What are the consequences of not being industrially registered?
Firstly, EMSPA (NSW) as an association, would not be able to front at the IRC with an Award submission. However, that was never going to be our intention. We would employ an advocate to act on behalf of those making the private submission, just as the EMSPA did recently in Queensland. It just so happened that the “advocates” were EMSPA members. The IRC are bound to consider submissions from groups of employees or “interested parties” in an Award negotiation. With a majority we will simply have a greater opportunity to have our case included in the Award process. Secondly, we are not bound by the IRC rules. The best example of this is the restrictions placed on our union by the IRC last year around the time of the Major Industrial Case. This would not apply to us, as we are not industrially registered. This means we can continue to lobby, rally and gain all the media and public support we can, because we are allowed to. EMSPA NSW cannot be sanctioned by the union, the government or the
