Issue No 16 | 04 June 1999 | |
NewsIndustrial Who’s Who Head for Geneva
Ever wanted to see Peter Reith, Jeff Shaw and Arch Bevis in the same room? Head for Geneva next week and you could get lucky.
The unlikely trio will be at the 87th session of International Labour Organisation where policies on labour standards are discussed and set. Of particular interest in this session are sessions on child labour and maternity protection at work. Both these issues are on the Carr Government's agenda, with a Department of Community Services working party currently looking at child employment and a pre-election promise by Shaw to give casual workers access to maternity leave. For Reith, who has attempted to dismiss the importanc eof ILO standards and currently has a critical ILO report out against his Workplace Relations Act, it should be a particulalry interesting experience. Stand by for reports on the trip from Jeff and Arch (but maybe not Reithy) in future issues of Workers Online.
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Interview: Opening Australia Lindsay Tanner talks about new ideas, new policy and new politics in the Information Age. Unions: An Educated Fightback A visiting US trade unionist reveals how training better union delegates is the key to reversing the membership slide. Legal: A Fair Case for Free-Rider Laws The proposal to enable unions to charge non-members a service fee for negotiating enterprise agreements is consistent with the principle of freedom of association. History: New Ideas in Labour History See the latest from the May issue of Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History. International: Tiananmen Square Ten Years On We remember the massacre and the role that working people continue to play in fighting injustice. Review: Organising Our Future - What Use the US?? A new paper looks at what Australian unions can learn from the experiences of their American colleagues.
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