CTU Appeal – Helen Kelly Misleading

CTU Appeal – Helen Kelly Misleading
 
Affco today said the nationwide appeal by CTU President Helen Kelly to support locked out Affco workers is incorrect and misleading.
 
All the Union’s members are on strike.  A minority of the long-term strikers have been locked out and number 350.
 
Pressure to end the hardship must come onto the Union, which refused Affco’s return to work offer and instead kept workers on strike.
 
The Union is forcing hardship on its members with the ongoing strikes.  After making constructive offers to the Union, it’s now up to Union leadership to demonstrate a real desire to make progress.
 
Affco have provided an offer containing a definitive timeline to the Union that would have seen all its members back at work.  The Union rejected that offer.  Despite this, Affco lifted the lockout notice for a further 300 workers, with the Union choosing blanket strike action across all its members.
 
The Union has rejected 3 subsequent offers as they did not agree to a timeline to enter into meaningful negotiations.
 
Affco has repeatedly stated its desire to see meaningful bargaining take place, resulting in real progress towards a new collective agreement.
 
To date the Union has not shown a willingness to do so.
 
The public should also question where any donations will end up given that the Meat Workers Union still has not lodged a full disclosure of income and expenditure set of its accounts with the Registrar of Incorporated Societies despite requests to do so.

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