Conga line protest outside Melbourne’s Centre for Adult Education

By Carmel Shute. Staff at Melbourne’s Centre for Adult Education (CAE) aim to stop traffic in Flinders Lane for 30 minutes from 3pm today (Thursday), over management’s threat to remove the right of staff to have the Fair Work Commission (FWC) arbitrate over disputes and grievances.
Staff will form a conga line going back and forth on the pedestrian crossing near the City Library.  NTEU National Industrial Coordinator, Linda Gale, said that management were still pressing for cuts to conditions as part of collective bargaining negotiations which have dragged on for more than two years. More...