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ABC Journos Out The Door for 24Date: 14 March 2000
Journalists - all MEAA members - employed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are to strike for 24 hours on Wednesday March 15. The strike will affect all news and current affairs programs on the ABC's TV, radio and on-line services. "Having participated in the ballot, it's not unreasonable to expect the ABC to negotiate now with us in good faith. But instead it displays a distinct lack of any faith, leaving us no choice but to pursue industrial action...as we have said we would if necessary. Members have previously voted in order to take action if it became necessary, empowering delegates to devise forward strategy..now's the time to act in a united way for our right to a decent EBA." "I'm strongly in favour of the 24-hour strike. MEAA members have been incredibly patient during this long negotiation period. Management is not interested in a mutually beneficial deal. This action will show we cannot be bullied into accepting conditions that hurt us or future colleagues." "The ABC's disrespect for its employees has been shown all too clearly in its long, drawn-out handling of enterprise bargaining. The desire of management to strip conditions, disadvantage future employees and cut us short on back pay from this agreement are all symptoms of this. Industrial action now will not disadvantage us in terms of negotiations, and can only strengthen our position." "Industrial action isn't fun and it isn't easy. It's the only way we can demonstrate to management that they've failed to acknowledge the commitment and efforts of ABC staff. An EB that gives so little and takes so much is an insult to staff who give so much and take so little." "Given the result of the EB vote (last December), and subsequent management inaction, members now have no alternative but to force the issue." Journalist delegates decided upon strike action last Friday following the results of stopwork meetings of members endorsing a course of industrial action if ABC management continued to negotiate in bad faith. Since staff voted against management's proposals last December - and since talks began in July 1998 - ABC management has failed to consider journalists' issues and indeed journalists' claims in enterprise negotiations for a new staff agreement. Instead management has continually attempted to trade-off journalists' conditions by negotiating on the basis of other ABC staff (in particular, administrative) conditions. The CPSU has been informed of the Alliance's intended action and have been asked to issue a non-circumvention policy during industrial action.
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