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200 NSW childcare workers win!Date: 14 April 2005
Childcare workers showed this week they wouldn't be treated like pawns on a chess board - pushed around at will without any consideration of their needs, NSW LHMU Child Care Union President, Jim Lloyd, said today. Childs Family Kindergartens (CFK) are one of the fastest growing private childcare operators in NSW, swallowing up private centres across the state. They had a remarkably profitable listing on the Stock Exchange last week when it became the latest childcare listing on the Exchange. Unilateral changes" CFK came into their newly acquired centres making unilateral changes. No discussions with a workforce who have often served the local community with dedication for more than ten years," Jim Lloyd said." But childcare union members have made sure CFK understands the community won't stand for dedicated workers having to accept cuts which might affect the quality of services provided to the local kids. Angered by plan to put all the staff on probation" Many of the 200 long-serving committed staff in the 39 newly acquired centres were angered when the company announced they were putting them all back on probation - without any consideration of their years of service."
These childcare professionals were not only being told they were all on probation but:
- All accumulated sick leave to disappear;
- Sick leave rights were to be cut back to five days as though they were all Day One employees;
- Paid lunch-breaks were to be abolished;
- Annual leave rights were threatened
" It really was a major blow. So these committed professionals organised for themselves a strong union voice - and then built a winning strategy," Jim Lloyd said.
" We were ready to play to our strengths if the workplace got tough," Jim Lloyd said.
" Our new members demonstrated it with a flood of petitions and letters.
" These two hundred childcare workers have just shown they're not chessboard pawns.
" We've all won an agreement with CFK that protects childcare workers wages and conditions.
" That case could result in wage increases of over $100 per week for the state's 15,000 childcare professionals," Jim Lloyd said.
They are organising unions in the workplace to improve workplace conditions so we can create stable career-oriented professional jobs to create better services for our community's children.
Jim Lloyd
President
NSW LHMU Child Care Union 8204 8204 or 0427 214 778
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