{"id":27842,"date":"2011-11-19T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27842"},"modified":"2011-11-19T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:29:36","slug":"baiadastrike-10-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27842","title":{"rendered":"#Baiadastrike : 10 Days Later…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning at 5pm tomorrow (Sunday, November 20) there will be another BBQ at the Baiada picket (17-19 Pipe Road, Laverton North (Melways map ref. 40, D10)), followed by a rock and\/or roll concert featuring Legends of Motorsport<\/a> \/ The Sweet Teens \/ Red Rockets of Borneo \/ Rei Mond and Jess Curruthers and moar. As an added BONUS!, always-outrageous comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet<\/em> AS SEEN ON TV!<\/a> will be running a face-painting tent for The Kids–so bring The Family.<\/p>\n

In other news, Andrew Crook has exposed two of the Tories responsible for attempting to mount a counter-propaganda campaign (on behalf of the \u201cPeople Power Group\u201d) in response to the picket: Jason Aldworth<\/a> and Hamish Jones (Liberals exposed as kingmakers in bitter chicken spat<\/a>, Crikey, November 17, 2011).<\/p>\n

Aldworth was the bRanes behind the “Alliance of Australian Retailers”, a tobacco industry-funded front<\/a> formed just prior to the 2010 Federal election to campaign against the plain-packaging of tobacco products, while Jones apparently *s in the 2003 doco State of the Union<\/em> re the downfall of the Melbourne University Student Union, got a bit of stick for publishing some unkind words<\/a> on his blog in 2007, but has since graduated to become a Whirling Dervish<\/a> in the world of social media<\/a> (with just occasional forays into Politics<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Baiada has been kicking union ass in the courts, with Fair Work Australia ordering first union officials then union members to leave the picket<\/a>–or else. Nonetheless, while industrial wreckers of one sort or another remain on-site chickens are becoming scarcer (see<\/em> : Strike threatens chicken supply<\/a>, Ben Schneiders, The Age<\/em>, November 17, 2011). Meanwhile<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…the issue in dispute at Baiada, which centres on attempts to restrict the use of contractors, will be challenged in the Federal Court. The Australian Industry Group will ask for a judicial review of a Fair Work decision involving electrical contractors. That decision approved a workplace agreement in Victoria that ensured that temporary workers would be paid the same as in-house workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*shrugs*<\/p>\n