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Coke or Pepsi?
And so the battle of the NSW political brands enters its final week – and at times it seems more like the Coke and Pepsi Taste Challenge; only this time the brown syrupy liquid is power.
Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man
Through a distortion in the time-space continuum, we have found a recording showing how people a few years into the future will deal with health care.
Interview: League of Nations
ICFTU general secretary Guy Ryder on the war, core labour standards and why Australia is an international pariah.
Industrial: 20/20 Hindsight
A retrospective analysis of the Accord is needed to help develop future strategies. Is it worth trying again? And if so, what would need to be different?
Organising: On The Buses
A new rank and file leadership team is standing up for the harried bus driver in the run-up to the NSW State Election
Unions: National Focus
A gaze around the country reveals some inspiring and innovative organising initiatives, a fruitful connection with young workers in South Australia and some typically robust industrial campaigns reports Noel Hester.
History: The Banner Room
On the eve of it’s refurbishment, Jim Marr ventures into one of Trades Hall’s best kept secrets; the room that houses relics of labour’s halcyon days.
International: The Slaughter Continues
Chilling new statistics from Colombia's main trade union confederation CUT: nine trade unionists assassinated in the first two months of this year.
Legal: A Legal Case For War?
Aaron Magner looks at the legal implications of the crusade of the Coalition of the Willing
Culture: Singing For The People
When there’s a struggle for social justice, when a war is brewing or rights are being eroded, the first ones to pen, paper and protest are often the folkwriters.
Review: The Hours
On the eve of International Women’s Day Tara de Boehmler follows the tale of three women who would rather choose death than a life devoid of personal choice.
Poetry: I Wanna Bomb Saddam
Scarier than Star Wars, the latest weapon to be deployed in the battle for Iraq is the Singing Dubya.
Satire: Diuretic Makes Warne's Excuses Look Thin
Australian cricketer Shane Warne today admitted that he was still feeling the after effects of the diuretic he tested positive to.
 Travelex Wrong-un Stumps Staff
No Utopia In Lifetime Contracts
Della Renews Jobs Pledge
Chef Roasts Double Standard
Howard’s Navy – Aussies Need Not Apply
Bank Lockout Mars Peace Day
Intrepid Tourists Buck ILO Bans
Whistle Blown on Second Hand Rail Safety
Back-Packers Used to Break Hotel Strike
Qantas for High Jumps
Burrow Calls for New Family Formula
Central Queensland Sucks on Roche
Cabbies Hail Fair Deal
Smoke Free St Patricks Day
Workers Flush on Poo Pay
Activist Notebook
The Soapbox
Workers Friend
Shock jock Alan Jones snubbed his Liberal mates to bucket the Cole Royal Commission and launch Jim Marr's book The Locker Room
Boer Bore Boring
In the face of oppression Phil Doyle falls asleep in front of the TV Guest Report
Dead Labor
The Hawke and Keating legacy is John Howard, Leonie Bronstein argues. Seduction
Hands Off, Tony
John Della Bosca argues the NSW Industrial Relations System gives his State a competitive advantage.
Bosswatch
Groundhog Day
Another year, another round of corporate excess. Bosswatch returns from its summer slumber to find the same old dogs up to the same tricks.
Addicted to ANZUS
A Plea for Legal Action
Accord Reconsidered
Johnny's Green Card
Veto The War
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Della Renews Jobs Pledge
The Carr Government has renewed its ‘no forced redundancies’ pledge to public sector workers for another four years.
Industrial Relations Minister John Della Bosca made the commitment at a public conference last week after the Carr Government’s industrial relations policy had been silent on the issue.
The undertaking had been a centrepiece of public sector policy for the first two terms of the Carr Government, ensuring NSW workers aren't subjected to the sorts of wholesale job cuts that occurred under the Greiner and Fahey Government.
The Public Service Association and other key public sector unions see this as a key guarantee, ensuring workers will be retrained and redeployed rather than thrown on the scrap heap.
Della Bosca publicly committed the government to the letter sent to then Labor Council secretary Michael Costa by then Industrial Relations Minister Jeff Shaw before the 1999 State Election.
It reads:
"The Carr Government remains committed to the general principle of no forced redundancies.
"Given this principle, the Government recognises its responsibility to both employees and taxpayers to ensure public servants affected by necessary changes within the public sector are redeployed to productive work.
"Often successful redeployment involves adding to a person's skills or complete retraining. It requires a joint and concerted effort from government, employers, unions and staff."
O'Sullivan says Della Bosca's verbal undertaking is good enough for him.
"While I would have preferred this commitment on paper, John Della Bosca is an honourable man and I know his word will be his bond," PSA general secretary Maurie O'Sullivan says.
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