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Interview: Trading in Principle Unions: While We Were Away Politics: Follow the Leader Bad Boss: Safety Recidivist Fingered Economics: Casualisation Shrouded In Myths History: Worker Control Harco Style Review: Other Side Of The Harbour
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Trains Go Backwards State Rail officials today dodged claims that services were deliberately being run down in order to soften up the travelling public for permanent service cuts. [full story] Mum Can�t Bank on Westpac The Bank, boasting a 2003 profit of $2.1 billion, told branch manager, Linda Vandine, her jobshare position would not be available on her return from maternity leave. [full story] Andrews Up for Hanke Panky Peter Reith�s former press secretary, Ian Hanke, has bobbed up on the payroll of Andrews, who is shepherding at least a dozen Bills, regarded as anti-worker by trade unionists, through Federal Parliament. [full story] Riot Raises Safety Probe Police Association president Ian Ball says the Police Force should face criminal prosecution if WorkCover finds that the police officers� safety was ignored. [full story] ABC of Solidarity The stars, equally well known as Rampaging Roy Slaven and HG Nelson, made their stands after the ABC insisted on removing their producer of 17 years, Mark Kennedy, from Sunday shifts in a bid to save money. [full story] "Shameful" Action Pays Dividends More than 1000 food and maintenance workers employed by SPC Ardmona in the Goulburn Valley stood firm to beat off "disappointing" company EBA offers, backed by the Liberal Party�s propoganda machine. [full story]
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Claims that NSW rail services will be slashed long term were bolstered when Blue Mountains� commuters were forced onto buses mid-week under the guise of mysterious trackwork.
A phone call from Westpac Bank, eight days after the birth of baby son Hayden, tempered the Vandine family�s joy over their new arrival.
The man who spun us into the 1998 Waterfront crisis has resurfaced as press flak to the Coalition�s lowest profile Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews.
NSW police have called for an independent WorkCover Inquiry into this week�s Redfern riots, amidst concerns that they were sent into the battle with inadequate equipment, training and numbers.
Top-rating comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver are volunteering to take pay cuts to protect the producer of their cult radio show, This Sporting Life, from sweeping ABC cuts.
A week of "shameful" industrial action has returned pay rises, job security and shorter working hours to hundreds of rural Victorian workers.
