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Interview: Baby Bust Safety: Dust To Dust Bad Boss: Shaming in Print National Focus: Work's Cripplin' Us International: Bulk Bullies History: The Battle for Kelly's Bush Economics: Aid, Trade And Oil Review: The Art Of Work Poetry: Sew His Lips Together
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Bring It On Costa Labor Council secretary John Robertson made that plain this week when he challenged his predecessor to "bring it on". [full story] Dodgy Tests Cost Drivers Doubts have been cast on Psychometric Testing, or PMT, by experts who studied the tests used by State Rail to measure driver abilities. [full story] Peeking Dicks Roasted That indictment was issued when the IRC ordered Western Sydney Area Health Service to reinstate and back pay nine security guards it dumped last year, in a defining Workplace Surveillance ruling. [full story] Serial Killer Cops Fine "He should have been bloody hung," says the CFMEU�s Pat Preston. "We need to send the message home to employers who are serial killers, who don�t take into account their employees health and safety, that they will face hefty fines and gaol sentences." [full story] Printers Defy Age Up to 80 Vic;torian police were assigned to protect John Fairfax Group property at Tullamarine while the publisher used the columns of its newspaper to promote its right to renege on an agreement, and criticise workers, unions and the Victorian Government for resisting. [full story] Actors Bucket "Crap" Deal The MEAA warns that Federal Government has signed off on a deal that will give Australians a guarantee of only four percent of domestic product on pay TV, and a flood of US content will be the inevitable result. [full story]
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Michael Costa�s use of Howard Government laws that impose fines and imprisonment on striking workers threatens to destroy co-operation between political and industrial Labor in NSW. 
Discredited testing is being used to discipline state rail drivers despite management assurances this would not occur.
Western Sydney hospitals sacrificed staff and patient safety in a "Keystone Cops" effort to entrap workers whose jobs it wanted to privatise. 
A roofing company has been fined $60,000 following the death of a construction worker, sparking calls for industrial manslaughter legislation to be introduced in Victoria.
Melbourne�s Age newspaper is being accused of abusing both state police and its editorial power in a bid to dump 86 workers in defiance of an agreement it signed with their representatives.
Actor Anthony LaPaglia will walk the floors of the US Congress in a bid to stop "buckets of crap" being emptied on Australian viewers.
