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Less Is More
Sometimes working in the union movement, weeks flow into each other and what should be a series of discreet campaigns begins to feel like one long struggle.
Interview: Still Flying
Flight Attendant’s Association international secretary Johanna Brem looks at life in the air since last September’s terrorist attacks.
International: President Gas
NSW Firefighter’s president Darryl Snow sent this missive to his members on the anniversary of a day when 343 of their colleagues died in the line of duty.
Politics: Australia: A Rogue State?
ARM director Greg Barnes argues that September 11 has summoned a new era of isolationism and international lawlessness.
Unions: Welfare Max
Maximus Inc is big, American and controversial. Right now its knocking on the door of Australian welfare delivery and there is every chance the Howard Government will usher it inside, reports Jim Marr.
Bad Boss: Welcome to Telstra!
A Telstra call centre has joined the race for Bad Boss after sacking a pregant woman who had the audacity to need to use the toilet.
Health: Fat Albert: The Grim Reaper
Workers Online's cultural dietician Mark Morey chews the fat over this week's conference on child obesity
Satire: Iraq Pre-empts Pre-emptive Strike
Saddam Hussein has launched a pre-emptive strike on the United States to prevent it from pre-emptively striking Iraq first.
Poetry: A Man From the East And A Man From The West
Resident Bard David Peetz has penned this ode to the sacked Hilton hotel workers
Review: The Sum Of All Fears
Tara de Boehmler checks in to see that America’s cultural cringe is alive, well and sponsored by Marlboro cigarettes
 Retailers Lift Veil on Outworkers
Is Cole Bad For Your Health?
Super Fund Leads Options Assault
Libs Flag Forced Job Cuts
Pressure Grows for Refugee Debate
Vale: Jack Ferguson
Cyber Campaigns Byte Bosses
Abbott’s Mates Apply the Hilton Slipper
Sydney Airport Wins On Casuals
Bushfire Recovery Rights Recognised
Millionaire Pleads Poverty
Combet Talks Up Global Ties
Premier Oil Pulls Out of Burma
Harry Bridges Comes to Town
Pub Trivia With YUM
Legends
Gough's Plaza
Labor's living legend challenged NSW Labor to lift its game as he attended a renaming of 2KY House to Gough Whitlam Plaza. The Locker Room
Support The System That Supports You
This system is a certainty, a moral, a good thing and a knocktaker; well, at least according to Phil Doyle Bosswatch
RIP Chainsaw Al
One of the heroes of corporate downsizing has been cut down but his memory lives on with golden handshakes for leaders of failed businesses still thick on the ground. Awards
The Importance of Being Ernie
It was the tenth annual “Ernie” Awards for sexist behaviour and Labor Council’s Alison Peters was amongst the noisy punters Week in review
Lest We Forget
You can’t help a sneaking suspicion, Jim Marr writes, that George Bush is conscripting the dead of September 11, 2001, to lead his push for another war in the Gulf…
Activists
Workers Out!
Gay and Lesbian trade unionists are organising an international conference to develop a global response to homophobia in the workplace, writes Ryan Heath
War Talk
Why We Are a Terrorism Target
Radio Doco on 1973 Ford Strike
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Abbott’s Mates Apply the Hilton Slipper
Big business, employers and the Federal Government have closed ranks against a scheme that would provide 467 Hilton Hotel workers with improved redundancy settlements.
Hilton workers, many with more than 20 years service, will be tipped out work in November with a maximum of eight weeks compensation. If they had been employed under NSW law they would have been entitled to a maximum of 16 weeks and hundreds of casuals would have secured pro-rata pay-outs.
But ACTU efforts to move those provisions into federal agreements are being stone-walled by the usual AIG, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Howard Government alliance.
Although the first two parties represent business people used to six and seven figure golden handshakes, they have said they will fight the ACTU proposal in the AIRC.
Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott confirmed his Government would also oppose the spread of NSW conditions to workers who lose their jobs.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow pointed out that corporate failures and cutbacks had cost more than half a million Australians their jobs in recent years.
"One quarter of them, 150,000 employees, received less than one day's notice," she said.
Statistics reveal that displaced workers aged over 45 spend more than twice as long looking for new starts, 96 weeks on average, as their younger counterparts.
AIG and the Chambers of Commerce want the rights of redundant workers watered down rather than improved. The latter organisation wants to deny rights to pre-redundancy consultation and to deny payments to staff who find alternative employment.
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