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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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US Giant Attacks Aussies The maintenance workers� employer, P&H MinePro, is part of the US Multinational, Harnischfeger group - the company behind the long running Joy Dispute in the Southern Highlands in 2000. [full story] Exposed � OEA in Kids Scandal Workers Online blew the whistle after the Federal Government�s Employment Advocate, Jonathan Hamberger, wrote to every secondary school in Australia promoting non-union individual contracts to school leavers. [full story] Left-Right Flattens Abigroup The regional road and bridge workers ended a five-week strike under the joint-unions banner by voting up average 33 percent increases at a meeting, last Thursday. [full story] ANZ Cops Fine Over Robbers The decision has added fuel to a campaign for a change on the ANZ Board, with the Finance Sector Union accusing the bank of a failure to manage its employees. [full story] Classroom Stoush Gets Personal A wave of meetings across the state have condemned the Carr Government for arguing that teachers have not delivered improved value for their work in recent years before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. [full story] Seven Workers Pass "Intelligence" Test In a memo to staff, the Network said a telephone poll on their attitudes to the MEAA, and a non-union agreement being promoted by Seven, was an "unlawful attempt to undermine your intelligence". [full story]
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Armed security guards are threatening violence against locked out Hunter Valley workers fighting attempts to force them onto AWAs.
The Office of the Employment Advocate has pulled a page from its "youthserve" website after being rumbled pushing AWAs to schoolkids off the back of a company that went bust, denying redundancy to most of its staff.
Civil Construction companies are being brought to heel by combined AWU-CFMEU action that has seen 60 Abigroup employees win increases of up to $300 a week in the hand.
The ANZ Bank has been fined a whopping $156,000 by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission for failing in its duty of care to employees involved in armed hold-ups.
NSW school teachers have turned on Education Minister Andrew Refshauge, accusing him of dogging a pre-election promise not to denigrate the profession.
Aggressive bosses at the Seven Network are claiming the intelligence of their employees could have been "undermined" by telephone calls from the MEAA (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance).
