Chicken
Until the dramatic events of Friday night, the Baiada Poultry dispute in suburban Melbourne had not had the publicity of Qantas. That’s a shame because the gutsy fight by low-paid Baiada workers is just as important in the fight for fair treatment at work.
Media coverage has focused on the clashes between police and workers, but has ignored the basic issues at stake. A couple of hundred low-paid workers have been forced to take legal industrial action because their employer has refused to bargain with them.
They are taking collective action in an attempt to stop the spread of insecure work – and ensure that Baiada workers on low wages have some certainty around their jobs and basic rights to sick leave and holiday pay.
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Gaddafi’s dead. Good. We got Osama and now we got this creep. As The Sun in Britain said: “That’s for Lockerbie”. And as I myself often say: “begeeeeerrrrk”.
While the world is rightly celebrating the death of the tyrant Gaddafi today, here in the chicken coop the mood is more sombre. Across the world, millions of my fellow hens continue to be slaughtered daily in the name of another colonel.
These two colonels lived different lives, on different continents, in different eras. But the hens and I had a scratch around in the dirt today, and we came up with a few similarities. Begeeeeerrrrk!
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old fart says:
Have you noticed how much they look alike? really scary and Gaddafi’s convoy was hit by zingers, sorry I meant stingers. Dont feel to bad about gaddafi pleading for his life. In 42 years he would have heard the pleas many times over. Pity, he didnt listen to them either. Read more »
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Bev says:
In my personal opinion, the KFC style chicken can not be all that good for our health after a certain age, no offence. Because of the very high fat content & all those trans fatty acids which occur during the frying process!! Agreed but it was not always like that. … Read more »
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