Eighteen Melbourne workers have kicked a big hole in John Howard's plan to deunionise Australia.
On Monday, December 19, their employer, Colrain, wrote to the Office of the Employment Advocate, asking that their AWAs be scrubbed.
After a short but bitter stand-off the operators of the truck parts distribution centre, a division of Maxitrans, agreed to meet the AMWU about a collective agreement, and the 18 workers returned to the job.
Their two-week picket at Swan Drive, in Melbourne's west, had been marred by the use of scabs and violence.
Union organiser, Fergal Eliffe, was threatened by baseball bat wielding thugs, and, last week, a picketer was struck by a car.
"It's a matter of putting the relationship back together," Eliffe told Workers Online. "There are more civilised and efficient ways of sorting out wages and conditions and that's the road we've agreed to take.
"With goodwill, we are confident we can get a decent agreement for these people, and their families, in the next few weeks."
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