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Interview: Union for the Dispossessed Unions: Joel's Law National Focus: Spring Carnival Bad Boss: Fina and Fiends Industrial: The Price of War Economics: Who's Got What History: Containing Discontent Review: An Honourable Wally Poetry: The Colours of Discontent
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Hamberger Bad for Kids Hamberger, whose office promotes the Federal Government�s workplace agenda, struck controversy this week when a teacher blew the whistle on his move to co-opt 2500 schools to the anti-union campaign. [full story] BHP Faces UN Sanction BHP trumpeted its sign-off on the Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative, devised by UN secretary general Kofi Annan, but received a letter from the world body, this week, indicating it had not met its obligations. [full story] Hardie Shareholders Face Death The company moved a shareholders meeting from the Marriott Hotel to its corporate headquarters but a dozen people dying of lung diseases tailed it to the new venue where they protested its bid to shift hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation liabilities onto the Australian taxpayer. [full story] Road Workers Swing Left-Right Blows CFMEU organiser, Steve Dixon, credits the inter-union agreement with keeping together workers, paid around $300 a week less than standard industry rates. [full story] Joy Battles Goode at ANZ Buckland will this week ask ANZ shareholders to send her proxy votes ahead of the December 19 Annual General Meeting, arguing Goode�s bid is contrary to good corporate governance. [full story] Developers To Kick Transport Can The proposal to extend the use of Developer Contributions is one of the recommendations of a report into the future of public transport in NSW prepared by the Labor Council of NSW. [full story]
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Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger is using a company that went bust last month, denying redundancy to 60 percent of its staff, to sell AWAs to school kids.
BHP�s enforced use of AWAs in the Pilbarra has left it in breach of commitments made to paint itself a good corporate citizen, the UN suggests.
James Hardie Industries� bid to keep asbestos disease sufferers, some carrying oxygen bottles, away from shareholders was foiled by sharp-eyed protesters in Sydney this week.
Road workers, many tossed out of accommodation during a four-week strike, are muscling up to Abigroup under a revolutionary pact between traditional rivals, the CFMEU and AWU.
Suburban branch manager Joy Buckland will target ANZ chairman Charles Goode in her board tilt, arguing that shareholders should not return a man who holds multiple company directorships.
Property developers should contribute more to the costs of establishing public transport, if NSW is to avoid following the lead of California and become a society reliant on private vehicles. 
