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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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Mouse that Roared The employer, who we are not allowed to name, locked the 56-year-old Meat Workers Union member out when he refused to join hundreds of colleagues on AWAs that stripped them of award minimums, including penal rates, long service and holiday entitlements. [full story] Abbott: Look After Number One The extraordinary piece of industrial advice was offered after Abbott was badgered into talking to Morris McMahon delegate, James Bridge, by radio shock jock, Stan Zemanek. [full story] Entitlements Revamp � Acid on States The coast-to-coast state system would ensure access to, and safety for, billions of dollars in workers money at risk from business failures. [full story] Strong Stuff � Commission Star in Court Strong, having been found to have owed the money to five drivers by the IRC last November, tried unsuccessfully to have those orders overturned mid-May. This week he was back in Local Court attempting to have proceedings stayed. [full story] Think Before You Drink It's part of a push by Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad to promote consumption of 'Fair Trade' coffee sourced from worker cooperatives that ensure a decent return to the farmer, rather than the mass-produced poor-quality coffee that appears on most supermarket shelves. [full story] Maritime Hero Takes Final Journey A seafarer, waterside worker, socialist and union activist, Bull was elected a WWF official in 1967, becoming general secretary in 1984, a position he held until his retirement in December, 1992. [full story]
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Labourer Allan Mallard returned to work in triumph this week after being locked out, alone, for 10 weeks by an anonymous South Australian abbatoir.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott has told a Sydney job delegate to cut and run, leaving striking workmates to fend for themselves.
With millions of Australians now denied basic entitlements states will be urged to establish a portable national fund to circumvent Federal Government inaction on the issue.
Cole Commission star witness Stephen Strong is trying to avoid paying $26,000 he owes to tip-truck drivers.
Coffee drinkers are being asked to think about where their daily caffeine hit comes from as a global meltdown in the coffee market devastates producers in developing countries.
Tas Bull, former general secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, died at his Sydney home last Thursday.
