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Interview: Staying Alive Bad Boss: The Ultimate Piss Off Industrial: Last Drinks National Focus: Around the States Politics: Radical Surgery Education: The Price of Missing Out Legal: If At First You Don't Succeed History: Massive Attack Culture: What's Right Review: If He Should Fall Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man Satire: IMF Ensures Iraq Institutes Market Based Looting
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Combet Calls On Unions to Muscle Up ACTU secretary Greg Combet told a meeting of more than 700 trade union organisers in Sydney that a clearly articulated set of values, that transcends industrial relations, is needed to rebuild union power. [full story] HR Honours Death List Author The ultra-Right organisation honoured Len Buckeridge with its Charles Copeman Medal, struck to commemorate the antics of a New Right activist and Robe River strikebreaker, for �services to industrial reform�. [full story] Hotel Workers Trump Living Wage Two thousand employees of the Starwood Hotel chain are voting on an enterprise bargaining proposal that would boost average weekly fulltime wages by $62 a week, compared to the $17 granted by the IRC, and introduce six weeks of paid maternity leave. [full story] Abbott Brushes Security Concerns Caught in the crossfire is Australia Post�s $20 million Tullamarine mail centre, touted as a front line response to the threats of terror and drugs, which has been delayed again because Abbott won�t accept builders who have pattern agreements with Australia�s largest construction union. [full story] Rebates Thorn in Medicare Side That�s the view of frustrated Canterbury GP, Con Costa, who is challenging political parties to face up to the threat posed by the Federal Government�s Health Insurance Rebate. [full story] Bosses Infected With SARS Hysteria While Qantas is blaming its latest round of job cuts on the virus, Westpac, ANZ, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Macquarie Bank, Telstra, Lend Lease, Singapore Airlines and HSBC are among the corporate giants enforcing quarantine periods for staff travelling to Asia. [full story]
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The head of the ACTU has called for a rethink of the way unions do politics, calling on them to reassert their role beyond the workplace and hold all political parties accountable for promoting their members� interests.
The HR Nicholls Society has presented a medal to a Perth building magnate being investigated by police after boasting of drawing up a hit list of 30 trade unionists.
Unionised, low-paid workers are spear-heading a deal that leaves the IRC�s minimum wage award in the shade, and throws in a maternity leave breakthrough for good measure.
Australia�s national security interests are taking a back seat to Tony Abbott�s one-man war against the CFMEU.
No amount of argy-bargy over co-payments will save Medicare while the Government continues to pour billions of health dollars into the coffers of insurance companies.
Some of Australia�s biggest employers are attempting to force workers to foot the bill for increased precautions to deal with the SARS virus.
