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Scales of Injustice
The Cole Royal Commission�s final report will be handed to the Howard Government this week, although its public release will be strategically delayed for maximum political capital.
Interview: Agenda 2003
ACTU secretary Greg Combet looks at the year ahead and how a union movement can keep the focus on the workplace at a time of global crisis.
Peace: The Colour Purple
Local communities across Australia are taking stands against war by displaying purple banners. Jim Marr visits one.
Industrial: Long, Hot Summer
As Workers Online took its annual break, the world kept turning � at an increasingly alarming velocity.
Solidarity: Workers Against War
Joann Wypijewski reports on how union locals in the USA are fighting the hounds of war at home.
Security: Howard And The Hoodlums
With all the talk of terror, the Howard Government�s Achilles heel is its tolerance of Flags of Convenience shipping , writes Rowan Cahill
International: Industrial Warfare
Scottish freight train drivers have already acted to disrupt the war effort in the UK with crews of four freight trains carrying war supplies to ports walking off the job, writes Andrew Casey
History: Unions and the Vietnam War
The Vietnam experience steered some unions towards social activism for the first time. Unions are today key players in the anti-war movement, writes Tony Duras.
Review: Eight Miles to Mowtown
Mark Hebblewhites looks at two summer movies that tap into different sounds of American culture - white boy rap and motown blues.
Poetry: Return To Sender
Resident bard Divd Peetz discovers that Elvis has become the latest shock recruit to the peace cause.
Satire: CIA Recruits New Intake of Future Enemies
CIA Director George Tenet announced today that the agency has begun recruiting future enemies for the year 2014.
 Cole Commission: The Rort Goes On
Penalty Rates Under Attack
Abbott Brushes Ripped Off Aussies
Overworked Seaman�s Painful Hangover
Australia Snubs International Body
Women Attracted to Unions
Murdoch Hacks Dropping Like Flies
Peace is Union Business
Qantas Takes Big Stick to Cabin Crew
Sheltered Workshop in Orange Squeeze
Carr Govt Commits $13m To Safety
Monk Puts IR in Test Tube
Concreters Bury Six-Day Week
Graincorp Boss in Cyber War
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Getting On with The Job
Premier Bob Carr chose Trades Hall as the venue to launch Labor's IR policy for the upcoming state election. Postcard
Justice in Bogota
Sydney lawyer Ian Latham knows how to pick them. He�s gone straight from the Cole Royal Commission to justice Colombian-style. The Locker Room
Heart Of Darkness
There is a school of thought that there is, in fact, only one World Cup - and it doesn�t involve cricket, writes Phil Doyle. Politics
Danger Mouse
John Howard's politics have trapped him into supporting an unpopular war. He is in political trouble, Leonie Bronstein argues.
This Means War
Who Let The Troops Out?
Wagga Wagga Calling
Ode to Johnny
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Graincorp Boss in Cyber War
The Australian Workers Union is calling for support in its fight against an anti-union crusade being waged by GrainCorp, Australia�s largest bulk commodity storage and handling company.
GrainCorp's Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with the Australian Workers' Union is currently up for re-negotiation. GrainCorp thought they might try to tip the scales in their favour by cutting off payroll deduction of union dues.
The architect of GrainCorp's de-unionisation strategy is Chief Operating Officer Joe Di Leo, also a well-known identity within the Australian Labor Party.
As a good chardonnay-socialist Joe is often seen at ALP fundraising events, and likes to boast to union officials about his "personal friendships" with senior ALP Ministers.
With the worst drought in living memory reeking havoc across the state with grain growers going bust every where, farmers will be pleased to learn that GrainCorp's Senior Executives are still enjoying the highlife.
Last year the champion of this working class pulled in a cool $357,463.00 - not to mention 100,000 share options.
The AWU is now launching a campaign to make sure that members of the Australian Labor Party abide by the Rules and Objectives of the ALP and call for Joe to be expelled from the ALP.
ALP Rules state "An employer can only join, or remain in the Party, if he/she makes genuine endeavors to ensure all their employees join a union and union/award/agreement conditions are observed."
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