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Bad Bosses
It could only come from Tony Abbott: an impassioned defence of bad bosses that manages to dismisses the experience of every worker who has ever been done over at work.
Interview: Media Magnet
Labor's communications spokesman Lindsay Tanner on Telstra, pay TV, Murdoch and Packer and other media dilemmas.
Bad Boss: Abbott's Heroes
The first nominee in our Bad Boss quest is a man who runs his call centre as though it were a primary school classroom.
Technology: All in the Family
LaborNET's tentacles continue to spread with this week's launch of the New Zealand Council of Trade Union's site.
International: New Labour's Cracks
The British labour movement has plunged itself into another round of tit-for-tat insults flying between the Blair Government and the trade unions, reports Andrew Casey.
Economics: Virtuality Check
Is the Internet Bill Gates' guide to wealth and power or the key to liberation from alienation and corporate power? A new book weighs the arguments.
History: Necessary Utopias
Neale Towart looks at the impact of the Robens Report to argue that worker control of industry is where OHS should be heading.
Poetry: Let Me Bring Love
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Honourable Tony Abbott, has made an offer that the Australian worker will find hard to resist: 'where there is hatred, let me bring love'.
Review: How Not To Get It Together
Together is a belated reminder that it takes more than high ideals and the right intentions to turn a commune into a community.
Satire: NZ, UK Added to Australia�s Migration Zone
In an effort to increase support for its plan to remove 30,000 islands from the Australian migration exclusion zone, the federal government has added New Zealand and England to the list of excluded islands.
 Revealed: The Evidence Cole Won�t Touch
Search for Bad Bosses Begins
WorkCover to Set Up Crimes Unit
Electricians Oppose Family-Busting Conditions
Blue-Collar Blokes Back Mat Leave
Murdoch Telegraphs Contracts Push
Abbot Changes Rules for �Employer Advocate�
Gucci's Label Tarnished
Funding Cuts Drives Academics Mad
Star City Casino Strike On The Cards
Chifley Planners Lose Benefits
Qantas Staff Sick of Shivering
Regional Councils Call Jobs Summit
Kiwi Ex-Pats Targeted for Poll Push
Shangri-La Workers Still Fighting
Korean Unionist Freed
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
The Bush Telegraph
Telstra�s poor performance in the bush is not just about reception, argues the CEPU's Ian McCarthy The Locker Room
The Tennis Racket
You would think that child labour would have gone the way of bus conductors and public telephones that work, but this is not necessarily the case, writes Phil Doyle. Bosswatch
Capitalism in Crisis
The collapse of a US telco has sent shockwaves around the globe and undermined trust in a system that rewards hype and dishonesty. Week in Review
Between the Sheets
This column is heartily sick of being called solid, reliable and old-fashioned so Jim Marr gets with the program and discovers this is, in fact, an up-and-down, in-and-out sort of world�
Lessons from Air Disaster
Buggering the Bush
The Great Giveaway
Down and Out
Why I hate Telstra
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News
Electricians Oppose Family-Busting Conditions
Major industrial action in the construction industry is brewing with employers seeking to strip back conditions, including the right to take rostered days off and use a personal mobile phone while at work.
Electrical Trade Union delegates today voted to approve strike action, authorising the union to call stoppages in the coming week.
Industrial action would close all major building sites around the city.
The application by the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) to the Industrial Relations Commission includes removing the right to:
- claim overtime rates on Saturdays
- take accumulated sick leave or rostered days off
- use a personal mobile phone while at work
- claim for lost or stolen tools.
"This proposal is anti-worker and anti-family," ETU state secretary Bernie Riordan says.
"Forcing workers who work long hours to cash in Rostered Days Off rather than spending time with their families will undermine their quality of life.
"The ban on mobile phones is heartless. It is totally reasonable to have a means to be contacted a family member who may be sick or need some other help.
"Building industry workers see the upcoming enterprise negotiations as an opportunity to win back control over their lives; these proposals go in the opposite direction."
Meetings will be held with NECA next week, with strike action expected if these proposals are not withdrawn.
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