TRANSPORT INDUSTRY - MIXED ENTERPRISES (STATE)

INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Transport Workers' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 4982 of 2002)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that -

 

1.          The Transport Industry - Mixed Enterprises (State) Industrial Committee published 6 September 1996 (294 I.G. 1065), be dissolved.

 

2.          There be established a new Transport Industry - Mixed Enterprises (State) Industrial Committee for the industries and callings of -

 

All drivers and loaders of trolley, drays, carts, floats, articulated or semi-articulated vehicles and motor and other power-propelled vehicles, including motor cycles engaged in the carriage of goods, merchandise and the like, together with employees engaged in greasing or washing any such vehicle, employees without supervisory or other duties beyond those of loading or unloading vehicles employed by common carriers or who are not engaged upon or in connection with the premises of the employer, not being a common carrier, and employees of common carriers receiving, sorting, and loading or unloading goods for delivery or re-delivery, carters, tip carters and tip motor wagon drivers, brakesmen or brakeswomen, or extra hands, trace boys or girls, and all grooms, stablepersons and yardpersons employed in connection with any of the above, and drivers of mobile cranes, auto trucks and fork lifts employed by general carriers in connection with the carriage of goods, merchandise and the like, employees driving or operating mobile cranes, fork lifts, tractors, tow motors, industrial trucks, yard trucks or utility vehicles in and about wholesale oil stores, persons, other than storepersons and packers, employed in the work of loading, stacking and unloading of railway trucks, in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna, but including motor lorry drivers, employed by the Roads and Traffic Authority in or in connection with the construction or maintenance of roads and bridges in that part of the County of Yancowinna which is outside the Municipality of Broken Hill;

 

and

 

Brick, tile and pottery carters, including drivers of motor and other power-propelled vehicles, and grooms, stablemen or stablewomen, yardpersons and brakespersons or extra hands employed in or in connection therewith in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

and

 

Timber carters, including drivers of motor and other power-propelled vehicles, grooms, stablemen or stablewomen and yardpersons, trace boys, trace girls, brakespersons or extra hands employed in or in connection therewith in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

 

 

 

 

and

 

Carters, grooms, stablemen or stablewomen, extra hands, and drivers of motor and other power-propelled vehicles engaged in the collection and delivery of dry cleaning or laundry work in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

and

 

Chauffeurs and motor car drivers employed on motor coaches, cars and all motor vehicles, used for the purpose of carrying passengers, persons or workmen or workwomen notwithstanding such vehicles are not plying for hire, provided such vehicles are normally capable of carrying less than eight sitting passengers or persons, in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna; excepting drivers of motor wagons which are not used for the purpose of conveying passengers or workmen, or workwomen, and employees who are not engaged in business or trade;

 

and

 

Drivers, extra hands and depot hands engaged in or in connection with the handling, delivery, collection and/or disposal of receptacles containing female sanitary items;

 

Provided that in regard to all of the above employees described, the work performed must be for an employer whose principal business functions, undertakings or industries are not in transport or distribution;

 

and excepting employees of -

 

State Rail Authority of New South Wales;

 

Urban Transit Authority of New South Wales;

 

Sydney Water;

 

The Hunter District Water Board;

 

The Council of the City of Sydney;

 

The Sydney County Council;

 

The Council of the City of Newcastle;

 

Municipal, shire and county councils;

 

Electricity Commission of New South Wales;

 

The Australian Gas Light Company;

 

The North Shore Gas Company Limited;

 

Electric Light and Power Supply Company limited;

 

South Maitland Railways Pty Limited;

 

Blue Circle Southern Cement Limited;

 

Australian Iron and Steel Proprietary Limited, within the jurisdiction of the Iron and Steel Works Employees (Australian Iron & Steel Proprietary Limited) Industrial Committee and the Quarries (Australian Iron and Steel Pty Limited) Industrial Committee.

 

and excepting also employees within the jurisdiction of the following Industrial Committees -

 

Transport Industry - Quarried Materials (State);

 

Steel Works Employees (Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited);

 

Quarries, &c. (Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited);

 

Iron and Steel Works Employees (Australian Iron & Steel Proprietary Limited);

 

Quarries (Australian Iron and Steel Pty Limited);

 

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd - Newcastle Wiremill;

 

Smelting, &c. (Electronic R & S Company, &c.)

 

Smelting and Fertilizer Manufacturing (Sulphide Corporation Pty Limited and Greenleaf Fertilizers Limited;

 

Cement Workers, &c. (State);

 

John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Port Kembla;

 

John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Newcastle;

 

John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Unanderra;

 

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd - Newcastle Ropery;

 

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd - Sydney Wiremill;

 

Sugar Workers (CSR Limited);

 

Transport Industry - Trade Waste (State);

 

Transport Industry - Wood and Coal (State);

 

Transport Industry - Wholesale Butchers (State);

 

Carters, Retail Grocers (Newcastle);

 

Transport Industry - Waste Collection and Recycling (State);

 

Colliery Mechanics (North);

 

Colliery Mechanics (South);

 

Colliery Mechanics (West);

 

Metalliferous Mining (State);

 

Engine Drivers, &c., Metalliferous Mining (State);

 

Butchers, Retail (State);

 

Butchers, Wholesale (Country);

 

Butchers, Wholesale (Cumberland);

Smallgoods Manufacturers (State);

 

Milk Treatment, &c., and Distribution (State);

 

Aerated Waters, &c. (State);

 

Cold Storage, &c., Employees (State);

 

Cold Storage, &c., Employees (Northumberland);

 

Bread Industry (State);

 

Pastrycooks, &c. (State);

 

Motor Car Washers, &c. (State);

 

Quarries, Gravel and Sand Pits (State);

 

Butter, &c., Factory Employees (Newcastle and Northern);

 

Butter, &c., Factory Employees (State);

 

Fruit Packing Houses Employees (State);

 

Malted milk Manufacturing (State);

 

Sawmillers, &c. (State);

 

Sugar Manufacturers (State);

 

Tubemakers of Australia Limited, Newcastle;

 

Tubemakers of Australia Limited, Yennora;

 

Shoalhaven Scheme;

 

Googong Dam Project;

 

County Councils (Electricity Undertakings) Employees;

 

Shortland County Council;

 

University Employees, &c. (State);

 

and excepting also -

 

Motor lorry drivers, assistants, loaders, washers and greasers employed by breweries;

 

Persons coming within the jurisdiction of the Crown Employees (Skilled Tradesmen) Industrial Committee.

 

and excepting further -

 

Employees covered by the following awards -

 

General Construction and Maintenance, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, &c. (State) Award; Gangers (State) Award; Boral Resources (Country) Pty Limited Concrete Batching Industry (State) Award.

3.          The said committee shall consist of two representatives of employers and two representatives of employees.

 

4.          The representatives of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, one by Employers First, and one by Australian Business Industrial.  The following employer organisations have alternative nominating rights as prescribed: one by Timber Trade Industrial Association; one by Clay Brick & Paver Association of New South Wales; one by The Australian Industry Group, New South Wales Branch; one by Textile Rental and Laundry Association of New South Wales; and one by Roads and Traffic Authority.

 

5.          The representatives of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, by Transport Workers' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch.

 

6.          This order shall take effect on and from 10 October 2002.

 

 

 

R. J. PETERSON  J.

 

 

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