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Interview: Crowded Lives Activists: Life With Brian Industrial: National Focus Unions: If These Walls Could Talk Economics: Beating the Bastards Media: Three Corners History: The Brisbane Line Trade: The Dumping Problem Review: Frankie's Way
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Cole Skeletons Shake Monk The Workplace Relations Minister has used the "sealed" 23rd volume to accuse building industry unions of thuggery and standover tactics but the Australian Financial Review, which has seen the material, suggests the hush-hush volume merely reiterates already-published claims. [full story] Abbott Flags Move On Nurses Australian Nurses Federation secretary, Jill Iliffe, said Abbott�s idea that country nurses be paid less than city colleagues was an insult to both her members and rural Australians. [full story] Workplace Bullies Leave Three Dead Psychologist Meddwyn Coleman told a forum organised by the Bendigo Trades Hall Council on September 17 that workplace bullying lay behind the suicide deaths of three Victorian workers. [full story] People�s Bank Scraps People The Finance Sector Union has called on Murray to "move on" claiming the decision to sack 10 per cent of the workforce shows he has run out of ideas for staff, customers and shareholders. [full story] Left-Right Combo Drops Motorway Boss Members of the CFMEU and AWU, traditionally at loggerheads, are celebrating big wage increases after joining forces in a 10-day strike against the AbiLeightons joint venture building Sydney�s western orbital motorway. [full story] Free Wally - Movie Offer When union member Wally Norman becomes part of a mass lockout by employer National Meats and is then denied his entitlements he decides to do something about the system that allows workers to be shafted on a daily basis. [full story]
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Tony Abbott introduced his legislative attack on building workers this week, in the face of claims that his much-hyped Cole Royal Commission secret volume contained no new information.
"Who�s next?" unions are asking, as Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott suggests anti-pattern bargaining provisions in his building industry legislation could be turned against nurses.
Workplace bullying has claimed three lives in the past twelve months, according to a Victorian psychologist with 25 years of experience.
Three thousand seven hundred workers will lose their jobs after being identified by Commonwealth Bank CEO David Murray as 'unnecessary', in one of the largest culls of workers in living memory.
A new-found spirit of co-operation between key left and right wing unions has wrung $300 a week increases out of one of the toughest employers in NSW.
Workers Online is offering 30 free tickets to readers who want to see a new Aussie flick about a worker who runs for parliament after losing his entitlements in a lockout.
