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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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Violence: Rail Workers' Hot Spray Train guard, Isabelle Mills, said she had seen other workers spat on and repeatedly witnessed masturbation during her time as a City Rail employee. [full story] Corporate "Branch Stack" in Court AWU national secretary, Bill Shorten, is working on a redraft that will go before ALP policymakers if the Supreme Court rules chemists - owed barely $70 a head and with a dubious relationship to Pan - had the right to vote down a rescue package at a fiery creditors meeting in Sydney. [full story] Entitlements: Ball in Carr�s Court The resolution to end support for a Commonwealth solution, is one of a raft of reforms to improve job security that will carry cross-factional union support at next weekend�s State ALP Conference. [full story] Asbestos Prospect for Home Buyers "The company has notified it will be painting a bright fluorescent green substance on top of all areas of asbestos contamination it has identified," Transport Workers Union secretary, Tony Sheldon, revealed this week. [full story] "Stand Over" Claims at Hilton CFMEU assistant secretary, Brian Parker, leveled the charge, saying the head contractor had "stood over" more than a dozen sub-contractors, insisting they didn�t pay hundreds of workers stood down after Workcover halted the Hilton Hotel redevelopment. [full story] US: Iraq on the Block All the country�s assets and services, with the exception of oil, will be put up for grabs with no limits on foreign holdings, or the ability to take profits out of the country. [full story]
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A female City Rail worker, urinated on twice in the course of her job, is pleading for upgraded security as angry workmates flag industrial action during the Rugby World Cup.
Chemists, who scuttled the jobs of 128 low paid workers at last week�s Pan Pharmaceuticals creditors meeting, have sparked calls for a rewrite of Australian commercial law.
NSW unions will call on the State Labor Government to establish an entitlements scheme to protect workers whose companies go bust as a template for national regulation.
Would-be home buyers at the old Prospect Quarry site are being warned to look out for green flourescent paint by shareholder activists battling to get health and safety onto the Boral agenda.
Leightons Contractors have been accused of "standover tactics" on a Sydney hotel site plagued by massive health and safety problems.
The US delegation to an International Monetary Fund meeting in Dubai this week announced the privatisation of Iraq.
