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With Prejudice
For anyone doubting the ability of an incumbent government to control the political agenda, this week's sitting of the Cole Royal Commission into the Building Industry made fascinating viewing.
Interview: Class Action
NSW Teachers Federation general secretary Barry Johnson on Bob Carr's election budget and what he needs to do to win back the profession.
Safety: A Mother's Tale
Robin McGoldrick relives the tragedy that prompted her to confront Royal Commissioner Terence Cole over workplace story.
Unions: The Hottest Seat in Town
Nostalgia buffs should make a point of catching at least one session of Tony Abbott�s controversial, Royal Commission, playing to increasingly thin houses in Sydney. Jim Marr sat through the opening scenes.
International: Defensive Enterprise
How can men and women working in the unprotected "informal economy" be helped to better defend their rights? The ICTU grapples with the issue in The Congo.
Economics: A Super Deal?
Neale Towart looks at the debate raging within Labor circles around savings and investment.
History: A Radical Life
Stephen Holt gives an insight into one of the Australian Labor Party�s original true believers through his examination of papers held in the Manuscript Collection
Media: Cross Purposes
Stuart Mackenzie looks at the lines spun at the recent Senate committee hearing into media ownership laws.
Review: When the Force Is Unconscious
Cultural Theoritician Mark Morey reports on how a trip to the Sydney Writers Festival became a battle for intergalactic supremacy.
Poetry: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
For seven decades, Queensland aboriginal workers working under government control were 'paid' below-award wages which were placed into 'trust' accounts which were pilfered, levied, diverted and bled dry.
 Grieving Mum Turns Cole Around
Hamberger Grilled Over AWA Scam
Government Shrugs Off Death Sentence Charge
Action To Pay Foreign Crew Aussie Wages
Jockeys Face Insurance Crisis
Birds Get More Protection Than Workers
Budget Delivers - But Not For DOCS
Statewide Ban On Grain Loading
Howard Soft On Organised Crime?
UN Honours Building Union Drugs Program
Award-Winning Poet Wins Right To Write
Workers Out For Gay Games
Mahathir Told to Release Labour Activisits
Horta Backs Western Sahara Independence
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
It�s The Members, Stupid.
Those officials obsessed with union voting power in the ALP are missing the point, writes Luke Foley. The Locker Room
Too Good To Be True
Phil Doyle castes his withering gaze over a week in sport that featured origin square-ups, the World Game in all its glory and a few drunken jockeys. Bosswatch
In The Cauldron
It was another week of pull-outs, profits de-mergers and takeovers in the corporate world; but some bright news with a plan to make executive pay more accountable. Week in Review
The Black Letter
Legal mechanisms, national and international, are throwing up challenges to all sectors of our community but the law is a beast of many shapes and sizes as Jim Marr discovers.
Romeo and Juliet?
Robbo's Rave
Latham Ad Nauseum
Our Home Is Girt By Wire
Hands Off Hooligans!
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Action To Pay Foreign Crew Aussie Wages
Maritime unions have begun a new legal push to combat Flag of Convenience shipping, applying to have foreign crews covered by Australian awards.
They commenced action this week to rope in the Ukrainian crew of the CSL Pacific, the sister ship of the CSL Yarra at the centre of the recent stand-off over foreign crews.
The owners of the two ships, Canadian Shipping Line, caused a furore by re-flagging the Australian ships in the Bahamas and sacking the Australian crew and replacing them with lower paid Ukrainian workers.
The Maritime Union of Australia, the Australian Maritime Officers'
Union (AMOU) and the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers
(AIMPE) have taken the action in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
If successful the case would set an important precedent whereby all shipping working the Australian domestic coastal trade would be required to pay their crew Australian award rates and conditions.
The union push has the full backing of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that will also be represented at the commission. It has also attracted the attention of the Minister for Workplace Relations Tony Abbott. The Commonwealth has intervened in the case on behalf of the foreign shipowner, CSL.
CSL Boss Out of Parliament
Meanwhile, the now infamous owner of CSL, finance minister Paul Martin, has resigned his post. The resignation comes after a clash with prime minister Jean Chretien, Lloyds List Daily Commercial News reports.
Martin is one of Canada's richest men. His shipping fleet has been at the centre of a dispute with the Australian maritime unions over the flagging out of two bulk carriers working the domestic coastal trade.
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