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Interview: Robbo�s Rules Unions: Fightback 2003 Bad Boss: Madame Lash Whips Tony Politics: United Front Economics: Looking Back - Looking Forward International: Net Benefits History: The New Guard Poetry: What is the PM singing this Christmas? Review: Culture That Was
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Nurses, Teachers Win Big An eleventh hour ruling by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission delivered public and private sector teachers a 5.5 per cent interim rise, while nurses ended their workvalue case with a net 10 per cent increase. [full story] Govt Coy on Sackings Threat Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, did not respond to questions about whether his administration would again turn to Gillespie for the talents he brought to its 1998 showdown with the MUA (Maritime Union of Australia). [full story] NSW: State of Discomfort Drivers have slammed "third world conditions� under which they work, saying the issue is an industry wide problem and that operators and government are failing to address a serious public hygiene problem. [full story] Fashion Police Collar Moe Company fashion police sent a male worker home after he attended a CPSU stop work meeting, last week, and docked him for being off-site - but not until he had been on the job for two hours and 46 minutes and helped the centre over its morning peak. [full story] Telstra Picks Up Union Signal Two hundred Telstra/Foxtel sub-contractors called off a week-long strike after contractors, Siemens Theiss and ABB, withdrew demands for 20 percent cuts in job rates. [full story] E-Missiles Strike White House The email campaign is being co-ordinated by European trade unions in response to this month�s raid in which troops from 10 armoured cars smashed windows, seized documents and tore anti-terrorism posters from the walls of the Iraqi Free Trade Union�s temporary headquarters. [full story]
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Teachers and nurses have ended the year with more cash in their stockings but with key claims for wage justice still before the umpire.
Fears of mass building industry sackings have been sparked by the arrival of anti-worker zealot, Derren Gillespie, at Federal Government�s Royal Commission Implementation Unit.
Bus drivers are piddling in bottles, and in the case of at least one female driver using a bucket, because of a chronic lack of toilets around NSW.
Victorian call centre staff, unseen by the public, are being docked for wearing collarless shirts by TeleTech.
Independent electrical contractors are flocking to the union banner after striking Foxtel installers secured deals leaving them around $500 a week better off.
Thousands of emails protesting the vandalising of Iraqi trade union headquarters by US troops are flooding into the White House.
