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Post by spatial on Aug 24, 2021 21:33:15 GMT 10
It has been posted on here before. Truckies Australia have been near breaking point for many years, poor salaries as cost of living goes up. Harassment on the road, working hours - log books etc... The national lockdown may just be the thing to get the famous Australian strikes going again. I have a friend in the transport industry so just spoke to him on a social media chat. He said to me what I hear is going on "you need to stock your pantry, fridge and what other supplies you need". Who knows if it will happen but things are getting unstable, potests' in lockdown areas despite police issuing $1000, fines... Tension will boil over and things can get ugly. Toll truck drivers have also now called a dispute and strike action. Another development threatening to throw a major spanner into the works of an already chaotic, Covid-hit supply chain is truckies at Linfox and subsidiary Bevchain applying on Wednesday for protected action “over similar attacks to job security including wanting to bring in new employees on second-tier rates”, the union says. There are now more than 15,000 truckies heading towards strikes, the TWU says.www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/police-aware-of-rogue-truckie-protest-circulating-on-social-media/news-story/15104ca03f7aac151a76b176952c6ecfwww.zerohedge.com/covid-19/australian-truck-drivers-vow-block-every-major-highway-radical-anti-lockdown-strike7news.com.au/news/nsw/strike-called-by-toll-truck-drivers-amid-long-industrial-dispute-with-logistics-company-c-3756923Massive disruption to trucked goods could be the result of thousands of drivers striking in a dispute with Toll. However the logistics company has vowed “goods will be transported” despite warning the action puts COVID-19 pandemic-related items, including vaccines, at risk of limbo. The Transport Workers Union says food and fuel supplies will be disrupted this weekend by the planned strike on Friday. Drivers have been in a long-running dispute with Toll management over job security, with the union claiming almost all of the 7000 workers involved are in favour of the “last resort” strike. The Transport Workers Union has distanced itself from a planned protest by rogue truckies on major highways, which its organisers threaten could “shut the country down” due to grocery supply disruptions. A man identifying himself as a truck driver has claimed a group of his fellow truckies are planning to carry out protests against lockdowns on highways across Australia. Truck drivers are at breaking point across the country due to the exhaustion of Covid-19 testing, interstate border closures and deadline pressures. In the video circulating on social media, the man warns Australians to rush out to grocery stores and buy food “for the next week or two” because supply chains would be interrupted. “It’s on. The truckies are doing it,” he said in the video. |
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Post by frostbite on Aug 25, 2021 4:58:50 GMT 10
It shows how irrelevant and spineless our unions are when employees have to organise their own industrial action.
I quit my union a few years ago because all they do is rubber stamp management decisions. Posties have about had enough as well, with some talk of go slows and overtime bans. Some are already taking action, and I'm told Post is already reimbursing some corporate customers because their product is not being delivered. You'd be astonished to see how many parcels are delayed because a lot of posties are refusing to work 65hrs a week, and how much advertising material gets binned because it is weeks overdue and still not delivered.
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Post by norseman on Aug 25, 2021 5:17:44 GMT 10
It shows how irrelevant and spineless our unions are when employees have to organise their own industrial action. I quit my union a few years ago because all they do is rubber stamp management decisions. Posties have about had enough as well, with some talk of go slows and overtime bans. Some are already taking action, and I'm told Post is already reimbursing some corporate customers because their product is not being delivered. You'd be astonished to see how many parcels are delayed because a lot of posties are refusing to work 65hrs a week, and how much advertising material gets binned because it is weeks overdue and still not delivered. Some Union Officials are only interested in ripping off member funds or using the Union as a stepping stone to Parliament! Remember this bloke:- Craig Robert Thomson is an Australian former trade union official and a former politician implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair. On 15 December 2014 Thomson was found guilty in the County Court of Victoria of thirteen charges of theft, and later convicted and fined A$25,000. And this one:- Kathy Jackson was the national secretary of the Health Services Union of Australia between January 2008 and February 2015. In August 2015, Jackson was found by the Australian federal court to have misappropriated union funds and was ordered to repay $1.4 million in compensation, with a criminal investigation pending. She was later found guilty and received a suspended sentence. And this one:- Michael Alexander Williamson is an Australian former trade union official implicated in the Health Services Union of Australia (HSU) expenses scandal. In October 2013 Williamson pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud totaling nearly A$1 million, one charge of fabricating invoices and another charge of recruiting others to hinder a police investigation. The same day that he pleaded guilty, Williamson declared himself bankrupt. An earlier independent report commissioned by the union detailed that companies associated with Williamson and his family had allegedly fraudulently received more than $5 million from the union in period from 2006 to 2011. In the NSW District Court in March 2014, Williamson was sentenced to seven–and–a–half years of imprisonment; with a non–parole period of five years. |
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Post by norseman on Aug 25, 2021 5:54:53 GMT 10
Need to keep an eye out for this one folks! Seems like it's gaining traction both nationally and internationally, could become self-fulfilling!
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Post by Beno on Aug 25, 2021 6:56:46 GMT 10
Unions went from blue collar thugs to white collar crooks. At least when they were blue collar you knew why you were being fingered. These white collar dirtbags you just can’t see why they get paid at all let alone how they are representing you. We need unions but they don’t do themselves any favours., I won’t join one until they actually start to represent the workers but without the thuggery or striking when the country and people are at their lowest point i.e. now, and the wharfies being grubs when we were trying to fight ww2 and Vietnam.
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Post by norseman on Aug 25, 2021 7:49:04 GMT 10
My grandfather told me when the troop ships got back into Sydney Harbour in WW2 they took all the rifles away before disembarkation because the threat from diggers to shoot wharfies on sight was very real! Gutless TWU can be listened to right here:- www.2gb.com/union-condemns-truckies-radical-threat-to-take-back-australia/Union condemns truckies’ ‘radical’ threat to ‘take back Australia’The Transport Workers’ Union says truck drivers threatening to bring the country to a standstill are not supported by the union. Police are concerned about a possible national strike next Tuesday over long delays crossing state borders and the push for mandatory vaccines. 2GB has been sent videos of truckies attempting to organise the industrial action, which they warn will leave supermarkets bare. TWU National Secretary Michael Kaine told Ben Fordham industries need to be consulted over “snap health decisions” but the planned strike is “not a TWU sanctioned approach”. “There’s a right way and a radical way. I understand the anger that underpins this but I think we all need to take a step back and look at the underlying issues and seek rectification of those.” |
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Post by Beno on Aug 25, 2021 7:57:46 GMT 10
Need to keep an eye out for this one folks! Seems like it's gaining traction both nationally and internationally, could become self-fulfilling! It actually needs to happen! Those truckers are an abused mob and everyone knows it. Yeah some make good coin but the costs are so high for their health, family, friends. I get the “lifestyle” part of the job but if that is how you got to sell the job to yourself then something is wrong. I have a mate who was a highway cop (yeah i know) and the details of the training they go through are insane. They do this training to find all the scams some trucking companies do to break the rules to drive faster for longer with bigger loads. Scary stuff really when 30-40 tons of freight are right up ya butt on the Newell at 11pm! |
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Post by Joey on Aug 25, 2021 8:36:11 GMT 10
It shows how irrelevant and spineless our unions are when employees have to organise their own industrial action. I quit my union a few years ago because all they do is rubber stamp management decisions. Posties have about had enough as well, with some talk of go slows and overtime bans. Some are already taking action, and I'm told Post is already reimbursing some corporate customers because their product is not being delivered. You'd be astonished to see how many parcels are delayed because a lot of posties are refusing to work 65hrs a week, and how much advertising material gets binned because it is weeks overdue and still not delivered. Some Union Officials are only interested in ripping off member funds or using the Union as a stepping stone to Parliament! Remember this bloke:- Craig Robert Thomson is an Australian former trade union official and a former politician implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair. On 15 December 2014 Thomson was found guilty in the County Court of Victoria of thirteen charges of theft, and later convicted and fined A$25,000. And this one:- Kathy Jackson was the national secretary of the Health Services Union of Australia between January 2008 and February 2015. In August 2015, Jackson was found by the Australian federal court to have misappropriated union funds and was ordered to repay $1.4 million in compensation, with a criminal investigation pending. She was later found guilty and received a suspended sentence. And this one:- Michael Alexander Williamson is an Australian former trade union official implicated in the Health Services Union of Australia (HSU) expenses scandal. In October 2013 Williamson pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud totaling nearly A$1 million, one charge of fabricating invoices and another charge of recruiting others to hinder a police investigation. The same day that he pleaded guilty, Williamson declared himself bankrupt. An earlier independent report commissioned by the union detailed that companies associated with Williamson and his family had allegedly fraudulently received more than $5 million from the union in period from 2006 to 2011. In the NSW District Court in March 2014, Williamson was sentenced to seven–and–a–half years of imprisonment; with a non–parole period of five years. Don't forget that Bill SHorton "donated" $100k of AWU money as start-up seed money for the communist group Getup when he was head of the AWU and Juliar Gillard got dragged through the courts for her finger in the pie in her early days as well |
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Post by Stealth on Aug 25, 2021 9:48:59 GMT 10
Saw it in the media today. I guess I'll be doing an extra shop :/ I'd thought it was only a couple of truckies but it sounds like more and more of them are getting on it. I don't have any particular feelings about the subject as I don't have any experience with truckies and their working conditions. I know I wouldn't want to do it as a job. Long hours, not much movement, mind numbing... Takes a really resilient type of person to do that sort of work. I'd crack five minutes into the first drive lol.
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 25, 2021 10:38:14 GMT 10
If the fuel tankers strike, then it will really hit hard.
Better fill up a few extra jerry cans today!
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Post by norseman on Aug 25, 2021 12:19:06 GMT 10
If the fuel tankers strike, then it will really hit hard. Better fill up a few extra jerry cans today! Just got back from filling up another vehicle and another 2 x 20ltr jerry cans! If it gets legs then fuel will be gone fast! Petrol Stations on the Highway are very busy today but weirdest thing is there are sweet f.... all vehicles on the road! |
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Post by spatial on Aug 25, 2021 12:42:38 GMT 10
Saw it in the media today. I guess I'll be doing an extra shop :/ I'd thought it was only a couple of truckies but it sounds like more and more of them are getting on it. I don't have any particular feelings about the subject as I don't have any experience with truckies and their working conditions. I know I wouldn't want to do it as a job. Long hours, not much movement, mind numbing... Takes a really resilient type of person to do that sort of work. I'd crack five minutes into the first drive lol. Time will tell if it goes ahead. My original post had too much detail. Summary of what they are saying: - A rouge bunch are planning blockades
- Toll truck drivers have also now called a dispute and strike action.
- Another development threatening to throw a major spanner into the works of an already chaotic, Covid-hit supply chain is truckies at Linfox and subsidiary Bevchain applying on Wednesday for protected action “over similar attacks to job security including wanting to bring in new employees on second-tier rates”, the union says.
- They have veterans and other sympathisers & international advice on what actions to take
It is expanding and the one group will embolden he others... Even if a physical blockades are not enacted, supply links are already stretched - just not rocking up for work could do it. On the ground lockdown demonstrations at the same time could occur as people would perceive the security forces vulnerable and stretched thin. In my mind it is just the very beginning of a big mess about to hit the global arena as world economies fall over. |
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Post by Tri-Polar on Aug 25, 2021 18:06:16 GMT 10
Its just toll, on friday due to the new tender.
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Post by malewithatail on Aug 25, 2021 21:10:58 GMT 10
Hope you've all got yr plan B in place when the phones and net are taken down by the Govt turds. Cb radios in yr wifes/kids cars, have u taught them how to use it, pre arranged channels, do u know the local repeater channel for when it turns nasty ?
Goes without saying that u have at least the recommended 2 weeks food and water, plus some form of alternative power, even if its just to entertain the kids with an I pad.
I work in the trucking industry and the hours are s..t, conditions are not too bad in the newer trucks, but sitting down all the time is not good for backs and necks. I rarely have to drive now, just maintain the fleet, but I do sympathize with those who have to earn a living driving.
This nonsense has got to stop.
Genius has its limits, but stupidity doesn't.
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Post by spatial on Aug 26, 2021 7:31:43 GMT 10
Hope you've all got yr plan B in place when the phones and net are taken down by the Govt turds. Cb radios in yr wifes/kids cars, have u taught them how to use it, pre arranged channels, do u know the local repeater channel for when it turns nasty ? Goes without saying that u have at least the recommended 2 weeks food and water, plus some form of alternative power, even if its just to entertain the kids with an I pad. I work in the trucking industry and the hours are s..t, conditions are not too bad in the newer trucks, but sitting down all the time is not good for backs and necks. I rarely have to drive now, just maintain the fleet, but I do sympathize with those who have to earn a living driving. This nonsense has got to stop. Genius has its limits, but stupidity doesn't. Sounds like you know something.... Recieved an email this morning from the Church I go to saying we need to review our emergency preparedness as there might be a truck driver strike. It is the first notification I have ever had of that nature they never talk about preparedness. Some grey haired anit vaccination truckie has got a lot of people spooked... |
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Post by frostbite on Aug 26, 2021 9:01:31 GMT 10
As preppers, a 1 day strike shouldn't even be a blip on our radar.
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 26, 2021 10:17:31 GMT 10
I did run into our Coles today for a top up - did notice the freezer section had a LOT of empty shelves - not sure if they are waiting for a shipment, or it never came.
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Post by Tri-Polar on Aug 26, 2021 17:54:10 GMT 10
I did run into our Coles today for a top up - did notice the freezer section had a LOT of empty shelves - not sure if they are waiting for a shipment, or it never came. Neither at my guess. It would be panic buyers thanks to the media and social media spreading lies about a australia wide strike involving people (other than toll). So far i have seen toll, all truckies, bikkies, abos and anyone related with the interstate transport industry. All this is happening on the 31st, apparently...
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Post by Stealth on Aug 26, 2021 18:49:11 GMT 10
As preppers, a 1 day strike shouldn't even be a blip on our radar. While I agree with that notion I suspect that it won't be a single day impact. Even one day's delay in a just in time system can screw everything up for a decent chunk of time. It could be a strike that rolls from one day into five or more. I hope not but you never know. Another week to begin to recover and people start panicking because the shelves are empty and things are scary. It doesn't take much for people to freak out. Still not going to bother me too much, but I worry for friends and family who aren't inclined to stock up. |
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Post by Tri-Polar on Aug 26, 2021 18:56:16 GMT 10
As preppers, a 1 day strike shouldn't even be a blip on our radar. While I agree with that notion I suspect that it won't be a single day impact. Even one day's delay in a just in time system can screw everything up for a decent chunk of time. It could be a strike that rolls from one day into five or more. I hope not but you never know. Another week to begin to recover and people start panicking because the shelves are empty and things are scary. It doesn't take much for people to freak out. Still not going to bother me too much, but I worry for friends and family who aren't inclined to stock up. Its only the union members. All the none union members wont be striking. The work load may be more, but things will continue to move. This is relating to the Toll strikes. |
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