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The Game�s Up
Research into executive pay commissioned by the NSW Labor Council makes explicit what most of us have suspected for some time: the multi-million packages are a rolled gold rort.
Interview: Staying Alive
CPSU national secretary Adrian O'Connell talks about the fight to keep the public service - and the union movement - alive.
Bad Boss: The Ultimate Piss Off
Wollongong workers on poverty-level wages are losing up to $5000 for taking toilet breaks, according to the union representing staff at a Stellar call centre.
Industrial: Last Drinks
Jim Marr looks at the human cost of the decision to close Sydney�s Carlton United Brewery
National Focus: Around the States
If Tampa told us that John Howard circa 2003 is the same spotted rabid dog from 1987, this week�s assault on Medicare confirms it reports Noel Hester in this national round up.
Politics: Radical Surgery
Workers are vitally interested in Medicare, not least because they traded away wage rises to get it. Now, Jim Marr writes, the Coalition Government is tearing apart the 20-year-old social contract on which it was founded.
Education: The Price of Missing Out
University students and their families will pay more for their education following the May Budget, writes Tony Brown.
Legal: If At First You Don't Succeed
Love is wonderful the second time around, goes the famous torch song. But is the same true for legislation? Asks Ashley Crossland
History: Massive Attack
Labour historian Dr Lucy Taksa remembers the general strike of 1917 to put the recent anti-war marches into perspective
Culture: What's Right
Neale Towart looks at a new book that looks at the failings of the Left, while reasserting the liberal project
Review: If He Should Fall
Jim Marr caught Irish folk-rock-punk legend Shane MacGowan at Sydney�s Metro Theatre. He was surprised but not disappointed.
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.
Satire: IMF Ensures Iraq Institutes Market Based Looting
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to monitor the Iraqi economy to ensure that the reintroduction of looting into the economy conforms with free-market theory.
 War Declared on Mega Salaries
Poms Prick Golden Parachute
Picket Breaks Abbott
Abbott: Unions are Winning
Hotel Silences Poverty Witness
We�ve Lost A Lion
Nurses Refuse to be Shelved
Boss Picks Porters� Pockets
Left, Right Meet at Sea
ACTU Prescribes Pan Medicine
Tycoon Tuned Out
MUA Clout in Wollongong Punch-Up
Pusey Roams Dark Side
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
What May Day Means to Me
Reader Marlene McAlear penned this tribue to May Day and worker solidarity.
Solidarity
The Toast
Labor Council secretary John Robertson's toast to the annual May Day dinner in Sydney. The Locker Room
The Numbers Game
In life there is lies, damned lies and sporting statistics, says Phil Doyle - but who�s counting. Postcard
Brukman Evicted
ZNet's Marie Trigona reports from the streets of Argentina in the rundown to last week's presidential election. Bosswatch
The Costs of Excess
Some tall business poppies had their heads lopped this week as the laws of economic gravity applied their always chaotic theory.
Hard Copy
Bad Language
Modern Management Theory
Tom's Revival
Off the Rails
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Letters to the Editor
Off the Rails
Where is the proper representation?
There is a lot being written about our sub standard rail system in NSW.
Where has the union representation been during all the years that the work environment has gone down the tubes. Surely this isn't a country where workers have to fear making legitimate complaints to management about unsafe work practice. Or for that matter those complaints being processed indefinitely. Are train drivers expected to take responsibility for trains that don't meet set standards, is it possible that casual interpretation of the law has drifted down to management levels from Government? To the extent that a train is like an old bomb car with a dodgy certificate of compliance,and she will be right.
Why is it that the obvious requirements for safe working are not being meet, while our tax money that is still being paid for the standards to be kept high is increasing with each passing year. I have experienced surging while a passenger, which I thought was just the driver couldn't make up his mind, it never occurred to me that this was a fault that would contribute to the wrongful deaths of passengers. The 53 Parliament has the responsibility for what has been happening, government has had no problem in continuing to take our tax money.
Are we taxed without honest representation? I say we are, each time there's a State Election our votes are stolen by the use of false pretences, when we complain it is directed to some unelected policy adviser whose sole purpose is to shield the responsible Minister from the result of incompetent representation of the taxpayer by government.
Edward James POB 3024 UMINA
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