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Issue No. 124 15 February 2002  
E D I T O R I A L

Chickens Come Home
For anyone who believes in karma, the events of the summer show how bad Australia's is right now.

F E A T U R E S

Unions: Winning the Heartland
John Robertson unveils new research on attitudes to refugees and argues it's time for unions to mount their own propaganda war.

Interview: Swan's Song
Federal ALP front-bencher Wayne Swan expands on his ideas for rebuilding the Party in the wake of the Tampa election.

Corporate: Lessons from Enron
Jim Marr looks at the shock-waves the collapse of a US corporate heavy-weight are having around the globe.

Politics: What We Did Last Summer
We look back over a summer when it all went pear-shaped. Some events, at home and abroad, look set to have ongoing ramifications.

History: Solidarity in Song
Mark Gregory looks back on the annals of labour songs and offers some hints for those planning a tilt at the Labor Council's worker anthem comp.

International: A Tale of Two Cities
New York and Port Alegre are poles apart � but they both played host to important conferences on the future of globalisation over the summer.

Poetry: Nobody Told Me
Labour academic David Peetz commits the Prime Minister's current woes to verse.

Review: Labor and the Rings
Tolkien�s epic tale provides a timely reminder that that there are forces of good and evil in the world � and that they are not necessarily where we expect to find them, writes Michael Gadiel.

Satire: Rafter Named Bermudan Of The Year For Tax Purposes
Australian of the Year Pat Rafter was last night also named Bermudan of the Year, in a simple ceremony held in Bermuda's Parliament.

N E W S

 Unions' Commit to Battle for Hearts

 Carr on Notice - Expectations Up

 Mad Monk Sides With Angels � Briefly

 Maritime Union Acts on Spy Scandal

 May Day Play-Off for Workers' Anthem

 Burmese Links Shroud Winter Olympics

 New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag

 Two Million Face Rights Downgrade

 Enron Collapse Hits Share-Owner Agenda

 Corrrigan Snaps Up Rail Bargain

 Kinko Clowns With Workers' Rights

 MPs Face Security Checks

 Telstra's Tragic Delays Of Its Own Making

 Burrow Puts Case to World Economic Forum

 Shangri La Protests Hit Melbourne

 Activists Notebook

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
Chinks in the Armour
The ACTU's Michael Crosby argues that Mark Latham's attack on the Labor for Refugees movement is the betrayal of Party values.

The Locker Room
Off-side in Korea?
With the World Cup set to kick off in a matter of months, South Korea's treatment of unions is under the microscope.

Week in Review
Cloak and Dagger
In the first of what will be a regular column, we place the week's labour news into a nutshell.

L E T T E R S
 In Whose Interests?
 'International Labour's Year in Review' - A Re-View
 Belly's Broad-Side
 Collins Gets Cryptic
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New Phone Venture One.Tel In Drag


Unionists are seeking a string of assurances from former directors of failed telco One.Tel in an effort to protect employees at their new TeleOne operation.

The CPSU was meeting TeleOne principals, including one-time One.Tel chiefs Mark Silbermann and Kevin Beck, today. Stephen Jones, Communications Section assistant secretary, told Workers Online they would be looking for key assurances before recommending that former employees walk through the doors.

The union wants specific information on ...

� the length of TeleOne's contracts with carriers

� its corporate structure - what are its assets, who holds those assets and who will be the employing entity?

� commitments on negotiating an award and certified agreement

"We have maintained contact with a number of former One.Tel people and won't be advising them to take the risk unless we get those assurances," Jones said.

The former directors announced plans to launch their new phone company, focusing on the residential market, in April.

More than 1600 workers were left jobless when One.Tel collapsed last year with $600 million in debts. Quick action from the CPSU recovered redundancy payments and other entitlement but significant bonuses still went unpaid.

One.Tel employed staff on individual contracts in direct opposition to the collective documents being pursued by the CPSU.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reportedly trying to have Silbermann and One.Tel boss Jodee Rich, unconnected with the new venture, barred from being managers or directors of any Australian company.


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