Saturday, June 18, 2005

Car detailers ditch contract that "hertz"

Car detailers at Perth airport are being threatened and abused in a bid to keep them on below-par individual contracts.

They are trying to ditch unregistered contracts forced onto them by the WA manager for the hire car company.

"We signed an agreement we didn't agree with," says Transport Workers Union delegate Nicki Shea. "We were forced to sign, there was no negotiation."

The car detailing facility works 365 days a year and employees want union wages and penalty rates for working evenings and giving up weekends and public holidays.

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