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SA UNIONS
OPPOSES "STARVATION" TACTICS
9 September 2006
SA Unions has pledged to support Radio Rental technicians in their struggle for fair wages and conditions via a Collective Agreement.
SA Unions Secretary, Janet Giles says the company is using the new Industrial Laws to erode workers' entitlements.
"Radio Rentals has locked out its workers for a month. Under the new federal industrial laws, workers have no recourse to the Industrial Relations Commission - effectively it means the company can try to starve them into signing Individual Contracts."
"These workers have taken legal, protected industrial action in order to get a collective agreement to get decent working conditions and wages."
"The Company's response has been extreme - an entire month without work. It's an attempt to drain workers' resources and drain their resolve. The company wants to starve its workers into accepting a shoddy deal."
"SA Unions will help these families
to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads". "Meanwhile workers, their families and supporters will turn the tables on Radio Rentals - and the federal government's new industrial laws - by leafleting outside Radio Rentals stores in the three key marginal seats of Makin, Kingston and Wakefield".
"Shoppers will be given leaflets alerting them to the tactics used by Radio Rentals against its workers, and how the federal government must carry the blame for introducing laws which can be used to hurt working families."
"We want to ensure that voters in these marginal seats understand that they have the power to get rid of these unfair laws by getting rid of the Howard", Ms Giles says.
"Perhaps Radio Rentals might act more fairly if it starts to feel public pressure. And perhaps the federal government might get the message that Australian families will not tolerate laws which can seem them starved and blackmailed into unfair individual contracts", Ms Giles says.
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