RUBBER WORKERS (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by National Union of Workers, New South Wales Branch an industrial organisation of employees, for the dissolution and re-establishment of an industrial committee.

 

(No. IRC 6294 of 2002)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that -

 

1.          The Industrial Committee, known as the Rubber Workers (State) Industrial Committee published on 18 August 2000 (317 I.G. 1248) be dissolved.

 

2.          There be established a new Rubber Workers (State) Industrial Committee for the Industries and Callings of:-

 

All persons engaged in the State, excluding the Country of Yancowinna –

 

(i)         in the manufacture or repair or in processes associated with the manufacture or repair of rubber, rubber goods, or components, or in the manufacture of goods consisting substantially of rubber or gutta-percha or synthetic rubber and laying of rubber linos;

 

(ii)                 in the insulating of cables and wire or other similar articles with rubber, or with fabric containing rubber or rubber mixture and/or substitutes therefore;

 

(iii)                in the impregnating, insulating, or spreading of all classes of fabric (including leather cloth) with rubber or substitutes for rubber;

 

(iv)               in the handling, preparation, manufacture or repair in the rubber industry of duperite, bakelite, or other plastics or substitutes therefore and /or goods made therefrom and/or goods in the manufacture of which in such industry the beforementioned plastics or substitutes are used;

 

(v)                 in or about the manufacture of composition cricket balls; and

 

(vi)               by employers whose main business is the manufacture or repair of rubber tyres, in the fitting of such tyres;

 

excepting employees of -

 

The Council of the City of Newcastle;

The Commissioner for Motor Transport;

State Rail Authority of New South Wales

Urban Transit Authority of New South Wales

Metal Manufactures Limited in and about the company’s works at Port Kembla;

 

 

 

 

 

and excepting also –

 

Employees engaged in plastic moulding in synthetic resin or similar materials and preparation of powders and tablets when prepared in association with such mouldings otherwise than in the rubber industry or in an industry which manufactures goods by plant and equipment which is normal to the rubber industry;

 

and excepting also –

 

Employees within the jurisdiction of the Saddlery, Leather, Canvas and Plastic Material Workers, &c. (State) Industrial Committee.

 

3.          The said Industrial Committee shall consist of one (1) representative of employers and one (1) representative of employees.

 

4.          The representative of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, by Australian Business Industrial.

 

5.          The representative of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, by the National Union of Workers, New South Wales Branch.

 

6.          These Orders shall take effect from 19 November 2002 for a period of three (3) years.

 

 

 

R. P. BOLAND  J.

 

 

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