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Chris Christodoulou - Senior Industrial Officer
ResponsibilitiesSenior Industrial Officer, Chris Christodoulou, has continued his secondment from the Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union with Labor Council. Over the last twelve months Chris' prime responsibilities have been to co-ordinate union activities around the Sydney Olympic Games, assisting in the Equal Pay application, running the State Wage Case, assisting on East Timor matters and assisting in the establishment of the Labor Council Organising Committee. Olympics 2000Following the creation of the Olympic Award Chris' time has been taken up with a myriad of issues in the lead up to the games. The main areas worth noting are as follows: Unions 2000Unions 2000 is a unique project organised by the Labor Council of New South Wales to assist union members, their families and friends to obtain employment during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The Union Movement is using its networks to help meet labour requirements during the Olympic Games. Registration through Unions 2000 will be of benefit to workers for two reasons. Firstly, they will receive the protection of a Union during the Olympic Games, and secondly, their work application forms will be processed directly by some of the largest Olympic employers all of whom have a good relationship with the trade union movement. At the time of writing this report 2000 people have registered for work through Unions 2000. Our target is 5000 which we hope to meet by April 2000. Textile Clothing & Footwear Union (TCFUA) Uniforms DisputeA protracted dispute took place during the year with Sydney Organising Committee the Olympic Games (SOCOG's) non adherence to the Licensed Goods Code of Conduct as it related to the production of uniforms overseas. This angered the TCFUA and Labor Council particularly as they were unwilling to supply the names of the overseas companies being used. Following quite a deal of media publicity and ongoing negotiations with SOCOG and Pacific Dunlop a compromise was finally reached which saw 15 000 business shirts brought back to production in Australia and the names of all overseas companies supplied. The TCFUA and the Labor Council now have the ability to check that these overseas companies are not breaching the Code of Conduct. Ollie and Millie Voice-Over DisputeFollowing the intervention of Labor Council a potentially serious dispute was resolved with SOCOG over the "like sacking" of the Ollie, Sid and Millie Voice-Overs. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) were successful in having their members obtain compact disc (CD) work which was offered to non union labor during the dispute. State Wage CaseChris conducted the State Wage Case in April of 1999. Labor Council was able to flow on from the Federal Decision and, in addition, improve upon the Economic Incapacity Test that had been decided upon in the Federal Decision. In addition, Labor Council was also successful in having a standard Anti-Discrimination clause inserted in all state Awards. East TimorIn June 1999 Chris was part of an Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) delegation which visited East Timor and also met with Xanana Gusmao while he was under house arrest in Jakarta. Chris' visit brought back valuable information but unfortunately the information on the predicted militia response to a pro-independence vote fell on deaf ears when this information was given to the Howard Government. Nonetheless, the overall positive response by the Australian Community post ballot towards East Timor has been encouraging and congratulations need to go out to all our affiliates, particularly, the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU) and the NSW Nurses' Association. These two Unions have continued to play a role in helping the East Timorese through this transitional period. Job Futures AgreementDuring 1999 the Labor Council signed off an historic agreement with Job Network Agency - Job Futures. The agreement establishes reciprocal arrangements whereby Job Futures will provide promotional information on union services to its clients whilst the Labor Council will encourage its affiliates to support Job Futures as the preferred provider of rehabilitation, counseling and outplacement services to union members. Chris' other responsibilities:
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