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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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Service Fee Push Hots Up in Qld
There is a growing push from Queensland to allow unions to levy service fees on non-members who receive pay rises through union efforts.
Three Queensland unions - the ASU, AMWU and CEPU - have this week advocated the so-called 'freeloader' issue and say they will attempt to change both state and federal ALP platforms.
Advocates say proposed changes would commit ALP governments to ensuring non-unionists did not benefit free of charge, through improved wages and conditions, from the efforts of unionists.
The call was raised by the ASU Services executive last week, picked up by other unions, will be referred to a meeting of unions affiliated to the ALP.
Sick of Freeloaders
ASU-Services Queensland secretary, David Smith, says union members are getting sick of freeloaders who benefit from union efforts, yet make no contribution to the cost of getting those benefits.
"Under current state and federal industrial relations legislation the concept of Fair Share Representation fees has been ruled out," he says.
"This means we now have to get legislative change to overcome the injustice of people getting something for nothing, while work colleagues in the union meet all the costs of negotiations and industrial commission hearings.
"In its federal platform, the ALP claims credit for developing the idea of mutual obligation, especially as it applies to the social security system. It is time for the ALP to extend the idea to the industrial relations system and ensure those who benefit contribute to the costs incurred by unionists."
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