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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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"Grubs" Derail Revolution Representatives of striking Melbourne and Sydney technicians both caught a whiff of Australia�s largest company when Foxtel took a $400 a week interim payment off the negotiating table. [full story] Blackouts Hit Sydney Electricians blame Energy Australia�s "penny pinching" for the "shocking" state of the network, and say dangerous incidents have already struck Paddington, St Peters, Chatswood and Milperra, warning of an Auckland style crisis unless maintenance is stepped up. [full story] Pig-Out at Restaurant The CFMEU is demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars from the owner of King St eatery, Safari, to make good on money owed to sub-contractors when his development company, Donmastry, hit the wall. [full story] Smith�s Charity Begins At Work They have called on workers who donate to the charity to suspend payments until the individual contracts are withdrawn. [full story] Air Rage Set To Soar Workers representatives suggest airline passengers used to more comfortable and flexible arrangements will react badly to restrictions imposed by the low-cost start-up. [full story] Boxers Union Lands First Blow Swedish giant Attila Levin will take on Jeremy Williams in a heavyweight bout on April 15 at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom in the first all-union event in the sport�s history. Sixth ranked, Jameel "Big Time" McCline will appear in the co-feature. [full story]
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The "grubby" hand of Telstra has been fingered for nobody turning up when Foxtel fired the first shots in its $15 million "digital revolution", this week.
Sydney is being plunged into darkness, suburb by suburb, as faulty substations blow up, showering debris up to 50 metres away and blacking out homes.
Building workers and community supporters will defy threats of Supreme Court action to roast a pig outside a Newtown restaurant on Friday night.
Workers at The Smith Family will be forced into unpaid overtime and would lose all penalty rates for weekend and shift work under individual contracts being pushed by the charity.
Qantas staff who have been racially abused, spat on, punched and kicked are bracing for more of the same with the introduction of budget airline Jetstar.
It�s seconds out for the first official unionised boxing event, with The Joint Association of Boxers (JAB) stepping into the ring to defend American pugilists when they come up against heavyweight promoters like Don King.
