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Protesters outside the Feltex factory at Tottenham, Victoria.
Protesters outside the Feltex factory at Tottenham, Victoria.

Redundancies payments under threat

Carpet factory workers are being forced to choose between signing an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) that downgrades current rights or losing their jobs and not receiving redundancy payments, the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) Victoria Branch alleges. The TCFUA reports a receiver has gone to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission seeking exemption from paying redundancy pay to workers who don't sign an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) and lose their job.

Carpet company Feltex Australia was recently placed into receivership, but through Godfrey Hirst's subsidiary company (the similarly-named Feltex Carpets), Godfrey Hirst is in the process of buying Feltex Australia and on October 23 signed a sale agreement that required an offer of employment to all employees at Feltex Australia. The TCFUA Victoria Branch alleges that on October 26 it was formally advised Godfrey Hirst intended to offer employment conditional upon the signing of an AWA. The union alleges this AWA significantly reduces rights and conditions.

In a separate move the TCFUA has taken Godfrey Hirst and its subsidiary Feltex Carpets to the Federal Court, alleging the offering of AWAs to workers while there was a current collective agreement in place breached freedom of association. The case will be heard December 18 to 21.

Crane worker remains on vigil

CFMEU union delegate Barry Hemsworth continues to protest outside his former employer, Botany Cranes and Forklift Services, at Banksmeadow, which he has done since he was sacked on September 6 for alleged insubordination.

An application for relief from victimisation was back before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) on November 15, but the case had not been settled. Botany Cranes and Forklift Services has also said they may challenge the jurisdiction of the NSW IRC to hear the case. The company was granted 21 days to file a notice of motion with the Commission and/or advise the Commission that they were challenging the jurisdiction elsewhere.

Mr Hemsworth is unable to file for unfair dismissal because of the WorkChoices changes to industrial relations law.

He told the Leave Your Human Rights at the Door forum on November 1: "I am now in my 57th day of my vigil and we are now within 12 months of the next [federal] election, so in the event that I am not successful in being re-instated I will give a guarantee that I will stay there for the next 12 months to highlight this government's injustice."

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