CHEMICAL WORKERS (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 359 & 360 of 2005)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that:-

 

1.          The Chemical Workers (State) Industrial Committee published 15 November 1996 (295 I.G. 978), be dissolved.

 

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

 

Employees engaged in the manufacture of chemicals, chemical compounds, fungicides and insecticides (other than pharmaceutical chemicals and other than medicinal and household chemicals in drug warehouses or drug factories), gases, patent manures, or fertilizers, and including employees other than storemen and packers, engaged in loading and unloading vehicles, and all employees engaged in the manufacture of synthetic resins, ellitane or other moulding powders, including employees other than storemen and packers, engaged in loading and unloading vehicles in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

excepting employees of-

 

The Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Proprietary Limited, Metal Manufacturers Limited, Australian Fertilizers Limited and Austral Standards Cables Proprietary Limited, in and about the works of the said companies at Port Kembla, including employees employed by Australian Fertilizers Limited on the bone crushing and fertilizer mixing and bagging plant at Granville, and in the manufacture of acids, chemicals and fertilizers at Villawood;

 

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited.

The Council of the City of Sydney

Energy Australia

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd at its Newcastle Wiremill;

Blue Circle Southern Cement Limited;

The Council of the City of Newcastle;

The Australian Gas Company;

James Hardie and Company Proprietary Limited;

Wunderlich Limited;

Asbestos Products Limited;

 

and excepting also-

 

Employees in or about metalliferous and limestone mines, in or in connection with mining for minerals other than coal or shale, in or about diamond and gem bearing mines, mining dredges, ore sluicing processes, ore smelting, refining, treatment and reduction works; and

 

Employees engaged in the manufacture of moulding powders in the rubber industry or in an industry which manufactures goods by plant and equipment which are normal to the rubber industry;

 

Employees within the jurisdiction of the Smelting and Fertilizer Manufacturing (Sulphide Corporation Pty Limited and Greenleaf Fertilizers Limited) Industrial Committee and the Cement Workers, &c. (State) Industrial Committee.

 

3.          The said Industrial Committee shall consist of two (2) representatives of employers and two (2) representatives of employees.

 

4.          The representatives of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, 2 by Australian Business Industrial.

 

5.          The representatives of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, 1 by The Australian Workers Union, New South Wales and 1 by the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Worker Union New South Wales Branch.

 

6.          This order shall take effect from 21 February 2005 for a period of three (3) years.

 

 

 

BACKMAN  J.

 

 

 

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