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union organisers doing? Members might read another commissioned report that will outline clearly what they were doing.
Mr White goes on to say:
Unions worked closely with the ACT government, WorkSafe and business groups at the time to improve safety processes and procedures involved with procurement. This has ensured that ACT ratepayers’ money is awarded to reputable companies with a strong track record in safety.
If that is the case, why did we have this amazing decline that culminated in four deaths between December and the following September? That is why UnionsACT has a memorandum of understanding on procurement with the ACT government. Again, I say that it is not working. Mr White’s headline is “Shamefully scoring political points on workers’ safety”, but of course Mr White cannot avoid scoring a few points.
The second-last paragraph is particularly disturbing if it is this man’s mindset. He has written this article in response to an article by Michael Moore. He says:
It is disappointing that Mr Moore, Canberra Liberal leader Jeremy Hanson or Master Builders’ boss Kirk Conningham (whose members injure 42 Canberran construction workers each month in the ACT) have sought to score political points on this issue.
Let me read that again:
It is disappointing that … Master Builders’ boss Kirk Conningham (whose members injure 42 Canberran construction workers each month in the ACT) have sought to score political points on this issue.
To assert that members of the MBA go out of their way to injure workers in the ACT is disgraceful, and all members in this place should disavow what Alex White has said here in this article. I will read the paragraph again:
It is disappointing that Mr Moore, Canberra Liberal leader Jeremy Hanson or Master Builders’ boss Kirk Conningham (whose members injure 42 Canberran construction workers each month in the ACT) have sought to score political points on this issue.
This man is a disgrace. The government and the ALP should consider their relationship with anyone who would assert that employers go out to injure workers every month in the ACT.
The last paragraph says:
Safety at work, the principle that everyone who goes to work should get home … is our core priority. We are proud that the MOU we have has helped so many tens of thousands of employees working for ACT government contractors.
According to the report, and I am not even sure Alex White is talking about the same report I am reading from, that is not the case. The MOU existed in a period of time
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