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Issue No. 143 | 05 July 2002 |
Bad Bosses
Interview: Media Magnet Bad Boss: Abbott's Heroes Technology: All in the Family International: New Labour's Cracks Economics: Virtuality Check History: Necessary Utopias Poetry: Let Me Bring Love Review: How Not To Get It Together Satire: NZ, UK Added to Australia�s Migration Zone
Revealed: The Evidence Cole Won�t Touch 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� 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
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Week in Review
Buggering the Bush The Great Giveaway Down and Out Why I hate Telstra
Labor Council of NSW |
News Murdoch Telegraphs Contracts Push
News Ltd has singled out clerical workers for AWAs while continuing to negotiate collective agreements with industrially stronger elements of its workforce. NSW unions reacted to the development by pledging cross union resistance to company attempts to isolate the predominantly female section of its workforce. Labor Council secretary John Robertson is calling for a "united front" from News Ltd unions. "The company is obviously seeking to exploit a group of workers it perceives as having no industrial muscle," Robertson says. "We need to get together and back these people in so News Ltd understands we will operate on the basis of 'touch one, touch all." Michael Want, from the Australian Services Union, says the News Ltd AWAs are "clearly inferior" to award conditions, raising further questions about the role of the Government's Employment Advocate, increasingly known as the Employers' Advocate. News wants to pay its clerical staff an all-in salary of less than $35,000, compensating for all benefits they might be entitled to "including but not limited to" overtime, shift penalties, weekend penalties, allowances, annual leave loading and public holiday benefits. "We cannot understand how this AWA can pass the no disadvantage test," Want says. "It is, on first glance, clearly inferior to the award. Labor Council is writing to Murdoch seeking an explanation for his attack on clerical workers and will take any response to a meeting of News Ltd unions.
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