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Interview: Muscling Up Unions: Thinking Pink Bad Boss: Global Bully Unions: National Focus Economics: Friend or Flunkey? History: Young Blood Industrial: Living For Work? International: Fighting Together Poetry: Medicare Plus Blues Review: Human Racing
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Peeking Dicks in Pickle NSW Labor Council made the extraordinary claims to the IRC this week, submitting the actions of both Western Sydney Health Services and Websters Security should be referred to authorities for prosecution under the Workplace Video Surveillance Act. [full story] Lights Out on Cheap Labour In a landmark decision, the IRC full bench has rejected an employer bid to strike down a clause in the ETU’s building industry pattern agreement that binds sub-contractors to wages and conditions in the principal agreement. [full story] Blackout Hangs Over Sydney A key engineer on the project, who lives on the Northern Beaches, is questioning whether or not he can make the move to Wallgrove, near Eastern Creek, which lacks public transport and is hours away from most workers – some of whom commute from the Central Coast and Wollongong. [full story] Contractors Hang Up on Telstra Hundreds of Foxtel and broadband installation technicians have flocked to join the CEPU (Communications, Elecrical and Plumbing Union) since Telstra signed cut-rate installation deals with contractors, Siemens-Theiss and ABB. [full story] Uni Workers Too Smart For Minister The Federal Government had proposed tying over $400 million in funding for higher education to forcing universities to offer individual contracts. Academics feared the move would weaken working conditions at Australia’s universities. [full story] Employer Bullies Vie For ‘Tony’ The winner will be announced at the Labor Council’s executive dinner on Friday December 12 and will join last year’s winner Australia Post on a perpetual trophy depicting the former Minister for Workplace Relations in his traditional cassock. [full story]
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Nine hospital workers were trailed around Sydney by private eyes, and illegally photographed and videotaped before being sacked for buying takeaways during 12-hour shifts.
Electrical workers have pulled the fuse on bosses across NSW who use cheap labour to undermine wages and condition.
A $200 million project to back-up central Sydney’s power supply is threatened by Transgrid’s proposed relocation to a site on the city’s western outskirts.
Individual contractors are picketing, striking and blockading Telstra’s corporate headquarters in a bid to stop Australia’s largest company slashing their incomes by nearly 50 percent.
Radical Federal Government industrial relations proposals have been rejected by Senate independents following a campaign by Australia’s university workers.
Tony Abbott may have left industrial relations to operate on the health system, but his memory lives on with the announcement of finalists for the second annual ‘Tony Award’ for Australia’s worst boss.
