way but with some experience of trade union administration I sought to put some views to the Attorney-General. [More…]
I was surprised to read in your letter that you seemed to be under the impression that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a union amalgamation. [More…]
Here we have 2 senior Ministers of the Government giving incorrect advice to me and to the trade union movement- I will not use the word misleading because the Minister objects to that- about matters which are of great concern to the trade union movement as a whole and particularly to registered industrial organisations. [More…]
They will set the whole of the trade union movement in Australia against the Government. [More…]
In fact, I have sought to avert that situation over the period that I have been a trade union official. [More…]
I do not believe that the trade practices legislation is an appropriate vehicle to cover the activities of trade unions. [More…]
The time appears to be coming when the Government, in consideration of not proceeding with these provisions, could request the trade union movement to uphold and maintain the provisions for settling industrial disputes. [More…]
Naturally, there is very broad freedom within individual unions in this respect but each registered industrial organisation has such rules. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes and the ideal situation would be for the ACTU to be left to uphold and enforce its own rules, if necessary by the threat of expulsion of affiliated unions which do not uphold those rules. [More…]
Circumstances could arise in which other legislation could well be amended but the minute we bring into operation this sort of provision, which is aimed at even legitimate strike activity, you will have the whole of the trade union movement on top of you. [More…]
I appeal to it to heed the views that are expressed to it from time to time by the majority of the trade union movement and I request the Government when considering amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act or to other Acts which affect registered industrial organisations not to do it in a secret society fashion, but to have full and open discussions with all registered industrial organisations so that their views and the views of their members through them can be put to the Government. [More…]
Therefore, although the Minister possibly has acted in good faith, according to the decision of Mr Justice Smithers, the Federated Clerks Union of Australia and other unions were not covered by the amendments to the law. [More…]
It is interesting that although in response to an interjection by Senator Wright he said he would deal with the union matter later in his address, he did not deal with it at all despite the fact that this must be a significant factor in the costs faced by the apple and pear producers in Australia. [More…]
On arrival we found that a delegation from the trade union movement was also there. [More…]
Hishamuddin Rais came to Australia on 18 January 1976 at the invitation of the Australian Union of Students and was granted a seven-day temporary residence permit, later extended to 25 March 1976. [More…]
I am aware of reports in the Tribune of 19 February 1977 and 16 March 1977 which refer, respectively, to the establishment of a radio receiver to monitor Radio Maubere in the Darwin Miscellaneous Workers’ Union office by the Campaign for an Independent East Timor, and to a receiver established by the Timorese community in Darwin for a similar purpose. [More…]
-I wonder whether the Minister representing the Minister for Defence can indicate the procedure involved in the berthing of the Royal yacht Britannia at Newcastle recently by sea cadets, having regard to the customary practice of using members of the Firemen and Deckhands Union for such operations? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications whether he is aware that yesterday some 2000 Telecom Australia employees, who are members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, went over to a 36% hour week. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the reason was that the unions signed a productivity agreement with Telecom to do the same amount of work in 36% hours as the employees had previously done in 40 hours? [More…]
If the Minister does not know the secret will he undertake an urgent inquiry of the union and of Telecom? [More…]
I have seen a newspaper report which purports to describe an arrangement which has been entered into between the union and Telecom Australia on the basis that union members would maintain productivity in a shorter working week. [More…]
I understand also that it raises some very grave difficulties, as apparently those persons within Telecom who for reasons of conscience are non-unionists will be forced to work 40 hours and the agreement will not be binding on them. [More…]
People like the Honourable Barney French, MLC, who is the Secretary of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia, and Mr John Garland, the National Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, have been in the forefront of this appeal. [More…]
Branch of the Australian Building and Construction Workers’ Federation, Mr Henderson of the Firemen and Deckhands Union of New South Wales and Mr John Glebe of the Water and Sewerage Employees Union. [More…]
I make that point because the members of some of the unions, if not all the unions that I have mentioned, have had relatives involved. [More…]
Some people connected with the union are here on tourist visas and are reluctant to go home to latin America. [More…]
The reason I ask for it to be incorporated is that it lists the names of 1 1 persons active in the Chilean trade union movement who are, to use a term used by our own Department of Foreign Affairs, ‘subject to political duress’. [More…]
Victor Ivan Macaya Molina, imprisoned since 16.7.76, a secretary of the Textile Union; [More…]
Eugenio Cordero Donoso, President of the Wharflabourers Union in the port of Antofagasta; [More…]
Dario Miranda Godoy, imprisoned 30.7.76, secretary for cultural matters in the Metal Workers Union; [More…]
The Transport Workers Union will not allow the company into the container park in order to hook up the containers to mechanical refrigeration. [More…]
Apparently there is a problem with the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, refers to the Press reports and statements about an inquiry into trade union training which will be fairly comprehensive, Is it a fact that a committee of inquiry will include a representative from employer organisations, that one or two persons have already been appointed to the committee and that the inquiry will consider merging the Trade Union Training Authority with a management training system? [More…]
Was the trade union movement consulted about the proposal? [More…]
What justification is there for this move in view of the fact that when the legislation to establish the Trade Union Training Authority was before both Houses of the Parliament it was not opposed by any of the parties in the Parliament? [More…]
-I can confirm that the Government is proposing an inquiry into the future development of trade union training. [More…]
I shall mention to the Minister also the honourable senator’s inquiry about whether there has been consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a circular letter which has been distributed to all union members in South Australia and which states in part that Telecom is being acquainted with the names of union members in order that the benefit is not applied to nonunionists? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that some people have a conscientous objection to joining a union for valid reasons and that many of these people pay an amount equivalent to the union fee to a charity? [More…]
Will the Minister ask his colleague in another place to examine this position with a view to approving this alternative to union membership in order to prevent this blatant discrimination against some members of Telecom? [More…]
I received a similar telegram from Mr Rootsey the President of the Victorian Teachers Union. [More…]
If members of the trade union movement resist changes in the number of manual operatives in industry- possibly they have every right to do this- honourable senators opposite would call them modern day Luddites, and there is no question about it. [More…]
But what is the alternative when the trade union movement does not adopt that stance? [More…]
I repeat that trade unions have argued about safety measures and have had every reason to do so. [More…]
On the other hand, there is criticism when the trade union movement suggests a shorter working week. [More…]
I saw schools in the north of the State, and later in the year, at the invitation of the Victorian Teachers Union, I spent 4 or 5 days in the Gippsland area looking at remote schools and colleges of advanced education, and other institutions across the whole range of the education field. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of the container demarcation dispute on Brisbane wharves between the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia which has held up all movements of containers through Brisbane and is estimated to have cost beef producers at least $500,000 a week since it commenced a month ago. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the present provisions of the conciliation and arbitration legislation are adequate to deal with demarcation disputes such as this between unions and, if the legislation is not adequate, are there any amendments which the Government can make to it to provide for the speedy settlement of such disputes when they arise? [More…]
It is hoped that there will be a more co-operative attitude shown on this occasion by the Transport Workers Union of Australia whose actions and policies have been major factors in the dispute. [More…]
I view of his statement about the Government’s concern about demarcation disputes, is it not a fact that, when his Party was in Opposition, it opposed moves by the then Labor Government to encourage amalgamation of unions in order to reduce or eliminate demarcation disputes? [More…]
Is it not a fact that this Government’s policy is to oppose the encouragement of union amalgamations in order to maintain the conditions which encourage demarcation disputes for the purpose of a continuing confrontation with the trade union movement? [More…]
I can well recall the legislation that was introduced by Mr Lynch when he was the Minister for Labour and National Service on behalf of the previous coalition Government which was designed to facilitate union amalgamation under certain conditions. [More…]
The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany several years ago found it necessary to expel from that country the office of the General Union of Palestinian Students- although it was something which largely occurred within its own bordersbecause they were implicated in a number of terrorist activities, one of the most notable being the murder of a number of Israeli atheletes and members of their group at Munich during the Olympic Games of 1 972. [More…]
They also thought that perhaps Australia would be able to assist them by being an arbitrator in the dispute that was taking place among the Fretilin movement, the Apodeti and the Timorese Democratic Union. [More…]
We are very thankful for the support from the Australian people and also from the trade union movement but we are quite sad for the attitude of the Australian Government. [More…]
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are obvious examples of this sort of thing occurring. [More…]
Last week during the Inter-Parliamentary Union meetings held at Parliament House people with direct business in Parliament House were issued with special passes to allow them to gain entrance. [More…]
Since the introduction by this Government last year of the secret ballot legislation can the Minister give the figures of unions which have changed from union run elections to elections run by the Commonwealth Electoral Office? [More…]
The amendments, to which Senator Walters refers, to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act providing for secret ballots for union elections came into operation only about 8 months ago. [More…]
This represents quite a substantial increase in the number of unions utilising the provisions. [More…]
I think it is fitting to raise this matter at a time when there is so much discussion about streamlining trade union procedures. [More…]
Its secretary, Mr Keith Clark, is a highly respected trade union figure, and it produces a first class journal, the Health Standard. [More…]
The other union, which is serviced by a very dedicated secretary, Mr Les Butler, would have no more than 1600 or 1800 people and it is obvious that in these times of financial demands on trade unions those 1 600 or 1 800 people will receive better service through this amalgamation. [More…]
I emphasise that I do not know of even a minority group in either union which is resisting the change, On the other hand, one union has a relatively cheap annual membership fee and I would hate to think that a merger would be costly to the members of the union. [More…]
The fact is that Mr Hawke, who can never quite make up his mind about whether he is President of the Australian Labor Party and therefore pushing a political line, or President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and pushing a union line, would not come to the party. [More…]
The trade union movement was not even prepared to attempt to do that. [More…]
As to whether the Prices Justification Tribunal legislation ought to be amended, that could have been a matter for discussion after the trade union movement had been prepared to join in the call by the Prime Minister and the 6 Premiers. [More…]
I am putting forward this motion because it seems to be the belief of the Prime Minister and of certain other Ministers that the Government’s industrial relations policy has broad acceptance not only by the community but also by certain people within the trade union movement. [More…]
I refer to the statement made by the Prime Minister on the Monday after Easter when he said words to the effect that extremist left wing trade union officials would condemn the Government’s industrial relations policy but that was only to be expected. [More…]
I have risen today to advise you, Mr President, and the Senate that the industrial relations policy of the Government is opposed not only by a handful of extremist left wing union officials but also by the broad moderate elements within the trade union movement, specifically as the policy relates to amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
Quite a number of people within the trade union movement are prepared to make sacrifices to ensure co-operation and co-ordination to overcome the economic problems that confront the nation. [More…]
The success of the proposal relies on its acceptance by business and the Trade Union Movement and Governments. [More…]
We call on the Federal Government as a mark of its faith in the Premiers’ Conference proposal which presupposes a responsible and disciplined approach by central Trade Union and Business/Employer organisations to withdraw the proposed amendments to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act and the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Firstly, industrial relations in Australia are best served by the encouragement of effective, responsible trade unions working in the best interests of their members and in the encouragement of the members to fully participate in union affairs. [More…]
Secondly, the power of trade unions to contribute effectively and responsibly to orderly industrial progress depends on the co-ordinated and disciplined action of their members. [More…]
The rules of individual trade unions registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act have contained self-disciplinary provisions. [More…]
Likewise, a central trade union organisation such as the Australian Council of Trade Unions and State Labour Councils have had rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes with their own internal disciplinary procedures. [More…]
These procedures are designed and are necessary to achieve the objects of the unions in a united and co-ordinated manner with the least possible disruption. [More…]
Over the past few years a combination of factors has led to a decline in responsible unionism on the part of some unions. [More…]
Australia has witnessed the organised attempts by the procommunist Left to create anarchy, to disregard the effects of irresponsible industrial action on other workers in the community, to flout ACTU rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes and to turn the trade union movement into a political battering ram by the abuse of the strike weapon for political purposes. [More…]
Failure to uphold the ACTU and Labour Council disputes rules has itself contributed to the belief of some unions that they can please themselves as to what action they take without regard to the consequences to themselves as ACTU affiliates or to members of other unions. [More…]
The sense of anarchy is also fostered by those union officials who, rather than oppose the push for political strikes, take the easy way out by telling their members that it is up to each individual whether he joins the strike, an attitude that is encouraged by the Government’s own legislation. [More…]
Such weakness attacks the very foundation of the legitimate strike weapon and the trade union movement itself which relies for effectiveness on the precepts ‘unity of strength’ and ‘united we stand; divided we fall’. [More…]
Encouragement to union members to shed collective responsibility for the actions of the unions as a whole and hide behind their so-called individual rights’ leads to anarchy and allows the organised pro-communists to use their unions and the union movement as a whole for their own domestic and international purposes. [More…]
As is often the case, the backlash to that situation is an attack, not on the cause of the problem, but on the institution of unionism itself. [More…]
Orderly industrial progress requires that workers meet their obligations to themselves and their fellow workers by joining and participating in the affairs of their appropriate union to ensure that it plays a responsible and constructive role. [More…]
Under current legislation the individual right of a proven conscientious objector covered by an award with a preference clause is tested by the payment to Consolidated Revenue of an amount equivalent to union fees, but the proposed legislation would do away with that responsible test which is called the hippocket test. [More…]
But even here the proposed legislation will enable an individual member to adopt an ‘I’m all right Jack’ attitude on political stoppages thus avoiding his clear obligation to ensure that his union as a whole acts responsibly. [More…]
Do not let the Government talk too much about what employers have done about political stoppages because maybe I will look into my locker and get documents to show what the Government itself did in respect of one of its intrumentalities to a member of a particular union who decided not to strike during the Medibank stoppage. [More…]
The way the Bill is worded even enables individual union members to opt out of any industrial action decided upon by the union and its members, irrespective of whether that industrial action concerns industrial disputes over such vital issues as safety, personal protection, victimisation and the like. [More…]
It goes further, providing severe penalties on a union which seeks to protect its members from anarchy by recourse to its registered disciplinary rules. [More…]
The Bill therefore prevents unions implementing their internal disciplinary rules which are designed to ensure a cohesion in policy and co-ordinated orderly industrial progress and from which there is an existing right of appeal by a member. [More…]
Its personnel will presumably be appointed from public servants inexperienced in union rules and procedures or, probably worse still, from persons experienced in such procedures but with axes to grind. [More…]
Such a bureau will be resented by both the employers and the trade unions, not to mention the industrial registries. [More…]
Senator John Button was speaking for a wide section of moderate union opinion in the industrial labour movement when he said in the Senate on 3 June 1976, as reported at page 2347 of Hansard, in reference to the Australian Industrial Court, now the Federal Court: [More…]
The Government has been advised that the concern for the continuance of the system of union registration and enforcement of rules stems from the meddling by governments with the Conciliation and Arbitration Act since 1972, the confusion caused by judges of the Court in using the absolute discretion given by certain sections of the Act and the very different attitudes which particular judges bring to bear on the same set of facts or, alternatively, on what is their view of the needs of a properly functioning trade union. [More…]
In those circumstances many unions are questioning the merit of continued registration under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Those unions are not confined to the extreme Left, unions which have traditionally had an attitude that there should be no system of registration. [More…]
The Bill ‘s amendment to the definition of employee in clause 3, taken together with the proposed amendment to section 132, will leave unprotected, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania, substantial numbers of workers who, while not strictly employees, nevertheless rely on unions for the protection of their interests as workers. [More…]
There are hundreds and hundreds of owner-drivers who legitimately- this certainly has not been testedare members of the Transport Workers Union in Victoria and Tasmania as a result of the current provisions of section 132 and the definition of employee. [More…]
Because there is no registration of industrial unions in those 2 States which are thus not covered in the Bill, thousands of workers who are now legitimately union members will be left unprotected if the Bill becomes law. [More…]
Such illconsidered proposals could lead to greater divisions between Federal and State industrial systems and could force consideration in Victoria and Tasmania of the need for a system of State registration of unions in those 2 States. [More…]
Its failure to do so on this occasion and its failure to recognise that there are signs of co-ordinated action within the trade union movement on the part of moderate leaders to ensure responsible actions for orderly industrial progress lead me to the conclusion that the current proposals in the Bill are so much political window dressing and are no substitute for proper legislation based on a true understanding of the position in the industrial arena in Australia. [More…]
Senator Harradine speaks with some significance on matters of trade union affairs and on industrial relations. [More…]
I think Senator Harradine has placed too much emphasis upon a claim by the trade union movement not to be part of our community but to be a law unto itself, to regulate its own affairs to the exclusion of other people and to be a monopoly in relation to each union, uncontrolled. [More…]
Until yesterday the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions flatly refused any other attitude than that if a national conference were called of all sections- governments, employers and employees- he would call a conference of trade unions to consider how far they would go to meet the situation. [More…]
This is a very destructive initiative coming from the head of the trade union movement. [More…]
But Mr Hawke maintains that if we do what he or the trade union movement directs then we will have his co-operation. [More…]
That situation stems from an attitude whereby the trade unions consider that they are a law unto themselves and that they are outside the law that other members of the community should observe. [More…]
I do not imagine that Senator Harradine will divorce himself from the view that trade union power is such that it should have a dominant role in the formulation of industrial legislation. [More…]
There are others in the trade union movement who say: ‘We shall not be touched by the ordinary legislation. [More…]
It had some legitimacy in its origin when the trade unionist was disadvantaged by the law of conspiracy because he joined in this combination to advantage his interest; but then to claim complete immunity from the law as he has in England since 1 906 and increasingly here since 1928 is a proposition that no community can accept, and the assertion of the community’s rights in this respect is in no way inconsistent with co-operation between and co-ordination of all the interests of the community for the purpose of solving the present crisis. [More…]
A whole series of authorities in recent years, particularly in the last 10 years, have pointed out how the unions having this monopolistic power to dislocate industry under the name of what Senator Harradine referred to as the right to strike and, presumably since he objects to the Trade Practices Bill, the right to employ secondary boycotts in enforcement of the right to strike, claim the right to dislocate the economy of the country to the great injury of other sections of the community. [More…]
It was Mr Whitlam no less who in the last year of his Government was forced to admit that the union abuse of power was the crippling feature of his effort to regain stability in the economy. [More…]
None of us will decry the efforts that were made by his Minister for Labour and Immigration, Senator James McClelland, in the last three or four desperate months of the Whitlam era to try to curb the abuse of the use by trade unions of political pretext in order to create demands for higher charges and dislocation in industry. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said on this subject that excessive union wage demands had caused Australia ‘s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]
That is because the unions add to their legitimate union strength and force the other coercive effort to call a strike or secondary boycott and dislocate the economy and artificially create an upsurge in what their opponents are prepared to yield rather than have that dislocation. [More…]
It is that factor in the trade union movement that the Government feels needs correction and that is the theme, purpose and thrust behind the 2 Bills to which reference has been made. [More…]
The Trade Practices Bill precludes action by way of secondary boycott to enforce illegitimate union demands. [More…]
Whether or not I am right in that information- it has not been given to me officially or preciselywho is going to stand here and say that a union engaging in a boycott for political purposes is to be entitled not merely to bring its pressure to bear upon its own employing enterprise but to bring pressure to bear to cut off supplies by other enterprises assisting that primary enterprise? [More…]
I think that Senator Harradine, in protesting against that and saying that there is a section of the trade union movement which would regard that as an inducement to anarchy, is not speaking the language that we know. [More…]
He referred to the capacity that the Bill gives to a union member to report his dissent from industrial action. [More…]
Senator Harradine says that that undermines the solidarity of the union. [More…]
I can understand that argument and that has been basic to the union movement. [More…]
The second aspect is the right of a conscientious objector to refuse to be a member of a union and to require a union to work notwithstanding that. [More…]
There again it is a question of whether the individual right should be recognised unless and until it is shown to represent a substantial attack upon a union’s legitimate strength. [More…]
Further, not only does the individual trade unionist- or the individual union-have a right to complain but if a unionist needs the assistance he can report to the IRB which will add its assistance to any energy that he can put forward. [More…]
How in the name of fortune can a national Labor Relations Board in America, which combines functions additional to those and which has grown in history to be a prounion body, be complained of in that respect while this body is put up as an ombudsman to whom appeals can be made by both sides for redress? [More…]
I come to the aspect that Senator Harradine advanced, somewhat alarmingly, that there was a growing opinion in the trade union movement questioning the merit of continuing their registration in the system. [More…]
I never thought that I would see the day when Senator Harradine- I expected it from other quarters of the opposite camp- would question the undoubted comprehensive and significant advantages to the trade union movement of registration in the arbitration system of Australia. [More…]
It was through the foresight of the trade unionists that that system was so early established after Federation. [More…]
To suggest that we would reach the stage where unions would consider it in their interests to deregister from that system and expose themselves to the law of the jungle and to the chaos of the strike weapon is deplorable. [More…]
There are provisions in the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill bearing specifically upon registration whereby the court is given power to deregister a union, not only for the eight or nine grounds which the present Act provides but also for the abuse of any activity in the course of interstate trade or in the course of public service. [More…]
That shows that, far from the Government feeling that deregistration would ever be considered an advantage by a union, it is considered as one of the warning signals that unions should observe before they enter upon the sort of action to which I have briefly referred which can be considered as inimical to the public interest. [More…]
Any suggestion that the trade union movement will not join in any cooperative, co-ordinated action which the national crisis now demands unless legislation is withdrawn is quite unreasonable. [More…]
I think Senator Harradine correctly has shown that there already exists in the legislation ample protection for individual rights in the form of section 140 and section 141, which have been availed of by unionists over the years to protect themselves from any acts of tyranny by union officials. [More…]
But under the guise of protecting individual rights, the legislation which the unions are asked to see as containing nothing sinister encourages people not to join unions. [More…]
I invite honourable senators to examine a new section which is proposed to be inserted into the legislationthat is, proposed new section 144- which greatly widens the grounds upon which people can refuse to join unions. [More…]
I ask the question: If it is thought fair to exempt people from any obligation to join unions should they not be exempted also from the benefits which are won for them by the unions which they refuse to join? [More…]
Senator Wright expressed horror that a union would think of cancelling its registration. [More…]
This Government which now thinks it can punish a union by deregistering it, showed what it thought of having a union outside the umbrella of the industrial laws in 1967 when it went to the trouble of setting up a Flight Crew Officers Industrial Tribunal which had jurisdiction even over the unregistered body. [More…]
The builders labourers did not give a damn about their union being deregistered. [More…]
Another ground- the ground merely of engaging in industrial activity- is now enough to ensure deregistration of a union. [More…]
For a union that is powerful enough and a union that has muscle enough, that is a punishment which it can shrug off lightly and without care. [More…]
It will cost the Government much more dearly than it will cost the union. [More…]
Yet, in order to make it appear that the legislation which the Government is introducing is even more draconian than it needs to be, we get this additional ground for the deregistration of a union. [More…]
But more than that, a close reading of these provisions which have not reached us yet- I understand that they will be allowed to lie on the table of the House of Representatives for a few weeks in order to allow people to give their opinion of them- will reveal that these are the measures of a government which then turns to the unions and says: ‘Trust us to look after your interests as well as the interests of the rest of society’. [More…]
I suggest that the greatest crime to date of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- I fear that there are more ahead from him- is that he has destroyed the national consensus and has lost all right to be trusted by the unions. [More…]
I believe that the public will see through his shoddy manoeuvres of recent weeks and that they will lay the blame where it belongs- not on the unions but squarely at the feet of this incompetent and dishonest Government. [More…]
These same people, at least those at political and union leadership level, who caused that damage now seem to be intent on one thing only, and that is stopping the implementation of a framework of policy in industrial relations that could well see this country rise out of the mire into which it had fallen in the social experiment era. [More…]
It is at this point that the Government has felt that it is perhaps appropriate to try to find that scapegoat in the trade union movement. [More…]
Yesterday leaders of the trade union movement came to meet the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
The proposition was put to the Prime Minister by the unions that there should be a national conference on this issue and that there should, in return for a wage freeze, be taxation cuts of a specific kind which have been indicated as being necessary by the Australian Council of Trade Unions for a number of months. [More…]
It was in 1906, following the Taff Vale judgment in Britain when it was decided that unions could be sued and were liable for damages- and an award of damages was imposed on the railways unions in Britain- that the Trade Disputes Act, which made union funds exempt from claims for damages, was passed. [More…]
-I point out to Senator Wright that one really only needs to go back to 1975 in Australia when, admittedly in a fragile way, a government of this country, the Labor Government, was working on the basis of wage indexation towards a consensus with the union movement. [More…]
Senator Harradine ‘s major criticism seemed to me to be that the Government’s legislation does not require compulsory unionism, yet that in fact was the very first point under the heading of Organisations’ in the Government’s policy statement issued prior to the election in December 1975. [More…]
That stated very clearly that every employee has a right to join a union and equally that every employee has the right not to do so. [More…]
Similarly I take on board his concern that unions cannot discipline their members. [More…]
Senator Harradine attacked that provision on the basis that it means that in some circumstances, for example, where there is a strike- I cannot think of the term where just a few of the unionists strike without the union organisation approving the strike - [More…]
But a union in those circumstances would not be able to discipline its members. [More…]
I am sure that the trade union movement would completely agree with that pronounced policy of the caretaker Prime Minister who was seeking a mandate and endorsement from the Australian people. [More…]
How, under any circumstances, could the trade union movement be expected on this occasion to accept such a proposal when the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party of Australia (Mr Sinclair) was very swift to indicate that he was sure that there were certain perishable primary products which could not be subject to the price freeze. [More…]
The trade unions were not able to obtain guarantees that the price freeze would occur for the next 3 months. [More…]
Therefore the trade union movement was entitled to ask for some additional information before it was prepared to be a complete party to any agreement between the heads of government, employers, commercial interests and other interested groups in the community. [More…]
Mr Hamer is saying that; not a member of the Australian Labor Party or of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister has been at pains to stress the willingness of the Government to discuss and debate all aspects of the Bill with both the trade union movement and employer organisations and I feel, therefore, that it is a pity that this debate on the Bill should take place today. [More…]
I am sure also that the Medibank strike which occurred after the election underlined the fact that the ordinary rank and file member wanted some form of redress and some way to say to his union executive if he felt as many of them did at that time that there was not enough consultation and, in a majority of instances, there was absolutely no consultation between the union bosses and the members of the union. [More…]
Senator James McClelland said today in an intimidatory way that unionists who went to the Bureau would be telling on their fellow unionists and he talked about scabs in the unions. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber believe that individual freedom is more important than that and that an employee should not be made to join a union and to abide by that union’s decisions whether good or bad, right or wrong. [More…]
It is a place where any man or woman can go to express opposition to any organisation rule or to any industrial action being taken by the union. [More…]
The Bureau is obliged, firstly, to investigate the legitimacy of the union membership of the person objecting and, secondly, to keep the name of the person going to it confidential. [More…]
The Bureau also is obliged to investigate the complaint and, if it finds on investigation that the complaint is legitimate, to go to the union concerned and tell it of the complaint. [More…]
If there is enough opposition amongst the rank and file membership to any industrial action that the union might be contemplating the union is informed of it, and if it does not take that opposition into account the [More…]
This process avoids the very difficult position faced by a unionist who is attempting to lodge such an objection on his own and I think we would find very few members who would be prepared individually to approach the court in defiance of a union executive direction. [More…]
We have in this legislation for the first time been realistic and have faced up to the fact that while previously a single member of a union could complain or could try to take action against oppressive rules or an executive decision, realistically speaking this never happened. [More…]
-In Australia, because the Bureau will keep the name confidential the union will have no idea who has indicated opposition to its rules or actions, and this is the crux of the legislation. [More…]
There is a clause in the Bill which specificially allows a person who has a conscientious belief that prohibits him from joining any union or organisation, to approach the Registrar and to obtain a certificate of exemption. [More…]
Armed with that certificate, that person cannot be forced either by intimidation or by any other penalty to join any union or any employer organisation. [More…]
-They have been forced to join unions by discriminatory action being taken against them, by threat. [More…]
This has happened just recently when the supply of goods has been cut off and they have not been supplied with goods until they have joined the appropriate union. [More…]
I believe that the rank and file unionists realise that in the past the unions have escaped from much responsibility for their actions, that they have held the Australian people to ransom, that they have tried to take over the job of the properly elected government of this country. [More…]
They believe that is not the rightful role of the union. [More…]
People want the government that they have elected to do this job, and they want that government to be able to do the job unhindered by any union action. [More…]
For that reason I believe that the rank and file unionists will support this legislation. [More…]
in his visit to the United Nations to speak on behalf of the Fretilin cause; (ee) whether or not the Miscellaneous Workers Union has contravened any Australian statutes in facilitating the housing of wireless apparatus in its union offices in Darwin for the purpose of receiving wireless messages from Fretilin guerillas in Timor; (ef) whether or not money given by the Australian Government to Australian aid organisations was used for purposes unrelated to the original intention of the grant or grants, namely, the payment or partpayment of Mr Dunn ‘s fares to European countries; (eg) what briefings, if any, were given to any or all of the six Australian journalists prior to their departure, as to the situation in East Timor and whether the media organisations to which these journalists were reporting should be responsible for additional compensation payments and, if so, how this would be enforced; and other matters relating to the foregoing. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Communist Party has adopted double standards on the matter of self-determination, having refused to support this right for the West New Guineans at the time of the takeover of West New Guinea by the Sukarno regime, which was then in close contact with the Soviet Union, a communist country? [More…]
Assistance has been allocated as follows- $4 1 8 to the Amateur Boxing Union of Australia to assist with the administration of its national Senior Championships $508.50 to the Australian Casting Association to assist with the assembly costs of the Australian team for the World Casting Championships in Taree, New South Wales $4,354 to the Australian Volleyball Federation to assist with the administration of national championships; and to assist with the fares of a delegate to attend an international conference. [More…]
How many members of the Transport Workers Union who are at present on strike in Melbourne are receiving unemployment benefit? [More…]
I am not able to say whether any members of the Transport Workers Union are obtaining unemployment benefit. [More…]
Apart from those matters which I have raised and the other provisions within the Act, I am unable to comment further on any members of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I instance the disputes over containers involving the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation in Sydney and the oil dispute in Sydney in which there is internal conflict between the Federal and State officers of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It took a long time to get one from the trade union movement. [More…]
It was a good one when it came, but I did not get the paper from the Australian Council of Trade Unions until about 8 October. [More…]
I suppose it is all right to say that the Labor Government was activated by union pressures to increase the benefits for the people who were supporting it. [More…]
My colleague Senator Douglas McClelland pointed out that the Committee was a highpowered committee consisting of some of our leading industrialists, economists and a leading pubic servant in the person of Mr Neil Currie, the then head of the Department of Manufacturing Industry, and Mr Hawke representing the unions. [More…]
This was because it got over the petty issues, with which our opponents are mostly concerned, of attempting to blame all the ills of society onto the trade unions. [More…]
There was a trade union representative on the Committee. [More…]
The Committee interviewed many trade unionists. [More…]
In addition, the manufacturing industry has been beset by bad industrial relations and aggravated by the fragmentation of the union movement which has led to demarcation disputes which are amongst the silliest disputes and amongst the most costly to the community. [More…]
Every time we have attempted to facilitate amalgamation of unions and have introduced legislation into the Parliament to do that, we have been frustrated by the Liberal-National Country Parties which have always defeated such attempts to rationalise the union movement. [More…]
They are not the problems which our opponents constantly tell us of wicked unionists asking for more than their share. [More…]
I know, however, that there are massive diplomatic offensives by the Soviet Union in those countries, and in particular institutions, to get members to go to the Soviet Union to learn their system of totalitarianism. [More…]
This then raises the question of whether the Government has done anything in relation to the questions that I raised on expenditure recommended by the Australian Development Assistance Agency to, for example, the Overseas Student Service or to the Malaysian Union of Students. [More…]
Furthermore, in the appropriation last year for the Australian Development Assistance Agency an amount was detailed for the All African Students Union. [More…]
I should like to suggest that if the Bureau has any doubts on this matter it should look at the fact that the All African Students Union is the group to which people are called on to send their donations for the Zimbabwe Project which has been established to collect material aid for the Zimbabwe people in Mozambique. [More…]
In that article it referred to the ADAA Advisory Board, which has been referred to by Senator Knight, with, to quote Development News Digest, ‘Sir John Crawford as Chairman and representatives from business, trade unions, non-government organisations, community groups, scientists and politicians as its members’. [More…]
As I understand it, there was no trade union representative on the ADAA Advisory Board. [More…]
I suggest that when the Minister does establish the advisory committee as promised in his second reading speech, he consider appointing a trade unionist who is experienced in the work of the international trade secretariats. [More…]
Of course, the work of the international trade secretariats- those are the international trade unions to which particular trade unions in Australia and the free world generally are affiliated- is very important in this particular field. [More…]
In conclusion, I suggest to the Minister that he might consider appointing to his advisory body a union official who is experienced as a member of an international trade secretariat. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the oil companies have surrendered to union pressure? [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister had brought to his notice a reported statement by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the other place last weekend to the effect that the mantle of Her Majesty’s Opposition has been shed by the Parliamentary Labor Party and assumed by the trade union movement? [More…]
He joined the Postmaster General’s Department and was a life member of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that 2 Adelaide University students, for conscientious objection reasons, refused to contribute $2.50 of their fees to the funds of the Australian Union of Students? [More…]
He is now the national convenor of the coalition to reform the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I understand from the facts reported in the Advertiser that an appeal by some students to be able to opt out from the AUS levy was refused by the student union council. [More…]
Very late last week, I understand, General Motors sought by telephone to contact one or two Ministers, and there have been some discussions with the trade union movement. [More…]
It is quite evident that General Motors was not concerned with giving adequate notice either to the Government or to the trade union movement. [More…]
It is, therefore, not surprising that the Minister was critical, as was the union- in fact the union has reacted quite strongly- of the action taken by General Motors. [More…]
As members of the union have pointed out, there is no assurance that had the workers taken a week’s forced holiday their jobs would be there for them when they returned. [More…]
I refer to an article, which I commend to those who read the newspapers regularly, by Mr Kable in the Australian which states that renewed union claims that GM-H is still making very fat profits are no longer valid; the performance is not at all good; it has fallen on lean times. [More…]
Very late last week, I understand, General Motors sought by telephone to contact one or two Ministers, and there have been some discussions with the trade union movement. [More…]
There is a degree of double standard in the Government’s attitude which can be seen in the mild admonishment of General Motors for the action which has been taken and in the Government’s threats day after day against the trade unions for embarking upon exactly the same free market enterprise course of conduct in which General Motors is indulging. [More…]
The trade unions have said: We will not work because we want to make bigger profits in terms of wages.’ [More…]
Most of us on this side perhaps have sympathy for the trade union movement when we consider the share of wealth which each of those sectors of society enjoys. [More…]
It mildly admonishes General Motors but makes threats of an industrial relations bureau and of savage amendments to the trade practices legislation to deal with industrial disputes by trade unions. [More…]
I disagree with Senator Button that honourable senators on this side of the chamber have sympathies with General MotorsHolden ‘s Pty Ltd and that the sympathies of honourable senators opposite lie with the trade union movement. [More…]
I think it is quite proper that any responsible government should take action to minimise industrial disputation and to deal with a minor group of militant union officials who have, in many instances, been imported from overseas and trained overseas in disrupting industry. [More…]
I can imagine that many of these trade union officials would be under the influence of the KGB. [More…]
I think perhaps the way the announcement was made left the trade union movement floundering. [More…]
Perhaps the company was not as diplomatic as it should have been in respect of proper consultation with the Government and the unions. [More…]
I believe that with continued close co-operation and close consultation with not only the employers but also the trade union movement, and with some sympathy in respect of the problems they are facing, we will be able to overcome this very serious dilemma in which they find themselves at the present time. [More…]
As a result, the company is seeking through union officials the co-operation of production employees and production-related employees at all plants to take one week of their 1977 annual leave entitlement in advance ‘. [More…]
Not only has it been unimaginative in misreading the market and not understanding that the world-wide fuel shortage would make the trend toward smaller cars more imperative; it has also, as has been pointed out this week by one of the union officials involved, neglected the investment of new capital in its plant in Australia. [More…]
It was said this week, I think quite truly, by Mr Thompson, one of the union officials who is very familiar with the operations of GM-H and the other motor manufacturers, that obsolete capital equipment was to blame for GM-H’s economic problems. [More…]
So the frequent union bashing about profitability which has become a traditional national pastime against GM-H, the biggest of the big multi-nationals, is scarcely credible these days. [More…]
Apart from the Minister’s speech, we have heard nothing from the other side but a condemnation of the trade union movement and its activities in the past. [More…]
There has never been an industry with fewer disputes or greater co-operation between management and unions than the motor body building industry. [More…]
We cannot blame the unions. [More…]
Once again union leaders in this country have opted for retrenchment of their own workers rather than adopt some form of co-operation. [More…]
The people of Australia will recognise what the union leaders have done in these circumstances. [More…]
Clearly, in my opinion, the unions leaders have a vested interest in political disruption and in keeping unemployment in Australia as high as possible. [More…]
Yet we find all of the criticism levelled at the trade unionists who work on the assembly line- never at the management. [More…]
Only today in the West Australian this headline appears: ‘ Union anger at GM-H ‘s $ 1 6m ‘. [More…]
No wonder the unions are up in arms against what this Government is doing. [More…]
I am happy to say that the trade union movement and the working section of this community are not going to accept the policies of this Government, not only as they apply to the motor car industry, but also as they apply to the oppressive legislation that this Government is going to bring into this Parliament in the next few weeks to try to grind the working class into the dirt. [More…]
It has all fallen into place except for one thing, that is, where they take on the trade union movement. [More…]
On the other side my equally good friend, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Ralph Taylor, and his equally competent State Secretary, Jack Maddox, would argue that the railways should get a bigger share. [More…]
That was in direct contrast with conditions in the Soviet Union which has vast rural tracts. [More…]
I know that my colleagues in the Transport Workers Union- whether it be Ivan Hodgson, a Federal official, or McBettie, a State secretarywould agree with me. [More…]
Not so long ago the Australian Railways Union called a seminar of shunters from every State in Australia. [More…]
I think I would be more inclined to mention this if Senator Wright, with his hangup about trade unions, were here. [More…]
The union has held meetings. [More…]
The union did this by itself. [More…]
Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, offer one word about trade union initiatives. [More…]
But I know that the next time the trade union goes to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to ask for certain margins involving night work it will not appear in the transcript that this union indicated in a very sane way some of its problems. [More…]
They do not even join the union that covers their employment. [More…]
This week a decision was made by the Interstate Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions which is momentous indeed and which will have great significance and farreaching effects on the future of industrial relations in the whole of Australia. [More…]
The decision raised the real possibility of a mass deregistration of unions which would leave the Australian federal system of conciliation and arbitration in tatters. [More…]
Successive ACTU congresses have considered this question and over the last 30 years have rejected attempts by the proCommunist Left to force the Australian trade union movement out of the system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The history of the conciliation and arbitration system shows that its inception was supported by the trade union movement and opposed by the employers. [More…]
It is a system for which I have fought within the councils of the trade union movement over the 22 years of my being a trade unionist. [More…]
It is indeed a saddening day when one sees a decision of this momentous character being forced upon the Executive of the Australian Council of Trades Unions by certain factors that I will enumerate. [More…]
We now see that because the Left is aided and abetted in its aims by this Government the rest of the trade union movement has been forced into a situation where there is raised the real possibility of mass deregis- tration of registered industrial organisation. [More…]
The Government has been advised that the concern for the continuance of the system of union registration and enforcement of rules stems from the meddling by governments with the Conciliation and Arbitration Act since 1972, the confusion caused by judges of the Court - [More…]
The Australian Industrial Court and now the Federal Court- in using the absolute discretion given by certain sections of the Act and the very different attitudes which particular judges bring to bear on the same set of facts or, alternatively, on what is their view of the needs of a properly functioning trade union. [More…]
You will recall that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a Union amalgamation. [More…]
I was surprised to read in your letter that you seem to be under the impression that sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a union amalgamation. [More…]
The proximate reasons for the decision of the trade union movement are those that I have mentioned and the proposals to amend the Trade Practices Act and the proposal to establish the IRB. [More…]
Rather than protecting individual rights of union members, they are diluted by the intrusion of the Industrial Relations Bureau between the individual union member and the Court. [More…]
Under sections 140, 141 and 143 the individual union member can seek redress directly from the Court. [More…]
As I pointed out in the speech to which I referred, what if the member saw a breach of the rules taking place and wanted to seek orders from the Court for the performance and observance of the rules of the union in a particular fashion? [More…]
He referred to statements made by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and by myself on his behalf, and indeed by a former Minister, Mr Clyde Cameron, that unions had a period of 3 years in which to comply with what is known as the Cameron amendments, which were being considerably altered by the legislation before the Parliament last year. [More…]
That legislation was passed by the Parliament on the assumption that changes to union rules could be made within the period of grace which was given to those unions affected by the Cameron amendments. [More…]
The unions had to comply with the amendments passed by the Parliament in November last year. [More…]
Senator Harradine raised a further, and I am sure he would agree a much more fundamental, issue relating to the Industrial Relations Bureau and the reaction to it by the trade union movement. [More…]
I was very sorry to hear him say that the Australian Council of Trade Unions Council has decided to make recommendations to the ACTU Congress in the event that the Government proceeds with this legislation. [More…]
But it is another matter altogether to be taking the attitude which is apparently being taken by the ACTU and by some of the militant left wing union leaders. [More…]
The fact is that those threats have been made by union leaders. [More…]
After that, the unions and union leaders who are making these threats will have to consider their position. [More…]
Last year, the Soviet Union and all their allies in the Warsaw Pact, gave less than half as much aid as West Germany to the under-developed world. [More…]
Can the Minister ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the other place whether he can provide information on, firstly, the amount of foreign aid provided by the Soviet Bloc countries; secondly, the general conditions underlying this aid, tied or untied; and finally, whether the paper’s assertion is correct and whether it is not unusual to find a similar comparison between the Soviet Union and countries other than West Germany. [More…]
My colleague in the other place has provided the following information: According to the latest figures available from the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisations for Economic Co-operation and Development, net resource flows to developing countries from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe in 1975 amounted to $US500m, of which $US375m was official development assistance, known as ODA. [More…]
We ask the officials of the Soviet Union to take note of world feeling on this matter and to cease this abuse. [More…]
If the answer to ( 1 ) is in the affirmative, does the Minister agree that the present ‘union bashing’ policy of the Government is therefore totally discriminatory in that it criticises unions for withdrawing labour, but condones the withdrawal of stock by primary producers. [More…]
As the honourable senator said, there certainly has been union pressure in South Australia to break the pause. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement issued on Monday, 9 May by the Union of Christmas Island Workers expressing condemnation of the type of damage that was carried out to the implements. [More…]
To digress for a moment, readers of the Australian Financial Review might recall that some weeks ago the Secretary of the Public Service segment of the trade union movement, Mr Kidd, was reported to have pointed out that the inspectors felt that the present policy almost bordered on appeasement of certain companies which did not meet their award obligations. [More…]
Usually, as a result of either trade union prompting or intervention by an arbitration inspector, the firm realises that it has made an honest error and it does the right thing. [More…]
The amazing fact is that this award interpretation that is under dispute is similar to the interpretation of another award concerned with the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
I have it on authority from the officials of the New South Wales Branch of the Storemen and Packers Union that its members are being paid under a definition that is being disputed in relation to members of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Union. [More…]
It deals with the attitude of trade unions to migrant membership. [More…]
I refer to a case which was drawn to my attention by the State President of the Australian Railways Union in Sydney, Mr Walsh, and by one of the younger officials, Mr Roger Law. [More…]
I would like to believe that when a person has become an Australian citizen, is respected in his trade union or business association, and is engaged in permanent work, such as the New South Wales Railways, and a case in relation to this difficult question is put up, there will be some flexibility and that when a trade union goes in to bat for him, he will receive some attention. [More…]
But in a case where it can be proved that a person is in government employsuch as in the case to which I am referring- I believe that the Minister, in seeking good relations with the trade union movement, could be a little more flexible. [More…]
In this case I believe that it would be much better if the Minister held a seminar type meeting with the trade unions in Melbourne and Sydney to clear up doubts on some of these guidelines. [More…]
I believe that when the trade unions themselves become involved in some of these cases they should get a better response than they are receiving. [More…]
When last I addressed this chamber on a motion a fortnight ago I referred to Roscoe Pound, that world famous jurist who likened the trade unions today to the vested interests of the church, the state, aristocrats, landlords and mercantile barons of old. [More…]
I quote now Mr Justice Brandeis, notorious for his understanding of the needs of the ordinary trade union and the working man who wants to work and earn in a prosperous society. [More…]
I know that honourable senators on this side of the chamber consider that legislation to be very harsh indeed and believe that it would have led to a confrontation not only in this place but also between the trade union movement and the Parliament. [More…]
Perhaps that explains why the trade union movement in Britain has been so tough in its attitude and has been so much more militant than has been the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
I believe that there is no doubt that the present Government is attempting to use the Australian trade union movement as a scapegoat for some of its failures in the economic sphere. [More…]
Union bashing has become quite the thing. [More…]
We see constant union bashing. [More…]
There is no doubt that this Government has embarked on a conscious campaign, through the trade practices legislation, through mooted amendments to the Public Service Act and through amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to shackle the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement has served Australia well for generations. [More…]
In recent months it has been the trade union movement that has sought to reach industrial peace. [More…]
It has been the trade union movement that has continually made concessions. [More…]
It has been the trade union movement that has continually sought negotiation. [More…]
That showdown would have been at the cost of all Australians, whether or not they were members of a trade union. [More…]
I believe that it has been through common sense, firstly by the trade unions and, I must say, by the Minister concerned, Mr Street, that we have had this series of negotiations and compromises. [More…]
I was interested in Senator Sibraa ‘s remarks about the Government’s ‘union bashing’. [More…]
I believe that this Government recognised immediately it same to office that it was necessary to restore the credibility of the trade union movement in Australia to a level which it ought to hold in the community. [More…]
I think the trade union movement in Australia had sunk to a very low ebb. [More…]
One of the first things we did when we came to office was to introduce legislation requiring compulsory secret ballots for the election of union officials, because we believed that this would encourage trade unionists to take a greater interest in their union leadership and would ensure that more responsible leaders were brought into a position in which they could protect the interests of trade union members throughout Australia. [More…]
I am afraid that officials in some unions seem to delight in militant action rather than in being prepared to undertake sensible negotiations, particularly at a time when Australia cannot afford the luxury of strikes which disrupt industry generally and which overflow into areas that affect innocent trade unionists. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the sooner we do what the people expect us to do- that is to continue our efforts to restore the credibility of the trade union movement- the better it will be for all Australians. [More…]
I think that Senator Harradine would appreciate that the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has been engaged in some important and fruitful discussions with the trade union movement in the last two or three weeks. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Science: In replying to a questionnaire concerning superphosphate bounty which the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia (Inc.) sent out, did he state, as reported in the Farmers Weekly of 12 May, that the bounty should be at least at the present level? [More…]
Reverend David Griffiths, President, Baptist Union of Victoria. [More…]
I hope we receive co-operation in apprenticeship schemes from the trade union movement, employer bodies and State governments to ensure that as many programs as possible to help the situation are developed and maintained. [More…]
Governments would not expect either business organisations or the union organisations to agree to such voluntary restraint arrangements without agreement by the others. [More…]
Another interesting fact is that included among those thirty-one members of the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees is none of those so-called humanitarian countries, led by the most humanitarian country in the world- the fatherland of the socialist forces in the world, the Soviet Union. [More…]
Firstly, why did those people not choose to go to the so called humanitarian countries led by the Soviet Union? [More…]
The honourable gentleman has forgotten, if he has ever known the fact, that the sackings in the industry are worked on the trade union principle of ‘last in first out ‘. [More…]
I, as the president of the third largest union in Tasmania, would dearly love to go to my membership when it is electorally advantageous to me, but I am governed by my constitution and rules which determine when I go to my members. [More…]
If it is good enough for me as president of a union to go to my members when my constitution says I shall, it is good enough for me as a senator to go to the people when the Constitution says I shall, not when the Prime Minister says I shall. [More…]
I was one of the first to fight for the right of rank and file unionists to demand a court controlled ballot. [More…]
We have seen the results of those ballots over the years so far as my union is concerned. [More…]
To the extent that there has been any American influence in the industrial sphere in Australia, through the State Department, it has been negative so far as the anticommunist fight in the trade union movement in Australia is concerned. [More…]
They are 2 matters which are contrary to the best interests of the anticommunist fight in the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
We see allegation mounting on allegation that somehow or another the CIA is involved in the affairs of trade unions and the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has said that if anyone has any information at all so far as the trade union movement is concerned it ought to provide the ACTU with that information. [More…]
Freddie Nichol in Queensland alleged that he had information or suspicion that the CIA was involved in the internal affairs of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia in Tasmania in 1970 and 1971 and that money and advice were given to that organisation or to the anticommunists in that organisation in Tasmania. [More…]
He was referring to the time when the federal body of the Storemen and Packers Union attempted to take control of the Tasmanian branch of the union and to turn it from a moderate influence within the trade union movement to a left influence in the movement. [More…]
Of course, the officers and members of the Storemen and Packers Union took action both on the job and in the Australian Industrial Court to prevent that takeover. [More…]
Higgins, the President of the Union, won the case and so the integrity of the branch was preserved and the federal officials had to get out of the place. [More…]
As I said last evening, to the extent that there is any United States influence within the trade union movement, it tends to be counterproductive. [More…]
They are all for amalgamation of unions and collective bargaining, as they know it, as against the conciliation and arbitration process as we know it. [More…]
The growth of unionism in the United States of America has followed paths quite different from the paths followed by the trade union movement in Australia and the trade union movement in Great Britain. [More…]
Naturally, in some of the organisations in America, there are industry-based unions. [More…]
Let us take, for example, an amalgamation of unions on an industry basis. [More…]
If there were an amalgamation of unions in the railway industry I could not see the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Sheetmetal Workers Union, for example, handing over its members in railway workshops to the one union which presumably would be the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
I ask whether, if the unions in the railways were amalgamated into the Australian Railways Union, would the AMWSU hand over its members to the organisation? [More…]
To the extent that there has been official American influence in the trade union area- I mean official and proper, through labour attaches and the like- it has been mostly counter-productive so far as the anticommunist fight in the trade union sphere is concerned. [More…]
They name the trade union movement and the ALP. [More…]
It is fair to say that Mr Hawke, in his role as President of the ACTU and the ALP, and other members of the trade union movement speak to people in official capacities such as labour attaches. [More…]
The final part of his plans is now coming to fruition, that is, taking on the trade union movement and teaching it a lesson. [More…]
They have carried it all out except for the final crunch, that is, confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
A number of members of the Seamen’s Union of Australia who were born in the United Kingdom go away on a ship, some of them oil tankers, and come back after voyages of 90 days or longer. [More…]
Mr Lowe is reported as stating that it was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that it was not possible to maintain the voluntary pause in prices and wages and that it could only have continued had the Federal Government called a national conference of governments, business and union representatives. [More…]
I have not seen what Mr Dunstan said but I do not mind commenting on this matter because it is a source of satisfaction to me to discover that General-Motors Holden ‘s and the union, in joint discussions, have reached a situation which overcomes the problem, a fact which we all knew. [More…]
It is a widely based body which contains manufacturers, importers, consumers, motorist associations, people from the unions and people from both sides of the Parliament. [More…]
-Both honourable senators who addressed me were deeply involved in union activity in their earlier days and they know of the problems relating to noise and the interest that the plasterers’ union and the union covering heavy crane drivers have in this subject. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill might correct me if I am wrong, but I think the amount being claimed by the employees and the union is something like $25,000. [More…]
As recently as last week I had a discussion with Mr Brian O’Neill, the senior officer of the New South Wales Branch of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Union. [More…]
The fact that the Department committed itself to a figure of $25,000 was a fair indication to the union and to me that something was wrong. [More…]
It is unfortunate that relations in this area were not helped because of some internal union conflict. [More…]
I think the employer was able to play, to a degree anyway, the Victorian Secretary Maher against the New South Wales officers which was not good for unionism, nor was it good for the whole of the industry. [More…]
Finally the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations made the estimate to him- and the union took this up too- that there seemed to be underpayment of $25,000. [More…]
I cannot understand why the ordinary processes of the Inspectorate were not used from the time when the claim was first made by the union and the employees. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Transport, refers to the present negotiations, which are in their last stages, between the Australian National Railways management and the unions. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a recent statement by the Australian National Railways union leaders stating that all 24 conditional issues would worsen the conditions of the South Australian Railways staff? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the Australian Union of Students and its executive. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students is a second tier organisation; that is, the student body of each university or college decides by voting whether or not to affiliate with the second tier, the AUS. [More…]
I should have indicated to the honourable senator and to the Senate that the funds that go by way of the $2.50-the 300 000 packets of cigarettes- to the Australian Union of Students are from the students’ own funds and not from the Government. [More…]
In particular, members of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union employed by the company are at present on strike for 5 days which, according to Mr Curran, the Secretary of the Union, is the first phase of the union campaign of industrial action to force agreement by the employers to a log of claims which contains, amongst other things, a demand for a 9-day fortnight and a $20 a week increase in wages, which would increase wage costs by 30 per cent to the company with the current wage indexation increase - [More…]
The retirement scheme that has been put forward has now been dealt with sufficiently so that it seems to satisfy the unions concerned. [More…]
Mr David Northey, State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, was quoted as saying that it appeared that ‘Tasmania’s rail workers would benefit from the transfer’ and that ‘personnel would either retain their wage position or improve their earnings’. [More…]
There are 24 unions, 26 awards and 600 classifications. [More…]
I notice that a speaker in the other House said that in his opinion there were too many unions. [More…]
I am very pleased that Mr Northey, on behalf of his union, has given basic approval to all these things. [More…]
It was signed by R. C. Robertson, State Secretary, National Union of Railwaymen. [More…]
People such as Glen Moorehead, Federal Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, and Ralph Taylor, the National Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, do not have Utopian concepts. [More…]
In that same newspaper article the Acting Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr N. N. Alexandrides, is reported to have said: [More…]
They include matters related to the long standing Australian Railways Union conditions and allowances. [More…]
Perhaps I should say that I think this has been a very successful operation because I know that management and the union have met under the control of the Australian Council of Trade Unions since a Bill was passed during Labor’s term in office and great progress has been made in the area of wages, which I thought was a very complicated issue. [More…]
I understand they have settled the issue on wages and the related matters which I was asked to bring up today by the union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this ban by the Seamen’s Union of Australia on the unloading of tankers is due to the demands of the union to place the tanker Howard Smith on the overseas crude oil run? [More…]
It will most likely provide some of the packets of cigarettes a day to keep the Australian Union of Students going, about which we were talking in economic terms yesterday. [More…]
Further, where the relevant employees are members of a trade union, that trade union is deemed to have engaged in the secondary boycott itself unless it establishes that it took all reasonable steps to prevent the boycott. [More…]
However, the protection which employees are to be afforded from the prohibition will also be available to trade unions and their officers where the only persons with whom they act in concert are employees of the one employer and the conduct is engaged in for a dominant purpose of the type to which I have already referred. [More…]
An individual employee is not to be subject to an award of damages where his trade union is held responsible for the particular conduct. [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Minister stated the Government’s view that there was a need for time to be given not only for members of Parliament to give the proposed legislation their objective consideration but also for the principal parties to industrial relations- the peak councils of the employer organisations and trade unions, individual trade unions and employers and the community at large- to examine the contents of the Bill and to be able to make their views known to the Government. [More…]
The Minister subsequently invited representatives of the national employers and, through the Australian Council of Trade Unions, representatives of peak union councils to meet with him separately to discuss the Bill. [More…]
He met with the union representatives on 11 May and with employers on 13 May. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau-and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the trade union movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
In the light of the positive response to this statement by the Conference of Federal Union– convened by the ACTU, and the national employers views, the Minister moved certain amendments to the Bill in the other place, and consequently the Bill as transmitted to this House provides, together with some machinery amendments, simply for the establishment of an Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
Award breaches by employees (awards are binding on employees only if they are members of a union respondent to the relevant award or the award is Common Rule ) are subject to the same fundamental enforcement policy as award breaches by employers. [More…]
In January 1976, shortly after the Government came to office, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations conferred with representatives of the national employers and the peak union councils with a view to seeking their agreement to the implementation of this policy objective. [More…]
I am therefore pleased to be able to say now that, following discussions on 1 1 May between the Minister and representatives of the peak union councils on the Government’s proposed industrial relations legislation, the ACTU has indicated that it would be prepared to join a re-constituted tripartite consultative council. [More…]
Is the Minister a w.i iv that, in regard to the tremendous marine rest hi rees in the waters surrounding Australia, Australian owned fisheries harvest only a small proportion of this food compared with other major fishing nations such as Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
As honourable senators will know the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has a policy of restriction on livestock exports, a policy which this Government does not recognise. [More…]
It seems that the producer groups to which I refer believe that the Corporation would enter into arrangements separately with the union on a national basis quite apart from the regional arrangements now negotiated by local exporter and producer groups. [More…]
It is said that he appointed broken down union officials and the like. [More…]
The Opposition regards the watering down of the Industrial Relations Bureau by the Government, because of pressure from the trade union movement, as only temporary. [More…]
Government senators today have made it abundantly clear that this is only a temporary phase designed to satisfy the trade union movement for the time being. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has made this clear and Government senators have made it clear here this afternoon, particularly when they were challenged by Senator Wright, who has criticised his own Government for backing down on legislation that it wanted to introduce to create a head-on confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Of course, the scapegoat will be the trade union movement. [More…]
I believe that in the Budget session the Government will re-introduce those other provisions under which the Industrial Relations Bureau will be able to enter trade union offices, to order the secretary of the organisation to provide the membership roll for inspection, to ask for an audit of the books, and to ask for a balance sheet to see where the money is banked and where the assets are held. [More…]
It will permit all these sorts of interventions into the internal affairs of the trade union movement. [More…]
In addition the Bureau will be able to interfere with what is now a fairly satisfactory arrangement between employer organisations and the trade union movement regarding membership of the various unions. [More…]
Employers with any common sense at all, particularly the big employers, have been aware for many years that there are enough problems in running the day to day affairs of a business without the extra worry of whether one of their dissident employees, for some spurious reason, does not want to join a union. [More…]
I hope that it will be defeated so that at least the Government will recognise the folly of its introduction and what it may lead to later on in the year when the Government tries to implement the whole of the legislation and carry out its threats of confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
No Minister has prosecuted any trade unionist since the O’Shea case, because of public disquiet about the gaoling of unionists. [More…]
Another authority is being established now for the purpose of getting over the dissatisfaction with or the dislike of political interference in trade union affairs. [More…]
There have been situations in which somebody who has professed to be a Jehovah’s Witness and has claimed to be a conscientious objector has been involved in a dispute about refusing to join a union or opting out of a union. [More…]
Supposing a person alleges that the way the sub-branch or branch of a union arrived at a decision was wrong in his eyes, is that when these representatives of the Bureau will want to come in and check the minute book to see how the decision was arrived at? [More…]
It is one of the peak trade union councils covering what are commonly called white collar workers in private employment. [More…]
Other peak councils of the trade union movement are included in this legislation. [More…]
The Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations is included and, of course, the Australian Council of Trade Unions is included, with 6 representatives in the Bill and 5 representatives in the amendment. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, is examining a proposal to give the white collar union, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, one of six ACTU positions on the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
ACSPA-a confederation of 37 unions with 400 000 membershas consistently opposed the proposed Industrial Relations Bureau, and the union’s president, Mr Philip Reilly, last night repeated its continuing opposition to any penal clauses. [More…]
When we were in government we introduced, for example, the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
That legislation provides quite specifically that the nominations to the Australian Council for Union Training, which is a body appointed by the Minister, shall be made by the nominating body. [More…]
That is to say the union body or the employer body, whoever it happens to be, shall nominate the particular persons to go on that Council. [More…]
So the Minister will select who will represent the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The Minister shall select who will represent the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who will represent the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and who will represent the National Employers’ Policy Committee. [More…]
The amendment, of course, is taken from the Trade Union Training Council legislation. [More…]
If the ACTU has not nominated people the Minister may appoint union officials of his own choice. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, that was the critical day when the discussions between the Government and the peak union councils were brought to fruition. [More…]
ACSPA is opposed to any proposal which indicates to the Government that if it wants to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing penal sanctions into the hands of a body which it wishes to designate an Industrial Relations Bureau, the union movement would offer no objection. [More…]
Would he have the power to reject the leader of a union involved in a dispute when the application for appointment was made? [More…]
First, if the Governments wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the Trade Union Movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
It is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian Trade Union Movement. [More…]
The Executive reaffirms the Trade Union Policy that penalties and threats of penalties are not the process whereby the problems of industrial relations are resolved. [More…]
That is the policy ofthe trade union movement at the moment, although it is prepared to compromise. [More…]
It is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian Trade Union Movement. [More…]
-Perhaps I could add something further in answer to the way in which Senator Walters interpreted or misinterpreted the statement as meaning that the trade union movement accepted the position. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the trade union movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
Suppose it was Mr Pat Clancy, who is on the interstate executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
But the 20 members who voted against the acceptance of the pact in the federal union conference were led by Mr Pat Clancy, which puts him in the same position as the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations at the present time. [More…]
Resentment runs deep in the union which the Minister is disadvantaging- I should say ‘not recognising’, which is worse than disadvantaging and not respecting. [More…]
From where I stand it seems to be inconceivable that the Minister cannot accept the change of position as expressed by the secretary and the president of the union concerned. [More…]
The Minister seems to say now that the union concerned will have to hold a full council meeting to reverse its previous attitude- it is not sufficient for the 2 executive officers to indicate such change. [More…]
I assume Bill will be amended to provide ACSPA representation alongside other union peak council and am available for consultation. [More…]
As union peak council representing four hundred thousand workers appalled at attitude denying membership of NLCC which is to discuss wide issues of industrial importance. [More…]
That is to say, it decided finally that it had to consult with the trade union movement about the proposals which were in the original draft of this legislation. [More…]
The sorts of things which were seen as objectionable by the Opposition and by the trade union movement in that legislation ought to be pointed to. [More…]
The first thing that that legislation set out to do was to encourage non-unionism in Australia. [More…]
The specific purpose of the first part of this Bill as it was originally introduced was to fly in face of that reference and to encourage nonunionism in this country. [More…]
Secondly, there was a specific encouragement in the legislation- a financial incentive- to claim conscientious objection from trade unionism. [More…]
Thirdly, there was a restriction on independent contractors becoming members of unions. [More…]
It is something which resulted in an amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act- which was not opposed by the Liberal and Country parties at the time it was introduced- to encourage persons who were in the category of independent contractors to become members of unions. [More…]
In the draft legislation which was introduced into the House of Representatives that specific discouragement was there and, of course, it affected people like owner drivers and organisations such as the Transport Workers Union of Australia and so on. [More…]
All these steps were taken as part of a concerted effort to weaken both the numerical and financial strengths of the trade unions in Australia, which of course have been a consistent part of one strand of Liberal Party thinking on this issue for a long time. [More…]
Of course I do not believe in an undisciplined trade union movement. [More…]
Government, when it was threatened with a massive dislocation of the economy of this country by the trade union movement on 4 May this year, it retreated from the big stick position with the air traffic controllers and reverted to the second position. [More…]
The second position was to talk with the Australian Council of Trade Unions about this sort of problem. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish ta designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes, the trade union movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
It is very important to realise, if one detects in this Bill a recognition of these problems by the Government, that they can be faced up to only by consultation at all stages with the trade union movement. [More…]
I interpolate ‘in Australia ‘- are labour union monopolies. [More…]
How can we come to terms with the reality of the new industrial power of the trade unions? [More…]
there are those who want the trade union movement crushed. [More…]
When one comes to the question of consequences, which is the part that has been dropped from this Bill- that is to say, the means by which the rules which Senator Button concedes are essential for discipline on the part of any organism of modern complicated society- one finds, I think, a very sad failure to appreciate what is appropriate in the world of trade unions and commerce. [More…]
Mr Heath said: ‘You do not want an attitude of rigid penalties and crushing compliance applied to a trade union any more than you want complete concession and surrender’. [More…]
But at the same time as we move from that, we do not want to take heed of Senator Button’s suggestion that if we criticise the Trade Unions Dispute Act of 1 906 and all its immunities we are going back to the reactionary stage. [More…]
It has to be corrected and trade unions must accept their responsibility as they do in America. [More…]
If a collective bargain is made by a union in America there is no thought of the union breaching it during its period. [More…]
Limited liability was conceded to commercial corporations in 1862, 9 years later registration was conceded for the first time, and quasi incorporation was conceded to trade unions in 1871. [More…]
The one restriction on the trade union movement was that trade unions were not then given any limitation of their liability. [More…]
It would be essential now in relation to this civil obligation to pay damages for breach of an award or of an agreement to give the trade unions the satisfaction of limiting their liability so that a small trade union could not be completely annihilated if, as occurred in the air traffic controllers strike, it caused millions of dollars of damage. [More…]
A union like theirs would be simply crushed if it had to pay the full extent of the damage it caused, irresponsible though it was. [More…]
We should limit the liability of unions in accordance with the membership until we find that such a provision is being abused. [More…]
Until we get some system like that it is a matter for tears and a matter of great regret to find that even the attempts of the original Bill to bring consequences and responsibility on trade unions have been jettisoned- abandoned- in what I think was an unmitigated defeat of the Bill, complicated as the situation was by the existence of the air traffic controllers strike and the confused intermingling of politicians at that time in an absolutely fatuous referendum. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Bill proposed that it be possible to deregister unions if industrial action occurred in the course of interstate trade or in the Public Service. [More…]
Nobody should rush to the conclusion that because that power was given we would deregister every union that participated in industrial action involving interstate trade or the Public Service. [More…]
I extend great sympathy to Senator Wright and to all the other great conservative elements in the Liberal Party who saw as their god, their chief and their leader one of the great conservatives whose intention was to destroy the trade unions in Australia. [More…]
No longer can they herald their great leader as the saviour of mankind from the ruthless trade union movement. [More…]
Mr Fraser issued threats to the trade union movement by providing for penalties in the Act. [More…]
At the time the trade union movement said that it was duty bound to fight the legislation and that it could not let it be introduced. [More…]
Mr Hawke went back to a combined conference of the federal unions and they agreed generally to accept legislation that would reconstitute the National Labour Advisory Council on which they would be represented. [More…]
The unions are now being condemned by Senator Wright who says that this is a recognition of the acceptance by the trade union movement of penalties. [More…]
This man, who is the head of the trade union movement, was threatened with the legal support of non-union and scab labour and with the invasion of his office by inspectors. [More…]
In accordance with its policy, the Australian Labor Party would have to oppose the Bill even if it were satisfactory to the conference of federal unions. [More…]
There is no conflict between the trade union movement and the Labor Party on this matter because the trade union movement decided to agree to the legislation if it conformed with the agreement that there would be no penalties additional to those that exist at present and no different process of policing them. [More…]
Inasmuch as the legislation does not provide for the existing processes, the Opposition and the federal trade union movement by its own decision are not in support of the legislation. [More…]
The Government agreed not to endorse the use of scab labour and non-unionist labour if the unions would agree to the reconstitution of the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
The unions were previously members of the Council and knew its ramifications but this proposed new body is not the body that was envisaged by those who attended the conference between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Minister, because the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations, one of the biggest organisations of employees, is not to be included in the Council. [More…]
It will give a disgruntled section of the trade union movement another bone of contention and an excuse to take some action because it is not part of the discussions. [More…]
He appoints so many members from the ACTU, which is not the case for the Australian Council for Trade Union Training where the Minister makes the appointment from members nominated by the organisations. [More…]
In countries in which there are strong and militant trade unions, conditions of work and the standard of living of workers are much higher than in those countries which do not have such organisations. [More…]
As a basis from which to work, we must accept that a strong industrial trade union movement is a part of our industrial life. [More…]
Regardless of whether we would like to see trade unions go away, they will not go away, they are here. [More…]
But after the Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives and before it was debated the air traffic controllers dispute occurred, which clearly showed the Government that it could not succeed in crushing the trade union movement through a confrontation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
1 have had a long experience with the workers and the trade unions and I know that they are not unreasonable. [More…]
Trade unions exist for only one reason, that is, to improve or to maintain the conditions of their members. [More…]
The trade union movement lost many thousands of dollars as a result of penal clauses, but when one union member stood up against them and was gaoled public reaction was such that the penal provisions were never again applied. [More…]
Has any supporter of the Government ever thought of approaching the ACTU or the trade union movement generally to discuss the problem? [More…]
Has the Government ever thought of saying to the trade union movement: ‘If we were to eliminate the penal clauses, to offer no coercion and to speed up the arbitration process for the purpose of considering your legitimate claims, what return could we expect from you?’ [More…]
As Senator McLaren said, before the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, got into government he declared his intention to bash the trade union movement. [More…]
A trade union secretary in Adelaide made a public statement that he was prepared to be the first to go to gaol under the penal provisions. [More…]
Although the Government might think that the ACTU could not pull out the whole of the Australian work force, individual unions could pull out sections of the work force that could stop this nation overnight. [More…]
Let us adopt a basis of discussion with the trade union movement, but not by way of the proposed National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
Let us have a discussion with the whole trade union movement and stop adopting this spiteful attitude of considering those who will not agree with our policies to be taboo. [More…]
I am confident the trade union movement would respond to such a process, which has never been attempted and never achieved. [More…]
There have been and there continue to be some suggestions that this Government, in its industrial relations, seeks only to bash unions and to cause confrontation. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention- only briefly because of the pressure of time- to a number of principles that are referable to this Government’s attitude to industrial relations, namely: Every employee has a right to join a union. [More…]
While membership of organisations should be voluntary, employees and employers should be positively encouraged to take a responsible and active part in their respective union and industry organisations. [More…]
Consultation, negotiation and co-operation between employees and employers would be assisted by a structure of industry unions. [More…]
The policy further states: The Government would support and encourage employees and employers to take a responsible and active part in their trade union or industry association. [More…]
We would seek to work with the Australian Council of Trade Unions in the encouragement and formation of industry based unions, if that should prove to be the consensus of opinion. [More…]
In that context, it is interesting to refer briefly to a recent public opinion poll which indicated, amongst other things, that only one-fifth of Australians believed that unions should have the right to strike for wage increases outside the arbitration system. [More…]
This survey also found that only 1 8 per cent thought that trade unionism should be compulsory and 78 per cent believed that it should be voluntary. [More…]
Fifty-one per cent of unionists believed that some unionists should be able to continue working if their union went on strike and 56 per cent of those interviewed believed that a union should be deregistered when it could not agree with a decision ofthe Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Seventy per cent said that the Arbitration Commission should be able to fine unions and 52 per cent believed that the Commission should be able to fine union officials. [More…]
As a matter of interest, the vote for voluntary union membership was strongest in South Australia, where the vote was 83 per cent. [More…]
Before I put the opinion poll aside- there is a great deal of definition in it- I point out that it is interesting to note that only 17 per cent of union members thought that any strikes referable to sporting circumstances were justified. [More…]
The Government has agreed, I believe quite properly, that with a union attitude as generous as that was- a union attitude that was prepared to do these 2 things which formerly it had not been prepared to do- it was necessary that this action take place, and it is to implement the very things that have been agreed to by the ACTU, Mr Hawke and by CAGEO. [More…]
I note that in the other place a day or two ago Mr Clyde Cameron, in speaking on this legislation, said: the trade union movement of this country could bring down this Government simply by bringing out a few key men. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron was telling the Parliament about what Mr Hawke told the Government on 1 8 March when the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) stated that the Government intended to bring in legislation to set up the new Industrial Relations Bureau which was aimed at the unions and the employees. [More…]
Mr Hawke said that unless the Government altered its line of thinking there would be a confrontation with the union movement involving the sorts of things that Clyde Cameron talked about. [More…]
Let me suggest to the honourable senator that in this case there were no prior consultations with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We know that in this place there have been statements indicating that on all the issues- trade union matters, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the economy- the ACTU has proposed that there should be regular talks between the ACTU and the Government. [More…]
The consultations came only after the ACTU had examined the idea of the Bureau and decided that the Bureau was, in fact, a new attempt to impose more effectively penalties upon the union movement and also to reinforce, within employment, the actions and strengths of those people who do not believe in joining unions. [More…]
The strange thing, of course, is that when Senator Scott talks about polls, he does not talk about polls which are taken when the unions are on strike. [More…]
The Government frequently attacks the ACTU and the union movement and never recognises the practical knowledge that the ACTU has in solving disputes. [More…]
They must be held at the stage where the differences between the union movement and the Government are so marked as to warrant discussions. [More…]
The Opposition does not oppose the new National Labour Consultative Council because it knows that it is an attempt to establish again something like the old National Labour Advisory Body, which was set up during my time on the ACTU Executive and which was supported to the stage when the ACTU and the unions considered that the then Government was using too powerfully the penal powers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Of course, there will be polls supporting the proposition that people should not have to join a union. [More…]
Many people who work for their living do not agree with the unions because they object to paying fees for a start. [More…]
Unfortunately as everybody knows, as honourable senators on the other side of the chamber know, there are too few people who take part in their union movement. [More…]
But we know that every time there is a threat, every member of the union is active in support of his organisation. [More…]
The legislation seeks to establish a Bureau which will be able to harass and interfere with the union movement. [More…]
Staff of the Bureau would have been able to enter union offices at any time- this is before this was prevented by the proposal of the ACTU- they deemed necessary to inspect any books or documents; to require a union to make available any books or documents the Bureau wished to inspect; to require a union officer, employee, agent or returning officer to make available to the Director of the Bureau any information he may require; to require the attendance of a union officer, employee, agent or returning officer before the Director or an authorised member of his staff and for such persons to produce all books, documents and papers in his custody which may be required. [More…]
As I said, the first tripartite consultation, including the Government, the employees and the trade union movement, broke down because of the argument about penalties. [More…]
It is no good the Government saying that it has a proposal to improve the union movement. [More…]
What did it do when the Labor Government introduced into the Senate the ideas about amalgamations to make sure that there would not be demarkation disputes between the unions? [More…]
All honourable senators know, of course, that one of the bad things in industry is the conflict between members of unions. [More…]
Some 300 unions still exist. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of the body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the Trade Union Movement . [More…]
Under the heading ‘Cynical gamble in union bill,’ the editorial reads: [More…]
We have been given a lot of advice by Senators Button, Cavanagh and Bishop on how to run a responsible trade union movement and how to avoid strikes. [More…]
They agreed that strikes are very detrimental not only to the unionists, the Government and the economy of Australia but also to the people generally. [More…]
Senator Bishop also said that in normal circumstances unionists do not take a very active part in their union meetings or their union affairs, but if there is a strike they unite. [More…]
The majority of unionists ignored completely the call of their union. [More…]
It was brought in then to allow full consultation with all interested parties- all unionists, all union officials and all employers. [More…]
Yet Senator Button was not applauding that move but was saying that we succumbed to union pressure in desperation. [More…]
Senator Scott said that the Australian trade union movement should be subject to the law. [More…]
Senator Scott also talked about the role of trade unions in a free society. [More…]
Senator Scott went on to say that people should not be forced to join a union. [More…]
At one time I was a union delegate for white collar workers in local government. [More…]
The thing that upset me was that people would not join the union, not because of a religious belief or some other deep held belief but because they did not want to spend money on union membership fees, yet they were the very first people to get in line for award payments or to claim the overaward conditions that the union won for them. [More…]
The unions spent a great deal of money before reaching the agreement. [More…]
Union delegates such as myself and other people who were not paid spent a lot of time getting it through. [More…]
People not in the union received all the benefits of being able to take long service leave 5 years earlier. [More…]
If there is a concerted effort by any legislation to smash the trade union movement in this country then I am sure that the trade union movement will completely unite as a body and defeat that legislation in the same way as the trade union movement in Great Britain did in 1973. [More…]
I would like to see where Mr Hawke has said that he believes that penalties should exist in relation to the trade union movement. [More…]
The IRB, according to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), would bring an end to trade union militancy which they saw in evidence everywhere in this country. [More…]
The Industrial Relations Bureau was going to be the means by which the trade union movement would be brought to heel. [More…]
We were told that savage penalties were to be imposed on those unions which earned the displeasure of the Fraser Government. [More…]
So many sections of the community, from employer organisations, to State governments, to those involved in the industrial relations area professionally, to the entire trade union movement- all of those organisationsprotested at the ill-designed, ill-conceived and hastily prepared legislation setting up the IRB. [More…]
For a long time- in fact, for many months- the Fraser Government rejected any and all of the approaches from the trade union movement which were aimed at reaching a compromise on the industrial legislation which was proposed. [More…]
That was done in similar vein to the way in which the Government rejected calls by the unions, by the employers, and by the State governments for a national conference to discuss the economy. [More…]
Because of public pressure, because of the reasonable and sensible proposals that were put forward by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Government was obliged to think again about its industrial relations proposals, and the legislation which is before us now is the result of that rethinking. [More…]
Again it is the ACTU, the major peak council of the Australian trade union movement, which has to be commended for the bringing back into being of that body. [More…]
We had a situation in which the Government sought only to antagonise the trade union movement, sought to blame the trade unionists for our economic woes, and subjected the unions to abuse both at home and abroad. [More…]
A very good example of that is what was said about our trade union movement in Japan. [More…]
The trade union movement- this has become more evident with the passage of time- has constantly sought to improve industrial relations in this country. [More…]
Industrial peace will not be brought to this country by forcing a confrontation in the industrial area, by threatening the use of punitive sanctions, or by implying that unionists and union leaders will be gaoled and their organisations disbanded and dissolved. [More…]
It is not by threatening to use any means at the Government’s disposal to break strikes or to place at risk the functioning of the trade union movement, it is not by pressuring employer organisations or business into confronting the unions and taking an especially hard line in negotiations with them, that industrial peace is generated. [More…]
I now come back to what Senator Scott said earlier about the role of trade unions in a free society and about the difference between trade unions in a free society and those in totalitarian regimes. [More…]
One has only to look at the situation on both sides of the political spectrum in recent years, one has only to look at what happened to a free trade union movement in Chile at the time when the junta took over, one has only to look at what happened to a free trade union movement in Greece in 1 967 when the coup took place, to realise the importance of a free trade union movement. [More…]
It was the trade unionists who opposed the increase in food prices, it was the trade unionists who rioted against the controls being placed on them by the government in Poland, and it is the trade unionists in that country who are in gaol today because of their action. [More…]
I submit that the social democrats and the trade unionists were the first people to be put in gaol and to feel the oppression in those countries that I have mentioned. [More…]
Industrial peace in this country is more likely to result from unions, employers and governments achieving a capacity to reach a satisfactory solution to deal with different problems as they arise instead of threatening the trade union movement in advance. [More…]
Nonetheless one can only hope that the cooler and more rational heads within the Cabinet and within the coalition parties will prevail in future and that this Administration will abandon its oft stated policy of seeking to isolate the trade union movement and will instead adopt a more constructive and reasonable approach in the future. [More…]
At the same time as it is looking at those systems the Government ought to be looking at the systems of industrial unions. [More…]
It ought to be looking at how it can bring about a lowering of the number of trade unions that are operating in this country. [More…]
Senator Harradine probably will not agree with me on this but I hope that in the future we will have a trade union system more like the West German system. [More…]
Over the past few weeks the trade union movement has displayed a commendable desire to negotiate and also to reach a compromise. [More…]
It is also a breach of the agreement reached between the unions and the Government, regardless of what anybody on the other side might say. [More…]
The Minister did the right thing by allowing the original Bill to lie on the table for consideration and, during that time, by inviting the representatives of the national employers and the representatives of the peak union councils to meet with him to discuss the Bill. [More…]
I congratulate the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations for finally recognising the determination of this Government to introduce an Industrial Relations Bureau and then for offering no objection to its formation, on certain terms, and for offering to join the reconstituted National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
I have been concerned about a confrontation between the Government and the union movement, a confrontation encouraged by the irresponsible minority left wing of the union movement. [More…]
Far too often, for example, we find that the union leader who puts forward a proposal with moderation and reasonableness has not been listened to. [More…]
There should be a more generous understanding of the moderate and reasonable unionist. [More…]
The first step, of course, was taken some 12 months ago and that was the introduction of legislation which involved compulsory secret ballots for the election of union officials, the object being to encourage trade unionists throughout Australia to take a more active interest in ensuring responsible leadership, to the mutual benefit of the trade union concerned and the individual trade unionist. [More…]
We hope that in time this will provide Australia’s trade union movement with leaders who are not so anxious to take strike action but would rather provide opportunities for sensible negotiation in order that the trade unionists can be guaranteed a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay and also that the conditions under which they work are in keeping with modern times. [More…]
It indicated quite clearly the public view with respect to the trade union situation in Australia. [More…]
As Senator Scott said, the survey found that only 1 8 per cent of the people questioned thought trade unionism should be compulsory and 78 per cent believed it should be voluntary. [More…]
Fifty-one per cent of unionists believed some unionists should be able to continue work if their unions go on strike and 56 per cent of those interviewed believed a union should be deregistered when it would not agree with the decision of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Seventy per cent said the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission should be able to fine unionists. [More…]
I was interested also to note that the vote in favour of voluntary union membership was strongest in South Australia, where 83 per cent were in favour compared with the average of about 78 per cent. [More…]
If the honourable senator were to read the results of the poll he would realise that responsible trade unionists believe that something has to be done if the union movement in Australia is going to be restored to its proper place in the eyes of the general public. [More…]
In 1971 the Seamen’s Union Funds Act was passed. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union was deregistered in that year and this Act appointed the Public Trustee as Manager of the assets of the union until such time as a new union was registered. [More…]
Prior to this piece of legislation the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act contained no restrictions on what a deregistered union could do with its funds. [More…]
The provisions contained in the Seamen ‘s Union Funds Act have been incorporated into the Industrial Relations Act 1973 and now apply to all deregistered unions. [More…]
In essence this provides that if the Minister of Labour is satisfied that any discontinuance of employment brought about wholly or partly by any union of employers or of workers has caused, or is likely to cause, serious loss or inconvenience then he may cancel the registration of the union or any specified class of members of the union. [More…]
exclude the persons in question from the membership rule of the relevant union (ti) exclude the persons in question from the protection of the relevant award or collective agreement (iti) prevent the persons in question from joining a union until the Minister consents otherwise and [More…]
vest the assets of the deregistered union in the Public Trustee until a new union is registered in its place or until 6 months (or a further period which the Minister may direct) from the date of deregistration of the union in which case the assets are divided among the former members. [More…]
I have had quite a lot to do with the trade union movement in my time, particularly when I lived at Port Augusta. [More…]
I realise that many people in the trade union movement- I believe the majority of trade unionists - [More…]
I had quite a few good friends in the union movement there. [More…]
I recall that soon after Mr Hawke was elevated to the position of President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions he came out and said that direct action would be his policy. [More…]
One of my friends, who happened to be a vice-president of one of the metal unions at Port Augusta, told me that he was delighted because that very week he had been conceded the sixth point in a log of claims that was lodged some 2 1 months previously. [More…]
After about two or three hours of consultation with the employers in that town, the union managed to get four of its points in its log of claims granted. [More…]
With patient negotiation and with a little give and take on both sides, the fifth point at issue was granted in the union’s favour after about 6 months. [More…]
This gentleman told me that he would much rather patiently negotiate with management than subject his union members to strike action which would only cause unnecessary hardship to the people he was representing responsibly. [More…]
There seems to be a lack of realisation on the part of Government senators that improved conditions of trade unionists in this country lead to improved conditions in the rest of society. [More…]
Surely they will not deny that the progress and advancement of the union movement in the past century has led to improved conditions for all people, not just for trade unionists. [More…]
The rules which say that there ought to be complete membership of a union on a job are to the advantage of the organisations and their members on that job and also to the advantage of the employer, which means that they are to the advantage of the work of the particular enterprise in which the employer is involved. [More…]
That might sound a little garrulous; but what I am saying is that, if it is necessary to have compulsory third party insurance when one drives a vehicle in order to protect the whole of the community individually and as a group against any problem or action which might arise, then it is also necessary to have laws within the trade union movement. [More…]
In certain circumstances compulsory national service involving everybody without selectivity is necessary, in the same way as I say it is necessary within the trade union movement to have rules by which all members must abide and out of which certain members cannot opt. [More…]
By this legislation the Government is increasing the need for unions to defend themselves against any punitive action that may be taken. [More…]
This leads, if I may say so, to the unions increasing their fees to meet the added costs brought about by confrontation, and the unionists will resist paying increased fees. [More…]
What the Government is saying, of course, is that unionists now can opt out of their responsibility to pay their fees, although a majority of the membership will pay their fees to protect their rights. [More…]
If the Government continues with this attitude the financial position of the trade unions will be weakened. [More…]
It is endeavouring to limit the effectiveness of the trade union movement, and so severe is the limitation that it may lead to the destruction of the Labor movement. [More…]
This would lead to a situation in which the unions would merely respond to the needs of the employers and of the government of the day, and that is not in the best interests of the society. [More…]
This Government succeeded in destroying the Labor Government in 1975, but it cannot effectively do it to the trade union movement because the movement is in a position to respond. [More…]
The reasons the Government has given for the professed need for this legislation are that the unions must be answerable to the Government and should not be allowed to take matters into their own hands. [More…]
This Government has attacked unions continuously in its 18 months in office. [More…]
There has been a consistent attack on the unions, but the area which is best organised to redress the fall in living standards by demanding better conditions is the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is in the best position to seek improvements in living standards. [More…]
Trade unionists are in the first line and they are the first ones to feel the effects of any oppressive or restrictive legislation. [More…]
They are the best ones to respond to such a challenge, and through organised unionism they are able to do this. [More…]
When one sees in the papers a claim by some union which has asked for some extravagant improvement in conditions, they are merely the terms on which the union intends to bargain, perhaps over a period of years. [More…]
The union leaders do not want confrontation. [More…]
I say to the Government that this legislation will put the initiative in the hands of the irresponsible minority, both in the trade union movement and in the employers’ associations. [More…]
That irresponsible minority has an ideology based on confrontation and has a hatred of the trade union movement and those whom the trade union movement represents. [More…]
It shows that in a poll taken concerning legitimate union activities, the union’s right to negotiate for better conditions received the support of 90 per cent of all people; of 95 per cent of union members; of 89 per cent of non-unionists; of 93 per cent of Australian Labor Party voters and of 89 per cent of Liberal-National Country Party voters. [More…]
The right to negotiate for higher wages received the support of 77 per cent of all people; of 85 per cent of union members; of 74 per cent of non-unionists; of 82 per cent of ALP voters and of 72 per cent of Liberal-National Country Party voters. [More…]
With regard to unions trying to improve education, which is something outside the normal rights and conditions which the Government tries to impose on unions, 61 per cent of all people felt that the unions ha ve the right to try to improve education. [More…]
It also received the support of 67 per cent of union members; of 59 per cent of non-unionists; of 72 per cent of ALP voters and of 52 per cent of LiberalNational Country Party voters. [More…]
With regard to unions seeking higher pensions, something which, again, is outside normal union activities, this received the support of 61 per cent of all people; 71 per cent of union members; 57 per cent of non-unionists and 76 per cent of ALP voters. [More…]
To me this poll seems to indicate a recognition that unionists are not a class that can be separated from the rest of society. [More…]
They have a right to take a position as employees, as members of the trade union movement, against anything that may affect the quality of life for themselves, for their children and for future generations. [More…]
No one should deny to a trade union the right to take part in what is supposed to be a political strike. [More…]
Trade unions have an essential right, as an association, to participate and to put a point of view and, if necessary, to take action. [More…]
Does any honourable senator here deny the right of trade unionists to refuse to man the oil rigs on the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]
Unionists had a right to take that stand. [More…]
Unionists, whether they are right or wrong on a particular issue, still have the right to take a stand and to withdraw their labour. [More…]
Surely no one would accept that a trade unionist will apply his effort and his labour to a cause which he considers not to be in his best interests and which, in his judgment, is against the best interests of the nation. [More…]
I do not agree with any proposition which will give support to any limitation upon the trade union movement to take responsible action in protection of its own conditions, the conditions of families and the conditions of future generations. [More…]
By and large, the trade union movement, with the exception of a small, irresponsible group, is a responsible movement and does nothing which will disadvantage its members in the long term. [More…]
I recommend as ideal reading for honourable senators opposite, mindful of Senator Jessop ‘s contribution, a history of the New Zealand trade union movement by a man named Victor Roth. [More…]
But the trade union movement regrouped and dealt with other disputes either with or without the help of the Federation of Labour. [More…]
Only after discussions was the union able to tell its members that there was the possibility of a gain. [More…]
Nobody should have the quaint idea that some trade union official, to get the applause of the Press, will doublecross his members. [More…]
If he did he would not last very long and people would say that these sort of trade unionists are like the Jimmy Hoffas of the United States. [More…]
There was a genuine dispute between the Transport Workers Union, New South Wales Branch, which was a party to a State award, and the Waterside Workers Federation, which was under a different jurisdiction. [More…]
That dispute was prolonged not only because of the respective unions’ points of view but also because it was not in the acceptable canons of industrial law that 2 tribunals could get together in some bridging operation. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union, New South Wales Branch, enacted an agreement under the State tribunal. [More…]
At times when trade unions argue on mergers people opposite question whether it would be a centralisation of power. [More…]
Conversely, when a trade union exercises, in this so-called free society, the right to opt to stay under the State tribunal rather than a Federal tribunal, the establishment people become very hostile and try to oppose such action. [More…]
The real crux of the attitude of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to this legislation is borne out by a 2-page statement it issued, which reads in part: . [More…]
if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the trade union movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
The Executive reaffirms the Trade Union Policy that penalties and threats of penalties are not the process whereby the problems of industrial relations are resolved. [More…]
This existing legislation contains a range of ‘pains and penalties ‘ provisions, lt is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian Trade Union Movement. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes the Trade Union Movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
The ACTU stands ready with our fellow Peak Councilswhose steadfast support in these times we strongly welcome and appreciate- to mobilise its resources to protect the rights of a free Trade Union Movement. [More…]
People talk about the dilatory approach of the trade union movement, but maybe the establishment could work a little more quickly. [More…]
In subsequent years the Government felt that there was no need for that review; that it could have friendly relations with the unions. [More…]
The union found that because of the flimsiness of the evidence the case might have finished up in the Privy Council. [More…]
Unions cannot afford all these legal excursions. [More…]
I have said many times before and I say again that some people get the idea that a trade union secretary is a messiah, that he only has to talk to his members, lift up his hands and they genuflect and get back to work. [More…]
With all due respect to the eloquence of Bob Hawke, he can only move within a certain area and so can any other trade union official. [More…]
There are some members on the Government side enlightened on industrial relations, but at one time honourable senators opposite believed that trade union secretaries were too Left or did not earn their pay but simply took trips overseas. [More…]
If it is good enough to tell the trade union movement that Bill Smith is a good union official or that he should not be a union official, it is good enough to refer to members of the Bench and say, for example, that Justice Staples has his virtues and ask what his future will be. [More…]
Girls in domestic service and belonging to the Hotel, Club, Caterers, Tea Room and Restaurant Employees Union have been subject to gross exploitation in the past. [More…]
Trade union leaders cannot always deliver. [More…]
At times the Scandinavian unions have met their Government- I think even at the moment they are involved in a number of disputesand have delivered. [More…]
Senator Durack will remember the Committee debate on the legislation concerning the collegiate system of electing trade union officials. [More…]
At the time I asked when this union would get reasonable representation on its State council. [More…]
There is no justice in their union. [More…]
I am one of those old-fashioned people who believe that the decisions of a federal council of a union should be accepted. [More…]
Courses of action are open if there are irregularities in a union ballot. [More…]
If a ballot is held for the election of a person to the federal council or the State council of a union, people should not go on a crusade to the court to upset the outcome of that ballot. [More…]
As a trade union member he demanded his rights and went to the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
The union had to appear before the railways appeal board to argue for his reinstatement. [More…]
This is where trade unions get into a cleft stick. [More…]
Senator Wright would agree that the man did not deserve the protection of the law, which forced the union to provide an organiser to appear before the appeals board. [More…]
But because the man was a rank and file member of the union, there was nothing else the union could do. [More…]
Senator Wright would agree with me that this man deserved to be hounded out because he was unfit to be a trade unionist, and I mean that. [More…]
Only a week or two ago I saw the results of a poll related to unions. [More…]
People were asked whether they believed in compulsory unionism and whether they believed in unions going out on strike and so on. [More…]
I was amazed at the number of unionists who did not agree with the great majority of actions taken by their union leaders. [More…]
Very often union leaders take their union out on strike without consulting the individual unionists. [More…]
There is no question that some of the people who lead the unions today are out to destroy the system that we have in this country. [More…]
Senator Georges talked about the right to strike in certain situations and he said that such strikes always did the unions good in the long run. [More…]
I know something about union affairs too. [More…]
It is quite patent and apparent that the people who very often cause these strikes- the union leaders- do not lose their pay when they send the union members on strike. [More…]
However, the poor individual unionists who are on strike lose their pay. [More…]
I think it would be very good if legislation could be introduced which made provision that when a union went on strike that union ‘s leaders did not receive any pay. [More…]
Two of the salient features of the Bill which was introduced into the House of Representatives were the enforcement of a secret strike ballot and an additional provision in section 143 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act adding as a further ground for deregistration the ground that the union interfered with interstate trade. [More…]
All he could contribute to the debate on the air traffic controllers strike, which seriously affected Tasmania, was: ‘Well, you see, here is a right wing union full of Liberal Party supporters who are out on strike’. [More…]
If there is to be responsibility in the industrial relations arena we must have responsible union leadership and responsible leadership in the employer organisations. [More…]
Industrial relations are best served by the encouragement of effective, responsible trade unions working in the best interests of their members and in the encouragement ofthe members to participate fully in union affairs. [More…]
The power ofthe trade unions to contribute effectively and responsibly towards industrial progress depends on the co-ordinated and disciplined action of their members. [More…]
The rules of individual trade unions registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act have contained selfdisciplinary provisions. [More…]
Likewise, the central trade union organisations such as the Australian [More…]
Over the past few years a combination of factors has led to a decline in responsible trade unionism. [More…]
Australia has witnessed organised attempts by the pro-communist left to create anarchy, to disregard the effects of irresponsible industrial actions on other workers and the community, to flout ACTU rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes and to turn the trade union movement into a political battering ram, by the abuse of the strike weapon for political purposes. [More…]
Failure to uphold the ACTU and labour councils dispute rules has contributed to the belief of some unions that they can please themselves as to what action they take without regard to the consequences to themselves as ACTU affiliates or to members of other unions. [More…]
The sense or anarchy is fostered also by those union officials who, rather than oppose the push towards political strikes, take the easy way out by telling their members it is up to each individual whether he joins the strike action. [More…]
Such weakness attacks the very foundation of the legitimate strike weapon and the trade union movement, which relies for its effectiveness on the precepts unity is strength’, and ‘united we stand; divided we fall’. [More…]
Encouragement to union members to shed their collective responsibility for the actions of the unions as a whole and to hide behind their so-called individual rights, as was proposed by the original Bill, leads to anarchy and allows the organised pro-communists to use their unions and the union movement as a whole for their own domestic and international purposes. [More…]
As is often the case, the backlash to the situation created is an attack not on the cause of the problem but on the institution of unionism itself. [More…]
One must ask whether they were serious or whether it was an attempt to establish an ambit situation with the trade union movement. [More…]
If, however, it was a charade to establish an ambit situation for some negotiated settlement with the trade union movement, all I can say, as one with some experience in industrial negotiations, is that the Government is a very poor bargainer indeed. [More…]
The Government should bear in mind what I have just said, namely, that if it wants responsible industrial relations it should encourage responsible union leadership. [More…]
It is a matter of substantial importance to the moderate trade unions in this country. [More…]
As an official of the third largest union in Australia, which has always played a responsible role in the councils of the trade union movement, I do not accept that sort of insult. [More…]
It has been agreed to, so far as the trade union movement is concerned, and I certainly am not one to interfere with the agreement that has been reached in respect of this matter. [More…]
Some of the employers may be registered under the Act, but the union organisations certainly are not. [More…]
In particular it will provide a focal point for non-English speaking workers to obtain assistance when they are concerned about their rights as employees and union members. [More…]
As Senator Scott emphasised during the debate, the Government is not engaged in an exercise of union bashing. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is not, as Senator Cavanagh alleged, encouraging a move to destroy trade unions. [More…]
I ask Senator Cavanagh what could be a more clear refutation of those absurd allegations that he made today, and which have been made by many of his colleagues around the country, than the agreement that has been reached between the Government, through the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Mr Hawke, on behalf of the trade union movement- an agreement which has given rise to the legislation which we have before us today. [More…]
The Government clearly recognises the importance of trade unions and the rights of people and every employee to join a union. [More…]
If one reads the Bill with an unprejudiced mind, one will see that throughout the Bill there is support for the institution of the trade union movement and its vital role, not only in industrial relations but also in the community. [More…]
It has been stated by people associated with the Queensland Government and by Ministers in the Western Australian Government that it is quite acceptable to have a compulsory fee to a guild to provide sporting facilities and so on but it is quite unacceptable that fees should be compulsory when money is used by guilds for affiliation with the Australian Union of Students, for travel services and for other activities. [More…]
A is for Arts Union- Compulsory Union for Arts students. [More…]
I find it more than a little amusing that a University Liberal Club publication edited by Simon Withers could accuse the Arts Union of being manifestly corrupt, of being run by the executive of the University Australian Labor Party, of indulging in the rigging of elections and of giving away money to trendy left wing causes, when evidently it was being privately canvassed by Senator Withers that the University Liberal Club should arrange to have stuffed a couple of thousands of yours in them, like the way they used to when I was here ‘. [More…]
I might say that some time ago I warned Simon that if he were keen in his campaign to try to make the Australian Union of Students a democratic body representing the students of Australia- I admired him for it- he would be vilified, he would be abused, he would most likely have physical violence wreaked upon him. [More…]
A Mr Danby of the University Labor Club of the Melbourne University has said far worse things about the Australian Union of Students than has any member of a University Liberal Club in Australia. [More…]
The Liberal clubs and the Labor clubs are trying to rid the student movement of some of the bad elements at present within the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Two lads from Sydney wrote articles- one for the Australian and one for the Bulletin- exposing the excesses which occurred at the conference of the Australian Union of Students at Monash at which Simon was present earlier this year. [More…]
With the report I also present a document which I have received separately from Mr Michael Gallagher who is the Education Research Officer to the Australian Union of Students and who was a member of the Committee. [More…]
But the case which is presented by every one of the Arab countries without exception- not one of them has ever said anything to contradict this- and the case which is presented by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which apparently is now accepted as the spokesman for the Palestinians, and most recently by the Palestine National Council, the socalled parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which I regret to say is recognised as a parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, is that the state of Israel has to be destroyed. [More…]
I am referring to the question of employees because of the trade union significance. [More…]
I am wondering whether persons, as individuals which includes trade union members, are bound by the whole Act. [More…]
This would appear to apply to what Senator Wright was talking about yesterday, namely, a civilian action against a person for doing an act in breach of section 4 and proposed section 45d- the trade union part of the Bill. [More…]
A penalty also can be imposed under section 82 of the Act upon a union or an individual. [More…]
Of course it is very pertinent now because the trade union movement is involved in the question. [More…]
Would action taken over non-union membership be covered by an exemption? [More…]
Do we have to have an educational system which includes teaching individuals the obligations involved in membership of a union? [More…]
Will individuals have to know a code of conduct which they must follow before they are accepted as members of a union? [More…]
So if an official of a union is prosecuted every member of that union is thereby prosecuted, with whatever complications might result from that. [More…]
I am concerned with many things other than wages and conditions that trade unions offer to their membership as ancillary benefit. [More…]
Would a member have to forgo such an interest which he obtained as a result of his membership of a union? [More…]
Other retirement pensions could be offered by unions. [More…]
A union could have a credit union available exclusively to members of that union; membership of that credit union would not be open to anyone who was not a member of the union. [More…]
The union, which knew nothing about it, is prosecuted. [More…]
The union may have been against the proposal or may not have supported it. [More…]
The union is summonsed and prosecuted. [More…]
If the situation arose where there was a prosecution against a group of employees of General Motors-Holden’s Ltd in South Australia, the prosecution possibly could be taken against members of the Vehicle Builders Union in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. [More…]
My questions related to the power to take any property or money of the individual which he has obtained as a result of his membership of the union. [More…]
I envisage the case where it could even be a credit union run by the organisation concerned. [More…]
That, of course, is nothing more than a lawyer’s paradise and an evasive trade union official’s delight, if he wants to get around the provisions of that proposed section. [More…]
In using the word ‘evasive’, I am not implying that any trade union official would intentionally be evasive; but he might, of course, take steps to protect the interests of his organisations, as he saw them, which were not regarded as ‘ all reasonable steps ‘ having regard to the provisions of this proposed section. [More…]
Most of them could be got rid of if the Government adopted a proper approach towards union amalgamation. [More…]
I cited the case of 2 people- it could be more than two- acting in a way which would bring them in breach of subsection (1) of section 45d without the union knowing anything about it. [More…]
In the Danberry Hatters case the union sought to secure a closed shop. [More…]
It was so effective that by 1903, 187 concerns were operating under closed shop conditions, with only 12 firms producing hats remaining non-union by 1903. [More…]
To a considerable extent, these results were obtained with the aid of highly organised boycotts against hats made under non-union conditions- the point put by Senator Harradine. [More…]
The Danberry firm of Loewe and Co. was asked by union officials to operate under closed conditions. [More…]
It was refused, and 250 employees went out on strike at the call of the union. [More…]
The union soon initiated a secondary boycott against the firm’s products. [More…]
In a unanimous judgment, after a terrific travail of litigious controversy, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the effect of the union boycotting the goods of the employer as against other firms was a restraint of trade that was struck down by the Sherman Act. [More…]
Roosevelt was elected in 1931 and gave the carte blanche to unions to go their hardest. [More…]
It illustrates how the trade union movement, if properly enlightened, has no need to resort to combined boycotts which Senator Harradine, as presiding officer of the Trades Hall council, would arrange, by which the various unions operating labour supply to the target corporation would boycott the goods of the corporation. [More…]
Senator Wriedt ignorantly interjected that he was in the trade union movement and that he knows more than - [More…]
Although they take that action without the agreement of the union and without the support of the union, the union and every member of that union are guilty of an offence under proposed section 45d. [More…]
-They can get out of it if the union can establish that it took reasonable steps to prevent the members from taking that action. [More…]
If 2 members act, without the knowledge of the union, in a manner that brings them in breach of proposed section 45d the union’s only defence- and the Minister agrees with this- is that it took reasonable steps to prevent such an occurrence. [More…]
But the union may have taken no steps because it did not know the act was taking place. [More…]
In that case the union would have no defence and, therefore, the union and every member of the organisation would be guilty. [More…]
The essence of proposed new section 45 is that unions involved in secondary boycotts will be subject to legal restraints imposed by this particular proposed new section. [More…]
I suspect the proposed new section goes far beyond the issue of secondary boycotts and would have effect on a much wider range of union activities. [More…]
There are a number of other examples of a similar kind, such as unemployed workers engaged in a sit-in who would, I believe, be covered, and the expression ‘a person’, of course, now includes a trade unions- incorporated as they are. [More…]
I hope the Minister will tell us later whether it includes a union deregistered under the provisions of industrial legislation. [More…]
It has been reported that the Minister on many occasions has had discussions with the trade union movement in relation to proposed new section 45d. [More…]
Commonwealth and which is presently under pressure from one particular union, none of whose members are members of the staff of this particular firm. [More…]
Members of the staff are generally members of another trade union. [More…]
Yet that union, which has no members on the staff of that firm, is taking action in the firms which are supplying this particular firm with goods in another State so as to force the management of the firm to accept that particular union under a closed shop arrangement. [More…]
The entire union movement is opposed to this legislation for the reason, I suggest, that the union movement understands the legislation. [More…]
I have received representations from unions of widely different political complexion, ranging from the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union against this legislation. [More…]
All unions are opposed to this legislation because they understand it. [More…]
In handling this particular aspect of its attack on the trade union movement I think that the Government has been particularly dishonest. [More…]
It then went through a period during which it appeared to negotiate and compromise with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
As my colleague Senator Button pointed out, a person could also be a union, which as a corporate body. [More…]
Unions will be brought into the provisions under sub-sections (5) and (6) of section 45D. [More…]
In the case of 2 persons who may be members of a trade union acting without the consent of the other members of the trade union, the union itself becomes liable to the penalties. [More…]
The point of the legislation is to trap the unions by the actions of 2 members, whether or not those 2 members are acting with the agreement of the rest of the union. [More…]
It does not refer to what unions may do collectively. [More…]
The union will be deemed to be responsible and if it is found liable, a penalty of up to $250,000 will be imposed under section 45D. [More…]
Much has been made by Government speakers in the other place with regard to the exemption clause in order to exonerate themselves from the accusation that they are seeking to nobble trade unions in this legislation. [More…]
There is an exemption clause but it seems to me that many classes of industrial action that unions or members of unions may wish to take and, in my view, may wish to take legitimately, will in fact not be exempted under sub-section (3). [More…]
I would like to give an example of the kind of actions which unions and union members may wish to take which will not be exempted. [More…]
It is action of a kind which the present Government is able very easily to use in its campaign against unions. [More…]
If that is the case, I hope that the Minister will spell out exactly that when persons take such action, their union will not find itself liable to a fine of up to $250,000. [More…]
We contend that in its present form it could encompass almost any action in which an individual or a union may engage. [More…]
The test for union involvement is a matter of great concern. [More…]
Whilst the Government claims that individuals are exempt if they collude with other unionists, that applies only in the case where the union itself is held responsible. [More…]
If the union exempts itself from the action by virtue of being able to demonstrate that it took all reasonable steps to prevent the participants from engaging in that conduct, it would appear to us that the individuals are responsible. [More…]
When objecting to the provisions of proposed section 45D (5), Senator Ryan said that it was dangerous to unions. [More…]
The whole point of the legislation is that a union will have to face any prosecution which is initiated, but under this provision a fair number of things have to happen before a prosecution will be initiated. [More…]
If a union organises a secondary boycott, the legislation provides for the union to be prosecuted rather than an individual. [More…]
Basically, what happens in the case of a secondary boycott is that people on the staff of, say, John Fairfax and Sons Ltd- people belonging to the Printing and Kindred Industries Union- go on strike and then the transport workers who deliver goods to the premises of John Fairfax and Sons Ltd from some other company refuse to deliver those goods. [More…]
In fact, the debate on this legislation should have been- it may still become- as vigorous as the debate which took place on the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill, because this Bill affects considerably the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
As far as I can see, proposed new section 45D and its implication limit the trade union movement as a whole in effectively improving the conditions of its individual members. [More…]
It will separate unions and, although it may not have any power and does not intend to have any power over a strike situation within a union, it definitely does have the power to prevent support of strike action in a particular place of employment. [More…]
That will limit the trade union movement in obtaining those improvements which it desires. [More…]
I am hoping, however, that the legislation will not be as effective as I thought in the first place and that this penalty of one quarter of a million dollars might be large for the purpose of frightening unions from taking any step which they may consider to be in conflict with the trade practices legislation. [More…]
But it could have the effect that employers- corporations- would take action against unions, not hoping to achieve a decision but hoping to involve a union in a very expensive exercise. [More…]
It seems to me that this legislation as well as the legislation we debated yesterday is determined to make it financially difficult for unions to operate. [More…]
The major grounds upon which my opposition to this Bill and these amendments is based are, firstly, that I believe that proposed new section 45D will provoke a direct confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
It has grown because of the support which workers within the trade union movement have given to it in Queensland. [More…]
The Board endeavours to give a service to members of trade unions. [More…]
I saw it last year when I was in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I invite you to go to the Soviet Union and look to the type of system which you are representing today because we are in fact talking about something quite different. [More…]
My concern is at proposed new section 45D, which has caused quite some concern in the trade union movement. [More…]
The question is: Why should the trade union movement be singled out as the organisation whose activities are subject to and regulated by 2 Acts or 3 jurisdictions? [More…]
Immediately a union does that it is in breach of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Now, in certain circumstances such a union can be in breach of this Act. [More…]
I refer to the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
Now the Government wants the Trade Practices Commission to cover the unions. [More…]
This Act imposes penalties of up to $250,000 on the trade unions. [More…]
That forces the trade unions to seek other means of achieving their desires. [More…]
I believe this provision was sought to be implemented when the Trade Practices Commission found that it had no control over the trade union movement when there was a boycott of petrol stations in New South Wales which were undercutting the price of petrol. [More…]
The trade union movement refused to supply certain outlets which were undercutting the price. [More…]
Senator Messner told us of the activities of a South Australian union which took action interstate on some non-union membership affair in South Australia. [More…]
Trade unions will always take action on non-union membership. [More…]
Despite what was said today about the penalty being imposed upon the unions- a penalty in excess of the capabilities of the unions ever to pay- the operations of the Act permit the making of an order against any member of a union who has some interest in union property which is held by virtue of his position in the union. [More…]
It exempts individuals from an order against a trade union, but an individual may still come within proposed new section 45 D, subsection (6) (v). [More…]
If two or more people in concert decide to take certain action, the union is responsible for the action of those 2 persons, although it knows nothing about the action they contemplate or the action they put into operation. [More…]
Under this section the union will be penalised for the action of the individuals. [More…]
In the case of anyone assisting the organisation in this activity, the union, again, might not have known of that action. [More…]
This breach can occur with no responsibility of the union but it is a breach in accordance with the Act. [More…]
The taking of action in relation to non-unionists would be in breach of section 45d of this Act. [More…]
It is something that the trade unions will not give away. [More…]
It is an area in relation to which the Arbitration Commission has given preference clauses to trade unions in certain awards, the federal clerks union being one example. [More…]
-I do not support compulsory membership of unions. [More…]
The wages and conditions that have been obtained by the workers in the Tramways Union of Victoria have been gained by struggle and a loss of income to achieve conditions that are attractive. [More…]
I have always maintained that if one objects to joining a union one should not go into an industry where conditions have been improved by the trade unions, if one does so to obtain the benefit of the financial contributions of other people. [More…]
We have at the present time the Workers Party, which is an organisation in functioning for the purpose of breaking down the trade union movement. [More…]
Do honourable senators think that organisations will give away their rights that they have built up over the years for the purpose of letting scabs and non-unionists come into the organisations to reap the benefits that the organisations have obtained when these scabs and non-unionists will not pay for improvements and benefits in the future? [More…]
The threat of possible action will have some effect upon individuals and unions. [More…]
We will rue the day that we forced the trade unions into a position where they cannot operate openly to advance the conditions of employment of their members. [More…]
It is for that reason that the trade union movement is scared of proposed new section 45. [More…]
The trade union movement on the face of it is opposed to this amendment and will take some action against it. [More…]
He seems to be saying to the Senate that unions ought to be able to hurt a third innocent party to achieve their objections however desirable those objectives may be. [More…]
I cannot, for the life of me, find the logic in the claim that an innocent party should be hurt however good the objectives may be that the union sets out to achieve. [More…]
I think she ended her speech by saying that a union may wish to take such action. [More…]
On Friday, the Seamen’s Union lifted its ban from the tanker Ocean Venture to allow her to discharge her cargo of crude oil at the week-end. [More…]
The State secretary of the Seamen’s Union (Mr R. Barklay) said each ship was being assessed on merits. [More…]
Each ship that berths at Port Stanvac will be assessed by the local secretary of the Seamen’s Union on its merits. [More…]
It is Seamen’s Union policy in South Australia to make sure that only a few days supply of crude oil is on hand at the refinery so that the union can have the whole of South Australia at its mercy. [More…]
Surely the idea that 1 250 000 people can be starved of fuel by the Seamen’s Union in South Australia by penalising the Mobil company at Port Stanvac for an objective outside the normal operation of the refinery surely must come under proposed section 45d. [More…]
I put this squarely to them: Do they approve of the Seamen’s Union vetting every tanker that berths at Port Stanvac for the purposes I have outlined? [More…]
It is a crime not only against the Australian people but also against those within the trade union movement who know the real story, who have fought for years and who are still righting to maintain the integrity of the trade union movement- those very people whom the Government refuses to acknowledge or to consult and whose questions they refuse month after month to answer in this place. [More…]
I pointed out yesterday how that statement fell to the ground when it was examined because, as I said, two of the salient features of the Industrial Relations Bureau Bill, as it was originally introduced into the House of Representatives, were the enforcement of a secret strike ballot and an additional ground for deregistration under section 143 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, being on the basis that the union’s action was interfering with interstate trade. [More…]
I believe that that sort of attitude should be exposed, and exposed quickly, before the Government finds that it has painted itself into a corner and has dug its own grave and, worse still from my point of view, the people within the trade union movement, who are the constitutionalists who reject the revolutionary approach- the approach made by the extreme left of the trade union movement - tum it into a political battering ram and find themselves in an untenable position by virtue of the ignorance of the Government. [More…]
It is known that the boss of that firm is anti-union and that the conditions of employment in the firm are very bad indeed. [More…]
It is thought by the Federated Millers and Mill Employees Association that, in the interests of maintaining a relative degree of decent working conditions in the flour milling industry, it should unionise that particular flour mill. [More…]
Correction, after having spoken to the 30 workers concerned four of the workers join the union. [More…]
The rest of them are too scared to join the union because they know the attitude of their boss. [More…]
They can do it now, but the response the union movement has to such an action will be closed off by proposed new section 45D. [More…]
The union then has to go to the Trades Hall Council and say: ‘We know these members have been put out of work for that particular reason and we want some united assistance by the trade union movement to overcome the problem’. [More…]
By the way, the union in such cases might even be urged to do that by other employers in the industry who are doing the right thing and who want to see business operate on a proper and fair competitive basis. [More…]
It calls in the representatives of the unions concerned- the Federated Millers and Mill Employees Association, the Transport Workers Union, the Manufacturing Grocers Employees Federation, the Federated Storeman and Packers Union and the [More…]
No provisions are made elsewhere or are available to the union to obtain preference for unionists in that particular firm. [More…]
So what happens is the Manufacturing Grocers Union, whose members receive the flour to make biscuits, says that it will not touch the flour because it is black as it has been produced by non-union labour forced upon them through fear of their boss. [More…]
The employer would then be given a monopoly control and unfair advantage over employees in a nonunionised shop and there would be no way in which the trade union movement would be able fruitfully to overcome such an industrial dispute. [More…]
What the legislation would then be doing would be to say to that employer that he could have non-union labour and whatever conditions he liked, and so put him in a better financial competitive position than his other competitors in the industry. [More…]
We have to have a union in a factory in order to ensure that the boss in that factory observes minimum standards and that there is protection for the workers in that factory. [More…]
By virtue of the operation of this proposed new section 45D any action which the trade union movement might take to protect on a day to day basis the workers in an industry is closed on”. [More…]
I can only say that the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union movement generally will not accept that. [More…]
As I mentioned before, the ironical part of my example is that this new legislation will provide the firm which does the wrong thing with an opportunity to be more competitive than its competitors by reason of the fact that it will insulate that firm from unionising its shop. [More…]
Why should the trade unions not have the right to provide protection for those workers who would join the union but do not through fear of losing their jobs, particularly in this time of high unemployment? [More…]
If the employer indicates, however slightly, that he does not want the union involved in his shop then, of course, they fear for their jobs. [More…]
As Senator Wright will appreciate, the Government itself gives to one union compulsory unionism yet it denies that right to every other union. [More…]
The Government itself provides to the Waterside Workers Federation compulsory unionism - [More…]
Previously I adopted the patient approach by writing to the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) in August of last year setting out certain proposed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which, I believed, were in the interests of the trade union movement as a whole, of the employers and of stability in industrial relations. [More…]
I should like to indicate to Senator Tehan that the Government provided compulsory unionism for one union- the Waterside Workers Federation- under section 29 of the Stevedoring Industry Act. [More…]
-Of course, it is for the furtherance of the object of the Act which states that where a person applies for registration as a waterside worker at a port and that person satisfies the reasonable requirements of fitness, competence and suitability of persons to be registered as waterside workers and is a member or satisfies the Authority that he has applied for membership of the union in relation to the port he can be registered as a waterside worker. [More…]
At present, most unions do not use their industrial power to veto decisions of governments- even where they vehemently disagree with them. [More…]
However, there are a number of powerful unions which reject this convention, and strongly assert the right of unions to take any action, within the selfimposed limits of political expediency. [More…]
Their policy is to broaden the area of industrial action, to the point where it is accepted in the trade union movement that strike action on political issues is a legitimate part of the function of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Medibank strike … the bans on Indonesian and Chilean trade, green bans and the Newport power house ban have had the effect of widening the ‘accepted’ area of political activity of unions. [More…]
Although political strikes have comparatively little support among the general public, they are becoming increasingly respectable with some trade union officials. [More…]
Neither governments, nor industrial tribunals, have yet found an effective way of legislating against political strikes, without facing the prospect of massive resistance from the trade union movement. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abuses of unions’ power. [More…]
The only restraint on the misuse of power by an individual union is the possibility of isolation from the rest of the trade union movement, and the possibility of government action (e.g. [More…]
deregistration) against the union. [More…]
Neither governments, nor industrial tribunals, have yet found an effective way of legislating against political strikes, without facing the prospect of massive resistance from the trade union movement. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abuses of unions ‘ power. [More…]
The point Senator Harradine was making was that if the Government is to have a bit of blood sport at the expense of some sections of the trade union movement it will not have any effect on certain areas of industry that traditionally are bastions of working class solidarity, such as the waterfront, railways, mining and heavy engineering areas. [More…]
To those honourable senators who ask Why do you need a union?’ [More…]
I would say that any honourable senator who has had to deal with fringe cases involving women who have suffered some strain and who did not have a union available to them but had to rely on the solicitor acting for the insurance company will know that these workers are bled white, whether it be by the insurance company or by the legal eagle. [More…]
Only in those cases in which there is a trade union or a labour council with efficient legal people to protect the workers is there justice in compensation cases. [More…]
It is necessary to have trade union membership in these relatively small industrial work forces to establish the right to recruit people without fear of sacking. [More…]
The wages board syndrome about which Senator Wright talked does not come into this unless there is a union. [More…]
The union membership is only one-third or one-quarter of the potential membership. [More…]
If a union is able to go to the wages board, as Senator Wright visualises, and gain some wage adjustment, well and good; but it has to fight to get that membership. [More…]
I know a gentleman who I think is well known to Senator Button and who is involved in a union that has these difficulties. [More…]
It is the Pastrycooks Union in Victoria. [More…]
In these cases the union secretary needs all the assistance he can get. [More…]
It may be a case of the Transport Workers Union indicating to a very militant employer that there will be some difficulties with deliveries. [More…]
What would be the position if there were no trade union involvement in this legislation? [More…]
We know that there are non-trade union elements in the community who take militant action. [More…]
It is only the trade unions, warts and all, that can protect some of the Greek women and ensure that they get their entitlements. [More…]
If we are going to look at factionalism in the trade union movement we will find that most trade union secretaries in the manufacturing industries have had to be very diplomatic. [More…]
They nad to live with this relatively new union. [More…]
They did not want the new union which was largely composed of Mexican-United States citizens to be part of the Teamsters Union, preferring to have a separate independent union. [More…]
They had to deal with the Teamsters Union under Jimmy Hoffa. [More…]
No trade union official in Australia is as discredited as Jimmy Hoffa was. [More…]
There is not a trade union leader in Australia who could not stand up and defend himself, but Jimmy Hoffa could not do so. [More…]
No wonder the trade union movement is being stirred, with that sort of misunderstanding of the Bill being conveyed. [More…]
There is probably a similar position- this is another guesstimate- in respect of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with its recent purchases of butter. [More…]
Under Indonesian supervision an ‘Act of Free Choice’ was held in which the chieftains of East Timor affirmed their support for union with Indonesia. [More…]
They noted that union with Indonesia made sense in terms of geography, ethnic bonds and common history. [More…]
They are the ASDT (Timorese Social Democratic Association), which subsequently changes its name to FRETILIN (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor), a group favoring independence; UDT (Timorese Democratic Union), favoring continued associations with Portugal; and APODETI (Timorese Popular Democratic Association), favoring East Timor’s incorporation into Indonesia. [More…]
I am concerned at the reported attitude adopted by Mr J. O’Toole, Assistant Federal Secretary, Australasian Meat Industries Employees’ Union. [More…]
As I have pointed out previously, unionists need to understand that action of the type espoused by Mr O’Toole is not in Australia’s or their own long term interest. [More…]
The information that I have in regard to this matter is that 355 members of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union employed by Consolidated Meat Holdings Ltd at Wodonga recently went on strike in support of a log of claims for improved wages and conditions. [More…]
However, because the union has not or will not guarantee that the production levels at the meatworks will be maintained, the management of Consolidated Meat Holdings Ltd has refused to re-engage the workers and has closed down the works. [More…]
It is also understood that the union has refused to take the log of claims to arbitration. [More…]
Mr Dolan is national secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia and senior vice-president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Mrs Searby is a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and a member of the executive of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. [More…]
He was Queensland secretary of the Boilermakers Union from 1969 to 1972 and has been State president of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union since 1972. [More…]
Mr Parkes of the Australian Cattlemen’s Union; and I understand that a senator in this chamber from Queensland has a very close association with the Cattlemen’s Union but unfortunately she is not here today to take part in this debate, as Senator Walsh pointed out- said: [More…]
I do not intend to speak for much longer but I want to refer to one thing, that is, the attitude taken by Mr Anthony some months ago, an attitude which was quite opposite to the attitude he takes towards the trade union movement. [More…]
To give honourable senators a typical example of the emotional outbursts that have been made, I have received-as, I would say, many other members and senators concerned with the beef industry in the various States have received- letters from rank and file people, members of our respective parties, from back in the bush, not from Canberra or from union leaders. [More…]
The Cattlemen’s Union representatives have come here saying that they want producer control of the Board. [More…]
The only other point I want to make to the Minister for Veteran’s Affairs (Senator Durack), and it is important, concerns the liquor trades union which covers the staff in the Sydney waterfront canteens. [More…]
I was saying that proposed new sub-sections (5) and (6) spawn out verbiage with regard to the remedies that are to be available where a union, or an organisation as it is called in the new subsection, is involved and then substitutes the union for individual liability. [More…]
That meant that if a combination of persons were exerting economic pressure in the course of a dispute amongst themselves- it may be competition between tradesmen or unions in demarcation or a dispute between employees and their unions- they are entitled unfortunately in too coercive a way not only to withdraw their labour but also to boycott the job of their employer. [More…]
Primary boycott was never in issue, but when employees having a dispute with their union, as Senator Harradine instanced the other night, pull five or six levers from three or four allies against a neutral person and concert a boycott against the employer by reason of activating interference in a third person’s business- stopping the supply of his goods- they are travelling quite outside the legitimate ambit of strike action. [More…]
Sub-section (2) provides that if the dispute is a legitimate dispute over industrial conditions then the prohibition against secondary boycott ceases; that is, instead of imposing a restriction on secondary boycott the effect of this sub-section, in the case of union disputes, is to legalise secondary boycotts. [More…]
In that case, the Crofter Company and the Dockers Union joined together to prevent the exit and outflow of” competing yarn. [More…]
Can the Minister list the treaties, conventions, agreements, and other bilateral arrangements, which have been formally established between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with the dates on which each came into force. [More…]
Australia is a party to the following bilateral treaties with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: [More…]
He became secretary of three small organisations on a part time basis because at that time small trade unions could not afford full time officials. [More…]
He organised the three trade unions and later, with his elevation to the position of trade union secretary, became secretary of the South Australian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
He would come back from meetings of the Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and, very proud of his capability of remembering, would recite word perfect everything that had occurred, including every resolution that was carried at the ACTU meeting. [More…]
Will the Minister investigate and following his investigation inform the Senate of the number of men and women who are not attending universities or colleges of advanced education and who have been issued with student travel concessions on Qantas Airways Ltd by the Australian Union of Students travel service? [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister aware that the recommendations relating to the employment of musicians are already being implemented by the Public Service Board, the ABC and the Musicians Union of Australia? [More…]
When the situation is one in which the airlines are basically selling airline tickets- they run the airlines, the Australian Union of Students does not run the airlines, to the best of my knowledge- and the travel agencies are getting money from people who wish to travel, it would seem to me to be possible for a well run group of industry people to be sure that they got the money from the people and that they got the money for the airline tickets. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education ensure that the inquiry into AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd will be broad enough to allow investigation of all financial activities- travel, commercial and otherwise- of the Australian Union of Students so that audited financial statements may be available to members of the student body generally so they will be aware of how their contributions to AUS are spent? [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, follows other questions about the AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd. Is the Minister aware that during recent Australian Union of Students election campaigns all students were assured by the AUS executive that the financial position of the AUS travel company was satisfactory? [More…]
As to the financial standing of the Australian Union of Students and its election campaigns, I know nothing about that. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the statement by Mr Barry Cassell, the national director of the militant Cattlemen’s Union, calling for positive policy initiatives rather than union or British bashing by the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair? [More…]
The President expressed appreciation for the co-operation existing between the legislatures of Mexico and Australia in the InterParliamentary Union, and told me he had spent a most happy and interesting time in Australia when he visited us in April this year for the Spring meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
You asked us for some information about the trade union situation in Peru, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. [More…]
To the report in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 July, concerning industrial unrest in Peru, we can add that following the strike in the State-owned mining corporation, CENTOMIN, the miners’ trade union leader, Victor Cuadros Paredes, was deported to France. [More…]
Meanwhile, the Federation of Bank Employees, an affiliate of the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers, had demanded the release of some hundreds of labour leaders arrested following the general strike of 1 9 July and called for the re-establishment of full union rights and the repeal of a government decree which authorises firms to dismiss striking workers. [More…]
Concerning the trade union situation in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the following summary taken from the International Commission of Jurists Review, No. [More…]
In Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, either during or after the coup d’etat, each of the governments dissolved the trade union confederations, and in many cases individual unions were also banned and their activities made illegal. [More…]
A large number of union premises have been occupied by the police and armed forces, illegally closed and their goods and property seized. [More…]
Many workers have been dismissed from their jobs, arrested and sentenced by military courts for engaging in union activities and exercising rights conferred upon them by the Constitution, the law and the Conventions of the International Labour Office. [More…]
Those trade unions which are permitted are severely restricted in their activities. [More…]
The exercise of the normal trade union rights, including the right to meet and discuss their affairs freely and the right to strike or take other industrial action, have been largely prohibited, suspended or restricted. [More…]
Union leadership bears an equal responsibility: it is the trade union leaders who have to consider the unemployment consequences of their demands for higher pay for those presently in jobs. [More…]
Will the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs be seeking legal means of deporting migrants, who could be citizens of this country, because they choose to become active members of the trade union movement? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Why, after approving a grant of $24,400 to the Women’s Trade Union Commission for the co-ordination of a child care project for working people, has she refused funds for the resulting Eden Park industrial estate child care project? [More…]
If so, why was the Women’s Trade Union Commission not informed of those changes? [More…]
If the Labor Party was really concerned about unemployment, one would think that it would be using its influence with the trade union movement to have the movement moderate its demands. [More…]
I suppose the real tragedy in this country is that the Labor Party has no influence with the trade union movement. [More…]
The real tragedy in this country is that we have a person allegedly looking after the interest of the trade union movement while wearing one hat and seeking to further his own political ambitions while wearing another hat. [More…]
The unemployed, the trade union movement and the Labor Party have no idea where they are going. [More…]
Until the trade union movement ceases making excessive claims for wage increases and until the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission ceases granting those increases, the basic cause of unemployment in Australia will persist. [More…]
I remind him of the Painters and Dockers Union which put people in cement overcoats. [More…]
I remind him of the maritime unions. [More…]
What about the report of Mr Justice Sweeney concerning the extortions taking place on the waterfront by the maritime unions? [More…]
The members of those unions are friends and supporters of Opposition senators. [More…]
The thing which Australians and most of all the trade union leadership, the leaders of industry, the Government and the Opposition have to recognise is that that is the basic cause of the problems that confront us. [More…]
The guilt for the situation that confronts us in Australia probably lies predominantly with the radical element of trade union leadership. [More…]
I refer to the extreme left wing element in the trade union movement. [More…]
I am not talking about the ordinary unionists nor their officials; I am talking about a small group of extremists. [More…]
I am not talking about Pommy union officials; the ones I am talking about are home-grown. [More…]
Another is the Newport ban originally introduced by Norm Gallagher, the Peking-line communist secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation in Victoria and continued by the Victorian Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Halfpenny, who needs no introduction to the people of Australia. [More…]
The overseas trade bans are enforced by the Seamen’s Union of Australia, whose Federal Secretary is the notorious Eliot V. Elliott. [More…]
He is quoted in the book Inside Australia’s 100 Top Unions as saying: [More…]
The union officials immediately replied: ‘We won’t accept the offer of 4 days employment’. [More…]
In other words, the union officials admitted that they wanted their own members sacked. [More…]
Look at the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union, which is causing so much trouble to the beef producers. [More…]
Can anyone say that the officials in that union do not have a vested interest in unemployment? [More…]
I believe that a lot of common sense is spoken around those tables by men who come from the employers’ section of the industry, men who come from the trade union section of the industry, men who come from the Department and men who are connected with, involved with or whose businesses are associated with the respective industries. [More…]
As a representative of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party I have heard the views of employers, workers and trade union leaders in the printing industry and in the metal manufacturing industries. [More…]
He is well known amongst the Labor Party as the Secretary of the influential North Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The article refers to Mr Ray Hogan, the State Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Yet this vehemently anti-uranium union of 95 000 has been discussing with executives of Peko Mines Ltd and Electrolytic Zinc Co. the question of exclusive rights to cover all workers involved in the mining and processing of uranium in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That union is arguing in favour of uranium mining. [More…]
The Miscellaneous Workers Union and its Federal Secretary, Mr Ray Gietzelt, a name that is very familiar to us, are quoted as saying: [More…]
It may be a matter of what newspaper one reads, but I can recall that ultra right wing newspaper News Weekly chastising Ray Gietzelt, the Federal Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, because of what it claimed were his utterances against the extraction of uranium. [More…]
People in the Australian Workers Union said to me: ‘You are going to do us out of jobs’. [More…]
Then, if the Government wants to hold some bludgeon over the trade union movement or the workers of this country it might be able to do so. [More…]
Now this Government, having failed in its program, having failed in its promises, and seeing its economic strategy in tatters, seeks a series of confrontations with the trade union movement. [More…]
When this happened today I recalled to mind a speech I made in this Parliament some years ago retailing to the Parliament a conversation that I had overheard in the Parliamentary Dining Room between Mr Street and Mr Fraser about the tactics they were to use to bring about a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
The last part of the conversation was that they would teach the trade unions a lesson. [More…]
We find that the trade unions are to be taught a lesson, as was cooked up in that penthouse in Toorak some years ago when Senator Cormack organised a meeting, at which quite a few prominent members of the Liberal Party were present, to get rid of Mr Snedden and to put Mr Fraser in the seat. [More…]
Now of course we find that they are going to finalise that piece of conspiracy and put the boots into the trade union movement by bringing in this very repressive legislation. [More…]
The whole purpose of the legislation is to bring about a confrontation with the trade union movement and, as Senator Douglas McClelland and Senator Georges have pointed out, to hide the economic mess of this country. [More…]
Now, because of their inability to govern, they want to cook up this harebrained scheme to bring in this repressive legislation and try to fool the people into believing that it is the trade union movement and the workers of this country frustrating them in their efforts to govern. [More…]
-The intention was that we would deal with the Bill next Tuesday because we thought that those involved in the dispute in the Post Office in Sydney would have had enough sense and enough decency to pick up the offer which Commissioner Sweeney had obtained from the Postal Commission, that all bans be lifted for 7 days and within that 7-day period the Postal Commission and the union would negotiate a settlement. [More…]
It was in the expectation that the unionists concerned in Sydney would accept a sensible, reasonable, rational solution put by Commissioner Sweeney that the Government intended to put the legislation through the House of Representatives today and bring it into the Senate for debate on Tuesday. [More…]
When a union branch, in defiance of its Federal Executive’s recommendations, decides that it will not lift industrial bans so that there may be negotiations between the employer and the union to solve the dispute, the Government has no option but to step in and protect the public interest. [More…]
They are Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
This evening we were told that the decision to sit tomorrow was made at 3 o’clock, when Senator Withers told Senator Wriedt that it was necessary because the Sydney branch of the Postal and Telecommunications Union had rejected some recommendation from its federal organisation. [More…]
The issue is whether the Senate should sit tomorrow to consider a Bill which contains very embracing provisions on the rights of labour, of unions, and members of the Commonwealth Public Service to abide by Public Service regulations or by union directions. [More…]
It is clear that the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the organised trade union movement, helped to solve that dispute. [More…]
I am sure that it would help the Plasterers Union also, Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
Has the troop deployment been carried out in anticipation of general or trade union resistance to the new legislation which will seriously restrict the democratic rights of many thousands of persons? [More…]
It states, in effect, that if we want the economy put into really good shape it is the joint responsibility of government, the private sector, business leaders, the arbitral authorities, the union movement and the consumers. [More…]
The heavy handedness and indeed the steamrolling tactics that are being adopted by the Government over this measure make us, the Australian community, including the trade union movement very suspicious of the Government’s motives. [More…]
It is incredible that legislation of such a serious nature as this can be sneaked into the Parliament, through the back door as it were, without there being any opportunity of discussion of it by the industrial committee of the Parliamentary Labor Party, without any consideration being given to the legislation by the trade union movement, without the parliamentary party executive of the Labor Party being given the opportunity to consider the legislation and without any opportunity being given to the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party to view the legislation. [More…]
The fact is- I have checked on this and I know that it is true- that nowhere do the local authorities talk to the union about new rosters. [More…]
The Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union put up a plea for reduced hours. [More…]
It has not discussed with the union what might be appropriate rosters. [More…]
It will turn the conservative unions in the Public Service into militant unions. [More…]
The Government is trying to divide the trade union movement, as it is trying to divide society. [More…]
I do not know whether the Committee yet knows, but the Government was pleased to learn that the Federal Executive of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union met this morning and has directed the New South Wales postal workers to lift their bans. [More…]
The union knows that the Government means business, following the actions which have occurred at Redfern, those of the air traffic controllers, actions in Senator Guilfoyle ‘s Department, where applications for social security benefits were delayed and frustrated, and many other instances. [More…]
This practice is a costly exercise during the pre-Christmas period and is contrary to an agreement which exists between management and the union concerned. [More…]
There is an insistence by the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union that bundles of airmail letters be processed on the face-up table, fourth floor, and not be forwarded direct for manual processing in other areas. [More…]
It is essential for the unionists in this country that there be regular, reliable communications and postal services. [More…]
What I was going to suggest and what I now suggest, even at this late stage, is that the Government leave this Bill aside and enable the Australian Post and Telecommunications Union and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to uphold their rules for the conduct and control of industrial disputes with the spotlight of Australia on them. [More…]
Over many years a number of people there have been called by the union itself anarchists, Marxists and other such terms. [More…]
The point is that they have a responsibility to ensure that democratic unionism prevails. [More…]
The measures we have taken are all designed to strengthen the hand of ordinary members within the union. [More…]
Suppose that a public servant cannot be usefully employed as a result of industrial action by employees in private industry, perhaps action by the Australian Cattlemen’s Union refusing to supply meat or as a result of the Government making cuts in the Australian Broadcasting Commission budget which mean that a number of producers and other persons cannot be usefully employed any more. [More…]
The Government has to say to the Cattlemen’s Union when its members refuse to bring cattle to market: ‘We have to have some legislation for you fellows. [More…]
This morning, while this Government in the interests of political stunting is seeking to enact this legislation in this chamber, the General Manager of Australia Post is telephoning the union secretary suggesting a 7-day cooling period at Redfern and further discussions between the parties. [More…]
On the occasion of the postal dispute currently occurring in Sydney we have it from the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) that in an endeavour to accommodate postal employees the Government and the Postal Commission both agreed to support the implementation of a 36%-hour week for members of the union who do not presently enjoy those working conditions on the condition that any arrangement that was made to accommodate them should conform to the principles that had been laid down by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The issue here is that the postal employees’ union chooses not to go to arbitration, not to enter into discussions with the conciliator, but to engage in a series of what they propose as rolling interruptions- the refusal to work every alternate day by a section of the people who are engaged in industrial action. [More…]
But we have reached the stage of seeing the significance of trade union authority when misused by militant minorities and communists. [More…]
The existing law says that if there is a conflict and the employer wants to disturb an agreement or award with a union- this applies under most awards- he has to go to an arbitrator. [More…]
As we read in the newspaper this morning*,” only last night the New South Wales section of the Postal and Telecommunications Union had a meeting and said that it was prepared to negotiate but certainly not while the new rosters remained. [More…]
The procedure these days in any place of employment where disputes over rosters are required to be settled is to have the matter discussed between the employer and the union which represents the men. [More…]
As a result the union informs its members that they should not work under those conditions. [More…]
Senator Button informed us this morning that the Commission has rung Mr Slater of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and said that it would like to talk again. [More…]
Twelve thousand six hundred and forty mail bags (involving about 5 million letters) made up and ready for despatch to the suburbs and some country areas lay idle in mail exchanges throughout Australia this morning as 1,200 members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union went on a 24-hour stoppage. [More…]
The Postmaster-General, Senator Reg Bishop, will be meeting union representatives in Canberra today to discuss the dispute which some unionists say may lead to further work bans and disruptions. [More…]
Before I quote from that statement I remind the honourable senators opposite who have been spouting today about arbitration that the union in Victoria would not go to arbitration. [More…]
The credibility of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union has proved to be highly suspect if its General Secretary, Mr G. Slater, has been correctly reported as saying that the issue should be settled around the conference table. [More…]
I am not intending here to disparage Mr Slater of the union. [More…]
The union has nowhere to go. [More…]
We do not mind unions having nowhere to go but with this legislation we are going to give the Government of Australia somewhere to go in the running of the country. [More…]
Bob Hawke has become involved in this sort of situation in the trade union movement. [More…]
Postal employees are seeking the same working hours as other members of their union engaged in the same occupation elsewhere. [More…]
One of the things that has distinguished this debate has been the evasion of the real issues by the Australian Labor Party within the Parliament, and by certain union spokespeople outside the Parliament. [More…]
Parliament has been prostituted in order to instigate a political confrontation with the trade union movement, in order to ‘set up’ an election late this year in the sure knowledge that the appalling state of the economy- and unemployment . [More…]
I suggest that honest workers have never been more exploited in this country than they are at the moment by dishonest union leaders who rise to a position of prominence on the claim that they will promote the welfare of the worker and who forget about that claim when they are elected to office. [More…]
They use their considerable political clout and they hold their great power over the workers who are members of their unions to drag those workers into all sons of political situations in which they do not want to be involved. [More…]
I was interested to receive just recently from the ACOA, courtesy of the executive of that union, something about its view on uranium mining. [More…]
It is worth looking at the basic rights and responsibilities of all employees in Australia as they relate to unions and industrial action. [More…]
Of necessity unions have highly developed rights in Australia. [More…]
Union rights are entrenched and assured in Australia in a way which is virtually unique in the world. [More…]
From my experience in the work force and as a member of a couple of unions and involvement in those unions I suggest that those rights are necessary. [More…]
I am not one who happens to believe that unions are no longer necessary. [More…]
I am convinced that unions are necessary as a balancing and important factor in the welfare of individual employees in Australia. [More…]
However, I am less than impressed by the way in which certain unions avail themselves of their rights. [More…]
Union leaders have a particular responsibility for the welfare of their members. [More…]
Union leaders put it this way: They are there for the obtaining of industrial justice. [More…]
Truly, in his words, one could point so often, in the activity of certain unions, to the cynical abuse of the industrial process and, on many occasions, to the pursuit of the most base objectives. [More…]
At meetings of one union the members will consider that offer and accept it unanimously. [More…]
At meetings of another union, members considering the same offer will reject it unanimously. [More…]
It was a reasonable approach, agreed to by the Postal Commission and agreed to by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, which a significant section of the union is now prepared to ignore completely. [More…]
It is bad enough that the members of the Australian Labor Party Opposition fail in their responsibility to criticise where union activities are arrogant and not for the welfare of employees, much less for the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
It is bad enough that certain Public Service unions in particular have exploited their position of privilege and completely ignored their responsibility to show respect for the power that they hold. [More…]
Senator Martin raised the matter of the individual rights of rank and file workers being manipulated by union leadership, but I point out to the Senate that in the case of the Redfern Mail Exchange dispute it was the rank and file workers who voted by secret ballot to continue the industrial action against the advice of their leadership, against the advice of their executive. [More…]
The Opposition asks that it should have more time to consider the Bill although it knows that it opposes the general principles of the Bill, as does the whole trade union movement in this community. [More…]
An irresponsible union minority is causing confrontation with the Government and with the people of Australia. [More…]
The Minister also pointed out that in recent years the Australian people have been subjected to great inconvenience and hardship on many occasions through industrial action by some government employees and their union leaders. [More…]
We talk about the minority in the unions causing industrial disputes. [More…]
It is not just the union. [More…]
He was active in reviving the credit union movement and was a very strong supporter of co-operative building societies. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations able to advise the present position relating to any moves to solve the demarcation dispute concerning which union members may tie up ANL ships and which has now tied up all Australian National Line shipping terminals in Tasmania? [More…]
I am aware of some of the background of this demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation which is causing serious disruption to Tasmania, particularly in the ports of Burnie, Devonport and Bell Bay. [More…]
Union leadership bears an equal responsibility; it is the trade union leaders who have to consider the unemployment consequences of their demands for higher pay for those presently in jobs. [More…]
It blames the trade union leaders for carrying out their job of protecting the economic interests of their members. [More…]
At this point I wish to refer to some of the radical sections within our trade unions. [More…]
I fully support the trade union movement and agree wholeheartedly that the average worker in Australia is a good guy. [More…]
I refer to the Seamens Union of Australia ban on foreign oil tankers at Australian oil refineries which has gone on for a long time over the demand that a certain ship, the Howard Smith, should be an Australian flag tanker on the overseas run for crude oil. [More…]
I understand that this is due to industrial bans by the relevant trade union on the issue of licences. [More…]
As the Tasmanian Minister for Labour and Industry has not succeeded in his appeal for the Australian Council of Trade Unions to intervene in the present demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation tying up the whole of the northern coast of Tasmania, can the Minister suggest any action the Commonwealth Government can take to help to bring this dispute to an end? [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and pursuant to section 58 of the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1 975 I present the first annual report of the Trade Union Training Authority for 1975-76. [More…]
Representations from eminent international conservation bodies such as the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources have stressed the global significance of the park. [More…]
The draft Code was circulated for comment to 94 recipients made up of appropriate Australian and State government departments and authorities, uranium mining and exploration companies and mining associations, and relevant trade unions and trade union councils. [More…]
There can be no doubt that he was a man of scholarship and wide experience, particularly in the pastoral areas of Queensland where he had a close association with the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Tomorrow night these two dedicated unionists face expulsion from the Australian Labor Party on the basis of what Senator O ‘Byrne said here on that day. [More…]
Senator 0 ‘Byrne did, however, make statements in the Senate that day which were designed to cause and which indeed have caused a witch-hunt of Gestapo proportions against those two top Tasmanian trade union officials. [More…]
Another is Norm Hanscombe who was imported into Tasmania last year and appointed Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union without a rank and file ballot. [More…]
On J. P. Forester, a man charged and found guilty on 24 June 1977 of offences against rules relating to the funds of the Union, fined the maximum amount under the rules and suspended from union membership. [More…]
They relied on T. Keogh, who describes himself in his statutory declaration against the two charged men as ‘a retired trade union official’. [More…]
T. Keogh was dismissed from his union position. [More…]
He tried to proposition organisers and other staff of the union to claim moneys on their expense account over and above those expenses legitimately incurred by them. [More…]
In other words, he sought to defraud the union to build up the slush fund to pay the Egan mercenaries who are currently engaged in unsuccessful sorties into other unions and States. [More…]
I do not hear many people coming to the support of the Egan mercenaries at this point in time, particularly as they realise just what Egan is about and just what he has done in New South Walesamalgamating the Australian Workers Union, which incorporated the Shop Assistants Union, with the Building Workers Industrial Union which is controlled by the Socialist Left. [More…]
His claim to fame is that he is President of the Building Workers Industrial Union and of course, President of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society- an organisation which has close links with the KGB. [More…]
Is it any wonder that Bert Lacey, whom all honourable senators will know as a former senator in this place, a man who has served the trade union movement and the Labor Party with distinction, dedication and selfsacrifice for more than 50 years, was moved to come to that meeting last night in support of Watling and Imlach to make a speech full of courage and based on a logical understanding of Labor tradition. [More…]
His speech, made to 160 representatives of 29 unions in Hobart last night, called on Bob Watling to boycott the kangaroo court tomorrow night, for the reasons to be sent in writing and for a firm stand to be taken against the pro-communist takeover bid. [More…]
If some honourable senators on this side have an interest in a pro-communist takeover of the trade union movement they at least should heed the other part of that resolution declaring that it those two top officials are axed it will lead to the destruction of the Labor Government in Tasmania and Labor’s chances in the next Federal election. [More…]
No genuine unionist or person interested in the Labor Movement can stand by and allow this to occur. [More…]
We declare that the organised Trade Union Movement is prepared to stand by Bob Watling and Peter Imlach and to defend itself against the persistent attacks launched by the extreme left aided and abetted by informers. [More…]
Members of the Parliamentary Labor Party are called upon to join with the responsible members of the Trade Union Movement in repelling these attacks. [More…]
I was one of a number of other union officials who sat with him in Melbourne at Belloc House at Sakville Street, Kew at a national trade union meeting of the National Civic Council. [More…]
I believe that Forrester was fined for breaches of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act when he forged documents and acted improperly in the conduct of elections for the purpose of getting NCC members elected to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in Victoria. [More…]
Whatever may be the faults of the Communist Party, members of an organisation or trade union- an organisation representing working class peoplewill vote for those who give them some assistance rather than for those who are directly opposed to their interests. [More…]
The members of the sub-committee visited all the important shipyards and discussed the matter with not only the employers and governments concerned but also the trade union movement. [More…]
Although recognising that substantial sums would be involved in modernising the facilities, the Committee proposes that consideration be given to the following interdependent actions directed towards the achievement of improved performance, as a possible basis for converting this generally uneconomic but nationally important industry into an economically acceptable industry: the industry to be rationalised; the existing ship construction facilities at Whyalla and Newcastle be retained; there be an injection of capital at both yards on a shared basis, sharing being between the Commonwealth and NSW Governments in the case of Newcastle, and between the Commonwealth and SA Governments and BHP in the case of Whyalla, the amount of capital to be that needed to bring the physical capability of each of the yards to a standard matching that of overseas shipyards of similar capacity; there be workload on a continuing basis for the rationalised industry resulting from a ‘build in Australia’ policy for Australian ships; a policy to build vessels which to the maximum feasible extent are of standard design; and, subject to a suitable manning productivity understanding with the maritime unions, an Australian flag policy for a proportion of overseas trade; there be a guarantee of improved industrial relations, particularly in respect of measures to improve productivity for ship construction and repair and an accepted objective of working towards a single shipbuilding union through a process of amalgamations; there be a system by which potential buyers of Australian built ships can be offered financial terms that are generally competitive on the world scene. [More…]
I have been told by the ACTU that it and its shipbuilding union group has read the report. [More…]
I do not know the results of the recent trip to Whyalla but I do know that some of the things I am arranging and some of the representations he has received and is presently receiving from the trade union movement are receiving consideration. [More…]
As I have said, the trade union movement is all for it. [More…]
Dealing with what Senator Bishop said about the Australian Council of Trade Unions and assurances that there would be harmony in the industry and everything would be sweet, I would like to believe that and I would genuinely like to think that the honourable senator’s representations in that regard will be successful, but the record is not very good. [More…]
But at about that time the trade union movement at Whyalla was refusing to allow sea-going trials to be carried out on a ship that had been built for the New Zealand trade. [More…]
Those figures make it very difficult for me to believe that the unions concerned will be fair dinkum about honouring that sort of undertaking. [More…]
In coming to this position we have weighed most carefully the views put forward by your Government and the Government of New South Wales, and by other parties including in particular the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the union movement, and local government and other organisations and individuals in Newcastle and Whyalla. [More…]
Senator Jessop has done what he always does when he speaks in the Senate; he blames the trade union movement and the workers. [More…]
But then he went on to say, after trying to blame the trade unions and the Whitlam Government for setting up the rot, that his Government has continued on with the policy of the Whitlam Government because the Fraser Government realised that the Labor Government was near the mark in its policy. [More…]
They will know this from what I have read out about the action that the Government will take to support the people who live in Whyalla and from Senator Jessop trying to blame the Whitlam Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
There is a repressive attitude to union management and a demand that all should be members of a union. [More…]
Whilst I have not checked it I have been told that if one is to receive unemployment relief, for instance- unemployment relief that comes from this Government- while working for a council in South Australia, one must belong to a union to obtain it. [More…]
Union of Australia puts on the pressure in regard to using Australian ships manned by Australian crewmen on the Australian trade. [More…]
Tonight we heard about the unions and their attitude to the dockyard. [More…]
As Senator McLaren said, in Hawker there are plenty of trade unionists who will be interested to hear Senator Hall’s remarks about the trade union movement. [More…]
I return to the position adopted by the trade union movement. [More…]
I want to settle a few of the myths about the activities of the trade union movement in the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
The unions agreed to limit wage increases purely to indexation. [More…]
They agreed to submit all industrial disputes to an agreed procedure between government, the unions and management. [More…]
The unions in Newcastle were prepared to say that there would be no demarcation disputes. [More…]
In coming to this position we have weighed most carefully the views put forward by the South Australian and New South Wales Governments and by other parties including in particular the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the union movement, and local government and other organisations and individuals in Whyalla and Newcastle . [More…]
by J. P. Forrester, Branch Secretary, Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia, Central and Southern Queensland Branch, to Branch Council [More…]
I was one of a number of other Union officials who sat with him in Melbourne at Belloc House at Sakville Street, Kew at a national trade union meeting of the National Civic Council. [More…]
I believe Mr Harradine, while a Union Official, did a fairly effective industrial job in Tasmania. [More…]
There seem to be differential standards, and in late 1974 I was approached by Paul Houlihan, the present Secretary of the Clerks’ Union in Tasmania to see if we in Queensland could give some assistance on a personal level to himself, Harradine and others who were genuinely economically disadvantaged. [More…]
I was in fact doing something in this area for him when the extraordinary attacks on other officials of the Union by John Maynes began. [More…]
At no stage during the period of the dispute between John Grenville and John Maynes, and later between this Branch of the Union and the National Civic Council have I made any attacks on Harradine even though such attacks could have been damaging to his ALP membership. [More…]
It has been reported to me that in support of the Maynes’ proposition for opposition to rank and file ballots, Harradine has engaged in the most mischievious personal attacks on this Branch of the Union, and on myself particularly, with members of the governing coalition in Canberra. [More…]
On arrival he will discover that neither Forrester nor any other member of the staff or Council of the Clerk ‘s Union is in a state of fear or trepidation; in fact most would be completely disinterested. [More…]
I was amazed when the Assistant Secretary of this Union, Max Muller, reported to me that following the meeting he was approached by Joan Riordan, the Branch Vice President, asking him to remove the reference to Harradine from the Branch Executive Minutes. [More…]
Even allowing for the pantomine type secrecy (security) in which the National Civic Council engages, such as sending letters through the post in two pans, I fail to see the necessity to falsify the Minutes of the Branch Executive of my Union in aid of Brian Harradine. [More…]
I have seen the various statements which have passed backwards and forwards and have been used under parliamentary privilege by Harradine in relation to the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union in New South Wales and the pan played by such people as Peter Moxon and Norman Bray. [More…]
I know that Moxon visited Queensland on two occasions and spent a considerable time with Officers of the National Civic Council and campaigned against State Branch Officials of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union. [More…]
I know that he visited the Shop Assistants’ and the Australian Workers’ Union, but I in no way wish to imply that Officials of those Unions gave him any assistance. [More…]
As Secretary of the Union, I can testify that Mr Treacey, who was then an Organiser of the Union, was in fact absent for several weeks to attend this school. [More…]
Also in attendance at that school were Mr Bob Watling, then with the Shop Assistants’ Union; Mr Peter Imlach representing the Hospital Employees’; Mr Keiran Ryan, an organiser of the Federated Clerks Union in Western Australia, later on the NCC staff in Western Australia; Mr Brian Philp, then and now an organiser in the Victorian Branch of the FCU; Mr Rocky Nimmo, a clerk from Tasmania, also full time with the NCC. [More…]
Mr Terry Keogh, an organiser of this Union, was employed by the National Civic Council for a period of time to assist in a campaign against Gietzelt in New South Wales. [More…]
Mr Keogh is still a member of the staff of this Union and like myself and all other members of the staff, except the Branch President, has broken with the National Civic Council and has come to detest their method of operation, their ballotrigging procedures, their campaigns of personal abuse against all officials of trade unions with whom they disagree, whether communist, anti-communist or neutral. [More…]
He is assistant secretary of his union and is a respected member of the community. [More…]
Mr Mainwaring was labelled as being the President of the Building Workers Industrial Union, which he is. [More…]
In Tasmania, that union is in fact a moderate union and its secretary has been President of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council for a long time. [More…]
The facts are that some of the people who currently are supporting the attempts to get rid of two loyal members of the trade union movement in the Labor Party in Tasmania were mentioned by me last night. [More…]
I think the Protestant Democratic Movement and the National Union of Railwaymen - [More…]
Members of that union will be interested in that. [More…]
If the Labor Party and Senator Grimes seek to continue their witch hunts that have been perpetrated against loyal members of the trade union movement in that State then they have got it coming to them electorally. [More…]
I take pity on Senator Grimes because he really does not know anything about the trade union movement. [More…]
Of course, he is a member of the Australian Medical Association but he is not a member of any other union. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne says that Senator Grimes is a member of some other union. [More…]
I would be interested to know of what other union he is a member, how its constitution covers him, and whether his being a member of that union unconstitutionally raises the question of the validity of that particular organisation. [More…]
Not Senator Grimes but others who make the bullets for him know that if they can get control of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council then the policy direction of the whole of the trade union movement in the whole of Australia is at stake. [More…]
Rule 14(b) of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ rules provides that no policy can be binding on the trade union movement if altered by the ACTU Executive between congresses unless it receives endorsement by four of the six [More…]
ls he aware that the British Trades Union Congress has agreed to Prime Minister Callaghan ‘s plan to limit pay claims to once a year? [More…]
This just points up the great dilemma, both within the Labor Party and the trade union movement, when one person, who is the head of both those bodies, cannot quite make up his mind what he wants. [More…]
In coming to this position the Government took carefully into account the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, as well as the views put forward by the South Australian and New South Wales Governments, the union movement and other organisations and individuals in Whyalla and Newcastle. [More…]
I add a postcript to that question at the behest of Australian Railways Union organiser Maguire asking that the good Mr Flynn- the train conductor who has been impersonated- be sent a letter by the passport people indicating that when he applies for a passport he will not be given the sort of run-around that genuine people often get in both Sydney and Brisbane. [More…]
I would say this to the honourable senator who asked the question: The Building Workers Industrial Union and those who are involved in this matter in Victoria have been carrying out extraordinary techniques in their attempts to bring the building industry in the State of Victoria to a halt. [More…]
Building projects costing $469m are being halted or substantially disrupted around Australia by constant trade union industrial action. [More…]
If it mentions anything about the unions, it is accused of union bashing. [More…]
I dare say that if I were to mention anything about the unions engaged in this sector I would be accused of union bashing. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the report that management and unions in Japan’s Honda motor company have agreed to forgo four days holiday during the next seven weeks to increase car and motorcycle production to meet foreign demands? [More…]
Does he believe that similar cooperation between union and management would be possible in Australia and, if so, could this be an answer to our present economic problems? [More…]
It is that sort of contribution from the Opposition, and indeed from some sections of the media and the more radical leadership in the trade union movement, which has led to the distortion and confusion which are the greatest braking force on the recovery of this country’s economy and on the recovery of this country from the point of view of all Australians. [More…]
They must be in some measure embarrassed by that when they look at the resolution of 8 September of the Trade Union Congress in the United Kingdom. [More…]
That sort of determination by a major trade union movement in a great democracy would be, I think, in some measure embarrassing to the Labor Opposition in this country and it would be something that Labor would not want people to be thinking about and discussing. [More…]
Indeed it might find somewhat embarassing a recent statement of Mr Charlie Oliver, a stalwart of the trade union movement in New South Wales, whose comment on the Friends of the Earth was that they should perhaps better be known as enemies of the people’. [More…]
We have recognised in the past 1 8 months or so a continual attempt at distortion and confusion by the Opposition, to some degree by the media, and certainly by the minority but outspoken radical leadership of some of the major unions. [More…]
The efforts of the Opposition, of some elements of the media and radicalism in the union movement, have brought about the export from this country of jobs and developmental capital. [More…]
Another matter that concerns me in this report and upon which I will make a passing reference is that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is the second largest purchaser of greasy wool from Australia. [More…]
That should be of some importance to people who continually criticise the Soviet Union. [More…]
On 17 August as recorded in Hansard at page 122, Senator Mcintosh asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, a question without notice as to whether the Minister will be seeking legal means of deporting migrants, who could be citizens of this country, because they choose to become active members of the trade union movement. [More…]
Government been approached by the Premier of Queensland requesting Federal intervention in the continuing dispute between the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Utah Development Company? [More…]
If such a request has been made, is it aimed at the Federal Government taking action to deregister the Seamen’s Union? [More…]
Can the Minister say how the national deregistration of a trade union, if effected, can possibly have any constructive effect in solving industrial disputes? [More…]
I must admit that I would not be at all surprised if the proposal put to me by the Clothing and Allied Trades Union in Western Australia was not found to be fact. [More…]
We have heard it against the British immigrants who have infiltrated the trade union movement. [More…]
In 1922 the white Rhodesians carried a referendum stating that they did not wish to become incorporated into the Union of South Africa and at the same time they gave approval to responsible self-government in Rhodesia. [More…]
But, of course, in the immediate post- War world, the situation existed in which non-aligned countries or the emerging countries- whatever we call them- had the choice of following what was known as the Westera powers- the democracies- or those countries largely led by the Soviet Union or, to a lesser extent, China. [More…]
If that were the case, we would push many very statesmanlike coloured leaders into the camp not of the Third World countries but probably into the camp dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or even China. [More…]
As a prime example, I refer to the Utah Development Company and its dispute with the Seamens Union of Australia over the union’s request or demand that there be a greater number of tankers manned by Australian crews. [More…]
The seamen’s union is simply asking for job protection. [More…]
What people are inclined to call trade union featherbedding has become par for the course as far as it relates to industrial standards. [More…]
At the same time the Soviet Union had top officials there to argue on fishing rights. [More…]
I have been trying to get information on behalf of the meat employees union about certain diseases that can be caught from cattle. [More…]
At the same time I had a letter in my possession from Mr Sinclair which was written to people in the electorate of Macarthur complaining about the meat employees union being rather selective and putting bans and limitations on the slaughter of certain cattle. [More…]
In relation to trade union membership, the important thing is that some employees were members of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association but with the rapid staff turnover a lot of employees were non-unionists. [More…]
I am not passing judgment on the union because in the building, mining or railway industries it is regarded as legitimate to say to an employee after he receives his first or second pay: ‘You have had two pays; union membership.’ [More…]
In regard to the officials of the shop employees union, I will not quote names because there has been internal conflict in the union. [More…]
However, the fact of the matter is that if that union had applied bans it would have been said that it was denying free trade. [More…]
On the other side of the coin, I apply that to trade unions who are not engaged in strike activity, and I instance the case of the shop assistants’ union and how effective the law can be in protecting them on award observances. [More…]
I know there were reservations in the trade union movement. [More…]
If we are to ensure that the law means something, whether it be in regard to trade union breaches or whether it be in regard to human rights and the United Nations, we should follow an evenhanded course. [More…]
Regrettably, the leader of the trade union movement refused even to accept the suggestion in principle. [More…]
I say again that, in the light of the necessity to do these things, Australians should beware of the radical, even if relatively small, element in the trade union leadership that has succeeded over the years in virtually exporting jobs for this country, exporting development capital and hastening the introduction of sophisticated machinery and equipment which, of its very nature, slows down the re-employment process and which has threatened markets, both established and establishing. [More…]
The emergence of groups such as the Cattlemen’s Union with its extremely vociferous criticism of the rural strategies of the Government is evidence in itself of the total failure of the Government to do anything at all to prevent or to slow down the collapse of the rural sector. [More…]
The allocation for the Trade Union Training Authority has suffered a cut. [More…]
This, of course, is an important new area for providing assistance to workers and to people involved in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Courier-Mail of 1 October carried a statement quoting the Secretary of the Cattlemen’s Union, Mr Barry Cassell, as saying that he had received threats concerning his current position from big beef industry interests with international links. [More…]
I refer to the fact that an increasing number of members of the New South Wales Branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union are being rejected as blood donors by the blood transfusion service due to the rapidly increasing number of diseases associated with cattle slaughtering. [More…]
-Yes, and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In Victoria today 400,000 people have been stood down and are unemployed as a result of the intransigent actions of a few irresponsible union leaders who are preventing vital work being carried on by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. [More…]
The urgent problem for debate today- I would have liked to have heard Senator Button’s views and the Opposition’s views on this- is the situation which has arisen in Victoria as a result of irresponsible and intransigent union leaders. [More…]
The leaders of that union have been irresponsible and intransigent in repudiating the authority and advice of the conciliation and arbitration system, as indeed has occurred in the case of the State Electricity Commission strike. [More…]
This morning at Question Time I cited the numbers of jobs that have been lost in the Melbourne metropolitan area in recent weeks because of the actions of these union leaders. [More…]
I would have thought that the Opposition, in taking a decision to debate unemployment, would have had very serious regard for the most topical reason why unemployment has been created in this nation today and in recent weeks, namely, the irresponsible and intransigent attitude of a few union leaders which has resulted in an enormous loss of jobs for so many members of the community. [More…]
Does this refer to Mr Norm Gallagher, vice chairman of the MarxistLeninist Communist Party of Australia who would spend, I think, more time denouncing the revisionist, Zionist imperialists of the Soviet Union than he would denouncing the Master Builders’ Association? [More…]
Does it refer to Mr Halfpenny of the Communist Party of Australia, who is locked in bitter battles with the Soviet Union and its supporters in the Socialist Party of Australia? [More…]
Not only is the Government not prepared to debate unemployment as the problem that it is; it is back in the days of Dulles and back in Mr Bill Wentworth ‘s better years telling us about the menace of the Soviet Union and how Russian spies have caused the strikes in Melbourne. [More…]
I believe that the causes of unemployment in this country, in spite of the remarks of Senator Wheeldon and Senator Button, are certainly related to the small radical element of trade union leadership. [More…]
The small section of the trade union movement has sought, over the last three, four or five years in particular, extreme wage rises. [More…]
It was not until force was brought to bear by the Cattlemen’s Union that the Government came out with the statement on the beef industry which, when you analyse it, is not worth the paper it is written on. [More…]
He is busy union bashing over there in Western Australia and doing all sorts of nice things to people he considers to be nasty. [More…]
An excellent study was done of women, particularly migrant women in these circumstances who, not even speaking the language, were not in a position to claim decent wages and decent conditions and were not in a position to enlist the support of their union officials to fight for justice for them. [More…]
Australian Wool Corporation- Commonwealth Trading Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Bank of New South Wales, National Bank of Australasia Limited, Reserve Bank of Australia, The Bank of Adelaide, The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, First National City Bank (New York), Union Bank of Switzerland [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the resolution relating to an expanding energy program in the United Kingdom which was recently passed by the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress? [More…]
Honourable senators may know that at a meeting of the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress on 8 September of this year the following resolution was passed: [More…]
I must say that the enlightened attitude of the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress stands in stark contrast to that adopted by their socialist brothers in this country. [More…]
This question is rather strange in view of the attitude which the union leadership has adopted in regard to this dispute because it has been a defiant and an intransigent attitude which has led to the sorry state in Victoria at the present time. [More…]
There have been some agreements reached in the past between State governments and sections of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union regarding the slaughter of brucellosis reactors. [More…]
Can he say when the result of the Industrial Registrar’s investigation into the irregularities of the last election of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union will be made known so that the Government can take any action which may be necessary? [More…]
The investigation into the irregularities of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union election referred to by Senator Walters was carried out by what was then the Arbitration Inspectorate of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
As a result of that investigation, the union is in the process of conducting a fresh election for the office of federal national organiser. [More…]
In South Australia the federal executive of the union has taken a decision to conduct a new election for the office of State secretary. [More…]
I say that because the capacity of an industry to pay has been argued as being a trade union or an arbitration truism. [More…]
I had occasion to talk to members of two big industrial corporations in Japan and they told me, as I expected they would, of some things they did not like about the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
I suppose I could say to Senator Scott that the trade union movement does the same thing at times and levies for a fund for a particular purpose. [More…]
I cannot let the opportunity go without mentioning the dispute involving the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Utah. [More…]
The union is trying to bash one of the most successful companies and harm a lot of jobs and many Australian workers. [More…]
But as a result of bans and submissions by the Seamen’s Union of Australia the Utah Development Company agreed to a rearrangement of terms and conditions. [More…]
They agreed to a rearrangement of terms and conditions such that union members now receive the wages set under the International Transport Federation Award and better conditions. [More…]
As a matter of fact, when the Seamen’s Union of Australia bought into this subject a telegram was sent from the overseas union asking the Seamen’s Union of Australia to desist and saying that the men were quite satisfied with their wages and conditions. [More…]
So we have this problem now that the Seamen’s Union is using guerrilla tactics at Hay Point. [More…]
We have the very real problem that if perchance, by some misfortune, the Seamen’s Union were to win this dispute we could not economically compete because of the increased freight rates on the European market. [More…]
We have a typical case of union leaders pricing their men out of the market. [More…]
They are using the innocent men and women of the union. [More…]
At Hay Point good union members only want to be about their work. [More…]
If the Seamen’s Union is allowed to win, these men would have to be stood down. [More…]
As soon as the stockpiles were sufficient the miners in the hinterland also would have to be stood down- all to appease the insatiable appetite of these union leaders. [More…]
These men at Hay Point are now operating under very subtle pressures to try to make them feel that they are the pariahs of the union movement; yet they are operating under the terms and conditions they have arranged. [More…]
At one stage the Mackay branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association even tried to initiate a kangaroo court to take the Hay Point delegate’s union membership from him. [More…]
Fortunately, that move failed; but we have what appears to be a concerted effort within the union movement by only certain sections and certain leaders to destroy our way of life and to use the men and women of Australia to do it. [More…]
We have had intruded into this debate the dispute which rages in Queensland between the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Utah Development Co. [More…]
So much for Utah and its actions against the Seamen’s Union in Queensland. [More…]
It has taken out writs against the union to extract damages from the Seamen’s Union and in some way to disadvantage the union and intimidate it to accept conditions that Utah is trying to impose. [More…]
In spite of all the things that Mr Bjelke-Petersen likes to announce from time to time, the Seamen’s Union has taken a restrained position. [More…]
Union members have picketed Utah offices. [More…]
He will see that what the Seamen’s Union is insisting on is the right for Australian crews, in part, to man vessels which carry Australian exports. [More…]
Nor have I found it in the trade union movement. [More…]
This is a Budget that has already been rejected by a wide section of the Australian community, by large sections of business, by large sections of the trade union movement and in the media. [More…]
Here is a case where their association and their affiliations with the union movement surely would have allowed them to become much more positive in attempting to solve this strike than they appear to have done. [More…]
We went to the Soviet Union and to China to seek new markets for wheat. [More…]
1 want to refer to the quantity of wool that has been sold to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
But now we find the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the people who sit behind him continually lambasting the Soviet Union and saying that it is a threat to this country. [More…]
Not so long ago, we heard the Prime Minister severely criticising the Soviet Union because of some activities taking place in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite use countries such as the Soviet Union and China for local political purposes. [More…]
But let us look at the position of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In 1974-75 the Soviet Union bought 1,122,861 tonnes of wheat. [More…]
I refer to the Soviet Union and the massive country of China. [More…]
The improved relationship which has developed between the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union and AWTA since the end of 197S enabled a number of difficult issues to be resolved without industrial action and within the wage indexation guidelines. [More…]
I have no doubt that the dispute in Queensland with Utah could be resolved if Petersen would allow Utah to sit in consultation with the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
He wants to be able to go out in a few weeks ‘ time and ask the people of this country: Who is running the countrythe trade unions or the Government? [More…]
They blame the trade unions. [More…]
The trade union movement is the backbone of this country. [More…]
If it were not for the work put in by trade unions some of the people opposite could not survive. [More…]
It would have been no good Senator Cormack producing pigs if the trade union member did not have money in his pocket to buy pork or bacon. [More…]
In regard to this area, I believe that we have to recognise that, whilst unemployment is great, it is partially contributed to by the greediness and by the demands which are being made by some sections of the community and, particularly, by some of the extraordinary demands that are made by some union leaders who do not care how many people they put out of work provided that it gives to members of their unions some immediate advantage. [More…]
It is signed by Mr Ken Carr who is, of course, a well known left wing member and important unionist in Victoria. [More…]
I believe that in the past this union has had some success in getting its way because it deals with a lot of firmssome of which are fairly small- and it has been able to bully into submission firms forced to accept the outrageous demands in the past. [More…]
It has been calculated by people who have read this document and worked out the figures that to employ a normal glass cutter under the award and under the claims that their union has made would cost $65 an hour. [More…]
Senator Missen seemed to express some abhorrence at the fact that a trade union secretary would have the cheek to do that sort of thing, and some thoughts went through my mind as I heard him express his views. [More…]
The left wing forces in this country have, like a parasite, entwined themselves with some of the unions. [More…]
I have said before that I believe in having a trade union movement. [More…]
I think the trade union movement has been a very good thing for Australia. [More…]
But something has happened to the trade union movement over the last few years. [More…]
The trade union movement that we knew a few years ago- in the days of the great giants of the labour movement- has disappeared to quite an extent. [More…]
The battles that the trade unions have ahead of them are immense because this parasite is entwined around the roots of the trade union movement. [More…]
One has only to look at the article entitled Anatomy of a Disaster’ in the Weekend Australian of 8 and 9 October and to consider the names of the people who are now at the helm of a lot of the industrial trouble in Victoria to get a very clear appreciation of the problems confronting the trade union movement. [More…]
It surprises me that there is not a bigger move within the trade union movement to dispose of those people. [More…]
The average unionist- one of the 500,000 people we are talking about- has been out of work for several weeks and may not work for a while yet. [More…]
I would say that the family of such a trade unionist is in a destitute situation and is looking for money to buy a meal. [More…]
This is all because of the action that has been taken by those half a dozen people at the head of the trade union movement- these communist and left wing forces- supposedly for the good of the trade union movement. [More…]
Australia will have to settle down and the trade union movement will have to throw out these people and operate as part of the team. [More…]
I suggest that, if there are any honest workers or any honest trade unionists who want to assist in helping Australia out of this chaotic situation- I am referring also to the trade union leaders, particularly those five communists who are out to destroy Australia- they should put their weight to the wheel. [More…]
It is pretty obvious that he knows very little about the ambit in which trade unions have to work when they are placing a log of claims. [More…]
I think his understanding of the trade union movement, like Senator Kilgariff’s, is appalling. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff obviously knows nothing about the leadership of the trade union movement or what is going on in the trade union movement. [More…]
Instead of bringing down constructive policies, the Government seems to have concentrated on its bitter and vicious attacks upon the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about the responsibility of the trade union movement and about what its responsibilities should be. [More…]
What do we mean by ‘more responsible trade unions’? [More…]
For what must the trade union movement be responsible? [More…]
Trade unions should make decisions at the point of production, management and control. [More…]
At one dme the trade union could negotiate with an employer. [More…]
I am talking about the democratisation of industry, and if honourable senators opposite do not believe that that is what the situation is going to be in this country, I am afraid I have nothing but pity for them because there is no way that they are going to screw down the trade union movement. [More…]
This Government tells us that the responsibility of the trade union movement should be to screw down wages to the level that suits it and the employers. [More…]
What is required is common sense, negotiation and a proper understanding of the trade union movement. [More…]
It looks as though the Government wishes to fight the next election against an army of unemployed and so long as the Government has a lack of understanding in the industrial field and its supporters continue blindly to make the remarks about the trade union movement that have been uttered by the two previous Liberal speakers, I am afraid there is very little hope unless the Government resigns. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has a cattle population of about 1 10 million and that number also is falling; Brazil has about 96 million and that number is rising; and India has about 75 million and that is fairly stable. [More…]
Now that the Labor Party is in such a terrible mess over bringing the whole of Victoria to a standstill over an industrial issue which should not exist, and Labor supporters are being terribly hurt both financially and otherwise, it is quite obvious that this question is being asked again today to try to put a smokescreen over the problems and difficulties which the trade union movement is causing the citizens of Victoria. [More…]
I ask whether it has been drawn to your attention that a Cattlemen’s Union memorandum was placed in the Press boxes yesterday and that it read as follows: [More…]
Australian Labor Party Rural Committee has invited Cattlemen’s Union of Australia to hold discussions with Committee this evening. [More…]
Union’s National Director Mr Barry Cassell would be available 8.00 p.m.; Senate Committee Room No. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that this dispute has been allowed to get out of control by a complete lack of leadership by trade union leaders, including Mr Hawke, who should have been principally responsible for taking charge of this dispute at a far earlier stage. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations whether he can say what action the Government is taking regarding the new rules introduced by the Builders Labourers Federation to prohibit right wing members from standing for union office. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt referred to the question of a consultant talking about the trade union role. [More…]
Scott and Company Ltd that the maturity being exhibited by the British Trade Union Congress came about because respective governments dealt with them in a fair manner. [More…]
When we deal with the cost factor, it is quite correct to say in relation to holding the line, as it were, on wages that the trade union movement plan proposed by Bob Hawke for a common levy for Medibank would have resulted in a much lower cost increase than the plan instituted by this Government. [More…]
Whatever brick-bats may be thrown at the trade union movement, at every indexation quarter that goes by, they are being swindled because of the direct flowthrough of the cost of living under indexation. [More…]
Engineering Union in Australia that dealt with the AEU in the period 1920 to 1940 will know that the table of apprentices in that book is a fair barometer of the state of Australia. [More…]
I can fairly well read the mind of Senator Tehan in regard to excessive demands by the trade union movement. [More…]
Let us have no more of this rubbish about the trade union movement adopting a Ned Ludd attitude opposing any of these reforms. [More…]
What happened with the award sought by the Australian Workers Union? [More…]
If trade unions are extra vigilant, they are thinking in terms of people with a working life, say, from 21 years to about 60 years of age. [More…]
Whatever honourable senators may say about these schemes and about trade union consultations, it is a fact that during its term of office the Whitlam Government sought powers on incomes and prices. [More…]
It is true that some sections of the trade unions had distinct reservations. [More…]
I never want to see the trade union movement surrender its independence to any government. [More…]
At that stage it might have been possible for the trade union movement to accept with some reservations but now the trade union movement is the victim of an indexation system that will continue to erode wages. [More…]
It was then discovered that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had missiles in place. [More…]
With regard to international matters, a point which was raised by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, there are elements in the trade union movement which report every day to a central agency of the Communist Party. [More…]
Do the political activities of someone in Australia become an international matter with Security snooping everywhere into the domestic politics of elements of the trade unions in Australia? [More…]
When Senator Sir Magnus Cormack identifies an element in the trade union movement which is making reports to the Communist Party, does it justify the Office reporting that to the officials of the union or to other elements of the union? [More…]
Does the Director-General make arrangements, for example, with Senator Sir Magnus Cormack who tells us a tale about elements within the trade union movement reporting to the Communist Party? [More…]
Is it appropriate to report to the head of a particular trade union the elements of the trade union movement that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack found reporting to communist sources every day? [More…]
Are motions being put to the annual council meeting of the Australian Union of Students to increase the annual fee towards $10, which fee is to be hidden in the enrolment fee and inapparent to students? [More…]
This is a policy which says that members of striking unions at the establishment at which the industrial dispute is in force are not eligible for unemployment benefit under section 107 of the Social Services Act. [More…]
Members of other unions at that establishment who are stood down as a result of the dispute will, however, be paid unemployment benefit, subject to the usual conditions. [More…]
Persons who are stood down at other establishments as a result of the dispute will be granted unemployment benefit subject to the usual conditions, irrespective of their union membership. [More…]
What it is saying, in effect, whether the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions like it or not, is that we are in the nuclear age. [More…]
Amongst those countries are the areas generally known as Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that the introduction of the citizens band radio service was accompanied by union bans on the issue of licences and on the investigation of interference. [More…]
-Yesterday Senator Sheil asked a question concerning a Cattlemen’s Union memorandum which was placed in the Press boxes on Tuesday, 1 1 October. [More…]
I was quite astonished to hear a person of the calibre of Senator Sheil- a Queensland senator- raising that question in a way that appeared to me to be some objecton to members of the Cattlemen’s Union being in Parliament House and having consultation and discussion with members of the Parliamentary Labor Party on the problems that are besetting their industry. [More…]
I can only assume that the reason why Senator Sheil made such remarks in his question yesterday was that he was disappointed that the Cattlemen’s Union meeting in Toowoomba on 29 September carried a motion of no confidence in the Country Party Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) because of his lack of help for the cattle industry. [More…]
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union is talking about preserving the share of its members, but I think it reasonable to repeat that their share is already very good and, as I have said, increased from 5 17,000 tonnes of export meat in 1974-75 to 857,000 in 1976-77, a 50 per cent increase in two years. [More…]
The major importers included the United States, Japan, Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I put to the Minister that I was told on Friday by Mr Addison, Federal Secretary of the ASE, that the union representatives saw Mr Street well over three weeks ago and some interim arrangements had been suggested but they still have not had an answer. [More…]
I do not think, from what Senator Mulvihill has said, that there is necessarily any conflict of fact between what the secretary of the union has said and what Mr Street indicated in the reply which I gave on his behalf in this place. [More…]
The union bashing program that has been adopted in Queensland and in Victoria in particular is part of an ongoing program to divide the community wherever the Government possibly can. [More…]
I am concerned for the genuinely unemployed, and anyone on the other side of the chamber who calls me a worker basher or a union basher would not have the faintest concept of what he was talking about. [More…]
I am neither a union basher nor a worker basher. [More…]
While I am dealing with unemployment, let us look at this side of the matter: In my view, much of the unemployment is caused by the actions of those in the extreme left wing of the unions- those people who have no concern for the workers although they collect the union dues and are paid by the workers. [More…]
Most of those blokes have got themselves good cushy jobs in the trade union movement now. [More…]
Let us have no nonsense about the attitudes of some of those in the extreme left wing in the trade unions today. [More…]
The unions have done a good job over the years, particularly in the early stages. [More…]
The union came in and made the cane farmer build barracks. [More…]
That is the kind of action I support unions taking. [More…]
But when unions get to the stage of holding the whole nation and the people to ransom without regard for the suffering of women and children, it is time we took a second look at ourselves as Australians and asked: ‘What are we doing? [More…]
The Government’s policy in relation to the power dispute in Victoria, as is its policy in relation to all industrial disputes, has been to support the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the arbitration system and to encourage to the best of its endeavours the unions and the union leaders to support that system and to give leadership. [More…]
As I understand it, the union responded by invoking its standing rule of one out all out’. [More…]
Despite this mass withdrawal of labour, it is understood that the union has permitted the employer to retain about 20 workers to do the necessary maintenance work. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the socalled rebel is a young 19-year-old apprentice who has chosen not to join a certain union because he believes it is contrary to the terms of his agreement as an apprentice, and that his big brave fellow unionists have refused to work with him or to work with any equipment he touches? [More…]
However, I would like to add that the Government for some time has been very concerned about, and has had very clear policies in relation to a person who on conscientious grounds refuses to join a union. [More…]
Secondly, another vital need is required to restore the health of this economic community and that is union cooperation in restoring jobs in this community and in maintaining those jobs. [More…]
I cannot help but ask: Why is it that the union movement will not provide the co-operation that is required to employ members of the union movement in other industries? [More…]
It is well known that South Australia is at the mercy of those who can cut off fuel at Port Stanvac simply by a decision of a union secretary. [More…]
How often has South Australia stood aghast at the prospects of its petroleum supplies being cut off at the whim of one union? [More…]
What are the unions going to go in relation to co-operation to bring about economic health for this sort of community in Australia and particularly in South Australia? [More…]
This company is owned by the Australian Union of Students and its debt has put a lot of AUS money in jeopardy. [More…]
We need to know how the Australian Union of Students itself would come to put a further $50,000 unsecured into AUS Student Travel in the last couple of weeks. [More…]
Before I resume my seat I think it is appropriate, in the atmosphere of confrontation which this Government is endeavouring to set up with the trade union movement, that I make some mention of trade unions. [More…]
I have been a trade unionist all my working life. [More…]
I believe sincerely that only those who have been closely associated with the trade union movement know the requirements of the working class people of Australia. [More…]
Industrial disputes or strikes, as honourable senators on the Government side want to call them, represent only a small item of trade union activity. [More…]
Unfortunately I say this quite concernedly- that is the item which receives the widest Press publicity while all other activities of the trade union movement pass without recognition. [More…]
We have about two per cent of the trade union movement involved in strikes and that receives 98 per cent of the publicity which is given to the trade union movement. [More…]
On any given day the trade union movement negotiating in industrial disputes solves thousands of problems on behalf of its members. [More…]
The trade union movement contributes to countless charities. [More…]
Governments of all political persuasions readily admit that many of their most important committees- I mention this to honourable senators opposite so that they can give it a lot of consideration- are unable to function without the full support and co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement will not and cannot accept restrictions upon its right to involve itself in the political life of the community, and this seems to be one of the bones of contention today. [More…]
Trade unions, as the organised strength of the lower and middle income workers, have an obligation to exercise their civic responsibility and they do it. [More…]
The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the unions to improve conditions, social services, education, housing and a host of other things. [More…]
I have always felt that trade unions initiate the demands and they need to have a Labor Party in government to implement their policies. [More…]
This is the basis of the trade union movement. [More…]
Surely no honourable senator in this chamber would challenge the right of the trade union movement to intercede in these matters. [More…]
Surely no one would challenge the trade union’s right to interest itself in these matters. [More…]
Having given that benediction to the trade union movement let me say that the great Australian Labor Party is proud of its association with the trade union movement and I sincerely hope that during the time that I will serve in this [More…]
Senate I will be able to work to ensure a strengthening of the great ties that exist between the ALP and that most important section of the working class- the trade union movement. [More…]
As I said earlier, having given that benediction to the trade union movement I offer this suggestion very sincerely to the Government: In its policy of confrontation with the trade union movement because it thinks it will serve some political expediency, the Government, I suggest as a fellow who has been around for a long time, is on the wrong course. [More…]
I earnestly suggest to the Government that it should back off before it is too late, get around the table and talk with the great trade union movement and come to some compromise solution that can only help this country. [More…]
I take the opportunity firstly to answer one or two points raised by Senator McAuliffe and in particular to mention the matter that he dealt with at the conclusion of his speech in regard to the trade union movement because I do not think there is any man in this Parliament who would not appreciate the great work done by the average person in the trade union movement over a long period of time to improve the working conditions of all. [More…]
The point is that the trade union movement is under the domination of the left wing demagogues throughout the community who are seeking to impose political judgments on the things that are being done in the interests of people generally. [More…]
Object (a) of the Australian Union of Students says that it is to represent students of Australia internationally in matters of concern to students and to establish and maintain cooperation between tertiary institutions in all countries. [More…]
I have one or two examples from the current budget of AUS for this financial year which may indicate some of the directions to which funds are being put by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Some of the political activities of AUS may not cross the interests of most members of the association but the issue of complusion in paying a fee to the Australian Union of Students raises a big problem. [More…]
I have evidence that it is quite possible and highly probable that the telex, telephone and other office facilities belonging to the AUS Travel Service have been used by the Australian Union of Students for its activities, including political activities. [More…]
It is signed by Margaret Osman, the office manager of the South Australian Union of Students. [More…]
In his speech tonight Senator Hall made great play about his concern for the trade unionists who live in the electorate of Hawker. [More…]
I will not have time tonight to repeat or quote from Hansard what the trade union movement in South Australia thinks about Senator Hall, but I hope that I will have an opportunity before the next election once again to let the people of South Australia know what the trade union movement thought of Senator Hall when he was a member of the South Australian Parliament. [More…]
We heard during the debate on the first reading of the Oilseeds Levy Bill, two contributions one by Senator Baume and one by Senator Messner, which indicated that those two senators* are engaged in a politically motivated vendetta, not so much against AUS Student Travel Service as against the Australian Union of Students itself. [More…]
My concern is that the future of this worthwhile enterprise may be caught up in the political controversy that surrounds the Australian Union of Students itself. [More…]
The motive behind the remarks of both honourable senators today is to disadvantage AUS Student Travel because they want to disadvantage the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
It seems to me to be quite unjust that honourable senators on the Government side should be continually attacking the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students imposes a levy of $2.40- the price of three packets of cigarettes- and each student throughout Australia is obliged to pay that levy. [More…]
If a minority has gained control of an organisation like the Australian Union of Students then it is the fault of the many indifferent students who do not care. [More…]
It should be separated from the Australian Union of Students and its political activities, if honourable senators opposite want to say that they are political. [More…]
I ask the Minister: How is it that since that statement became public and his departmental officers knew about it there has been no support from any of the Government Ministers for those proposals which have been developed only by the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
In view of the lack of declaration by the Government, why is it that the Government now is producing certainly more repressive laws against the union movement when it might well wait for a settlement based on the proposals which are now declared by the Victorian Premier and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to be very constructive? [More…]
It relates to the deregistration of unions and to the deregistration of one section of a union against another section of a union. [More…]
Why is it that the Bill that will be introduced at 8 o’clock this evening will be brought on for debate before the members of the party that I represent have an opportunity to discuss it among themselves, let alone with the broad sections of the trade union movement that wish to discuss the matter with my party and to convey their point of view to my party so that the Bill may be debated adequately in this place and in the community generally? [More…]
Senator Georges posed a very reasonable question when he asked: What is wrong with the Senate dealing next Tuesday with the contentious Bill about the trade union movement? [More…]
The Labor Party, as we all know, grew up through the trade union movement. [More…]
We make no apologies for working hand in glove with the trade union movement to better the lot of the work force in this country which persons like Senator Hall do their utmost to discredit. [More…]
He is going to show some concern for the residents of Hawker who are trade union members and who are in the work force. [More…]
This is the very thing for which the trade union movement in South Australia has been critical of him in the past. [More…]
I shall quote from Senate Hansard of 9 July 1 975 when I read an extract of some material that was put out awakening the trade union members of South Australia as to what type of person Senator Hall was. [More…]
His political career and beliefs are based on a deep-seated hatred of trade unions and he is longing to throw into reverse all that the ALP and the union movement have fought for over decades to achieve wage justice and decent job conditions. [More…]
I return to the article, which appeared in many trade union journals in South Australia. [More…]
He once described an Australian Railways Union strike as ‘disastrous’. [More…]
He once accused the Liquor Trades Employees Union of intimidation and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of ‘grossest interference with the affairs of a company’. [More…]
A year ago Hall claimed Australian industry was in ‘grave danger’ because of a ‘reckless’ union ban on US ships. [More…]
Now he is on the attack again professing concern about union management, demanding checking of accounts by the Auditor-General despite the fact that audited balance sheets are already required by law to be presented to the Registrar of the Industrial Court. [More…]
Of course it will cancel Christmas for a great many wage earners in this country because it is nothing more than a provocative action to take on the trade union movement. [More…]
Mr Fraser said that he and Mr Street-who would become the Minister for Labour and Industrywould take on the trade union movement and teach it a lesson. [More…]
The Government is taking on the trade union movement and it will endeavour to teach that movement a lesson. [More…]
No doubt, the same thing will happen to Mr Fraser if he has a confrontation with the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The facts of that matter are that the firm was the auditor of a union in South Australia whose accounts were subject to very serious embezzlement of funds. [More…]
I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to both the national employers and the peak trade union councils for the frank views put to the Minister during those consultations. [More…]
These provisions are based on the recommendations of the Royal Commission- Mr Justice Sweeney- into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions conducted during the office of the previous Government. [More…]
The real issues are the soaring economic and social costs to the entire community, and the capacity of certain unions and groups of unionists to inflict this harm. [More…]
A second trend is that, in pursuing economic and social objectives- in seeking to give effect to their broader aspirations- trade unions have sought to extend their strength and influence by intensive recruitment activity and have endeavoured to impose greater restrictions on the freedom of individual employees and, indeed, non-employees. [More…]
This is evidenced in part by the conduct of some unions designed to compel certain self-employed persons, such as owner-drivers, or employers m a small way of business who ‘work on the tools’ to join the union concerned. [More…]
These unions have sought to impose bans or boycotts which directly or indirectly harm that person’s legitimate commercial interests in an endeavour to compel his membership of the union. [More…]
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this trend is the change in the relationship between the member and his union. [More…]
A certain common purpose must be shared by the members of a union, but as the objectives of unions broaden, this becomes less and less likely. [More…]
Clearly, in any large group of individuals such as a trade union, while there might be agreement about traditional union goals, the scope for disagreement about other issues- political, social, cultural, environmental- may be as great as the diversity amongst individuals in an organisation. [More…]
This becomes all the more oppressive for individual members where the union leadership is ideologically oriented, bent upon serving some narrow political interest rather than the interests of the members. [More…]
The Medibank strike of last year, a political not an industrial issue, will long live in the memories of many whose unions tried to discipline them for non-participation or who, under duress, took industrial action against their personal convictions. [More…]
However, in response to views put to me during consultations with the national employers and the peak union councils, the Government has decided to require the payment of a fee by an applicant for a certificate. [More…]
Non-employees will be able to join a State branch of an organisation of employees only where, and to the extent that, State industrial arbitration legislation authorises non-employees to be members of State unions. [More…]
In addition, to combat unfair recruitment tactics designed to coerce a non-employee to join a union, a series of offences is proposed by the Bill. [More…]
The right of a union member to refuse to participate in industrial action is to be reinforced. [More…]
During Mr Street’s meeting with the unions on 1 1 May, the ACTU handed him a document setting out their position in relation to the agreement subsequently reached. [More…]
In response to the views put to the Minister by the national employers and the peak trade union councils, the relevant provision has been redrawn to make clear that the Bureau cannot take part in the dispute settling process under this section. [More…]
The amendments now proposed in this regard retain the right of a person to go directly to the Court, rather than to have the Bureau act on his behalf, and this change again reflects views put to me by the national employers and the peak union councils. [More…]
This decision by Government is a further indication of the seriousness with which the views of national employers and the peak union councils have been considered. [More…]
When the Industries Assitance Commission decided to attack the Government for trying to protect employment in Australian industry, there was a total stony silence from the Opposition and from much of the trade union movement. [More…]
-Nobody could ever describe me as a union basher and those who try should look at my record. [More…]
It follows a question I asked on Wednesday when I referred to a report of intimidation of a young Tasmanian apprentice by his fellow workers because of his belief that he should not have to join a union. [More…]
Somehow or another a myth seems to be growing up in this country that there is one sacred group, namely, the trade union movement. [More…]
If one does not have a work ticket from a union one can starve. [More…]
I know that in my State of Western Australia, where people have the right to opt out, they still have to pay their union dues. [More…]
They are not necessarily those who do not wish to be dragooned into the trade union movement. [More…]
I should have thought that anybody who believes in a fair go in this community would believe that there is a right not to join a union. [More…]
I ask: Does the Minister realise that five national left wing union leaders yesterday flew to Hobart to organise that take-over of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council? [More…]
I am informed that the union leaders were Pat Clancy, George Campbell, Ralph Taylor, Harry Mitchell and George Crawford. [More…]
Any trade union involved may do likewise. [More…]
-This is a great example of what might be termed trade union justice. [More…]
This is how the trade union movement works. [More…]
If the honourable senator believes that there is reason for a criminal or civil action, why do the employees or the unions not take the correct action? [More…]
Every few monthsperhaps it coincides with the phases of the moon, I do not know- the living dead who sit on the Government side in the Senate stand in their places, stir their bones and rise up to haunt the trade union movement and the industrial arbitration system in this country but nothing follows from that exercise. [More…]
I made the point that Mr Anthony was talking to a collection of farmers whom he was trying to persuade that their problems were the responsibility of the trade union movement. [More…]
I’ll tell them that their problems really are caused by the trade union movement and not by our policies- not the sorts of policies which we promised in 1975 would bring great benefit to the rural sector. [More…]
We will get these fellows to blame the trade unions’. [More…]
One of the important provisions of this Bill is the deregistration provisions, which would enable the Industrial Relations Bureau to have a quite simple means of deregistering unions. [More…]
I do not know whether deregistration of trade unions is offered to the trade union movement in 1977 as a threat or a promise. [More…]
The threat of deregistration will shortly be no longer a threat to trade unions; it will be a promise. [More…]
It will be nice for trade unions to be outside the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and not bothered with all these legalisms and legalitiesall these pieces of legislation which we keep on debating here in the Senate. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the socalled deregistration provisions in this legislation are potentially disastrous, they will achieve nothing and they are certainly not a real threat to most trade unions these days. [More…]
In clause 20 of the Bill, to deal with another example, hindering of interstate trade is to become a ground for deregistration of a trade union. [More…]
Another example in the legislation is clause 19 which deals with trade union demarcation disputes. [More…]
This is an important matter because demarcation disputes between trade unions have for years constituted about 13 per cent or 14 per cent of all industrial disputes in this country. [More…]
Between 1972 and 1975, in order to lessen the number of demarcation disputes between unions, the Labor Government on three occasions introduced legislation into this Senate to make it easier for unions to amalgamate. [More…]
This situation should not really surprise any outside observer when it is considered that we have 300-odd trade unions in Australia compared with 16 in Germany and 20-odd in Sweden, countries which seem a little more successful than Australia. [More…]
That legislation to enable the number of trade unions in this country to be limited was consistently opposed by the then Opposition. [More…]
All it does is to give the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to say: ‘You do not belong to that union. [More…]
According to International Labour Organisation records the countries with no industrial disputes at all are Uganda, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Chile, Albania and, of course, South Africa. [More…]
It is central to that system, at the very heart of it, that the system enabled the creation of what are called federal organisations or unions. [More…]
We have a plethora of unions in Australia disproportionate altogether to the experience of other countries. [More…]
We have more than 300 unions, not all of which are federal unions. [More…]
The fact is that the system gave the trade unions the benefit of registration of trade unions under which structure the trade unionist was able to get the benefits that he had secured far exceeding benefits of any other working man in any other country. [More…]
Yet we have a system that has given to the trade union movement greater freedon and much more strength than has any other system in the world. [More…]
The central part of this Bill concerns itself with the operation of those federal unions in the registry using their rights under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as registered organisations or unions. [More…]
Realising that the present provision that enables only complete cancellation, if one is to move against a union, may be too drastic and not very effective because of the reluctance of the court wholly to deregister a union, the Government has produced legislation that we have before us now. [More…]
In effect, it is legislation that was introduced in April, deferred by arrangement with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the employers, and subjected to consideration from then till now. [More…]
If it gives power to scourge a union of the militant troublemakers, often communists, one can see the advantage of that because it will enable the majority of men to get back to work while excluding the troublemakers. [More…]
So far from going the whole distance of cancellation of the union’s registration, this Bill, for the first time, gives power to the court on a cancellation application, to suspend the rights, privileges and capacities of the organisation or any of its members under the Act or under any award. [More…]
If it is not wanted to exclude them from membership, the court can suspend their entitlements and benefits both from the point of view of economic benefit and their right to exercise office in the union. [More…]
Curiously enough it was provided that the property of the union should be vested in that association so the union, by slipping its skin and ceasing to be a serpent, lost its property but when it emerged from the hole without its skin it still had its property and could carry on the benefit. [More…]
The Bill not only provides that the parties can apply for this sanction against the union and for the exercise by the court of an application of the bans clause in the award; it also enables the Industrial Relations Bureau to notify a dispute on a bans clause and to apply for the cancellation or for an injunction or for the application of penalties. [More…]
I only say that if the trade union movement does not realise that the preservation of the arbitration system in Australia is in its interests it will do great damage to the working people of this country. [More…]
It behoves the trade unions, having been given such a share in the prosperity of this country, to come to a realisation that they are part of the community and are not above the industrial law of the country. [More…]
No society can continue to exist with effect as the Australian society has done, and will do with prosperity and freedom, unless we ensure that trade unions, incorporated companies or classes of superior position and opportunity are under the law. [More…]
The fact is that in every Western democracy great account is taken of the trade union movement. [More…]
In West Germany, for example, and most of the European countries, trade unions in fact are present on works councils and are part often of the directorships. [More…]
West Germany is presenting legislation to allow trade unions to run enterprises jointly. [More…]
In the United States the trade union movement is one of the most well recognised bodies by Congress and by the President. [More…]
The issue today in Australia is an issue as to whether the Government can confuse the Australian people by saying that proper economic recovery can be achieved only through repressing the trade unions. [More…]
The election is going to be against the union movement as though by some stroke, by some legislation, the Government will cure the troubles in the country. [More…]
Under the prescription proposed in the legislation not only would their refusal to work be an illegal action but the whole of the union could be deregistered. [More…]
A dispute in the Mile End yards in Adelaide could lead to the deregistration of the entire Australian Railways Union or the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
What sort of trade union does the Government want Australia to have? [More…]
The Government talks about giving help to the genuine trade unionist, but what about a conscientious objector who does not want to join a union? [More…]
The provision in the legislation in respect of conscientious objectors will mean that people will be able to refuse to join a union on grounds other than a genuine religious objection. [More…]
The union movement has always accepted the prescriptions which are at present in the Act. [More…]
This means that people will be able to refuse to join a union on the grounds of a conscientious objection irrespective of whether those grounds are based on a religious objection. [More…]
As the honourable senator well knows, the real principle in these repressive pieces of legislation is to make sure that the trade union system does not work at all. [More…]
The old idea of freedom of association and the old British concept of trade unions are being knocked bit by bit. [More…]
It is proposed that a union can be told not to take a certain class of employee. [More…]
These disputes are being handled separately by people other than the Commonwealth, mostly by the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) told those officers to go out and help employers and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to solve disputes I am sure they would be competent and happy to do so. [More…]
I would like to draw to the attention of the Senate the volume of trade union action that we have had to put up with lately. [More…]
I answer that by saying that the unions today have become more sophisticated in their approach to strikes. [More…]
Should it be the elected government or a union? [More…]
I ask honourable senators opposite to answer that question because at the moment the union and not the elected government of this country is saying whether we should trade our wheat with Chile. [More…]
Do not honourable senators opposite remember that he was incapacitated right up to the time when the whole thing was brought to a head by the Victorian Government when the Victorian Government threatened to deregister the unions involved. [More…]
Quite frankly, the Australian people are fed up with pleading with the unions to behave and to be reasonable. [More…]
Then we have Mr Lowe pleading with the Seamen’s Union to discharge the cargo at Burnie: ‘Please will you not just take the cargo off for us?’ [More…]
What about those people who have a conscientious objection to joining a union? [More…]
Honourable senators opposite believe that if people do not want to work they should not have to work but that they must join a union if they work. [More…]
This legislation seeks to cover the situation where a union might apply pressure. [More…]
In this respect, I refer to the position in Tasmania at the moment where we have a young apprentice who says that, according to the conditions of his apprenticeship, he should not join a union. [More…]
Because he will not join a union his fellow workers are calling him a scab and are not associating with him. [More…]
It will be up to the rank and file unionist now to make up his own mind whether he wants to strike. [More…]
If he continues to go to work- as the majority of unionists did during the Medibank strike-he will be able to do so without the discrimination, threats, abuse and physical violence that went on during the Medibank strike when some people decided that they would go to work and would not go on strike. [More…]
I turn now to proposed new Part VIIIAA which deals with the accounts and audits of unions. [More…]
These amendments will provide that records be kept and made available to all members of a union. [More…]
Obviously, she has not read the report from the Royal Commission into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions. [More…]
We find that the unions at that time were trying to get payments for not supplying work. [More…]
The unions were demanding money even when they could not supply the labour. [More…]
We find that the Royal Commissioner said that all this work that was claimed for the shore unions was never, at any stage, a justified claim. [More…]
That money found its way into individual official unionists pockets. [More…]
The union held big dinner parties. [More…]
When the legislation is passed, it will make unions accountable in respect of such activities. [More…]
I turn now to the deregistration of unions. [More…]
I have been told that I have only one minute remaining to speak, so I will be able to make only a passing reference to deregistration of unions. [More…]
The new process will allow partial deregistration for certain sections of a union. [More…]
But more importantly, I believe, is the section of the Bill which gives the right to suspend the rights, privileges and capacities of a member or all members of a union. [More…]
Like Senator Bishop, I have had some experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
The State Government has been criticised because it gives preference to unionists in the government service. [More…]
Ever since it has given preference to unionists in the Government services there has not been a strike except for one” in the tramways system in South Australia which was of short durationless than 24 hours. [More…]
There is the record but today people talk about the freedom of the individual to join or to refuse to join a union. [More…]
If the Declaration of Human Rights means anything, while it may not force an individual to join a union, it does not mean that there should be power to prevent a person from associating with an organisation with which he wants to associate. [More…]
The Opposition sees this legislation as an attempt to divide the unions into smaller splinter groups. [More…]
The employers say that to avoid demarcation disputes they want amalgamation of unions- a bigger combination of unions. [More…]
The Government says that to control the unions it wants them in splinter groups. [More…]
Under this legislation the workers in the Latrobe Valley could be told by a decision of the court: ‘You cannot belong the the Metal Workers Union, you cannot belong to the Electrical Trades Union; you have to belong to some other union or form a union of your own so that we can deal with you as a small group’. [More…]
In this dispute there has been a radical departure from the established practice and precedent of the trade union movement in settling industrial disputes - [More…]
The standard practice is that initially the control of disputes is in the hands of the union executive. [More…]
If a dispute affects a number of unions within a State it is then under the control of that State’s Trades Hall Union Disputes Committee. [More…]
If it goes beyond that into the higher realm and spreads interstate it becomes a matter for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
As I have understood it and as other people have understood it, that has been the gospel- the policy- of the trade union movement in Australia since we have had a trade union movement. [More…]
It affected some nine unions, four of them very important unions. [More…]
It was eight weeks before we had any intervention at all at either the State or Federal level of the trade union movement. [More…]
-The point I make, Senator Missen, very briefly is that the irresponsible shop stewards, who are acting outside the trade union movement, are responsible for this strike. [More…]
The trade union movement either has neglected established procedures for settling such a strike or has chickened out of taking on the irresponsible shop stewards. [More…]
There has been a trend in the trade union movement for shop stewards to take over this role, whereby we have the irresponsibility of the few against the rights of the many. [More…]
The message I give today to those upwards of half a million people in trade unions who are out of work is: Blame the irresponsible shop stewards at Latrobe Valley. [More…]
As has been said, it is no excuse to claim that the Morwell strikers had no confidence in their union leaders and left the matter to the shop stewards. [More…]
Honourable senators have to remember that nine unions are involved. [More…]
I have set out already the three-tier system the trade union movement adopts in settling these disputes. [More…]
This is so for the very simple reason, if for no other reason, that shop stewards lack the particular expertise, status and experience to negotiate settlements which the authorised trade union movement has. [More…]
In the time left to me I want to refer to the history of the trade union movement in Britain which shows that as far back as World War II there were concerted efforts to substitute irresponsible shop steward leadership for constitutional union leadership. [More…]
The argument sponsored by the Communist Party is to transfer power over disputes to shop stewards on the basis that it will eliminate the old craft unions as we know them and to have one union and one union only in each factory controlled by shop stewards. [More…]
It is those people who want to put the shop stewards in the place of the authorised union movement. [More…]
I pay tribute to the vast majority of responsible trade unionists in Australia who are powerless to control their own economic future while there is this small, irresponsible and powerful group of people outside the movement who control it, as Ken Stone has acknowledged. [More…]
This is what he said in part, to the National Press Club yesterday: perhaps the real incidence for the high level of disputation over wages is the fact that the unions have a monopoly power over the supply of labour. [More…]
What rights did Kratulis, who was sacked from the Tramways Union in Melbourne and blackballed out of the job, have? [More…]
I am confident that if the people of Australia have to pass judgment on this Government for doing what it can to destroy industrial anarchy, to restore the legitimate right of the individual trade unionist to work and to provide a meal for his wife and children, the people of Australia will support this Government. [More…]
I am not talking about people who have a genuine conscientous objection to contributing to union funds. [More…]
Believe it or not, I have been associated with the union movement now since 1935. [More…]
I have always found that a person who has a genuine conscientious belief which prevents him from joining an organisation of employees is prepared to say: ‘I cannot join the union because . [More…]
but I wish to make a subscription to charity equal to the union contribution’. [More…]
Of what value to a union, which may be the only organisation that can represent an employee in an industry before both State and federal industrial courts, is a contribution to some charitable organisation? [More…]
What it does do- thank goodness for this-is to galvanise what might be divided people within the work force and the trade union movement into one force. [More…]
One thing I am sure will happen, as sure as day follows night, is that if there is ever an attempt to introduce any of these repressive measures against any individual, group of individuals or officers of unions we will find again happening in 1 977 or whatever year it may be, precisely what we saw happen in 1968 when the present Governor-General, then the presiding officer of the Industrial Court gaoled one trade union officer. [More…]
I was invited to speak at a meeting of unionists at the Morwell oval in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
The gentleman who presided at that meeting- he was 100 per cent solid in support of the action of the trade union movement- was a member of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
The basic problem in unionism in Australia today is that the union management has lost control of the unions. [More…]
The power to represent unions so often no longer resides at the top of the union structure. [More…]
Who speaks for the union movement? [More…]
It is the shop stewards in the Latrobe Valley in defiance of their own union leaders. [More…]
What does he do to put the management of unions back where it ought to be- at the elected management level of the union structure? [More…]
However, on June I S, an organised group calling itself the SEC Latrobe Valley Shop Stewards Committee under the leadership of Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union official S. Armstrong, took it upon itself to call a mass meeting of [More…]
A union out of control, led by communist shop stewards, is holding up half of Australia and causing destruction and poverty to hundreds of thousands of people. [More…]
As I have illustrated, they have used the axe instead of the preventive medicine of conciliation and reorganisation of the union movement. [More…]
The Labor Party opposes the clause which makes it an offence to force independent contractors into unions. [More…]
It therefore supports the naked power of those people in the union movement who will use gangster tactics to force into their organisations independent contractors in this community, who drive cement trucks, brick trucks et cetera that they themselves own. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite oppose giving freedom to those who own their own businesses but are bullied by the lowest of tactics into joining a union. [More…]
It is anathema to honourable senators opposite that there should be any discipline over the union movement. [More…]
For five long months South Australian industry was at the mercy of warring union factions. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are also against the provisions which provide for democracy in the industrial community by making it an offence to force individuals to join unions. [More…]
The Labor Party does not believe in freeing people from joining a union. [More…]
They do not believe that the union movement should be competitive and that its leaders should have to look to their laurels and provide an attractive organisation. [More…]
They believe that unions should attract people by dictatorial methods and union steward dictatorship. [More…]
It would shock even the hardest honourable senator here as to the practices of the Storemen and Packers Union of South Australia prior to 1974. [More…]
If ever we needed a clean up of the type that this Bill can give there is a visual demonstration in the Storeman and Packers Union and in many other unions. [More…]
I challenge Senator McLaren to go anywhere and defend the embezzlement of union funds and the cover up that goes on continually. [More…]
Union members need to be protected from their crooked leaders in certain instances. [More…]
It stands against proposed section 158ac, which deals with the keeping of proper union records. [More…]
It is against other clauses which deal with union organisations and such matters. [More…]
It is widely known within the union movement that fear and intimidation affect people. [More…]
Those provisions which prevent unions from bullying people to join them against their will and conviction are no doubt the test of it all. [More…]
We find that Labor in this place today stands for its base- a union movement that has lost control of its membership, a movement the most visible part of which can generally see success only through dictatorial methods developed over a long time of frightening supervision of its members. [More…]
In saying that I want to make it clear that I also believe there are many well run unions in this community. [More…]
I said that it was quite improper for a union to be deregistered in these circumstances. [More…]
I also referred to that very poor power of increasing the ability of the court to say who should belong to which union. [More…]
I do not doubt that there are communistled and communist controlled unions in Australia that go on strike. [More…]
But there are also anti-communist unions that go on strike. [More…]
I remember reading that the union involved in the largest number of industrial disputes in 1 976 was the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I understand that union is known as one of the left wing militant unions. [More…]
But the union that came a close second was the Federated Ironworkers Association which I am told is an extremely right wing union. [More…]
I am sure that Mr Laurie Short, the Federal Secretary of that union, would be the first to object if there was a suggestion that his union was under any communist influence. [More…]
Why do we not get rid of all of this nonsense about differentiating between the Corns and the rest, the left and right wing unions and try as a Federal Parliament to analyse the problem with which we are confronted. [More…]
The strike is the last weapon a union wants to use. [More…]
Unionists and their officials do not want to be involved in strikes if they can through arbitration get what they believe to be a reasonable solution to what they consider to be their justifiable claims. [More…]
Earlier today Senator Button, who led for the Opposition in this debate, made reference to the number of disputes and strikes that occurred in Australia as a result of demarcation disputes, that is to say where one union says that work should be done by its members and another union says that the work should be done by its members. [More…]
Between 1972 and 1975 the Labor Government introduced legislation to enable unions more easily to amalgamate and to overcome one of the main problems facing the trade union movement. [More…]
Obviously we have seen examples before of Westminster governments which have thought that they would introduce legislation to bludgeon the unions. [More…]
Even honourable senators on the Government side admit that there are good unions and there are bad unions. [More…]
But they intend to bludgeon the lot of them- not just the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union but also the Federated Ironworkers Association. [More…]
All of the unions will be subject to this sort of treatment once this legislation is passed. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the union movement as a whole has the greatest reservations about what is intended by the legislation? [More…]
The Government has taken it upon itself responsibly to bring in legislation to protect the rights and the freedoms of individuals in this country, and that includes members of the trade unions in this country who at the present time are bring tied down by so many of the radical shop stewards involved in some of the trade unions throughout Australia. [More…]
I say at this stage, as has been said before by other honourable senators on this side of the chamber, that there are many good trade unions in this country. [More…]
I support wholeheartedly the trade union movement. [More…]
But I do not support some of those people within the trade union movement who are doing their best to destroy not only this country economically but also the trade union movement which has done so much for so many of the working people in this country. [More…]
The tragedy today is that so many workers are locked into their own unions. [More…]
No longer is the union the servant of the worker; tragically we are rapidly reaching the stage where the worker is becoming the servant of his union. [More…]
But what real power do workers have today within a trade union? [More…]
If the stewards decide that a union is going on strike, what happens? [More…]
How many times have we had this said to us by our own friends who are involved in a union? [More…]
They say quite frankly that they are not able to work because they would be banned, ostracised and discriminated against by the union itself if they did so? [More…]
This occurs for the simple reason that there are people today who are not prepared to invest in Australia, because they are concerned at the union situation in this country. [More…]
Those forces must be married to the functions of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is no use seeking to say that the present dispute is the fault of the shop steward or the federal management committee of their union. [More…]
If that is developed to its logical conclusion, the Government should say that the federal officers of a union are not important. [More…]
I am one who believes that the resolution of any industrial dispute will be found at a mass meeting of unionists. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has found out that it was conned through the ditching of the uniform levy. [More…]
Senator Young talked about our European trade union counterparts. [More…]
If the Government wants to emulate Peron or Franco in regard to the trade union movement and the power of government, it is going the right way about it. [More…]
I was able to talk about this matter to a prominent union official, Mr Walsh, State president of the New South Wales branch of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
Traditionally in the engineering area fitters of the Australian Society of Engineers and fitters of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union work side by side. [More…]
If the Government is going to take sides and say that workers in one shop will be in one union and workers in another shop will be in another, it is asking for trouble. [More…]
Already the Government has problems here in regard to the Transport Workers Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association, the Australian Workers Union, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Government has at the back of its mind the idea that if there is a dispute over uranium and the Australian Railways Union shunters or members of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen jack up, it will use members of the National Union of Railwaymen as political mercenaries. [More…]
The whole concept of this measure is that the Government is going to meddle in every union because the right of an individual to take on his trade union secretary at State or federal level is there. [More…]
One of the products of our education system is a better educated trade union movement. [More…]
We were given a litany today about the trade unions that have been on strike in key situations. [More…]
I think the Government would insult the air traffic controllers if it suggested that they were part of the Peak Council or of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
If you are going deliberately to depress wages and depress social welfare, what do you think the trade union movement is going to do?’ [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are going to push the Bob Hawkes and other trade union people out of public life, those people will be able to earn a salary a lot easier than they do now when they have to suffer these foul canards that have been put up here today. [More…]
I simply say this to Senator Young: Yes, we are represented by the trade union movement and a lot of other people who are not organised. [More…]
For example, the $44,000 swindle happened because there were divisions in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Union. [More…]
No longer are mass strikes held across the country or one whole union going out. [More…]
It is not good enough for honourable senators opposite to say that unions must remain solid in all situations and in fact that membership of unions means that we all become mates headed in the same direction. [More…]
The fact is that the unions themselves are undertaking activities outside the wishes of vast numbers of people who are members of those unions. [More…]
I applaud the clause in this legislation which enables individuals to contribute to charities an amount equivalent to the union subscription. [More…]
Furthermore, the creation of the Bureau will ensure that there are additional powers to secure the observance of the Act for and on behalf of individual unionists. [More…]
Parliament is in the extension of the activities of the Government and the IRB in respect of cancelling the registration of a union or any other organisation. [More…]
The move towards the establishment of secret ballots in trade union affairs needs to be recognised at all levels and the opportunity taken in this legislation to extend that deserves applause from the community. [More…]
Finally, the requirements for unions to ensure that their accounting and reporting practices are in line with those required by shareholders of companies and all other organisations in the community are to be extended. [More…]
Trade unionists must know what is going on inside their unions. [More…]
The only way they can find that out is to be provided with information by the unions themselves. [More…]
To avoid having to do that is something approaching criminal behaviour, in my belief Unions are able to avoid their obligations and are able to make sure that trade unionists are kept in the dark. [More…]
I am not talking about just some sectors but about the broad section of the trade union movement whose members are kept in the dark about the financial and other affairs of the operations of the trade union, and consequently are not able to exercise their proper democratic rights when it comes to electing leaders of the trade unions or taking part in the ordinary affairs of trade unions. [More…]
I also might mention that there is in many unions no provision that a set of the rules of the union should be given to a member when he first joins. [More…]
I have heard unions claim that it is too costly to provide a set of rules, but how can an ordinary member extend his influence and use his democratic rights to the full unless he fully understands what the organisation is about and what the rules are that have been made by the organisation which is controlling him? [More…]
It is aimed at trying to get at that hard core that is developing in trade unions- people who are using trade unions for their own affairs and for their own political objectives rather than those of the community as a whole or those of the union membership. [More…]
Right at the core of it is the matter of the individual rights of trade unionists. [More…]
In no way can this Government or any supporter of the Government in the Senate be described as a ‘union basher’. [More…]
What we are seeking to do is to ensure that an ordinary member of a trade union has a right which he can exercise; that he is in a position to be able to exercise that right; and that he can influence the affairs of the union in the proper democratic way. [More…]
Until they had decent pay and conditions they could not work as nurses so they formed a union. [More…]
If they were to form a union now and demand better conditions and better pay- pay commensurate with the skills they use in their job- and were to take action to ensure that they obtained those better conditions and better pay under this legislation they could find their union deregistered. [More…]
What sort of protection are they going to get if their unions are deregistered and the women have no reference point. [More…]
If a group of women were really concerned about and fought for, say, child care facilities and their union backed them, it could be deregistered. [More…]
If women, say, objected to producing munitions for the next war and went on strike because they had a moral feeling about the material they were producing, their whole union could be deregistered. [More…]
If they complained about their low pay, bad conditions of work, or ill treatment they would have nowhere to go if their union had been deregistered and they would have no money for legal assistance. [More…]
It will decide how unions will spend their funds. [More…]
It will decide how union property will be disposed of. [More…]
He said that the trade union movement is of great importance all around the world. [More…]
No longer are trade unions in Australia basically concerned with the conditions and wages of their members. [More…]
Senator Bishop went on to say that the problems are not the fault of the trade union movement but are the result of the state of the economy. [More…]
It is interesting that every time we deal with matters relating to the trade union movement and the working people of this country, we are denied any effective opportunity for discussion. [More…]
It has already been said, so I will not press the point, that power does not reside in the trade union movement. [More…]
The historic facts are that for two centuries the conservative elements in the community have sought in one way or another to contain the trade union movement. [More…]
Yet Senator Young, and he is joined by even Mr Fraser and other leaders of his Party, says there is too much power in the hands of the elected trade union officials. [More…]
The plain facts in respect of the Latrobe Valley despute are that Mr Halfpenny, the Victorian official of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, finds himself in difficulty when he tries to suggest to workers in the Latrobe Valley certain courses of action in respect of the dispute there. [More…]
What clearly comes through in all of the debates on industrial matters in this place and in the other House is the complete and utter failure of the conservatives in the parliaments of this country to understand industrial issues and the trade union movement. [More…]
The girls in that factory who had never belonged to a trade union came to me for advice because they knew of my interest in trade unions and in the political movement. [More…]
They joined a union and went on strike in order to protest not because the girl had a job but because she was elevated to a senior position above girls who had worked there for some 20 or 30 years and had much more experience and competence in the production line in the factory. [More…]
Invariably the only steps available are for the union leadership to take the matter up with the employer or it finally finds itself in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or in the State Conciliation Commissioners’ jurisdiction. [More…]
In the last four or five months strikes have occurred in the Australian Workers Union, the Storemen and Packers Union, the Shop Assistants Union, the Transport Workers Union, the Air Controllers Association, the Pilots Association, the clerks who work on the Sydney Waterfront and the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
Not one of those unions has taken the action because of militancy or communist influence. [More…]
I would venture to say that we would be battling to find a communist in those unions, least of all a communist occupying a position of influence. [More…]
Yet those are the unions in which the rank and file members have exercised their democratic rights by going on strike, in some cases after having availed themselves of the only opportunity to seek some for of justification and negotiation in respect of the matters before them. [More…]
That organisation is not even a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The very organisation of the trade union movement prohibits Mr Hawke entering a dispute unless he is requested to do so. [More…]
That coming from Mr Polite” ought to be a warning to this Government that it will shortly have not only the united voice of the trade union movement and the Labor Party but also the united voice of employer organisations telling the Government that this is not the way to get industrial peace, that this is not the way to get the Australian economy going. [More…]
It has the complete support of responsible trade unionists to whom I have spoken. [More…]
They believe that the way the militant left wing in the trade union movement has been carrying on in recent years is a disgrace. [More…]
They blame the left wing quite clearly for the way in which the trade union movement’s credibility in Australia has been dragged down to the lowest ebb in our history. [More…]
We, as a government, believe it is our responsibility to do what we can to restore the trade union movement’s credibility in Australia. [More…]
One normally would say that that is something the previous Government would do with one of its communist union friends but this was done with capitalist mining companies. [More…]
I understand that in the Soviet Union there is no advertising of alcohol or tobacco, yet both are used fairly extensively. [More…]
From the speeches made last Friday one would think that the Government wished to achieve a complete confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
By introducing the Bill on Friday when President Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Premier Hamer of Victoria were still trying to solve the Victorian power workers dispute, there was very great danger of aggravating the dispute in the Latrobe Valley and making Commissioner Mansini’s task just that much more difficult. [More…]
There does not seem to be any government in the Western world which realises more on union bashing as a tactic than this Government does. [More…]
In West Germany, Japan, Canada or even the United States of America the unions are part of the decision making process. [More…]
But when do we get time in the Senate to debate industrial legislation or to have a debate on any industrial matters which are to do with contructive issues such as worker participation, making it easier for the trade unions to amalgamate - [More…]
Senator Archer is one of those people who would oppose union amalgamation. [More…]
We should not just bludge on the trade union movement in a debate that lasts three or four hours. [More…]
The other day we had spokesmen for the Government talking about militant unions, about how unions of the left were bringing down this country. [More…]
Here we have a situation in which members of the Federated Clerks Union- I would hardly think that they would fall into the category of extreme militant unionistshave a legitimate case and are involved in an industrial dispute. [More…]
If there is a concerted effort through legislation to smash the trade union movement in this country, what will happen is that the trade union movement will completely unite as a body to defeat that legislation in the same way as the trade union movement did in Great Britain in 1973. [More…]
We were told that legislation such as that introduced on Friday would bring to an end the trade union militancy which Government senators saw in evidence everywhere in this country. [More…]
This legislation would be the means by which the trade union movement would be brought to heel. [More…]
If one looks at the legislation, one sees that under it unions can be deregistered. [More…]
I do not know whether anybody realises that if that happened the unions would be put right outside the system which, of course, would completely aggravate the situation. [More…]
Savage fines and penalties can be imposed on those unions which earn the displeasure of this Government. [More…]
Recently, as the trade union movement already realises, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission itself, has made veiled references to the unsatisfactory industrial relations situation that this type of legislation will bring about. [More…]
In fact, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which has come in for its share of abuse, endeavoured to reopen the lines of communication between Government, the employers and the trade unions. [More…]
In many cases disputes begin, continue and are prolonged because unions and management, unions and government or employers and government are unaware of the attitudes of the other party or parties involved. [More…]
Yet the legislation that we saw passed through the Senate on Friday could lead to the trade union movement boycotting the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
This Government has to learn that industrial peace will not be brought to this country by forcing confrontation in the industrial area, by threatening the use of punitive sanctions or by implying that unionists and union leaders will be gaoled, and their organisations disbanded and dissolved. [More…]
It is not by threatening to use any means at the Government’s disposal to break strikes, by placing at risk the functioning of the trade union movement or by pressuring employer organisations or business into confronting the unions and taking an especially hard line in negotiations with them that industrial peace will be brought about. [More…]
Industrial peace in this country is more likely to result from unions, employers and governments co-operating in order to reach a satisfactory solution to deal with problems as they arise, instead of threatening the trade union movement in advance of the sort of legislation that will be used against them. [More…]
Over the past few weeks especially the trade union movement has displayed, I feel, a strong desire to negotiate and reach a compromise, but this Government is not prepared to follow that lead. [More…]
You feel that if you can achieve a situation where the trade union movement is confronting the Government you will get political gain out of it. [More…]
I would hope that at some time in the near future the Government will make the time available for a constructive debate on industrial relations, and not repeat the situation we had on Friday where debate was gagged and guillotined and the trade union movement denied representation. [More…]
Announcing the Government’s confrontation with the union movement on Tuesday, the hapless Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (it used to be called labor, but we can’t use that word now) Tony Street told a somewhat cynical press conference that the new scheme for an industrial police force wasn’t meant to please the unions, or the employers: in fact, Street said rather desperately, it wasn’t meant to please anybody. [More…]
The communist secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, Mr John Halfpenny, commented after trie Latrobe Valley maintenance men went back on strike, that it could be the most serious industrial dispute in the history of Australia. [More…]
Anthony is one of the more obvious union bashers in the Government and his remark appears to be as hypocritical as those of the more extreme Latrobe Valley shop stewards who led their colleagues into the present maze. [More…]
And at this stage it will win such an election because Australians have had their fill of strikes and union leaders . [More…]
However, the Government has made so much of union intransigence and how it will stomp on it that if it mishandles the situation the backlash will be large and swift. [More…]
Australia is one of the150 member countries of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) whose technical organs are responsible to study and make recommendations on technical operating and tariff questions. [More…]
Does the Commonwealth Government have any role in paying the levy to the Australian Union of Students which is charged compulsorily to all students enrolling in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]
The primary answer is that the Commonwealth Government has no direct role at all in that a decision as to whether an Australian Union of Students levy of $2.50, or whatever it is, is paid arises first of all out of the decision of each individual campus, taken by its student body, as to whether it will affiliate with AUS. [More…]
The Federal Council, of the ATEA in fact, rejected the agreement and advised that meetings of union members in all States would be held to ratify the rejection. [More…]
Secondly, does the Minister agree that it is hypocritical of the trade union movement to continue to allow its travel agency, ACTU New World Travel, still to promote tours of Indonesia? [More…]
Thirdly, as the travel agency has stated that it would go out of business if the tours to Indonesia were stopped, does the Minister think that the unions pay little regard to farmers going out of business? [More…]
The Australian Wheat Board is trying to meet the challenge as far as it can in the circumstances, and that is in very sharp contrast to the attitude being adopted by the trade unions. [More…]
As to the other part of the honourable senator’s question relating to the Australian Council of Trade Unions maintaining its travel agency, I think that only emphasises further the contrariness of the union attitude on this matter. [More…]
The moneys for this fund are not a claim on the taxpayer but are derived by the University from commissions paid by bodies for whom the University makes staff payroll deductions in respect of such matters as group assurance premiums, medical and hospital fund contributions and trade union dues. [More…]
We established trade union training schemes. [More…]
As I said on Friday, Senator Button, this situation was caused by the unauthorised action of shop stewards who have acted completely outside the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government is confident that its progress will continue despite the problems created by the irresponsible element in the trade union movement- I am not being critical of the whole trade union movement- and that, if we are looking for the cause of economic uncertainty, we must look elsewhere than at the policies of the Government. [More…]
He did not take it up and the reason why he quite properly did not, according to the ludicrous logic for which the Australian Country Party has become famous as demonstrated by its present leader, was that, if the Prime Minister said there was not going to be an election earlier than 12 months hence he would lose the last method available to him for controlling the irresponsible, militant left-wing unions. [More…]
In what way the threat of a premature election would influence union behaviour Mr Anthony did not explain. [More…]
One remembers now how the great union movement of Australia has lost control of the very organisations it represents. [More…]
The last strike on the Victorian coalfields was caused and maintained by shop stewards in defiance of their own unions. [More…]
I have no objection to the investigation covering the Soviet Union providing it is also- and this is an argument which has been put quite often by honourable senators on the Government side- an investigation of human rights in a number of other countries. [More…]
Do we commence with the Soviet Union and proceed right across Eastern Europe? [More…]
In other words our Committee is now to engage in an investigation of human rights in the Soviet Union in particular. [More…]
For a period we may seem to be concentrating on the problems of human rights and political repression in Eastern European countries and in the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must consider the position of our country in relation to the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and many other nations. [More…]
Certainly it is widening the investigation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is a matter about which I had a chance to obtain some information when in the Soviet Union last year. [More…]
I believe that there is an excellent reason for this Committee to examine this matter and human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Amnesty International deals with many different countries but it has concentrated considerably in the last year or two on the appalling situation of human rights not only of Jewish people but also of other religious and national groups in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Mr Wentworth is well known for his views on the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am concerned that the Soviet Union should be the one country designated as the subject of this inquiry. [More…]
I am interested to know whether the Committee intends to visit the Soviet Union to further its inquiries or whether it is going to conduct its inquiry within Australia. [More…]
If it is going to conduct this inquiry without leaving the shores of Australia and going to the Soviet Union, it will not come up with a right and proper report for a committee of its standing. [More…]
As Senator Georges pointed out, we ought to be conducting an inquiry into the human rights of many people who live in this country before we go far afield to such places as the Soviet Union. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, as Chairman of the Committee, has sought leave of the Senate to make a statement regarding the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not know whether he said there would be a further reference to the Committee on human rights in the Soviet Union and a withdrawal of the reference which is now before the Committee as is set out in the Notice Paper-that is, the reference regarding the status of Soviet jewry. [More…]
I do not know whether that reference has now been deleted or whether the Committee will carry on with it and the Committee will have a further reference dealing with this subject about which Senator Cormack spoke, namely, human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-by leaveSenator Sir Magnus Cormack sought leave to make a statement relating to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union under the business heading of presentation of papers. [More…]
The matter of Soviet jewry and the history of religious groups in the Soviet Union present a very sore and long-standing problem. [More…]
This used to be the case in the Soviet Union when the Russian Orthodox Church virtually dominated the activities and the life of the Russian people. [More…]
People in the Soviet Union have been very intolerant towards the revival of the Russian Orthodox religion; although while I was in the Soviet Union I attended a Russian Orthodox Church service not far outside Moscow. [More…]
There were pilgrims from different parts of the Soviet Union and people in a teaching school who were studying to become priests or rabbis- [More…]
It is perhaps a very ambitious project on the part of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to aspire to go to the Soviet Union, if that is what the Committee hopes to do. [More…]
After all, if the members of the Subcommittee do not go into the Soviet Union it will not get factual evidence. [More…]
I am well aware of allegations that have been made about civil rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wonder what the reaction of this Parliament and this nation would be if the Soviet Union were to conduct an inquiry into the rights of Aborigines in Australia or Queenslanders at the present time in absentia. [More…]
However, for many reasons which are proper to the Committee’s consideration and which it has debated from time to time it came to the conclusion that this was an exclusive area of analysis and examination which should not be confined to the area of Soviet Jewry alone but should relate to the question of minorities inside the Soviet Union in the context of both the Declaration on Human Rights and the Helsinki Accord. [More…]
In the Helsinki Accord it was expressly agreed by the Soviet Union and other participants that matters relating to the freedom of individuals and minorities in countries which accorded in the signing of the Helsinki Agreement could be examined. [More…]
I say in terms of a soft impeachment that I have never heard as many queries made about the categorisation of Australians as have been made by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in various public bodies and in other parts of the world. [More…]
I merely remark that if the Soviet Union has something to hide- it may have something to hide- it should offer no objection. [More…]
so that the Omega station in (Norway) does not represent any additional convenience for Polaris and an equal inconvenience for Norway with regard to her relations -“<th the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Schei report also reveals that a senior Defence Department official recognised that Omega would ‘place a considerable stress on our relations- that is the Norwegians ‘ relations- with the Soviet Union’. [More…]
Regarding the realities of this case I would point out that any agreement to operate (Omega) for the US Navy, will place a considerable stress on our relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If one takes this into account and then considers the sort of military uses that will be served by Omega then one cannot avoid the conclusion that the Soviet Union will find ample grounds for objecting to a permanent station being established . [More…]
He might be asked to stand for the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
Not only has Dr Mabon enunciated the views of Mr Callaghan ‘s United Kingdom Labour Government; it would also be the policy of the British Trade Union Congress. [More…]
The honourable senator would know that some weeks ago I read into Hansard a resolution of the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress on 8 September this year. [More…]
Obviously, the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress is devoting its time and attention to the benefits its members will receive from such a program and not indulging in politics. [More…]
That contrasts very sharply with the attitude taken by some trade unions in Australia. [More…]
As I recall, it was said that the reason for using Mr Khemlani to raise $4,000m was to generate jobs in Australia which would have benefited trade unionists. [More…]
It is a shame that neither the Labor Party nor the trade union movement now seems to have any interest at all in the employment of trade union members. [More…]
Relations whether he is aware that the Tasmanian State secretary of the Electrical Trades Union has sent out notices to union members stating that unless all electrical apprentices join the union within 14 days members are to refuse to work with them. [More…]
Is this not a further attack on the traditional position of apprentices, which frees them from the requirement to join a union? [More…]
Do the recent amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act give added protection to such individuals from stand-over tactics exercised by union ‘heavies’? [More…]
It is getting near election time and, in the main, the farmer organisations are being very critical of the Labor Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
It is well known that Mr Sinclair has no sympathy for the farmers, and the Cattlemen’s Union knows that too. [More…]
As I have said before- I have only repeated what has appeared in the newspapers and what was said at that renowed meeting in Queensland- the Cattlemen’s Union quite rightly passed a motion of no confidence in Mr Sinclair because of actions he had taken. [More…]
As Mr Cassell, the Director of the Cattlemen’s Union, said as recently as Saturday or Sunday, about 12 country seats are in jeopardy because of the attitude of Mr Sinclair and his lack of interest in the farming community. [More…]
Similarly, the Cattlemen’s Union and the Fruitgrowers Association, following the big marches in Mooroopna, Victoria, and Berri, South Australia, said that the Government is not living up to its election promise to look after people in the country areas. [More…]
Whenever there is any problem in marketing or freighting of products Government supporters and captains of industry immediately lay all the blame at the feet of the trade union movement. [More…]
I was astounded to hear an Opposition member of the New South Wales Parliament severely criticise the trade union movement. [More…]
He put all the blame for the problems in primary industry on members of the trade union movement. [More…]
But I was very heartened to hear another very well respected member of the farming community in this area stand up and say in reply that the primary producers should make a greater effort to sit down and discuss their problems with the leaders of industrial unions. [More…]
Not only the industrial unions are at fault. [More…]
This gentleman- I will not name him; everyone knows who he is- made the very sound suggestion that the industry itself, and particularly primary industry leaders, should sit down and talk with members of the trade union movement and see where the problems lie. [More…]
They do not lay the criticism at the feet of the owners of the organisations but try to lump it all on to the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is not the only section of the community that is at fault. [More…]
The government of the day has to get down to talking with people in the trade union movement instead of introducing repressive legislation every time there is an industrial dispute and making a great blah in the Press by saying that it will bring in diabolical measures to force trade unionists to go back to work. [More…]
We all know that Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, has been able to settle disputes because of his negotiating skills. [More…]
I well remember when I was a boy that Stanley Bruce, a conservative Prime Minister, took the trade union movement on and lost his seat at the next election. [More…]
The same thing will happen again if this Government is unwise enough to try to take on the trade union movement. [More…]
No trade unionist in my experience- I have been a trade unionist ever since I was about 15 years of age and I still am- goes on strike for no good purpose. [More…]
Only last week another trade union in Victoria was granted an increase outside the indexation guidelines. [More…]
What did concern me greatly was that Mr Anthony, in his speech, claimed credit for opening up the beef market in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I refer to a complaint that I received by telegram from the Farmers Union of Western Australia, that the constitution and rules of the Waterside Workers Federation expressly exclude Asiatics from membership of that union. [More…]
Senator Chaney has supplied a very interesting piece of information to the Senate which apparently was brought to his attention by the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
Senator Chaney ‘s evidence comes from a rather dubious source, that is, the Farmers Union of Western Australia (Inc.). [More…]
It is true that at the turn of the century certain protective devices were introduced by various groups, including trade unions, because of employment trends of those times. [More…]
I emphasise, of course, that if we look at the union membership we will find that over the years people of a variety of racial origins have served in various positions from sub-branch secretary or the equivalent of job delegate to national officers of the Federation. [More…]
Following the 1954 application for rule changes which emanated from the union, some years afterwards it was discovered that due to a clerical error in the office ofthe Industrial Registrar the rule changes had not been entered in the Registrar’s record book. [More…]
Of course, that does not surprise me because I can remember in the early 1950s- my early trade union days-one gentleman, Murray Stewart, in order to last the day had to have three or four scotches before 1 1 a.m. [More…]
It is rather remarkable that this question was asked at a time when we talk about the Government, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Attorney-General’s Department, or the Industrial Registrar, having more involvement in trade union operations. [More…]
It is obvious that he was certainly sold a pup by this organisation, the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
Anybody who reads the Maritime Worker and sees the union ballot results from outports or from anywhere else, will notice that there is certainly a cross fertilisation of names of various national origins. [More…]
I say quite simply that this attitude of hit and run against trade unions causes the polarisation which many of us on this side of the chamber have objected to strongly. [More…]
I say very definitely that this union tried 23 years ago to adjust something which was a technicality and which did not apply in the practical application of that policy. [More…]
The then general secretary, Jim Healy with whom I crossed swords on a number of occasions on trade union policy, heard about this matter. [More…]
He respected Jim Healy as a trade unionist who also met his responsibilities as a citizen. [More…]
The fact is that the composition of most unions includes people with nomadic work habits. [More…]
They move from job to job and it is therefore impossible to keep union records up to date. [More…]
Mr Street is very vocal at times about trying to meet the unions halfway. [More…]
I do not think anyone would deny that most mergers mean that unions can cut costs and give a better service. [More…]
That is why I have linked the ASE and FIA merger with the delay in obtaining feed back from the Minister and is a reason for my having to chastise Senator Chaney tonight for his unfair imputation against a union whose internationalism is a by-word. [More…]
Senator Withers knows that I have persistently argued that it is all very well to talk about moving quickly with the law when there is a trade union dispute but that the authorities never seem to have the same fire in their bellies when they are going after white collar criminals, whether they be bird smugglers or the Bartons. [More…]
So the idea that some of us in the trade union movement have that the law is an ass is taken a step further. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union, through Mr Oliver, had to hoist him out because he was involved in a nefarious activity in Sydney. [More…]
This is backed by the United Kingdom union congress itself, the members of which I understand are 10 to one in favour of importing uranium and recently urged their Government to expand its nuclear program in order to avoid an energy crisis. [More…]
Party, and the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and so many other countries are having serious discussions about the establishment of world banks. [More…]
Honourable senators might ask why there is this interest in the Waterside Workers Federation, particularly by the Farmers Union of Western Australia, which is the source of my information. [More…]
I refer to a complaint that I received by telegram from the Farmers Union of western Australia, that the constitution and rules of the Waterside Workers Federation expressly exclude Asiatics from membership of that union. [More…]
It would also appear from the telegram I have received from the Farmers Union of Western Australia that the deletion of that obnoxious rule has yet to appear in the registry in Perth. [More…]
It has turned from the view which is held by the trade union movement in the United Kingdom, the view which is held by the United Kingdom Government, the view which is held by this Government and the view which it held two years ago. [More…]
Re question raised in Senate re Federation rules old federation rule prohibiting Asiatics from joining union was changed in 1954 and certificate of change forwarded to federation by industrial registrar however due to error in industrial registrars department rule change was not entered into registrars record book. [More…]
-The Japanese GMS project involves the positioning and operation of a geostationary meteorological satellite over the equator to the north of Australia as part of the global atmospheric research program which is being promoted jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation and the International Council of Scientific Unions. [More…]
The Japanese satellite is one of five to be placed in geostationary orbit at intervals around the equator by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a group of European countries as well as Japan. [More…]
While I am discussing that subject, I should deal with the argument raised by Senator Walters about whether the union gets the right leaders. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is probably one of the few unions in Australia that has a ballot on a set day which emulates Federal and State elections. [More…]
There may be even a very rare case in some small area where the Australian Workers Union has coverage. [More…]
I know that there are areas of the Parramatta River where members of the Storemen and Packers Union operate certain lifting appliances. [More…]
If and when Gove becomes less reliant on bauxite and more of a general industrial and town complex, I should assume that at that stage the WWF would rightly claim to be the major union to provide waterfront labour. [More…]
Honourable senators would know that, as a trade unionist, I have had no compunction about using the state wherever possible to discipline an employer who did not meet his social responsibilities to the trade union movement. [More…]
Trades Union. [More…]
But why does it astound me so greatly: As long ago as 1956 the Liberal Government conceded for the sake of peace a monopoly for Federation members in stevedoring, the first time that, I believe, a union had acquired it anywhere in the British-speaking world. [More…]
I am not concerned to raise it now, but it simply makes laughable arguments that I have heard in recent weeks in this place, supposedly Government policy, providing for non-unionists the right to work. [More…]
Although he is not, as was erroneously alleged elsewhere for a time, a communist, in fact the Communist Party has greater influence in the Waterside Workers Federation than in any other union. [More…]
I am both demented and disappointed to think that this union can be given the powers that it is being given by this legislation. [More…]
In conclusion, I say that the reason why no solution has been found to this industry’s problems is that up to the present time the power of the monopolistic union, predominantly communist controlled, has prevailed against any challenge from government. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral would know that a very delicate situation arose in the port of Sydney when the Transport Workers Union of Australia had certain industrial rights in an area in which the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia also had certain industrial rights. [More…]
Situations have arisen in which the Australian Council of Trade Unions has had to fulfil a role with its affiliated bodies. [More…]
We saw scientific co-operation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Australia. [More…]
Another great problem which is besetting the meat industry at present is the argument between the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union, and primary producers on the matter of live sheep exports, in particular to the Middle East. [More…]
I have with me the minutes of a meeting held in Melbourne on 2 August this year between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and rural organisations. [More…]
Present were representatives of nine unions concerned with meat processing or meat exports and 9 producer organisations. [More…]
For the record, as I see it, there is on the horizon at least some hope that the unions and the rural organisations are likely- albeit belatedly- to get together. [More…]
We have had a situation in this country in which primary producers and the trade union movement have stood aloof from each other. [More…]
The primary producers have been saying of the trade union movement that all of its members are communist led, that they are a pack of commos and that they would not work in an iron lung. [More…]
The trade union movement has been saying of the primary producers that they all drive around in Rolls Royce or Mercedes Benz cars, that they belong to the squattocracy and that the trade union movement therefore should remain aloof. [More…]
Only recently his Government prosecuted a trade union official for allegedly threatening a detriment to an employer.’ [More…]
Australia understands the reasons for the decision of the United States and notes that initial moves in the United States for withdrawal originated with employer and union associations. [More…]
Australia’s continued membership of the ILO is fully endorsed by all sections of the industrial community in Australia, that is both employer associations and the trade union peak councils, and by all State government Ministers who met in September 1977 at the Labor Ministers’ conference in Perth. [More…]
What is the Government’s intention as to the many recommendations contained in the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training? [More…]
If the Premier of Queensland thought it good enough to apply to an officer of the Storemen and Packers Union, it is surely good enough to apply to himself. [More…]
The other interesting item I found in the newspaper report this morning was that the Queensland Teachers Union has already made complaints that the State Government has withdrawn education funds from Labor electorates and transferred them to school buildings in Government electorates. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a circular letter from the Farmers Union of Western Australia Incorporated which states: [More…]
In view of the expression of grave concern by this significant farmers organisation, what does the Government intend to do to protect our primary producers from this outrageous union irresponsibility? [More…]
I am interested to hear from Sentor Jessop the expression of view by the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
It appears that the Australian Council of Trade Unions is taking little action to lift them and to enable trade to proceed with these countries- in particular, Chile and Indonesia. [More…]
Although the most prominent countries in this activity were Britain, the United States of America, Norway, France and Australia, other nations also sent expeditions, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Japan. [More…]
Although the most prominent countries in this activity were Britain, USA, Norway, France and Australia, other nations also sent expeditions, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Japan. [More…]
Mr Black goes on to point out in relation to whales that survival of the more vulnerable species is under threat and the only nations still engaged in Antarctic whaling are Japan and the Union of [More…]
There was no mention in the Budget of assisting beef producers, until the cattlemen’s union passed a vote of no confidence in the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
I now ask: Have there been any further developments as a result of discussions by the Government and the Public Service Board with the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisation and other staff organisations which proposed that the present staff ceilings should be extended and that there should be a forward planning system in co-operation with the union movement? [More…]
-On the first reading of this Bill I return to the question of the Australian Union of Students Student Travel. [More…]
I remind the Senate that, for this moratorium to be successful, it needs to generate enough revenue to cover the expenses of the travel service, to make a profit and to repay the unsecured creditors such as the Australian Union of Students which recently put in another $50,000 as an unsecured loan. [More…]
I advise Senator Baume to reconsider his motives which, to me, still appear to be directed at AUS Student Travel and, through AUS Student Travel, to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Baume that if he has a complaint to make about the Australian Union of Students he should separate it from the commercial enterprise that is endeavouring to survive. [More…]
He can make whatever comments he likes about the Australian Union of Students; he can enter into that highly political area, but if he has the interests of AUS Student Travel at heart he should separate his comments from the commercial enterprise and allow it to sort out its differences and survive in the market place. [More…]
He then went on to talk about the fact that there were not enough Continental migrants either in the unions or in the Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
Perhaps Senator Lajovic should move into the trade union movement and see how many migrants of continental origin are involved in that movement. [More…]
Senator Lajovic also referred to trade union promotion of people of European origin. [More…]
Henry Pietracci was a senior officer of the health and research union. [More…]
They gave long service to the trade union movement. [More…]
An additional 53,000 people were registered for unemployment because of the irresponsible actions of trade union leaders about which we never heard any complaints from the Labor Opposition and in relation to which no real suggestions and leadership have been provided by the Labor Opposition or the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I wish to refer particularly to the first such motion of no confidence which, in February of this year, was moved by the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
That was to be followed by similar motions in other parts df Australia, more importantly that which was carried at the end of September last at the Cattlemen ‘s Union Conference in Toowoomba. [More…]
In recent times we have had a lot of evidence of union troubles on the waterfront, dislocation of shipments of primary produce such as wheat, beef and, from time to time, mutton. [More…]
Yet we did not hear from the Opposition then about its attempts to overcome those problems or that it was trying to persuade its union colleagues to do something about the problems and to be much more active about those things. [More…]
As Senator O ‘Byrne, Senator Cotton, and all other distinguished ex-members of the Whips union know, this place will not work without a great deal of respect between the two Whips. [More…]
I know from my colleagues in the industrial sphere of the trade union movement that, as Senator Withers has said, he was a man of integrity and patience in dealing with the very difficult industrial matters that existed in his time. [More…]
I refer to a reported statement by Mr Pat Clancy, the national secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, that Soviet trade unionists support Russia’s nuclear energy program because they are satisfied with Soviet nuclear safeguards. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of any evidence that Russian technology is so far advanced over Western technology that nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the Soviet Union whereas Western nuclear waste cannot be disposed of safely? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men, two employees of the Sydney City Council and members of the Municipal Employees Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force, killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
The well known quotation from the poet John Donne that ‘no man is an Island, entire of itself, but everyone part of the main’ should be the motto of every trade union and every business. [More…]
The Government talks about the rights of individual unionists but everyone knows, as a result of past legislation and the threats now being made against officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, that the protection of individual unionists really means the promotion of scabs and the protection of non-unionists in Australia. [More…]
Everyone knows that this is an attack on the union movement. [More…]
The Government should not think that the union movement will stand idly by and let that happen. [More…]
I speak for a number of trade unions which have as their officers men of varied Labor attitudes. [More…]
Whether I speak for brother Garland of the Australian Metal Workers Union, brother French of the Rubber Workers Union or the officials of a host of other unions I think I can say that the Latin American people in the unions are a little concerned. [More…]
I will compare them with the small number of people who are merely paying for their active trade union and academic careers in Latin American countries. [More…]
The Government also has indicated to the unions and to those who have been concerned about this matter that any persons within the Public Service who felt that their applications had not received proper consideration could have their grievance examined by a panel on which there would be union representatives but that offer has not been taken up. [More…]
The most extraordinary was that the trade union movement, the legal profession and insurance companies were all in bed together. [More…]
They are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I refer to a report in the Melbourne Sun of 23 January which detailed allegations made by Mr Sandy Thomas, who was then Regional Organiser for the Australian Union of Students, that a department of the AUS was channelling funds to the Malaysian Communist Party. [More…]
Belgium, Japan and South Africa do not recognise any claims, while the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have reserved their rights. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan are opposed to any mineral exploitation of the area. [More…]
Surveys by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Electrical Trades Union of New South Wales showed that those married women who have children but who are currently in the work force would prefer to stay at home and care for their children if they were paid a relatively small amount of money for doing so. [More…]
Were the experienced Commonwealth drivers or their union consulted prior to the purchase to ascertain which of these facilities would be of the greatest assistance and concern for drivers and their passengers? [More…]
I am going to return the compliment and say to the Government that in the course of the exercise we are conducting on the GovernorGeneral’s Speech I hope that Ministers will adopt the same attitude as that adopted by a trade union secretary at a mass meeting. [More…]
That was very nice, but I return to the point I made previously: After each of the two major wars in which Australia has been involved people have held reunions at which they have paid their respects to their fallen comrades. [More…]
Over the past 12 months I have attended various union meetings and club gatherings- Senator Lajovic will probably remember that this question was tossed up to me at the Triglav club about a month ago- and been asked by former Snowy Mountains workers- particularly by a Canberra resident, Roman Bizjak- why they cannot get recognition. [More…]
As rough and tough as he was, Charlie Oliver was a top trade unionist; he could read an industrial situation in full. [More…]
In the next six months- though I do not think it will be necessary- I could obtain petitions and trade union resolutions on that subject. [More…]
We have to have security agencies, but I would like to know, insofar as recruitment is concerned, whether we are getting people with a hangup, such as those ex-Army officers who regard every trade union official as suspect. [More…]
I make the point that my colleague, Ralph Taylor, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, has been abused about this matter. [More…]
This matter has been before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and I am not going to canvass the pros and cons of even the union’s attitude, although I am extremely sympathetic. [More…]
We argued from the trade union angle that he had to be a conductor first. [More…]
That may be a mundane analogy but I do not think Commonwealth Employment Service unions are worried about new blood coming in. [More…]
While I am speaking on the employment theme, I have read the current journal of the Electrical Trades Union and I find that Utah Development Co. in Queensland is involved in a dispute with the ETU. [More…]
I think the pilot union that first raised the matter of weekend penalty rates was the Federated Gas Employees Union. [More…]
Another involved the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
They are things that the trade union movement when the new order came after World War II, chalked up as victories. [More…]
So when governments and trade union agitation brought in long service leave money was channelled into the service industries. [More…]
I honestly cannot quite follow the policy of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement in this matter. [More…]
It would look at not only those countries with which in the past it was unfriendly- countries such as the Soviet Union or China- but also countries with which the United States had had friendly relations, countries such as Argentina and Uraguay. [More…]
On the one hand it said that it was quite improper to recognise de jure the incorporation of the Baltic States within the Soviet Union because they had been acquired by force; there was no act of self determination by the people of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; they had been incorporated into the Soviet Union against their will. [More…]
Hard on the heels of that statement came another statement, that the Government recognised the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia, an incorporation which took place in precisely the same way as the Soviet Union’s incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union. [More…]
If it is argued, as someone may well argue, that the Australian Labor Party while in office recognised the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union, I wish to make my own position clear, Mr President. [More…]
I hope that any future Australian Labor Party Government would see that no such de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union would continue under an Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
Other meetings are taking place at which the United States and Britain appear to be taking the leading role as the foreign powers- this is not an occasion when the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other forces are involved- that are pressing for the so-called external settlement with the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia. [More…]
Trade unions would be corporate bodies. [More…]
Recent legislation extended one section of the Trade Practices Act to trade unions, I think with a certain degree of futility as I stated in the debate. [More…]
Nevertheless, why a trade union if ever it was subject to section 77 should not have the advantage as a defendant of not being subject to this exceptional rule against hearsay, I do not understand. [More…]
But instead of capital- to quote British trade union leader Clive Jenkins- ‘They invest their lives, their blood and their nervous energy’. [More…]
South Australia’s Tripartite Industrial Democracy Committeecomprised of leading employer, union and Government representatives- maintains that joint consultation, the delegation of responsibilities and employee involvement in the decision-making process will solve many problems because dissatisfied employees are given the opportunity to reduce the sources of dissatisfaction. [More…]
I believe that industrial democracy programmes will help develop positive attitudes among directors, shareholders, management, employees and trade union officials about the aims and objectives of work organisations. [More…]
That the situation now confronting Australia can lead to long term dangers for Australia is now recognised not only by the trade union movement but also by the employers. [More…]
If those programs are adopted the majority of married women in the work force who, according to recent surveys such as those conducted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Electrical Trades Union, have been forced to enter the work force through economic pressure will have a true freedom of choice and the option to leave jobs, thus creating employment opportunities for the young. [More…]
Our hopes for the future lie in the scientific exploration of the resources in that area, as I think I pointed out in the early part of my speech, and consideration must be given to upgrading our communications systems so that we can match other countries which currently, as is the case with the United States of America and the Soviet Union, do not recognise our claims to sovereignty over the areas in the Antarctic which we believe are our possessions. [More…]
The Library is now in the process of developing a union catalogue of all taped and Braille material available for the visually and physically handicapped in Australia through libraries. [More…]
Libraries in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are compiling union catalogues and registers of services. [More…]
We have territory there with New Zealand, the Soviet Union and the United States, and there are real questions as to who has the right to that territory. [More…]
He said that the Government was attempting to expand current markets and to develop newer markets in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and eastern Europe. [More…]
I rise at the request of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council and the secretary of the Liquor Trades Union, Mr John Morris, to seek ministerial mediation of a long-standing industrial impasse that seems to be plaguing the KingsfordSmith international airport. [More…]
The members of the Liquor Trades Union met and carried a motion supporting his reinstatement. [More…]
The Liquor Trades Union, which had been a party to the original decision to stop work, in order that production would not be impaired sought to have a conciliation commissioner mediate. [More…]
The prime point is that the unions sought to go through the normal conciliation processes and took the dispute before Mr Commissioner Brack. [More…]
It is a simple thing to have another union hold up supplies of liquor and food. [More…]
I will wind up by saying that the situation at the airport is not an area in which one would find what one could define as militant trade unionism, although I do not regard that as a vice. [More…]
It has a right to confer within the next 48 hours with the Liquor Trades Union to achieve a more harmonious relationship. [More…]
Speaking for senior officials of the Labour Council and the Liquor Trades Union, I should say that that would not be good enough. [More…]
I understand that a conference will be held tomorrow at which representatives of the union and the Trades and Labour Council as well as the employer will be present. [More…]
However, the Minister has deferred any further revocation of appointments or new appointments to all councils for trade union training pending the enactment of amending legislation in the area of trade union training. [More…]
In the second instance, goods called Colonel Lightfoot ‘s Sporting and Recreational Footwear’ have the Union Jack prominently displayed on the packaging. [More…]
I speak for the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia on this matter. [More…]
It would be an offence for Australians to engage in or organise campaigns of liberationhowever one may care to term them, depending on one’s own predilections- on behalf of Ukrainians within the Soviet Union, Croatians within Yugoslavia or Africans within the Republic of South Africa. [More…]
But if Cuba, Tunisia and the Soviet Union were the three countries asked to supply the United Nations peace keeping force, which would be the likely composition of such a force within the next five years, and an Australian joined that peace keeping force, would that United Nations peace keeping force be an armed force of a government of a foreign country? [More…]
In the course of preparing his report, Sir John Crawford had discussions on the form of the commission with representatives of the interested government departments, with members of the old Tariff Board, with many industry organisations and firms and, I understand, also with sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
At the outset I do not want it to be thought for one moment that we on this side of the House do not have, or did not have, some criticisms to make of the IAC so far as the trade union movement is concerned. [More…]
There are many critics of the IAC within the trade union movement. [More…]
My colleague Senator Brown, a responsible trade union official, will be able to enunciate some of those problems. [More…]
Perhaps it was a lack of knowledge on the part of the back-up support of the role that the trade unions play in Australian society. [More…]
Certainly there was a need for a more participatory role to be taken by the trade union movement in the inquiries established by the IAC. [More…]
A senior official of the Australian Workers Union came to me after the report had been published and told me that was the first knowledge that the Australian Workers Unions which covered the people employed in the industry, had of the IAC inquiry. [More…]
I made arrangements with my Department that every time a reference went to the Industries Assistance Committee the Department should ensure that all the trade unions likely to be involved were given adequate notice of the desire of the Industries Assistance Commission to conduct an inquiry. [More…]
This matter has been of concern to the union over a long period, and we have had reasonably good co-operation and consultation with the employer organisations. [More…]
Speaking as State President of the Victorian Branch of the union, I say that in the last 18 months we have lost just on 2,000 members. [More…]
With all of the declarations which I have made in my trade union position on decisions of the Industries Assistance Commission, I have appreciated the very deliberate and effective economic work and research that has been carried out by the Commission. [More…]
But so far no policies have been developed to my satisfaction, or I am sure to the satisfaction of employers and employees, that would give some confidence to the business sector and the trade union movement that the changes that need to be made will take into consideration the interests of those two sections. [More…]
In fact, the media, the trade union movement and the whole community have some responsibility because we are faced now with the question of whether we will continue to go as we have been, which is without a policy and just plugging up the holes. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations inform the Senate whether it is a fact that the Government is contemplating action which will eliminate the autonomy of the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
Further, is it true that the Government intends to alter the relevant legislation so that the Director of the Trade Union Training Authority will become a nominee of the Government instead of being elected by the Council of the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
There are adequate procedures for consultation to be carried out between the Minister and the trade union movement which are constantly being invoked. [More…]
Special Branch part time agents and ASIO part time agents are employed in trade union offices, post offices, universities and other sensitive areas. [More…]
The Melbourne Herald reported him as accusing Australians of having an immature attitude to the Soviet Union and suggesting that his deal was very attractive to Australians. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and refers to a question I asked on Tuesday relating to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Is it true that a document was prepared for the National Labour Consultative Council by senior officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, under the Minister’s direction, discussing means of reducing the autonomy of the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
I draw his attention to an article in the Adelaide News of 9 March 1978, reporting a sweetheart agreement in South Australia between the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and the Metal Trades Federation, providing for overaward wage increases ranging from $4 to $15 a week, which is labelled as an attempt to avert industrial action by 270 members of that union. [More…]
Are there scientific arrangements with the Soviet Union in relation to these matters? [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne … is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
One comment I make is that I would have expected that the trade union movement would have given greater financial support to the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne because it is a group which is putting forward representations on behalf of working women. [More…]
I do not take exception to the fact that Senator Harradine claims that all unions make representations on behalf of their women members. [More…]
The granting of equal pay followed a continuing process of argument that took place over a number of years by many groups in the community, not just Senator Harradine ‘s union. [More…]
If the trade union movement feels it has a role to have expression through this centre, I hope that it will also support it with funds to enable its work to be continued. [More…]
As to any affront to the trade union movement I do not think that this was Mr Ellicott ‘s intention in any remarks he expressed. [More…]
Mr George Slater, the Federal Secretary of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, which covers the drivers and other postal workers, is reported as having said that the strike was without the authority of the federal executive of the union. [More…]
The strike appears to be developing into a situation similar to the disastrous La Trobe Valley strike when the federal executive of a union was powerless to take effective action to settle the matter because shop stewards and other unauthorised persons took the matter into their own hands. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether any action can be taken at government level to ensure that the executive of the union has the necessary backing to enforce its directive for a return to work? [More…]
Despite what may have been said by Mr Slater, or the loss of control by the executive of the union, all concerned are nevertheless participating in discussions and trying to solve the problem. [More…]
There do not seem to be any clear cut guidelines when there is a collision between a union which comes under a Federal award and one which comes under a State award. [More…]
In relation to the port in Sydney, the Transport Workers Union has State registration. [More…]
There are areas in which the Storemen and Packers Union and the Transport Workers Union conflict with the WWF over coverage. [More…]
I know of a number of situations where high trade union statesmanship has overcome the conflict. [More…]
Whatever doubts the retiring authority may have and whatever optimism the unions, the employers and even the Minister may have, a gap exists and I just do not know how the Government will handle it. [More…]
When we deal with matters concerning the waterfront, do we consult with the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australia, the Transport Workers Union of [More…]
Australia or the Federated Clerks Union of Australia? [More…]
It could be said that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has a role to play. [More…]
Discussions on this matter have been taking place between the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the executive of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union and the various farmers and graziers organisations. [More…]
They are taking place between the union executive, a number of grower organisations and members of the Australian Woolgrowers Council in Adelaide this afternoon. [More…]
The Soviet Union has . [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the report states that the camp is for members of Mr Joshua Nkomo ‘s faction of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union and the South- West African Peoples Organisation? [More…]
-Senator Wright’s question raises a number of very important issues and requires that a good deal of detail to be given in order to answer it, particularly in relation to costs which are alleged to have been incurred by companies as a result of bans that have been placed on tankers by the Seamens Union of Australia in support of its policy of obtaining Australian crews on oil tankers engaged in overseas trade. [More…]
In reply to the question generally, Senator Wright and the Senate will be interested to know that this dispute concerning the Seamens Union, particularly one aspect of it, namely, the dispute with the Utah Development Co., is the subject of litigation under section 45D of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
Both the Utah Development Co. and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs have taken proceedings against the Seamens Union and some of the officers of that union in relation to that dispute which is based upon the attempted implementation of the union’s policy in relation to the bulk carriage of coal. [More…]
Probably any further action that is contemplated by other companies affected by this policy of the Seamens Union is awaiting resolution of that question by the High Court. [More…]
-Yesterday Senator Harradine asked me a question concerning a report in the London Daily Telegraph of an allegation that the Soviet Union had set up a secret training camp in Angola for 25,000 African guerrillas. [More…]
I have been advised by my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Government is aware of the Press report carried by the London Daily Telegraph that the Soviet Union is establishing a training camp in Angola to train guerrillas for operations in Rhodesia, Namibia, and Zaire. [More…]
His Government gave de jure recognition to the Soviet Union over the Baltic states. [More…]
His Government recognised the sovereignty of the Soviet Union over the Baltic states. [More…]
Their leaders who opposed the Soviet Union are being gaoled, tortured and kept under the most inhuman circumstances. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, this great defender of human rights and self-determination, bowed to the Soviet Union and recognised its sovereignty over the Baltic states. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that even if the minimal estimate of Senator Wriedt is correct and 70,000 people have been killed in East Timor by the Indonesian militarists, if that figure is divided by ten and only 7,000 were killed in East Timor that is more than have been killed in all of the Eastern European countries in any confrontation with the Soviet Union since the end of the Second World War. [More…]
We hear constantly from members of the Parties opposite about action undertaken by the Soviet Union against Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and so on, but if one-tenth of the minimal estimate of the number of people killed in East Timor were accepted as the correct figure it would ten times outnumber the number killed in any Eastern European country. [More…]
Even the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Security Council were interested. [More…]
The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Ellicott, has stated- and Senator Guilfoyle has given qualified endorsement to his remarks- that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is ‘the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women’. [More…]
It involves itself in matters not directly relevant to women workers, is hostile to the official trade union movement and is a politically motivated organisation favouring the extreme Left and radical feminists. [More…]
It is significant that neither the Australian Council of Trade Unions nor the Victorian Trades Hall Council have endorsed the centre. [More…]
It is simply untrue to state, as Mr Ellicott has done, that it ‘is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women’. [More…]
The Victorian office of my union, that is, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, which has a substantial female membership component, has a special women’s unit employing five women. [More…]
I stated that the Working Women’s Centre was not endorsed by the Australian Council of Trades Union, and that is true. [More…]
I am sure that the delegates at the ACTU Congress were far more familiar with the trade union movement and real politics than the members of the Government. [More…]
It is the official union centre of the trade union movement in Victoria. [More…]
I understand that the Trades Hall Council on several occasions has refused to have anything to do with that centre despite strong attempts by John Halfpenny’s Amalgamated Metal Workers Union on the Centre’s behalf. [More…]
For the benefit of those Government members who do not follow the trade union movement, let me say that John Halfpenny is the vice-president of the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
They have not even had the courtesy to advise the union officials whose members work in those factories of what they were attempting to do. [More…]
Only a handful of unions have provided finance to it. [More…]
After two years of operations the Centre, in a news sheet dated 1 1 October 1976, admitted that only two unions had approached it in order to obtain research and advocacy assistance for claims. [More…]
One of the unions which continued to support it was the Food Preservers Union. [More…]
The person who approached the organisation, being that union’s women’s organiser, was Gail Cotton. [More…]
In fact, a woman union official in Melbourne has provided me with material that she collected from the Centre both before and after Mr Ellicott ‘s visit. [More…]
Since when has abortion been related to the pay and working conditions of unionists? [More…]
I think the most appropriate thing to be said about that body is that it would be a real red letter day if the Congress ever found anything warlike for which to condemn the Soviet Union or its activities. [More…]
The National U is published by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I therefore found it quite incredible that a Minister of this Government was prepared to go to bat for the Centre and give it a status in the trade union movement which it neither warrants nor deserves and a status that has not been given to it by the trade union movement itself. [More…]
Mr Ellicott ‘s remarks were an insult to all of those unions which, in their own way and under their own rules, free of pressure from extreme radical feminists, are attempting to do something for their women members. [More…]
The official trade union movement has refused to recognise and endorse the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
To her credit the Minister, prior to Mr Ellicott ‘s remarks, had agreed to an interview with a very large union having a sizable female membership so that its point of view could be heard. [More…]
They resent the Centre’s attempt to by-pass the official trade union movement. [More…]
They are rightly suspicious of so-called peace organisations which act as propaganda arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne got rid of its partisan political propaganda attitude, confined itself to genuine working issues and was not so closely identified organisationally with WEL and other groups one might anticipate that the official trade union movement would reconsider its approach to it. [More…]
For the time being I am not at all surprised, unlike Senator Guilfoyle, that the trade union movement has declined to become involved with it in any meaningful way. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Education say whether it is a fact that Western Australia has already legislated to make student union fees voluntary with the students obliged to pay only service fees and that Victoria is also to follow this example in the next couple of weeks? [More…]
Many students do not wish any part of their union dues to be used for political activity and have neither the time nor the desire to take part in university union - [More…]
-It is a fact that the Western Australian Government has passed amending legislation, the effect of which is to make the payment of student union fees voluntary. [More…]
Quite apart from the union position, many of us have applications from Latin Americans who argue that there are tyre builders in Uruguay employed by a multinational company. [More…]
As those three bodies represent specific groups of women- professional women, country women and women from one religious group -and in view of the fact that when last September the Union of Australian Women was told by the Government Office of Child Care in Canberra that it was one of only three organisations that had shown any interest in the Year of the Child, will the Minister increase the membership of the Committee to give wider representation, including representation of the Union of Australian Women which has done a deal of work on its own on this important matter? [More…]
Many organisations, including the Union of Australian Women, which have made representations to be on a national committee or to work in connection with the observance of the International Year of the Child may find that they are invited by State governments to be on their committees. [More…]
It has become almost the fashion of this Government when it is indulging in union bashing or black bashing to introduce Bills off the top of its head, and frequently the Bills have to be amended later because they are full of loopholes. [More…]
When this Act was passed I made approaches to the Queensland Trades and Labour Council suggesting that unless the Aborigines got a fair go, and unless mining was carried out with their consent and their general wishes, and in accordance with what they required in return, union labour ought not to be supplied to that mining development. [More…]
The Queensland Trades and Labour Council agreed and subsequently carried a resolution to the effect that it would not supply union labour until such time as the Aborigines got a fair go. [More…]
I understand that that recommendation also has been made to the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I wrote also to the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union asking it what it would do, as one individual involved was a member of that union. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union pointed out that the awards it polices cover only employees of the Main Roads Department and local government. [More…]
Therefore the interest of the union ceased. [More…]
In the minutes of the 1974 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church the vote at Mornington Island was recorded as 63 to 3 in favour of church union. [More…]
So it is a misnomer to say to the world at large that the vote in northern Australia amongst the Aboriginal was very definitely against the church union. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is the company to which he referred the same company as has recently been instrumental in concluding negotiations for the sale to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of highly modern isotope onstream analysis equipment for the Australian Mineral Development Laboratory? [More…]
Yes, by another union. [More…]
The Government has agreed to issue a visa to Mr Kuzin, who is head of the Foreign Relations section of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics State Committee for Science and Technology, to visit Australia this month for trade talks. [More…]
-On Wednesday the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations was good enough to answer a question I asked with regard to union bans on oil tankers. [More…]
In answer to Senator Wright’s question a couple of days ago with regard to bans by the Seamen’s Union on oil tankers and bulk carriers, I thought I said- if I did not I intended to say- that the Department did not have detailed information on the costs of the bans. [More…]
I have also advised senior officers of the NSW Labor Council and unions with sizeable Latin American membership of ARV, AMWU, Rubber Workers Union that via the ACTU we will be forced to commence national agitation unless more evenhandedness is manifest. [More…]
1 ) The matters raised by the Merinda Sub-branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union have been investigated by my Department. [More…]
Payments of unemployment benefit to persons mentioned in the representations from the Union have been brought up to date. [More…]
A second matter relates to more bureaucrats at the Commonwealth Bank in Martin Place, Sydney, when my colleague and trade union comrade Ray Gietzelt was unable to get information on office cleaners. [More…]
On the matter of communications, I have been advised of grievances by Barney French, the Secretary of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
If an opinion-maker in the trade union movement wants somebody on the Opposition side to put up a matter, particularly to a Minister in his own portfolio, in 10 minutes a member can say all he wants to say and he can get documents incorporated. [More…]
The motto of the British printing trade union states: ‘The man who suffers an injustice with the power to remove it deserves not compassion but contempt. ‘ [More…]
It led to a reduction in conditions of those who were employed in the industry and I would have thought that the trade union movement would have considered their position first. [More…]
AUS Student Travel markets travel for the Australian Union of Students itself substantially by making use of the affinity interest in the student organisation. [More…]
The stoppage is the result of the use of non-union labour in the loading of sheep at Albany and Fremantle and of the arrest of pickets at those ports yesterday. [More…]
The Meat Industry Employees Union has announced a four-day national stoppage by its members commencing tomorrow. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called a special interstate executive meeting with affected unions. [More…]
Development of uranium also will be dependent upon the co-operation of those members of the trade union movement who will be involved in mining, milling and transport activities. [More…]
I am interested in what was apparently a slip made by Senator Harradine in his personal explanation when he said that he located the office of his union in Launceston. [More…]
I am interested that the union apparently is Senator Harradine ‘s property and that the other members did not have a say in that issue. [More…]
It is a problem in Tasmania, Victoria and other places at the moment in view of the fact that many large foreign shipping nations like Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Poland- we know that the Taiwanese are very interested at the moment- which have declared a 200-mile exclusive economic zone wish to join in fishing operations in this area. [More…]
Does the honourable senator deny the fact that Vladimir Kuzin who is in this country as the head of the foreign relations section of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Committee for Science and Technology has a well documented record as a KGB official and is using this international cover for his operations? [More…]
As the industrial adviser to the United Firefighters Union in Tasmania, I can say that we are not adequately equipped to deal with a major ship fire in Tasmania. [More…]
It seemed to be an attempt to smear hard-working devoted women with the obvious purpose of denying government funding for the Centre because these people who run the Centre are not identified with Senator Harradine ‘s faction in the trade union movement. [More…]
At a time when women in the work force are under great pressure, at a time when they need assistance and advice, it is irresponsible in my opinion for a member of Parliament to add to that burden and it is particularly irresponsible for a member of Parliament who pretends to have expertise and experience in the trade union movement to add to that burden on women. [More…]
The Centre was set up with the intention of informing unions about specific problems facing women in the work force; to encourage women to join their appropriate union; to educate women about trade unions and to encourage them to participate in union activity and to seek decision-making positions within the unions; to provide information and support for women who have problems which affect their work or ability to get work; to bring a grass-roots woman’s view of the effect of government policies and legislation to the attention of government Ministers and departments. [More…]
Senator Harradine maintained that this Centre was not a part of the union movement and that in fact it was hostile to the trade union movement. [More…]
ACSPA is one of the three major peak union councils in Australia. [More…]
ACSPA, the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and the Australian Council of Trade Unions comprise the three governing bodies of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
The Centre was represented on the ACTU committee that set up the Federal Union Conference that discussed the ACTU Working Women’s Charter. [More…]
An employee of the Centre was invited by the ACTU to speak at that Federal Union Conference on child care, yet this is the body that Senator Harradine says has no place and is not recognised in the trade union movement, and in fact is hostile to the movement. [More…]
At the Federal Union Conference the ACTU Secretary, Peter Nolan, moved this recommendation: (That) the ACTU liaise closely with ACSPA and CAGEO in the implementation of the ACTU W.W. Chaner. [More…]
The Centre is financially supported at the moment by more than 70 unions, many of which are affiliated with the ACTU and whose leaders are involved in a wide spectrum of opinion in the trade union movement. [More…]
Other centres provide a service to members of their own unions. [More…]
The trade union movement in this country has done precious little about the fact that it now takes two people’s wages to keep a family and the days when one man’s wages were sufficient to keep a wife and family and women did not have to work have gone. [More…]
For instance, it has information on what the Tenants Union is all about; invalid pensions; Medibank for school leavers; venereal disease; the Clyde Cameron College courses for 1 978; the United Nations Decade for Women; interuterine contraceptive devices; the Working Women’s Charter Campaign Conference; the Working Women’s Centre and why it was set up. [More…]
7- Should Union Support a Mother’s Wage? [More…]
23- Trade Union Training for Women. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the Centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
They have not even had the courtesy to advise the union officials whose members work in those factories of what they are attempting to do. [More…]
In the first place, there is no official trade union hostility to the Working Women’s Centre and, secondly, Senator Harradine gives no information of those instances when the Centre has bypassed the elected officials of unions. [More…]
In fact the representatives of the Centre assure me that at no time have employees of that Centre entered a union shop without the consent of the union concerned and that on most occasions when they have gone into union shops they have gone with a trade union official to assist the trade union official and to have him assist them in speaking to the women on the shop floor. [More…]
What contact has the Working Women’s Centre with the trade union movement? [More…]
Senator Harradine would have us believe that it had no contact; that it was set up as a front organisation and that it had nothing to do with trade unions. [More…]
The two hard working and over-worked women who work in the Centre personally visit trade unions for discussions with officials- evidence can be given of that. [More…]
As I said, they produce monthly reports and research papers which are distributed to all trade unions. [More…]
Their paper Women at Work’ is distributed through trade unions and in some instances unions have acknowledged that whereas the women tend not to read the official trade union journal, they most certainly read this publication because it includes matters which appeal specifically and immediately to them, and is of some assistance to them. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre refers women who approach the Centre to the appropriate union for their jobs and they give information to the organisers to follow up. [More…]
As a result, they are often invited to address the executives of trade unions and to address and participate in training seminars run by trade unions in Victoria. [More…]
For the record, the Working Women ‘s Centre, which is not recognised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions or by the Victorian Trades Hall Council, has received $40,000 from the International Women’s Year Secretariat, $8,000 in January 1977 from the Department of Social Security for child care study, $6,300 in April 1977 from a Federal Government grant, $200 in July-August 1977 from the Australia Council for arts information for the Working Women’s Centre newsletter, a total of $54,500. [More…]
Firstly, I rose because I was angered by the statement of the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) that the Working Women’s Centre was the only organisation within the trade union movement providing support for women. [More…]
I did so because I am President of a trade union, 70 per cent of whose members are women, and I take strong exception to that sort of statement. [More…]
I went on to make a well-founded comment that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is not the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is unrepresentative, it involves itself in matters not directly relevant to women workers, it is hostile to the official trade union movement and it is a politically motivated organisation favouring the extreme Left and radical feminists. [More…]
I repeat that it is significant that neither the Australian Council of Trade Unions nor the Victorian Trades Hall Council has endorsed the Centre. [More…]
It is simply untrue for Mr Ellicott to say that it is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
Senator Melzer referred to the ACTU’s Special Unions Conference on the Working Women’s Chaner. [More…]
That resolution, which was proposed at the ACTU’s Special Unions Conference and second by Mr Ted Bull, the Vice-President of the Communist Party of Australia, Marxist-Leninist, and the Secretary of the Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workers Federation, of which there are no women members, was opposed and rejected by the ACTU Congress. [More…]
I take exception to an accusation that I have done nothing within the trade union movement to support a wage that is capable of sustaining a family unit. [More…]
Now Senator Melzer, in supporting this situation, is supporting those who support also the Union of Australian Women. [More…]
I think she yesterday, or on Friday, raised a question as to why the Union of Australian Women was not associated with something or other. [More…]
We all know what the Union of Australian Women is: It is really an arm of the Socialist Party of Australia. [More…]
The Government could get into a lot of international trouble if, as has occurred, reports going to international bodies from the Women’s Affairs Bureau of the Department, via the Department of Foreign Affairs, put forward the concept that the Union of Australian Women and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are the only organisations in Australia dealing with women’s affairs. [More…]
This assistance is necessary in view of the difficulties of married women undertaking this new role and their entry into the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable senator stated that the organisation is not connected with the trade union movement because the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Victorian Trades Hall Council did not recognise it. [More…]
Senator Harradine knows as well as I do that he ACTU and the trades hall councils of most States recognise only affiliated union bodies. [More…]
The honourable senator uses this as an argument to suggest that the Women’s Centre should be ostracised and that the trade union movement has no time for it. [More…]
We have been told that the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations recognise the Centre and that some 70 unions support them. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry whether it is correct that only 6,000 tonnes of beef has been sold to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe from an expected 1 10,000 tonnes for the year. [More…]
I am unable to verify the figures suggested by the honourable senator as being the sales made to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Eastern Europe and the United States. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What consideration has been given to returning to the normal procedure in the Department, which has been advocated by the union, and what can be done in that respect? [More…]
I think the honourable senator and the union to which he referred were also concerned about the awarding of certificates. [More…]
I mention specifically the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- neither of which recognises our sovereignty claims- Britain, New Zealand, Chile, and others. [More…]
Particularly in the case of the United States and the Soviet Union, and to a somewhat lesser extent other countries, summer teams of between 850 and 1,000 are engaged, and these numbers are substantially reduced when climatic conditions between March and October make operations hazardous, costly and minimally effective. [More…]
-I point out to the Committee that so far as the discussions on the site were concerned, I was privy- as a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions executive at the time- to information relating to the discussions that took place amongst maritime unions in respect of the establishment of a maritime college. [More…]
As mentioned last night, a number of those unions were not in favour of the establishment of the Australian Maritime College at Launceston. [More…]
Indeed, those of us within the trade union movement were made aware that politically this was the most appropriate site. [More…]
Does this mean that if the council finds it necessary to charge service fees for some extra curricula activity or if it needs to charge sports union fees, which is common enough in universities, it must go to the Minister for approval to charge those fees? [More…]
I agree with Senator Grimes that student union fees might need to be paid. [More…]
He said, as I heard him, that there may be a wish within the institution to authorise union fees. [More…]
It is a free university system so far as the government is concerned, and then the union moves in and puts upon the student population extravagant imposts in the way of fees for so-called unionism, part of which are to go to indirect political purposes. [More…]
It amazes me that in an institution being created by the Commonwealth, where we have direct responsibility and direct control, we are contemplating and putting forward union fees as an instance of the possible imposition of fees- so far as I can see in the Bill, uncontrolled. [More…]
The fact is that since the first tertiary institution was introduced in Australia- if my memory serves me, it was in the mid- 19th century either in my State or in Melbournefees have been charged directly to students for sporting, recreation and union dues. [More…]
I would agree with Senator Wright that a situation has emerged in which there have been bad practices in relation to the student union fraction of the total student fees that are paid. [More…]
Equally, as Senator Wright pointed out, students should be able to opt out of payment of union dues as distinct from sporting and recreation dues if, in conscience, they believe that the fees are being used wrongly. [More…]
In respect of this legislation the whole question of the democratic governing of student activities and the payment of student dues, whether they are sporting and recreation dues or union dues, is under consideration by my Government. [More…]
Mr Willis pointed out in the House that an inquiry had been called for by, among other people, the directors of the company, the Victorian Farmers Union, in which there would be a high degree of membership of the shareholders of the Co-operative, and perhaps most significantly, the members of the National Country Party in the Victorian State Parliament, who have backed the Labor Party-initiated call for an inquiry. [More…]
So we have the National Country Party, the Labor Party in the State of Victoria, the Victorian Farmers Union, which has virtually the same membership as the shareholders of the Cooperative, and the directors of the Co-operative all calling for an inquiry. [More…]
Is the Minister in a position to inform the Senate of the truth or otherwise of an item in yesterday’s Canberra Times which indicates that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has withdrawn from proposed science talks because of the Government’s presumably strong opposition to the presence of another KGB agent in Mr Kuzin ‘s delegation? [More…]
The agreement which was concluded in 1975 promotes co-operation between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics primarily through exchanges of working scientists in the areas of earth sciences, entomology and plant protection, plant sciences, radio astronomy and textile technology. [More…]
Therefore nations such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China are showing an increasing interest in the Pacific just as Japan has long had a substantial interest in it. [More…]
It is the stevedoring industry, in combination with the Seamen’s Union of Australia, that is effectually boycotting ships when they come to Australia. [More…]
This dispute involving the Seamen’s Union has some elements of an industrial dispute, but a pure boycott of the export of goods from the country by one union that wishes a certain policy as to how much livestock should be exported is no more an industrial dispute than if it were being brayed about by a herd of goats. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party Premier of Tasmania prefers to rely upon a supplication to the union to treat Tasmania as especially dependent on shipping and, by grace of the union, to exempt Tasmania from any ban. [More…]
That might be understood by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) to be already a recognition by some elected parliaments that they have to go cap in hand to the union to obtain the services that the people require to be supplied. [More…]
Yet the union position is of special importance, and the [More…]
Premier of Tasmania says, in terms of appreciation, that the union will consider the Tasmanian position. [More…]
But the incubus of inertia, the lack of support by governments and, of course, the monopoly power of the union and the militancy of its members so much encouraged by Senator Mulvihill in his speech, have meant that Mr O’Connor’s health has been impaired severely. [More…]
At that time, the problem was to get work out of the personnel in the stevedoring union. [More…]
The termination of this Authority under the terms of the original Act enhances the risk that those cargoes, along with other cargoes, increasingly will become subject to the influence of the monopoly obstruction of the union that by the statute is still given not merely preference in the industry but monopoly rights in the industry. [More…]
Fitzgibbon spoke enthusiastically of the possibilities of international trade union action. [More…]
They are being developed to bring in international unionism in conjunction with the operation of the Seamen’s Union of Australia and so put the union out of the reach of national governments, such as the Fraser Government, to control the waterfront adequately. [More…]
It is a risk that should be watched with the utmost vigilance so as to prevent the destruction of a trade that has grown up without interference from the monopoly waterfront union and which handles 60 per cent of the exports from this country. [More…]
All that was brushed aside at the demand of the union. [More…]
In the two years of the negotiations under the Woodward conference there was unparalleled peace on the waterfront, so that those who represented responsibility were seduced into thinking that the union was becoming acquiescent. [More…]
Should one union- the seamen have it to a certain degree, but the waterside workers have it absolutely- in the country have an absolute statutory monopoly to supply labour for this industry? [More…]
One union resolutely refuses to recognise the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and persists every two years with a determined policy of collective bargaining. [More…]
The next point I wish to raise is that this report shows the conditions that have been granted due to the militancy of the union, its monopoly power and the weakness of government to discharge its responsibility. [More…]
Let it be remembered that when the Woodward conference got final agreement, and the Government acquiesced in an experimental basis in regard to permanent employment, it was carefully provided in the terms of that conference agreement that the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions of Australia recognised that the conditions to be established were no precedent for adoption in other industries; they were not to be made a basis of claim for extension into other industries. [More…]
The Government’s authority thinks it has sufficient status as the industry journal of the Waterside Workers Union to know- the official journal of the WWF, total payments ranged from $47,500 for a man just turned 60 to about $ 10,000 for a man almost 65. [More…]
Of course every employer has to retreat when confronted with monopoly union labour unless the Government will enforce the law or make the law strong enough to bring economy within the union. [More…]
These are features that cause me tremendous concern about the disintegration of parliamentary ceapparent government, where we see without apparent concern a monopoly union retaining its monopoly position in industries such as this, challenging the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and receiving payments unparalleled and unimagined in any other industry while continuing to insist successfully that employers provide surplus labor which creates a terrific amount of idle time. [More…]
As a senator from Tasmania, who has seen in the period in which I have been in this place the absolute destruction of Tasmania’s special apple industry, untold damage to an industry which had been especially established in Tasmania- the textile industry- and the whole of the shipping arrangements to Tasmania now dependent upon the meek pleas of a Labor Government to the Australian Council of Trade Unions, I wish to express my sense of utter shame at the failure of this Government and its predecessors to get sanity into this industry whose deficiencies have now been demonstrated and exposed, not upon my say so alone but by the last and final report of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority which has received in return its death sentence. [More…]
In America, the electrical trades union has agreements which give its members a working week of 25 hours. [More…]
I quickly repeat my point that, as is well known in Australia, there has always been the circumstance where not the law, but the Australian Council of Trade Unions or some special organisation has had to come in and help settle disputes. [More…]
In the case of the recent dispute in Germany over the economic decline in that country, the aim of the United German Consolidated Trade Union Movement was very similar to the matter we have been talking about today. [More…]
In the circumstances of the industry we have to negotiate a satisfactory arrangement between the employers and the waterfront unions to make sure that we do not create bad feeling which we know all about. [More…]
The union bargains for a reasonable phasing out period. [More…]
The fact is that Charlie Fitzgibbon is one of the most competent men in the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Wright referred earlier to my condoning certain trade union attitudes. [More…]
He pointed out that if Bob Hawke had suggested to an affiliated union three days ago what he might have suggested today the unions three days a go would have bitten his head off. [More…]
I say this to the Australian Cattlemen’s Union and to similar organisations: Finally, at the end of a week or two, some sanity is reached. [More…]
Honourable senators should not forget- it stands out very starkly- that Bob Hawke cannot overawe people to the extent that perhaps Albert Monk did because, with a better educated rank and file trade union movement, people who are faced with a recommendation to go back to work and who have their own inner feelings about the situation will reject the recommendation. [More…]
I refer to the Transport Workers Unions of Australia, the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen ‘s Association of Australasia. [More…]
A lot of people in the small white collar unions and technical unions would be horrified if it was suggested to them that they should vote for the Labor Party, much less for ACTU affiliation. [More…]
But I say respectfully that while the ACTU maintains its role of mediator and while we have trade union leaders of the calibre of Charlie Fitzgibbon things will not be as bad as Senator Wright suggests. [More…]
I refer to an article in today’s Adelaide Advertiser stating that 53 Noarlunga meat workers have been retrenched at the request of their union, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
I understand that the union contends that the daily hired workers were earning less than the unemployment benefits for which they were ineligible because they were employed. [More…]
I am advised with regard to claims for unemployment benefits from members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union that the Director-General has decided that members of the AMIEU who were stood down as the result of the shortage of work are to be granted unemployment benefits subject to the normal conditions. [More…]
I indicated that I was aware that generally the Government felt that the free export of goods produced in Australia should be allowed and that this situation was being reviewed because of the fact that there had been some union intervention in the matter previously and because of certain reports that have been brought forward. [More…]
The honourable senator may know that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics came in behind the United States of America and Australia in regard to this matter. [More…]
I believe that the $US 10 million referred to by the honourable senator concerns a joint project between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The United States has loaned to the Soviet Union a magnet weighing 45 tonnes and valued at approximately $US10 million. [More…]
If it does, is he aware that this morning Chrysler’s management in Adelaide told union representatives that over the next 18 months 1300 workers will be retrenched and that 100 clerical workers and 200 line workers will be put off before the middle of May? [More…]
Does the compulsory student union fee payment at the University of New South Wales include a contribution to the Australian Union of Students? [More…]
Does the University allow conscientious objection on grounds narrower than those applicable to membership of trade unions generally? [More…]
They comprise fees for membership of the university union, the sports association, the students union and a miscellaneous fee. [More…]
My advice is that for full-time students the amount involved is $90, which includes $ 14 for membership of the students union. [More…]
For a new student there is an additional university union entrance fee of $25. [More…]
The charge required for affiliation of the Students Union with the Australian Union of Students is made from the resources of the Students Union itself which is dependent for its income on the fees collected from students by the university. [More…]
I understand that in special cases the registrar of the university may grant exemption on religious grounds from membership of the Students Union subject to the payment of the prescribed membership fees to general university revenue. [More…]
I think that the grounds are relatively narrow and that I would be correct in sayingbut I would need to check it- that the conscientious objection grounds are more narrow than those applying to trade unions. [More…]
-Earlier today Senator Baume asked me a question on student fees and particularly their relationship to conscientious objection as it applies in trade unions. [More…]
I can now advise him that an amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1 977 provides that where a person satisfies the Industrial Registrar that his conscientious beliefs do not allow him to be a member of a trade union, the Registrar shall issue to the person a certificate to that effect. [More…]
The main opposition to lifting the merino ban comes from two quarters- some woolgrowers and some members of the Australian Workers Union which covers the shearing industry. [More…]
There has been a series of discussions between the AASMB and the unions in an attempt to reach a consensus on this issue. [More…]
It seems that union representatives would raise no objection to the relaxation of the merino export ban if yet another referendum were to be held on the issue. [More…]
I believe that any reasonable union member would probably have to concede that point of view as well. [More…]
The stud merino breeders have till now not pushed a case for the immediate lifting of the ban to the extreme because they have been attempting to reach consensus with the unions. [More…]
In this evening’s Sydney Sun there is an article in which another federal union official, Mr Chris McGrane from the Professional Radio Employees’ Institute, has backed that statement. [More…]
The company which owns the Katherine meatworks, being concerned to achieve economic operation, apparently reached an agreement with the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on wage rates and conditions for the employees based primarily on the federal award. [More…]
I think it should be stressed that, in order to get the plant operating, the company had to pay higher rates than those to which the union itself had agreed. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia favours holding the election as soon as possible? [More…]
-by leave- I bring up the report of the Australian delegation to the 64th Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference at Sofia. [More…]
This is a matter of great concern to many people and the recent Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference agreed to resolutions, both on the general subject and on specific cases. [More…]
The Australian group has been active for some time in supporting inquiries by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and I believe that our Parliament and group should actively pursue the suggestions contained in the general resolution on the subject. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) in his statement to the Parliament during March last year sought to analyse our relationships with the developed democracies, including Japan, the United States of America and Western Europe; our changing relationships with China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and our developing relationships in our own region. [More…]
One matter is the critically important strategic arms limitations talks which have been going on between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for some time. [More…]
I do not know what approach, if any, was made by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to, for example, the Timber Workers Union. [More…]
But nowhere in that list of acknowledgements can I see any reference to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics being in contact with or having any discussions with officers of the Timber Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
The London Financial Times of 5 April 1978 contained a comment on a significant sale of sugar by the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that the Australian Workers Union is very concerned about the situation. [More…]
The New South Wales north coast organiser of the AWU was called to Brisbane last week to have discussions with the executive of the Queensland branch of the Union because, for industrial purposes, so far as the sugar industry is concerned, the north coast of New South Wales comes within the ambit of the Queensland branch. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in particular, Yugoslavia and the People’s Republic of China also are moving into the widespread use of nuclear energy. [More…]
The article appeared prior to the Parliament resuming- the national secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, Mr Pat Clancy, said that Soviet trade unionists supported their country’s nuclear energy development program because they were satisfied with Soviet nuclear safeguards. [More…]
Among other organisations she contacted the Unemployed Workers Union in Hobart which made some inquiries. [More…]
Will he explain the reasons for the rejection of the union ‘s quite reasonable demands? [More…]
The use of the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining now makes it an offence for any worker, union or Australian citizen not to comply fully with the mining and the export of uranium. [More…]
Firstly, a report issued by the US Union of Concerned Scientists claims that nuclear power plants being supplied from the US are technically flawed and incapable of supplying reliable power. [More…]
Coincidentally, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was offering a reactor to replace the United States model. [More…]
We must never reach the stage where we, the elected members of the chamber, are spokesmen for the Government as distinct from spokesmen for the people, to refer to a phrase used by Sir Winston Churchill when he opened the first Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. [More…]
After the Second World War that Territory was administered in union with the Territory of New Guinea and, as the Third Schedule to the Papua New Guinea Act 1 949, as amended up to the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence, makes clear, islands within the Torres Strait that were not part of the State of Queensland continued to be within the bounds of Papua New Guinea immediately prior to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
As used to be suggested in the 1 940s, he seems to believe that the conspiracy probably originated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the week’s adjournment of the Senate I hope Senator Kilgariff will contemplate the fact that the Soviet Union has exactly the same policy on the mining, export and use of uranium as the Fraser Government has. [More…]
The story concerns a young man who was then President of the Adelaide University Liberal Union, Sir Robert Menzies who was then Prime Minister of Australia, a speech, a haircut, the [More…]
It was a lunchtime meeting organised by the Liberal Union of the University of Adelaide. [More…]
Unattended by anyone other than the young President of the Liberal Union, he walked out of the University’s grounds and down North Terrace. [More…]
What struck my friend, the President of the Liberal Union, was the unfeigned and total deference accorded to Sir Mellis by the man who was then Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
I heard him so many times speak of his links in days gone by in the arbitration system, with the trade unions, how proud he was that he had won some famous cases for the trade union movement, and of his friendship and affection for trade union leaders such as Albert Monk. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Yuri Orlov has been a leader of the Helsinki monitoring group, active in exposing the failure of the Soviet Union to comply with its human rights commitments under the Helsinki Pact? [More…]
Will the Government consider a proposal that Australia boycott those Games in view of these savage new attacks by the Soviet Union on free speech in that country. [More…]
The Government is aware that Dr Yuri Orlov has been a leader of a group in the Soviet Union monitoring the Helsinki agreement. [More…]
At the national level, the Bill proposes the establishment of a national advisory committee consisting of two union representatives, two employer representatives, the National Director and a representative of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
Of that$19, the sum of $2.50 in effect becomes a contribution to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I understand that some students on the campus have objected to contributing directly in this way to the Australian Union of Students and feel that they cannot in conscience make that contribution. [More…]
They take that stand because they believe that some of the policies pursued and actions taken by the Australian Union of Students are such that they cannot support them. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to a judgment delivered in November 1977 in the Supreme Court of Victoria which related to the use of funds by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The intended use of the Union’s money was for the production and dissemination of political propaganda which was directed to form a body of opinion amongst students of tertiary institutions and within the community at large to support its objective . [More…]
It is my understanding that it is that problem and the irrelevance of these issues, indeed the inappropriateness of the issues that AUS has taken up in some instances, that has led to the objection in conscience by some students at the university to seeing $2.50 of their $19 fee to the student association in effect being transferred to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I understand that three students in particular have indicated that they cannot in conscience contribute the $2.50 which would go to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
As I understand the position, three students at the Australian National University are under some threat to their continued studenthood because they offered, and had accepted, payment of the sporting and amenities fees that were due, but withheld a $2.50 subscription to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
On the face of it the University itself is seeking to compel the payment of what it regards as a compulsory levy to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Presumably Senator Georges is saying that the students should be forced to pay a fee of $2.50 to the Australian Union of Students and if they do not pay it, even though they have conscience about the matter, they should not be allowed to continue their studenthood. [More…]
Discussions have been held with the Public Service Board and peak trade union councils. [More…]
I suggest that we should do nothing here to try to break the union that has developed very well. [More…]
I have been informed by Mr R. Lette the Secretary ofthe Southern Sub-Branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union, that he wrote to you on 31 January in regards to members of his union who were recently denied unemployment benefit. [More…]
I have sighted a reply from the Department of Social Security to one of the members of Mr Lette ‘s union, after that member made a claim for unemployment benefit. [More…]
This particular member of Mr Lette ‘s union finished work on 24 November, 1977. [More…]
The matter was brought to your attention by Mr R. G. Lette, Secretary, Southern Sub-Branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees ‘ Union. [More…]
3 ) Is the Overseas Student Service receiving funds from either the Government or the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The status of the Overseas Student Service is reported to be at present a matter of dispute between the Overseas Student Service and the Australian Union of Students, which no longer recognises the Overseas Student Service as one of its departments. [More…]
I am informed that the Australian Union of Students no longer provides any funds to the Overseas Student Service. [More…]
Among these are the United States of America, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the European Economic Community countries- in short both major fishing nations and nations with fisheries resources. [More…]
Is he aware of a report in today’s Adelaide Advertiser, attributed to the Iranese Meat Organisation, to the effect that Australia’s live sheep trade will be in jeopardy if there is a continuing disruption to the trade by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union? [More…]
In the light of this and the inability of Iran physically to handle violently fluctuating levels of consignments caused by industrial action, will the Minister enter into discussions with the AMIEU to ensure a proper understanding of the issues amongst union members and undertake other positive steps to ensure an even and orderly flow of trade to the newly developing markets of the Middle East? [More…]
As I recall, one of the terms of settlement of the last dispute was that a task force, consisting of representatives of the meat trade, the union and government, was to go to the Middle East. [More…]
Believing that I could assist- be a mediator in what had become a delicate political issue- I discussed the matter with certain officials of the Queensland Teachers Union. [More…]
Since the Minister announced his decision, all major guilds and unions have expressed objections to stopping the making of the film. [More…]
Telegrams and letters have been sent by the Australian Theatrical Employees Association, Actors Equity, the Musicians Union, the Australian Writers Guild, the Australian Cinema.tographers Society, the Film Editors Guild, the Producers and Directors Guild and independent producers. [More…]
As there had been a sort of ideological thaw, quite a number of people, including political and trade union leaders, who had been exiled under previous governments made a pilgrimage back to Lima. [More…]
My pronounciation of Spanish names is not the best, but I have before me a list of seven names- Justino Apaza, Valetin Pacha, Jose Arcelaro, Guillemo Fauraga, Ricardo Chavez, Alfonso Paella, and Humberto Daminia- of people who are either leaders of political parties or leaders of the trade union movement of Peru. [More…]
I said at the commencement of my remarks that I have some misgivings, as does the Australian trade union movement, about whether we are getting a proper cross section of political refugees. [More…]
I believe that Senator Carrick, with his knowledge of world events, would be aware that two years before the outbreak of World War II, Britain had a very good record, at a government and trade union level, for getting people out of Hitler Germany and the neo-Nazi territories of Germany. [More…]
In the meantime they have recourse, in the case of New South Wales, to people like the Honourable B. French of the Rubber Workers Union and other people to put their point of view. [More…]
Does he have any information for the Peruvian community of Sydney as to the extent of the Peruvian Government ‘s recent suppression of trade union and political activity. [More…]
As to the last part of Senator Walters’ question, I assume that within the law as it presently stands the result of the election does represent the opinion of the union members as ascertained in the ballot conducted under those terms and conditions. [More…]
This includes adequate and timely briefings on strategic arms limitation talks between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
SALT is central to the achievement of stability in the nuclear balance and the relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Also, in accordance with the recommendation of the Review, trade unions will be eligible for special project grants to improve migrants’ knowledge of and participation in union affairs. [More…]
In its work the Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr S. B. Myer, had the services of eminent Australians from a wide variety of interests- including Government, business, the trade union movement and academics. [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia/Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance of power there; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia/Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
Its members will include the Japan Committee members and representatives from academic, business, cultural, trade union and other interested community groups. [More…]
That principle is well established throughout many organisations, and indeed the trade union movement embraces similar principles. [More…]
I do not care whether people come from Japan with $22m or from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with $22m. [More…]
Thus the employees of the Kagoshima Shimpo Newspaper were hindered by him personally to organise themselves in a trade union. [More…]
A consistent policy appears to be that continuous pressure on employees is applied so that ‘from fear some workers escaped from the trade union’. [More…]
The words ‘union basher’ are offensive to Senator Collard. [More…]
I have referred to the offence taken by Senator Collard to the words union basher’. [More…]
Secondly, in expansion of my comments on the adjournment debate the other night, is it true that a number of political and trade union leaders have been exiled to the Argentine and have become political refugees? [More…]
When an announcement was made that 1,100 people were to be retrenched, the union involved met the Prime Minister and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and received an assurance, which was later published, that maximum retraining effort would be given to ensure that those people who were retrenched would be retrained and made available for whatever occupations were available. [More…]
I ask: Does the Minister know that since that time the departmental representatives in Adelaide of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations have rejected a complete and comprehensive union retraining scheme and that the scheme which has been proposed is one to retrain 40 employees under the auspices of the Department of Further Education, as a result of which there is currently a dispute and representations have been made to the Government? [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations to review whatever proposals have been put to the union on the basis of what I have mentioned, so that the whole of the retrenched work force might be given fairly good opportunities for retraining? [More…]
As to the actual discussions which are taking place or which have taken place between officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the union concerned, I am unaware of those recent developments. [More…]
In fact a trade union, some two or three years ago, actually made a case to try to get award wages for people living in the Palm Island community. [More…]
He obtained the work due to a direct approach by a senior officer of his industrial union. [More…]
The union has made application to Mr Street for funds to retrain these people and he has refused to do so. [More…]
Car union’s retraining plan rejected. [More…]
A trade union plan to retrain retrenched SA car-industry workers has been rejected by officials of the Federal Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
Vehicles Builders Union officials are irate. [More…]
The union plan was to retain the 1,100 Chrysler workers due to be retrenched by the end of next year, including the 300 who were dismissed or resigned on May 12, for work in the smash crash-repair industry, using funds from the Federal Government under the National Employment and Training Scheme. [More…]
The VBU SA branch secretary, Mr D. J. Foreman, yesterday sent a message to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, in Canberra saying that Tuesday’s meeting of union and employer representatives with officials of the Minister’s department had proved fruitless because of the officials’ attitude. [More…]
Because of their attitude, we feel promises made by you and the Prime Minister to representatives of this union at our meeting in Canberra on May 9 (regarding the availability of unlimited funds for retraining) have been broken ‘, his message said. [More…]
The message said a survey by the union and employers had shown that DFE facilities would not meet the required level and costing would be ‘enormous’. [More…]
This would not have been the case with the rejected union scheme. [More…]
Your officials appear to have no idea of the needs of vehicle industry as expressed by this union and employers ‘ the message said. [More…]
Mr Foreman said the Department’s inspection of Chrysler’s Tonsley Park facilities on May 1 1 had decided they were inadequate for the union ‘s retraining plan. [More…]
As a result, the union had formulated an alternative proposal which had now been rejected by Mr Street ‘s departmental officials. [More…]
VBU organiser Mr Pat Meehan said that the union plan had been rejected by the departmental officials because representatives of the South Australian Automobile Chamber of Commerce said they could not guarantee employment after the workers had been retrained. [More…]
In South Australia the Labor Government does its best to sit down in consultation with the trade union movement and to resolve problems before they get out of hand. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to talk to the trade union movement to iron out the problems; it has confrontation. [More…]
While on the one hand employers are trying to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of the work force at the least possible cost and on the other hand the trade union movement is trying to get a fair deal for its members industrial disputes will always be with us. [More…]
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1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees ‘ Union, and a member of the New South Wales police force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
The Municipal Employees Union in New South Wales- the union of which I am still a memberhas done a magnificent job. [More…]
So far it has collected $90,500 which will be given to the widows of the Municipal Employees Union members who were blown up in that bombing. [More…]
The people of Australia want to know how much money was paid out by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation when Mr Hall was Premier of South Australia to the Special Branch in South Australia for the purpose of spying on trade union officials and members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I mentioned last night that the Municipal Employees Union had raised $100,000 for the widows of the men who were bombed. [More…]
In South Australia the Liberal Government does its best to sit down in consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
What should be recorded is that in South Australia the Labor Government does its best to sit down in consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population 1977-78, $25,000. [More…]
As the scheme which has been offered is a very minimal one, and involves only 40 workers, I ask whether something can be done urgently to initiate negotiations between his Department and the union involved to ensure that there will be an adequate retraining program, as promised by the Prime Minister. [More…]
As I note that the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations will soon be leaving Australia, I ask whether the matter can be taken up urgently to ensure that, in the absence of the Minister, something can be done to reconsider and review the proposals presently before the union? [More…]
Does the Minister know that the Prime Minister in a speech to the Victorian Farmers Union on 6 July 1976 complained that milk prices in Melbourne had not been increased enough, and that an extra $40m would have been available to Victorian dairy farmers if Sydney price rises had applied to Melbourne milk? [More…]
I understand that officials of the union have agreed to meet again officers of the Minister’s Department together with representatives of the South Australian Automobile Chamber of Commerce and the Department of Further Education in the week commencing 12 June. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs by referring to the pleas I made about the possible fate of exiled Peruvian trade union leaders who were deposited in the Argentine. [More…]
There have been talks with union leaders, representatives of industry and commerce, and government authorities in all States and Territories. [More…]
However, students are required to pay union and other fees. [More…]
I ask: Did he at the beginning of March 1976 write to the Secretary of the Western Australian division of the Liberal Party saying that the problems of student organisations were matters for universities themselves to resolve and that the cure, if any cure were needed, in relation to student organisation problems was the same as the cure for problems within the trade union movement, that is, it must originate from the members themselves? [More…]
If so, why is the Government pursuing a campaign of open harassment against the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, whom I represent, has, I believe, an outstanding record of attempting to co-operate as far as he possibly can with the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations whether he has seen reports by trade union officials that in the current economic situation unions are having greater difficulties in getting some employers to observe awards. [More…]
In the case of George Hudson Ltd v. Australian Timber Workers Union in 1923 he said this in relation to the legal principle in regard to a presumption of retrospectivity: [More…]
But, according to Mr Ferguson - who is a member of the union which conducted a research project into the problem- [More…]
We have talked to the union leaders about it, and they seem to be quite happy with it. [More…]
However, Mr Everingham said joint management-union consultations were being held on the most appropriate ongoing conditions to apply to the NTPS. [More…]
Mr Everingham said he hoped a new package of entitlements developed by the union and management representatives would be so attractive that transferred staff would prefer to adopt them rather than retain their current entrenched conditions. [More…]
At the moment we have Labor politicians playing petty politics, whipping up emotions because in that area, which is an area of a substantial trade union majority, they cannot get the votes. [More…]
I say to the Senate that when I go up to the Pilbara next weekend I will speak as directly to those trade unionists as I am speaking to the Senate now. [More…]
There is no reason for those trade unionists to get any exceptional treatment, any treatment over and above that afforded to any Australian citizen. [More…]
I believe that the trade unionists in the Pilbara will accept that, as they have accepted the benefits of being represented by Liberals for many years. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education aware that Mr Michael Farrell, who is a student at the University of New South Wales, claims that his first semester examination results might be withheld because of unresolved arguments over his claim of conscientious objection against the payment of certain student union fees? [More…]
-On 8 June Senator Sim asked whether the Government had any information which would confirm reports that the Soviet Union has reactivated the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. [More…]
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been persistent Press reports that the Soviet Union has sought Vietnamese permission to use the base. [More…]
The base facilities are used by the Vietnamese Navy, which receives training assistance from the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, the Government has no information which would confirm that there has been any substantial recent change in the Soviet presence at Cam Ranh Bay or that the Soviet Union has taken over Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base. [More…]
The Opposition vigorously opposes the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
I was particularly struck by Senator Chaney ‘s comments last night when he was talking about trade unionism in the Pilbara. [More…]
I think the very idea of establishing this college was to enable, as it were, a non-commissioned officer stratum to be developed in the trade union movement. [More…]
In the 1950s people who had trade union aspirations found it very costly to privately subscribe to a variety of publications, which might have included such business-oriented journals as Rydge’s and other publications of that nature. [More…]
The Government has now decided on a member ratio of 4:4- 4 members from the trade unions and 4 members from other sources in the community. [More…]
Candidly, it might be cheaper for the trade union movement if it were not in the arbitration system. [More…]
Because it is in the arbitration system, it has to train some members to gather facts from the workshop floor and develop them to the union executive level. [More…]
Mr Justice Moore or somebody of that standing has not said that there is anything wrong with the trade union college concept. [More…]
People have been talking about the polarisation of the college structure in some States and elements of the trade union movement voicing opinions in different areas. [More…]
Most trade union members in big industry have the choice of reading Tribune, Vanguard, Direct Action and publications of that nature on payday, and if they want to get a bit of leavening they can even have access to Newsweek. [More…]
I read the report of the tripartite Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training which had a pretty wide charter. [More…]
This Bill concerns the restructuring of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
There has been considerable fighting among the left and right wings of the trade union movement about trade union training. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority has not been operating for long. [More…]
I believe that the Trade Union Training Authority has a tremendous part to play. [More…]
As I said to Senator Mulvihill a few moments ago and as he well knows, those problems included the in-fighting between the unions over the trade union training. [More…]
Some of the unions will not have anything to do with that training; they keep out of it altogether. [More…]
Many unions have been fighting over the Trade Union Training Authority and I believe that the restructuring of this Authority will have the desired effect. [More…]
When the Government realised the pitfalls of the trade union training as it existed it set up a tripartite committee to inquire into the matter. [More…]
The function of the State Councils will be to advise and to make recommendations to the Authority in relation to trade union training in their particular State. [More…]
Three people will represent the relevant trade union organisations. [More…]
Then we go further up the ladder to the Australian Council, whose function it is to advise, and make recommendations to, the Authority in relation to the planning and development of programs for trade union training in Australia and the evaluation thereof. [More…]
The remaining membership will be made up of the following: The Secretary or, in his stead, another officer of the Department appointed by the Minister, five representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a representative of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, a representative of the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, a representative of the Confederation of Australian Industry, a representative of the Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Commission- such representation being an innovation- and, as a further innovation, a representative who will be a member of the Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, and one who will be a member of the Parliament appointed by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The four union members likewise will belong to it. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill has said, this will result in there being four members from the unions and four from other areas of the community. [More…]
I sincerely hope that there will indeed be further consultation, and that in the State councils we will have programs where management and union training can be taken as part of the same course. [More…]
Every State runs its branch of the Trade Union Training Authority in a different way. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill will know, some of the branches are run by more right wing unions and in other States they are run by more left wing unions. [More…]
When we met an officer from one of the States who was involved in trade union training, he said that he would not have a bar of the Tasmanian method. [More…]
That is because in Tasmania trade union training is run in a very responsible way. [More…]
If we change the scheme to bring more sections of the community into the Trade Union Training Authority, then consultation will be right at the centre or right at the core of events. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron did have a dream of harmony both in respect of trade union training and management training in industry. [More…]
It gives me much pleasure to support the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Opposition regards the appointment or the imposition of a National Director to the Trade Union Training Authority as being more or less a litmus test of the sincerity of the Government in respect of centralism versus regionalism. [More…]
Perhaps I could put my argument in a broader way by referring to trade union autonomy. [More…]
Senator Walters mentioned the four non-trade union appointees. [More…]
I believe that these appointments represent an insult to the top officers of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I repeat that if, under the present structure, motions were adopted that contained a Party political stance, it might be said that this was the prostitution of trade unionism. [More…]
The Government sees the creation of the position of National Director as one of the major features of restructuring the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The union, in this case, went to arbitration. [More…]
After taking legal advice the union was of the opinion that the decision was incorrect. [More…]
No strike was called, but the union took the matter to the High Court which subsequently upheld the union’s point of view that the right of appeal was a fundamental condition of employment. [More…]
I think that is probably not a very well founded fear, incidentally, but the interesting thing about it is that it totally contradicts the speech made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 6 July 1976 to the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
So we have Mr Nixon contradicting quite clearly the view put forward a couple of years ago by the Prime Minister to the Victorian Farmers Unionand they are both Victorians. [More…]
However, according to information supplied to me by letter from the Farmers Union of Western Australia, as at the middle of May, it did not have the support of that Farmers Union. [More…]
So, while it is true that the Government is supporting it, the present situation is that the Farmers Union of Western Australia which represents the State ‘s dairy farmers is not supporting it. [More…]
Bill Brown, although a former trade union official, has made his mark in my party as Chairman of our party. [More…]
He, too, is a former trade union official. [More…]
Membership of the Whips union is something people cannot relinguish. [More…]
To what extent did the Commonwealth Government defray the costs of various rank and file members of the Builders Labourers’ Federation who were engaged in an action relating to the restoration of membership against the federal officers of that union. [More…]
Where an employee voluntarily accepts early retirement from an industry or an employer, and the retirement: is subject to an agreement between his union and his employer, and has as its purpose the avoidance of retrenchments of other (probably younger) workers, and where the employee remains available for work and otherwise satisfies the conditions of eligibility for unemployment benefit, the withdrawal from employment, although voluntary, will be deemed to be for a good reason and no postponement will be imposed. [More…]
1 ) Are the results of trials on the use of seaweed overseas, such as the work done in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which has indicated substantial yield increases in selective cropping, accepted and recognised by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. [More…]
The usual policy is that members of striking unions at the establishment at which the industrial dispute is in force are not eligible for unemployment benefit under section 107 of the Social Services Act. [More…]
However, members of other unions at that establishment who are stood down as a result of the dispute will be paid unemployment benefit, subject to the usual conditions. [More…]
Persons who are stood down at other establishments as a result of the dispute will be granted unemployment benefit, subject to the usual conditions, irrespective of their union membership. [More…]
We do not have to like a person whether he be a Minister, a trade union secretary or a captain of industry; but, having said that, I say that when people take these inverted attitudes they must, for the common good, be controlled. [More…]
I know that pre-War Yugoslavs who had a very good record in our trade union movement were threatened with that course of action. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill said earlier, the result of any armed uprising in Croatia would probably be the intervention of the Soviet Union with a resultant blood-bath. [More…]
Is that in rugby league or rugby union? [More…]
We had talks with a number of the politia cai leaders and members of various political : organisations including the Tan Union and, in particular, the Vanuaaku Party. [More…]
And they play very good rugby union. [More…]
Already the Soviet Union is interested and has made advances to some of the countries of the South Pacific. [More…]
The Chinese, of course, are interested too, if only for the reason that the Soviet Union is interested; the converse also applies. [More…]
Earlier this week I was told by a Sydney union source that a letter dated 14 June 1978 on the letterhead of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association and signed by B. T. Egan was sent to the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in New South Wales. [More…]
The letter requested the Commissioner of Taxation to disallow payments made as union contributions by members of the New South Wales Branch of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association. [More…]
Presumably acting on the basis ofthe letter bearing Mr Egan’s name and title, the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in New South Wales has disallowed claims for union contributions paid to the Association and possibly in excess of 20,000 incorrect assessments have been made. [More…]
If he did, his action will be condemned by every trade union official in Australia as petty, vindictive, disgraceful and contemptible. [More…]
I am not au fait with everything that goes on in the New South Wales trade union movement, but I can tell Senator Harradine that my office received several inquiries along the line that he has implied. [More…]
They accept as a justifiable deduction membership contributions to a nominated union. [More…]
The people who approached me would not be involved in union factionalism. [More…]
Whatever assertions have been made on either side, my information is that despite whatever letter may have been written the taxation people followed the accepted line of allowing as a deduction membership of one of the two unions in the retail and merchandising industry. [More…]
However, I feel that if because of a union dispute the names of 20,000 members are plucked out of the air and are wrongly assessed for tax it is a very serious thing. [More…]
On that national advisory committee also will be two union representatives, two employer representatives and an officer from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
In the United States Western Union also has its problems, like any other postal system. [More…]
Some of the Uruguayan members of the union involved asked Firestone whether they could nominate as migrants brothers who were tyre builders in Uruguay because Firestone, being a multinational, operates there. [More…]
I know of an instance involving senior female operatives, process workers, who are members of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1 980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
I commend the Australian Labor Party for bringing on this matter today, but I wish that while its members are performing a service like this they would also use whatever influence they have over the trade unions with whom they are clearly identified. [More…]
Yet the Australian Workers Union, not a militant left wing commo union but a very responsible union, has now made the most absurd log of claims on the home building industry in South Australia which, I am told, will virtually bring it to its knees. [More…]
I also wish that the Labor Party would have a word to its very popular Premier, Mr Dunstan, who has acceded, I understand, to the wishes of the trade unions which want to get their sticky fingers into the home building industry. [More…]
To my knowledge, South Australia is the only State where subcontractors are virtually forced to join a trade union. [More…]
The trade union movement was encouraged to seek wage increases outside the levels which might otherwise have been reasonable. [More…]
Thirdly, the trade union movement has to be brought into this kind of exercise as a full partner. [More…]
But as long as the unions are kicked, gouged, bullied and blamed for all the ills of the economy, which overwhelmingly are not of their own making, and as long as they are completely ignored by organisations like [More…]
The New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways Union approached me in relation to a number of Lebanese who unquestionably made false statements which assisted them to get out of Beirut, that unhappy city where bullets were flying thick and fast. [More…]
I was approached by Mr Maddox, the State Secretary of the union and a shop steward. [More…]
However, I point out that Mohamad Moussa, a member of the Australian Railways Union, is not and will not be a charge on the state. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Railways Union, I ask that clemency be extended to this member who did err by denying that he had a wife and children. [More…]
I picked the best of the three from the Austraiian Railways Union. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill has put forward the point of view that there ought to be clemency with regard to a member of the Australian Railways Union, Mr Moussa. [More…]
I know that the advocacy of Senator Mulvihill is most persuasive and that it has been put forward sincerely on behalf of the union member concerned. [More…]
I received an invitation from the Tasmanian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union to speak at a protest meeting organised for last Sunday afternoon. [More…]
During the course of my remarks I made it quite clear that I was not going to engage in an anti-Soviet harangue, that I was concerned about human rights in all countries of the world, including the Soviet Union, and that I was opposed to any moves to stop the 1980 Olympic Games being held in Moscow. [More…]
Motions were then moved at the meeting concerning the position of human rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
That the current situation can lead to long term dangers for Australia is now widely recognised not only in the trade union movement and among employer groups but also throughout the community. [More…]
The union to which I belong currently is undertaking a major survey of membership to see what the reaction would be to governmental policies designed to eliminate the discrimination that is currently being experienced by full-time homemakers, to see whether that would be sufficient attraction for women with dependent children to enable them to do their most important work, that is, the nurturing of their children, the future citizens of this country. [More…]
According to previous surveys that were conducted by at least one other union, the majority of married women in the work force are there through economic circumstance, whether socially created want or need. [More…]
I have fought as a trade union official for equal pay for work of equal value. [More…]
Indeed I moved the resolution at the critical Australian Council of Trade Unions congress on this particular matter. [More…]
This meeting declares that the systematic suspension of basic human rights by the Communist Regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is an offense against the whole of humanity. [More…]
Senator Wriedt detailed his belief that a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games would not be in the interests of the resolution of the human rights question in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the second resolution which resolved that the committee- that is the Tasmanian Committee- write to the Government seeking its assurance that in the interests of democracy and of the suffering people concerned, it effectively raise at the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation on the human rights committee the systematic suppression of human rights by the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the foreign domination and alien subjugation by the Soviet Union of the Baltic States. [More…]
The Soviet Union is already bringing politics into sport. [More…]
The Moscow Olympic Games will be used by the Soviet Union as a status symbol. [More…]
The honourable senator cannot compare repression in the Soviet Union with the situation in Queensland. [More…]
The situation in the Soviet Union is simply that there is complete totalitarian control by the State over the people and the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union is systematic to the communist system there and indeed in any communist system. [More…]
In the Soviet Union a system which denies fundamental human freedoms, the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of association - [More…]
What is the international trade union movement for? [More…]
This dispute had its origins on Thursday of last week when the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia ascertained during a check of membership that a Mr Jacques Aper was working in the kitchen. [More…]
On being asked to join the Union this employee refused to do so. [More…]
Mr Aper is the same person who currently has an application before the Federal Court of Australia to secure exemption from joining any trade union on the grounds that his conscientious beliefs do not allow him to do so. [More…]
On Friday the staff of the Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms had a stop work meeting, after which the Union informed the management that it had been decided that a further meeting would be held on Monday morning and that if Mr Aper had not joined the Union by that time industrial action would be taken. [More…]
A report in the Canberra Times today stated that the workman concerned when making application for a position as a kitchenhand said: ‘I am opposed to joining a union’. [More…]
Immediately upon his stating that he was opposed to joining a union, the manager of the kitchen said: You are the ideal man’. [More…]
I do not know whether his opposition to joining a union made him an ideal man for the job or whether his experience in mixing concrete made him an ideal man for mixing cakes in Parliament House. [More…]
He became the ideal man for the position when he said that he was opposed to joining a union. [More…]
She was not a reputable, conscientious non-unionist. [More…]
Immediately this was made public those who had prompted her defiance of union principles said: ‘Take the job with the Minister of Transport’. [More…]
Who is this manager who decides that someone is the ideal man for the job because he will not join the union? [More…]
Mr President, I would refer you to the ruling of one of your predecessors, Sir Magnus Cormack, who, when he was President and a barman would not join the union, said: ‘The important thing is the accommodation of members and the number of employees who have to work with him’. [More…]
As co-chairman of the Joint House Committee, will you inform the Senate whether the officer engaging a certain person for the staff in the kitchen knew at the time of the engagement that the person was a notorious, psychopathic union hater? [More…]
In the case of the Baltic States, the intention of the government of the day was to accord de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I raised this issue with the secretary of the felt hatters union. [More…]
We as a union and as an industry are going out of business’. [More…]
It seems to have been largely concentrated on the problem in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Drs Poh Soo Kai and Lim Hock Siew (both medical practitioners), Ho Piao (a trade union leader), Lee Tse Tong (a trade union leader and former assemblyman), Chia Thye Po (a former assemblyman). [More…]
Directors-Mr G. N. Crawford-Fish, Partner of Irish, Young and Outhwaite, Chartered Accountants; Mr J. P. Devereaux, Former National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Former Executive member of the ACTU; Mr S. J. Dempsey, Deputy Secretary, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra; Mr J. M. Wark, O.B.E., First Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Canberra. [More…]
Mr Wolff is reported to have interpreted this as meaning that the Chinese did not rule out the possibility of negotiating with the authorities on Taiwan and of co-operating, especially in regard to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of widespread Press reports of the utterances of one Miss Barbara Biggs in the last week when she was recorded as saying, among quite a number of other things, that she had been a member of other unions in the past and might again be in the future and that in the proceedings before the Industrial Registrar or his delegate on the conscientious objection exemption matter she was ‘virtually forced to say what she didn’t believe’, namely ‘that all unions and the concept of unionism are bad ‘? [More…]
Is the Government prepared to amend the present section 144A of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act in the light of these recent events to give a right of representation and cross-examination by the relevant union at the hearing of such exemption proceedings, to require the Registrar to state bis reasons, if any, for granting or refusing an exemption and to give a right of appeal to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or the Federal Court to a union aggrieved by an exemption decision? [More…]
However, when contacted at his home by the Canberra Times, Mr Aper told a reporter that the only mistakes he thought the article contained were that what he referred to as The Builders Workers Industrial Union’ was published as Builders Labourers Industrial Union’ and the word ‘unions’ in one section of the story should have been singular. [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Farrell sought to mount a legal challenge to the actions of the University compelling him to join a student union, to which he had a conscientious objection, and that Mr Farrell ‘s challenge was unsuccessful? [More…]
As the Minister responsible for funding tertiary institutions, does not the Minister think that this case reflects very gravely upon the concept of academic freedom as practised by the University of New South Wales, the fact that one can get justice only if one has the money, and the failure of the State Labor Government to end compulsory membership of student unions? [More…]
They can be successfully implemented only if Federal and State governments, employers and unions cooperate and are involved in the planning and carrying out of the various schemes. [More…]
Needless union bashing benefits no one. [More…]
-I do not think that senators on this side of the House have a biased attitude towards trade unions. [More…]
I have referred to what I believe is the minority element within the trade union movement which seems to be determined to continue to help to wreck our economy. [More…]
The trade union movement must recognise the importance of this teamwork. [More…]
Do not let me give the impression that I am lambasting the trade union movement exclusively. [More…]
I refer to attempts by trade unions to prevent workers from earning a living unless they join a union. [More…]
As you know compulsory unionism violates the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Barbara Biggs’ rights were grossly violated despite a legal certificate of exemption and her treatment at the hands of the unions disgusted the nation. [More…]
The real objection of the unions is not to the existence of conscientious objection clauses as such in legislation. [More…]
The real objection of the unions consists of three points. [More…]
Secondly, the union’s objection lies in the absence of any requirement that the Registrar state any reasoned grounds whatsoever for granting the exemption in question. [More…]
I understand that the individual concerned has such a conscientious objecting to joining a union that, I am told, he was prepared to join the union if the union took his joining fee out of his pay each week so that he could pay it by instalments. [More…]
The union rejected this request because it did not think that he should have a privilege not extended to other new members. [More…]
That is the basis of his conscientious objection to joining the union. [More…]
I do not want to support the union on this occasion although, as Senator Evans has said, I think there is justification for the union’s attitude. [More…]
I raised the questions whether the strength he appeared to have was his strength to fight against unions and whether, as he had no qualifications for the position of a kitchen hand other than fighting unions, there was an attitude in the administration of the Joint House Department which follows the government policy of being anti-union and anti-working class. [More…]
Mr Aper told a reporter that the only mistakes he thought the article contained were that what he referred to as the Builders Workers Industrial Union was published as the Builders Labourers Industrial Union and that the word ‘unions’ in one section of the story should have been in the singular. [More…]
The inaccurate statement he corrected was in regard to the name of a union. [More…]
A recommendation was made to Mr Speaker and me by the Acting Public Service Arbitrator, R. H. C. Watson, that Mr Aper should be stood down with pay until a decision has been handed down on his application for exemption from joining a union on the ground of his conscientious beliefs. [More…]
In view of what Senator Cavanagh has revealed tonight I do not think this man has any conscientious beliefs as far as joining a union is concerned. [More…]
Will the people in the kitchen, who had to go on strike for two days, have to sacrifice two days pay because of the actions of this despicable person who said that he was opposed to trade unions? [More…]
He has said on two occasions that he told the person who interviewed him that he was opposed to trade unions, and that he was a stirrer. [More…]
If they are to lose two days pay because of the actions of this person much more will be heard in this Parliament of this episode because they do not deserve to lose two days pay when the person concerned was employed after having told the interviewer of his views on trade union matters. [More…]
I am alarmed that you, Mr President, have been placed in a most invidious position by being unwittingly involved in a pattern of union baiting which, in the last few weeks, has manifested itself in industrial disputes in three States and Territories of this Commonwealth- Victoria, [More…]
Regardless of whether Mr Dearson has denied that the person who was to be engaged as a kitchen hand had informed him that he was involved in this type of court action- that he was anti-union, a self-employed man, a sub-contractor who perhaps was not entitled to unemployment benefit under the Social Services Act- this person was able to get the appointment. [More…]
It is very serious and I hope that it will be a lesson that the officers of the Joint House Department are not just ordinary employers in the sense that they can throw their weight about and perhaps get in their own little pet idea that they can have a non-union man to show their own contempt of unionism; but that they have also to consider the smooth running of this Parliament. [More…]
I refer to the repeated pleas by Sir John Moore about the failure to provide some detailed apparatus that will meet a dispute where one of the parties has State trade union registration and the other is in the Federal sphere. [More…]
The Minister will know of the case I am talking about, involving the Transport Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and concerning a container dispute. [More…]
The TU95 aircraft are assumed to have been based in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It does seem a pity that the sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was not given a wider reference in relation to human rights than the single reference of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wrote to the northern Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union asking what it would do about the situation. [More…]
The union said that it polices the award and that the award covered work on roads carried out by the Department of Main Roads. [More…]
I know that my own amateur boxing union executive in Brisbane is trying desperately to raise funds for a gymnasium for its boxers in Brisbane where for the last three or four weeks before going overseas these boxers can be trained and looked after in a central part of the State. [More…]
Can the Minister tell the Parliament what consideration has been given to this request which apparently is now supported by some State governments, employers and the trade union movement? [More…]
Given that Mr Sinclair’s belief coincides exactly with that expressed by the Australian Workers Union, and by a great number of wool growers, and the AWU having decided, as a result of that belief, and quite logically, to try to protect the wool industry by stopping exports, a possible alternative interpretation of Mr Sinclair’s actions is that he is acting as an agent provocateur who hopes to gain political advantage by fomenting industrial conflict- and it would not be the first time that Ministers of this Government had tried to do that. [More…]
As I mentioned before, it unequivocally endorses the view held by the Australian Workers Union and the wool growers who are opposed to the Government’s policy. [More…]
The Senate is considering this matter only because Senator Walsh and his colleagues were put up to raising it by a number of representatives of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement, or perhaps it is better to say a very few elements within it, have not yet been prepared - [More…]
The union movement has not yet been prepared to lift the ban on the export of merino rams. [More…]
Few people are involved and it is basically a non-issue throughout the trade union movement, as Senator Walsh said. [More…]
The matter is not basically a child of the parliamentary Labor Party but rather it demonstrates that the Labor Party is still subject to manipulation by elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
I am not doing that; I am saying that the initiation of this discussion demonstrates that the Labor Party is still subject to manipulation by elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
Indeed, the trade union movement today knows that there is no public support for the retention of the ban. [More…]
There is no basis on which any logical case can be established for the maintenance of the trade union ban. [More…]
The parliamentary action by the Labor Party today represents the belated initiative of the trade union movement, through its Senate representatives, to try to generate some opposition to the relaxation of bans. [More…]
In fact it is a matter which could be resolved best not on a political level but by means of proper and appropriate discussions between representatives of the sheep industry and, if need be, the trade unionists who are responsible for the transport and the eventual delivery of the product. [More…]
A possible exception is the Western Australian Farmers Union, which has some misgivings on the issue. [More…]
The ban of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the export of merinos is based on completely false information. [More…]
What right has a union to dictate export policy? [More…]
The history of union dislocation of primary industry is very well known by most primary producers but I will give some examples to reinforce the point. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union held a series of rolling strikes in two of Australia’s major wheat terminals. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation and the Seamen’s Union still have a ban on the sale of goods to Chile, and until recently they had a ban on the sale of wheat to Indonesia. [More…]
More recently, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has been directly responsible for the closing of two meat plants and is threatening the closure of several more. [More…]
The direct result of that union action was to put 650 unionists out of work and cause the loss of about 100,000 man days. [More…]
The main opposition to lifting the merino ban comes from two quarters- some wool growers and some members of the Australian Workers Union which covers the shearing industry. [More…]
The editorial was headed ‘Reason not emotion cause for union stance ‘. [More…]
The Farmers’ Union appears to be out of step with other farmer organisations in opposing the lifting of the embargo on the export of Merino rams. [More…]
Obviously the export of Merino rams is an emotive issue and on this occasion the Farmers’ Union appears to have acquired a strange bedfellow in the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
But the Farmers ‘ Union case against lifting the embargo is not based on emotion, rather on reason. [More…]
The Union believes the Minister for Primary Industry acted in an arbitrary fashion in lifting the embargo without either consulting growers, by way of a referendum, or conducting sufficient research into the end results of such an easing. [More…]
The wool section of the union - [More…]
The editorial was referring to the Farmers’ Union- is more concerned with the welfare of the majority of Australian woolgrowers than with increased profits to studbreeders, who have always regarded themselves and been regarded as something of an elitist group. [More…]
The Farmers’ Union believes that on a matter of such great importance to Australia there should be no room at all for conjecture, only thoroughly researched fact. [More…]
There is no doubt that at present the Labor Party is opposed, as it has always been, to the exporting of merino rams because of pressures from sections of the community, primarily the union movement. [More…]
We are still seeing today and hearing in this chamber what is the trade union attitude regarding the export of merino rams. [More…]
Whilst on this subject I challenge Senator McLaren to tell this chamber which major rural organisation went to the trade unions and said that it was opposed to the export of merino rams. [More…]
They are fearful of approaching trade union organisers, their member of parliament and the people involved in the industry itself who are able to act as umpires on their behalf or to raise a word with their employer and bring to his notice that he is not paying the correct wages or that the young people are being employed under rather terrible conditions which remind one of the Depression of the 1 930s. [More…]
Support for such a country by a government which joins in the hysteria about human rights in the Soviet Union can only be described as hypocritical in the extreme. [More…]
Certainly … it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the utmost unreserved communication with his constituents. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission sees its role as one of settling disputes, so it settles union claims by granting something less than the amount claimed, but more than nothing. [More…]
People often talk about trade unions demands and the damage they have caused. [More…]
I do not know that the trade union movement has any systematic Luddite policy. [More…]
Does the Government think that the Labor Party and the trade union movement will say: We will have a wage freeze for 12 months’? [More…]
There has been talk about the trade unions resisting change. [More…]
As a member of a committee I went to one of the Coca-Cola establishments whose representatives were able to proudly say that they had reduced their work force from 200 to 40 by the use of various mechanical appliances and that there had been no dispute about it involving the liquor trades union. [More…]
This move by the company was not resisted by the union. [More…]
If the Government wants to argue that the trade union movement should stagger wage adjustments it has to consider other components such as a general food subsidy scheme for meat, butter, bread and items of that nature. [More…]
Even the trade union movement has a genuine fear about who will get the work in some particular industries. [More…]
There was a genuine difference of opinion between the State registered Transport Workers Union and the waterside workers. [More…]
Anyone who read the history of the Telecom dispute will realise that dealings with one union will certainly affect others. [More…]
I repeat that the time is opportune for summit talks to be held with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and all employer groups. [More…]
Conversely, the Government could say to the trade union movement: ‘The people of Australia will pay a uniform levy for Medibank I and that will be it’. [More…]
If the Government comes up with ideas of the people having to suffer further sacrifices it cannot expect to have good relations with the trade union movement. [More…]
Clearly, with the loose statements emanating from the Premier about the introduction of industrial democracy, without giving any reasons for or background to the proposal but suggesting that all companies in South Australia will have to have one-third of their board of directors appointed by the Government, one-third appointed by the trade union, and the shareholders, if they are lucky, will get one-third representation on their own boards, is it any wonder that the owners of business are thinking about moving to other States? [More…]
The other matter that I wish to raise is a matter that has caused and is still causing great concern among people who support the trade union movement. [More…]
On the front page of the Daily Telegraph of today’s date is the headline ‘Court “no” to union protester’. [More…]
It refers to one of the union scabs who tried to hide under the guise of being a conscientious objector and who lost his case in an industrial court yesterday. [More…]
He adopted the same tactic as many people who are opposed to trade unions. [More…]
Under that was the subheading ‘Trade Union Shame’. [More…]
Of course, we all know now the history of Miss Biggs, who in the first place was defended by the great anti-unionists and who, when the truth was told, did not turn out to be such a nice lady after all. [More…]
The letter appeared in yesterday’s Queanbeyan Age and was headed, Brotherhood of “Scabs”: Trade Union’. [More…]
Sir- It grieved me to read Mr Keith Curry ‘s description of the treatment meted out to non-unionists with conscientious objections to joining a union. [More…]
Only those who work against the trade union movement will be admitted to the brotherhood. [More…]
Sir Billy said in Parliament that the Government was paying the wages of the non-union cook in the Parliament House kitchen. [More…]
Not only will the brotherhood be saving union dues, it will also not be required to make payments to any charities. [More…]
However, if any member’s conscience is so moved (which is most unlikely) then he/she can pay into a retirement benefit fund for frail aged CP or Liberal union fighters, such as Mai (practice) Fraser, Tricky Transport Nixon, or Phil (the dill) Lynch. [More…]
As I said earlier the writer is affectionately known in Captains Flat as a great worker, a great trade unionist in days gone by fighting for the conditions of the working man. [More…]
I want to place on record my great appreciation for a man who has the courage to write to a newspaper in condemnation of people who are not prepared to pay their union dues, but who are first in line when the pay and conditions are handed out. [More…]
I hope that in the months to come when we see that more and more of these plants- and I say that the three people mentioned have been deliberately planted by people opposed to trade unionsare put into those positions, we will see more and more people with the courage of Mr Tom Kerr come forward and make their feelings known to the Press of this country so that we can do away with those types of people who have nothing better at the back of their minds than to white-ant the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
Again, to put it mildly, it does not help to ensure union acceptance of wage restraint when employers argue for the economic necessity of such restraint at the same time as they grant their executives salary rises, largely through tax avoiding benefits, which are far in excess of what they say is economically acceptable for their employees. [More…]
When the union secretary involved was asked why his union was destroying jobs for young people he said he was not going to stand by while multi-national profiteers took advantage of the working class. [More…]
But even if we can persuade the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to make wise decisions, it is another thing to get them accepted, particularly by the trade union movement. [More…]
We have not really tried to persuade the unions that the Government’s economic policy is aimed at benefiting the whole community. [More…]
If we cannot persuade the unions of this, wise Commission decisions may be wasted on the desert air. [More…]
He would not take any notice of information given to him by the trade union movement, the employers or the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will stir up the trade union movement, the academics and anybody else to try to frustrate the Government’s desire to develop uranium in the interest of this nation and in the interests of people in other parts of the world who are working to proceed with the nuclear age. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that certain tertiary student organisations and unions in Australia are still making improper use of compulsorily collected fees? [More…]
In particular, is the Minister aware that the Swinburne College of Technology Student Union, which is controlled by Maoist student groups, recently appropriated $500 of student money to the National Overseas Students Service and $200 to radio station 3CR, both payments being outside the criteria established by Mr Justice Kaye ‘s judgment in the recent Robert Clarke case? [More…]
Union to which the honourable senator referred in his question, nor am I aware of other recent payments by tertiary student organisations which might be considered improper uses of compulsorily collected student fees. [More…]
I think he would be aware by now of the substance of the representations that have been made by the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists in connection generally with the very heavy increase in the cost of sending lettergrams and telegrams, which approximates a 300 per cent increase, and in particular with its concern about the future of the employment of its trained members in that occupation. [More…]
Whilst the union has in mind the heavy losses incurred in providing this service, it has made representations to the Australian Telecommunications Commission asking for a review of what seem to be very heavy charges and for some added measures to be taken to publicise renewed services. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he would be good enough to request his colleague to consider the representations that have been made by that Union about whether some modest increase might be applied and whether some review of services could be made urgently. [More…]
I will, however, refer the representations which have been received by Senator Bishop from the union to my colleague and ask him to examine them as Senator Bishop has requested. [More…]
Since there has been somewhat of a somersault by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) who has at long last recognised what the Labor Party and the trade union movement have been asserting consistently- namely, that job opportunities are fast disappearing in this country and that real wages are in fact dropping- it is pleasing to note that Mr Street at least has recognised that there is an element of permanency to the levels of unemployment that we have at the present time. [More…]
The Government has suggested now that the court is responsible for all the problems associated with the economic downturn in this country, as it has suggested for some time that the trade union movement has been responsible for those problems. [More…]
It would have done much better to listen to the National Secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, Charlie FitzGibbon, one of the most respected industrialists in this country, when he pointed out that the problem in the waterside workers’ dispute was that waterside workers were not going to be stood down in their thousands and go without pay because of the activities of 70-odd people in another union. [More…]
Mr FitzGibbon drew attention to the importance from the unions’ point of view of amalgamations. [More…]
In this Senate in 1 974 and 1 975 the then Liberal-National Country Party Opposition, which had the numbers, three times threw out legislation which would have enabled unions to amalgamate much more easily than they can now. [More…]
Between 1975 and 1978 what has this Government done to assist amalgamations by trade unions in a country where we have approximately 300 unions compared with 16 in [More…]
Why did the Fraser Government tell Telecom that the Australian Council of Trade Unions could not enter the dispute two weeks before it in fact did so? [More…]
Those honourable senators who remember the circumstances of the dispute will recall the Prime Minister saying at the time- again it was a bit of huff and puff to show himself to be a tough guy- ‘The union cannot and will not win. [More…]
It is my task tonight, with the experience of those meetings behind me and with, I suggest, the experience of the people with whom I still have close contact, the people with whom I have had close contact both in the union sphere and in the employer sphere over a period of 18 years, to make suggestions which I hope the Government will take account of and act quickly to put into effect. [More…]
As I have mentioned in this place previously, I, as a trade union official, was in the forefront of obtaining equal pay for work of equal value. [More…]
Indeed, I moved the motion on equal pay for work of equal value at the crucial Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress when the communists and the radical feminists were trying to exert pressure to get equal pay for equal work. [More…]
Many people in the trade union movement have recognised and have warned of the problem of unbridled technological change. [More…]
One of those people was Mr J. P. Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, who 15 years ago raised this as the key issue. [More…]
Indeed the union of which I happen to be the State President in Tasmania- the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association- has also been very well aware of it. [More…]
The policies that were enunciated by the Federated Clerks Union were in the main accepted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions as far back as 1 967 and before. [More…]
The attention of the trade union movement has been diverted from its real purpose by the procommunist forces within that organisation acting on instructions from outside the organisation. [More…]
The resources of my own union- the SDA- have been tied down for a period of approximately 4 years because of an attempted takeover of the union. [More…]
Fortunately we will see at a meeting of the national council next week the finalisation of the effort by the moderates within the SDA to stop the attempted takeover by those who have tried to subvert the SDA, which is the third largest union in the Commonwealth. [More…]
It has not assisted the trade union movement in ensuring its attention was directed towards overcoming the real economic and social problems. [More…]
That job the Australian people are waiting for the Labor Party to do relates to the trade union movement and its place in Australian society. [More…]
We have many good trade unionists in the Australian Democrats and every day we welcome more as members. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe fundamentally in the necessity for a strong, honest and healthy trade union movement which benefits all workers- and I stress the words, ‘all workers’. [More…]
We would like to see such a trade union movement exist because it certainly does not exist now. [More…]
Instead, the industrial trade union movement of this country benefits a few unions to the detriment of many others. [More…]
Which unions does it benefit? [More…]
It is a crying shame that the majority of the trade union movement which is useful, reasonable and decent, should be continually given the tag of association of these few people. [More…]
Here are some of the points that the Australian Democrats would like to see the Labor Party take up with the union movement. [More…]
Why do the unions continue to obstruct a sane and well planned system of industrial democracy in Australia? [More…]
Another point that might be clarified with the unions- and here again I know I am speaking in the same way as many other people, but in fact the Australian Democrats I believe seven or eight months ago were among the first to bring up this point- is their apparent determination to keep tens of thousands of unemployed people permanently out of work by not reconsidering union attitudes towards permanent part time work and the abolition of weekend penalty rates. [More…]
I know the objection that workers not in unions have no moral right to share the benefits that union work and union solidarity have achieved. [More…]
Our policy, which again has been formed by secret national ballot of all our members, states that where workers object on grounds of principle to union membership they should not have to belong to that union but they should pay a fee for service to the union and so contribute to its expenses. [More…]
My final point about unions is this: Can there be any serious disagreement that the only fair and honest way for a group of people in consultation to reach decisions is by a secret written ballot? [More…]
We will take notice of the people who make up the Labor Party- our financial members and the trade unions that are affiliated with us. [More…]
We are proud to have the trade unions, despite the fact that some of them came in for severe criticism in Senator Mason’s remarks. [More…]
I am proud to say that the Australian Labor Party was born out of the trade union movement so that it could have a voice in the parliaments of Australia and put the point of view of the underprivileged people, the people who are the real workers in this community, not the shareholders and the boards of directors who manipulate the working class to suit their own financial gains. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite criticise trade union members for going on strike but members of those parties sat in this chamber week in and week out on strike. [More…]
He is not prepared to adhere to instructions from the Prime Minister to take on the trade union movement head on. [More…]
He wants to sit down and talk with the trade union movement about the problems that face the movement. [More…]
He has set up a small group of Ministers- five of them, I think- to look over Mr Street’s shoulder, to keep him in tow, to see that he does not step out of line, and to see that he takes a really hard line with the trade union movement. [More…]
Time and time again we have asked the Government to sit down and talk with employers and the trade union movement to solve some of the problems that we know are about. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to sit down and talk to the trade union movement. [More…]
The South Australian Trades and Labour Council wrote this letter to Mr Fraser on 2 1 August and its context proves that the trade union movement was well aware just a week after the Budget was brought down of the problems which it was going to create. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite wish to assist I suggest that they do so from within the union system, because I believe that it is most necessary that certain action be taken in that area. [More…]
I suggest that the people in the union system who wish to create more employment opportunities should at least consider their mates and not take part in wild cat, rat baggery strikes that give no benefit to them or to their families. [More…]
to join the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union, the relevant union for the Refreshment Rooms staff. [More…]
Questions were subsequently asked as to Mr Aper’s union background and attitude, and concern was expressed by some honourable senators that parts of my second statement to the Senate seemed to conflict with comments reputedly made to the news media by Mr Aper. [More…]
I promised that I would report further in this matter and it now appears to me that the impression may have been incorrectly left by my second statement that Mr Aper had not expressed any anti-union feeling whatever. [More…]
I am advised that at the beginning of his interview for appointment Mr Aper indicated that he was opposed to the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
When asked why as a carpenter he was seeking a kitchenman ‘s job, he stated that he was finished with the building industry, that he was fed up with the building union as it had sent him broke and that because of this he had taken out a court action against it. [More…]
I am also advised that Mr Aper later referred to the building union as being a bad union but said he knew there were good unions. [More…]
I am further advised, however, that at no time was Mr Aper’s attitude to unions in general ever discussed or that he ever stated that he was opposed to unions in general. [More…]
I think it relevant to note in this connection that Mr Aper was reported in the Press as having subsequently indicated that a reference to ‘unions’ in one section of a Press story should have been in the singular. [More…]
I am told that the question of Mr Aper joining the Liquor Union did not arise at the employment interview; that it is standard practice to let employees know which union covers their work but not to demand that they join it as a condition of employment; and that attempts were made by Mr Dearson, the Manager of the Refreshment Rooms, and the union representatives to persuade Mr Aper, after his employment, to join the union but without success. [More…]
As I indicated to the Senate on 13 September, Mr Speaker and I accepted the recommendaton of the Acting Public Service Arbitrator, Mr R. H. C. Watson, made after a private conference of the parties involved held that morning, that Mr Apers should be stood down with pay until a decision has been handed down on his application for exemption from joining a union on the ground of his conscientious beliefs. [More…]
I do not want to do that, but I do wish to say that your explanation of the dispute in the Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms was interesting and clears up the apparently incorrect impression, from Mr Aper’s statement, that there was no discussion about unions. [More…]
We now know that there was a discussion about unions and that the interviewing officer believed that Mr Aper had a hatred of the building unions and not of unions generally. [More…]
In fact, he said that Mr Aper agreed that there are good unions. [More…]
If there are good unions, I take it Mr Aper would have no objection to joining one. [More…]
However, one of the unions that is not good must be the Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union because Mr Aper refused to join it. [More…]
I am much concerned about what will happen when the court makes a decision on Mr Aper’s application for exemption from joining the union on the grounds of conscientious objections. [More…]
It would appear that he has no serious objections to unions, which is an essential prerequisite for exemption under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Mr Aper even admits that there are some good unions. [More…]
But if the court’s decision is that Mr Aper’s application is upheld and all the kitchen employees say that they will not work with a non-unionist, will we have another dispute? [More…]
If Mr Aper’s present position is an additional position, what fall-off in patronage of the dining room would be needed before the position became redundant so that at least we would not have to have a non-unionist in that area? [More…]
If, on the other hand, it is decided that Mr Aper is not entitled to a certificate of exemption on the grounds of conscientious objection and he still refuses to join the union, what is the position then? [More…]
The Canberra Times went on to say that it had contacted Mr Aper by phone and that Mr Aper had ended up by saying that the article, apart from one instance where the plural ‘unions’ was used instead of the singular ‘union’, was correct. [More…]
In your statement, Mr President, you say: 1 am further advised, however, that at no time was Mr Aper’s attitude to unions in general ever discussed or that he ever stated that he was opposed to unions in general . [More…]
Then he agreed that it was only the name of the union that was incorrect. [More…]
The Builders Labourers Industrial Union referred to in the article should have been the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
So he is now saying that on only one occasion was he quoted incorrectly- the word ‘unions’ in the article should have been ‘union’. [More…]
I am told that the question of Mr Aper joining the Liquor Union did not arise at the employment interview . [More…]
Mr Aper having said, and having verified it the next day, that he was opposed to unions, the first thing the interviewer should have asked him before engaging him and knowing full well that all the people working in the dining room and the bar were supporters of the Liquor Trade Union was: ‘Would you on your engagement join the Liquor Trade Union?’ [More…]
If this person had been interviewed and had not in his own words told the interviewer that he was opposed to trade unions, it would have been a different case. [More…]
But during the course of the interview, he deliberately told the interviewer that he was opposed to trade unions. [More…]
If the interviewer had had any experience at all in engaging people, he should have known that there would be a conflict and that there would be a stoppage in the dining room with this person flaunting the fact that he was not a trade union member and that he did not intend to be one, even if he got the job. [More…]
When I raised this matter the other day with the Joint House Committee, I was bluntly told that these people would not be reimbursed for the two days’ pay they had lost- all because a person was engaged after having told the interviewer that he was opposed to trade unions. [More…]
What will be the situation if the court hands down a decision- and I do not think it will in view of the Matthews case in Sydney- that Mr Aper has not proved that he has conscientious objections to joining a trade union? [More…]
Board, after arbitration, found her a position other than that of a conductress and when she discovered that she would be paid $20 less a week than another person doing the same work, she was the first to say that she would have to consider joining the appropriate union. [More…]
How real is her objection to unionism? [More…]
He was a former employee of Mr Rick New who has devoted a great deal of time in the past entirely to union bashing. [More…]
The latest complaint that we heard about this morning, that he was underpaid while he was stood down, makes it obvious to me that either someone has deliberately underpaid him to cause once again that confrontation and consternation with the rest of the staff or Mr Aper is in a position in which, while he objects to being a member of the union, he has no compunction about collecting the money that those workers, those union payers, those union members, have fought so hard for over a long time. [More…]
An early judgment of the High Court, in the Union Label case in 1 908, concluded that the Commonwealth legislative powers in respect of trade marks did not extend to marks applied to goods to identify the source of labour employed by the manufacturers of those goods. [More…]
Court subsequent to the Union Label case and that the trade marks provision of section 5 1 (xviii) of the Constitution does, in fact, empower the Commonwealth to legislate in respect of marks used to identify and distinguish services. [More…]
This civilisation and the trade union movement spent years getting kids out of the mines and out of the factories and releasing women from being pressured to go out to work because of need, and here we have the modern ideas of Mr Macphee, the person who is going to represent this Government at the vital conference which is being called by the Victorian Premier. [More…]
The Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, Mr Joe Thompson, has been reported as saying that, where a union comes close to covering all the workers in an industry, like the waterside workers or the vehicle builders, it should be able to ask the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to give complete and exhaustive coverage. [More…]
Is this view shared by other similarly placed unions? [More…]
My advice is that members of the Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees Union of Australasia went on strike on 3 1 August over a log of claims and that as a result members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union were stood down. [More…]
It has advised that the dispute was a complex one involving two unions, with the employer wishing to deal with only one union while refusing employment to members of the other. [More…]
There have been claims that members of the Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Union have voted to return to work and are being denied employment but it has not been possible to ascertain the facts. [More…]
At this stage the members of the Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Union on strike are considered to be direct participants of a strike and ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
By way of comparison the Soviet Union spends of the order of 11-13 per cent of GNP on defence against 6 per cent by the United States. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable senators will be aware of the action contemplated by the Australian bank employees union to achieve the introduction of a 30-hour week. [More…]
I attended the State conference of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I rose only to point out that the purpose of annual leave is backed by the union movement and that people do not just have a right to take their annual leave but in fact should take it. [More…]
Most of the unions who have voiced their opinion on the issue have voted against uranium mining and have called for moratoriums of varying lengths. [More…]
However some, and in particular, the Australian Workers’ Union believe that uranium should be mined, provided adequate safeguards are taken. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the current problem has its sources in a four-year ban on the export of live cattle which has been imposed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that live cattle have been loaded and shipped from Queensland recently under an arrangement reached by the AMIEU and the Cattlemen’s Union? [More…]
Since it is clearly possible to reach agreement with the union to ship live cattle, what action does the Government intend to take? [More…]
In view of the importance of our beef export trade- live and otherwise- to Australia, but particularly to Queensland, and in view of the fact that this dispute is four years old, what action does the Government intend to take to try to overcome the difficulties with that union? [More…]
Is the Minister in receipt of a letter from Mr J. F. Barnard, managing director of Barnard Bros Pty Ltd, which outlines a campaign by one trade union to breach the wage fixation principles established by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
Is he also aware that by refusing to accept the excessive demands of the BLF and by choosing not to make a sweetheart deal with the union, Barnard Bros has sacrificed a number of its long-standing contracts and suffered business loss? [More…]
What does the Commonwealth Government intend to do to protect the rights of Barnard Bros or any business enterprise, which is, by its actions, taking a public interest stand against the irresponsible actions of one trade union? [More…]
If the answer is in the affirmative, can the Minister say whether the Australian Workers Union, which has many of its members working on this service, was consulted prior to the decision being made? [More…]
Payment may be made by cheque or by credit to a bank, building society or credit union account. [More…]
Not so very long ago a knighthood was given to a prominent member of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
He is also on the record in the Northern Territory News of 28 September admitting that he lied to the Northern Land Council regarding a statement by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, in order to convince the Council that it would not get trade union support. [More…]
There is one component which goes to student unions for what I call ‘socio-political’ purposes. [More…]
Indeed, collection is made by the institutions of subscriptions to the national student body, the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
We can be critical of what is happening in many countries, for example in Uganda, Kampuchea or the Soviet Union; but often we cannot do a great deal about those things. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with members of the pensioners union in Tasmania. [More…]
The Government has sought the views of industry organisations on membership of the advisory group and has invited the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union to nominate representatives to participate in the advisory study. [More…]
An underhand attempt has been made to pay some recognition to the submissions that were made to the Government by the trade union movement through the Australian Council of Trade Unions and by the consumer organisations which represent a very large proportion of the Australian community. [More…]
-I know nothing about the Academy of Science in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The survey covered the experiences of 60 people who had been retrenched from four small firms in the inner and western suburbs of Sydney, which were nominated by a clothing trade union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the costly litigation would have been unnecessary had the Government accepted union submissions for amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to remove validation of so-called Moore and Doyle problems from a judicial to an administrative tribunal such as the Industrial Registrar who regularly and efficiently handles registrations and might just as well handle re-registrations? [More…]
In view of the obvious importance of this matter to a large number of unions registered under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, will the Minister consider the call of the national president of Australia ‘s third largest union for an inquiry into the course of those protracted proceedings and whether amendments or repeal of any provision of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is indicated to avoid a repetition of such protracted and costly proceedings? [More…]
It went on to state that the Returned Services League had protested about the way in which the money would be divided and that the League had been joined in its protest by the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association and the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Although the Herald states that the ACOA and the Federated Clerks Union joined with the RSL, I have telegrams here from the ACOA stating that any such claims are false and that the regulations should be allowed to proceed. [More…]
It is true that two commisioners with backgrounds in the trade union movement are currently on the Commission. [More…]
The two commissioners with trade union backgrounds, Mr Short and Mr Glastonbury, the two commissioners which Mr Staley claims are there in a general sense to represent the employees of the Commission, voted against the motion to allow a delegation of the Staff Association to discuss this most important matter with the Commission. [More…]
So I think it is clear from the action of those two commissioners that Mr Staley ‘s view about having trade unionists appointed to the Commission does not answer the case put strongly by the Staff Association for a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
Nobody except the two trade union representatives has been specifically criticised. [More…]
It seems that Mr Short and his trade union colleague are in some way not representative and not fit to be on the Commission. [More…]
It is important to distinguish between the concept that there be some trade union representation on the Commission, a principle which the Government accepts, and that the staff itself should be represented on the Commission. [More…]
He said: ‘There are already trade union representatives on the Australian Broadcasting Commission.’ [More…]
What he meant was that there are token trade unionists on the Commission. [More…]
The only people who could be on the Australian Broadcasting Commission who are representative of anybody who has anything to do with the ABC would be people concerned with the unions in the ABC. [More…]
It is our wish to continue on a joint consultative basis with the union movement. [More…]
I would be happy for Ministers in my government to have consultations with representatives of CAGEO although these consultations should not be used to circumvent the recognised process for consultation between the Union Movement and the Commonwealth Service which have been established over the years. [More…]
I think it is most important that there be communication between the government and the Union Movement so that both are able to carry out their functions effectively. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is able to explain what has been the response to the representations to the Government of the union and staff organisations about the future of the Medibank employees. [More…]
It appears to have been published by the Palestine Liberation Organisation and circulated in Australia by the Union of Palestinian Workers. [More…]
To give some indication of the validity of the concensus of the objections, I ask leave to have a letter to the right honourable Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister, from the Queensland Police Union of Employees, incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
On behalf of the Queensland Police Union of Employees I bring to your notice details of Private Member’s Bill as proposed by Senator Bonner such Bill being entitled ‘Aborigines and Islanders (Admissibility of Confessions) Bill 1976’. [More…]
An examination of statistics available to this Union indicates that in 1976 the present situation existed with respect to the population of coloured people in the various states of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
Over a long period of time the Queensland Police Union has had considerable dealings with the coloured community of this State and we have always found that the Law as it is presently framed particularly with respect to the ‘Aborigine questioning’ leaves nothing to be desired in guaranteeing the community of Queensland a proper and complete law enforcement program. [More…]
Your faithfully, Queensland Police Union of Employees, [More…]
Project Pyramider was described during the Boyce trial in Los Angeles in 1 977 as consisting of a number of satellites, controlled through Pine Gap, which would enable CIA agents in the field, including those in the Soviet Union and China, to communicate directly with CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the imminent failure of petrol supplies from the Fort Stanvac refinery to South Australian consumers as a result of the Seamen’s Union ban on the use of tugs for tankers carrying crude which are presently lying off-shore? [More…]
I believe that the ban on the movement of tankers by tugs is part and parcel of the campaign concerning the employment of Australian seamen which has been conducted for some time by the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
It applies not only in this case but also in the case of trade union delegations. [More…]
They seem at times to be afraid that visits by delegations of Australian trade unionists are going to hurt the present Fijian Government. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) to take up with the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) the staffing situation in Suva, the definition of an Immigration officer, the definition of a Foreign Affairs officer and whether there is some sort of tacit plot with the Fijian Government whereby because somebody in Australia happens to have a trade union background it is thought to be a good security measure to stop his 81 -year-old mother from joining him. [More…]
This moment is not a suitable time to make a statement on this matter in any depth but I should think that all would be concerned, for example, that Vietnam has given away its policy of being free and unattached and has in fact made in recent times a treaty with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Little wonder that Mr Barry Cassell, the Executive Director of the Cattlemens Union of Australia, has described the interest rates for primary industry as a sellout. [More…]
He agreed that his labour costs were significantly higher than those overseas but I must stress that this was due to government and union policy in maintaining a reasonable standard of living by way of paying an adequate wage. [More…]
Strange as it may seem, representatives of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union suggested before a Senate Committee last week that another Minister should be appointed in this area. [More…]
In the present dispute in the paper industry the unions, the employers and the Australian Council of Trade Unions have been working very hard to resolve this problem. [More…]
Whatever bouquets BHP may have to accept, I say respectfully that when people read of Mr McNeill lecturing the trade union movement on what it ought to do they ought to remember that in 1943 when this country was under seige the BHP board room put profits before the security of this country. [More…]
According to one theory propounded by Dr James Mohr in his book Abortion in America: Origins and Evolution of National Policy, it is quite clear that legislative prescription for abortion came about in the latter half of the 19th century because of an almost industrial union attitude of the medical profession, with which we are not unfamiliar in this country, to that particular issue. [More…]
As a trade union official, I have had to brief lawyers while their meter has been ticking over. [More…]
In addition EFIC has a close working relationship with the commercial and banking sectors and, as a member of the Berne Union, the international association of credit insurers, the Corporation has access to that body’s substantial repository of technical knowledge and experience in this field. [More…]
In fact, it is not an advisory council of manufacturers at all; it is a body made up of members of the trade union movement, manufacturers, representatives of political bodies and government. [More…]
I was one of the members of this Parliament who were chosen to represent it at the recent meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held in Bonn in West Germany. [More…]
I recommend to the members of the Senate a reference compendium of parliaments of the world which has been edited by the InterParliamentary Union and which can be found in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation to Bonn, of which I was a member and which consisted of 10 or 12 members of this Parliament elected by the Parliament to represent the Australian Parliament at Bonn, was subject to a budgetary allocation by the Executivesomething that was determined by the Executive. [More…]
Human Rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [More…]
Will he obtain information on the cost of electricity produced from nuclear power compared with power produced from oil and coal in the following countries: The United States, Canada, countries of the European Economic Community, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries? [More…]
Can the Minister counter the fears of the Australian Timber Workers Union that anticipated tariff recommendations would have a disastrous effect on the modern mills at Oberon and Tumut in New South Wales? [More…]
I refer to the estimate of $134,000 for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-Australia Agreement for Scientific and Technical Co-operation. [More…]
I refer to a question I asked on 7 April 1 978 relating to the visit of Mr Valadimir Kuzin who has a well documented history as a KGB agent and of subversive activities on behalf of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in liberal democratic countries. [More…]
The point I make is that Mr Kuzin is the head of the Foreign Relations Section of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics State Committee for Science and Technology. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government has sought some guarantees from the Government of the Soviet Union relating to the personnel who are using or who may use that organisation as a cover for their activities? [More…]
Senator Harradine has raised a number of questions, including one on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics scientific agreement. [More…]
May I mention also under the heading of staffing that there has been a great deal of concern expressed by the relevant union, the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, that the staff ceilings and staff cuts which have been imposed at the Atomic Energy Commission research establishments are adversely affecting a variety of areas of work including safety operations and certainly including environmental controls and studies. [More…]
The Transport Workers’ Union had to appear in court tomorrow- the hearing was brought forward to this afternoon- to answer charges under the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
I impress this on the Government and the Minister: Before any lines are closed they should have full and frank discussions with everyone involved- the trade union movement, the local councils, the business people and other sections of the community. [More…]
Just recently I had discussions with the railway employees in Alice Springs and later, at a meeting of union representatives, I listened to Mr Commissioner Smith and the Assistant General Manager, Dr Williams, as they talked with the employees and answered some of their questions. [More…]
Mr Nick Alexandrides, the State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union was invited and attended. [More…]
Mr R. Matthews, the State Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, and Mr B. Busch, the State Secretary of the Australian Transport Officers Federation, were also invited and attended. [More…]
If the answer is in the affirmative, can the Minister say whether the Australian Workers Union, which has many of its members working on this service, was consulted prior to the decision being made? [More…]
I am sure that such a system would work because last year when I visited the Soviet Union I had a look at the dual system that operates there. [More…]
We have asked the Minister to consider something more than that: Rather than just give advice to the unions, the customers and regional people where lines may be cut out, such proposals as are advanced should be circulated publicly so that there can be an adequate reaction from citizens and staff organisations in respect of them. [More…]
That is not always done, but I am told by officers of the railways union that the management of ANR is quite easy to talk to and has certainly developed communications with them. [More…]
Royal Australian Ornithologists Union, Vic. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations noted a report in yesterday’s Press of a call by the Secretary of the Western Australian Electrical Trades Union, Mr Gilbert, for ‘a radical restructuring of the working week’? [More…]
As this appears to me to be a basic contribution to increasing employment and productivity across the board, in particular in tourist, service, educational and research areas, and is, I believe, in line with Government thinking, I ask: Will the Minister undertake that the Government will follow up this encouraging trade union attitude? [More…]
-My attention has been drawn to the statement by the Secretary of the Western Australian Electrical Trades Union in which he calls for a restructuring of the working week. [More…]
The position is that the union movement so far has shown little interest in changing the present system. [More…]
Therefore, the attitude expressed by Mr Gilbert of the Western Australian Electrical Trades Union is a very welcome sign indeed. [More…]
The position is, as I have said, that the matter is really within the hands of the union movement and the employers, as to their attitude to these matters and the question of encouraging the creation of new jobs. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the nation has been occupied by the Soviet Union for 33 years? [More…]
On this 60th anniversary of the independence of Latvia, will the Government register a further protest with the occupying country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
The Vilyuysk River area of the Soviet Union now produces about 16 per cent of the world total. [More…]
Even the Soviet Union sells through the Central Selling Organisation. [More…]
We had a very pleasant experience of meeting the warden and councillors, the Trades and Labour Council, union representatives, management and staff. [More…]
Union of Australia succinctly described the bank as a sellout. [More…]
The article quotes the comments of the meat section president of the Farmers Union on the subject of levies and the marketing of beef and is typical of the attitude of many beef producers towards beef marketing. [More…]
The renovations were long overdue and were supported by the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union as improving working conditions for staff. [More…]
The Minister, as Country Party Ministers in Western Australia and elsewhere normally do, is of course waiting for the Farmers’ Union to make to him the recommendation that the Minister wants so that any political fallout or any political blame then accrues to the Farmers’ Union and not to the Minister. [More…]
Recreation leave has been established by the trade union movement in this country within and without the Public Service as leave which is necessary for recreation. [More…]
Certainly, the effects of the introduction of new technology must be discussed in advance with the work force and the unions. [More…]
Now we must increase efficiency and raise productivity, which means upgrading management skills and modifying union practices, principally by encouraging unions to move from a craft based organisation to an industry based one. [More…]
The matter raised by Senator Evans is not something on which I have close knowledge, but I am advised that this proposed new section is meant to cover the difficulty that arises at the moment because unattached officers who are working in a union situation are totally outside the provisions of the Act. [More…]
I am also advised that the Board has written to the various unions and that there are discussions in train with respect to the position of officers who are required by their duties as unattached officers to make public statements on matters which are critical of the Service and so on. [More…]
I think I can give an assurance on behalf of the Government that this proposed new section is not meant to muzzle officers who are performing a proper duty as trade union officers or as officers of a Public Service trade union. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, concerns a group of trade unionists at the Kurnell oil refinery who are members of the New South Wales registered branch of the Australian Workers Union and who could be likened to a 1978 group of Tolpuddle Martyrs. [More…]
It is about the problems of the Victorian country fuel agent, Mr Leo Gorman, and his difficulty with his own union colleagues in collecting fuel from the depot at Spotswood. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this man was called to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission headquarters in Melbourne to attend a 9-hour compulsory conference and that towards the end of the conference he was told by the President of the Commission that, although it was not intended as a threat, if he carried on with his Federal Court writs against the Transport Workers Union of Australia and its officers, although he had every chance of winning the case, he probably risked a transport union blackban throughout Australia. [More…]
The matter to which he further refers is the question of an agreement between the oil companies and the Transport Workers Union of Australia in relation to the delivery of fuel. [More…]
If so, could the Minister say in what regard the Government holds this responsible attempt by a union leader to bring to the attention of both employer and union members the problems Australia faces in the training of its adult work force, particularly in the area of technology? [More…]
Has your attention been drawn to a report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, headed ‘Objector’s work ends’, to the effect that a Mr Aper, who was the cause of great disruption in the parliamentary kitchen earlier this year because of his refusal to join the appropriate union, received $1,683 in pay whilst stood down pending the outcome of the Industrial Registrar’s decision on his claim to be a conscientious objector? [More…]
As this person is reported in the article to have said that he intends to seek employment again at Parliament House when sittings resume in February next year, I ask you, Mr President, this question: In view of the fact that the Federal Court has ruled already that Aper was not a conscientious objector when he sought exemption from joining another union, will you ensure that he is not allowed to cause further disruption here at Parliament House? [More…]
The substance of the matter is this: On Monday, the New South Wales branch office of the Australian Workers Union raised with me the role of this travel agency in regard to Latin American migrants. [More…]
The documents that the Minister is perusing comprise a report of proceedings before and comments by Conciliation Commissioner Shortall, a summary of the union’s history of industrial ‘misunderstandings’ and a lengthy letter from the State Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Mr Oliver, which details the unfinished business. [More…]
The tragedy is, as the Minister will see from the documents, that whilst these Uruguayans went to the union for advice, they were extremely reluctant to testify in a court. [More…]
Despite that, the decision of Mr Shortall indicated, amongst other things, that Alderman Ross Maniaci quickly joined the Employers Federation, used its advocate to put his point of view against the union and then abdicated his responsibility and refused to appear at the court hearings. [More…]
I repeat that the documents comprise a statement prepared by an official of the union on the union’s history with Uruguayans, a two-page copy of the decision by Conciliation Commissioner Shortall, and a lengthy letter signed by Mr Oliver, the State Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, indicating how the union has tried for some months without avail to get satisfactory wage adjustments. [More…]
The first group attended unannounced and pleaded with the Union not to proceed with the claim for underpaid wages. [More…]
(It was not known by the Union at the time that a great number of them were working under assumed names). [More…]
I know that at a time like this we would have economic chaos if every tourist to Australia wanted to become a permanent resident but, together with one of my former trade union colleague, Senator Gordon Mcintosh, I know that the trade unions are adopting a reasonable attitude to this matter. [More…]
If the unions see a situation in which people have been exploited- I claim that these Uruguayans have been exploited- they will take a stand. [More…]
We want much closer liaison to occur between the State and Federal industrial authorities, the arbitration inspectors and the unions concerned. [More…]
I know that at the start of World War II there was a situation in which- I think this is a reasonable parallel- people called plant erectors in the gas industry who had certain pipe fitting skills but no other skills were accepted as members by the Amalgamated Engineering Union, in its wisdom. [More…]
As the Parliament is to rise this week until February I think that the Treasurer (Mr Howard) should, on behalf of these people who have the banking union behind them, lean on the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to ensure that in the interim these people are given permanency. [More…]
The Sunraysia branch of the Victorian Farmers Union had written to him following their annual meeting last week indicating they want necessary legislation for price control to be introduced in both States in time to negotiate prices for the 1978 crop. [More…]
B. Dillon, the Secretary of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
He had no need to do this because I attended most of the meetings of the Liquor Trades Union in the Riverland and I spoke to very large gatherings of people about the problems of the brandy industry. [More…]
This Union’s Members employed in SA Wineries and Vineyards call upon the Federal Treasurer to reconsider the totally prohibitive excise burden they have placed on the Wine and Spirit Industry. [More…]
Freedom of Trade Union activity in Peru is ensured under the ‘Social Guarantees’ provisions of the 1933 Constitution (Article 62) together with the right of collective bargaining (Article 43 ) and the prohibition of labour contracts which restrict the rights of workers (Article 44). [More…]
Individual unions may combine to form Federations and these may in turn form Confederations provided they are recognised and registered by the Government. [More…]
There are currently three major Trade Union Confederations recognised: the Confederation General de Trabajadores del Peru (which claims the support of about 38 per cent of unionised workers), the Confederation de Trabajadores del Peru (30 per cent) and the Centra de Trabajadores Revolucionarios Peruanos ( 1 2 per cent). [More…]
The first amendment will enable a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, appointed to office under the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, to receive remuneration and allowances in the performance of the duties of that position with the Authority and at the same time retain office as a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that Mr Commissioner M. E. Heagney, a man with long trade union experience, and who has contributed much to the work of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission over the past 6 years, was appointed National Director from 1 August this year. [More…]
I am sure that honourable senators on both sides would congratulate Commissioner Heagney on his appointment as National Director, and that with his sound leadership TUTA will continue to gain increasing support from the trade union movement and industry generally. [More…]
The second amendment concerns the question of remuneration for chairmen of the councils for union training established in each State. [More…]
The Government sees these State councils providing valuable advice in respect of trade union training in each State. [More…]
Therefore, in order successfully to invoke the secondary boycott provisions of the Act in the live sheep export dispute it would have been necessary to prove that the relevant union was putting pressure on, say, the shipping lines to stop the exportation of sheep. [More…]
But it would have been difficult for any party using the Trade Practices Act against the union to prove that the union was, in fact, putting such pressure on the shipping lines. [More…]
Perhaps he was saying that only the trade union movement should not, under any circumstances, be touched by trade practices legislation. [More…]
I believe that trade unions also should be subject to such legislation and I have no doubt that it will be understood by the public that this is what this Bill does. [More…]
Like so much of the industrial legislation for which this Government has been responsiblethe establishment of the Industrial Relations Bureau; the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act significantly increasing the scope of the punitive or penal powers under that legislation; and the Commonwealth Employees Act vesting powers of suspension, stand down or dismissal of public employees engaged in just about any conceivable form of industrial action; specific provisions of legislation like the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, aimed quite specifically and directly at particular forms of legitimate trade union protest- this Bill is just another crude and vulgar piece of legislative union-bashing. [More…]
Under section 45d, any kind of industrial action which is aimed at hindering the movement of goods or services to or from a corporation- the corporation in question not being the immediate employer of those applying the bans- subjects unions and their officials to these sorts of penalties. [More…]
It has a particular, and immediate and an obvious application in the service industries to unions which are engaged in the packing, the storage, the transport and the distribution of goods from corporation to corporation. [More…]
That point, of course, has not been lost on employers in that area and in recent days writs have been flying around like confetti against unions like the Transport Workers Union and the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
It is said that legitimate or proper trade union activity is exempt from the operation of section 4Sd, that it is excluded both from the scope of the provision as it now stands and the scope of the provision as it will be if this amending Bill is passed. [More…]
In the first place, any form of action which is designed to assist the remuneration or the conditions of employment of fellow members of one’s union working under different employers is not covered by those exemptions. [More…]
Even if it is familiar industrial action in the sense of that term that Senator Durack or Senator MacGibbon would accept, it is not covered by the terms of that exemption if it involves a situation where employers other than the immediate employers of the unionists in question are concerned. [More…]
In the second place any form of industrial sympathy action, whether or not it extends across different union boundaries but certainly if it extends across the boundaries of different employers or different work situations, is again outside the scope of this legislation. [More…]
Thirdly, any action taken by unionists to protect the strength and the bargaining power of themselves and their union by an endeavour to unionise work places which are not unionised or not completely unionised at the time of such action- for example, the kind of action that is in issue in the present Alliance Messenger dispute in which the Transport Workers Union again finds itself involved and which aroused the indignation of Mr Justice Smithers earlier this week- again is clearly outside the scope of those limited exemptions for which the Act provides. [More…]
I believe that the Government intends to create trouble in the trade union movement to take the pressure off itself. [More…]
It is true that many unions are engaged in that export trade. [More…]
Members of the Australian Workers Union are also involved in that trade, which contributes a considerable amount of work to that port. [More…]
Any union has the right to defend its workers. [More…]
In the present circumstances, this Government should not introduce further legislation to bash unionists. [More…]
Members of a union can be fined very heavily under the proposed new Act- up to a quarter of a million dollars- irrespective whether there is dissention between unions. [More…]
Some unions say that the farmers have the right to export live sheep. [More…]
Some dissatisfaction exists among unions. [More…]
If and when this Government implements the provisions of this legislation and fines a union, most certainly the whole trade union movement will protect that union. [More…]
Without the protection provided by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions combining forces, this Government would pick off one union at a time. [More…]
I stress that if one union is touched, the whole of the trade union movement will do battle with this Government. [More…]
There should be better understanding between the unions. [More…]
It was the most turbulent of all unions in this country. [More…]
Since 1967 the unions and management have worked together, which goes to show that it is possible. [More…]
If a union such as the Waterside Workers Federation can work with management for the benefit of all people in the industry, it goes without saying that other industries should be looking at what has been done. [More…]
Lawyers have written more laws into the statute books of this country to knock unions than is the case in any other country. [More…]
What is complained of and what is causing grave concern to both the employers nationally and the trade union movement nationally, and to each of those organisations in each of the States, is the maverick-type action that is being taken by individual employers, utilising the provisions of section 45D to obtain for themselves an unfair advantage. [More…]
Let me give a hypothetical example so that people will be able to understand what I am talking about: Firm A is employing union labour, is honouring its awards both in spirit and in the letter, is enabling the union to go into the plant, is ensuring that safety, health and welfare provisions and procedures are followed and is able to ensure that there is proper consultation between the management and the employees so that the employees are not unfairly disadvantaged. [More…]
Firm B is a shop that is non-unionised, cheats on the employees, does not permit the union organisers to come in and address the employees or do some problem solving, and has conditions which are quite unsafe and quite untenable. [More…]
Firm B, by virtue of its anti-union stance, has an unfair competitive advantage over Firm A. [More…]
What does the union attempt to do in that circumstance? [More…]
I ask the Government to have consultations with the national employers and the trade union movement in order to ensure that the Act is not used in that way. [More…]
It is going to throw those within the unions who do not believe in confrontation against government, but who believe that the union is there to get the best deal possible for its members with the least cost to them and the community, into the fold of those extremists within the trade union movement who believe that the trade union movement can be use as a political battering ram. [More…]
Neither governments, nor industrial tribunals, have yet found an effective way of legislating against political strikes, without facing the prospect of massive resistance from the trade union movement. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abusers of union ‘s power. [More…]
The only restraint on the misuse of power by an individual union is the possibility of isolation from the rest of the trade union movement, and the possibility of government action (e.g. [More…]
deregistration) against the union. [More…]
It has already been said by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the national employers that the Trade Practices Act is not, and should not be, the vehicle for the settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
There needs to be a co-ordinated approach to this matter between all those people who desire to see the industrial relations system work and those who desire to isolate the minority groups within the employers organisations and the trade union movement which are out for confrontation. [More…]
It is to the federal court that the rank and file unionist has ultimate recourse to ensure that the rules of an organisation are not unreasonable, oppressive and unjust. [More…]
It is to the federal court that the union itself ultimately has recourse to ensure the protection of its eligibility rule, its constitution rule. [More…]
It is that court which ultimately will have to determine whether or not a union should retain its registration. [More…]
I leave the Government with the thought that ultimately if respect for the federal court is demeaned in the eyes of the participants of the industrial relations system, the action that it may legitimately have to take to deregister a union which has persistently confronted the Government and the rest of the trade union movement in the community will also be demeaned, and that will be a tragic day for Australia. [More…]
The reason for the opposition seems to be centred upon the concern that this provision will interfere with the legitimate activities of trade unions, that it is aimed at union bashing by the Government and that it will prevent members of unions from engaging in activities to protect their interests. [More…]
We do not deny the importance of the trade union movement and of its leaders. [More…]
As a government, we encourage the participation of union leaders and acknowledge their vital role in settling industrial disputes, but equally we as a government have a responsibility to ensure that there is proper machinery, and proper laws on the statute books, whereby these industrial disputes can be resolved. [More…]
As a Government, we support strongly the conciliation and arbitration process in settling disputes, but we also have an obligation to have on the statute books laws adequate to protect the rights of individuals and of the community against what in many cases are the thoroughly indefensible actions of irresponsible unions and union leaders. [More…]
I was interested in a number of the points that were “made by Senator Evans, who said that legitimate union activities would not be covered by the provisions that I have read; that the people who engaged in them would be in breach of the new section provided for in the Bill. [More…]
It was very interesting to go through the honourable senator’s list of what he called legitimate union activities which would not serve as a defence for unionists. [More…]
For instance, he mentioned sympathy strikes, demarcation disputes and concerted action to impose a closed shop and thereby effect compulsory union membership. [More…]
I do not carry any torch for those parasites because I look upon them as one would upon a person who will not take a ticket in a trade union. [More…]
I think the Minister for Post and Telecommunications would be aware by now of the substance of the representations that have been made by the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists in connection generally with the very heavy increase in the cost of sending lettergrams and telegrams, which approximate a 300 per cent increase, and in particular with its concern about the future of the employment of its trained members in that occupation. [More…]
Whilst the union has in mind the heavy losses incurred in providing this service, it has made representations to the Australian Telecommunications Commission asking for a review of what seem to be very heavy charges and for some added measures to be taken to publicise renewed services. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he would be good enough to request his colleague to consider the representations that have been made by the Union about whether some modest increase might be applied and whether some review of services could be made urgently. [More…]
We welcome statements such as that made by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions: The trade union movement has ‘a responsibility in respect of those who are not in the workforce’. [More…]
This recognition holds out real prospects of constructive co-operation between Government, trade unions and industry which is fundamental to a real and lasting increase in employment opportunities. [More…]
In the current situation between the Soviet Union and China, both countries have spoken about punishing another nation. [More…]
On this occasion he is apparently on the side of China and is opposed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
There is grave disproportion in our society, and I blame for that the more conservative elements of our trade union movement. [More…]
We also have the most oneeyed double-dyed conservatives in the world in our union movement. [More…]
They see their duty as being only to their own union, their own group, their own party. [More…]
We are getting more enlightened and intelligent people in the union movement who may even see in time that a good system of rational industrial democracy such as the West German model could also be considered in planning for this country. [More…]
I have just said that traditionally we get most of our funds- 70 per cent of our funds- directly or indirectly from the trade union movement. [More…]
I am sure the honourable senator is aware of them because there is usually a great deal of publicity when a union hands over a cheque of that size. [More…]
Of course, we recognise that the Labor Party is tied to its Caucus decisions and in many cases to union decisions. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
I emphasise this deliberate and substantial militarisation of African conflict by outside states- particularly the Soviet Union and its Cuban surrogates- because I do not think that the qualitative change it has wrought in African affairs has registered clearly enough. [More…]
The situation began to deteriorate last year with increasing hostilities between Kampuchea and Vietnam, a worsening relationship between China and Vietnam and the signing of a treaty of friendship and co-operation, which included a military assistance clause, between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China for long term influence in the region and, more generally, on the whole Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]
China’s subsequent incursion into Vietnam can only be understood as a reaction to Vietnam’s treaty with the Soviet Union, its invasion of Kampuchea and the installation there of a pro- Vietnamese government. [More…]
In turn, its concern about events in Kampuchea relates not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but to the role of the Soviet Union as Vietnam’s principal backer. [More…]
We have called on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam and on the Soviet Union to exercise restraint to prevent the last turn of the screw, which could be disastrous not merely for the region but for the peace of the world. [More…]
It is a neighbour of the Soviet Union, a major oil producer and a principal member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]
In terms of the so-called northern tier’ countries that border on the Soviet Union, the upheaval in Iran, following closely on the pro-Soviet coup in Afghanistan and accompanied by very shaky conditions in Turkey, creates an entirely new situation. [More…]
While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country, and while it is increasingly active in relation to the trouble spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
I believe that all who have followed the events there to some extent have kept their fingers crossed that the disputes, especially that between China and Vietnam, would not involve other nations and particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Again I think we are familiar with the background of the conflct that has ensued between these two countries but it has a particular relevance today in this case because of the pact which was formed last November between Vietnam and the Soviet Union and therefore because of the implications that flow from it. [More…]
There is a suggestion towards the end of the statement that this time the Soviet Union is the odd man out. [More…]
With the world as it is, it is foolish to do anything that will exacerbate that feeling of the Soviet Union being the odd man out amongst the great powers. [More…]
I hope that in this case the Government will not take any action which will help to force the Soviet Union into the same sense of isolation. [More…]
He went on to say how important it is that the Government maintain a balance in its relationship between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
First of all there is South-East Asia where we are seeing a conflict between allegedly Marxist states- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; the People’s Republic of China; Socialist Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which is certainly one of the two most powerful countries in the world, and China, which is at the very least one of the half dozen most powerful countries of the world, are on the very edge of armed conflict with states with which they were allied. [More…]
In the case of China it is the so-called Democratic Kampuchea and in the case of the Soviet Union it is Vietnam. [More…]
There is scant, if any, respect for human rights in the Soviet Union, or in China, or in Vietnam or in the previous and, I should imagine, present regimes in Cambodia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is heavily involved in Ethiopia, as is East Germany- in the same way as they were heavily involved, and probably still are, in Angola and Mozambique. [More…]
Certainly, the Soviet Union does not content itself with writing a letter to the editor if it does not like what is happening in Eritrea; it sends in troops. [More…]
I was later asked to undertake a second trip at the invitation of the governments of Romania, the Soviet Union and Hungary. [More…]
If that happens, we then have to look at the European situation, at the communist bloc countries and their association with the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is very interesting to see the Romanians being critical of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the United Nations and also warning about the dangers of Warsaw Pact troops being used in South East Asia. [More…]
Yugoslavia, not being a member of the Warsaw Fact, would not be in that situation, but Yugoslavia has its own problems at present in the form of border disputes with one of the Soviet Union’s allies, Bulgaria. [More…]
This conflict marks the entry of Sino-Soviet rivalry into the politics of the region on a scale greater than the rivalry between those two powers in Africa, or that of the United States and the Soviet Union in other part of the world. [More…]
Some commentators still have not ruled out the possibility of a fullscale conventional war between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union has 44 divisions, half of which are heavily armoured. [More…]
Although some newspapers say that the Soviet Union has not placed its troops on alert, its 44 divisions on that border are in such a state of readiness that they do not have to be put on a 24-hour alert. [More…]
The attitude of the Soviet Union at the moment has remained low key. [More…]
Australia’s position regarding the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also has to be made clear. [More…]
I emphasise this deliberate and substantial militarisation of African conflict by outside states- particularly the Soviet Union and their . [More…]
As my colleague Senator Sibraa who spoke just a few minutes ago stated, that sort of action is the trigger mechanism that must surely drive Vietnam more and more into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China for long term influence in the region . [More…]
We have called on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam and on the Soviet Union to exercise restraint to prevent the last turn of the screw, which could be disastrous not merely for the region but for the peace of the world. [More…]
Thankfully, as far as I can assess, the Soviet Union has so far played quite a statesmanshiplike role in that it has called for calm. [More…]
I do not think that there is any person in the world who does not want to live in peaceful and stable surroundings, regardless of whether he lives in China, the Soviet Union, America, Australia or somewhere in the Middle East. [More…]
To reflect on what I mentioned earlier, I point out that these conflicts were created by the power rivalry that exists between four major states adjacent to the areas, namely, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Despite what is happening in Vietnam and despite the argument between the Soviet Union and China, we still have an acceptance by the United States and the Soviet Union that detente ought to be achieved and that the SALT discussions ought to be concluded. [More…]
If one couples that statement with the references to the Soviet Union in a later part of the statement one will see that it draws a number of observations which could impede what has been widely accepted as progress towards the completion of the SALT discussions and the continuation of detente as we understand it. [More…]
The statement goes further than the situation we are talking about- the issue of China versus Vietnam, with Soviet Union on the fringes- and talks about the situation in Iran. [More…]
We should be assisting in reducing tensions and we certainly should make sure that the present encouraging relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States of America is preserved and pointed to. [More…]
The best advice that we have from the experts is that presently the Soviet Union and the USA both expect detente, and that the SALT discussions should proceed satisfactorily. [More…]
We have the encouragement of knowing that at the present stage the Soviet Union has not intervened in any way except by some sort of support operation. [More…]
The Minister has made a very important reference in his statement to the restraint that has been exercised by the Soviet Union in the current crisis in Indo-China. [More…]
In his statement he makes the point that it is to the Soviet Union’s credit that in the present phase of the crisis it has so far shown restraint. [More…]
I think that is an important concession that should be made to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would suggest that we and others have to be careful not to isolate the Soviet Union and perhaps force it into acts which it would presumably prefer to avoid. [More…]
As we approach the nineteen eighties some perceptive commentators are pointing to a dangerous asymmetry: While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country, and while it is increasingly active in relation to the trouble spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
It also emphasises the importance of other nations not forcing the Soviet Union into a situation where it considers itself isolated and threatened. [More…]
Perhaps this sort of attitude is reflected in the treaty which was signed in November between Vietnam and the Soviet Union. [More…]
No doubt that sort of statement in the treaty between Vietnam and the Soviet Union reflects, in part, the sons of ambitions we have seen expressed by the Soviet Union in many parts of the world. [More…]
Soviet Union, at least, with its isolation as a great power and indeed as a super power. [More…]
For example, it is not hard to see that the Soviet Union might feel that Europe, Japan, the United States of America, and China are in fact in many ways aligned against it. [More…]
I believe that we have to be careful about that sort of development if we expect the Soviet Union to continue to exercise the sort of restraint it has exercised so far in the conflict in Indo-China. [More…]
I refer to a matter that is of considerable concern to many people in Tasmania and, in particular, to trade unionists. [More…]
It involves money intended for the use of a Commonwealth statutory body- the Trade Union Training Authority or TUTA, as it is known. [More…]
It was money paid to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council by the Tasmanian Government for use by a Commonwealth body- the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Has it been used for a purpose other than that for which it was granted, namely, trade union education and, in particular, a State government supplement to Commonwealth Government funds for the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
If there are no skeletons in the closet, why is the Secretary of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council not replying to specific questions being asked of him by the premier of Tasmania and by unions affiliated with the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council? [More…]
I have here two letters from different trade unions concerning this matter, written to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
In January 1974 the State Government paid $15,000 to the TTLC for an Education Program to employ an Education Officer who subsequently went on to the Commonwealth Payroll when the Interim Trade Union Training Authority was set up in April 1974. [More…]
Since then the State Government has paid the TTLC $10,000 each year to the end of 1977 for Trade Union Education purposes, making a total of $55,000 in State Government Grants. [More…]
Why have no reports on this money or any payments from it been made to the full TTLC and do State and National Councils of the Trade Union Training Authority know about it. [More…]
1 ) If the TTLC received $5 5,000 from the State Government to use for trade union education, why weren’t the Officers of the TTLC told about it? [More…]
Who authorised the expenditure of moneys from this trade union education account’? [More…]
Who were the TTLC Officers who ‘late in 1977’ gave consideration to the ‘calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the TUTA “? [More…]
Who are the members of the ‘trade union education committee’ and who appointed them? [More…]
The first cheque of $15,000 was paid to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council in January 1974 for an education program to employ an education officer who subsequently went onto the Commonwealth payroll when the interim Trade Union Training Authority was set up in April 1974. [More…]
Since then, the State Government has paid the Trades and Labour Council $10,000 each year to the end of 1977 for trade union education. [More…]
Why was this money not placed in an audited Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council account or immediately forwarded to the State Council of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
The annual reports of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority for 1975-76 and 1976-77 made no mention of the Tasmanian Government providing any funds. [More…]
Mr Watling admitted to the meeting that the State Government grants for trade union education were intended to be administered on behalf of all unions in Tasmania, not only those affiliated with the TTLC. [More…]
Do the State and national councils of the Trade Union Training Authority know about it? [More…]
Senator O ‘Byrne raised a matter relating to the appropriation of funds allocated to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
If the note that I took of his comments is correct he stated that in 1974 $10,000 was paid by the Tasmanian Government to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council for payment to the Federal Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
When the senator mentioned that my memory went back to the fact that at that stage the Federal Trade Union Training Authority was not established. [More…]
I am sure that the Tasmanian Auditor-General, if State Government paid $10,000 to a trade union- do I understand that it paid up to $55,000 over the period? [More…]
The appropriate reaction may therefore involve harder options, more effective concentrated union activity and changed priorities within our objectives. [More…]
Many years ago when I was involved with the Federated Clerks Union, its Federal President, Mr J. P. Maynes- he is still Federal President- was the first person to see the problems that would emerge as a result of automation and technological change, particularly in the computer area. [More…]
He laid down a plan which was later adopted by the trade union movement but, unfortunately, not put into effect overall. [More…]
There is no time, in speaking to this urgency motion, to detail the results of all of those surveys that have been undertaken, but they are available to the Government, to the trade union movement, and to the employers. [More…]
The union representatives on that committee justifiably say that its considerations are preempted by the bias of the terms of reference. [More…]
My union in Victoria, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, has done its homework and research, and since the extended trading hours pattern came into effect in Victoria 10,000 permanent jobs have been destroyed. [More…]
One of the committees announced by the Prime Minister is a tripartite committee comprised of government, union and industry representatives under the chairmanship of Mr B. Trethowan. [More…]
On 28 January 1969 there was a blowout in the Union oil well in the platform in the Santa Barbara Channel, about which we have heard a great deal. [More…]
To suggest that funds provided since 1973 by the State Government specifically for trade union education for all unions and associations in Tasmania should somehow be part of TTLC funds shows his ignorance of the basis upon which the funds were provided originally. [More…]
It is also a reflection on respected trade union leaders, both present and former officials of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council and the State Branch of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
When the funds were sought early in 1973 and arrangements made, the Commonwealth instrumentality referred to by Senator O ‘Byrne, namely, the Trade Union Training Authority, did not even exist. [More…]
Expenditure from the Tasmanian Trade Union Education Fund has been strictly in accordance with the purpose for which it was provided. [More…]
It enabled the establishment of a professional training program, adequately staffed and equipped, the direction of which was ultimately taken over by the Commonwealth Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
To suggest that Doug Lowe sought information last year on the Tasmanian Trade Union Education Fund is just not true. [More…]
Those honourable senators who are trade unionists will find it most noteworthy that the politically inspired attacks emanate from those people who have not lifted a finger to help in what surely must be regarded as the most successful trade union training program of its size in the whole of Australia. [More…]
The real issue is the attempt by members of the pro-communist Left to undermine the central authority of the trade union movement in Tasmania. [More…]
Their aim now is also to capture control of the accumulated funds of the Tasmanian trade union education account, which they know contains considerable amounts of money, and to build their own counter course of political indoctrination. [More…]
But, worse still, this action represents a veiled attack on successive State Labor governmentsthe Reece Government and the Neilson Government- which were instrumental in negotiating for trade union education. [More…]
I refer to your letter dated 18 December requesting information on grants paid by the State Government to the Trade Union Training Authority and I am pleased to provide you with the following information: Payment date, 18 January 1974. [More…]
He took over all the small unions that Jack O’Neill had been looking after and used these small unions without having to give a statement of the membership or the affiliation fees that were paid by them. [More…]
This is the way he took over the trade union movement in Tasmania- by the use of every underhand and snide method that has been known in the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
He sold the other place that he bought to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The State Government gave these sums of money for trade union education to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council in good faith. [More…]
The money was not deposited in an audited Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council account or sent by the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The only public knowledge of any of this money being given to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council prior to this year was when the initial $15,000 grant was made in January 1974 to enable Mr Sean Kelly to be employed in the trade union training field as the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council’s education officer prior to the commencement of operation of the Trade Union Training Authority, to which he was transferred in April 1 974. [More…]
It is easy to see that Senator Harradine, in his usual devious way, wanted to forestall the efforts of Mr Clyde Cameron to set up the Trade Union Training Authority on a national level. [More…]
But this man now is the Tasmanian Director of trade union training. [More…]
The panel that appointed Sean Kelly was Arnold Currie, the Tasmanian Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, then President of the TTLC Brian Harradine, then Secretary of the TTLC and Des Lavey, the then Division Secretary of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and a man who has been persecuted by Senator Harradine. [More…]
His own union has nominated him for this training authority and Senator Harradine is making certain that the union’s delegate cannot be given his rightful position. [More…]
Senator Harradine was the executive officer responsible for moneys disbursed from the $15,000 grant and was subject to the abovenamed Trade Union Education Committee. [More…]
Imlach and Gerald Griffiths, who replaced Llewellyn from CAGEO, became the Tasmanian Interim Council for Union Training with Senator Harradine, then Mr Harradine, representing that body on the National Interim Council for Union Training. [More…]
It was believed that TUTA had replaced the Trade Union Education Committee. [More…]
Currie and Lavey were unaware that any further State Government grants were given to the TTLC even though they were members of the Interim Council for Union Training. [More…]
The Australian Trade Union Training Authority’s first annual report of 1975-76 makes no mention of Tasmanian Government financial assistance to trade union education and the same is the story in the second annual report of TUTA, for 1976-77. [More…]
Senator Harradine is still a member of the Trade Union Training Authority’s national and Tasmanian councils for union training. [More…]
I pose the question that last year the trade union audit procedures were raised in the State Parliament by Mr MacKinnon whom I mentioned earlier. [More…]
He has dragged the trade union movement in Tasmania down with these conscientious people wanting to know of the affairs of their own organisation and being fobbed off with such stupidity as that. [More…]
The trade unions affiliated with the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council asked about its audit procedures. [More…]
In 1977 the Australian Workers Union disaffiliated over the same issue. [More…]
We would request that this balance sheet be not discussed in the presence of persons outside of the trade union movement, for example the Press. [More…]
consideration was given to the calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the federally-funded Trade Union Training Authority but the plan was not feasible because there was not enough money due to the refusal of left wing unions to pay affiliation fees. [More…]
So this fund that was supposed to have been available for trade union training has also been mixed up here with the National Civic Council. [More…]
Rex Hevy, recognised in the Tasmanian community as an industrial moderate union official and senior vice-president of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council during the years 1974 to 1977, the period of the State Government education grants, asked Senator Harradine and the TTLC officers who it was late in 1977 who gave consideration to the calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
They scored off it and got their own stooges in on it before the Commonwealth set up its own Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I have asked that the Attorney-General and the Commonwealth Auditor-General look into the question of whether the funds were made available from the State Government of Tasmania for the national body, the Trade Union Training Authority; if not whether funds were made available from separate funds; and where the money has been expended. [More…]
It also gained assurances from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan, the pelagic whaling nations, that they would not take whales within the division 5 area during the 90-day period of acceptance. [More…]
It concerns a country or a district known as Eritrea, which has suffered 17 years of war and which has been virtually ignored by most of the countries of the world with perhaps the exception of the Soviet Union, which is now directing operations for Ethiopia to subdue that territory, and some other countries which have supplied arms for the suppression of that state. [More…]
Last month, in Eritrea, a village called Hergego was cluster bombed shortly after dawn by Ethiopian MIG-21 jets supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If we are talking about selfinterest, that attitude runs directly contrary to the views expressed very strongly by the Prime Minister when he vigorously attacked the Soviet Union as being a threat to peace in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
That was followed a year or so ago by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, making an even stronger attack on the Soviet Union and speaking of the dangers of its presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The force of the way in which we reacted to that change in 1917 built up a chain of events and a process which has moulded the foreign policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in subsequent years. [More…]
This was borne out, was it not, in World War II when the greatest might that has ever been unleashed in a world war was directed against the Soviet Union by the forces of nazi Germany? [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Whilst there are certain differences in emphasis between the major communist powers, China and the Soviet Union, they are not the underlying causes of the present conflict. [More…]
The Soviet Union was prepared to make available only a third of the amount required, $2.5 billion. [More…]
Vietnam, in order to carry out its plan of rehabilitation and development in accordance with its victory in the CiVil war, was forced more and more into a position of dependence on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Firstly, we call for an immediate withdrawal of all Chinese forces from Vietnam to allow negotiations to begin and call on United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to avoid any action or statement that could provoke a further escalation or inhibit the resolution of the conflict. [More…]
He said that it is all the fault of Australia that the Vietnamese are the friends of the Soviet Union because we and the United States have not given support to the Vietnamese and have forced them into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I wonder whether he was referring, amongst other nations, to the Soviet Union where a few days ago elections were held with a strange result- 99.99 per cent of the people voted for the communist candidates! [More…]
He is saying that because the Vietnamese turned to the Soviet Union the United States is one of the bad boys. [More…]
I wonder when that renaissance will happen in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing between four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Regarding the Soviet Union, the Foreign Minister said: [More…]
While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country and while it is increasingly active in relation to the troubled spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
Have we forgotten the problems of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe? [More…]
It is true that later in the war the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and others supplied them with aid. [More…]
Of course, China and the Soviet Union came into this. [More…]
But to me the lesson was this: As far as the Western powers- we could call them that or a loose alliance of the ANZUS powers- are concerned, if we look at it strictly on percentage lines, we are no better off than we would have been if we had not worried about the futile war in Vietnam because by now the ideological rivalries between China and the Soviet Union concerning the land mass of Asia, in particular South Vietnam, would have been apparent. [More…]
Regardless of the momentum of the Soviet Union, what happened in Europe would not have happened if we had not had fascism on the march in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. [More…]
North Korea can be termed as within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s orbit. [More…]
To me the question is not whether the United States, the Soviet Union or China are involved. [More…]
As a National Times article March 6-11,1978, stated: Australia is to play a much more significant role in the strategic weapons plan of the United States, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
This will place Australia in the front line of any nuclear exchange between the US and either the Soviet Union or China . [More…]
When those on the Government side attack the Soviet Union, perhaps they can give some credit to the Soviets because in the crisis which confronted them and us they showed the utmost restraint in the face of great provocation. [More…]
A visiting delegation does not inhibit me in any way, especially when the Leader of that delegation made some very caustic and undiplomatic remarks about the Soviet Union at a national Press conference today. [More…]
I would have thought that the Chinese people would remember that their philosophy is akin to the philosophy of the USSR and it does them little credit to make a continuous attack on the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let me speak of the fear that I felt transmitted to me by people in the Soviet Union when I was there some time ago. [More…]
It seems to me that the action of the Chinese in invading Vietnam was to put that balance in danger, and again I commend the Soviet Union for its restraint in the face of the action of the Chinese against the Vietnamese people. [More…]
On the other hand the Soviet Union did not believe that the Vietnamese could succeed and, as is now history, the United States folded before that last assault and the Vietnamese were victorious. [More…]
It did to the Vietnamese people what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself, which is at the basis of the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to the sudden withdrawal of aid by the Soviet Union from China at a crucial time in China’s development. [More…]
China did to Vietnam exactly what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself. [More…]
It was afraid that the Soviet Union would obtain bases in Vietnam. [More…]
It did not properly understand the Vietnamese people who, as Senator Gietzelt explained, tried their best to disengage from dependence on the Soviet Union and sought an independent position. [More…]
As I have described before, had the Soviet Union not used restraint, had the Soviet Union crossed the northern Chinese border in order to relieve the pressure on Vietnam, of course we would have been engaged in a war of great magnitude. [More…]
I believe that the United States also is engaged in the same dangerous exercise of encouraging China and is taking sides against the Soviet Union. [More…]
For some reason we now seem to think it is to our advantage that China is strongly opposed to the Soviet Union, as a result of which we believe we may be able to engage in some further trade negotiations with China. [More…]
This shock leads to a disturbed state of mind when contemplating a conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
The then Opposition opposed bitterly the de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union, 40 years after the event. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to the report that the Tasmanian President of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union has claimed that child pornography is being printed in Australia using imported printing plates and that the Union has placed bans on all agencies connected with printing and publishing child pornography? [More…]
If it is correct, can he not only take appropriate action to have the practice stopped but also commend the Union for bringing this illegal importation to the notice of the public? [More…]
I have not actually seen the report but certainly I do commend the president of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union for pointing out this fact. [More…]
The legislation is mainly aimed at dealing with the decision of the High Court of Australia in the Union Fidelity case of 1969, in which the High Court yet again frustrated the Parliament’s intentions in attempting to spread the burden of income tax raising equitably throughout the community. [More…]
Senator Wriedt made comments also with regard to union fidelity provisions. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations been informed by the Australian delegation to the International Labour Organisation in Geneva of a letter from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics addressed to a special ILO committee? [More…]
This committee is investigating alleged violations of ILO Convention 87, which concerns the right to form a union of one’s own choosing. [More…]
The letter from the USSR allegedly warns the special committee against investigating charges that the Government of the USSR has harassed self-proclaimed trade unions and imprisoned their leaders. [More…]
The only official study made of the socio-economic composition of the tertiary student body in Australia was undertaken jointly by the Department of Education and the Australian Union of Students in 1974. [More…]
A number of specific criticisms and proposals for reform of the scheme were advanced by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
We have no acceptance of the Australian Union of Students recommendations seeking an assistance level above the poverty line and we have no implementation of the recommendations of the Senate committee’s report. [More…]
That will leave about 45,000 tonnes to be spread around fairly thin markets in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South-east Asia, with perhaps some sales to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Mr W. Nankivell, M.P., member for Mallee; Mr N. Alexandrides, State Secretary, Australian Railways Union; Mr R. Matthews, State Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen; Mr B. Busch, State Secretary, Australian Transport Officers Association; Mr Grant Andrews, State Secretary, United Farmers and Graziers; and Mr Talmac Research Officer of the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
I refer to a report contained in the Murray Valley Standard of 15 February 1979, which indicates how the local Australian Railway Union members at Tailem Bend held up the Mount Gambier passenger train and removed from their bunks many of the railway commissioners to have a meeting on the platform there. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, being an old railway man, you will know that in the early days of the Australian Railways Union organisers had to travel around the country on motorbikes. [More…]
No doubt they have expressed their concern also to Senator Bishop, as an ex-official of the union. [More…]
I know that he too is concerned to see that conditions for railway men which he helped to build up over the years when he was a union organiser are now going to be taken away. [More…]
The next item on the Notice Paper deals with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I remind the Senate of the significance both to human rights within the Soviet Union and to world peace and prosperity of this particular issue and these particular men. [More…]
Since the conclusion of the Belgrade conference, ten members of Helsinki monitoring groups operating in the Soviet Union have been put on trial, on various charges including malicious hooliganism, anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and treason. [More…]
Indeed, one recalls the many thousands of people who have been subjected to loss of human rights simply because they chose to note or attempted to note the infringements by the Soviet Union of human rights. [More…]
In addition, other human rights violations occur against those who are attempting to ensure their rights as free trade unionists- a matter which is close to my field of activity. [More…]
I drew attention to the fact that in early 1978 attempts by Soviet workers to organise themselves into trade unions free from control of the state had been met by severe repressive measures by the Soviet Government. [More…]
Indeed, in 1977 at the ILO conference the committee of experts in its report on the application of conventions and recommendations expressed its reservations concerning the freedom of workers in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to organise as provided by ILO Convention No. [More…]
The committee of experts had requested the Soviet Union to give further consideration to its report as a prelude to the matter again coming before the ILO. [More…]
The Soviet Union has warned the International Labor Organisation against investigating charges that it has harassed self-proclaimed trade unions and it imprisoned their leaders. [More…]
The nine-member ILO committee on freedom of association meets regularly to consider alleged violations against the ILO Convention 87, which concerns the right to form a union of one ‘s own choosing. [More…]
Its report recommends that the Soviet Government be asked about ‘allegations that it would be legally impossible to establish in the USSR a trade union independent of the State and the party’. [More…]
It also recommends asking for information on the whereabouts of five founding members of the union of Free Soviet Workers whose formation was announced in Moscow at the beginning of last year. [More…]
Two international trade union organisations- the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL)- have alleged that the Soviet Government had disbanded the organisation and gaoled its leaders. [More…]
One recalls the statement made by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that ‘in our country since the revolution there has never been such a thing as a free trade union’. [More…]
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence SubCommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union which was chaired by Senator John Wheeldon had before it on 14 April 1978 a person named Leonid Plyushch. [More…]
He gave evidence to the SubCommittee concerning the formation of trade unions. [More…]
Workers have formed an independent trade union but the initiators have already been arrested. [More…]
I consider a political campaign for the rights of trade unions independent of the Soviet Government to be one of the chief priorities for the present day. [More…]
One must search for an explanation of the action of the Soviet Union in breaching those agreements by punishing the very people who were grouped together to monitor the implementation of the agreements. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
One can argue one way or the other on whether the Olympic Games will be used by the Soviet Union as Hitler used the Olympic Games in Berlin before the war. [More…]
Indeed, I have pointed out before that the organising secretary of the Moscow Olympic Games appointed by the Soviet Union is one Alexander Gresko In 1971 he was expelled by the British as a KGB operative engaged in unauthorised surveillance. [More…]
The Government has expressed its concern at the action by union members to ban the servicing and refuelling of an MAS aircraft, which is the subject of this question. [More…]
Mr McLaughlin is the President of the Australian Rubgy Union. [More…]
It is well known amongst fishermen that Japan, the Soviet Union and goodness knows who else, but those two countries for sure, have been out in that area over the last decade or 15 years. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent Australian Workers Union survey which revealed that 25 per cent of respondents complained of nausea, dizziness, headaches and more serious illnesses which may be related to their exposure to 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Federal Government is effectively providing a large proportion of the income of every tertiary student union in Australia, including the Australian Union of Students, through the payment of the incidentals allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme? [More…]
The practices of disinformation and the practices engaged in by the Soviet Union and by any other number of countries involved in the question of disinformation have to be kept actively under consideration. [More…]
Certainly the integrity of our social institutions in educational, union, family, business, entertainment, government, judicial, executive and other areas, is best protected by persons of goodwill acting in concert to prevent these institutions being undermined. [More…]
The inserts have also been forwarded to pensioners who receive payment by way of direct deposit to a bank, a building society or a credit union. [More…]
I understand that the President of the Australian Union of Students has indicated that AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd cannot continue to trade in a financially viable way. [More…]
Is he aware of a submission that has been made to the Minister for the Capital Territory by the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union regarding this matter? [More…]
I declared my 3 1 shares in the trade union hire purchase organisation in South Australia. [More…]
In relation to such bodies as the Joint Coal Board and the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority, the unions involved find the reports invaluable. [More…]
People who have access to such reports which often take a long time to percolate through from federal trade union officers are better able to come to grips with the causes of those matters in dispute. [More…]
The Committee of Inquiry was chaired by Professor Bruce Williams, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, and its membership included: Mr M. H. Bone, the former DirectorGeneral of the Department of Further Education in South Australia; Mr C. O. Dolan, the National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Senior Vice President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the National Training Council; Dr A. M. Fraser, the Director of the Queensland Institute of Technology, a member of the Advanced Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education; Miss Pauline Griffin, an Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner, and a member of the Council of the Australian National University; Miss E. M. Guthrie, a Regional Director of Education in the New South Wales Department of Education; Mr J. [More…]
I pointed out that this sort of situation had arisen because, firstly, there is a relatively small number of people in this situation compared with the large number of people who are being paid superannuation as a result of, say, retirement from the Commonwealth Public Service and, secondly, the people come from many different areas in the Public Service, are covered by many different unions, and come from many different geographical areas, and therefore they are not organised, are not combined and cannot put their case as strongly as they could if they were members of one large union. [More…]
A resumed Conference was held on 18 August 1978 in Sydney to discuss the two reports but the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) did not attend having already indicated its rejection of the report by Mr Miller and also its intention not to regard itself as bound by the agreement as from 3 1 August 1978. [More…]
Representatives from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) did attend and they agreed to report on proceedings to the AMIEU. [More…]
This initiative was also announced at the Conference and the AMIEU was twice offered, by way of letter, representation without preconditions but, unfortunately, the officers of the Union declined to participate. [More…]
If so, why is it that he or his predecessors have repeatedly rejected requests from the Transport Workers Union of Australia for air-conditioners to be installed in motor vehicles on the ground that comfort has to be considered against cost? [More…]
Of course, it was in justification of that premise that we backed off from what was happening in Timor and have refused to become involved in other areas of conflict, whether in relation to trade union matters in Malaysia or whatever. [More…]
At that time I was the chairman of the poultry section of the Australian Primary Producers Union, which had a section at Murray Bridge. [More…]
Most of the eggs from my district went either to Farmers Union or to Red Comb, but to the surprise of the producers they received returns from other agents. [More…]
In a brief statement relating to the recent annual meeting of Murray Bridge branch of the APPU the State secretary (Mr C. T. Slee) said it was the present policy of the union at both Federal and State level to support the orderly marketing of primary products. [More…]
Following the no-confidence motion in respect to the Murray Bridge Poultry Section, he had investigated minute books and attendance book of both the branch and poultry section and had not been able to find anything inconsistent with union rules in the activities of the Murray Bridge Poultry Section. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Treasurer to the recent interest shown by the Storemen and Packers Union in Victoria and other trade unions in superannuation funds of private companies. [More…]
I refer to the trade unions’ moves to take over control of the management of those funds. [More…]
Is it a fact that wage increases beyond indexation guidelines are being keenly sought by trade union leaders? [More…]
If trade union leaders were successful in obtaining managerial control of private superannuation funds, would this not place them in an intolerable position of conflicting interest in undertaking their duties as trustees, which could lead to litigation against them personally by retired persons whose benefits could not be adequately maintained against high inflation caused by other activities of the union leaders? [More…]
I am aware of certain activities by the Storemen and Packers Union in Victoria in particular. [More…]
The best thing that trade unions, in fact all Australians, can do at the moment is to work together to keep all costs within such control that inflation continues to come down. [More…]
If one is old enough and has been sufficiently involved in politics over the last 20 to 30 years one will recall the scorn and propaganda that was churned out daily at the height of the Cold War by all sorts of people in Australia and in the so-called free world generally about the problems of the people of the Soviet Union with the terrible organisation known as the KGB. [More…]
To use just one example why governments should be a little more sceptical about setting up such secret organisations, I refer to the three British agentsBurgess, McLean and Philby- who worked for years in British security and used that organisation to feed information about Great Britain back to their masters, allegedly in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Pollett was not there because he was a militant trade union boilermaker but because he was trying to justify the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty. [More…]
The people concerned certainly were radical but they had excellent trade union records. [More…]
I am putting it to the Attorney-General: If the Tribunal consists of nine members, I would like one third of that membership to be selected from the trade unions and ethnic communities. [More…]
I am not as extreme as some of my colleagues, but I have heard people ask who were ASIO’s trade union informers in those days. [More…]
Let us say the he got his money mixed up with union money. [More…]
All I can say is that I am sure that he would give a lurid report on the terrible motives of some of the moderate trade union officials in Sydney if they exposed his weakness. [More…]
Disinformation’ is the anglicisation of a Russian word ‘Dezinformatsiya’, first used in the Soviet Union in the nineteen twenties. [More…]
In the 1950s and 1960s the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was hellbent on spying on, say, a Labor member of the Waterside Workers Union who might be seen talking in a hotel with a communist official of the Seamen’s Union because the two unions had a matter together before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in respect of a wage determination; and the fact that those two were seen talking would be reported on their files while all these right wing extremists were being allowed to go scot-free But, as I have said, we owe a debt of gratitude to our erstwhile colleage, former Senator Murphy, for some of the actions that he took in this regard. [More…]
On 6 February 1979 the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union wrote to the three employees who were alleged to have been in breach. [More…]
The union attached to the letter a copy of the rule and a copy of the signed charge dated 6 November 1978. [More…]
The union letter set out the charge in the following terms: [More…]
The charge states that you did work whilst members of the union were in dispute in support of the union’s campaign for a new plumbers Federal award. [More…]
I ask the Senate to note that the charge is that the men worked while the union was in dispute. [More…]
The union ‘s letters of 6 February to the three men involved stated that at a hearing set down to commence at 7.30 p.m. on 2 1 February 1 979 at Perth Trades Hall all parties would be heard and an opportunity given to those charged to put their cases. [More…]
The union committee of management would then decide on their guilt or otherwise. [More…]
The union hearing took place as indicated and two of the persons charged attended. [More…]
After those who had laid the charge and the two alleged offenders in attendance were heard, the union committee of management undertook to communicate its findings to the accused in writing in due course. [More…]
The union conveyed its decision in a letter dated 23 February 1979. [More…]
Furthermore, the union imposed a fine of $200 each, as well as a threat that similar future action could lead to more severe penalties. [More…]
that they knowingly worked and broke picket lines against the decision of the Union and having pleaded guilty to all those charges, the Committee of Management of the Union finds . [More…]
guilty of refusing to cany out decisions of the West Australian Branch of the Union and imposes therefore a fine of two hundred dollars ($200) against each of the three named members under the provisions of Rule 1 3 of the Union Rules. [More…]
Defendants are reminded of their rights of appeal to a General Meeting of the Branch, to the Federal Executive of the Union or to the Council of the Union. [More…]
One of the accused had this to say, as best he was able to express it, concerning the circumstances prevailing when the alleged breach of union rules took place before the kangaroo court hearings to which I have referred: [More…]
The charge is that I worked during a dispute in which the Union was involved, a dispute that had been applied by the Executive of the Plumbers’ Union to support a new Plumbers ‘ Award in Western Australia. [More…]
I did nothing more than probably a 100 or so members of this Union did during that period. [More…]
The only trouble was that the work that I was on was selected by the Union to be the point where its campaign would be made felt. [More…]
It was a joke around the members that the Union’s black bans were being worked through and we were under no illusion that the work was in fact going on. [More…]
There were cases like the Art Gallery and Fremantle Hospital as well as many others where bans were worked through and I would be very surprised if the Union Officials did not know that that was going on. [More…]
I think we are being made to carry the blame for a campaign that the Union conducted which did not work and we are being singled out when many other people should be made to carry the responsibility for what went on. [More…]
It was in the newspaper that the Commissioner involved in the exercise said that no one was to be disadvantaged or victimised by anyone and that was the reason he made the awards he made, the reason he forced employers and the Unions to give in from where the positions they are in. [More…]
This Commissioner said and it was in the paper that he would protect everyone from victimisation and I can’t understand why the Union would carry on with its prosecution when the Commissioner stated that it wasn’t on. [More…]
If they have done so they are trying to get me thrown out of the Union and they have acted to do that. [More…]
I think that the charge should not go ahead, I think that it would damage this Union. [More…]
Different Union officials said different things at different times and moved the bans. [More…]
When the Union Secretary said there was bans on everything yet the work was continuing around the place and everyone knew so how can you single me out? [More…]
Of course, it did not impress the union hierarchy. [More…]
In fact, all but two of his fellow unionists in Perth were confused to the extent that they continued to work, bans or no bans. [More…]
I base that comment on the fact that only three were charged by the union. [More…]
Is a confused union executive able to excuse that union’s own inadequacies by making scapegoats out of decent Australian workers? [More…]
Presumably, if the victims of this abominable exercise elect not to appeal and do not pay their fines, further action by the union is contemplated. [More…]
Will the unions sue for recovery of the debt? [More…]
Will the union expel them. [More…]
The noble genesis of the union movement is no longer in evidence. [More…]
Compulsory unionism is with us in the form of blatant compulsion or is camouflaged under the cloak of preference at the point of employment, or by intimidation of waiverers or by rendering ineffective conscientious or other objection by an obligation on claimants to show cause why they should be allowed the privilege of freedom of voluntary association. [More…]
He has an appalling ignorance of the trade union movement. [More…]
If a person joins a union, in doing so he is well aware of the rules. [More…]
I do not care which union it is. [More…]
A member of that union has the opportunity to defend himself. [More…]
But I do know the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
It always has been an upstanding union. [More…]
It may be that some of the members of that union worked during the strike. [More…]
Union employees who worked at hospitals were mentioned. [More…]
If honourable senators knew anything about the union they would realise that during a strike it makes allowances for its members who work at hospitals and for ambulance drivers and a whole host of other people. [More…]
The union makes pretty clear which people will be exempt from taking part in a particular strike action or action of that kind. [More…]
I say that if he would guide his children along the standards set by the trade union movement they won’t go far wrong. [More…]
He would have made contact with members of the trade union movement and asked them what it was all about and then judged the case. [More…]
I dare say that the honourable senator never once contacted the Plumbers Union in Western Australia. [More…]
He always makes an attack on the union in some way or another, the same as his colleague sitting next to him. [More…]
He should go along to the Plumbers Union in Western Australia and find out the other side of the story and then come back and speak during the adjournment debate. [More…]
Whilst Senator Rocher may be excused for displaying his lack of capabilities early in his time in this Parliament, there has never before been anything so lamentable as the complete lack of capability he showed tonight in speaking on the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable senator took objection to charges that have been made against members of a union. [More…]
He had incorporated in Hansard the rules of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
They give the union power to try members for breach of the rules of the organisation. [More…]
For an incompetent politician to victimise these heroic people whom he will not even name in the Parliament shows a lack of knowledge of the trade union movement. [More…]
A scab is a person who defies his organisation or his union that exists for only one reason- to better the conditions of the members of that organisation. [More…]
We say that the actions of the union have been upheld. [More…]
They cannot complain about what the union has done if they knew that they were supposed to go out on strike. [More…]
Is this a matter of which the trade union movement should be ashamed? [More…]
What union fighting for improved conditions for its members wants such scum in its organisation? [More…]
Has the Minister noticed the growing interest in superannuation policies, particularly among trade union organisations which see the need for early retirement schemes because of the challenge of technological change, and also, most recently, the growing interest in other industrial matters, questions about which have been directed to the Minister? [More…]
by leave- In tabling the report of the Australian delegation to the InterParliamentary Union meetings for 1978, 1 would like to say first of all that the delegation is grateful to the respective national groups of the InterParliamentary Union of Portugal and the Federal Republic of Germany, the host groups for the Spring meetings in March-April and the 65th Conference in Bonn in September. [More…]
This report makes the point that the InterParliamentary Union is the only world-wide organisation for parliaments and is therefore a major forum where parliamentarians can meet and debate world problems. [More…]
by leave- As the other Senate member of the Australian delegation attending the meetings of the InterParliamentary Union in 1978, I totally support everything that Senator Douglas McClelland said about the report of the delegation. [More…]
The InterParliamentary Union provides a major meeting place for parliamentarians of the world. [More…]
To be sure, the Soviet Union has the capability to attempt the invasion of virtually any country in the world, as for that matter does the United States. [More…]
If one were allowed flights into fancy sufficient to conjure up a world in which no-one else existed but the Soviet Union and one other country, it would require no brilliant insight to demonstrate that the Soviet Union possesses overwhelming conventional military power visavis any one of a hundred or more potential victims. [More…]
Not being a radical who wanted to pull all the workers off the job, we called a conference of all building trade unions to see what could be done. [More…]
It was attended by the Building Trades Federation of Victoria, which took a leading part, the Building Trade Union of South Australia and all federal building trade unions. [More…]
As the Building Trades Federation of Victoria had carried a resolution at some time that it should ban the construction of the Woomera Rocket Range and as I, a poor, innocent secretary in South Australia, expressed support for the resolution, no Victorian building trade union official, or I, was permitted to go to Woomera. [More…]
I do not know that any of the plans have turned up yet in the Soviet Union or any other country that opposes us. [More…]
What is sacred about dissidents in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Both the Western European community, in the Council of Europe Convention in 1968, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with bilateral arrangements with its Eastern European allies in the late and mid 1950s, have demonstrated considerable willingness to forego their claims on former nationals who wish to voluntarily renounce the nationality concerned. [More…]
Many Spanish teenage refugees were taken by Latin American countries- probably countries like Mexico- and the Soviet Union. [More…]
When these teenagers had been in the Soviet Union for five years Franco decided that they were to be struck off the books and were not to be recognised as being of Spanish origin no matter what happened. [More…]
Soviet Union type of government. [More…]
The girl who I had in mind left Spain and went to the Soviet Union. [More…]
She was 16 years of age or a bit younger when she left the Soviet Union for Chile. [More…]
The Soviet Union regarded her more or less as being born of non-Soviet citizens. [More…]
By 1976, however, the International Whaling Commission meetings in London saw Australia and South Africa supporting the whaling nations of Japan and the Soviet Union in obtaining higher quotas. [More…]
Will he be followed up for masquerading as Flynn of the Australian Railways Union to obtain that passport? [More…]
This goes to the heart of the problem; that is, unions taking industrial action of one kind or another prior to or during a hearing of their claims by the responsible tribunal. [More…]
Proper procedures are always available and it is both unreasonable and irresponsible for any union to behave in this way. [More…]
Furthermore, it will be submitting to the Commission that it not proceed to hear the unions ‘ arguments while direct industrial action is continuing or order a secret ballot to determine union members’ attitudes to the industrial action being pursued where that is considered appropriate. [More…]
The Government will encourage State governments involved or affected, other employer interests affected and other unions whose members may be affected by the industrial action to lend their support to return to normal work. [More…]
It must be demonstrated to the unions that their cause will not be advanced by industrial disruption. [More…]
As already announced in the case of the Transport Workers Union, the Government will consider applying for the deregistration of a union engaged in action which interferes with interstate or overseas trade and commerce or the provision of the public service by the Commonwealth or the State. [More…]
In relation to the TWU, reports in this morning’s press that the Government has halted proceedings relating to the deregistration of the transport workers union are false. [More…]
There is also a major industrial dispute in the paint industry, which involves the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
It has all been introduced into the Senate in an atmosphere of high drama because of some industrial dispute which has always in reality been solved by the intervention of Bob Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
That is where Mr Hawke comes into the Transport Workers Union dispute. [More…]
The statement deals with the Transport Workers Union dispute. [More…]
What does the Government hope to achieve by its threat to deregister the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
I would bet them any money they like that ultimately the Transport Workers Union will not be deregistered. [More…]
If the Union is deregistered the Government will have more disputes on its hands than it could possibly imagine. [More…]
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a Marxist party which is a voluntary union of people who actively work to achieve a revolutionary transformation of Australia and the establishment of a socialist, independent Australian republic. [More…]
If it had not been for the Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union, the union that represented those people who were killed and which raised $90,000 through an appeal in Sydney, the families of the people who were the subject of that bombing outrage would be in a much more difficult situation today. [More…]
I have already mentioned that there is reason to believe that there has been wastage and political bias in intelligence gathering- the most obvious example being the continuous allegation of ASIO activity in the trade union movement and the revelation during the Salisbury Royal Commission in South Australia that ASIO had actually provided money and manpower to the South Australian Special Branch to spy on members of the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party, none of whom could by any reasonable standard be considered security risks. [More…]
There are some Indonesian craft which were provided by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, equipped for the Styx surface-to-surface missile. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations: Has the Government examined the recommendations made by the Federal Executive of the Transport Workers Union in the context of the current industrial dispute? [More…]
Is the Government aware of the results of meetings held today by the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
In the light of those two matters- if the Goverment is aware of either or both of them- and in the light of previous statements, what action does the Government now propose about deregistration of the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
I am aware of the result of the meeting of the Transport Workers Union today and I presume that my colleague the Minister for Industrial Relations is fully aware of it and has further examined any recommendations that have been made. [More…]
Did a committee from the Housing Commission of New South Wales, the Office of Child Care, the Kindergarten Union and the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services report to the Minister in December 1977 that there was no significant unmet need for long day care in the New South Wales suburbs and areas of Glebe, Airds, Macquarie Fields, Lethbridge Park, Hebersham, Shalvey or Windale? [More…]
I recall that a working party was established in 1977 with the Kindergarten Union to look at the way in which we may be able to assist the Union in programs of pre-school education in a number of areas in New South Wales. [More…]
The working party was established by us to offer assistance to the Kindergarten Union because of the level of fees that it was concerned it would need to charge low income families for pre-school education. [More…]
I am advised that the working party concluded that whilst there may well be a need in many areas for other children’s services, such as neighbourhood centres which can provide a range of services including a minimal amount of full day care, the question to be decided by that committee was whether the Kindergarten Union could convert any of its pre-schools into full day care centres. [More…]
In the event it was decided that it would be preferable for the Kindergarten Union to continue to operate the pre-schools. [More…]
The Minister for Science and the Environment told me that it was a case of taking the middle ground and trying to blunt the thrust of the Soviet Union and Japan which wished to maximise their operations. [More…]
45 Inter-Parliamentary Union- Sofia Conference 1977- Paper. [More…]
89 Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms Industrial Dispute- Statement by President 91 Trade Union Training Authority- Annual Report 1976- 77-Paper. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions represents the great bulk of the Australian work force. [More…]
It is possible, in fact it is more likely to be possible than probable, that certain situations will develop in time which will put the Australian Council of Trade Unions, as the titular head of the trade union movement, in conflict with the policies of the government of the day, particularly in an area of some industrial disputation. [More…]
The Government is saying in this legislation that because the constitution of the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions involves a change of society, every member who is associated with that organisation, whether at the level of the executive or any of its affiliate bodies, at any time- it may be today- can be placed under surveillance by ASIO. [More…]
We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of paid officials of trade unions. [More…]
We are talking about thousands and thousands of officials who are stewards or who hold executive positions in organisations and who may at some point be called on to challenge a particular piece of legislation or be involved in a type of political activity which may be regarded as an unlawful act by this Government in all of the punitive legislation which it has brought down in respect of the trade union movement. [More…]
Therefore the Government is saying that any person who is a trade unionist may be held under surveillance because in the opinion of the ASIO officer the person may ultimately be involved in a challenge to the constitutional or elected government or may be involved in an unlawful act. [More…]
I reject totally the quite unwarranted accusation by Senator Gietzelt against the trade union movement of this country that it ought to be exposed to the surveillance of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
That is an unwarranted accusation and the legitimate trade union movement would reject it out of hand. [More…]
He said that Senator Gietzelt made some accusation against the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Harradine said that the normal activities that the trade union movement carries on, and of which Senator Harradine is proud, come under the jurisdiction of clause 5 of this Bill. [More…]
One can just see Bob Hawke, in an emotional speech to a mass meeting of Transport Workers Union employees, saying: ‘This Government you have in Canberra only wants a confrontation. [More…]
I do not think that many of them or many of the members of the Transport Workers Union who are on strike would vote to retain the constitutional government federally. [More…]
If Bob Hawke or anyone else from the trade union movement inflames the members of the Transport Workers Union into committing an act of violenceinterference by the Federal Government could well lead to violence- which may have the purpose of overthrowing the government or at least turning people against it, he will come under surveillance. [More…]
So too- and this is a point that perhaps Senator Harradine, given his earlier contribution will bear in mind particularly- it seems to the Opposition that this part of paragraph (b) has a potentially enormous application insofar as the trade unions of this country are concerned. [More…]
A simple strike which might result in delaying the supply of spare parts to a naval or army base could, in the view of the Opposition, be construed as amounting to just that kind of hindrance or obstruction to or interference with the Army that potentially would subject that union to all of the surveillance apparatus that is envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
If the Transport Workers Union of Australia, as part of industrial action specifically designed to bring pressure on the Government, held up the delivery of, amongst other things, pieces of machinery to the naval dockyard in Sydney, would this amount to a significant interference with the functioning of the Defence Force? [More…]
For example, I refer to some of the disputes in which the Transport Workers Union of Australia has been involved concerning the supply of petrol. [More…]
However, the New South Wales branch of the Transport Workers Union is vitally concerned that industrial action that it has taken in the past could now be classed under this clause as subversion. [More…]
It is a responsible union and it wants to know the answer to the question that I have posed. [More…]
The industrial action that I talked about which has been taken by the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales in the past has not been classified as subversive and it wants to know whether it will be classified as subversive under this clause. [More…]
Following on from Senator Sibraa ‘s question I would like to know: If the Army were called in to solve an industrial dispute and to maintain continuity of supply in an important area where members of a trade union object and picket and frustrate the armed Services, would that bring the union under the surveillance of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation? [More…]
If the union involved decided to frustrate that action in some way would that union come under the surveillance of security under this legislation? [More…]
If we take the proper literary and grammatical interpretation of this clause we must come to the conclusion, as Senator Sibraa indicated, that unions, for example, can be accused of engaging in subversive activities. [More…]
For example, the Transport Workers Union might decide that because it cannot obtain a wage increase for its members it will stop the fitting out of a naval boat at Garden Island or some other naval port. [More…]
Without the assistance of the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) to say whether our interpretation is right or wrong, we have come to the conclusion that such an activity would bring members of unions within the ambit of clause 5(D(b). [More…]
Again in 1958, which can only be described as a particularly bad year for the nuclear industry, in the Ural Mountains in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - [More…]
From the union point of view I suppose that those demands are not unreasonable. [More…]
He was a trade union official who was doing his job. [More…]
Union officials who represent people working in places where military work is being done, such as Garden Island or the government aircraft factories, would want access to those places. [More…]
What would happen if a union official wished to change his employment and the Director-General of ASIO then reported to his prospective employer? [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement has experienced a great deal of anxiety in the past because of ASIO. [More…]
I refer to statements made by the Victorian Premier that if re-elected a Victorian Liberal government would legislate for secret ballots to be held at union meetings considering strike action. [More…]
The Minister will doubtless be aware of the Bureau of Statistics estimates that more than 50 per cent of all employees in Victoria are employed under Federal awards and that all but four unions in Victoria are registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is it not the case that such Victorian legislation would in effect take over from the Commonwealth Government the responsibility it presently has for the regulation and control of these Federal unions and their meetings? [More…]
Will it sit back and allow the federally registered unions in Victoria to be controlled by a Victorian State government and parliament? [More…]
Yes, no prosecution has been instigated by the Department of Transport, although in 1978 a High Court action was brought against the Department by the Australian Union of Students following the investigation by the Department into the Union’s activities, but the Court found on the action in favour of the Department. [More…]
Some weeks earlier the Australian Workers Union, which is the responsible union, circulated to growers as a service and as was its practice a memorandum of the obligations of growers under the fruitgrowing industry award, as it is generally called. [More…]
Indeed, 95 per cent of growers are quite happy to deduct union dues from employees’ wage packets. [More…]
Was it hoped that the north-west growers would succumb quickly in order to ensure a smooth passage through the season so that the IRB could confront growers, employees and the union in the other areas of Tasmania with a fait accompli? [More…]
Unfortunately, the target of the IRB operation- the Australian Workers Union in Tasmania- proved to be too well known to the Tasmanian public for its integrity, its fairmindedness and its genuine concern that there be employment in the orcharding industry not only this year but also in years to come, and too well known for the respect that it had obtained on both sides of the industry, to be a target that would fall to this operation mounted by the IRB. [More…]
Anyone who knows anything about industrial relations in Tasmania, and no doubt elsewhere, will know that the personalities and attitudes of union officials as they become known over the years are very important to the harmony of any industrial situation. [More…]
Was it designed to weaken the support which the union had amongst employees in the industry so that membership might fall away with all the consequences that has and all the ramifications that entails for voting strength on other bodies to which the AWU is affiliated? [More…]
Can there be any other explanation for the IRB adhering obstinately over a period of almost three weeks to a misinterpretation and misapplication of a clause of the award which made it appear that the union was remiss in not pressing for the extra 14c per hour which is allegedly payable under the award? [More…]
In short, I believe that two or three weeks ago we in Tasmania were confronted with a misguided attempt to create questions on behalf of its members as to the integrity and efficiency of a moderate and well-regarded union- the AWU. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of reports that the Soviet Union has gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate as to the truth of the assertion that the information that the Soviet Union now has concerning the bases renders the bases virtually ineffective? [More…]
I fully endorse the Government’s legislation in setting up the Industrial Relations Bureau and have high hopes for its success in assisting both union members and employers in the area of industrial relations. [More…]
He will realise that I have a view based on experience different from his, which does not blindly accept the proposition that an amalgamation of unions will do away with demarcation disputes. [More…]
1 recall well speaking to a senior official of the United Auto Workers Union some years ago who said that because his organisation covered a large number of classifications there were intraunion demarcation disputes of a quite substantial and difficult character. [More…]
Because they were intraunion demarcation disputes they were more difficult of resolution than had they been interunion demarcation disputes. [More…]
Indeed, it ought to be placed on record that the longest demarcation dispute in the history of industrial organisations in Australia was a dispute between a fitter member of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and a boilermaker member of the same union soon after that body became an amalgamated union. [More…]
Furthermore, I do not think it at all fair to cite the example of last week where, as I understand it, the Waterside Workers Federation pulled the dispute because of its claim to cover certain tradesmen who were members of another union. [More…]
I am subject to correction but I think the union in Sydney was the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
Certainly I would not feel that the other unions, whose industrial record on the wharf has been far better than that of the Waterside Workers Federation, would agree to allowing the Stevedoring Industry Consultative Council the say as to whether a recommendation should be brought to the Government that those organisations ought to be amalgamated into the one organisation, namely, the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Not the least of the reasons why these unions would not agree to that is that they are not represented on the Stevedoring Industry Consultative Council. [More…]
I, for one, and I am sure the primary producers of this country, would not like to see a monopoly situation develop on the wharf either from the employers side or from the union side. [More…]
If one says unions should be amalgamated on the basis of an industry then one is saying that everyone in the railways should be a member of the Australian Railways [More…]
Union. [More…]
I am sure that the members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in the railway workshops would not go along with that proposition. [More…]
If the proposition is that there be amalgamation of unions in the one industry then there would be one union for the railways, one union for the vehicle industry and one union for the stevedoring industry. [More…]
Obviously, in this case it would not be impossible that the individual’s trade union would want to do something about the matter, and that would lead us into the question of who would be on the tribunal. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education seen the Press report that the Australian Union of Students has launched a national appeal for part time work for students? [More…]
The Australian Workers Union, recognising these difficulties some years ago when it was an affiliate of the TTLC approached the TTLC to obtain a fruit industry agreement. [More…]
One of these things, of course, involved the question of union membership and the deduction of union dues. [More…]
It is part of the inspectorate but the problem is that it is now part of the Industrial Relations Bureau with all that means to both the trades union movement and to employers. [More…]
) and (2) Along with some150 nations of the world, Australia is a member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and as such is bound to observe the International Telecommunications Convention (MalagaTorremolinos 1973). [More…]
Soviet Union) and the Middle East (incl. [More…]
Is it true that this morning the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union announced that railway workers in Victoria and South Australia would stop work indefinitely from midnight tonight and that workers in Tasmania would stop work from 4 p.m. today? [More…]
Have negotiations concerning the claims by members of the Australian Railways Union been under consideration for some weeks? [More…]
The transport union leaders announced this morning that there would be an indefinite stoppage of government-run public transport in Victoria and of the Australian National Railways Commission in South Australia commencing at midnight tonight. [More…]
The unions are seeking a $10 a week wage increase. [More…]
Subsequently, unions representing employees in other States sought an increase and Commissioner Walker sought to incorporate a $6 allowance into the award. [More…]
The action of the union in seeking a $10 a week increase followed an announcement last week that the matter would be brought before an anomolies conference of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government will approach the Full Bench on the resumption of the national wage case hearing seeking an adjournment of the current wage indexation hearing because of the industrial action taken by railway unions. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government will be supported by the Victorian Government in seeking this adjournment should the Australian Council of Trade Unions be unable to halt the planned stoppages. [More…]
The listening device would provide not only information from my conversation but also the domestic talk on work, companionship and information on trade union activity related by everyone who assembles in a corner of the bar. [More…]
The premises may be a meeting place for unionists. [More…]
However it is more likely that the place to be bugged is a hotel bar or, if a member of a particular union is under surveillance, the place where union meetings take place. [More…]
It could be the union office because a member may attend there. [More…]
We certainly would not wish to see the sort of situation develop to which Senator Cavanagh referred, that is, a listening device being placed at the two pubs near the Trades Hall in Sydney to record the internal conversations of members of an executive of a particular union in order to get at one union official who it is felt should come under the net because he is involved in subversion. [More…]
In that context I ask the Minister when the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union, particularly its oil refinery workers, can be freed from the present attempt to dragoon it into coming under the jurisdiction of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission when it has had excellent relations with the State Industrial Commission of New South Wales. [More…]
When does the Minister expect to have a report from Sir John Moore, the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, which may devise a formula which will give freedom of choice to trade unions which desire to remain in the various State industrial tribunals? [More…]
I refer to the deplorable ban by the Victorian Teachers Union on its primary teacher members not to supervise student teachers in the classroom because the allowances paid to student teachers are not as high as those paid to secondary teachers. [More…]
I refer Senator Hamer, for contemporary and up-to-date data on income distribution, to a very admirable publication recently put out by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union entitled Australia Ripped Off’ which collates a number of statistics, all from official sources such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and other reputable data-gathering bodies in this country. [More…]
If one wanted to be objective one could blame the trade union leaders for rejecting it and for being suspicious of it. [More…]
One could blame the employers for being so recalcitrant in even accepting it and thinking that this was just another way the unions were trying to screw them. [More…]
Finally the management of that company called a meeting, not of the trade union leaders but of all the workforce, and said: ‘We are in trouble. [More…]
If there is any organisation in Australia from which we can obtain knowledge on workers participation, it is the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
Possibly the only representative in the Senate from the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights Union, Senator Mcintosh, also wanted to make a contribution to this debate. [More…]
As a result of his inability to contribute, we will possibly never know the future desires or the participation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
However, with their concurrence I intended and expected to have a reasonable hearing on clauses 39 and 41 as there is a tremendous interest by the trade union movement and ethnic communities in the structure of the Security Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
Many trade union leaders have suffered unduly as a result. [More…]
The trade union movement has fought hard and bitterly in the past to overcome the disadvantages created for them by security organisations in many countries. [More…]
If the Government thinks that the trade union movement will accept this provision lying down, it has another think coming. [More…]
The trade union movement has suffered in the past. [More…]
The trade union movement fought for many years to get a right such as this written into the ILO convention and the Government’s actions most certainly will be reported to the ILO convention when it meets next month. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]
It has honest differences of opinion with militant people, on their own ethnic causes and trade union causes, who sometimes have to go through an experience similar to Gethsemane to gain citizenship. [More…]
I believe that people such as longstanding trade unionists like Senator Cavanagh would agree with me that, to take an extreme case, we could appoint to the committee a person who purports to be competent to deal with a trade unionist who had been denied promotion, or perhaps a migrant trade unionist without Australian citizenship who had suffered an excessively severe ASIO evaluation, yet if Bob Hawke were asked whether the Australian Council of Trade Unions could find a suitable appointee, I doubt that he would get somebody competent to do the job. [More…]
A person familiar with trade unionism in Melbourne and Sydney would not necessarily know whether a person in the Pilbara area had been a thorn in the side of the mining companies and be able to give a proper evaluation, hence the need for a large panel. [More…]
Whilst we are setting up a centralised tribunal system, this present Government knows that it never tried to centralise trade union training schools; it followed the Clyde Cameron concept of regional organisation. [More…]
I know that in New South Wales when we were dealing with the housing commission applicants, in order to obtain a proper citizenship review we would have somebody from the Country Womens Association, somebody from a major trade union in that area, and that general type of representation. [More…]
I take a hypothetical case.The membership of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union at their mail exchange in Sydney would be very cosmopolitan. [More…]
This would not be an industrial matter for the union, but it would argue that the man would be entitled to permanency. [More…]
This is why I would like to see the maximum possible representation on the Tribunal, from representation of the trade union to representation of the ethnic communities. [More…]
Mr Oliver would agree with me when I say that the Australian Workers Union had a policy under which very few migrants went underground. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators- a man with an alert brain like Senator Puplick would know- that people who adopted an anti-Stalin line, even though they were militant trade unionists, were called by the Communist Party lackeys of the Yanks. [More…]
I know a trade union official of Greek origin in Melbourne who had been a member of the communist party for many years. [More…]
I think he was in my union. [More…]
Similarly, there are situations that occur in a trade union or student organisation. [More…]
This situation is of course true in trade union circles. [More…]
Disclosing to members of a trade union that another officer or official of the trade union was an ASIO agent would attract the provisions of this clause as it now stands. [More…]
We can also ask the question: Are the same dossiers compiled on trade union leaders and trade union members in this country who may be a bit militant? [More…]
Of course, we must have a security force but we want to know how the money is being spent and I want to know in one specific instance whether the former Senator Steele Hall was right when he claimed that ASIO was funding the Special Branch in South Australia to compile dossiers on members of the Australian Labor Party and members of the trade union movement. [More…]
The island in a collective fashion was awarded the George Cross and Maltese have played a very notable part in the trade union field and other areas. [More…]
We expressed the hope that the Soviet Union would make a similar constructive contribution to the peaceful development of the region- a contribution which would be of particular importance because there are areas in which the Soviet Union is not without influence. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser has assured the Greek Community that if a case of family re-union exist that is not problem to bring relatives to Australia. [More…]
I have referred to the episode in the Soviet Union, but we are asking only for a fine to be imposed and paid. [More…]
Is there anything that Australia and other democratic powers can do to prevent this subversion of international organisations by the Soviet Union? [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations aware of the situation which has arisen at the Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Co. Pty Ltd plant at Bell Bay which has resulted in three members of the Federated Ironworkers Association being fined by their union because they failed to take part in a strike? [More…]
Relations Bureau to protect the rights of those union members who have refused to strike? [More…]
The view is held deeply within trade unions, and probably among the public generally, that it is unfair that applications for wage increases should be subject to public scrutiny, to public debate and to strenuous opposition from this Government on almost every occasion that they come before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
There is no doubt that that view is widely held within the trade union movement and probably within the community generally. [More…]
Therefore it follows inescapably that an essential part of any package deal on wages policy, aimed at getting on top of inflation, should not only incorporate some reasonable assurancethat is something which is seen to be a reasonable assurance to the unions- but also that applications for price increases by companies with a great deal of market power should be treated in the same way as are applications for wage increases by the unions. [More…]
The unions must justify their claims in a public forum but companies need not. [More…]
For example, as far as I am aware, there is no provision in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act under which unions can claim that submissions made by them are confidential and are not to be released. [More…]
The examination of union applications for wage increases is much more rigorous and much more public. [More…]
Most responsible union officials agree with the approach that they should go before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission if they are seeking an increase for the members of their union. [More…]
I do not believe that it is consistency, and wage and salary earners and unionists throughout the country do not believe that it is consistency either. [More…]
The third way in which it intended to do that was by introducing the system of secret ballots for union elections and decisions. [More…]
Is he aware of a submission that has been made to the Minister for the Capital Territory by the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union regarding this matter? [More…]
The Minister for the Capital Territory has referred to me a submission made by the ACT branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia concerning this matter. [More…]
In the area of working environment, at least two companies and one union have held discussions with departmental experts on the possibility of setting up 9-day fortnights, and assistance on new factory layout to ensure optimum working conditions has been given to others. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security whether she received a letter from the Darwin Unemployed Workers Union drawing her attention to the shortage of both space and counter staff in the Darwin office of her Department? [More…]
It refers to the herbicide 2,4,5-T. Whilst the Minister will, of course, be aware of Mr Hunt’s statement about research into the herbicide- I understand that she will be making a statement about it today- has she seen the reports of claims by a large number of workers, particularly those working under Australian Workers Union awards, and by ex-servicemen, who have sought the assistance of the Returned Services League in claiming benefits under the Repatriation Act? [More…]
Additionally, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has established near the naval base a limited monitoring station which is capable of intercepting high frequency voice radio. [More…]
He took me back to my younger days in the industrial movement when I had to appear before arbitration tribunals on behalf of union members. [More…]
The dispute concerns a ban by the Victorian Teachers Union on its primary teachers’ supervising student teachers in the classroom because the allowances paid to student teachers are not as high as those paid to secondary teachers. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]
This was discovered by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
1 pointed to the Union Jack and explained it in the proper historical perspective as symbolising the first British settlement in this continent. [More…]
Has the Soviet Union gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia; if so: (a) does the information which the Soviet Union now holds render the bases virtually ineffective; and (b) will this alter in any way the Government’s present longterm attitude to the presence of the bases. [More…]
-I draw the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate to the public utterances by Mr Street to the effect that the Government does not believe in any State registered union being a component of the oil industry. [More…]
Does that view still hold good in the light of the emergence of the Australian Transport Association in the face of objections by transport employers and the Transport Workers Union about a further component in the transport unions? [More…]
If the answer is in the negative, would the Government favour parallel State and Federal registration of the Australian Workers Union in the Federal sphere? [More…]
We know that trade union leaders have their job to do and would be bound to go to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for increases, but at least it would give the Government some credibility when it went to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
It could say: ‘Look, the workers have more real spending money in their pockets, and that is a real case for you not to grant the amount asked for by the trade unions’. [More…]
It is common knowledge that phony agents pick up people in the inner suburbs of Sydney at 7.30 in the morning and take them to jobs which are non-building trade union jobs. [More…]
When this legislation was passed and Mr Linehan and his industrial troubleshooters were appointed we thought that, quite apart from the capacity of trade unions to defend their rights, some of the functions of the Bureau would be to weed out these sorts of people. [More…]
It was impossible for the union to organise these people because of language barriers. [More…]
But I wonder whether the Industrial Relations Bureau has had any talks with the affected union, namely the Builders Labourers Federation, about this sort of cancer in the building industry. [More…]
I notice that the report also refers to trade union irregularities and things like that. [More…]
I want to know what union was complained about and, conversely, what employers were warned. [More…]
My information is that many dry cleaning firms in Sydney have a staff of two or three employees and that there is very little union organisation in the industry. [More…]
It was a prosecution against the Melbourne City Council and and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Apparently it arose from the dismissal of an employee who either would not participate in a strike or who would not join a union. [More…]
As I recall, the defence offered was that the dismissal occurred not because the individual would not do what the union requested but because other unions would not work with him and the duties of the Council could not be carried out. [More…]
The court referred to the particular wording of the section and said that the employer’s responsibility was not related only to the union activity of the person concerned or the lack of it; that other factors came into play and therefore it was obliged to dismiss the action against the employer. [More…]
I believe that, because the union had challenged in another court the validity of the section in question, action against it was not pending. [More…]
Indeed, the Senate and the Parliament may have agreed to the legislation thinking that it had equality of application and might not have done so if it had been known that policing would apply to the trade union movement only. [More…]
I also refer to the fact that a union case is before the High Court at present. [More…]
We cannot deny the possibility that the Bureau will be unable to prosecute an employer for the dismissal of employees, which action may have been brought about by union action. [More…]
The union perhaps could be prosecuted more successfully. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle will be aware that I indulged in considerable dialogue with officers of this Department about the backlog of people- probably trade union activists- who find their citizenship applications in a sort of limbo. [More…]
I think he is in the Miscellaneous Workers Union now. [More…]
My remarks at Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd, India referred specifically to impediments to the export of breeding sheep attributable to trade union policy which may deter purchases by export customers. [More…]
One major power is the People’s Republic of China, which has withdrawn aid, possibly because of Vietnam ‘s dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
I too was in Vietnam in the middle of last year and I saw at first hand the desperate problems which Vietnam faced in seeking to carry out reconstruction programs while still under pressure from Kampuchea and China on its borders, pressures which were being applied in order to wrench Vietnam away from the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Under this pressure from China, because of the conflict between China and Vietnam, which is really a conflict between China and the Soviet Union, many hundreds and thousands of people of Chinese origin began to leave Vietnam. [More…]
About 10 years ago, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, which is an industrial union registered in Queensland, took up a case at my request to endeavour to have award wages paid. [More…]
But the department may be saved by the requirement that government employees must be members of a union to obtain the benefits ofthe award. [More…]
Page 92 of the Hansard record contains evidence given by Mr Hook, the General Manager of Commonwealth Accommodation and Catering Services Ltd, concerning difficulties experienced in the early part of this year with the Liquor Trades Union and its rank and file members. [More…]
It has been the subject of a report which is now with the Liquor Trades Union. [More…]
Division 480.4.02 refers to the provision of a $60,000 contribution to the International Telecommunication Union. [More…]
This item provides for the payment of the Department’s share of Australia ‘s contribution towards the budget of the International Telecommunication Union. [More…]
I believe the first was with regard to the contributions of the International Telecommunications Union. [More…]
What effect would such a proposal have on discussions between the Soviet Union and the United States for a reduction of naval forces in the Indian Ocean region? [More…]
I am reluctant to speculate on the effects that such a proposal might have on the negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning stabilisation of their military presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Government is on record as supporting an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on mutual arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
My remarks at Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd. India referred specifically to impediments to the export of breeding sheep attributable to trade union policy which may deter purchases by export customers. [More…]
Further, will the Government consider encouraging- by legislation if necessaryemployee representation, including relevant trade union representation, on bodies entrusted with employees ‘ superannuation funds? [More…]
I refer to the summary dismissal last Thursday of two airline traffic clerks in Melbourne- Mr Michael Atkinson of TransAustralia Airlines and Mrs Carol Stamp of Ansett Airlines of Australia- both of whom have been involved in organising a new union, the Airline Employees Association. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that these dismissals appear to be blatant and quite intolerable instances of employer intimidation of legitimate trade union activity? [More…]
It is to be hoped that in exactly the same way as governments were motivated to establish and support the Clyde Cameron College, in the belief that people operating in the trade union sector ought to have access to a greater degree of expertise, to greater assistance and to greater resources in order to allow them to fulfil their proper role within the educational and industrial sector, so I am sure that Australian management will benefit from taking a more intelligent and more scientific approach to the role it has to play in the mixed economy. [More…]
As this is the first opportunity for debate on educational matters since the tabling of the Williams report it might be appropriate to say something about the question of university fees, if only to indicate that the comments that have been made, particularly the comments that have been made in the newsletter of the Australian Union of Students and elsewhere that the Williams report is a report which urges the reestablishment of tertiary education fees, are not a correct charge. [More…]
I wish to quote the Queensland Teachers Union idea of what quality of education is, even though those comments refer to the scene in one State. [More…]
In the Union’s submission to the Queensland Treasurer, under the heading [More…]
The Victorian Teachers Union has said that these are just some of the questions for which it is experiencing great difficulty in obtaining answers. [More…]
The Union sent letters to the Minister for Health, Mr Houghton, and the Minister for Special Education, Mr Scanlan, in September of last year. [More…]
The Union has held discussions with the Mental Health Authority and the Minister for Health. [More…]
Union shop stewards do not get too pally with the bosses because if they did that would inhibit their thinking. [More…]
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) [More…]
As I understand it, a new trade union, called the Airways Employees Association, has been formed in the airline industry, essentially as a breakaway of people employed in the airlines who formerly belonged to the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The only common denominator in the sackings appears to have been that the persons sacked have belonged to the new trade union. [More…]
Further, persons who have been sacked have been told by officials of the Federated Clerks Union: ‘That will teach you a lesson not to form a breakaway trade union’. [More…]
For instance, a VicePresident of the Australian Union of Students was reported in the Hobart Mercury of 4 June as having said that education would suffer an $80m cut and that all these matters would have an enormous impact upon students. [More…]
As to Jeremiahs such as the New South Wales Minister for Education, the Tasmanian Minister for Education, the Opposition spokesman on education, the Australian Union of Students and just about anybody else who could get himself into the newspapers or onto the radio, they have all been proven to be manifestly false in their statements. [More…]
They were not the meanderings of some harmless students or some trade union leader. [More…]
In fact, on closer examination of the point of view that FAUSA put, it came down to saying in bald terms that it considered itself to be a trade union and therefore not required to justify advanced cases of a more academic or objective nature when challenged to do so. [More…]
I would not suggest that all members or sections of FAUSA adhere to that point of view but that is what its spokesmen say, and if it is to take that line as a justification in matters such as its concentration on study leave, and claim to be a trade union-type of organisation, it cannot claim to be arbiter on the subject of a general academic view. [More…]
The trade union movement generally has adhered to wage indexation guidelines, in spite of what the Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) have been trying to say from time to time. [More…]
I refer to the campaign being conducted by the Union of Christmas Island Workers to bring the wage levels of non-Australian workers working in the Australian Territory of Christmas Island to levels equal to those payable under equivalent Australian awards. [More…]
I want to pay a tribute to members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union who carry out the maintenance on Qantas aircraft and help this company maintain the highest safety standard of any airline in the world. [More…]
He referred to the summary dismissal on the previous Thursday of two airline traffic clerks in Melbourne- Mr Michael Atkinson of TransAustralia Airlines and Mrs Carol Stamp of Ansett Airlines of Australia- both of whom had been involved in organising a new union, the Airline Employees Association. [More…]
I also point out that Qantas has been pressured by Ansett which seems to have some sort of bias against this Association in favour of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia which over a period of time has incorporated airline employees. [More…]
1 understand that the Association is an industy union. [More…]
Also, I understand that the Federal Clerks Union, which has covered these employees in the past, has not been able to service its airline section as thoroughly as the airline employees would wish it to do. [More…]
This new Association feels that it can do a better on-the-site job than the other union has been able to do. [More…]
Senator Evans went on to say that the dismissals appeared to be a blatant and quite intolerable instance of employer intimidation of legitimate trade union activity. [More…]
Senator Chipp added that the only common denominator in the sackings appeared to be that the persons sacked belonged to a new trade union. [More…]
I would be happyfor Ministers in my government to have consultations with representatives of CAGEO although these consultations should not be used to circumvent the recognised processes for consultation between the Union Movement and the Commonwealth Service which have been established over the years. [More…]
He goes on to stress the importance of communication between the Government and the union movement so that both are able to carry out their functions effectively. [More…]
It is our wish to continue on a joint consultative basis with the union movement. [More…]
I would be happy for Ministers in my government to have consultations with representatives of CAGEO although these consultations should not be used to circumvent the recognised processes for consultation between the Union Movement and the Commonwealth Service which have been established over the years. [More…]
I think it is most important that there be communication between the government and the Union Movement so that both are able to carry out their functions effectively. [More…]
Have honourable senators ever heard of such a trade union principle in their life? [More…]
It has brought a great deal of discredit on the union. [More…]
In the result, the union’s members did not fully support it. [More…]
The union suggested that it was up to SO per cent, and claimed it as a victory. [More…]
On this matter I am indebted to the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Stuart West) who before entering this Parliament was a trade union official with the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
He assisted in forming the redundancy arrangements for that union. [More…]
He played a very important part in winning the redundancy conditions for the union he represented. [More…]
In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]
When union officials talk big and act weak, we call them ‘bar room militants’, although in this case I think one might refer to them as ‘white wine whingers’ or ‘Volvo socialists’. [More…]
Another matter that is of concern to me is the potential for victimisation of honorary trade union officials. [More…]
Already I have heard of a number of cases of union activists being discriminated against or given unfair treatment by management in terms of promotion simply because they were doing their job as union delegates in the interests of their work colleagues. [More…]
However, the potential for getting rid of unwanted union activists by management is there if this legislation is passed unamended. [More…]
I used to work in the white collar section of a municipal employees union. [More…]
One of the union’s big problems, especially in sections where there were a lot of women- exactly the same sort of problem exists in the Public Service- was to get people to act as honorary trade union officials. [More…]
Time and time again I would get someone who worked in a library, a tourist bureau or in the general office capacity of a council to act as an honorary union official. [More…]
However, when the time came for promotions or an examination of whether these people should be regarded, it was amazing how many of the people who had taken on an honorary union position found that they were discriminated against. [More…]
But I am not worried just about union officials. [More…]
The overall transport strategy that this Government follows is revealed in a series of reports recently put out by the Australian Railways Union National Office Research Project into Railways and Transport in Australia. [More…]
I am not knocking defence intelligence as such but, like the trade union movement, the more you have the more friction occurs about who will get the limelight. [More…]
Professor Smythe said a chemical engineer from Union Carbide had said the cost could be less than1ca litre. [More…]
I wish to refer to the plight that is being experienced at present by kindergartens in South Australia and the concern that is being expressed by the Kindergarten Union of South Australia. [More…]
However, this is the last occasion on which I can again make a plea on behalf of the Kindergarten Union of South Australia before the Government brings down its Budget on 21 August. [More…]
On behalf of the Kindergarten Union of South Australia, and no doubt on behalf of all kindergarten unions in Australia which are suffering the same plight, I make the plea to the Government to reconsider its attitude and to make more money available for this very wonderful cause, that is, for preschools in Australia. [More…]
This has placed a great strain on the Kindergarten Union and the people who endeavour, through their own fund raising efforts, to keep pre-schools going in South Australia. [More…]
The South Australian Kindergarten Union is making a plea to the Government to reconsider its attitude. [More…]
I have outlined the problems that are experienced by kindergartens operated through the Kindergarten Union in South Australia. [More…]
Who would want factories with their union problems? [More…]
The Soviet Union has developed a capacity to transfer technology and arms quite rapidly around the world. [More…]
I expect quite naturally that the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union also is likely to realise this and will inevitably apply some sort of squeeze to try to recover the loss of earnings that its members will suffer as a result of there being a lower throughput. [More…]
By some twisted logic there are those who think that recognition would aid the aims and objectives of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Why should we all be applying sanctions when Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union are breaking them, and have been doing so for years? [More…]
In Southern Africa there are critical supplies of strategic minerals, and as I see it there is some urgency to see that those supplies are not added to the reserves of the Soviet Union and denied to the West. [More…]
I merely indicate my concern and the concern of members of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia about the amount of wine that is imported into Australia compared with the amount of Australian wine being exported. [More…]
There has been no consultation with the trade unions about this at all and, if it continues, there will be complete industrial chaos in the hospitality industry. [More…]
The unions will ensure that. [More…]
There has been a union campaign against this situation. [More…]
There are 90,000 members of the Liquor Trades Union throughout Australia. [More…]
In New South Wales, 15,000 members of the Liquor Trades Union have already attended stop work meetings. [More…]
Honourable senators hear a lot from the Government about the fact that unions hold stop work meetings and nobody turns up; only a militant few are able to manipulate union meetings. [More…]
There are people who say that that is a threat, that the union is threatening industrial anarchy. [More…]
The Liquor Trades Union in New South Wales carried out a survey throughout the world. [More…]
I will just mention one particular example, in which the Liquor Trades Union found that the Hyatt hotel in Berlin charged $80, in Hawaii the charge was $60 and in Sydney it is only $45, and yet Sydney was the only place where penalty rates were paid. [More…]
The Liquor Trades Union in New South Wales is gearing itself for a prolonged conflict and for industrial chaos if this campaign continues. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]
I have seen a press report alleging that the Soviet Union has been trading in Rhodesian chrome and tobacco. [More…]
Tests carried out by the Union Carbide Corporation and Mobay Chemical Corporation in the USA have not shown any migration of plastics constituents into the food. [More…]
Is it a fact that some union officials are using their positions as union officials to act as shift brokers to re-roster postal workers at mail exchanges throughout Australia, in particular at Redfern, in return for a financial consideration? [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Post and Telecommunications that there are union officials who act as shift brokers for workers in that industry and that they make some personal profit for making these shift changes. [More…]
If we are to believe what we read about listening devices, it is possible- I am not saying that it happensthat conversations in our homes, in our offices, in the Parliament, in the Cabinet room, in a trade union meeting place, in a student organisation and in political parties could be overheard. [More…]
Forgetting the numbers involved in immigration, from a trade union point of view I might believe that there are supressed trade unionists in Chile, Uruguay and the Argentine and another honourable senator might know of people in another area who are being supressed by a different form of government. [More…]
He has also been Australian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, West Germany and Japan. [More…]
One would not expect that Australia would have the facilities of, say, the United States of America or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
One would not expect Australia to be in a position that the Committee heard about where diplomatic representatives from the Soviet Union visited Tonga or Samoa- I forget for the moment which country it was- and when they arrived there could speak the local language. [More…]
Those sorts of facilities and language training could be indulged in only by super-powers like the Soviet Union or the United States of America. [More…]
I do not believe that any trade union movement, and there should be a trade union movement, should have direct access to a parliamentary committee. [More…]
I simply want to make this appeal in the adjournment debate to the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch), through the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Chaney, about the plight of sections of the New South Wales membership of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
But the fact in relation to Firestone is that several years ago when a former senator, the Honourable Robert Cotton, held high ministerial rank, I took an official, Mr Barney French, the State Secretary of the union, with the concurrence of other federal union officials, to see Senator Cotton. [More…]
I simply say this to Senator Chaney: If I ring him or Mr Lynch on Monday morning, I hope they will be able to receive a very early delegation from the union. [More…]
If representatives of the union telephone either the Minister or preferably Mr Lynch, I hope that next week we will be able to get together to try to resolve the future working careers of the people affected. [More…]
Neither the Soviet Union, Vietnam, nor China- the principals in the dispute- are thought to support the idea. [More…]
I suppose it might also be said that the trade union movement has an active interest in the matter, since I understand the decision given provides that award wages are payable to persons who are parties to the awards, namely, members of trade unions. [More…]
I am not quite sure what the trade union movement is doing in Queensland at the moment with respect to that. [More…]
Increasingly, unrealistic demands were made on world economies, particularly by trade union movements which came to exercise unprecedented power, and it became fashionable to decry growth and to place impediments in its path. [More…]
What these Germans, and Cubans, are doing with the co-operation of the Soviet Union within Africa is not fundamentally different from what the Nazis were doing. [More…]
They are acting militarily to extend the influence of the Soviet Union by the brutal use of armed force, as has been clearly evidenced in, for example, Ethiopia and Eritrea. [More…]
As I may mention in a debate soon to come up, a program issued at the Country Rugby Union Carnival this year in Sydney contained a message from the President of the Country Rugby Union in New South Wales, a Mr Rowlands. [More…]
How many Australian citizens are affected by a law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which became effective on 1 July and which stipulates that anyone with two parents born in countries that now comprise the USSR will be deemed to be Soviet citizens? [More…]
Does the Soviet law have special implications for Australian citizens who come under its provisions and who may wish to visit the Soviet Union? [More…]
I am advised that while the new law is clear in some respects it is obscure in others, and clear-cut answers to some of the questions which are uppermost in the minds of Australian residents who have close connections with the Soviet Union are not yet available. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for instance, is mining every ounce of uranium it possibly can. [More…]
We had the support of a large group of Liberals and we knew that the trade union movement would support a new shipbuilding activity which Mr Killen has now accepted. [More…]
While the Opposition is denying job opportunities to people in South Australia and while it is denying people jobs by constant frustration and constant agitation by the left wing elements within the trade union movement, it asks what the Government is going to do to provide jobs. [More…]
Union delegate, John Nuctor, said that “the young women had told him they refused to have any intimate contact with their husbands because their sweat might radioactively contaminate the linen”. [More…]
Karen Silkwood had gathered evidence on the unsafe working conditions at the plant and was on her way to deliver these to a newspaper reporter and a union official when she died in mysterious circumstances. [More…]
Reports of prisoners dying through atomic radiation from A Shifrin the Director of a centre in the soviet Union that investigates the Concentration Camps and Psychiatric Prisons in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
If he is still not satisfied I ask him to come back to me and I will then talk to him about the Nugget file, which contains excerpts from the United States Government’s special internal file on nuclear power plant accidents and safety defects, as obtained in January 1979 by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act of that country. [More…]
That union of scientists had this to say: [More…]
I thought that this Government had a distinct distrust and dislike for the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet the first or second nuclear agreement we signed for the sale of our uranium was with Finland, which is openly sending its material, our uranium, to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Of course, they cannot because the recent Labor conference in Adelaide pointed out that wages policies could only be carried out with the consent of the trade union movement. [More…]
The policies of the trade union movement are for higher and higher wages regardless of those who do not have jobs. [More…]
It does not want to create new skills to enable people to convert from one industry to another because it upsets the union movement. [More…]
It so happened that a member of the House of Representatives, Mr Daly, who was in the practice of sending all sorts of material to his constituents, supplied one union representative with the Joint Coal Board report. [More…]
When there was a confrontation between the works manager and the union, the fact that the union delegate had the current Joint Coal Board report and was able to argue learnedly upon the quality of coal resulted in the five boiler attendants getting an increase of 7s 6d a week which, as Senator Jim Cavanagh with his vast knowledge of industrial affairs would know, was quite a feat in the middle 1950s. [More…]
Therefore, the quality of a report is to be judged not only by the fact that it has to satisfy honourable senators but also it should be equally useful to an alderman, a wheat farmer or the president of a miners’ lodge who- I say it respectfully- has to wait like a member of any other union, until a report comes from his national office. [More…]
I know that if Senator Davidison were in the chamber he would agree, as would a former trade union colleague of Senator Cavanagh, a very fine South Australian, Senator Clement Ridley. [More…]
In our crusade for a more balanced report about science and technology I have been impressed by the situation in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
As one who is a rather pragmatic trade unionist, I say that there was a time when perhaps academics pursued their own cloistered existence, but it is an indication of the times that over the last 1 5 years we have had a great mingling of the people from our campuses and the proletariat from the trade union movement. [More…]
Both the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and the Electrical Trades Union of Australia have played a very important role in the trade union movement generally, and I always ensure when a report such as this is produced that they receive it very quickly. [More…]
In June this year the Prime Minister announced the Government ‘s preliminary assessment of the inhumane and environmentally damaging aspects of the seal hunt in Canada, Norway and the Soviet Union and he proposed a total ban on all seal products imported into Australia, as well as a ban on the products of all other endangered species. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and I refer to reports of a recently promulgated Soviet law, operative from 1 July 1979, which declares as Soviet citizens all persons born in territories now forming part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as their children. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of a recent refusal by Soviet authorities to grant travel visas to a party of Australians of Latvian origin who wished to visit Riga, the Latvian capital, during a planned visit to the Soviet Union for the Olympic Games? [More…]
Have Union of Soviet Socialist Republics authorities advised the Commonwealth Government on that country’s policy regarding group travel by former nationals to Latvia and other acquired Soviet territory? [More…]
Just as the object of a trade union under existing conditions must finally be nol to improve the technical quality of the work done by its members but to secure a living wage for them, so the object of the medical profession . [More…]
The whole basis for the raising of this matter of public importance today is outlined in Mr Bowen ‘s speech of 28 March this year to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union in Sydney. [More…]
I shall say a few words about the high minimum wages that have been the result of trade union activity over the years. [More…]
Worse than that, they are put out of competition with the unions who are attracting the high minimum wages. [More…]
Today we see much abuse of the union system. [More…]
Most government supporters in the Parliament would agree with me that the principle of unionism is extremely desirable, that it is warranted and necessary, and that its introduction over the years has been good for employees. [More…]
The union system, as it operates today, is under test. [More…]
I say that because the union system has been abused, though not by the individual, who is in a very difficult situation. [More…]
It appears to me and to many, if not most, Australians that the left wing of the union system represents a very irresponsible approach, as has been demonstrated by its forays, its attacks, against the economic base of Australia. [More…]
Therefore, if we are to get Australia back onto the proper financial footing, with inflation levels under control, militant unionism surely must be considered its No. [More…]
But if the honourable senator had been fair and had taken a balanced look at the situation he would have gone across the line and examined the militant unionism system, which today is making irresponsible raids upon our economy. [More…]
Let us look at what is happening to the small people, to the family which is part of the union system. [More…]
Recently I have seen unionists, in an attempt to keep money flowing to their families, obliged to draw on their holiday pay- to bring into the house a few scant dollars so that food can be bought for the children. [More…]
The union member, having lost four or six weeks work, is probably a thousand dollars down the drain. [More…]
All must agree surely that this is irresponsible unionism. [More…]
That point was made clearly by Mr Justice Isaacs, as he then was, in the case of George Hudson Ltd v. The Australian Timber Workers Union in the High Court in 1923, when he said this: [More…]
Every honourable senator who belongs to the Liberal Party keeps knocking South Australia and the union movement. [More…]
I am a member of the Executive of the International Parliamentary Union. [More…]
In those days bosses got a good deal from the union movement, just as they are getting now. [More…]
I know, and honourable senators opposite know, that for many months Bob Hawke has been saying that, if the Australian Government would agree, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, with its advisers and its economists, would sit around the table with the Government and discuss the economy, jobs and employment, and that they would be only too happy to do it. [More…]
He repeated that offer again on Monday when he said that the trade union movement is not satisfied with the loss of value in the wage packets of wage and salary earners, which has gone down by about 4 per cent since the Liberal Government came to power, and that it will seek to improve their lot and to make a productivity claim. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has attacked Mr Hawke because the trade union movement intends to make a productivity claim. [More…]
But is it not reasonable for the trade union movement and the workers to argue that if productivity rises their share in the profits of productivity should be increased, and that the claim be argued in the Arbitration Commission? [More…]
What will it do in relation to the unions? [More…]
There is the intention within those pieces of legislation to remove the right of the employer to obtain redress after being damaged by a union ‘s unlawful actions. [More…]
It is intended that unions and unionists will be free of the law if they take matters into their own hands while they are pursuing strikes. [More…]
Australia is a party to the Regional Agreement reached in Geneva 1975 under the auspices of the International Telecommunications Union (The Geneva Plan). [More…]
If not, is his absence due to illness, or some other personal reason, or to pressure from his union masters to stay home because of the desperate state of the Australian Labor Party in the last days of the State election campaign? [More…]
1 ask the Leader of the Government whether he has seen reports in this morning’s Press on the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress. [More…]
Mr Jack Marks, who is the assistant secretary of the Western Australian branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, and who is also junior vicepresident of that State’s Trades and Labor Council, referred to a visit to the Middle East by the Western Australian Premier, Sir Charles Court, during the national controversy over charges against unionists. [More…]
I note on this topic the enormous inconvenience and annoyance felt by the public in Adelaide arising from this week’s widening and irresponsible union imposed bus strike. [More…]
-Senator Wriedt knows that I was a member of the Timber Workers Union in those days. [More…]
It was very interesting to go to union meetings, and I learned a great deal about the performance of unions, the way they work and the people associated with them. [More…]
It is generally accepted that the trade union movement is now in a position to exercise more power than at any other point in its history. [More…]
The Labor Party, by persisting with the archaic belief that trade unions should still be granted extraordinary additional privileges, has isolated itself from the views of the community, including a large proportion of trade union members. [More…]
Under a Labor Government, unions would be positively encouraged to trample over the rights of individual workers with a genuine conscientious objection to union membership or to engaging in industrial action. [More…]
With the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement, (Labor would) develop and implement a policy which will encompass prices, wage incomes, non-wage incomes, the social wage, taxation reform, and elimination of tax avoidance, and which will achieve a more equitable distribution of our national wealth and income, with the commitment to supporting the maintenance of real wages by quarterly adjustment and the passing on of the benefits of productivity. ‘ [More…]
A similar survey conducted by the same organisation last year showed that 63 per cent of union members do not believe that union pressure for wage increases is supported by the rank and file. [More…]
Interestingly, only 20 per cent of union leaders held the same views. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Labor Party has aligned itself with that element of the trade union leadership which is determined to push for huge increases in wages irrespective of the capacity of industry to pay. [More…]
The Labor Party is still not prepared to stand up to the irresponsible element in the trade union movement and argue for wage restraint and more jobs. [More…]
Instead, they have now supinely added wages policy to their ‘hands off the unions ‘list. [More…]
As is set out in the statement, it has investigated a number of complaints about unions but nothing has ever happened except in one case which occurred in Melbourne and which involved a prosecution of the Melbourne City Council. [More…]
What happened to that one prosecution of an employer for allegedly victimising a member of a union, or a person who refused to join a union or take action in accordance with a union strike? [More…]
with the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement, develop and implement a policy which will encompass prices, wage incomes, non-wage incomes, taxation reform and elimination of tax avoidance . [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the establishment of the credit union movement in the early post-years had as its intention and objective the provision of cheap credit for co-operative movements that were established at the work place and community level. [More…]
Let me say that the real destruction of consumer credit was the Labor Party’s inflation rate, which went into every savings bank account, every permanent building society, every credit union, every pensioner’s little purse and pocket, and robbed them and downgraded their purchasing power. [More…]
A table published in one of the trade union magazines, Communication Worker, indicated that for 1978-79 a person on $7,500 per annum will have a tax increase per week of about $4. [More…]
The Australian Workers ‘ Union supports the survey and has agreed with a Commission direction to refrain from enrolling any more Aboriginals presently employed by the Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement, pending the outcome of the survey. [More…]
The unions directly involved have too much sense and too much at stake to take any notice of it, but it does create the dangers of inter-union strife which is always very damaging to the community. [More…]
I strongly recommend that we should mine and export our uranium, and I hope the Labor Party and the trade union movement will re-examine their policy rationally and honestly. [More…]
Some three years ago after I returned from Moscow, where I had visited the Amnesty organisation, I spoke in the Senate of the attempts by the Russian dissidents, under great pressure and a great deal of victimisation, to publicise the Helsinki Agreement and the responsibilities of the Soviet Union under that Agreement. [More…]
I must say that in addition to the people who suffered then people in the Soviet Union went to gaol because it was alleged that they were creating propaganda or defaming the Soviet Union, but in reality they were publicising the failures of their country to comply with the Helsinki Agreement of 1975. [More…]
I became aware of this matter because of material which was forwarded to by by the Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which has among its honorary members a number of members of this Federal Parliament including Senator Tate and myself from the Senate and Mr Hodgman, Mr Ruddock and Mr Simon from another place. [More…]
The Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is worried, as we are worried, by the dissidents trial in Czechoslovakia, and has sought to provide information which it hopes will go to the Australian people and will bring this matter to full public attention. [More…]
I preface it by drawing to the Minister’s attention Mr Anthony’s comments on the idea of a South Pacific economic union, reported in the Australian of 6 August 1979 as follows: [More…]
We know that union fees are tax deductible. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to reported threats of trade retaliation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for Australia’s failure to provide adequate opportunity for that country’s access to the Australian fishing zone? [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen newspaper reports that there are at present 20 companies of Soviet combat troops in Afghanistan which have allegedly been sent into that country by the Soviet Union in order to defend the Government of Afghanistan against the present insurgency? [More…]
There is Vietnam, as one would expect, Laos, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- one would expect that- the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Cuba, the People’s Democratic Republic of the Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola, Afghanistan, the People’s Republic of the Congo, Libya, Mozambique, Hungary, Grenada, Nicaragua and the Seychelles. [More…]
Indeed, success will depend eventually upon the co-operation of other countries, including the Soviet Union, which has the greatest influence in Vietnam. [More…]
Essentially they are Union of Soviet Socialist Republics supported countries or satellite countries. [More…]
It is interesting that, out of what is essentially a list of Communist countries which have a stronger inclination to allegiances with the Soviet Union, Rumania and Yugoslavia have not recognised the Heng Samrin regime. [More…]
Let me list some of those: Vietnam, obviously; the Soviet Union, obviously; the German Democratic Republic; Mongolia; Cuba; Angola; Libya; Mozambique. [More…]
The Queensland Rugby League, of course, the Country Rugby Union of New South Wales and many other sporting bodies draw upon the blood money. [More…]
Today I took a delegation from the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia and employer representatives to talk to the Minister for Productivity, Mr Macphee, who was extremely sympathetic. [More…]
The view of the union and of most of the employers is that a quota system should apply, which probably would boost local consumption to about nine million tyres. [More…]
I say without hesitation, talking about a wage concept and an understanding with the trade union movement, that at the beginning the Fraser Government had that understanding. [More…]
It is wrong, and the Government knows it is wrong, and this is one of the festering sores with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) could go into a huddle tomorrow with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and say: ‘We will give you what the Scandanavian and Eastern trade union movements have got in relation to stability of health costs’. [More…]
While I am on the subject of trade unions, senators will know that I have been questioning the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) about his role and the role of Mr Street in the matter of industrial relations. [More…]
Nobody in their right senses would deny that an amalgamation of the Storemen and Packers Union and the Transport Workers Union, to give one instance, would be an excellent thing. [More…]
In his reply he said that there had been no prior consultation with the union prior to the announcement of the closure. [More…]
The Union attempted to negotiate severance pay without success. [More…]
The CES did interview people after the Union had made contact with them and requested that they do so. [More…]
I have the journal of the Miscellaneous Workers Union which covers that industry and which refers to an increase of between $7 and $12 a week. [More…]
Every time I bought a four litre tin I found that the price had increased Over a 12-week span a price increase of $1.30 was applied by Berger Paints Pty Ltd, yet it was resisting a work value case put by the union and refusing to offer the union any amount at all. [More…]
The company got an increase of $1.30 on every fourlitre tin of Ranch House brown, but the unions had to battle for 12 months to get a hearing and ultimately a decision which was in their favour. [More…]
A gentleman called, I think, Green Dog, a nonunion truckie, opened Pandora’s Box as far as petrol tax exemptions and other things are concerned. [More…]
If the Federal President of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Ivor Hodgson, or someone else had indulged in the tactics adopted by Green Dog and his colleagues the Government would have invoked the Crimes Act. [More…]
I was able to marshal considerable agitation from the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Workers Union under Mr Oliver and a member of the Slovene community in Canberra, Mr Roman Bizjak From that we got La Fiamma and Novo Dovo and a host of other newspapers into the act along with quite a lot of other ethnic clubs, the Melbourne and Sydney Trades Hall Councils and Mr Bob Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We have restrained the more irresponsible elements in the union movement and we have made considerable progress in making Australian industry competitive by improving management techniques and equipment. [More…]
Possibly the biggest threat in this country stems from the dominance of the Marxist Left of the Australian Labor Party and the union movement, a threat of such magnitude that it has driven the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions out of his job, and he is attempting to find another one. [More…]
His remarks were not very complimentary to the very dedicated Federal Secretary of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, Mr Fred Hall. [More…]
Brown, M.H.R., stating the union’s point of view. [More…]
What is much more important is that the whole of the attitude of the union to the dispute was endorsed in a subsequent judgment by Justice Mary Gaudron in the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Mr Lusher, M.H.R., has been interfering in Union matters for his own political purposes and in support of the attitude of the employer (Metro Meats Limited), who own and conducts the abattoir at Cootamundra (previously owned and operated for many years by Conkey and Sons) under the guise that he is acting for members of the Union to get the Works re-opened by getting them to accept the employer’s proposition that their rates of pay and conditions of employment be covered by a federal award. [More…]
Through these activities and criticism of the Union in the local media he succeeded in getting support from a few of our members for his campaign to take the matter out of the hands of the Union who was supporting a unanimous decision carried by all of our members employed at the abattoir in opposition to federal award coverage. [More…]
All that he achieved was to create dissention amongst the members involved and exposed a number of them because of their support of his campaign against the Union and acting contrary to their own resolution exposed them and destroyed them industrially in the eyes of their workmates. [More…]
He, of course, was not concerned about the use he was making of them because his whole object was to obtain a result favourable to the company, and the political mileage that flowed from his campaign against the Union and the impression that he was acting in the best interests of the exemployees. [More…]
in encouraging them to act contrary to their own resolution and their Union in opposition to federal coverage. [More…]
The Union was left to rectify the position which took some time because of Lusher’s interference, because the facts were that they were not really dismissed because they were on strike for one day. [More…]
Subsequently, after consulting the employees at the abattoir and our Federal Executive, the company was informed that the Union would not agree to Federal coverage. [More…]
The Union did not oppose the application and the matter came before Justice Gaudron on 1 3th August and was completed on that day. [More…]
At this hearing Judge Gaudron handed to the parties two (2) telegrams that had been forwarded to the Deputy Registrar, arising from a meeting of some of our members which was not called by the Union in Cootamundra on Saturday, 1 1th August. [More…]
This approach attracted a number of our members, finally bringing about a situation where meetings were being called against the wishes of the Union and the local delegates with Mr Lusher ‘s support and indeed participated in the meetings by his attendance and addressing same. [More…]
1 enclose press cuttings which clearly show Lusher ‘s involvement and his attacks on the Union and its local delegates and his political interference in a purely industrial issue and in support of the company’s attitude. [More…]
We support the actions of the Union Officials and the Works Officials in carrying out our original decision. [More…]
“This meeting condemns the unwanted interference by Mr Lusher, the federal member for Hume, who under the guise of giving support to some members to have the Works re-opened is supporting the employer by enticing them to agree to federal coverage in the hope that they will become the majority and force the Union to abandon its opposition to federal coverage. [More…]
“His efforts have failed, despite his media campaign and Union-bushing along with organising and addressing unauthorised meetings of some Union members who were well in the minority and demand that he refrain in the future from political interference into our affairs. “ [More…]
Lusher refers on Page 1161 of Hansard, that the Union at the meeting on 25th August, had assured the meeting that the decision would be handed the following week. [More…]
For its mutton slaughtering in South Australia a separate agreement has been reached between the Company and the South Australian Branch of the Union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that two prominent trade union leaders from New South Wales, namely, Mr Unsworth, the Acting Secretary of the Labour Council of New South Wales, and Mr Oliver, a senior official of the Australian Workers Union, are coming to Canberra this morning to see the Minister for Industrial Relations and to use all their endeavours to maintain industrial peace at Kurnell in order to keep oil supplies flowing in New South Wales? [More…]
I understand that the New South Wales union leaders to whom the honourable senator referred are coming or have come to Canberra; I am not sure which it is. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union of Australia has been associated with the drafting of this Bill and, as I understand it, has discussed it with the employers. [More…]
I believe that there should be liaison not only with the companies but also with the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
That union is unhappy about the provision in this Bill as to the manning of the new types of ships. [More…]
Although I could not find a reference to it in the Bill, I understand from the Seamen’s Union that a seamen who is injured receives for the first three months full pay and after that $80 a week if he is a single man, $90 a week and so on. [More…]
It represents a step forward and, given proper cooperation between the ship-owners, the unions and the Government, sensible solutions can be arrived at and a better shipping industry can be achieved in this country. [More…]
I hope that the Government considers that fact further and has additional talks with the Seamen’s Union and the industry in general. [More…]
Subsequently I received a communication from the vigilance officer of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia, Bob Galleghan. [More…]
He had the assistance of the maritime unions in the Port of Sydney. [More…]
I have a petition covering four pages, signed by his work mates and the manager of the company, quite apart from his own union comrades and members of several other unions which are involved, asking that he be allowed to remain here. [More…]
The Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union supports this man. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard my letter to Mr MacKellar which expands considerably what I have said; a covering letter from the vigilance officer of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, Mr Galleghan, to me; a letter from the union giving the applicant’s history going back to 1978; and last, but by no means least, the petition. [More…]
PLEA FOR RECISION OF DEPORTATION ORDER AGAINST GHANIAN NATIONAL GEORGE ONUS BREN YA MADE BY FEDERATED SHIP PAINTERS AND DOCKERS UNION AND JUBILEE ENGINEERING CO PTY LTD, BALMAIN, NEW SOUTH WALES. [More…]
It is significant that aside from the solid trade union backing not confined only to trade union officials but rank and file members (vide attached petition) his employer also makes a strong plea for retention of his services. [More…]
Last year at the behest of the New South Wales Trade Union Movement, three cases were dealt with favourably by you and this point of time I have raised the case of a BOLIVIAN and now a GHANIAN. [More…]
If anyone took the trouble to read the proceedings of Estimates Committee C they will have noted that on page 503 I asked some searching questions about a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a girl who appeared in a bikini in the Press and later went on to bigger things in the centrefold of Penthouse or a similar magazine. [More…]
Very often certain people criticise the role that the trade union movement is playing, but these two cases have the imprimatur of Mr Barrie Unsworth, Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, and his assistant, Mr John McBean, and the weight of at least 10 unions. [More…]
The Minister would be aware that about nine months ago a package deal was agreed to when the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, the Federated Rubber and Allied [More…]
Workers Union of Australia and the Australian Workers Union brought forward three cases. [More…]
Some had been involved in trade union activities and some had ethnic support. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of this report which claims that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is trying to overturn the International Whaling Commission’s partial ban on deep sea whaling by seeking to secure a quota of 1 ,500 sperm whales for the coming season? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the Soviet Union’s proposal has been sent to the 23 International Whaling Commission members for a postal vote by 17 October? [More…]
I believe that since the Opposition has raised this question of parliamentary privilege, it is an appropriate time for me to state quite categorically that a concerted attempt is being made by a back bench member of the Opposition in this House and a back bench member of the Australian Labor Party Government in Tasmania to vilify and character assassinate members of the trade union movement in respect of moneys that were provided by the State Government for trade union training purposes. [More…]
I refer to the question of trade union education. [More…]
One of the matters which is contained in the Budget and for which the Government is providing substantial funds is the area of trade union education through the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Government has a commitment to trade union education through the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
One of the areas of expenditure is of course trade union training. [More…]
The Government was not seen off for the amount of $55,000 as was previously alleged by Senator O’Byrne and published by the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union in its newsletter. [More…]
During the course of the debate on the Loan Bill to authorise the borrowing and expending of money for defence purposes, an honourable senator from Tasmania, Senator Harradine, borrowed the time of the Senate to use it as a forum under parliamentary privilege for his own defence purposes inasmuch as he said that there has been a concerted attempt by a back bencher- he named me- to vilify and assassinate the characters of members of the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not think that you, Mr President, or any other member of this chamber would deny me the right to deny vehemently that I, as a back bencher, had vilified and assassinated the character of members of the trade union movement in Tasmania. [More…]
I will test out the sincerity of this chamber by asking that the charge that I have vilified and assassinated the characters of members of the trade union movement be withdrawn and that Senator Harradine apologise to me. [More…]
He is explaining why it is incorrect to say that he vilified and assassinated the characters of trade union leaders, which was the accusation. [More…]
I believe that the whole question is based on the accusation made by Senator Harradine that Senator O’Byrne has vilified and assassinated the character of trade union leaders. [More…]
The Premier, Mr Lowe, has sought a further report on the alleged mystery around the $55,000 in Government grants for trade union training. [More…]
I should point out that the Trade Union Training Authority is a Commonwealth body established by legislation on the 8th September 1975, the grants in question were paid to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council and administered by the Tasmanian Trade Union Training Advisory Committee, no State funds have been granted to the Commonwealth body. [More…]
The grants were initiated by a Cabinet decision on the 27th February 1973 that an annual grant be provided to the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council to provide financial assistance for Trade Union Education. [More…]
I refer to your letter dated 18th December 1 978 requesting information on grants paid by the State Government to the Trade Union Training Authority and am pleased to provide you with the following information: 18th January 1974. [More…]
It is a statement of public accounts and is entitled: ‘Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council, Trade Union Training Program ‘. [More…]
State Government grants totalling $55,000 were made available to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council for a Trade Union Training program under the Consolidated Revenue Appropriation Acts for the years 1973-74 to 1977-78. [More…]
In today’s Mercury, which was unavailable until tonight, under the heading ‘Accountants defend trade union finances’, it is stated: [More…]
A Hobart chartered accountant said yesterday that $55,000 for trade union training had never been the property of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Premier, the Minister, and the whole of the trade union movement in Tasmania are most concerned that this money has been misappropriated. [More…]
While he was the secretary of the Trades Hall Council he was able to divert this money in the direction of the National Civic Council, and with the money he was able to appoint people to the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
He continues his pattern of extraordinary allegations against trade union officials in my State and his State. [More…]
This trade union training program was very successful. [More…]
Trade Union Training Program [More…]
State Government grants totalling $55,000 were made available to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council for a Trade Union Training program under the Consolidated Revenue Appropriation Acts for the years 1973-74 to 1977-78. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne has continued his attack on trade union officials in my State. [More…]
That is not only a reflection on me; that is a reflection on long-standing trade union officials in my State. [More…]
That is a reflection on all of the trustees of the Trades Hall Trustees and Management Committee, five of whom have a combined service in the trade union movement of nearly 200 years. [More…]
This is the opportunity to clear the names- I do not mind about my name- of those trade union officials in my State who have dedicated their lives to the trade union movement and indeed to the Labor Party. [More…]
Senator Wriedt was: ‘You are the Leader of the Labor Party and you are allowing members of your party to make statements about respected trade union officials in my State which are untrue. ‘ [More…]
I refer the Minister for Science and the Environment to a statement made yesterday by Mr Viner, the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, in which he linked the Unemployed Workers Union to the Australian Conservation Foundation because both organisations, together with a number of other organisations, share a particular post box in Canberra. [More…]
Representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations did not attend that meeting. [More…]
The Council regretted the absence of union representatives. [More…]
Thirdly, provision for prompt access by employers to the Commission in applications for stand-down clauses should encourage unionists generally to exert a moderating influence on particular union members and officers who are quick to call strikes rather than use the processes of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
I need only remind honourable senators of the disruption caused by members of the Transport Workers Union in support of claims for wage increases under a number of awards. [More…]
Those 18 countries are Ghana, Greece, Brazil, Philippines, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Soviet Union, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]
If such place happens to be within the present boundaries of the Soviet Union and the passport is presented to a Soviet authority abroad, or at a place which is governed by the Soviet Union, the authority may treat the person as a Soviet citizen for all purposes. [More…]
It throws it a scrap when some fake communist campaign is on in some trade union. [More…]
They included Ghana, Greece, Brazil, the Philipines Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Union of Soviet Social Republics, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]
In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]
If one looks through the report of Senator Rae’s committee on the statutory bodies in this field one finds the following bodies listed: The Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, Applied Ecology Pty Ltd, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Statistics, the Industrial Research and Development Incentives Board, the Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the Institute of Anatomy, the Institute of Criminology, the Institute of Marine Science, the Australian Maritime College, the Australian Meat Research Committee, the Australian National University, the Australian Postal Commission, the Telecommunications Commission, the Australian Tobacco Board, the Trade Union Training Authority, the Australian Wine Board, the Australian [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Administrative Services: Why has the history and description of the Union Jack been omitted from the booklet which describes other aspects of our flag and which is handed out with the Australian flag? [More…]
The history of the Union Jack is a colourful story which would stimulate interest in our heritage. [More…]
I agree with the honourable senator that the Union Jack does have a colourful history and, indeed, is included on the flags of a number of other states and nations. [More…]
For example, I think that the state of Hawaii includes the Union Jack on its flag as part of the history of that country which was also contacted in the early days by Captain Cook. [More…]
The trustees of the fund are representatives of shipowners and unions and include Mr Patrick Geraghty of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, Mr Les Mullens of the Federated Marine Stewards and Pastry men’s Association of Australasia and Mr Bill Heath of the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers Association of Australasia. [More…]
Hansard then records me as saying: A lot of them are rugby union sides’. [More…]
In fact, I said: ‘Not if they are rugby union sides’. [More…]
I am sure the Senate will appreciate that as a former player, as a representative of Parliament against the Australian Broadcasting Commission side, and as patron of the Australian Capital Territory Rugby Union, I would of course not make such a reflection on rugby union sides, although I cannot speak for other codes. [More…]
I refer to a question asked yesterday by Mr Tom McVeigh in another place and alleging discrimination against Vietnamese workers by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia in Brisbane. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that one of the other reasons that the Federated Storemen and Packers Union in Queensland will not enrol Vietnamese migrants into the union is that when the Vietnamese get a job they work? [More…]
Is this ludicrous, selfish and bullying action by the union an infringement of the Trade Practices Act or any other Commonwealth Act? [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Resources aware of the report in the Soviet Union newspaper the Kommunist and reported in yesterday’s Age newspaper in which serious doubts about the scope, safety and environmental consequences of the various stages of the nuclear fuel cycle are expressed? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the significance of this admission, given the Soviet Union’s commitment to nuclear power and the fact that it has presently 10 large nuclear power plants under construction? [More…]
It would seem from what has happened since the Fraser Government was elected that the advisers of the Government have decided that the laws relating to industrial relations ought to be tightened in respect to the trade union movement. [More…]
We had the decision to amend the Trade Practices Act to enable it to be applied against the trade union movement in cases of boycott. [More…]
That is the law which is said to be challenged by the union movement. [More…]
The vast resources and expertise and staff of the Government and the law often are unable to solve disputes, but the ACTU President, with his officers and in co-operation with employers and unions, is able to find solutions. [More…]
In the light of the economy and in the light of the issues before the Australian people and the union movement, it would be a good thing to adjourn this matter. [More…]
He has spent a lifetime of service not only in this place but also in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr Street, was advised that the unions would not attend that meeting. [More…]
The Minister wrote to the unions on 26 July stressing the importance that the Government placed on the role of the Council and explaining the desirability of the unions attending this meeting. [More…]
But the unions, for reasons of their own, decided not to attend. [More…]
This body- the National Labour Consultative Council- which is representative of the Government, the peak union councils and the peak employer organisations, is set up for the express purpose of considering major changes to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as well as other important industrial matters. [More…]
When the Government provided the means and the opportunity- it gave a warning that these measures would be considered- at this meeting of the National Labour Consultative Council, the peak union councils did not attend. [More…]
The issue is that this Government is determined to go ahead with legislation to confront the trade union movement. [More…]
That is not simply an excuse or a whitewash of everything the trade union movement does. [More…]
I have previously referred to the procedure whereby the Government always consults with important bodies; in this case, the trade union movement, the employers and the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
After they have discussed the matter, which they can do quite easily this evening, they can take it up again tomorrow morning because, in addition to the trade union movement, the Labor Party and the experts to which 1 have referred, they should have the Commission ‘s submissions before them. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier- this was told to the Government- the Autralian Council of Trade Unions told the Government that it was not only prepared to talk about this Bill, but prior to the Budget Mr Hawke told the Government that it was prepared to discuss anything affecting the economy and that he would go along to the Government. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators that the former Prime Minister of this country was only too anxious to get the views of the ACTU and of the trade union movement in important matters because that is the way the main issues of the day were resolved. [More…]
One of the worst sections is section 143A, under which it is possible for the Minister, when he thinks fit, to apply to the Commission and, if he succeeds, in fact to control the operations of the union members and of the organisations. [More…]
Perhaps that would not be difficult for the union because it may say: ‘We will go outside the arbitration machinery and set up our own organisation. ‘ [More…]
This means that, as Mr Cameron in the other place has pointed out, a dispute which takes place in the north of Australia affecting a small group of people servicing a generator plant or something of that nature could well have a general effect on the whole of the membership of the union. [More…]
In fact, as honourable senators will see, by vesting in the Minister the ability to apply immediately to a Full Bench, the Bill brings directly into the ambit of industrial relations action by the Executive, by the Minister, to do something to control a trade union. [More…]
It will not only mean control of the trade union but also will make sure that the person involved can be inhibited from working, and their property and rights within the union controlled. [More…]
If this sort of action is sustained workers will combine, as they did in the early days, and I remind honourable Senators of how the trade union movement in Australia first grew. [More…]
I am certain that in the days when Senator Cavanagh, Senator Mulvihill, Senator Gietzelt and I were union officials and we operated in the industrial area we would not have put up with talking to a commissioner or chairman of a conciliation board unless we knew that he had the powers to settle a dispute. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has already agreed that a reform of the Act is needed. [More…]
Sir John Egerton has pointed out that only about 20 individuals in the trade union movement cause most of the trouble. [More…]
I am sure that that will have the support of the whole of the community, including many members of trade union movements who voted for us at the last election. [More…]
Their defence of the unions was absolute: it permitted no qualification and no restraint on union behaviour. [More…]
Anybody inclined to discount the extent to which a Labor Government would consider itself bound by that part of the platform that grants trade unions exemptions from the law and parliamentary control would be well advised to think again. [More…]
None of the procedures leading up to the presentation of this Bill to the Parliament involved very necessary consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and all the registered unions have been ignored in the process leading up to the presentation of this legislation to the Parliament. [More…]
The National Labour Consultative Council was not available to the Government as an appropriate forum to carry out consultation with the trade union movement because it had quite properly decided at the time when the Government tried to put some initial proposals before it to boycott that body, given the fact that the Government- this is how hypocritical it is- had introduced, without any consultation with that body, the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Bill. [More…]
It is indicative of the hypocritical attitude and confrontation attitude of this Government to industrial relations that it should bring before this Parliament legislation which bears none of the modifications, good sense and practical experience that would have been gained by a proper consultation with the union movement. [More…]
After all, this legislation is simply part of a program to denigrate the union movement. [More…]
Mainly they are senior representatives from the union movement, from government or from employer organisations. [More…]
The editorial of the Australian, not a newspaper overly sympathetic to the union movement or to the Australian Labor Party for that matter, stated on Tuesday, 16 October: [More…]
This is simply a political exercise designed to antagonise and taunt the union movement into providing an electoral situation. [More…]
The eventual victim, the body to be burnt to ashes, will not be the union movement. [More…]
In clause 16, the deregistration proposal, as an alternative to the deregistration procedures available within the judicial processes whereby the industrial court, an impartial body, a judicial body, may make a decision to deregister a union, we now have a proposal that deregistration will be dependent upon the will of the Cabinet. [More…]
But once that declaration is granted, for the following six months and for any reason within that six months the Government may deregister the union. [More…]
We should be doing everything in our power to ensure that if a union is to be deregistered, if the funds of a union are to come under the control of the Government, that should be done only upon direct instruction and following argument before an independent judicial tribunal. [More…]
As Mr Justice Alley, in the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union case very recently said: [More…]
Secondly, of course, it simply means that the union or the group of employees concerned, who cannot recover wages lost because of an industrial dispute necessitated by the action of an employer, will move outside the arbitration system to get that strike pay. [More…]
In fact, the number of working days lost due to industrial disputes caused by managerial policy- not disputes as to wages, hours of work, leave and pensions, physical working conditions and trade unionism- went from 23.8 per cent to 25.6 per cent. [More…]
That action would justify the Government’s program of misrepresentation and its general propaganda offensive in portraying unions as irresponsible. [More…]
In fact, it may very well be that the whole Bill is designed to provoke and antagonise the trade union movement in order to enable this propaganda offensive to succeed at a forthcoming election. [More…]
No honourable senator on the Government benches in the face of those pleas for consultation and moderation- to say nothing about consultation with the trade union movement which is still offered- should accept this Bill. [More…]
It does disturb me to hear Senator Tate describing this legislation as legislation which sets out to denigrate the trade union movement, to provoke and to antagonise. [More…]
I do regret that in the circumstances that we have tonight we find ourselves taking the view, or having the view promoted from the Opposition side of this chamber, that this industrial legislation seeks only to antagonise, oppose and alienate the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not believe that there is anybody in Australia today who would deny that the trade union movement over the decades has contributed a great deal to the development of the total Australian community. [More…]
The problem that confronts every Australian- I mark every Australian because that includes millions of trade unionists- is the abuse of power, whether by organisations in a significant measure or by individuals within those organisations. [More…]
It is in that area of trying to direct itself to the control of the abuse of power in the industrial relations area, whether it be abuse from a trade union area or from an employer area. [More…]
If we merely seek to promote it as something that sets out to destroy the Australian trade union movement, of course we are determined to take the course that will give the legislation the least chance of being effective. [More…]
It hardly needs to be said that nobody gains from industrial unrest, whether a trade union member or an employer. [More…]
Then the Governor-General, naturally on the advice of his Ministers in the Executive Council, can make a determination within six months whether to cancel the registration of a union or whether to do any of a number of lesser things; that is, whether to restrict some of the privileges or to control some of the funds. [More…]
There is no doubt that this sort of legislation will bring a real and sincere measure of moderation in the trade union movement and in the employer movement. [More…]
One of the sad things about this Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill is that the National Labour Consultative Council meeting was not attended by the union representatives. [More…]
The honourable senator may well know much more than I do, but as I understand it an invitation was extended, as it should be, to the union representatives and they were not present at the meeting on 6 August. [More…]
It is insulting to wage and salary earners and to the trade union movement and is highly offensive to e trade members of the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Minister of the Crown a right to start deregistration proceedings against a union or part of a union engaging in any industrial action that is considered to be harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]
That program has the support of the trade union movement and of the employer organisations. [More…]
It is work which has involved the Government, the trade union movement and the employers all sitting around the table together to try to work out a satisfactory solution to many of today’s industrial problems. [More…]
It was decided that a communist led union, no matter how radical it may be, should be above the law and should not be subjected to any government or judicial interference. [More…]
It also made these socalled democratic unions able to exercise their right to strike, immune from any pains or penalties. [More…]
There was no suggestion of any mechanism that would make sure that these unions were conducted in a democratic fashion. [More…]
If the Government attempts to make radical unions answerable to the law, why is it called confrontation ‘? [More…]
The Government is attempting to make the radical unions answerable to law. [More…]
The normal union member carries on in a responsible fashion and the normal union in this country carries on in a very responsible fashion. [More…]
It is the radical unions, such as the communist-led unions, the unions led by Mr Halfpenny and Mr Carmichael, which this legislation is endeavouring to do something about. [More…]
It then goes to the Governor-General who may, within a period of six months and on the advice of his Ministers, deregister a union or order lesser penalties, as Senator Scott has said. [More…]
Those lesser penalties include the cancelling of the rights, privileges or capacities of the union concerned, or the restriction of the use of organisation funds or properties. [More…]
How can we believe that the Government is seriously committed to the improvement of the system and the correction of manifest deficiencies in it when not only has it treated the business of consultation with the judges and the commissioners in this way, but also when- as has been pointed out in the course of this debate, but which needs repeating- it has not consulted the unions which are so closely involved in this process. [More…]
It did not consult them in that it brought forward the proposals for this legislation at the National Labour Consultative Council, at a time when it well knew that the peak union councils would not be represented because they were protesting about a specific failure of the Government to communicate and consult with them on the proclamation of another very controversial piece of legislation. [More…]
It appears that the Department of Industrial Relations played no part in the drafting of the amendments, that no member of this Commission was consulted and no trade union or employer or peak council representing employees or employers was consulted. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech claimed that the “initial proposals” (but not, apparently, the final proposals) were shown to some persons present at the National Labour Consultative Council, but he admits that no trade union representatives were present at that meeting. [More…]
He does not claim that those “initial proposals” were forwarded to the trade union representatives who were entitled to be at the meeting, or left in the possession of the employers’ representatives present. [More…]
I wish to add to the count a ruling I gave in a dispute between the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists and The Australian Postal Commission on 26 April 1979 (Print D9961)-a ruling which provoked a certain displeasure in high places at the time. [More…]
In the particular case an employee had carried out 99.999 per cent of his duties, omitting one of trifling significance as a work task but of monstrous import to the bureaucratic mind, for by reason of a union ban he had declined to sign a document which was otherwise authentic, complete and accurate, lacking merely his mark. [More…]
Rather, it is obvious from the circumstances in which it was introduced and the way in which it has been conducted subsequently that it is just another demonstration of this Government’s insatiable appetite for industrial provocation and its incredible capacity for dredging the bottom of the legislative barrel to find something, anything, that will provoke the union movement into the kind of reaction that the Government shortsightedly thinks will be politically advantageous to it. [More…]
The reason it is the worst of them all is that it combines two things: On the one hand there is the usual familiar crude union bashing that we have become used to with earlier legislation which is most evident in the deregistration provisions of the legislation now before us. [More…]
I was a member of the State poultry committee of the then Australian Primary Producers Union which amalgamated with the wheat and wool growers organisation to form the United Farmers and Graziers Association. [More…]
This letter was written by Mr Carpenter, the then Chairman of the Poultry Section of the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
I guess it could be truly said that that union has never publicly supported the Labor Party. [More…]
In your role in the Federal Government as a guardian of the interests of Victorians, the Poultry Section of the Victorian Farmers’ Union would appreciate your interest and assistance in a matter which is of concern to the Poultry Industry. [More…]
Yours sincerely, P. W. Carpenter, Chairman, Poultry Section, Victorian Farmers’ Union [More…]
Foster, the then Chairman of the Poultry Section of the Victorian Farmers Union from Mr Fraser dated 6 December 1977. [More…]
Will the Minister provide for honourable senators and members details of the guidelines which will be used for making decisions as to who is or is not in a union, on whom will lie the onus of proof and what proof will be accepted by the Director-General or his delegates as to who is or is not in a union? [More…]
I have been advised by the Minister whom I represent that the countries involved are Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the German Democratic Republic and Romania. [More…]
I will be able to speak that as the only officer of a major national union of over 150,000 members who has daily contact with either the judicial, arbitral or the administrative organisations established under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Arbitration Amendment Bill 1979, is not only a crude piece of union bashing of the kind which has become all too familiar during this Government’s term of office but also that it represents a more subtle attempt to undermine the status and authority of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and reduce it to a kind of cipher for the implementation of Government policy. [More…]
The magnitude of the sanction of deregistration and what it means to an individual union and its members has to be appreciated for the full effect and character of clause 16 of the Bill to be understood. [More…]
What it means for a union to be deregistered is that all the awards to which it has hitherto been a party and which it has gained on behalf of its members will immediately become inapplicable. [More…]
It means that the membership of that union is immediately vulnerable to being poached by every other rival union with a finger in that industrial pie. [More…]
It means that the union, the organisation, no longer has, among other things, any kind of access to industrial tribunals to resolve problems of various kinds as they arise on the job. [More…]
Unions that are deregistered become outlaws in the full medieval sense of that word. [More…]
Because it does represent such a substantial sanction to deregister a union it has always- in the whole history of the conciliation and arbitration system- been thought appropriate that that deregistration power be vested in the courts and in nobody else but the courts. [More…]
In that situation, what then happens is that once such a declaration is made, after the raw elements of that provision are satisfied, it is open to the Executive government at any time in the next six months to make its own declaration to deregister the whole union concerned, not just that part of it which may have prompted the seeking of the declaration in the first instance and not just if that deregistration decision is relevant to the particular facts or circumstances on which the original declaration was obtained. [More…]
Once a declaration has been obtained it is a situation of open sesame for the Government at any time thereafter, if the mood so strikes it, without satisfying any additional criteria to proceed unilaterally and ruthlessly to the deregistration of the whole union. [More…]
In order to impose any kind of limitation on the width of this section, one has to say that some kind of braking or common sense role will have to be exercised by the Full Bench of the Commission, which just will not find a substantial adverse effect on the community or part of the community if it does not regard it as an appropriate case to justify ultimately the deregistration of the union. [More…]
The commission is to be asked to establish a certain factual allegation in relation to a union, and that may be only that a few members of the union have behaved in the way described in the bill. [More…]
Then the Government is able to do as it pleases with the union, even to the point of deregistration. [More…]
The order of the Governor-General will be final, and it is the Governor-General who decides whether the conditions he has laid down for the union have been complied with. [More…]
How apt it is for us to pause for just a moment longer in relation to the deregistration provision and note that it contains not only the ultimate sanction of deregistration but also it contains a series of other provisions which vest in the government of the day, once this preliminary easy threshold declaration has been made, a whole series of other powers to do a variety of quite extraordinary things by way of the manipulation of the union’s property and the requirement that it not spend money on particular purposes- for example, particular publications or particular people’s salaries. [More…]
The government of the day, once this declaration has been made, can unilaterally restrict the rights of any individual member of that union, any group of members or the membership of the union as a whole. [More…]
It can pick and choose the right to vote in union elections and the right to nominate the position of an office bearer within a union. [More…]
There is an enormous range of potential interferences in the domestic conduct of the union which is completely within the competence of the Government to apply at its own discretion if the mood strikes it without having to satisfy any criterion other than its own discretionary whim. [More…]
It is this provision which has aroused the greatest rhetorical enthusiasm from the various backwoodsmen and backwoodswomen on the Government benches who have been so anxious to describe and think of all unionists as some kind of industrial gangsters. [More…]
It may be that in particular cases it would be wrong, unfair or inappropriate to grant back pay to a striking union as a condition of the settlement. [More…]
The situation is illustrated most classically where there is some industrial safety issue involved which has led the workers on the job to strike, and which issue subsequently has been resolved by the Commission wholly in the union’s favour. [More…]
It is ill drafted, ill thought out, draconian in its implications for unions, and thoroughly nasty in its implications for the independence of the whole conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
The present Government’s approach to industrial relations, which once again is revealed in this piece of legislation, is thoroughly unhappy and thoroughly unacceptable, not just to the Labor Party and to the union movement but to any fair-minded person in the community as a whole. [More…]
This dispute involved 1,500 members of the Australian Workers Union and caused serious disruption to harvesting, duplication of handling facilities and put at risk a substantial proportion of the New South Wales wheat harvest for that year. [More…]
Consumers have been inconvenienced by strikes by the Storemen and Packers Union at Woolworths stores which involved superannuation implications and resulted in wage increases ranging from $6 to $10. [More…]
Why should unions be above the law? [More…]
As some of the resolutions adopted at the Labor Party Conference recently held in Adelaide tend to suggest, the majority of the Opposition detests, and rightly so, monopoly influence and monopoly power, but not when it is the sole preserve of the union movement. [More…]
Unions in Australia have acquired a monopoly power over the supply of labour similar to that which the 1 9th century industrialists had on the demand side for labour. [More…]
However, this unique position of a monopoly power over the supply of labour must never place the unions above the law. [More…]
Some communist-led union bosses often use their power in pursuit of social and political changes; they use the benefits and privileges afforded by industrial legislation which is designed to protect the economic interests of their members. [More…]
The departure from the union scene of such moderates as John Ducker is an indication of the growing influence of the far Left. [More…]
Bob Hawke ‘s leaving the Australian Council of Trade Unions can hardly be seen as a unifying or moderating influence on ACTU policy. [More…]
One cannot really blame the union members for that under such circumstances. [More…]
Lest it be said that I am a continual union basher, I state that I recognise that in every dispute there is some measure of genuine complaint. [More…]
Mere dissatisfaction with existing conditions and a desire for higher rates of pay do not give rise to a relevant dispute until that point of time at which the real and specific demands of members of the union have been denied by the employers. [More…]
This is significant, because it is one of the few occasions that the trade union movement has gone along with a situation in an industry which traditionally is militant. [More…]
The trade union movement has been fairly easy going about coal production. [More…]
We have always boasted that our trade unions were more militant than their counterparts in the United States. [More…]
One of the reasons is that our trade unions have not been prepared to bargain with safety. [More…]
Whether we refer to the golden tongue of Bob Hawke or to a paid trade union official, we are getting the type of young trade unionist today who is capable and well read. [More…]
He probably does not want to be a shop steward, much less a paid union official on the receiving end of any trouble, as he so often is. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that he is the stabiliser, the ballast, in union affairs, and when an interim agreement is produced he will not always buy it. [More…]
It always amazes me that when a trade union secretary comes back with an agreement it is expected that the rank and file should grab at it. [More…]
I know that Senator Cavanagh knows as well as everyone else here that the Australian Workers Union made structural changes in its union and the State Industrial Commission of Queensland was belatedly changed a little bit, too. [More…]
When I use the expression ‘trade unionist’ I use it in a very broad sense. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that very few trade unionist traffic controllers or airline pilots could be called leftists. [More…]
I am certain that they do not read the Tribune or the Vanguard for their trade union inspiration. [More…]
I struck this last week in relation to The Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
The Government has the quaint idea that if it downgrades people and abolishes penalty rates and this is accepted by the trade union movement things will be all right. [More…]
But the trade union movement certainly will not accept it. [More…]
What I did not say was that by appointing a commissioner rich in trade union experience and giving him reasonable flexibility- I refer to Mr Commissioner William Rigby- a reasonable formula was reached. [More…]
It is something like this; the rank and file members of a union will say: Go back and try for something better’. [More…]
The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the federal secretary of the particular union, rank and file delegates and federal councillors could be present. [More…]
But it does not matter whether it is the waterside workers, the operative painters or the bus and tram union employees. [More…]
There was still resistance because enough people in the union realised that such buses constituted a severe hazard for travellers. [More…]
Whichever way one looks at it, militancy is not something peculiar to any particular age group or trade union. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the trade union movement has not been as militant as it may have been in regard to the shorter working week. [More…]
The Government did not show such insistence when the trade union movement argued about overdue reform such as union amalgamation. [More…]
Trade unions, rightly, will be protecting their own planks. [More…]
Ever since the Monk era- it has continued in the days of Bob Hawke- the Government has been creating the idea that every trade union secretary is trying to con his members. [More…]
The Government thinks that every time there is a dispute a trade union secretary can go back to his members, just blow a whistle and have everyone fall out on the football field. [More…]
Of course this situation is intensified now because trade union officials are better educated. [More…]
We look enviously sometimes at the trade union movement in Western European countries, but we cannot get away from the fact that the greatest injustice of all has been caused by the Fraser Government. [More…]
For that reason, it cannot expect the trade union movement to remain docile. [More…]
Quite frankly, if the trade unions do not move in and protect their flanks, nobody else will. [More…]
That is why for the last two years I have made the call, which I am pleased to know is now supported by distinguished Australians such as Sir Roderick Carnegie and Mr Bob Hawke, that the only way in which those crises can be prevented is by having an on-going national conference of all political parties, of employers and of the trade union to see whether some consensus can be achieved to prevent the unemployment which will be caused not only by the economic policies of this Government or a following government but also by automation and computerisation. [More…]
Did he take away information from Mr Street to assuage the objections of the 25 commissioners, Mr Justice Staples and virtually the whole of the trade union movement including the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
I believe that the people whom the Government has declared its avowed enemies, and rightly so- the extreme left wing communist, militant leaders of trade unions- would love section 143A. [More…]
It is playing right into the hands of the big unions particularly. [More…]
It would hurt the small unions, which can be manipulated and would then be without registration, but I should have thought that an extreme left wing communist-led union with lots of muscle, with the tiered system where power is vested in the top, would love to go back to the jungle of open bargaining, particularly in the big industries. [More…]
I can think of so many areas where there could be a nationwide dispute involving two relatively small, unimportant, militant, mischievous trade unionists or members of the organisation. [More…]
The national organisation might want to settle the dispute, but if the two planted members of the organisation continued with the sort of action that could prevent settlement the whole union could be deregistered. [More…]
I am a national official of a major union which is in almost daily contact before either the arbitral or the judicial organisations created under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
I have participated as a union advocate before members of the Commission. [More…]
I know quite a large number of union officials who will make that the opening gambit. [More…]
Many is the time that I, as Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council have been telephoned by a union official who has said: ‘I am out on the job. [More…]
But this provision precludes even the certification of an agreement between the employer and the union. [More…]
Their decisions would be seen as having the authority of law, but a deregistration by the Executive would not command the authority of law, it would set the scene for confrontation between the trade union movement on the one hand and the state on the other. [More…]
I believe that I am the only federal official of a union with more than 100,000 members who is a member of the Parliament. [More…]
I speak regularly with officers of major unions which are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It has been said that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has not been consulted, the peak councils have not been consulted. [More…]
There has not been a session of this Parliament since the Fraser Government came to power in which we have not had legislation designed in some way or another to restrict the legitimate rights of the workers of this country and of the trade union movement. [More…]
What has actually happened in respect to this Government’s anti-union legislation? [More…]
The result is that the trade union movement has had to act on occasions independently of the operation of the Commission itself. [More…]
Should industrial action then be taken in order to ratify or support the decision arrived at by the Commission, the processes will be set in motion for the deregistration of the union. [More…]
Because the trade union movement wants to assert its right in these circumstances to withdraw its labour, a process which has been fought for and which it will continue to fight for, regardless of the repressive legislation, this Government will learn to its detriment that it cannot legislate to stop industrial disputes. [More…]
Where is the trade union leader who says he supports this piece of legislation? [More…]
We will see a situation develop where the whole trade union movement, whatever category we like to place it in, will stand together against this piece of repressive legislation. [More…]
If honourable senators know anything at all about the trade union movement- I do not like using labels; I do not like putting people into different sorts of categories in respect of their political position in the industrial movement- if they look at the disputes which have taken place in recent times in my own State, they would know the extent of those disputes. [More…]
We have the tally clerks of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia in dispute. [More…]
We have members of the breweries, who are members of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia in dispute. [More…]
We have members of the Australian Workers Union involved in the grain elevators dispute, and we have the strike that has taken place at the Water Sewerage and Drainage Board. [More…]
No matter which union or class of workers is involved in industrial disputes, in no way can one put an idealogical label on that union or class of workers. [More…]
A trade union official just indicated the circumstances upon which that concept and that process have been operative ever since there has been industrial relations. [More…]
Every trade union official will tell us that. [More…]
In his letter he fairly substantially endorses the view of Mr Justice Staples about deregistration, namely, that in the hands of the GovernorGeneral a trade union of 150,000 or 200,000 members can be deregistered. [More…]
So one man- the Prime Minister- will be able to decide the future of a trade union. [More…]
Professor Mills also points out that under the proposed amendments to the Social Services Act, blameless workers stood down will also be denied unemployment benefits if they belong to the union which has striking members. [More…]
There cannot be many countries of the world where membership of a lawful trade union will disqualify a person from social security benefits. [More…]
It has to be said that the Bill has a totalitarian aspect about it; it is undemocratic and it flows from the warped minds of authoritarian people who do not accept the fundamental principle of people being able to engage in a lawful pursuit in respect of their trade union activities. [More…]
I get very cross when I hear people on the Opposition benches say that the Government is not interested in the welfare of trade unionists in Australia. [More…]
We are concerned that the trade union movement has become discredited, simply because of the irresponsible attitude of a minor number of militant trade union leaders who choose to take the people they represent along a course of strike action in what quite often I believe to be unnecessary circumstances. [More…]
In South Australia the majority of the 160 trade union representatives committed 100,000 trade unionists to support a national strike. [More…]
The people of Australia, including responsible, genuine trade unionists, look to the Government. [More…]
Many trade unionists come to me and ask what the Government will do to stop this crazy industrial disputation persisting in Australia today. [More…]
The responsible trade unionists would come to me because they realise that this Government has a responsible attitude to restoring the credibility of the trade union movement. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Backlash against striking unions’, the editorial states: [More…]
I cannot be convinced that that sort of action by the trade union movement is in the best interests of the people it purports to represent. [More…]
I hope that in the long term that will help to resolve a lot of the union troubles in Australia. [More…]
Undoubtedly many trade union problems arise from the wrong type of leadership, and I believe that the trade unionists of Australia are very apathetic in that regard. [More…]
I have a high regard for them as workers, but not when it comes to relinquishing a game of bowls in favour of going to a union meeting to elect a responsible leadership. [More…]
I am sure that the South Australian Government would also be worried that development will be inhibited because of action that may be taken by certain irresponsible sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
It appears that the Australian Workers Union and some other unions are anxious to develop the mining potential of the northern part of the State. [More…]
For instance, in September 1976 Mr Justice Ludeke ordered a secret ballot of members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters’ Employees’ Union employed as sprinkler pipe fitters to determine whether those members of the union were prepared to work normally in accordance with their award. [More…]
On 1 May 1979, in a Question Without Notice to my colleague Senator Durack, you sought information in respect of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and, in particular, the ordering of secret ballots to determine the attitude of union members to industrial action. [More…]
Moreover, a ballot endorsing strike action would effectively limit the authority of the union officials to accept in settlement of the dispute something less than initially demanded. [More…]
For instance, in September 1976 Mr Justice Ludeke ordered a secret ballot of members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters’ Employees’ Union employed as sprinkler pipe fitters to determine whether those members of the union were prepared to work normally in accordance with their award. [More…]
A significant factor in this case was the union’s refusal to allow its members to vote on Commissioner Brown ‘s proposal for settlement of the dispute. [More…]
This applies not only to the trade union movement but also to the general public and to strikers. [More…]
An attempt will be made to place the blame for unemployment on the trade union movement and to deprive members of the public of certain services or goods when election time comes around. [More…]
Now the trade union movement is accused of causing the very thing that people really believe has been caused by the policy of the Government. [More…]
Unions were formed even before that time. [More…]
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were deported to Australia, were agricultural labourers who formed a union to better their conditions. [More…]
In Australia we have had a Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Act since 1904 to regulate wages and we had unions and strikes even before that Act. [More…]
Machinery was devised to impose various restrictions on workers and unions. [More…]
I believe that Senator Jessop pointed out the trouble that occurred over union ballots which the trade unions resisted. [More…]
Now that we have secret ballots, the unions are electing communist leaders. [More…]
The percentage of the union that elects the leaders is that percentage which the Government of which the honourable senator is a member decided in its legislation had to vote. [More…]
Even if the Government abolished or disfranchised trade unions, as it is seeking to do, it would not stop strikes. [More…]
At one time the act of deregistering a trade union imposed hardships upon it and led to the formation of a scab union within the organisation. [More…]
When the Building Workers’ Industrial Union, the last union to which this happened, was deregistered, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners functioned in its place and made inroads into the BWIU membership. [More…]
The Government deregistered the Builders Labourers’ Union, but it has since fought even harder than it did before to get wage increases. [More…]
The solidarity of the trade union movement which has been forced upon it by the Government’s legislation is such that today one does not find scab organisations forming in industry. [More…]
While we may say society is against strikes, trade unionists are not foreigners in their ideology or in their acceptance. [More…]
Just as you cannot get rid of strikes, you cannot get rid of the trade union movement either, because unions are here as a part of our industrial life. [More…]
We have to meet with the unions; we have to seek and get some common ground on which talk to them. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions may have been wrong by not going to the conference that was called, but does one seek to scrap it because of fault in someone else? [More…]
Can we not consider the redistribution of wealth and the economy of Australians in talks wider than the trade union movement? [More…]
During my time in the trade union movement in a secretarial position, when there were strikes I found that they were not all caused by wages claims, they were not all caused by the employees and were not always due to a decision of a union. [More…]
Men strike and put a ban on a particular job without any reference to the unions. [More…]
Admittedly union powers when exercised as they frequently are, in an arrogant way, are anti-social, yet severe repressive measures can succeed only if some very wily and wellthought out initial preparation of the ground is first resorted to. [More…]
I know that there has been a lot of discussion in this chamber about the National Labour Consultative Council and the fact that union representatives were not at one of its meetings. [More…]
I believe that, while the union leaders were not there- and it can be pointed out that they brought on their own heads a great deal of trouble by not being present and not discussing items- that was so well known and the Government might have made available to them the contents of this Bill at an earlier stage. [More…]
I notice also that reference has been made to a 1 930 case, that of the Australian Railways Union against the Victorian Railway Commissioners. [More…]
I am reminded of the fact- I think it was set out in the Amalgamated Engineering Union case of 1967- that the Parliament can pass laws that deal with procedural matters but not directing the methods by which the conciliation and arbitration function is carried out. [More…]
It has been pointed out that that may be a small part of a union, perhaps a rebel part of a union organisation. [More…]
That is a power to deregister a union at any time within six months. [More…]
It also enables the Government to do other things in regard to the unions and their members. [More…]
It is vicious, anti-worker and anti-union. [More…]
Senator Bishop pointed out to Government senators their misgivings and the collision course on which the Government is embarking, as well as the excesses in which the Government is indulging in wanting confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
He is a man who, throughout his adult life, has been associated with the trade union movement, including the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
For a considerable period he was on the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It has engaged in legislation by reprisal as far as the trade union movement is concerned. [More…]
That amending Bill provided for the deregistration of unions, the seizing of union funds and property, fines on officers and rank and file trade unionists, suspension from office of union officers, and the debarring of members of trade unions from elevation or election to full time or part time office in their union. [More…]
It provided that a union could be fined an amount of $250,000- a quarter of a million dollars- if it was found to be engaging in so-called secondary boycotts. [More…]
This legislation we are discussing this evening is just as much a part of the same pattern of attack against the trade union movement as the pieces of legislation in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]
The Queensland essential services legislation provides for the imposition of massive fines, the deregistration of unions, the encouragement of scab labour against unions, and the sacking of employees who go on strike. [More…]
It also allows union property to be sold off for payments of fines imposed under this legislation. [More…]
Already in Queensland one employer organisation has roundly condemned the Bill, and I refer to the Queensland Motor Industry Associated Ltd, a registered union of employers under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act and a registered body corporate under the Companies Act. [More…]
It was sent to me from Geneva some years ago by a top trade union official who was representing Australia at the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
I read it three or four times a year to keep me abreast of what justice is required for freedom of association not only in trade unions but also in employer organisations. [More…]
But now, with this unprecedented situation in the country where a former President of the Court, a justice, 25 commissioners and, the final climax, President Sir John Moore have expressed opposition to the Bill, I think the time is opportune to refer to the document which is entitled ‘The Protection of Trade Union Rights: Twenty Years Work by the Committee on Freedom of Association.’ [More…]
The Committee not only protects the rights of association of trade unionists but also protects the rights of associations of employers. [More…]
Early in his speech Senator McAuliffe referred to the terms ‘anti-worker’ and ‘anti-union’ in exactly the same context, as though the two were synonymous. [More…]
I submit that that is not so and that, in terms of the legislation before the Senate tonight, the words he was using relate to the support of workers and in no way destroy the unions in a constitutional way. [More…]
In so doing, it was fairly clear that Senator McAuliffe sees this legislation as an attempt somehow to undermine the freedom of association of trade unions. [More…]
The point is that in his speech there was no indication of any attempt in this legislation to cut across the freedom of association of any trade union, whereas the core of this legislation is to provide an opportunity for particular workers and individual members of a trade union to express their views in a free way. [More…]
I understand that this showed a very great concern with the union movement and its activities. [More…]
It would appear that this legislation is designed to undermine the arbitration and conciliation set-up in this country in the hope that industrial matters might be referred back again to the States so that the Government can divide and rule the trade union movement, can take another blow at the unity of the national trade union movement. [More…]
He gave an indication of the real attitude of the Government to the trade union movement when he said that the Government is prepared to take such legislative action as to ensure that the community is protected against the actions of industrial gangsters. [More…]
This Bill will take its place in the mosaic of legislation to suppress and to destroy the unions. [More…]
The Government is forcing the trade union movement into reciprocal, equal and opposite reaction and the movement would not be able ever to raise its head again if it allowed this attack on its existence to occur without staging a full fight. [More…]
It is strange to hear the Attorney-General arguing about the chances that the Australian Council of Trade Unions had to consult with the Government. [More…]
When I raised the matter, the Attorney-General said that the Government had no intention of discussing that section, which relates to the proposed deregistration procedures which allow the Executive to almost take control of a union. [More…]
Can it be said that the deregistration procedures will in any way help the unions? [More…]
The minister has the power, under certain prescribed pro forma, to take control of the unions and to affect the rights of members. [More…]
Is it any wonder they have been rejected by the trade union movement? [More…]
I believe in what I am saying now and it is reinforced by my experience of trade union work over 30 or 40 years. [More…]
That illustrates his attitude to the whole of the Bill and his attitude to the trade union movement. [More…]
Everybody, including honourable senators, knows that that came under the scrutiny of not only the trade union movement but also of the employers and more particularly the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The views of the trade union movement about this have been put to the Government, but I will put them again. [More…]
The union movement also states that this will make it more difficult for commissioners to perform their work of conciliating and arbitrating; further, the knowledge that whatever decision a commissioner comes to is subject to the approval of a deputy president will tend to lower the confidence of parties in the conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
I would recommend to any union that it have such a safety clause inserted in its award. [More…]
I do not believe that a union should run to the industrial court every time a safety measure comes up and men have to stop work to safeguard their lives. [More…]
I turn to the next provision that I consider to be entirely unacceptable to the trade union movement, that is, proposed new section 143a. [More…]
When the declaration is made, the Governor-General may freeze the whole of the funds of that union. [More…]
In effect, the Minister can decide who shall or shall not be the secretary of that union and who can or cannot go to a union meeting. [More…]
In some areas there is need for the training of both trade union representatives and managers. [More…]
Anyone who believes that only the managers and not the trade union delegates- the people who are dealing with each other- should be trained is mistaken. [More…]
Members of the union elect their leaders because of the job they can do. [More…]
If any government or court tries to interfere, to say, You shall not have Joe Blow as your union secretary’, there is immediately great resentment. [More…]
No one wants to go on strike but today if a union puts in a claim and does not go on strike the claim will never be heard. [More…]
Somebody said that the union could be deregistered. [More…]
The unionists were so inflamed at that time that they said: ‘Well, come on, let them try’. [More…]
Most of the people on this side of the House who have spoken in the debate have been active trade union members in the past, have been officials of unions and have played a very prominent part in the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
They are fully aware of the problems faced by the trade union movement, unlike the people opposite who have introduced this legislation and who have spoken to it. [More…]
You would be hard put to find three or four on the Government side who have ever worked in conditions covered by a trade union movement. [More…]
I heard my colleague Senator Douglas McClelland tell the Senate today that a Liberal or conservative Tory Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce, lost his seat many years ago because he took on the trade union movement with some very oppressive legislation. [More…]
I have been a trade union officer, out on the job, out in the back country, and I know that no working man goes on strike without good reason. [More…]
That means that we reach a situation where two members of an organisation who create an industrial dispute could bring about the deregistration of a union. [More…]
We had a situation in South Australia prior to the State election with the bus employees union where people went along to the depots, agitated for strike action and drove out of the depot with stickers on their cars asking for people to vote for the Tonkin Government. [More…]
They were not true trade union people. [More…]
When this legislation is passed we will see the situation where provocateurs will go along to a trade union meeting and provoke a strike, and that union will face deregistration. [More…]
This will suit this Government in its endeavour to bring the trade union movement to its knees. [More…]
I have no doubt that the right wing of this Government will see that the provocateurs are planted in unions and cause a strike so that it may bring about the deregistration of the union. [More…]
That is what the Government will do when this legislation passes through this House, and it will be a very black day for the trade unions and the work force of Australia. [More…]
We heard Senator Jessop today saying that many trade unions members come to him with their problems. [More…]
That is an admission by the Prime Minister that the Government has deliberately gone into the courts of this country and opposed any increase in line with the consumer price index for the trade union movement; but then it wonders why it has strikes on its hands. [More…]
How does the Government expect members of the trade union movement and their families to live when inflation is on the rise when it will not even grant them the equivalent of the CPI? [More…]
Senator Jessop, the person who now occupies the Chair, entered this debate tonight and claimed that the trade union movement in South Australia was frustrating the Tonkin Government. [More…]
So, we have already got the warning from Senator Jessop that the trade union movement in South Australia will be made the scapegoat for the Tonkin Government’s failure to carry out its election promises. [More…]
We will find Senator Jessop, Senator Young and Senator Messner getting up, as Senator Jessop has forewarned us, to say that it is all brought about because the trade union movement will not do a fair days work in South Australia. [More…]
It is similar to this oppressive legislation on the trade union movement. [More…]
The other point that Senator Jessop did not tell us tonight but which has been freely bandied about in South Australia is that Mr Brown is shortly to introduce legislation to abolish preference for trade union members. [More…]
These people will not have to be in a trade union because, as Mr Brown has said, one of the first things he is going to do is to abolish preference for trade union members. [More…]
I think that references to anything to do with the trade union movement, no matter how it is brought about in this debate, is pertinent to the legislation that we have before us, despite what Senator Rae might think. [More…]
To get back to what you said, Mr Acting Deputy President, when you spoke to this Bill- I could hardly be prevented from making some reply to it because you said that it was time that the Liberal Party got together with the trade union movement. [More…]
I was very interested to read an article in today’s Melbourne Sun under the heading ‘Liberals plan a union move’, which states: [More…]
The South Australian Liberal Party may become directly involved in trade union affairs, particularly union elections. [More…]
A radical suggestion for the party to endorse Liberal candidates in union elections will be put to the annual meeting of the party’s State council next week. [More…]
How timely it is that the Liberal Party had a fresh approach to the trade union movement and tried to talk with it instead of talking against it all the time. [More…]
Members of the Government stand up in this Parliament day after day and accuse the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party of working hand in glove, yet here we have a statement emanating from the South Australian Branch of the Liberal Party that the trade union members do not align themselves with political parties. [More…]
I say that it is high time that the Liberal Party did have some consultation with the trade union movement and its members. [More…]
The paper also seeks to establish MPs’ roles in raising the Liberal profile in union affairs. [More…]
It is within this new atmosphere that the Liberal Party must adopt a fresh approach towards the trade union movement and conduct of industrial relations, ‘ the paper says. [More…]
It says non-Labor in conservative government traditionally has been regarded by union hostility and suspicion. [More…]
There will be more hostility to the Liberal movement and it will be no good people like Senator Jessop coming into this chamber and saying that he has had representations from trade union members to fight a case for them because they will have no trust in him. [More…]
The very thing that the Government is doing, against that convention, is contained in clause 15 of this piece of legislation- the dissolving and the deregistration of trade unions. [More…]
The Government thinks that with the article it put forward to the Melbourne Sun today, it is going to have a better rapport with the trade union movement. [More…]
In conclusion, I again warn every trade unionist in this country. [More…]
As a person who has been a trade unionist ever since about 1935 and who is still an active member of a trade union, and proud to be one - [More…]
Senator Walters is a pretty poor example of a trade unionist, the way she comes in here and bashes the trade unions every opportunity she gets. [More…]
She ought to be ashamed to say that she is a member of a trade union. [More…]
In conclusion, I say that it is high time that this Government got down off its high horse, had discussions with the trade union movement and tried to solve problems in a conciliatory manner instead of going at it like a bull at a gate and doing what its Prime Minister said in the parliamentary dining room in 1974, that is, that if ever he became Prime Minister he would take on the trade union movement and teach it a lesson. [More…]
Reference has been made to the communists in the union. [More…]
I think it is unionists who are in the unions. [More…]
Another of these big bad wolves in the trade union movement is Harold Pedon, a communist, who I believe has very high principles indeed. [More…]
I was president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and president and vice-president of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, and the meetings I enjoyed most were the monthly shop stewards ‘ meetings. [More…]
Anyone who wishes can make inquiries about what goes on in the union movement. [More…]
The Government is now taking things to a stage where the unions will draw out of it. [More…]
I would find it very difficult indeed to dissuade union members from pulling out, and that is what a lot of shop stewards will want to do. [More…]
The unions will pull out. [More…]
Marx and Pedon and the others continually argue for their unions to stay in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for the sake of the smaller unions, but the Government is now dragging them to the stage where they will pull out, and that will be on the Government’s head. [More…]
In fact, only the last provision- that is, that dealing with the deregistration of unions; I propose to say something further about that- directly deals with unions or the position of unions or could be said to meet in any way the violent objections which the Opposition has made to this measure. [More…]
That may not be surprising as it seems to be the attitude adopted to this measure by the trade union movement from the word ‘go ‘. [More…]
Another criticism of the Government is that it did not consult with the trade union movement on these matters. [More…]
As I said yesterday when I was speaking in the preliminary debate before we commenced consideration of the Bill, the Government sought consultation with the trade union movement through the National Labour Consultative Council in the ordinary way. [More…]
That tripartite body comprises the peak employer organisations, peak union councils and the Government. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street), when he heard that the peak union councils would not be present at the meeting, wrote to them and told them that at the forthcoming meeting, which they said they would not attend, these legislative proposals would be on the agenda. [More…]
Further, after the meeting of the NLCC failed to produce consultation with the peak union councils, the Minister sent a copy of these proposals to the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations. [More…]
That shows that from the beginning of the public debate about these proposals there has been simply an attitute of shutting the mind on the part of the trade union movement. [More…]
It was regarded, apparently, as much more important than the proposal to deregister unions. [More…]
The Opposition is now saying that this legislation is aimed at union bashing and so on. [More…]
In my experience with the process of conciliation and arbitration one of the great complaints of workers and one of the great complaints of trade union leaders is the long delays that take place from the time a log of claims is lodged with the Commission to the date of the hearing. [More…]
Whilst it is true that the Bill provides as a preliminary step that a declaration has to be sought from the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, once that declaration is obtained at any point in the six months following the Cabinet may decide to deregister a union or exact some lesser penalty for any reason which occurs to the Cabinet as being sufficient and good. [More…]
Not only may the Cabinet deregister the union or deal in a lesser way with the union in that six months, once the deregistration is achieved it requires permission from the Cabinet for the organisation to be reregistered. [More…]
He will recall that recently I asked him a question concerning the voting by the Australian delegate to the International Whaling Commission on a proposal by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for a permit to take 1,508 sperm whales in the 1979-80 season in the southern hemisphere. [More…]
-My Department has been informed by the Secretary of the International Whaling Commission that the result of the vote on the proposed amendment by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was: Three in favour, 16 against and three abstentions. [More…]
I would like a specific assurance that the Bill will in no way inhibit the rights of a member of a trade union, an ethnic group or anyone else to utilise the functions of the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status in the case of people such as the woman from Iran, or a tourist from any other country where a civil war breaks out overnight or a coup d’etat takes place. [More…]
If a trade unionist were to express concern about how many people can come into the country he would be accused of being a Luddite by some honourable senators opposite. [More…]
It was preceded by discussions with the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
One story was that when they joined the Storemen and Packers Union other people were anti-union, non-union or whatever one likes to call it. [More…]
I listened to what Senator MacGibbon said about whether the Queensland Branch of the Storemen and Packers Union has a closed book to some people. [More…]
I warn the Government that it has to have fairly constant consultation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Labor Council. [More…]
Even though the paid union official might be the best in the world, when it comes to a question of stability in a factory around Redfern, the person concerned says: ‘Will I or someone else get it? [More…]
I am thinking now about the Printing and Kindred Industries Union and the unskilled woman between 35 and 45 who works on a press. [More…]
It is people like her who pay the salary of the union secretary. [More…]
Is there anything in the legislation that negates action by a trade union to see that, in addition to a penalty being imposed on the employer for breaking the immigration laws, the employer is also prosecuted for underpaying the person concerned? [More…]
I plead with honourable senators on this side of the chamber who are connected with the trade union movement to think about that deeply and realise that those of us making this sort of suggestion are not trying to undermine the union movement; we are not against principles of fair and equal pay, but we see this problem and the difficulties that have come about. [More…]
So that a budget which is now running at $12m, introduced as I said in order to assist the printing industry to keep people in that industry, to keep members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union in jobs in order ensure that the printing industry survived in Australia, in order to ensure that it remained a viable commerical enterprise in Australia, has now been perverted in that fashion. [More…]
1 ) Has the Industrial Relations Bureau investigated industrial relations at the West Footscray Engineering Company following the dismissal of Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union shop steward, Adrianno Trombelli, upon his return from leave during which he brought his mother to Australia from Italy; if not, why not. [More…]
However, the Industrial Relations Bureau has advised me that to the the best of its knowledge a number of employees of W. H. Wylie & Co. Pty Ltd were dismissed in circumstances which gave rise to a belief in certain quarters that the dismissals could be attributed to their union activities. [More…]
and (6) The Industrial Relations Bureau has advised me that on the information available to it, it is unable to indicate the industrial status of a Mark Whitmore, or the employment and union membership position of an Ellen Hardman or a Fiona O ‘Callaghan. [More…]
Australia will be contributing in 1979-80 to the International Planned Parenthood Federation ($180,000; and to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population ($25,000), both Non-Government Organisations. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen newspaper reports that there are at present 20 companies of Soviet combat troops in Afghanistan which have allegedly been sent into that country by the Soviet Union in order to defend the Government of Afghanistan against the present insurgency? [More…]
The Code in its preparation was sent to over 90 organisations, including governments, employer groups and unions. [More…]
The Code was stated to be an ‘authoritative document’ by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and no union has objected to the Code. [More…]
In the early sixties, the United States and Soviet Union had some hundreds of nuclear warheads each. [More…]
For example, the comprehensive test ban treaty is being negotiated by the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Great Britain, while the treaty on the prohibition of chemical weapons remains the province of the two super-powers, the United States and the USSR. [More…]
The deployment of these missiles by NATO is based on distrust of the Soviet Union and a growing realisation that the United States would not necessarily risk a nuclear war in the event of Western Europe being attacked by Warsaw Pact forces. [More…]
This growing level of distrust has caused the West to reject an offer by the Soviet Union to withdraw a limited number of troops and tanks from East Germany over the next 12 months. [More…]
The Soviet union has also offered to cutback the number of its medium range missiles if the West does not go ahead with its plan to upgrade its own missile arsenal. [More…]
Only last month, a report produced in France by the Prime Minister of that country proposes that France modernises its nuclear arms to match the quality of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us look at our own region, and as an example, look at the situation in Indo-China today and the massive increase in weapons into Vietnam, where it is estimated that the Soviet Union has supported Vietnam militarily by approximately 100,000 tonnes of military aid this year. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union would race to reach the maximum levels of nuclear weapons allowed under the Treaty, including missiles suitable for destroying the other nation’s offence. [More…]
It is clear that the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be growing, not shrinking. [More…]
We could talk at length of the fact that a first strike would probably destroy 140 million people in the Soviet Union in a major nuclear war and that, similarly, something like 105 million to 1 30 million would be destroyed in the United States. [More…]
Away from the Middle East, the two highest spenders on defence are the Soviet Union, which is spending between 1 1 per cent and 14 per cent of its GDP on defence, and the [More…]
carries enough warheads to destroy every large and medium-sized city in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the interpretation of this provision successive Governments have followed two basic principles: Firstly, the Government cannot permit unemployment benefit to in effect become strike pay; secondly, responsibility for sponsorship or support of a strike by a trade union must be accepted equally by all members of that union. [More…]
The Bill provides that unemployment benefit will not be payable to a person whose unemployment was or is due to industrial action by himself or by members of a union of which he is a member. [More…]
About three weeks ago, I had the difficult job of taking the Federal President of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia, Mr B. French, M.L.C., and some employer representatives to see Government spokesmen. [More…]
I am sure that the discussion which Mr Macphee had with the representatives of the rubber workers’ union will be fruitful. [More…]
When it speaks of productivity, the Government appears to expect trade unions in some areas of activity to adapt quickly to changed techniques. [More…]
My hope is that a lesson will be learnt from any long and tedious negotiations by a union or a group of unions with Ian Macphee, which results in a formula for settlement being achieved, and that the Minister will carry that experience to the Council to assist when other plans must be evolved. [More…]
The Government hopes that the problems which have arisen recently where some peak union councils have not attended meetings of the NLCC will be reviewed, and that this most important tripartite body will resume its full meetings as soon as possible, and contribute to the important subjects which it discusses. [More…]
The clauses provide that unemployment benefit or special benefits shall not be paid to members of a union put out of work by that union’s industrial action, even if the strike or industrial action is hundreds or thousands of kilometres away and the affected employees know nothing about the strike, had no pan in its initiation and may have opposed it. [More…]
Under this legislation we may have a situation in which workers who have been laid off are being paid unemployment benefit while their work mates- even people on the next bench in the same factory- may be refused that benefit because they belong to a union which is taking part in industrial action many miles away. [More…]
If he was not a direct participant but was a member of a participating union, and employed at the place of industrial action, he was not entitled to receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
If he was a member of the participating union he was not paid unemployment benefit even though he was not directly participating and not employed at the place of industrial action. [More…]
As a matter of fact, if he was a member of a non-participating union which did not disown the strike he was not paid unemployment benefit. [More…]
It merely makes the members of such a union responsible for the actions of their fellows. [More…]
I believe that if the members of one union have no say in whether their fellow members go on strike and they are stood down as a result of no work being available, the taxpayer should not pay their strike pay, which is what the Opposition’s proposal amounts to. [More…]
He demanded that any unionist who was stood down due to lack of work must disown the strike before he was permitted to be paid unemployment benefit. [More…]
The Government is saying that the responsible members of the union must have some say about whether the union members go on strike. [More…]
If I might just quote from the proposed new section of the legislation to which Senator Grimes referred earlier and about which Senator Grimes pointed out quite well that there may be neighbours who are out of work for the same reason, but because one neighbour belongs to a certain union and the other one does not, one receives unemployment benefit and the other does not. [More…]
if the Director-General is satisfied that the person’s unemployment during that period was due to another person or other persons being, or having been, engaged in industrial action- that the first-mentioned person was not, during that period, a member of a trade union of which the other person was a member, or of which any one or more of the other persons was or were a member or members, during that period. [More…]
It means that if a person in Queensland, the State 1 represent, happens to become unemployed as a result of a strike in Victoria, where one of his fellow union members has gone on strike, my constituent in Queensland, who had no ability at all to say whether the strike in Victoria should proceed or who in fact may oppose it, as Senator Grimes said earlier, does not receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
Whether it is one State or another, whether it is one neighbourhood or another, it means that people who have taken no action to provoke a strike or to ensure that a strike takes place or, indeed, who may not even agree with the action that is being taken, will not receive unemployment benefits because one of their union colleagues has gone on strike and caused unemployment in another area. [More…]
This legislation is a provision to attack the Australian union movement. [More…]
I see it as a weapon in what Mr Fraser has referred to as his armoury to fight the unions. [More…]
He was talking about an armoury to use against the union movement in Australia. [More…]
It is a petty, mean, and thoroughly repugnant piece of legislation which makes sure that a worker does not receive unemployment benefit because one of his union colleagues somewhere else has provoked a strike which has eventually caused unemployment in his area. [More…]
I support the amendment, but in doing so I give notice to the Government that its insensitivity to the unemployed, to those people in the union movement whom I have just described, and to the dependants of those people, will loom large at the time of the next election. [More…]
We on this side of the House consider the only future for disarmament, for reduction in world tension and reduction in hostilities throughout the world, is through international agreement, even though international agreements of the type that this Committee is trying to achieve are made difficult by the fact that the world is dominated in this area by the two super-powers, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The year saw a continuation of Service involvement in a range of international forums including the Whaling Commission which I have already mentioned, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, and the Endangered Species Convention. [More…]
We witnessed last week legislation being forced through the other place and through this place to deal with trade unionists. [More…]
It is more concerned with forcing legislation through the Parliament to mete out some injustices to trade unions rather than to get legislation through which will benefit the pensioners of this community. [More…]
The Government is more intent on getting this legislation through the Parliament which will bring the heavy hand of its Executive down on the trade union movement than it is in getting legislation through which will be of benefit to the pensioners. [More…]
It repeals the whole of section 107 of the principal Act and substitutes for that section a proposed new section which in short provides that people who are unemployed as a result of industrial action by members of their same union even though the industrial action may not be in the same plant, same town or same State, shall be deprived of unemployment benefit. [More…]
It has been interpreted that a member of a striking union or unions at a establishment where there is an industrial dispute is not eligible for unemployment benefits. [More…]
Members of that union whose members at other establishments are stood down, have until now been eligible for an unemployment benefit. [More…]
Members of unions at an establishment where members of other unions have been stood down have been in the past eligible for unemployment benefits. [More…]
The definition of a trade union in this Bill is also very wide because it includes a deregistered union and any organisation, association or any group of employees together working for the employment of its members. [More…]
It has the effect, in fact, of refusing unemployment benefit to any unionist whose fellow members of that union are stood down as a result of industrial action. [More…]
The unionist who is stood down and who is refused unemployment benefit may be completely ignorant of the strike or industrial action that was taken in the first place. [More…]
They may find themselves unable to get any sort of assistance, including special benefit, the most stringent of all benefits, when their work mates at the next bench or their neighbours in the next house, who happen to be a member of a different union, may be completely eligible. [More…]
The only real justification for it that one has heard in either House is the sort of justification we heard from Senator Walters last night, and from Mr Burns, and Mr Adermann in another place- that the McKenna rules, which were brought into this country in 1947 under special circumstances for special situations, provided that in some circumstances people could be refused unemployment benefit at times of a strike if they belonged to the same union as those on strike. [More…]
In fact, I have not heard the trade union movement requesting that at all. [More…]
I think most of the reasonable people in this country realise that, as has happened in other efficient and enlightened capitalist societies such as West Germany, there is urgent need for a rationalisation of the number of trade unions in this country and that industrial harmony will probably come only when an effort is made to tackle the already very difficult and complex task of bringing the unions down to a much smaller number than now. [More…]
As honourable senators would know, for our population we have one of the largest numbers of individual trade unions in the world. [More…]
There is no way with this Bill as law that any union will be persuaded to join with another union. [More…]
responsibility for sponsorship or support of a strike by a trade union must be accepted equally by all members of that union. [More…]
The Bill provides that unemployment benefits will not be payable to a person whose unemployment was or is due to industrial action by himself or by members of a union of which he is a member. [More…]
If people are not prepared to join trade unions and to share the responsibility and the expense of going to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to get a better living standard and wage structure they will be protected by this Government. [More…]
The new Liberal Government in South Australia has already stated that it is going to withdraw preferences to trade unionists. [More…]
Liberal governments, whether they be in the Federal sphere or the State sphere, will not protect a member of a trade union but they will protect the scab. [More…]
No one in the community is more despised or despicable than a scab; that is, a person who takes a free ride and takes what the members of a trade union get for him. [More…]
that the first-mentioned person was not, during that period, a member of a trade union of which the other person was a member, or of which any one or more of the other persons was or were a member or members, during that period. [More…]
If a trade union is divided into branches (whether or not the branches are themselves trade unions), the persons who are members of the respective branches shall all be deemed to be members of the first-mentioned trade union. [More…]
Right through the Minister’s second reading speech and also in the Bill we see that the nonunion member is going to be protected. [More…]
It is a sad day for the work force of Australia when we have a government in office- both here and in South Australia- taking the whip to a member of a trade union. [More…]
Surely one must have some respect for an honest trade unionist who does a hard day’s work for an honest day’s pay. [More…]
All the trade unionist has to sell is his labour. [More…]
They sat pat and got their salaries then but they are quite prepared now to deny a trade union member his pay, or even his unemployment benefit, because of some industrial dispute in which, as Senator Grimes has pointed out, he may not even have had any part. [More…]
I repeat that it is a sad day for the trade union movement- in fact, for every citizen in this country- when we now have a government in office which is prepared to mete out treatment such as this to our citizens. [More…]
This clause debars members of a particular section of the community from unemployment benefit because they happen to be members of a particular union. [More…]
They may not support the strike or be involved in the organisation of the strike but they will not get unemployment benefit because they happen to belong to the union in which the two members who caused the strike were also members. [More…]
But if they are not members of that union and there is no work for them to do, the Government will give them unemployment benefit. [More…]
I think this provision is intended to discipline people to control their unions more thoroughly. [More…]
Until such time as poverty gets so great that there is an uprising in this country, I suppose that the Government is entitled to use its ideology for the purpose of inflicting penalties upon a person who unfortunately may be a victim of either his own union striking, another union striking, or a strike that occurs for some reason over which he has no control. [More…]
If a union goes on strike because of a safety feature and members of that union employed elsewhere are affected by a hold-up in production caused by the people on strike, those people will be deprived of the unemployment benefit through no fault of their own. [More…]
Yet, it is proposed to deprive the people of that union who did not go on strike but who could have been affected by the holding up of production on a particular line. [More…]
I think it is a very hard piece of legislation and I believe that it is purposely designed to try to break the trade union movement. [More…]
-If I heard the interjection properly, I thought it was said that this part of the legislation will make the trade unions answerable to the public. [More…]
This proposal indicates that the drafters of this part of the legislation- I am not accusing the whole of the Government because I know that a number of Government senators do not agree with it- have no conception whatsoever of the day to day functioning of a union registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It is a purely simplistic approach which does not have regard to the fact that each union or registered industrial organisation has a complicated set of rules which must conform to the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and which are designed to achieve orderly industrial progress. [More…]
With the best will in the world, I give to the Senate an example of what could happen in the case of a section of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia imposing industrial action in the shape of a ban on spare parts coming across the wharf. [More…]
This would involve the shipping section of that union, a distinct part of the general membership. [More…]
As I understand it, the union has various sections which cater for the particular interests of its members. [More…]
The membership as a whole elects State officers and State executives who are ultimately responsible to the membership for the day to day running of the union. [More…]
Under those circumstances the members of that particular section of the union in the various States may be stood down. [More…]
The commissioner would have regard to whether those members of that union had any control or say over the dispute which was affecting them. [More…]
Members of the union are already losing their pay and the Government will not allow them to get unemployment benefit, as I said, in the time span. [More…]
The executive of the union has a meeting and, on behalf of all of the members who elected it, instructs those members on the wharf to lift the ban. [More…]
The members of that particular section take the view that they will not abide with the decision of the federal executive of the union. [More…]
I will come later to how the honourable senator is misunderstanding the day-to-day running of a union. [More…]
The federal executive of the union instructs its members to lift the ban. [More…]
It starts to take disciplinary action under its rules against the members of that section, but before it does that, I imagine, it would say to all the members: ‘Let us have mass meetings throughout the Commonwealth of all members of our union to make recommendations in respect of this industrial dispute ‘. [More…]
The union calls a compulsory meeting of all members of its shipping section throughout Australia, including those members who put on the ban. [More…]
Those people on the wharf who are causing all the trouble could point to this Government’s legislation passed in 1977 which enables an individual member of a union to opt out of industrial action- the very industrial action which a stop work meeting has been called to try to solve. [More…]
This Government’s legislation would give those people the opportunity to turn around to the union and say: You are a wipe-off. [More…]
The union could force the employers to stand those blokes down for the duration of the stop work meeting and the union would be liable for action under this Government’s own legislation. [More…]
That is where this Government is meeting itself coming backwards because it does not know about the day-to-day operations of individual unions and how they work. [More…]
If their colleagues in the same union are put out of work because of their going on strike as a result of an order which is contrary to or not in accordance with the provisions of an award or a determination, they can be penalised. [More…]
With due respect to the honourable senator, I have had 26 years as a unionist and 2 1 years as a union official. [More…]
But that type of situation will not be helped by introducing legislation which gives the Director-General the discretion to decide who is on strike and who is a member of the same union, but which gives the DirectorGeneral, on making those decisions, no discretion to determine whether the people on strike will get the unemployment benefit. [More…]
That will lead to further administrative difficulties; not the administrative difficulties which will arise in individual unions, which Senator Harradine pointed out, but the administrative difficulties which will arise for the Director-General of Social Services, or more often for his delegates- the people to whom he delegates the power to decide. [More…]
What will be the administrative procedure for the Director-General, a director of the Department of Social Security or an officer in a regional office to decide who is a member of a union which is out on strike and who is not? [More…]
What will the situation be when one of those people says to someone who comes in for the unemployment benefit: ‘Are you a member of X union’? [More…]
If the persons says he is not and a director suspects that he is, will the director then go to the union office and demand the list of all the members of that union? [More…]
Will that union officer give it to him? [More…]
In fact, will the union officer be entitled to give him the list of all the members of that union? [More…]
It makes almost impossible the normal activities of a trade union movement. [More…]
As Senator Grimes has pointed out, proposed new sub-section (8) closes off every escape hole concerning branches of unions. [More…]
Proposed new sub-section (8) (c) states: if a trade union is divided into branches (whether or not the branches are themselves trade unions), the persons who are members of the respective branches shall all be deemed to be members of the first-mentioned trade union. [More…]
The Director-General could be guided by a committee representing industry and unions. [More…]
The Director-General, in cases such as this, has to rely- as Senator Grimes said- on the information he can obtain from trade union organisations. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh referred to what would be key worker strikes and their effects on other employees within the same union. [More…]
The Act is now precise in what needs to be taken into account in industrial actions so that there will be no payment of unemployment benefit to members of a union which is on strike. [More…]
Senator Grimes, in his second speech on the clause, asked what guidelines would be used by the Department to determine who was or was not a member of the union. [More…]
Initial information relevant to determining whether a person is disqualified from benefit by reason of industrial action, or membership of a union whose members are engaged in industrial action, will be sought from the claimant. [More…]
They could be approached for the information necessary to satisfy the Director-General, under proposed section 107 (4), that the claimant’s unemployment was not due to industrial action either by himself or by members of a union of which he was a member. [More…]
In the case of strikes, the Department of Industrial Relations is the department which at present relates to my Department the conditions under which members of certain unions are not now eligible for benefit. [More…]
Similarly, since the Act will now state precisely that union members who are stood down as a result of a strike in which the union is engaged will not be eligible for unemployment benefit, the DirectorGeneral will be assisted by the interpretations embodied in the Act itself. [More…]
As far as administration is concerned, it must be remembered that at present we do not pay unemployment benefit to persons who are union members who are directly involved in a strike. [More…]
An extension of that practice to all members of the union would take us back, not to 1947, but prior to 1973, when the alternative rules, as they were described by Senator Grimes, were made by the then Government. [More…]
I cannot see that people not involved in a union that is in industrial dispute, but who must try to deal with their own problems that arise at times from such an industrial dispute will be unaffected. [More…]
Members of trade unions are on various salaries. [More…]
Instead of larger unions, which I believe are essential for this country, there will be a tendency through legislation such as this to divide big organisations into small groups. [More…]
A union can be in the situation where a small group of people, irrespective of what the main body of the union is doing, can call on an industrial dispute against the wishes of the rest of the members of that union. [More…]
If the national body of any union tried to take action on that, under this legislation it would be denied the opportunity. [More…]
There will not be the tendency in a union to try to confine a strike in a small group. [More…]
Because of this type of legislation, all types of unions will be forced into taking major action where it should not be taken. [More…]
If a section of a union is on strike one has to try to isolate it to try to fix up the dispute. [More…]
Under this legislation one will have to bring in all other members of the union who are affected. [More…]
Any responsible union official will have to bring all other members into mass stop work meetings. [More…]
I ask the Minister to say why the Government would impose such a penalty on innocent persons: As I mentioned to her in the example I gave, the federal executive of a union, acting on behalf of the people whom the Government would penalise, could make a decision opposing the industrial action which put other people out of work to whom the Government will not pay the benefits. [More…]
The legislation does not even say words to the effect that the restriction of benefit will not apply if the governing body of the union has not approved of the industrial action. [More…]
This restriction would not apply if the governing body of the union had not approved of the industrial action. [More…]
As I mentioned in my earlier contribution, even the Government’s industrial legislation will mitigate against a responsible union attempting to do the right thing by the Government in accordance with the Government’s wishes as we have before us in the Social Services Amendment Bill. [More…]
As I mentioned, if for example that small section of a union persists with industrial action, what does the responsible union official do? [More…]
In order to overcome a union’s problem as presented to it by the Social Services Amendment Bill, a union official would go to the offending section of the union which has a black ban on certain goods which are required for a particular factory where the members of that same union have been laid off or stood down as a result of the black ban. [More…]
Those offending members can say: ‘You, Harradine, the official of this union, have no right to call us out on a stop work’. [More…]
This is an example of what I have said about the Government’s not understanding the way that a union works and not understanding the need to have genuine and responsible participation in the decisions of the union, with the union having the ability to impose discipline through its rules. [More…]
I warned the Government, when that piece of legislation was put up in 1 977, that it would not be a deterrent to unions imposing discipline in order to achieve orderly industrial progress. [More…]
Furthermore, the Government has gone one step further and said to those people who do not want to be in the union nor take part in proper consultation and meetings in order to achieve orderly industrial progress: ‘No, you can opt out of the whole thing and you will be paid. [More…]
Just resign from the union and you will get your unemployment benefit. [More…]
In that instance decisions were taken by the governing body of the organisation elected by union members. [More…]
The governing body has the responsibility to reflect the point of view of the union members, and if its decision is wrong and it affects the ordinary union member, the union member knows what to do about it next time they elect officials. [More…]
But as in the case I first instanced- it has happened before- if the union federal executive or responsible body decides not to approve a strike, those members who have put officials into their positions will be penalised. [More…]
I do not think that is just; I do not think it is reasonable; I do not think it has an ounce of commonsense about it; and I do not think it will overcome the problems that the Government is trying to overcome- that is, to try to engender a sense of responsibility among the members of the union concerned. [More…]
That is done by creating an atmosphere in which unions will be encouraged to exhibit responsibility. [More…]
However, the Director-General has to be satisfied that a person applying is unemployed because of the strike of another member of the same union before he can refuse benefit. [More…]
In other words, is it a fact that under this legislation a person who is not on strike but who is out of work because of the strike of another member of his union can get unemployment benefit quite automatically, as it were, unless the DirectorGeneral cares to make an inquiry and satisfy himself as to the relationship between the applicant for unemployment benefit and the person actually causing his unemployment. [More…]
Much has been said with regard to trade union members who are not eligible for unemployment benefit because they happen to be members of a union. [More…]
When the Government was considering this clause it was in the essence of collective responsibility that it believed the members of the trade union movement ought to approach their responsibilities, one to another. [More…]
If members of a trade union cause a strike which in turn means that others in other unions or in the same union are stood down and there is a great deal of unemployment as a result- even if a key-worker strike is disowned by the federal executive body- it would seem to me that collective responsibility in that instance ought to be stressed. [More…]
If we were to look at the ChifleyMcKenna approach to payment of unemployment benefit as a result of strikes in the past we would see that even a member of a nonparticipating union which did not disown the strike would not be able to obtain unemployment benefit. [More…]
We are talking about confining the ineligibility for unemployment benefit to members of the union which is on strike as a result of which unemployment has been caused. [More…]
The members of the union need to treat seriously their own responsibilities before they call and participate in strikes. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) took it to the National Labour Consultative Council for discussion but the unions chose not to attend that particular meeting. [More…]
In this instance there is very precise legislation for the Director-General, knowing whether a person is a member of the union which is on strike and whether the application for unemployment benefit, is a result of industrial action, to decide that that person is not eligible. [More…]
In this instance, if he is a member of the union and his unemployment is due to industrial action of that union he is, by legislation, not eligible for a benefit. [More…]
No onus of proof needs to be found other than that he shows that he is not a member of the union which has caused the unemployment through industrial action. [More…]
if the Director-General is satisfied that the person’s unemployment during that period was due to another person or other persons being, or having been, engaged in industrial action- that the first-mentioned person was not, during that period, a member of a trade union of which the other person was a member, or of which any one or more of the other persons was or were a member or members, during that period. [More…]
How can a Director-General ever satisfy himself whether a person is a member of a particular union. [More…]
If the applicant does not have to tell him- it is not one of the matters in relation to which the onus of proof is on the applicantand the union will not tell him, the DirectorGeneral is in a hopeless position ever to carry out the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
Senator Watson asked me to comment on the query that he made with regard to a union with a very wide membership and on whether the Director-General ought to be given a further discretion. [More…]
Senator Watson that the amendments cover all union members who are unemployed as a result of industrial action taken by other members of that union. [More…]
Everybody agreed that whenever there was a dispute it was better to talk to a big union than to 20 small unions. [More…]
For example, in Queensland at present there still exist small railway unions such as the fettlers’ union, what is called the permanent way employees’ union, the Queensland Railway Sta.tionmasters Union and the carpenters’ union. [More…]
If in Queensland there was a strike over a hazard or safety matter and the members of, say, the fettlers’ union decided not to work on a part of a job which was declared to be unsafe, the people punished as a result under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and under this legislation would be the members of a small group of unions. [More…]
If a member of the Australian Railways Union, which covers the same sort of work, did the same thing, all members of that union would be affected by the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and by this legislation. [More…]
We know that over the years the small unions registered with State industrial commissions have amalgamated bit by bit and generally gone to the federal sphere. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the old system will apply and that, unless the law is changed, more unions will be created. [More…]
In that way union members will be protected. [More…]
This is allied with what Senator Watson has said, that is, we will have a silly position whereby people will be penalised because they are members of a bigger union, which is better for governments and for arbitration, instead of being in a smaller union and not being affected. [More…]
How is the Director-General to satisfy himself that a person is or is not a unionist? [More…]
I will give a guarantee right here and now that as an elected official of a union I will not provide lists of the names of my union members to the Director-General unless I am directed to do so by the members of the union. [More…]
It provides that special benefit will not be paid to a striking unionist- the same unionist who is refused unemployment benefit- whatever the degree of hardship which obtains. [More…]
A spouse who is not a member of a striking union, or who is stood down as a member of a striking union in another establishment can receive special benefit if ineligible for unemployment benefit, but the husband or wife cannot. [More…]
A spouse who is a member of the same union as his or her partner and who is stood down as a result of that partner’s industrial action, even though he or she may have voted against such action, cannot obtain special benefit. [More…]
So we have a period of limited work opportunity in relation to a husband or wife who may well belong to the same union. [More…]
I wish to refer specifically and, indeed, in some detail to the publication by the Australian Union of Students and the Western Australian Institute of Technology Guild which prepared a submission to the Minister for Education and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Let me just quote a letter about tertiary education fees that he wrote this year to the Education Vice President of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The letters in which he has stated that fact to representatives of the Australian Union of Students have already been spoken about by Senator Colston. [More…]
-Is the Attorney-General aware of an article published recently in the newspaper The National Student produced by the Australian Union of Students outlining the production process of the hydrogen bomb, which raised considerable controversy in the United States when it was first published? [More…]
He and a member of the bakers union were forbidden entry until pressure was exercised and they were finally allowed on to the settlement. [More…]
They asked that Australia send a delegation to bring together the three groups, Apodeti, Democratic Union of Timor- UDTand Fretilin. [More…]
Certainly the overwhelming number were behind the Fretilin banner, a substantial number were behind the Timorese Democratic Union- the UDT- banner and the smallest number made up the Apodeti group, which favoured integration with Indonesia. [More…]
What action has been taken in respect of the recommendation of the Working Party on Library Services in its report of April 1979 that the National Library establish and maintain a union catalogue of special materials for the handicapped. [More…]
The compilation of the union catalogue of special materials for the handicapped has commenced. [More…]
To test the proposed arrangements for the collection of the data and the creation of the union list, an initial approach has been made to three of the larger libraries which have so far submitted 3,000 entries. [More…]
When work on the union catalogue is further progressed and the additional staff recruited, attention will be given to developing the Library’s contacts with overseas programs with a view to fostering international exchange programs and to developing the National Library as a centre for international inter-library loans of library materials for the handicapped. [More…]
all libraries reporting to the proposed union catalogue contribute records containing the minimum set of date elements required by the National Library and that these records be created in accord with the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (latest edition, as revised); and [More…]
What action has been taken in respect of the recommendation of the Working Party on Library Services in its report of April 1979 that the proposed union catalogue provide subject access to non-fiction works with a view to ensuring optimum utilisation of available resources. [More…]
That the Bills’ main intent is to prohibit payments to the Australian Union of Students from students General Service Fee monies, despite the student organisations affiliation with AUS and majority student support for that affiliation. [More…]
That the Bills therefore attack a legitimate student union, apparently in order to stifle its political opposition to the present government. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs welcome the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ‘ recent proposal for a discussion in the United Nations on ‘the impermissibility of hegemonism’? [More…]
I had heard of hegemony, but ‘hegemonism’ is a term which, as I understand it, has gained particular meaning as a pejorative term in the context of the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Could aircraft be sold to Taiwan, communist China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to instance three different political regimes? [More…]
When the Labor Government introduced the Prices Justification Tribunal, it was seen not only by the government of the day but also by consumers, consumer organisations, the trade union movement and even the Press as being perhaps the only means of monitoring prices and having some form of control over unwarranted prices, particularly for essential goods. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that those amendments elicited a great deal of condemnation from the trade union movement and from the Press. [More…]
Also in the Age of 19 October 1978, appears the heading ‘Government has slapped union movement in face, Hawke says: PJT loses its teeth: Price rise wave is feared’. [More…]
It has been effective also in moderating union attitudes. [More…]
I might add also that the export of lamb carcasses is something that generates employment in Australian abattoirs and might well make a considerable contribution towards easing the lamentable tensions which have developed in the last couple of years between the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union and various farmer organisations. [More…]
Before the Minister said that the railways were handed over, I was saying that the previous Minister for Transport in South Australia, Mr Virgo, and the Australian Railways Union were quite prepared to consult with the landholders. [More…]
When I made that speech my main thrust was on behalf of the members of the Australian Railways Union who were very concerned at their possible loss of jobs and probable transfer from Tailem Bend to other centres in South Australia. [More…]
The minutes of a meeting of the Tailem Bend branch of the railways union which was held in Tailem Bend on 27 August of this year when officers of the Australian National Railways were present point out that trains to Pinnaroo had been curtailed because of the state of the track and it cannot take a full train now. [More…]
The business people of Port Adelaide, the union, the railway staff and the community generally have protested about the cutting down of the Port Adelaide freight section. [More…]
I think that in those circumstances the Minister might well consider an appropriate meeting with the South Australian Minister for Transport and with the community and the railway unions. [More…]
Having corrected those misstatements- and I say that in no vexatious spirit at all because the problem is a very real and human one- I suggest that Senator Tate should have a look at the report of Haydn Williams committee, which incidentally included a representative of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
I have found that those who would complain about such a motion’s harming our relationships with Indonesia will support vigorously the right of this Parliament to investigate the abuse of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
A report on that matter will shortly be brought down by Senator Wheeldon and no doubt it will cause some difficulties in some of our relationships with the Soviet Union. [More…]
-I present the report and transcript of the evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is an inquiry into a controversial subject, but a subject of very great importance not only to the members of this Parliament but to the people of the Soviet Union and, I would venture to suggest, to the people of the whole world. [More…]
It is an inquiry into the situation regarding the human rights of the people of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Status of Soviet Jewry- whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
After some discussion the sub-committee came to the opinion that this was too narrow a frame of reference; that the question of human rights within the Soviet Union went beyond the situation solely of the Jewish people although they did have particular problems. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia ‘s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Why is it that we should be looking at human rights within the Soviet Union, a country with which Australia has diplomatic and in many respects friendly relations? [More…]
We believe it is important that the Australian Parliament and the Australian people should be informed on the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union, for two major reasons. [More…]
The first is that the Soviet Union is a super power. [More…]
It is much more important to know what is happening inside the United States of America and inside the Soviet Union than it is to know what is happening inside Bolivia or Uganda, or for that matter in Cambodia. [More…]
I am afraid I cannot say that of the Soviet Union. [More…]
One cannot learn from listening to Radio Moscow what is the situation inside the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
That information can be obtained only by inquiries undertaken outside the official framework of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Apart from the importance of the Soviet Union as a super power, the other reason why we believe it is important to understand what is happening inside that country is that the Soviet Union is an evangelical super power. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the centre of a world-wide ideological system, a system which I would venture to say they describe, not entirely accurately- I do not want to get into a debate about that- as Marxism-Leninism. [More…]
The Soviet Union has as its declared policy the extension of the MarxistLeninist form of government throughout the whole of the world. [More…]
Whatever they have not said, whatever they may have denied, whatever they may have been accused falsely of having said, there cannot be any doubt that, in any one of the major statements made by the Soviet Communist Party or the leaders of the Soviet State on any of their great occasions, they subscribe firmly to the view that the system of Government, the social system, the political system, the economic system, which applies in the Soviet Union is not only one which ought to be emulated elsewhere in the world but also is one which they propose to see is implemented throughout the rest of the world. [More…]
Indeed they have said, as Mr Brezhnev himself has said, I think on more than one occasion, that in those countries which are in close proximity to the Soviet Union, where there is a similar form of government- countries such as Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and so on- the Soviet Union has a right to see that they do not depart from that form of government, a doctrine which was not described by Mr Brezhnev in this way but which I think has been described accurately by others as the doctrine of limited sovereignty, the doctrine which justified the intervention by the Soviet armies into Hungary in 1956 and into Czechoslovakia in 1968. [More…]
The allegation has been made that this constitutes an interference in the internal affairs of another country, namely, the Soviet Union. [More…]
proper that there should be an inquiry, whether it is regarded as interference in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union or not. [More…]
But one should not overlook the fact that the Soviet Union itself is far from loath to comment on the internal affairs of other countries. [More…]
But even the most enthusiastic and ardent admirer of the Soviet Union would not be able to deny that any broadcast on Radio Moscow, any word or line that appears within any Soviet publication, appears only because it accords with the policy and the intentions of the Soviet Government. [More…]
If an article appears in Pravda, which is the official organ of the communist party in the Soviet Union, that is an action by the Soviet Government. [More…]
The Soviet Union has had a great deal to say about situations in a number of countries. [More…]
I believe the Soviet Union is entitled to do that. [More…]
If it is free to comment on the situation in Northern Ireland and the situation in the United States and the situation in Australia and the situation in Chile, as I believe it is entitled, then we are entitled to comment on the situation inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
An additional reason why I believe it is important that we should be examining the situation with regard to human rights within the Soviet Union is that the Soviet Union is a party to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe which was dealt with in Helsinki in 1975. [More…]
The Soviet Union says that the Helsinki Accords are very important. [More…]
I believe it is important that we should look at the record of the Soviet Union with regard to the Helsinki Accords to see whether the Soviet Union has been carrying out the provisions of those Accords in the conduct of its own government. [More…]
One ought to always bear in mind what it was that Mr Brezhnev himself, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, said about the significance of detente. [More…]
If it is quite proper for the Soviet Union to point to the superiority of the Marxist-Leninist form of government over other forms of government, I believe it is equally proper for those who subscribe to a democratic parliamentary form of government to just as persistently advocate the superiority of the democratic parliamentary form of government over other forms of government. [More…]
If the Soviet Union is to say that its system is superior we are also entitled to say that our system is superior. [More…]
If the Soviet Union is entitled to point out imperfections in our system of government we are entitled to point out imperfections as we see them in its system of government. [More…]
They are of that opinion because the Soviet Union and East Germany have taken the ideological struggle seriously. [More…]
This is because East Germany and the Soviet Union have persistently put forward the proposition that their system of government is better and they have set out to expose what they regard as weaknesses in the systems of other governments while we have not done the same thing. [More…]
Imagine what would happen if we came down with a six page report saying that we had looked at the matter and that the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union is unsatisfactory? [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate, I was dealing with some of the objections which were raised in the minority report of Mr Armitage, Dr Blewett and Mr Scholes, concerning the nature of the inquiry conducted by the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union of the Joint Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
Another objection raised was the difficulty the Sub-Committee experienced in obtaining evidence concerning the Soviet Union. [More…]
that Soviet Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union had been consistently subjected to harassment and other forms of maltreatment and that their human rights had been denied, Soviet law and procedure infringed, and unwarranted punishments inflicted. [More…]
Although during the last year there has been an increase in the number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union, this Second Colloquium . [More…]
It should also be noted that the pattern of witnesses, which came before the inquiry, was partly due to the active participation of certain international groups, in conflict, with just cause, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, one can well wonder that the Soviet Union would be trembling when it has the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church arraying all its might against the Soviet Union and its allies! [More…]
I know that they have expressed opinions favourable to the Soviet Union in and out of season. [More…]
There is the World Peace Council, the World Federation of Trade Unions, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and many other such organisations. [More…]
We are all familiar with people and organisations in Australia who have warm, friendly feelings about the Soviet Union and who believe that it is a pack of lies to suggest that there is any infringement of human rights there. [More…]
Not only did they not come from the Soviet Embassy; not one person, not one single, solitary soul, was prepared to come before the Sub-Committee and say one word of praise or commendation or excuse about the record of the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
It is not that the Soviet Union is loath to provide information. [More…]
I understand that when an inquiry into the presence of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean was conducted by a Senate committee the Soviet Embassy was happy to provide information to that committee. [More…]
During the course of the evidence that the Committee heard from some people to whom I will refer in a moment, we learnt, I believe to my satisfaction- it would have been to the satisfaction of any reasonable person- that 300 dissidents are held quite improperly at any one time in Soviet psychiatric institutions, that their only psychiatric disorder is to be critical of the Soviet Union and that they include many eminent Soviet citizens. [More…]
We learnt that contrary to the Helsinki Accords, to which the Soviet Union is a party, there is not freedom of religion, there is not freedom of speech, there is not freedom of assembly and there is not freedom of migration, even when it is a case of the reuniting of families. [More…]
Among the witnesses from whom we heard was Mr Leonid Plyushch, a Soviet citizen, a man who was allowed to leave the Soviet Union as a result of pressure which was applied by the French Left, by the French trade unions, by the French Communist Party, and who still described himself as a Marxist. [More…]
It is certainly the view of the Sub-Committee that whatever the virtues may be of inquiring into human rights in the Soviet Union- I believe it was probably more important than any other similar inquiry- we would be hypocrites if we were to inquire into human rights only in the Soviet Union and not in other countries. [More…]
The participants include major industrialised countries, such as the United States of America, the countries constituting the European Economic Community, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan; middle order countries of the kind to which Australia belongs, such as Sweden and Austria; major developing countries such as Brazil; and underdeveloped countries, such as Cameroon, Congo and Madagascar. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon just made a magnificent speech denouncing the alienation of human rights in the Soviet Union and Government senators were saying: ‘Hear, hear’. [More…]
But individuals who may breach human rights (an employer, a Union or a publican for example) may be determined on a course of discrimination and in no way susceptible to public or governmental pressure. [More…]
It will no doubt seem anomalous to some that while the Federal Government has set up an Industrial Relations Bureau to prosecute union officials, it has not established an Office with the necessary resources and authority to take racists to court. [More…]
We have heard today from Senator Wheeldon about the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Soviet Union, which is obviously an excellent and most interesting report. [More…]
I suppose law in the Soviet Union has a different meaning. [More…]
This morning Senator Wheeldon, in the presentation of a report, as a citizen of Australia was able to talk about the violation of human rights in Russia because since the Second World War the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has been moved, however reluctantly, by the international movement of which I spoke, to go to Helsinki and to say to other nation states: ‘Human rights, though affecting individuals within our jurisdiction, are of sufficient international concern that we will bind ourselves to respect them’. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs advises that the Soviet Union and governments in Eastern Europe, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]
It is amazing that on the very day that this Bill was introduced, Senator Wheeldon, on behalf of an Australian parliamentary committee, was able to criticise the breach of human rights within the Soviet Union which his committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, concluded had occurred. [More…]
He was able to do that because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had gone into the world community at Helsinki and said: ‘We will be internationally bound. [More…]
Whether it be the United Nations organisation, church groups or trade union groups, they have set up groups for the purpose of studying the legislation. [More…]
It will be an interesting day when this is effective in communist countries, many of which have ratified the Covenant- the Soviet Union, for instance. [More…]
Among the countries that have ratified it are Bulgaria, Chile, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Iran, Poland and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only a few days ago in this chamber we heard a report on the state of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
What about a trade union which refuses membership to Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
A report on human rights in the Soviet Union was brought in just recently. [More…]
In fact just today the Inter-Parliamentary Union brought out its report on the infringement of the human rights of politicians in several countries in Central and South America. [More…]
Instruments could be drawn up by the Inter-Parliamentary Union or the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
Chapter 7 powers may only be exercised by the Security Council in which the great powers- the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China and France- have a veto. [More…]
We can have them in the socialist way, as people do in the Soviet Union where the Government has given people the right to think their own thoughts, to meet, to work- all sorts of things. [More…]
As Senator Mason said, the only one that we know of in the Soviet Union is reported to have blown up in the early 1960s. [More…]
The issue of membership of student organisations and the use of fees collected from the students has a long, controversial history stemming mainly from objections to the Australian Union of Students taken by students connected with Liberal Party student organisations. [More…]
As well as action taken by the Government, a number of students, most of whom were connected with Liberal Party organisations, challenged in court the rights of universities to collect student union fees. [More…]
Merely because the Government wished to deal with the Australian Union of Students and remove its financial support, it has unnecessarily eroded the autonomy of the University. [More…]
It is not as if the Government has no control over the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Certainly, it is opposed by people of great eminence in the Australian National University who could not be accused of holding views which so many people seem to believe dominate in student union policies. [More…]
The important thing, in my view, is not the provisions which may or may not relate to the Australian Union of Students, but the question about whether membership of student organisations is to be compulsory. [More…]
I must say that I am not particularly concerned about the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The Council resolves to rescind any extant resolution that would prevent it from authorising payment of moneys collected from the General Services Fee in 1979 to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Council requests the General Services Fee Advisory Committee, using the principles it has applied already in relation to advice to Council concerning distribution of that fee to recognised student bodies within the University, to advise Standing Committee what payment if any the University should permit those organisations to make from that fee for the purposes of affiliations with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
He made the usual Liberal diatribe against the Australian Union of Students in which he said it was moribund and decaying. [More…]
He said that that was his interpretation of a motion which, in fact, said that the Council had reached the stage where, having earlier in the year said that it requested student organisations to make no payment to the Australian Union of Students until the Council had considered this further, rescinded that request. [More…]
What happened last Friday at the Council meeting was that it rescinded its previous motion, which was binding in that nothing could happen, and said- it was a reasonable step forward- that it would refer the matter to the General Services Fee Advisory Committee for recommendation as to what payment, if any- I am sorry that my colleague Senator Puplick did not emphasise the words ‘if any’- should be made by University associations for the purpose of affiliation with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The issue is, and always has been, a little bit more complicated than that when one is talking about the membership of unions or associations from which the members derive some obvious benefit. [More…]
Trade unions are the most obvious context in which this question has been traditionally debated. [More…]
I will argue in a moment that the ANU association and its equivalent, the Canberra College body, are properly described as bodies of a trade union kind- an association from the membership of which the members and other people derive benefits. [More…]
There ought to be no doubt that the Australian National University Students Association- I will take it as the example because I have less information about the students’ association of the Canberra College of Advanced Education; indeed, it seems to be rather less active on all fronts than its university counterparts- is a union-type body from which its members and indeed all those students at the university do in face derive genuine benefits. [More…]
That, after all, is the nub of objection that has been pursued throughout this whole lengthy debate by the opponents of the Australian Union of Students and those who have pursued this campaign of action on particular campuses, including the campus of the ANU. [More…]
However, as within the trade union movement, the cure must originate basically from the members themselves. [More…]
It is within the students’ unions to rectify the matter. [More…]
It is a clause which is obviously unashamedly directed in the propaganda- if not of the Minister, certainly of some of his supporters, including some sitting in the galleries of this chamber- at the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The second point I want to make- this is going beyond what other speakers have dealt with tonight- whatever the situation might have been a couple of years ago and whatever views one might have had then about goings on within Australian Union of Students, is that any such clause is now quite unjustified by the recent and current state of affairs within the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
At the Special Council meetings of the Australian Union of Students on 22-24 June and 14-15 July this year it was decided to make a number of changes to the structure of AUS in response to criticism made very largely by Liberal students on the various campuses and also by the social Centre Unity group of Labor Party student leaders and their supporters. [More…]
It will help ensure that the national union concentrates its energies and attention on what it obviously ought to be concentrating on, and that is education. [More…]
A number of endeavours have been made- not least again by Senator Puplick- to paint a picture of the Australian Union of Students as not only a kind of moribund organisation but a ratbag organisation with no proper role in the business of lobbying for improvements in educational standards. [More…]
Education Information is a journal produced for all campuses and the Australian Union of Students also contributes to a document called News Notes, with short information summaries for journalists and decision-makers. [More…]
One has to appreciate that most of the Liberal students at the AUS special council voted against the first three major structural changes that I have mentioned, for the quite cynical reason that a reformed Australian Union of Students would have had greater credibility and student support, and the Federation is pledged to destroy the body. [More…]
The first concerned the refusal of unemployment benefit to some members of a union who had been stood down by their employer because of strike action taken by other members of the same union. [More…]
Did a discussion paper prepared for the South Australian State Council of the Liberal Party in Adelaide contain the suggestion that candidates for trade union elections should have their political party affiliations included on ballot papers; if so, what action, if any, is proposed to extend this principle to Federal and State elections. [More…]
The Indo-China region is a major area of concern at the moment in that the situation may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam and in turn may further involve the Soviet Union in this area. [More…]
There are a number of important issues mentioned in the report that I think the Senate ought to debate: The situation in Uganda today; the role of the Tanzanian army in Uganda; the elections that have just taken place in Kenya and in Nigeria; the role of the Soviet Union in Africa; and the situation in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia today. [More…]
Nothing could be a greater contrast to the Protestant work ethic than India’s Hinduism, a religion of natural order, of predestination manifest in fixed castes, with a transmigration of souls in union and reunion with the absolute spirit. [More…]
I did a lot of research not only of people in my union by also of people across the spectrum of society in Australia. [More…]
The trade union movement will not tolerate the doing away with them. [More…]
If a trade union leader speaks a bit militantly a Minister rebukes him but I have waited 72 hours and I have not heard any Minister, much less the Foreign Affairs Minister, give some overdue advice to the effect that a dispute of this nature is not sufficient to justify threatening allegations to the Australian public. [More…]
I say that because I have had telephone calls from Bolivians in the trade union movement. [More…]
Speaking as a trade unionist, trade unionists of the Federation of Bolivia were butchered in the streets. [More…]
A lot of the work force in Bougainville is made up of people who have Australian trade union membership. [More…]
If the answer is in the affirmative I would like the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and other unions to be kept conversant with what flows from that Government to Government discussion. [More…]
The Act now provides for nonpayment of unemployment benefit to a person whose unemployment was or is due to industrial action by himself or by members of a union of which he is a member. [More…]
I should like to refer to a report which has been presented recently by the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia who have responsibility in this area. [More…]
I want to commend the union for its concern for its members working at the Nabarlek and Ranger uranium mines. [More…]
This union is commissioned to report on the radiation monitoring of the mines, and one would hope that the companies concerned would act immediately on its recommendations. [More…]
About seven months ago an industry in Sydney which came under the award of the Federal Rubber and Allied Workers’ Union of Australia had a work force which necessitated, if a dispute arose, interpreters to handle the question at stake in the Arabic, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian and Greek languages. [More…]
If the union membership spoke one language, perhaps a motion and three amendments could have been moved and then there would have been a decision. [More…]
The Union secretary finished work on the morning shift. [More…]
The Department of Immigration had the mistaken idea that if it prepared anything it would be taking sides on what it thought was a trade union ballot. [More…]
In a situation like the one I have cited, a union with an average or below average membership may not have the resources to provide the facilities. [More…]
It may well be that unions with the membership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shiprights Union or the Australian Workers Union can do it. [More…]
Other unions cannot. [More…]
I do not envy the position the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the competitive area of office contract cleaning. [More…]
I ask that for the simple reason that you would be wasting your time sending an inspector to Commonwealth Engineering, where there is a highly organised trade union force. [More…]
I refer to the Department of Industrial Relations summary, and the item Australian Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Over a period of several months I had occasion to raise a matter which concerned trade union training in Tasmania. [More…]
The Tasmanian Auditor-General said that more than $7,000 was paid to the Tasmanian Trade Union Training [More…]
Account by the national body, the Australian Trade Union Training Authority, without vouchers. [More…]
Discussions between you and officers of my Department indicate that trade union training courses in this State ceased in early 197S, nearly four years ago. [More…]
There have been no programmes of training since 1976, despite the fact of continuing State Government funds for extended trade union training beyond that provided by the Commonwealth. [More…]
In view of these fans the Government requests you to return to me the sum of $43,326.69, currently held in the Tasmanian Trade Union Training Accounts Nos. [More…]
I would like the Department to examine the lack of vouchers for the sum of more than $7,000 referred to and, if possible, cause an audited report to be made as to the relationship between the Tasmanian Trade Union Training Account and the Australian Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I am proud to declare that I was one of the originators of trade union training in Tasmainia and that I assisted in developing the program to a standard which was the envy of quite a number of States. [More…]
The trade union training program was instituted to provide for unionists at all levels- at the shop floor level, at the job delegate level, at the organiser level and at the State official and branch official level- a program which gave to them the opportunity to obtain the expertise which would give them the ability to match employers who had these sorts of facilities available to them. [More…]
Senator O ‘Byrne has continued with his attemp to denigrate the trade union movement. [More…]
What he has said is all part and parcel of the attempt to denigrate the moderate officials of the trade union movement. [More…]
During the period under consideration proceedings were taken by the Industrial Relations Bureau against the Federated Clerks Union of Australia on behalf of one Terence Keogh. [More…]
The IRB instituted proceedings against the Federated Clerks Union in respect of section 1 44 of the Act. [More…]
As required by Section 32 of the Audit Act 1918, the Accounts of the Tasmanian Trade Union Training Programme for the period 21st January 1974 to 28th February 1 V79 have been submitted for my examination. [More…]
A relationship exists between the Tasmanian Trade Union Training account and the Australian Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
It was held in the Tasmanian Trade Union Training accounts No. [More…]
From it they will see that the Auditor-General in Tasmania states quite categorically that all the expenditure from the fund was for the purpose for which the grants were made and at no stage did he say that the amount of $7,000 was paid by the Trade Union Training Authority to the Tasmanian Trade Union Training account, unvouched for. [More…]
Party in Senator O’Byrne attacking the trade union movement and we have his fellow member of the Australian Labor Party, Senator Cavanagh, asking the Industrial Relations Bureau, which is anathema to the trade union movement, to investigate the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne has continued to make statements which reflect seriously on the integrity of officers of the trade union movement in my State. [More…]
Mr Chairman, the position has been reached that Senator O’Byrne has requested me to withdraw the statement that I made that he is reflecting on the integrity of officials of the trade union movement in my State. [More…]
If Senator O’Byrne said that he is not reflecting upon members of the trade union movement in my State and you are asking me to affirm that that is not the case, then certainly I will withdraw. [More…]
But- 1 take the point that at the present moment what we have is a request by the Labor Party for the Industrial Relations Bureau to investigate moneys which were forwarded not by the IRB but by the Department of Industrial Relations in respect of trade union training. [More…]
If a body is to make such an investigation, that body ought to be the Department of Industrial Relations, which is the successor to the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations which was the original department which provided the reimbursements for trade union training in my State. [More…]
Neither I nor any of the people who were associated with trade union training in that State would object to that taking place; that is, the Department undertaking this particular act. [More…]
Senator O ‘Byrne’s accusation was not against trade unionists in Tasmania, but certain officials of the trade union movement. [More…]
I am saying that the charges of Senator O’Byrne were not an attack on any trade union official. [More…]
I say he has some suspicion of some operators of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I realise that was a mistake because Senator O’Byrne claimed that the Australian Trade Union Training Authority, under division 376, was under the Minister’s direction and asked whether it would inquire into the matter. [More…]
Therefore, as it is Commonwealth money he wants the Minister, who is responsible for the Australian Trade Union Training Authority, to make an investigation. [More…]
There has been a long running sore about whether there has been something crooked in the Trade Union Training Authority in Tasmania. [More…]
In the same speech the Minister referred to an agreement- I assume it was with the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- which dealt with what I would be inclined to call the dilution of the status of sheet metal workers. [More…]
The activities of the fishing fleets of such major countries as Japan and the Soviet Union, which previously exploited the ocean wherever and whenever they wanted to, virtually around the globe, have now been restricted. [More…]
I know that a rather caustic motion was adopted by the 118 trade unions of the Labor Council of New South Wales. [More…]
There was a letter from one of the trade union veterans, Mr Charlie Oliver, who was involved right through on an Australian Workers Union level. [More…]
I now make a plea on behalf of an Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union activist, Mr H. Toohey, who is employed at the Mortlake gas works and is responsible for certain activities with gas mains of the Australian Gas Light Co. [More…]
It may be that the agitation of Mr Toohey and other people from the trade union movement quite apart from passing pedestrians will be the catalyst. [More…]
Mr Hawke and a substantial section of the trade union movement of Australia believe that there is an authentic job for Australia to do to keep the world out of the peril and dangers of warfare which could occur if we denied to the world an essential source of energy. [More…]
The Committee comprised distinguished representatives of education, employer and trade union interests. [More…]
Mr Frank Stevens, in his paper Migrants and the Trade Union Movement’, says: [More…]
It varies from union to union. [More…]
In some unions one sees a high participation rate. [More…]
It was produced by trade union people. [More…]
It is a quite scathing indictment of the attitude of some trade unions to migrant women, particularly those who are process workers in Melbourne. [More…]
The trade union movement has accepted this. [More…]
Some of the severest critics of the lack of participation by migrant women workers in the trade union movement, the most trenchant critics there, were in fact active trade unionists. [More…]
Bill Nowak, of Polish origin, is the secretary of the Pastrycooks Bakers, Biscuit makers and Allied Trades Union. [More…]
I know that on the Sydney scene two of the officials of the former Amalgamated Postal Workers Union are of Lebanese origin. [More…]
It would be found that one of the organisers of the Storemen and Packers Union would be of Yugoslav origin. [More…]
That applies to the Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union and otherspeople like Frank Raffello- so the tide is turning. [More…]
Senior MULVIHILL-I think that in the goodlife today one will usually receive less brickbats being a shop steward much less a paid official of a union. [More…]
Although I say it in a low key manner, I know that in regard to some Middle East groups if a shop steward is appointed from one group and not the other it requires all the statesmanship of a union official of 20 years to avoid playing favourites. [More…]
Pty Ltd and a group from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which also involves feasibility fishing operations in the waters south of 45 degrees south latitude. [More…]
A grant was recently made to the Tasmanian Training Council, which is a tripartite body composed of Federal and State government, employer, employee and union representatives concerned with developing training in industry and commerce in Tasmania. [More…]
The grant is unique to Tasmania as the Tasmanian Training Council is the only example of a State body which involves both levels of government, employers and unions as equal partners. [More…]
I intend to incorporate a document- the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) who was at the table earlier and the Acting Deputy President have agreed to its incorporation- that sets out a good story that was made to the Queensland Teachers Union by the teacher who was most affected by the dispute. [More…]
Protests were made from the Queensland Teachers Union. [More…]
If there is any criticism to be levelled at anyone it should be levelled at us both and at the House of Representatives who were representing the Parliament at an InterParliamentary Union Conference at Caracas in South America. [More…]
What is needed is a policy, to be worked out in consultation with industry and the trade union movement, which will provide a proper climate for long-term investment in the development of our resources so that the benefits of those resources and their development can be shared equitably between those who produce them and the community at large. [More…]
Was the Prime Minister correctly reported in The Weekend Australian, 18-19 August 1979, in an interview with political correspondent Russell Schneider, to have stated that trade unions have gone a long way with annual incomes of up to $ 10m; if so, which union or unions was the Prime Minister referring to. [More…]
I believe I was correcdy reported as making a general observation that trade unions are so powerful and their annual incomes often so great that they should be subject to some discipline in the interests of their own members. [More…]
Just as a company gives an annual accounting to its shareholders, so should a trade union account to its members for the disposal of their dues and any income which it derives from other sources. [More…]
Has the Australian Government concluded fishing agreements, within the 200 mile Australian limit, with: (a) Japan; (b) Taiwan; (c) South Korea; and (d) the Soviet Union, and are agreements with any other countries being negotiated. [More…]
What fees have been paid to Australia for fishing rights by: (a) Japan; (b) South Korea; (c) Taiwan; and (d) the Soviet Union. [More…]
Until the trade union movement recognises this fact and reasonable elements within it move collectively to ensure that unions act responsibly and pursue their claims within the conciliation and arbitration system, full economic recovery will be delayed even further. [More…]
In July last, the Minister for Industrial Relations in fact met with representatives of the Peak Union Councils with a request that they use their good offices to encourage their affiliates to use the proper processes of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The union representatives were unable or not prepared to give this undertaking. [More…]
It is a matter of some regret that the union representatives did not take part in those discussions. [More…]
To consult with employees through their union officials about, and give as much notice as possible of the contemplated change; [More…]
On 4 July 1974 the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, commented on a decision of the Full Bench of the Australian Industrial Court which fined a candidate in a Miscellaneous Workers Union election $450 for illegally possessing ballot papers. [More…]
There is ample evidence that supporters of the National Civic Council have been committing breaches of the law, and attempting to corrupt the conduct of union ballots. [More…]
Firstly, the allegation that previous governments had never attempted to enforce the law, and secondly, the assertion that there was ample evidence that the National Civic Council, of which I know relatively little except that it has a very vigorous record opposing communism, had committed breaches of the law and had attempted to corrupt the conduct of union ballots. [More…]
In commenting after a decision by the Australian Industrial Court in a case involving interference with a union ballot the Minister made it clear that the Government would not tolerate a situation where officially conducted ballots were interfered with in the future. [More…]
Any person who commits a breach of the Act in respect of union ballots will be prosecuted. [More…]
However, it is not proposed to embark on a search’ through the history of union elections since section 1 7 1 was inserted into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in 1949 to attempt to ascertain those cases in which action could have been taken but in which nothing was done. [More…]
-The deregistering of unions is one thing about which the Department of Foreign Affairs does not have to worry. [More…]
The Indonesian vessel Garsa Dua is subject to an indefinite ban by the Firemen and Deckhands Union in Sydney. [More…]
I understand that this is due to industrial bans by the relevant trade union on the issue of licences. [More…]