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Speaker 1: You will recall last week we spoke quite a bit

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Speaker 1: about those work bands that commenced on Thursday at Votepac

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Speaker 1: facility when the United Workers Union employees, well, they implemented

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Speaker 1: those industrial relations measures, including slowing pump speeds, maintenance bans,

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Speaker 1: and work too well some of their different work that

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Speaker 1: they would usually do. So eleven of those Vouepac workers,

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, work campaigning for payroll parody with

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Speaker 1: their Sydney counterparts and joining me on the line right

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Speaker 1: now is Shane reside to let us know how things

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Speaker 1: are tracking. Good morning to you, Shane, Good mate, How

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Speaker 1: are you not too bad? Now? Shane? Where are things? Ash?

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Speaker 2: I'm very pleased to announce that after we commenced our

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Speaker 2: industrial action last week, Voupac came back to the table.

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Speaker 2: We had further talks and at the conclusion of those talks,

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Speaker 2: Bowpack agreed to pay parody for the operators, which is

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Speaker 2: all we were after from the outset.

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Speaker 1: Oh that is good to hear, mate. What's been the

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Speaker 1: reaction from the workers?

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean, as we discussed last week, you know,

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Speaker 2: these are very professional operators. They worked very hard. They're

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Speaker 2: really proud of their workers. They will should be. All

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Speaker 2: they wanted to do was to sit down at the

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Speaker 2: table and talk like adults with this Dutch multinational and

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Speaker 2: for reasons that were a bit mystery to me, the

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Speaker 2: company wasn't prepared to do that. But because they were,

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Speaker 2: you know, this group of operators were prepared to join

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Speaker 2: the union and stick fat together. They really created a

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Speaker 2: situation where Ropak had no choice but to come to

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Speaker 2: the table and really, you know, treat these workers with

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Speaker 2: activity and respect that they deserve.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it did seem like there was going to

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Speaker 1: be no movement, you know, based on the statement that

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Speaker 1: they'd sent through to us after we'd spoken to you

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Speaker 1: on a couple of occasions, it seemed as though there

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Speaker 1: was going to be no real movement. So what do

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Speaker 1: you reckon changed?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm not sure if you've ever been involved

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Speaker 2: in one of these campaigns before yourself, but i'm sure

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Speaker 2: many of your listeners probably have been. It's often the

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Speaker 2: case that it's no, no, no, until it's yes. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I really would encourage anyone listening in the

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Speaker 2: territory today, if you're not already a member of your union,

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Speaker 2: you should do it. Because the history, including this particular

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Speaker 2: second seance would suggest that when you are a member

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Speaker 2: of the union, you're prepared to stick together with your workmates,

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Speaker 2: then these big companies will say no, no, no, and

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Speaker 2: then they will eventually say yes.

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Speaker 1: So ultimately it will mean that there's no disruption to

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Speaker 1: Darwin's fuel supply or the territories fuel supply either and

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Speaker 1: things will continue to run hopefully pretty smoothly.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, all industrial action has now been ceased.

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Speaker 2: The operators have gone back to work as normal. They're

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Speaker 2: very happy to do so. They're proud to be back

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Speaker 2: at work holding their heads high because they really have

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Speaker 2: together created a situation where they're now receiving the same

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Speaker 2: pay conditions as their counterparts in the Sydney, which I

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Speaker 2: think yourself and probably everyone else listening would agree seems

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Speaker 2: to be a pretty fair deal.

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Speaker 1: Well, Shane Reside, United Workers' Union, Bulk Liquids Alliance organizer.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your time and pleased to hear that things

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Speaker 1: have worked out.

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Speaker 2: Thanks mate, thank you, thank you.