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Our Historical Mission
It has often been argued that unions would cease to exist when employers civilised workplaces. Our historical mission would have been fulfilled and we could pack up and spend out time enjoying the equitable society that would be the fruit of our victory.
Interview: Something Smells
The Postal Union's Jim Metcher lifts the lid on the very strange goings-on in Australia Post
Cole-Watch: Credibility Crisis
Counsels Assisting the Cole Royal Commission face a humiliating public back down in an effort to bring some balance to proceedings, reports Jim Marr.
Unions: Union Cities
Labor Council's Adam Kerslake has returned from the USA with some new ideas on community unionism
Industrial: Lib Men Gang Up Against Working Mums
Working women are in danger of missing out on an adequately funded paid maternity leave scheme, if recent bleatings are acted upon says ACTU President Sharan Burrow.
History: Eureka!
Neale Towart finds an alternative to Baden-Powell�s imperialist scouting movement, where the youth of Australia was fed such radical ideas as solidarity, collective action, equal rights and internationalism.
East Timor: Don�t Rob Their Future
After 24 years of often brutal Indonesian occupation East Timor on 20 May 2002 finally achieved their independence, writes HT Lee.
Review: Black Chicks Say It All
Dorothy can be whatever colour she wants to be and black chicks can talk about anything, writes Tara de Boehmler
Poetry: Self Regulation
While President George W Bush,leader of the heart of
unregulated capitalism, has responded to the recent
spate of corporate cowboydom by whipping out a swathe
of new corporate controls, Australia's Prime Minister
has responded with a feathered touch.
 Cole to Hear of Criminal Takeover Conspiracy
Mad Monk Stamp on Aussie Post
Calls To End Woodlawn Logjam
ANZ Fined Over Freedom Of Speech Breach
Hotels Eat Up Living Wage
Qantas Union's Gorilla Tactics
Shearers Black Ban Their Hall Of Fame
Democrats Fire Shot for Workers
Teachers Walk Out At Aust College of Technology
Rail Operators Off Track
Airport Security Worker Spat At And Assaulted
CBA Workers Say Enough Is Enough
Union Made Songs For Masses
Doco Dishes Dirt On Howard�s Gas Wrangle
Activist Notebook
The Soapbox
Cole Comfort
The election of a federal coalition government in 1996 marked the advent of an aggressively anti union agenda that continues to be played out to this day, writes Paul Davies The Locker Room
Salary Crap
Phil Doyle goes wading through the hypocrisy and hubris, and discovers where the smell is coming from. Postcard
All At Sea
It�s on again - the coastal battle between the maritime unions, the government and the shipowners, reports Zoe Reynolds. Week in Review
The Dogs of War
The battle drums were a-rattling across this wide, brown land and Jim Marr was getting a bit tetchy Bosswatch
Speak No Evil
The majority of Australian firms stay silent on options they offer their executives as John Howard continues to stonewall corporate law reform.
Shit Sheets
Susan's Soccer Outrage
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Hotels Eat Up Living Wage
Six weeks after hotel workers won a modest $18 a week Living Wage increase a 5- star Sydney hotel has found a way to claw most of this money back - they've decided to introduce a $2 meal charge for their workforce.
The $2 charge introduced on Monday at the Marriott Hotel and the Hyde Park Plaza Hotel - means that by the end of this week the recent AIRC $18 a week pay increase will be whittled down to small change.
"We feel we are being cheated out of our well-deserved pay increase by this back door charge. Free meals from the hotel kitchen is a tradition in the hospitality industry which should be kept," Estrelita Reyes, LHMU Hotel Union member, says.
The workers at these two hotels have embarked on a campaign to defend their Living Wage pay increase by today occupying the hotel canteen at lunch time, refusing to pay the $2 charge and raising a chant for their traditional free meal - the one measly perk they can expect from working in high-class hotels.
"The Australian Hotels Association and its members fought hard in the Industrial Relations Commission to deny our members any pay increase," Mark Boyd, LHMU Hotel Union NSW assistant branch secretary said.
"They told the full bench of the AIRC that low-waged hotel workers who earned only just over $12 an hour should get no pay increase.
"The Industrial Relations Commission slapped down this outrageous attempt to deny these workers some wage justice.
"The hotels lost - so now they give the pay increase with one hand - and take it back with another."
The backbone of the hotel's workforce is immigrant women from the Philippines, China, Vietnam and the Pacific Islands who together make the LHMU Hotel Union one of the few growing unions in Australia.
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