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Interview: Power and the Passion Unions: Tackling the Heavy Hitters Industrial: Seeing the Forest For The Wood Housing: Home Truths International: Boycott Busters Economics: Ideology and Free Trade History: Long Shadow of a Forgotten Man Review: Chewing the Fat Poetry: Dear John
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Adecco in the Dock Chubb Faces Bullying Rap John McPhilbin has come forward as the NSW Labor Council moves to campaign against the "nightmare" of workplace bullying. [full story] Print Company Burns Staff AMWU members at McPhersons Printing, Chullora, have voted to strike in support of casual workmates targeted for wage cuts and job losses. [full story] Carr "Prefers" Americans Unions are seeking an urgent meeting with Carr over his decision to sign off on Government Procurement Policy, included in John Howard�s US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, while Federal Labor is still wrestling with the implications for jobs and sovereignty. [full story] Drug Cheats� Eye off Olympics Seamstress, Noi Pongkhwa, says workers in Asian sweatshops making the Nike and Reebok clothes athletes will wear in Athens also get on the gear � just to finish 20 hour working days. [full story] Unions Crack Skull Not even the intervention of new ALP general secretary Mark Arbib, all too often controlling the ball for the Minister's office, could tip the argument from Sussex Street to Macquarie Street. [full story]
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The Workers Online article referring to "Adecco in the Dock" has been suspended pending litigation being finalised. 
A former Chubb Security Operations Manager claims years of bullying have left him a physical and emotional wreck.
A Sydney company that refused to pitch into the fight against last year�s bushfires is out to slash workers earnings by up to $200 a week.
NSW Premier Bob Carr is being accused of selling out on state and federal Labor policy to give US workers and businesses "preference" over their Australian counterparts.
It�s not just Olympic athletes pressured into taking drugs to enhance their performances, according to a Thai clothing worker. 
The Carr Government has suffered an embarrassing loss to the union movement after the Labor Council trampled Carl Scully�s office in a pitched battle last week.
