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Issue No. 125 | 22 February 2002 |
Unfair and Dismal
Interview: If Not Now, When? Activists: Fighting Back Industrial: Croon And Divide Politics: Politics of Extinction History: Harry Bridges: International Labour Hero International: Rats in the Ranks Review: Follow The Fence, Find The Truth Satire: Howard Screws Refugee Kids: G-G Turns Blind Eye Poetry: Let It Be
Building Workers' Bid to Win Back Lives Dog-Tired � Long Hours Leave Beagles Buggered Home Care Workers Reject Sweat Building Commission's Costly Spin Caltex Asked To Explain Price Hikes Palm Sunday Resurrected for Refugees Dismissals: Labor Blocks The Lot Company Collapses: Union Wants Bank Powers Legal Action to Block Job Exports Councils Targeted in Contracting Campaign CFMEU Constructs Lebanese Bridge Israeli Aircraft Destroy Most Of Palestinian Union HQ
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
Tom's Foolery Give Us a Spray!
Labor Council of NSW |
News Company Collapses: Union Wants Bank Powers
National secretary, Bill Shorten, told a National Press Club Luncheon in Canberra that workers carried similar risks and should also be entitled to information necessary to protect their investments. He argued for access to operational management information and financial data, along with the capacity to take fixed charges over the assets of companies in financial difficulties. Banks, he said, got the information because economic orthodoxy decreed that, in return for carrying lending risks, banks needed timely facts about a company's status. Shorten said the demands would underpin cases his union intended to run in its mining and agricultural heartlands. He nominated the overhaul of the pastoral award and value of work provisions in metalliferous mining documents as two stages on which the proposals would be promoted. In a wide-ranging address he also announced the AWU would run an unfair dismissal conference in April with a view to establishing national standards for hearing and dealing with such claims. Shorten advocated the introduction of a portable long-service scheme to be administered by industry super funds and announced that a scholarship would be offered to honour former AWU official, Andrew Knox, who was killed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre.
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