{"id":60471,"date":"2025-02-24T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=60471"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:48:44","slug":"disgraceful-sercos-detention-centre-tactics-called-out-after-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/archive\/disgraceful-sercos-detention-centre-tactics-called-out-after-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;DISGRACEFUL&#8217;: SERCO&#8217;S DETENTION CENTRE TACTICS CALLED OUT AFTER HEARING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Fair Work Commission issued a recommendation that striking Immigration Detention Centre workers across the country cut planned industrial action this afternoon from four hours to two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Workers had already completed their planned four-hour stoppage this morning.<\/p>\n<p>United Workers Union members are currently holding site meetings to consider the Fair Work Commission recommendation ahead of planned four-hour afternoon stoppages.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Work Commission said it will make a decision on whether to order staff to return to work within five days.<\/p>\n<p>United Workers Union does not believe that protected industrial action by members poses a risk to the health and safety of detainees and workers.<\/p>\n<p>United Workers Union also believes that outgoing contractor Serco\u2019s intransigence is the root cause of the dispute, because of its failure to honour legitimate entitlements owed to workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement attributable to United Workers Union Allied Industries Director Godfrey Moase:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe easiest way for Serco to fix this is to pay people their legal minimum entitlements, including their redundancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the country today* we\u2019ve had workers walk off the job, with 1000 detention centre workers fighting for a fair deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur workers are sick and tired of sub-standard pay increases over years and years, and they are tired of dealing with the understaffing that has made these jobs even harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow at the very end with a contract changeover, what they are seeing is their employer trying to stiff them of their minimum legal entitlements, and people have had enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerco\u2019s position is creating unbearable uncertainty for workers and undermining the transition between contractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers want to be paid their redundancies and not have the provider try to use legal weasel words to get out of it, by pushing people to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way Serco is acting is inflaming tensions, and it\u2019s disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* Centres where strike action took place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melbourne Immigration Detention Centre<\/li>\n<li>Villawood Immigration Detention Centre<\/li>\n<li>Brisbane Immigration Detention Centre<\/li>\n<li>Adelaide Immigration Detention Centre<\/li>\n<li>Perth Immigration Detention Centre<\/li>\n<li>Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre, WA<\/li>\n<li>Northern Alternative Place of Detention, Darwin<\/li>\n<li>Alternative Place of Detention, Adelaide<\/li>\n<li>Alternative Place of Detention, Brisbane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Fair Work Commission issued a recommendation that striking Immigration Detention Centre workers across the country cut planned industrial action this afternoon from four hours to two hours. 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