E D I T O R I A L

Not So Happy Campers
It's a crude political truism: it's better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. At least for those on the inside.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: Pulling the Pin
Victorian union leader Dean Mighell outlines the thinking behind his decision to quit the ALP and join the Greens.

International: At the Crossroads
From Germany, to Britain, to South Africa, Canada and the USA it seems union members are turning on their political partners � and talking about divorce.

Unions: A Case Of Lost Identity
Victorian Trades Hall secretary Leigh Hubbard warns that more unions could leave the ALP if the current policy review hits the wrong note.

History: Rocking the Foundations
There was not just one model of what a political wing of the labour movement should be, Don Rawson writes.

Industrial: Rocky Road
Thirteen hundred Rockhampton workers are putting cars and houses on the line in an effort to beat off bully-boy tactics from Kerry Packer-owned Consolidated Meat Group.

Economics: Cracking a Coldie
As Australian icons fall around him, Neale Towart charts the rise and fall of the Great Aussie Esky.

Poetry: The Right Was Wrong
A glimpse of history shows that waterfront workers deserve the high moral ground.

Satire: Heffernan�s Evidence Conclusive: Proves He's An Idiot
The evidence released by Senator Bill Heffernan to substantiate his allegations against Justice Kirby have proved conclusively that the senator is an idiot.

Review: Upstairs, Downstairs
Robert Altman's latest movie Gosford Park is hard yakka no matter what side of the class system you sit on.

N E W S

Giant Rat Fights Cole Commission

Dodgy Bosses To Get Life

Unions Back Rugby World Cup

Queue Jumper Abbott In Cash Grab

Refugees Face Bank Imbalance

Guards Act to Plug Leaks

Rabbit Fence Leads Reconciliation to Classroom

Spy Bill Under Fire

Council Takes Up Discrimination Challenge

Power Workers To Decide Own Fate

Thumbs Up for Super Deal

G-G Warned Off State Schools

Fee Pressure Builds on Beattie

Nobel Committee 'Subordinates' Union Rights

Columbians Level Death Charges

Call To Blockade Burmese Junta

Indonesian Threat To Unions

Activist Notebook

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
Dealing with Prejudice
Former Liberal senator Chris Puplick did not pull any punches launching a new guide for union reps dealing with discrimination issues.

The Locker Room
The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
Phil Doyle tries to get sport off the front pages and back where it belongs ...

Postcard
Greetings From Lao
In the first in a new series, Union Aid Abroad's Phillip Hazelton, reports from Lao, where he is establishing a vocational training centre.

Cole-Watch
Go West
The Building Industry Royal Commission caravan has rolled into Perth.

Week in Review
Top of the Pops
Johnny Howard and his Masters of Deception kept the beat during a week in which secrecy took over from blatant fibbing as the dark art or choice, leaving the national Hit Parade looking something like this �

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Guards Act to Plug Leaks

"Guards are having money deducted just because they need to go to the toilet - and don't get permission," NSW LHMU Security Union assistant secretary, Mark Boyd, says.

"Our members feel like they are back in school, desperately waving their hands saying 'please, please, sir can I go to the toilet'.

" This is not the way to treat workers. It has to come to an end."

State Rail contracted-out, to Chubb Security, the security guards jobs on trains and platforms.

"Union members are telling Chubb to do something about the problems and stop pissing in our pockets. They have had two years of promises on pay and conditions without any action," Boyd says.

Union members want the Carr Labor Government to consider taking the State Rail contract off Chubb if it is not prepared to show some respect for its workers.

The contract - for both on-train and platform security guards - comes up for re-negotiation in July.

A delegation of LHMU State Rail security guards and union officials has met Transport Minister, Carl Scully, to outline their concerns.

Boyd says members are pleased by initial responses from the Minister's office to a range issues.

Water Works

Security members, working on the SRA system, will rally at 9.30am next Tuesday, in front of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in William St, Sydney, to protest poor conditions and pay.

They want Chubb, the SRA and the Industrial Relations Commission to act now and address a long list of grievances.

Newcastle security guards struck for 48 hours over these issues earlier this month.

The Industrial Relations Commission ordered Chubb and the SRA to report back on March 26 to ensure, finally, that Newcastle problems were taken seriously.

After the stoppage Chubb Security, forced by the NSW WorkCover Authority, began providing Newcastle workers with free bottled chilled water - something they had resisted for nearly two years.

Workers at last Monday's Sydney mass meeting congratulated their Newcastle counterparts and decided to organise the rally outside the Industrial Relations Commission.

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