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Governing the Corporates
Suburban branch manager Joy Buckland�s bid for a position on the ANZ Board raises important questions about the way our major companies are governed.
Interview: Union for the Dispossessed
The Welfare Rights Centre's Michael Raper on 20 years of activism, the politics of punishment and how to make Australia egalitarian again.
Unions: Joel's Law
Building Workers have overcome powerful forces to push workplace safety back up the national agenda. But, Jim Marr writes, their "success" has come at an unacceptable cost.
National Focus: Spring Carnival
It must be spring: punting in Victoria, singing in South Australia, fighting in America. It�s all there in the national wrap from Noel Hester plus an Australian union movement rugby world cup class consciousness poll.
Bad Boss: Fina and Fiends
They sacked the job delegate, reinstated him after an IRC hearing, and sacked him again two weeks later. But that was just the beginning.
Industrial: The Price of War
Mass industrial action is brewing in Israel as the policies of the right-wing Sharon Government come home to roost, writes Andrew Casey.
Economics: Who's Got What
Frank Stilwell pours over the latest BRW Rich List to build a picture of the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots.
History: Containing Discontent
Racism against minorities has always been a stock in trade of politicans, writes Phil Griffiths
Review: An Honourable Wally
Most Australians probably look at our politicians and feel they could do a better job but when redundant meatworker Wally Norman gets the chance to find out he realises getting elected is a major hurdle, writes Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: The Colours of Discontent
A thousand blossoms bloomed during the US President's spring-time colonial visit last month.
 Taskforce Sleeps As Cranes Crash
Scabies, Filth in Upmarket Annandale
ANZ Jumps For Joy
Race That Couldn�t Stop Nangwarry
Mandarins in $120m Disappearing Act
BAT Stubs Out Junta
Millions on Entitlements Line
Workcover in Hold-Ups Gun
Phoenix Rises � Again
TAFE Takes To Thong Slapping
Casual Work Is Health Hazard
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Bush's Faith-Filled Life
The President's conversion, 'sense of divine calling' and struggle with sobriety are subjects of a forthcoming book, writes Bill Berkowitz Sport
The Not So Smart Money
Phil Doyle is sick of big money ruining grass roots sport, and he�s taking his bat and going home. Politics
The Westie Wing
The ongoing challenge for Labor members of parliament is to make what the Premier calls the �creative partnership� between the Government and the union movement a reality, writes our favourite MP Ian West. Postcard
Behind the Junta
Saw Min Lwin, Secretary for Trade Union Rights/ Human Rights for the Federation of Trade Unions Burma (FTUB), outlines the struggle for workers in his country.
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Millions on Entitlements Line
NSW workers will be millions of dollars a week better off if a landmark case gets up in the state�s Industrial Relations Commission.
The TWU, burned by the Ansett collapse, today launched test case that would ensure no NSW worker is robbed of his or entitlements in the future. While the TWU case is specific to the transport industry, any decision would be expected to flow across the entire workforce.
"Almost 19,000 Australian employees lose over $500 million a year, or $1.4 million a day, in unpaid legal entitlements," TWU secretary Tony Sheldon said.
"It's time employers in our industry accepted full responsibility for the legal entitlements of workers and made enforceable provisions to guarantee 100 percent protection of that money."
The union is also campaigning for the NSW Government to back a national scheme to protect workers around the country if the Federal Government refuses act.
Included amongst the witnesses expected to give evidence to the Commission is former Ansett employee, Allan May, who is still owed over $42,000 two years after the company collapsed.
The TWU claim would oblige employers to protect all unpaid wages, accrued leave, long service leave, wages in lieu of notice and redundancy pay by taking one of three protective measures:
- a guarantee from a bank or other financial institution
- an insurance policy to the value of owed entitlements, or
- a company-funded trust account
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