Meanwhile, the company will meet with unions again next week to answer questions about how its proposed policy would work.
The company on Thursday announced all workers across all sites - including casual workers and contractors - would need to be fully vaccinated by November, and would need their first dose by September 15.
AMWU assistant state secretary Jason Hefford was in a “constructive” meeting on Monday afternoon and met with workers on Tuesday.
He said SPC was only beginning the consultation period now, which was stressing workers. He also said security and front desk workers were taking abusive phone calls from the public.
He said union members weren’t happy about the changes being forced on them without consultation beforehand.
“They should talk to the workers and listen to their complaints,” Mr Hefford said.
“It’s a pretty Australian reaction to it, if you force it on us, we’ll probably tell you to get stuffed, if you sit down and talk about it, we’ll consider it.”
He said SPC management would come back to unions and workers with answers to more than 30 questions, including what happens if a worker was to suffer ongoing side effects from the vaccine; if they would be able to claim sick leave beyond the two days promised; and how much consultation would be undertaken before making the policy official.
He said the company also didn’t provide an immediate response to what would happen should a worker refuse to be vaccinated or was unable to be vaccinated for medial reasons.
Mr Hefford said workers would explore rulings under OHS, Fair Work and Department of Health and Human Services guidelines and legislation, but stressed workers and unions were “hoping to resolve this in a good way”.
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