Support Central Coast Waste Operators

Central Coast Council Administrator Ian Reynolds

Hard working local waste operators need your support. The 68 men and women that pick up your household waste risk being thrown on the scrapheap by the Central Coast Super Council Administrator Ian Reynolds. We are all Coasties with families to support and mortgages to pay and we are desperate.

Ian Reynolds is putting our ability to support our families and pay the bills in real danger. We ended our industrial action in May to help clean up the Coast after the storms and to meet with Mr Reynolds. We told him that we are not looking for more money, we just want our wages and conditions preserved as they are. All Ian Reynolds needs to do is add a clause into the new Council Waste Contract tender securing our jobs. Ian Reynolds refuses to do so.

This situation is fast reaching a crisis point and we are being backed into a corner. We need your support.

To: Central Coast Council Administrator Ian Reynolds
From: [Your Name]

As householder who pays $514.00 in waste fees per year on the Central Coast, I am appalled by your treatment of local waste operators.

These are hardworking locals who live on the Coast and who want to be able to work hard, pay the bills and keep a roof over their families heads.

Without any protections inserted into the new tender for Council waste services, these waste operators are facing a $6 per hour pay cut.

An open tender is also likely to bring dodgy operators on the Coast who will bid at rock bottom prices and then put dodgy trucks and poorly trained drivers onto our narrow streets.

These waste operators are not looking for any extra money, they merely seeking job security so they can continue to support their families and keep our Coast clean.

I am calling on you to use your powers as Administrator to immediately insert into the tender for upcoming waste services a clause protecting existing workers' wages, conditions and job security.