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Issue No. 123 | 21 December 2001 |
The Unmaking of History
Interview: Braveheart International: Global Year in Review Unions: A Year at the Barricades Technology: Unions Online 2001 Republic: Terror Australis Economics: 2001: Annus Horribilis Campaign Diary: Melanie and Me Politics: Tony Moore's Final Word Review: You Are the Weakest Program Legal: The New McCarthyism
Unions Take Lead in Refugee Rethink Sparkie Snares Organiser of the Year Title Bosswatch Gets International Attention Bank Workers Get Serious in 2002 Qantas's Warfare Agenda Exposed Cabin Crew Stand Up for Themselves City Council's Tactics Rival Worst in the World
The Soapbox The Locker Room Trades Hall Tool Shed
The First Bastion Tom Collins' Christmas Wish
Labor Council of NSW |
NewsBosswatch Gets International Attention
Labor Council's new web initiative 'Bosswatch' has been making international waves, with feedback coming from as far afield as Brazil and a feature article on the CNN site. The inter-relational corporate database is an international first, allowing users to track the networks of influence including directors, shareholders and subsidiary companies. It uses information that is publicly available, but which has never before been linked through the one database. "Bosswatch will be a campaigning tool for workers who want to know who is exerting influence on their employer," Labor Council secretary John Robertson says. "It will expose who is sleeping with who - and who else they are in bed with." Bosswatch reseaqrcher Shannon O'Keeffe says the site allow unions and members of the public to share information about corporate influence across industry to get a better idea about the make-up of the Australian economy. "By exposing these linkages, Bosswatch will become a potent tool in the struggle to civilize globalization," she says. O'Keeffe says she's overwhelmed with the response to the site and is looking forward to working with individual unions in the New Year to train them to track the interests behind their industries Bosswatch has been designed by Social Change Online.
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