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Big Print Merger Threatens Jobs


The proposed merger of two of Australia's largest printing groups could spell disaster of the NSW town of Dubbo - with its second largest employer facing closure.

The IPMG Group has announced they are considering closing their Hannanprint plant in Dubbo - which employs some 200 workers.

The closure is part of a mooted merger with PNP - a move which would create a dominant player in media printing.

AMWU Printing Division secretary Amanda Perkins says the company has been trying to get the Dubbo workers to accept a 'save Dubbo plan' that would involve drastic cuts to wages and conditions.

But the workers have unanimously refused to accept the company plan for the four per cent pay cut for this year, a wage freeze next year and a 50 per cent reduction in shift and penalty rates.

Perkins says the workers have shown significant courage in refusing nto hack their conditions, "they recognise that if the company can not pay them a decent wage, then they are not a long-term viable proposition."


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: Back to the Battle
Federal Labor's new industrial relations spokesman Robert McClelland outlines the challenges for the next three years.
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*  Politics: The Baby and the Bath Water
ACTU secretary Greg Combet gives his take on the debate over the ALP's relations with the union movement.
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*  Unions: We're Solid
Bradon Ellem charts the history of the Pilbara dispute, and finds a revitalised grass-roots unionism challenging BHP's individual contracts bulldozer
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*  Organising: Benidgo Pioneer Comes Up Trumps
ACTU Delegate of the Year, Leonie Saunders, is living proof of the way unions are adapting to life under the strictures of a hostile Government.
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*  Technology: India: Cricket, Computers and Corruption
Russell Lansbury cuts through the hype to look out the so-called hi-tech revolution on the sub-continent.
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*  International: Soul Searching
The party of labour in Canada � the NDP - is right now undergoing a massive struggle for its heart and soul.
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*  History: A Timeless Debate
The ALP and unions - it's a debate that's raged for years as this extract from a 1947 Lloyd Ross pamplet shows.
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*  Review: In Fear of Security
Launching his new book, Anthony Burke argues that the cry of "security" is the last refuge of the political scoundrel
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News
»  Union Journo on Death List
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»  First 'Lab Rats' in Bank Hold-Up
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»  Monk's Mad Power Grab from States
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»  Big Print Merger Threatens Jobs
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»  Anger as Labor Staffers Shun Unions
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»  Unions Are Well Advanced In Change Unions Tell ALP
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»  Unions Step Up Organising Drive
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»  Education, Call Centre Unions Sweep Awards
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»  Bank AGMs Focus of Worker Anger
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»  Gender Balance in Transport Concessions
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»  Concern As Sydney Collapses
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»  Bakers Seek More Bread
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»  CFMEU Forces Re-Think On Asbestos
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»  Call Goes Out for Union Summer
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»  Twelve Weeks Parental Leave For Kiwis
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»  Organiser of the Year Nominations Open
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»  Activists Notebook
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Columns
»  The Soapbox
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»  Sport
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»  Labour Review
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»  Tool Shed
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Letters to the editor
»  What's Wrong With Labor
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»  Why I'm Quitting the ALP
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»  Compo Flak
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»  Union Democracy
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»  Multi-Skilling Corrigan Style
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