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Be Afraid
Elections are to be held both here and with our controlling shareholder this year and already we are getting the feel for how the incumbents will attempt to cling onto power: fear spiced with loathing.
Interview: Baby Bust
Labor's Wayne Swan argues that the plight of our aging workforce is only one side of our demographic dilemma.
Safety: Dust To Dust
Failure by authorities to police safety in the asbestos removal industry is threatening the lives of members of the public, writes Phil Doyle.
Bad Boss: Shaming in Print
Delegates from print shops around Sydney will publicly shame this month’s Bad Boss nominee with a rally outside his new Alexandria operation next Thursday.
National Focus: Work's Cripplin' Us
Noel Hester reports on a spin doctors' talkfest, workplace pain, stroppy teachers and IWD party time in the national wrap.
International: Bulk Bullies
An extraordinary five month struggle over affordable health care, by nearly 70,000 Californian supermarket workers, has just come to an end, writes Andrew Casey.
History: The Battle for Kelly's Bush
Green Bans saved a piece of bush before they saved much of the Sydney’s built environment, writes Neale Towart
Economics: Aid, Trade And Oil
Tim Anderson reveals Australia’s second betrayal Of East Timor is playing out before our eyes.
Review: The Art Of Work
Workers and westies are being celebrated as the cultural icons they are thanks to two Sydney exhibitions reminding us there is a world of art in the everyday, writes Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: Sew His Lips Together
Wondering where the next porkie is going to come from? Resident bard David Peetz knows.
Taskforce "Disgraced" in Court
Students Take $10,000 Trim
Truckers Lose Way With GPS
Jockeys Down by Width of Strait
Treasury Loses Sight of Trees
Athens Built on Sweat
Signing Away Safety
Fallen Formworker Critical
Stop or You’ll Stay Blind
Bracks Spin Machine Towels Nurses
Trade Deal Fuzzy on Content
Good Will Still Hunting on Rail
Developer "Monsters" Safety Cop
Day Off for May Day
Activists What's On!
The Soapbox
Iraq and Your Mortgage
How high interest rates go will be a key issue in 2004 and if you are looking for a clue, there's no better place to look than the war in Iraq, writes Michael Rafferty. Sport
Hang Onto the Day Job
Show someone else the money, says Phil Doyle.
Politics
Westie Wing
Ian West shows why Eveleigh Street’s not so far away from Macquarie Street Postcard
Don’t Give Up the Fight
Get Up, Stand Up is the logo of choice on a popular range of subversive condoms. Ken Davis from Union Aid Abroad reports from Zimbabwe’s second city
Bring Back Bulk Billing
Crucifying Refugees
Saving The Planet
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Stop or You’ll Stay Blind
The Royal Blind Society is defending disciplinary action against 12 employees sent computer pictures of Janet Jackson’s infamous left breast, even though some were visually impaired.
Society Operations director, Carol Ireland, told the Australian Financial Review that while some of those who had been suspended were blind or visually impaired they had had voice-recognition systems on their computers.
The issue has pitched internet privacy back into the public domain with NSW Labor Council calling the suspension of visually-impaired workers "absurd". The Council has been pushing for state government regulation of employers' abilities to snoop on workplace emails.
"People can't be held responsible for material they receive on email because it is something they have no control over," assistant secretary Michael Gadiel says.
Four of the 12 Royal Society workers have quit, rather than return to the non-profit organisation. They had all been instructed to write to chief executive, John Landau, to justify why they should not be sacked for breaching email policy.
"People are not here to read jokes and other material and to be paid by the public," Ms Ireland told the Financial Review.
The paper quoted a private sector workplace relations consultant as saying the Blind Society's disciplinary action seemed "like an over-reaction".
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