I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the employees, management and unions for the remarkable efforts and foresight towards collaborative industrial reform in an effort to save Port Kembla steelworks.
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This type of collaboration sets a benchmark for industrial relations in Australia and forms the basis of reform which is required to secure manufacturing jobs in our country.
Gone are the days of adversarial opposing ideological views at six paces.
Gone are the days of adversarial opposing ideological views at six paces.
- Cr Gordon Bradbery
Everyone has to work together to achieve a successful economy and in the common interest of the whole community.
Germany and Japan’s economic success is built on this framework and now the rest of Australia can look towards the Illawarra as a leader in community/industrial collaboration.
Everyone has to work together to achieve a successful economy and in the common interest of the whole community.
- Cr Bradbery
The Illawarra has set the standard for industrial collaboration and I cannot congratulate the workers enough and I acknowledge this has come at great cost to some with the loss of their jobs through redundancy.
However, the short to medium term future of our steelworks has been secured by a community based approach and we should be proud.
Across my Desk
I would like to acknowledge a letter from a young man, ‘Ryan’ no forwarding address, who asked if we could stop smoking in Wollongong. It is great to have our young citizens engaged with Council.
Congratulations to Destination Wollongong for hosting a Blender of a weekend over the October long weekend.
I have had a trail of letters from our community and visitors congratulating us on the sold out weekend events.
Wollongong City Lord Mayor Councillor Gordon Bradbery OAM
Cr Bradbery comes to the countil from a strong background in the community. He has been Chaplain to NSW Police, Rural Fire Service, RSL Padre and Administrator of Wollongong Mission of the Uniting Church and Minister of the Church on the Mall for the past 15 years. His services to the community earned him an OAM.
