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Issue No. 139 | 07 June 2002 |
With Prejudice
Interview: Class Action Safety: A Mother's Tale Unions: The Hottest Seat in Town International: Defensive Enterprise Economics: A Super Deal? History: A Radical Life Media: Cross Purposes Review: When the Force Is Unconscious Poetry: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Grieving Mum Turns Cole Around Hamberger Grilled Over AWA Scam Government Shrugs Off Death Sentence Charge Action To Pay Foreign Crew Aussie Wages 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 Mahathir Told to Release Labour Activisits Horta Backs Western Sahara Independence
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Week in Review
Robbo's Rave Latham Ad Nauseum Our Home Is Girt By Wire Hands Off Hooligans!
Labor Council of NSW |
News Budget Delivers - But Not For DOCS
Public Service Association general secretary Maurie O'Sullivan made the angry call, describing her inability to fund extra staff in the department of Community Services as a "humiliating dismissal". "Any Minister worth his or her salt would take such an insult pretty infuriatingly and not hang around a Cabinet Room where clearly her opinion and her claims are trivialised," O''Sullivan says. " The Department is in absolute crisis and this crisis has been drastically compounded by the Treasurer's dismissal of the Minister's request for an immediate interim substantial staffing increase in the ranks of Field Workers." Apart form the DOCS funding, NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson says the Budget was good news for working people, with strategies to stimulate employment across the economy. Robertson says the removal of payroll tax on apprentices would provide an incentive for job creation and skills development in blue-collar industries. "This decision places apprenticeships on the same footing as white-collar and service industry traineeships which were already exempt from payroll tax," he says Other initiatives that the Labor Council endorsed include: - $1.5 million to address the exploitation of outworkers in the textile industry - an extra judge for the NSW Industrial Relations Commission - a trial on reduced class sizes for the first years of schooling - and increased funding for police, education and health But Robertson says that increases in public sector staff numbers should be on a permanent not a casual basis. "Our biggest concern is the casualisation of the public sector. Today's Budget Papers do not provide sufficient details to gauge whether this trend will continue, but it is an issue we will continue to pursue."
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