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Interview: Machine Man Unions: Testing Times Bad Boss: Freespirit Haunts Internet Unions: Badge of Honour National Focus: Noel's World Economics: Safe Refuge International: Global Abuse History: The Honeypot Review: Death And The Barbarians Poetry: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
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Big Bribe Misses Battlers These are just two of the anomalies identified by analysts as building workers point to the government dedicating five times as much to "attacking" unions as to protecting lives. [full story] West in Great Leap Backwards The company that spearheaded WA’s revolution in workplace culture was, last week, taking down posters that urged employees to "Aim high, move fast!" [full story] Cheques in the Mail The cheques had been used as payment for domestic bills at Leichhardt Post Office and were supposed to have been delivered to clearing house, Austrapay, as a matter of priority. Instead, they overnighted on a truck dashboard, according to CEPU assistant secretary, Greg Rayner. [full story] Bullets Foul Childcare The facts came to light when ABC Learning Centres executive director, Michael Kemp, told a work value case in Melbourne his company would not reconsider its Bullets sponsorship to lift carers’ pay. [full story] Thanks Bob - Lawyers Tuck In Labor Council secretary, John Robertson, estimated the Carr Government had shelled out nearly $200,000 on lawyers in the first two weeks of a Test Case expected to run before the IRC for more than six months. [full story] Watchdog Barks for Workers Members of the Australian Workers Union are this week celebrating the decision by the ACCC to oppose the acquisition of Adelaide Brighton by Boral. [full story]
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Peter Costello’s "family" budget will put more cash in PR spinners’ pockets than aged care training and underwrite an explosion in "backyard" childcare.
As friends and family bade farewell at Cory Bentley’s funeral, BHP Billiton was removing Maoist-style exhortations to increase production at the Port Hedland plant where he lost his life.
Cheques worth $50,000 were left overnight on a dashboard in Leichhardt, last week, by a driver scabbing on the first national postal workers strike in 20 years.
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The NSW State Government is turning the Secure Employment Test Case into a lawyer’s picnic while claiming to be too strapped to meet minimal wage increases.
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