
Issue No 121		30 November 2001

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Gender Balance in Transport Concessions

Women trainees should have the same right to transport concessions as those granted to trade apprentices in male-dominated industries, according to the Australian Services Union.

ASU state secretary Michael Want has made the call for gender balance after Transport Minister Carl Scully's recent decision to grant the concessions for apprentices.

Want says workers employed as 'trainees' in female-dominated industries such as clerical, retail and hospitality earn similar wages to the trade apprentices.

"The Union is of the firm view that there should be no difference between apprentic4es and trainees if their incomes are similar," Want says.

"Trainees incomes are white-anted because they have to pay full fare to attend work and training. Like their counterparts that would welcome the up to $1000 of their hard wages back in their pockets."

The Labor Council has resolved to will make a representation to Scully to extend the concession to trainees.

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Issue 121 contents

Interview: Back to the Battle
Federal Labor's new industrial relations spokesman Robert McClelland outlines the challenges for the next three years.

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.

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

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.

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.

International: Soul Searching
The party of labour in Canada � the NDP - is right now undergoing a massive struggle for its heart and soul.

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.

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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