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Why I'm Marching
If you haven�t guessed already, I'm no Labor apparatchik. In fact my entry into politics was through the old Nuclear Disarmament Party.
Interview: The Wedge Buster
Labor's immigration spokeswoman Julia Gillard talks about her job of developing policy to blunt Howard's wedge.
History: Fighting for Peace
Was the first Palm Sunday parade a celebration or a protest, asks Neale Towart.
Unions: Rattling the Gates
When Pacific Power workers traveled from Newcastle to Macquarie Street this week life-long loyalties were on the line, as Jim Marr reports.
International: Facing Retribution
Serious fears are growing for the safety of Zimbabwean trade unionists after the tainted election defeat of their former leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Technology: How Korean Workers Used The Web
Electrical power industry workers in Korea are relying on the internet, and mobile phones, to successfully organise a militant nation-wide anti-privatisation strike.
Industrial: Working Futures
Can an assortment of economists, lawyers, historians, industrial relations specialists, unionists, journalists, sociologists and psychologists help us develop a decent future for work and social relations in Australia?
Review: Rumble, Young Man, Rumble
To compress the full and exhilarating life of The Greatest to film-length is no easy task but Ali makes a reasonable fist of the job writes Noel Hester.
Satire: GG Survival Doomed: Fox-Lew In Charge Of Rescue Bid
The hopes of embattled Governor-General Dr Peter Hollingworth took a battering last night, after he learnt that the rescue bid for his survival is being headed up by Lindsay Fox and Solomon Lew.
Poetry: PSST
From Sue Robinson to Michael Kirby, some things in politics are constant...only the names have been changed to defame the innocent.
 Girl's Maiming Sparks Entry Plea
More Time Off for Babies
Workers Break Bank Cartel
State Law Push For Virgin Sites
Outrage at Privatisation by Decree
Woomera - Flames, Razors, Rope and Despair
Bus Drivers Block ALP Funds
Crean Gets on Front Foot
Nurses, Teachers On The Money
Asset-Stripping Sparks Walk-Out
Opposition Grows Over Howard's Freedom Attack
Heffernan Prompts �Right of Reply� Demands
Della Dumps Dunny Blues
Smith Flies Into Turbulence
Guards Force Drinks Break
Levy Struck to Support Rockhampton Meatworkers
ACTU Assists former Ansett Staff
Activist News
The Soapbox
The War on Terror - Impunity for Abuses?
Federal Labor MP Duncan Kerr argues that governments are using the fears of the post-Septmeber 11 environment for thier own ends. The Locker Room
Oh, The Humanity!
So, sports people are human after all. Now there�s a headline. Week in Review
Tomorrow, The World
Jim Marr picks over the entrails of a week in which world domination, or at least hegemony over that part of it in which the principal operates, is a recurring theme.
Carr and the Fire Fighters
On Inequality
Harmony Day
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Asset-Stripping Sparks Walk-Out
Sydney building workers took to the streets after it was revealed their company had been stripped of assets and the prospect of future work.
The workers, employed by a company which was sold to Flecthers recently, discovered this week that assurance made at the time of the sale would not be honoured.
A month ago the CFMEU was given assurances that Holland's would look after its workforce and that the $100 million worth of work Fletchers currently have would keep building workers busy into the future.
Now, through corporate sleight of hand the $100 million worth of work has magically turned into only $16 million worth and Holland's have told the Industrial Commission that they are only prepared to take on Fletchers white collar workers, leaving its blue collar workforce in a cherry picked shell company and facing an uncertain future.
CFMEU State Assistant Secretary Brian Parker Secretary says Fletchers workers will do whatever it takes to get some guarantees from their new employers. "These guys are furious and set for a long battle"
"The Union will back its members 100%. These are decent hardworking Australians. Take the case of building worker Tony Stone. 25 years with the company, his marriage went bust through the long hours; he has ruined both his knees in industrial accidents. He was promised secure employment and now he is on the scrap heap."
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