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I Don�t Like Sprouts
I've always thought brussel sprouts tasted like reconstituted vomit, so the latest smart-arse advertising campaign for the Clearview pension fund doesn�t really wash with me.
Interview: Clean Hands
Susan Ryan was Labor's first female Minister, today she represents the trustees responsible for our super funds, where the move to socially responsible investment is happening, albeit slowly.
Corporate: Out of Asia
The decision by America�s biggest employee pension fund to pull out of a number of Asian countries because of their poor labour rights and civil liberties standards has sent shock waves through the region.
Unions: Tears, Real And Crocodile, At The Ansett Wake
It�s ended in heartbreak but the campaign to keep Ansett flying should really be remembered for the courage, determination and decency of the airline�s devoted staff writes Noel Hester.
Economics: Labour�s Capital: Individual Or Collective?
More Australians own shares than ever before, asks Frank Stilwell, but is it the best way to share the wealth?
History: Mardi Gras: The Biggest Labour Festival?
The struggle for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers has been part of the wider struggle for workers rights, in Australia and internationally.
International: Driving A Hard Bargain
Public sector workers in Korea are using the last twelve months before local and national elections � and the up-coming soccer World Cup � as bargaining chips in their campaign against privatisation of public utilities.
Review: In Bed With a Sub-Machine Gun
In this extract from his new book, Night Train to Granada, GB Harrision travels from Drepression era Newcastle to Spain under Franco's heel.
Satire: Whitlam Forgives Kerr: "At Least He Didn't Dismiss A Rape Victim"
Gough Whitlam claimed today that the man who dismissed him is no longer Australia�s worst Governor-General. �Sure he dismissed me, but at least he never dismissed a child rape victim like Governor-General Hollingworth,� said Whitlam.
Poetry: Dear Mother
Thanks to the generosity of the Defence Signals Directorate, Workers Online has obtained intercepts of recent communications between Australia and London. A transcript is below:
 Unions Stats Snow Job
BHP Strike Over Super Control
Some Light Reflects Off Ansett
Net Porn Highlights Privacy Lag
Mad Monk To Float Down Oxford Street
Burma the Next Chernobyl
Govt Breaches Its Own Guidelines
Sartor Policies Irk Council Workers
Service Fee Push Hots Up in Qld
Casino Workers Show Their Hands
Hotel Bosses Have Full House But Cry Poor
Airport Screeners Win Training Rights
CFMEU Korean Activist Honoured
Support For Fijian Union Battle
Beer Cold and Prawns Peeled
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Grumpy Old Men (And Bettina)
Scratch the surface of most conservative commentators and you'll find a lapsed Leftie, Paul Norton argues. The Locker Room
Black and White
The Australian way of playing rugby union, cricket and the development of our own game, Australian Rules, were profoundly influenced by a forgotten man. Week in Review
Gridlocked
Jim Marr loooks at a week when trains, planes and ships of shame all threatened to come to a grinding halt.
More on Harry Bridges
Well Done, Splitter
Repeating History
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BHP Strike Over Super Control
Seventy two South Australian steel workers with BHP Billiton are in their second week of a strike over control of $600 million in their retirement savings.
Workers at BHP's Wingfield Service Centre in South Australia vowed to continue their strike after walking off the job last week.
The dispute has the potential to spread to the South Australian car industry, which relies on Wingfield for steel for car panels.
The action, part of a broader dispute over enterprise bargaining, follows BHP Billiton attempts to outsource in-house superannuation arrangements to a private operator rather than an industry super fund.
Australian Workers Union national secretary Bill Shorten says superannuation is a major issue for workers, who are also in dispute over pay, company EBA proposals to allow forced redundancies and introduce a no-strike clause.
BHP Billiton revealed last October it intended to outsource its employees' superannuation arrangements to Total Risk Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Towers Perrin, and Russell Investment Management.
The AWU has endorsed an industry superannuation fund, Superannuation Trust of Australia, as its preferred option. Shorten has called on BHP to have the two options independently assessed.
He says the STA proposal is the superior option because it has lower total fees, the same investment structure as the existing BHP Billiton Superannuation Fund, cheaper insurance cover for death and disability and employee representation on its board.
Shorten says a major shortcoming of the company-endorsed proposal is that it does not allow full employee and union representation.
BHP Billiton deferred a decision on which superannuation option to pursue until next month.
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