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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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War Declared on Mega Salaries The Labor Council of NSW will press for legislative change, greater activity by super fund trustees and grass-roots industrial campaigns to end the explosion in CEO pay which has jumped to 74 times the average weekly wage. [full story] Poms Prick Golden Parachute But such activism is impossible in Australia because the Howard Government refuses to pass laws forcing companies to give shareholders a right to vote on executive remuneration. [full story] Picket Breaks Abbott Further, the champion of individual contracts, pledged to intervene in the long-running Morris McMahon dispute after being embarrassed by rank and file process workers and their union officials. [full story] Abbott: Unions are Winning In a 20-page submission to Cabinet colleagues, Abbott confirms public servants are turning their backs on AWAs and non-union agreements in massive numbers and, as a result, are winning higher wages than Government would like. [full story] Hotel Silences Poverty Witness The 445 room Avillion Hotel has threatened the worker and his union, for wanting to take the time to appear on Monday before the Senate Inquiry hearings. [full story] We�ve Lost A Lion Matthew Reynolds was a deeply loved and respected part of the CPSU family. A fact confirmed by the hundreds of heartfelt tributes the union has received over the last 48 hours. [full story]
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Unions will wage a three-pronged assault on executive pay in the wake of research shattering the link between gold-plated remuneration and company performance.
British shareholders this week rolled the board of one of their largest companies, GlaxoSmithKline, to block a proposed 22 million pound payment termination guarantee to chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier.
Tony Abbott has conceded the right of workers to a collective agreement after extraordinary scenes on an Arncliffe picketline today.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott admits unions have frustrated his agenda to de-unionise Australia�s workforce.
A prominent Sydney Hotel is using economic blackmail to stop a low wage worker from taking part in a Senate Poverty inquiry.
The irony that CPSU National President Matthew Reynolds died the same week he was re-elected - and his ACT government members finally got their long-awaited pay rise � would have, no doubt, appealed to his own mischievous sense of humour.
