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Call - Australia - Massive drivers' meeting
500 trucks to converge on Canberra
Canberra,Australia -AAP -Aug 16 2005: -- Up to 500 trucks will converge on Canberra on Tuesday as the Transport Workers Union ramps up its attack on the government's proposed industrial relations changes... The union's NSW state secretary Tony Sheldon said the protest would be the largest mobile demonstration against the reforms... He said owner-drivers of trucks would be among the worst hit by the proposed Independent Contractors Act and any provision which forced drivers to compete against each other for any contract... "Owner-drivers are routinely working on average 70 hours per week," he said in a statement... "For many drivers the introduction of the proposed Independent Contractors Act will result in an increase in already high driving hours with a race to the bottom in a bid for trucking contracts."
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