Bleeding workers dry
On Monday I had occasion to use the services of Dorevitch Pathology. It was flat out – I was told that I was in for a long wait. I assumed this was because the centre at Birallee was closed and it was the usual Monday rush. Unfortunately it was not until I left I found out there was a strike on.
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According to the brochure I received, Dorevitch workers had not had a pay deal since 2003.
Meanwhile the company has posted record $1.2 billion of profits since the last pay deal. Apparently three staff in Albury-Wodonga and four in Wangaratta who have gone on strike have been locked out. So much for Australia’s freedom to negotiate (a 14-year wait was long enough I would have thought).
Tony Abbott told us that Work Choices was done, dead and buried but it appears that the right to strike remains removed from the Australian workforce.
I am disgusted with the actions of this employer.
Had I known about the strike I would have used the alternative services available. It would have saved me considerable time.
I certainly won’t be going back until a decent pay deal is secured for workers.
Greg Oates, Huon Creek
One kick not the decider
Your sports article regarding the weekend's footy match between Wodonga Raiders and Yarrawonga was well written but left a sour taste in my mouth. It was a tough, physical, brutal and athletic battle with both sides bleeding and taking lumps and bumps but to hint or suggest that a match can be decided by the last kick of the day is just wrong.
The player (Mark Whiley) played fast, hard and fair all day and should not be blamed for the loss.
However, there was an ugly behind the play undisciplined act during the second quarter which resulted in a turnover, a 50-metre penalty and subsequent goal to the Raiders. This is what lost the match. Acts such as this cost clubs dearly and reputations are harmed.
So players of our great game, please play hard by all means but don't step over the line.
Still, the chocolates for sportsmanship go to Yarrawonga for all immediately running to the players race at game's end to form a guard of honour for Mark Doolan's 200th game.
What a champion way to finish for a champion player who has created his own era at Wodonga Raiders FNC.
Peter Pattenden, Leneva
Milk of the gods
The letter “Milk not ours” (Border Mail letters, August 4) hurt my udders!
God Almighty gave milk as a reward for the righteousness of his people when they were delivered from Egyptian bondage to the freedom of “a land flowing with milk and honey” across the Jordan. If it was good enough for them, then it is good enough for us.
I remember those great days in secondary school when regular deliveries from Haberfield's Dairy gave each kid a half-pint bottle of flavoured milk – chocolate, banana, vanilla, strawberry, plain.
We all loved it, even the tin foil bottle caps were kept to flick as flying saucers in the classroom.
I often stayed after school to help drink any of the milk left over. I loved it.
I don't ever remember all this milk doing us any harm. For some it was the only milk they ever got, and an efficient health maintenance for growing bodies (that needs to be restored today).
I have had a daily milk 'hit' ever since. Mentalities advocating that milk is for cows only reveal yet another side of the dementia of 'new age' thinkers and fanatics.
I have always praised Kiewa milk as the best tasting, longer lasting, best quality product above all others.