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Issue No. 210 | 27 February 2004 |
Rock Of Ages
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
Siren Sounds on Asbestos "Scam" Health Maters To The Barricades
The Soapbox Postcard Sport Parliament
Taking The Piss Dear Mark Tom Goes Off I Tom Goes Off II
Labor Council of NSW |
News CFMEU Backs Redfern Jobs
The initiative is part of the union�s "Jobs Not Batons" strategy to support families in the troubled suburbs.
"Redfern's problems won't be solved by batons and tear gas," CFMEU secretary Andrew Ferguson said. "Greater efforts need to be made to assist unemployed Aboriginal youth to develop skills that give them real job prospects. "The violence and drug and alcohol problems we read so much about are a response to feelings of despair. The 2004 course follows the successful 2003 Indigenous Job Ready program initiated by the union and fronted by senior Aboriginal official, Les Tobler. Tobler said every graduate who stayed the distance last year had been placed in a decent, well-paying construction industry job. Some were labouring on city building sites and a number had begun carpentry apprenticeships. "One-way or another every successful student from the March-April course who wants a job and is willing to work will be placed in employment," Tobler said. NSW Labor Council and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), meanwhile, are seeking to turn around University of Western Sydney policies that have led to a drastic cut in Aboriginal involvement. Labor Council secretary, John Robertson, wants UWS vice-chancellor, Jan Reed, to consider representations from himself and NTEU representatives before acting on a decision to shut the university's Aboriginal Educational Centre. The recently announced closure heightens the fears of Indigenous academics that say their culture, and opportunities for their people, are being steadily eroded at the institution. A meeting of UWS Indigenous staff, last week, expressed "anger" that the number of Aboriginal employees had plummeted from 30 to just 13 in the past four years.
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