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War On The Collective
While Saddam Hussein is the primary target of George W Bush�s ham-fisted crusade to destroy a noun, the United Nations is also under its heaviest attack in its 57 years.
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
 Unions Join Anti-War Chorus
ACM Fails Port Hedland Report
Abbott Adds Fuel to Bias Case
Murray�s Millions Dwarfs Workers Wages
Rogue MP Faces Grassroots Backlash
Harry Bridges Speaks from the Grave
Councils Deny Multi-Lingual Workers
US Rabbi Fights Lowy Malls
Ansett Ticket Levy Not Reaching Workers
Something Stinks at the Zoo
Virgin in Delegate Situation
Pampas Workers Baste Boss
International Shame for Aussie IR
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Activists Notebook
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
The Shame (Sham) of the Democratic Party
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Tears From Tom
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US Rabbi Fights Lowy Malls
An American Rabbi is a key leader in a fight against the Australian shopping mall king � Frank Lowy � over the meagre wages paid to cleaners in his seven San Diego Westfield Shoppingtown malls.
Rabbi Coskey has now got involved in another Australian labour dispute by helping organise clergy across America to send letters to the top executive of the Sydney Hilton Hotel, Mr Oded Lifschit, to protest his treatment of hotel workers.
" I got an e-mail about the Sydney Hilton workers crisis through HERE Local 30 ( the North American hotel workers union). We have worked on several campaigns with them. They are key partners in our work.
" We put the notice about the Sydney dispute out to all of our mass e-mail list, which includes at least 100 clergy and people of faith. I suspect you heard from a decent percentage of them," Rabbi Coskey said.
" Here in San Diego we work closely with low-waged workers in the service sector. Showing solidarity with room attendants and other hotel workers in Sydney was an easy thing for us to support."
In a long interview on the LHMU website she discusses how the alliance between unions and faith communities works in the USA - and how similar coalitions could be built here in Australia.
Rabbi Laurie Coskey is the director of the San Diego Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, and this week led a group of clergy in a civil disobedience protest at the US head office of Westfield in Los Angeles.
They were thrown out soon after they infiltrated the Westfield private offices and distributed a letter saying they would be relentless in pursuing justice for Westfield janitors.
Frank Lowy - the second richest man in Australia - bought himself some great cheap, positive headlines a few days back when he announced that he was handing over his $11 million in annual wages to charity, to thank Australia for the fifty good years he has had here since arriving as a penniless migrant.
But the immigrant low-waged workers in the USA who clean his shopping malls aren't impressed.
You can read a long Q&A with Rabbi Coskey at the LHMU website, where she discusses how and why clergy work closely with the US labour movement in their campaigns for a decent Living Wage for low-wage workers.
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