Transport company claims strike will put vaccine supplies at risk

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Australia Post-owned delivery company StarTrack has moved to terminate a planned strike by its workers over job security, claiming it will imperil coronavirus vaccine supplies | nickbonyhady

Australia Post-owned delivery company StarTrack has moved to terminate a planned strike by its workers over job security, claiming it will imperil coronavirus vaccine supplies as the rollout of the Moderna jab begins.

The union slammed that as an attempt to use the pandemic to stop its workers from protecting their jobs. “Medical supplies and vaccines are, now and always, exempted from strike action,” it said in a statement. “It is an extremely difficult manual process to separately identify and extract [vaccines and medical supplies] once they’ve entered our system,” Ms Skehan said. “Collection of vaccines and medical supplies also require drivers to collect the products and we anticipate drivers may not be available during industrial action.

 

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nickbonyhady Come on Australia, wake up before it's too late

nickbonyhady Police could be scapegoat at certain stage, whose order? Politicians are not dumb, they buy police with money from people! They can turn against police and seek people’s support anytime! Politicians are always right, isn’t it? Wake up now! OZ need a director, not a dictator!

nickbonyhady Australians FREEDOM erased by govt & locked down, forced 2x jabs or no work. Made protests illegal SHOT protesters with rubber bullets! Exercise your freedom of choice, and choose NOT to spend money ANYWHERE that enforces vaccine or no entry. All spread on all media for reform!

nickbonyhady TWU National Secretary Michael Kaine said standards were being driven down across major transport operators in Australia as the country reels from 'The Amazon Effect.' All about the money Making Australia Post more saleable

Asher_Wolf nickbonyhady I worked for auspost at the start of the pandemic, and these drivers were expected to work 7 day weeks with long hours, doing many more loads than normal, delivering everything for everyone without the same pay conditions as auspost staff. They deserve a lot of public support.

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