Issue No 106 | 10 August 2001 | |
Letters to the EditorOde to the New Serfs
REITH & ABBOTT'S WORLD - The Deregulated Labour Market Do you have a can do attitude? Are you self-motivated? A High Achiever? A Team-Player? Reliable? Experienced? A Hands-On-Person? A Person who Likes-A-Challenge? Are you someone who like to belong to A Fast-Paced work environment? Who is Professional? Punctual? Has Initiative? The type of person who like to give 110%. Then we want from you:- Your total Loyalty and Commitment. Your Professionalism and Initiative. In return we want to:- Pay you as little as possible, For as much work as possible, With as few conditions as possible. We want to be able to discard you without penalty, After all that you have to give us Is no longer enough. If at all possible we would prefer That you do not belong to the Union Who will:- Champion your rights, Stand on your behalf, Give you strength in numbers. Long live the New-Serfs. (Geoffrey Peck)Copyright 2001
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Interview: In Exile Burmese's government in exile's Minister for Justice U Thein Oo talks about a struggle for democracy that has become a test of international solidarity. Politics: A National Disgrace Labor's IR spokesman Arch Bevis gives his take on the workers entitlements issue and its mismanagement by the Howard Government. E-Change: 2.2 The Information Organisation Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel look at how network technologies will change the way organizations operate in the Information Age. Media: The Fine Print Mark Hebblewhite looks at how the major dailies handled the Tri-Star dispute and finds that the story really does depend on the telling. Human Rights: A People Besieged Labor MLC Janelle Saffin, an active supporter of the pro-Democracy movement in Burma, sets out the issues behind the ILO sanctions. International: Postcard From Brazil The CFMEU�s Phil Davey reports on a rural movement that puts our National Farmers Federation to shame. History: Indonesia Calling They needed no resolutions. Soldiers and workers who did not know one another moved together, the black ban started to reach out across the harbour from the noisy, smoke-filled room. Solidarity: On the Frontline Australian trade unionists are providing practical help for the Burmese through projects funded by APHEDA-Union Aid Abroad. Satire: Skase 'Too Ill' to Fly Home for Burial Spanish authorities have deemed Christopher Skase too ill to return to Australia for his own funeral. Review: Living Silence In these extracts from her new book, Christina Fink goes inside Burma to find a world where military repression is slowly crushing a people.
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