
Issue No 111		14 September 2001

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Tax Staff to Strike Back

The campaign against 1300 tax office job cuts is hotting up with CPSU members considering strike action next week.

Staff at the Wollongong office, where 30 jobs are threatened, will hold stop-work meetings next Wednesday, with other offices expected to follow suit over the next few weeks.

CPSU spokesperson, Michael Tull, says strike action is one part a locally focussed campaign designed to highlight the damage the cuts will do.

"Sure, our members are concerned about keeping their jobs, but there are other issues to consider here. With contractor changes, BAS and GST, the office is already struggling to keep up. Take out another 1300 jobs and it slips from sick to terminal. The average taxpayer or small business gets less support while the high-flyers rort away unchallenged, " said Mr Tull.

Members in Wollongong have been heartened by support from the community, with local Labor pollies Stephen Martin and Colin Holliss meeting delegates and pledging support.

Meanwhile in Geelong, staff welcomed a snap decision to reduce cuts from 30 jobs to ten. This back-flip was the result of the intense political and media pressure, following the threat of strike action.

"The Geelong announcement shows the ATO can be moved. Members in the Illawarra are determined to keep the pressure on until commonsense prevails here to," added Mr Tull.

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Interview: Amidst the Debris
ACTU President Sharan Burrow surveys the wreckage from a week that rocked the world.

Politics: Consequences of Empire
The horror of the events in New York has not led to all American and international observers feeling committed to bloody revenge.

Industrial: Grounded
Ansett workers lay bare their feelings at seeing their company driven into oblivion.

International: Election Results from East Timor
Fretelin as expected has topped the poll in East Timor�s first free democratic election and the violence predicted by some has not eventuated.

E-Change: 3.2 The Electronic Consumerist
In their latest instalment Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel ask how effective has the law become in safeguarding the things that really matter to us?

Legal: Howard's Falkland War
Zoe Reynolds chronicles the bizarre tale of the Tampa and how a group of refugees bacame pawns in a bigger political game.

Compo: Round Two Begins
Nancy Searle reviews the Sheahan Report and highlights some of the areas of concern to injured workers.

Economics: Knowledge, Power, Banking
Raj Patel questions whether a new World Bank initiative is actually designed to control the way the Third World thinks.

Review: Political Theatre
The Naked Theatre Company is a youthful, adventurous, professional, Sydney theatre company committed to the development and production of Australian playwrights.

Satire: Howard US Visit "Marginally Overshadowed"
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his US trip was a complete success, if slightly upstaged towards the middle.

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