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19 October 2001 |
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NewsNurses to Test New Equal Pay Laws
NSW Nurses will seek to have new pay equity principles applied for the first time in a bid to secure the pay rise they argue is vital to stop the flood of workers from the profession. Under the principles, workers in female dominated industries can seek general wage increases by arguing pay disparities with male-dominated industries where there are comparable qualifications and skill profiles. The pay equity argument will be combined with a work value case to be argued before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in the coming months. The pay equity principles were established by the IRC earlier this year, following a long-running inquiry by the Carr Government into gender pay equity. The government's position on the nurses case will be a key test of its support for these principles. The nurses revealed their industrial strategy as tens of thousands of nurses stopped work and rallied around the state. More than 5,000 Sydney nurses filled the Town Hall to attend a meeting broadcast around the state on Sky Channel. They then marched to Macquarie Street where the sent the message to premier Bob Carr and health minister Craig Knowles about the crisis gripping nursing.
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   Interview: The Green MachineNick Bolkus outlines Labor's environmental stance and lays down the gauntlet to Bob Brown's Greens. Industrial: Regaining Control France�s 35 hour week stems from the program of the Left coalition government which went to the polls in June 1997 with the policy of �worksharing�. Unions: Home Of The Longest DayAustralia has a dubious new prize to put in its cluttered national trophy cabinet. We are increasingly the most over-worked nation in the world. Campaign Diary: Week Two: FightbackLabor's doing everything to win a normal campaign - but this is no normal campaign. Economics: Who Will Notice When You Die?Johann Christoph Arnold asks whether the anti-globalisation movement is the answer to an epidemic of loneliness. History: American TerrorIncredible revelations about the work of the US National Security Agency through the Cold War years help put the current War of Terror into perspective. International: Global Day of Action In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US last week, the ICFTU has announced that preparations for the Global Unions Day of Action on November 9 will go ahead. Satire: World Gripped by Fear as Howard Third Term LoomsThe global community has uniformly condemned the recent terrorist attacks, which horrifically helped revive the re-election prospects of John Howard. Review: FlashbacksCultural theortician Neale Towart consults his record collection in a bid to understand the chaos gripping the earth.
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