Published: 8 Oct 2020
Svitzer continue to use COVID19 to reduce and remove conditions from their own workforce. Svitzer want a model that is more highly casualised where employees can be on 2-hour call outs, in an uberfication of the industry. This is totally unacceptable and while the company experiences down turns in some ports a majority of ports are business as usual if not busier. As a consequence, a Protected Action Ballot (PAB) is in progress and closes within days. The MUA are hoping for an overwhelming majority of yes votes to every PAB question as an act of solidarity with all Svitzer ports and members and to maximise leverage to progress the outcomes members deserve. Its important AIMPE and AMOU support the MUA in Solidarity Local Port Operating Procedures (POPs) are also trying to be altered and forced onto employees in some areas including Adelaide. The delegates are playing a starring role and keeping the company to account and refusing to accept an altering of conditions with out genuine support of employees
