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Colebatch spits the dummy
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Richard Colebatch, the boss of Kemalex Plastic in Dangenong, explained to The Australian why the company recently closed the Melbourne plant transferring his operations to Adelaide. The National Union of Workers was involved in a bitter 10-week strike to try and prevent Colebatch forcing workers becoming individual contractors. At the time many believed the dispute was a foretaste of life after Howard's IR laws were passed. Under the proposed legislation a simular strike to protect basic conditions would be illegal. Colebatch's rant in The Australian will anger you but gives an insight into how bosses could try and use the new IR laws to break union resolve.
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