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Might Does Not Mean Right
So the Americans have removed the dictator Hussein, the right wing press are firing more pot-shots than the Republican Guard and George W. Bush can ride into the sunset having liberated the Middle East. Game over � or is it?
Interview: Picking Up The Peaces
Walk Against the War Coalition convenor Bruce Childs outlines the challenge for the peace movement in the lead up to Palm Sunday.
Unions: The Royal Con
Jim Marr argues the Cole Commission can only be taken seriously by people kept ignorant of the way it actually operated.
National Focus: Around the Grounds
Unions maintain the pressure for peace as the upcoming organising conference takes on added significance, reports Noel Hester.
Economics: The Secret War on Trade
Overseas-based multi-nationals are coming after our film industry, electricity, water, pharmaceutical benefits and even childcare. Or are they? Nobody knows, as Jim Marr reports.
International: United Front
Workers and their unions around the world have possibly never been as united in their commitment to campaign together against the War in Iraq, writes Andrew Casey
History: Confessions of a Badge Collector
Bill Pirie has one of the largest collections of trade union badges in the world. After 20 years the collection now numbers some 6,000 badges.
Politics: Stalin�s Legacy
Fifty years ago last month Josef Stalin died. How could it be that a democratic and socialist revolution produced one of the monsters of the twentieth century, asks Leonie Bronstein.
Review: Such Was Not Ned�s Life
The life of Ned Kelly is what we in the world of journalism term a �ball tearing yarn� so why have writers of the movie adaptation felt so impelled to dress it up with fiction, asks Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: Osama's Top Recruiter
Through our extensive intelligence networks, we have managed to track down the top recruiter for the global terror network of Osama bin Laden.
Satire: Woolworths CEO Denied Bonus After Company Posts Profit
Woolworths chief executive Roger Corbett was devastated today to report an 18.3% rise in profit under his management over the last year.
Carr: Workers Won It For Me
Nursing Crisis Bites Elderly
Judge Puts �Predator� Before Workers
WA Court Undermines Cole
Mexican Chain Gangs Win NSW Work
Della Muscles Up to Abbott
STOP PRESS - Brewery Goes Flat
ACCC Urged to Consider Jobs
Unions Stats Track Armageddon
Cameron: Feds More Interested in Iraq
SARS Lays Jobs Low
Working Hours Benefit Millions
Journos Urge War Crimes Prosecutions
Unions Support Displaced in Iraq
The Soapbox
Factional Free-For-All
Chris Christodoulou looks at the fallout from the selection of the new Carr Ministry and what it means to the factional warlords. The Locker Room
The Best Season Since Last Year
Phil Doyle goes trudging through the mud in search of the heart of the matter beneath the corporate biffo Culture
Books on Bombs
In times like these, reading inevitably turns to America and war. Chris White wades through Pilger, Chomsky, Eco, Moore and Vidal. Postcard
Postcard from Harvard
Labor Council's Michael Gadiel was elected to give the valedictory speech to this year's Harvard Trade Union Program.
Taking Stalin's Crimes Seriously
Unfair Dismissals
More Angry Trots
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ACCC Urged to Consider Jobs
The ACCC should review potential employment effects before finalising its draft decision against Qantas Airways' alliance with Air New Zealand announced this week, the ACTU says.
ACTU President Sharan Burrow said greater stability and certainty was needed in the Australian aviation industry to protect employment opportunities.
Qantas this week announced 1,700 job losses that will bring its direct contribution to Australian unemployment to 5,200 places. The airline has implemented recent staffing reductions equivalent to 3,500 full time positions.
"The difficulties facing the aviation industry worldwide require greater consolidation and stability to protect existing jobs and ensure future employment growth," Ms Burrow said.
"The ACCC should consider the important public interest and economic impacts of any decision which could result in greater uncertainty and further job losses in the Australian aviation industry.
"Regional stability for aviation in two of the world's most integrated economies must be a central priority".
In its draft determination the ACCC signals it will deny a proposed alliance between Qantas and Air New Zealand. The ACCC will make a final decision after hearing further submissions on the proposal next month.
Ms Burrow said that the ACTU would make a submission strongly urging the ACCC to take into account future prospects for employment stability, including preventing the export of Australian jobs.
Meanwhile, the ASU will insist that Qantas honours EBA obligations to consult and examine other alternatives before shedding any of its members.
The union is also seeking advice on how the planned reductions will effect regional services run under the banners of Eastern, Impulse and Sunstate.
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