The Australian Members of Parliaments’ visit today(Saturday) at BHP Billiton’s Hillside Aluminium factory in Richards Bay, Kwazulu-Natal is expected to spark fresh anger and indignation among metalworkers.
Australian government recently ratified new labour market deregulation clauses which
encouraged casualisation and extensive liberalization of existing clauses in an effort to increase labour flexibility laws.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has vowed to mount furious protest demonstrations against the visiting Australian MPs in support of vulnerable casual workers in Australia since the introduction of the new flexible labour laws. Casual employment is prevalent in Australia in that it has expanded in the private sector and in the public service to more than 25% of employment population.
NUMSA is making preparations to display its displeasure at the visiting Australian MPs unwelcome at their reception in the Richards’ Bay airport at 10:30 am Saturday (29 April, 2006), the union’s vice- president Cedric Gina said yesterday.
“Australia has consistently recorded one of the highest levels of temporary employment among most countries. We have to show them they are not welcome here because labour market deregulation in conjunction with structural economic change in their country has
resulted in the expansion of unregulated sphere of individual contracts governed by the common law. That situation is not wanted in this country,”
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