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Whale said
1. You say that paying a cleaner to put the bins out was not an option; why is that?
& 2. What about paying the grounds maintenance person, or a Member of the Executive Committee?
Response: No, I stated that “No option to pay a cleaner in lieu was offered”. The EC which always has sufficient proxies to control GM’s are wedded to their plan and to my knowledge no other owner (all non-resident) has ever complained about the ongoing chaos (bins not out for a fortnight, not back for a week, out in wrong locations – on road, in front of garages, nearest bin overfull/lid open/maggots; any suggestion such as that they find one resident who would offer their services at a reasonable rate for any month when the “rostered” resident is unwilling were dismissed without comment.
The council have been called a couple of times but always turned up the day after someone had taken them out and they’d been collected. The unit block is in a very desirable area for service type workers so in the past a new tenant has moved in within days of a vacancy so we have raw capitalism at work.
Thus I’m trying other means than polite, sensible suggestions – one of which will be to try the Fair Work Ombudsman on the grounds that this is forced labour by coercive means but I’d like to find out whether a roster could be imposed if the EC and or SM were able to comprehend what was required to change a by-law i.e. it’s no use going to the NCAT etc if it just resulted in them making it compliant with the Act.