Fed: ABC staff reject non union proposal

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-1999
Fed: ABC staff reject non union proposal

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance says a ballot of ABC staff has rejected
a non-union agreement proposed by management.

The management offer and plan to place the offer outside staff unions led to a series
of stopwork meetings earlier this month.

MEAA federal secretary CHRISTOPHER WARREN says more than 2,700 of the ABC's 4,100 staff
voted by a margin of 57 per cent to 43 per cent to defeat the ABC's proposed non-union
agreement.

Mr WARREN says the federal government and its chosen ABC directors should apologise
to ABC staff and recommence negotiations for a new agreement.

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