 |
Going Gangbusters?
The Prime Minister has put the economy front and centre in this election campaign, asserting - without a hint of irony – that he is the only one to trust with the national economy
Interview: True Matilda
Former senior bureaucrat John Menadue coordinated the group of 43 calling for truth in government; and now he has bigger fish to fry.
Politics: State of Play
Are all political parties the same? Workers Online tries to cut through the jargon to compare the major parties' approaches to key policy areas.
Industrial: Capital Dilemmas
Public Private Partnerships amount to privatisation by stealth. Or do they? Jim Marr investigates.
Unions: Rhodes Scholars
Tim Brunero discovers how the Electrical Trades Union is doing its best to ease the national apprentice crisis.
National Focus: Rennovating the Lodge
Noel Hester previews how unions will be fighting the federal election - on the ground and online.
International: People Power
Over the next four years there is a real potential a major struggle will take place for workers’ rights and the creation of truly democratic unions in China., writes Andrew Casey
Economics: A Bit Rich
Who Gets What? Why? And So What?, Frank Stilwell reviews the BRW's Rich List
History: Mine Shafts
It's 25 years since Nymboida passed the baton to United, writes Peter Murray
Safety: Sick Of Fighting
Former RAAF engineers could be sitting on a health time bomb, Tim Brunero reports.
Organising: Building a Wave
Community groups, unions and social movements all practice organising, wrties Tony Brown and Amanda Tattersall.
Poetry: Anger In The Bush(es)
How dare any Liberal suggest that the Prime Minister is a lying rodent! Resident bard David Peetz reports on the outrage that this slur has justifiably caused.
Review: The Battle Of Algiers
Tim Brunero writes The Battle of Algiers is a coldly objective, almost scientific anatomy of revolution.
Culture: The Word On The Street
Phil Doyle reports on how the Australian working class experience lives on through the words of the remarkable Geoff Goodfellow.
 Mind Games Off The Rails
Kodak Blurs Jobs Picture
Whistleblower Stitched Up
Ranger Incompetence Saves Lives
Skelton in Telstra Closet
Capt Cook Discovers Flexibility
Optus Opts Out
Hardie Lemon in Orange County
One Rule for Qantas
Mum Takes on Bullies
Costa’s Train Crash
TV Clash Using Visual Ammunition
Mormons In Asbestos Blue
Apprentices Lose Out
Activists What's On!
The Soapbox
Hail to the Metro-Sexual!
If the cultural shift required in the workplace to give greater security to working families was broadly accepted the ACTU would not be locked in an adversarial Work and Family test case argues Sharan Burrow. Politics
The Westie Wing
In his latest missive from Macquarie Street our resident Parliamentary commentator, Ian West, walks us through issues around the PBS. Postcard
How Bush Lost His Wings
Tracking the National Guard Career of the Fatuous Flyboy from New Haven, Jeffrey St Clair. The Locker Room
The Name of the Game
Phil Doyle wonders whether we are barracking for the sponsor or the team. Postcard
Women to Women
APHEDA-Union Aid Abroad is working to create opportunities for Palestinian women living in Lebanese refugee camps.
The Abbott Youth
Invest In Dignity!
|
| other LaborNET sites |
|
Labor Council of NSW
Vic Trades Hall Council
IT Workers Alliance
Bosswatch
Unions on LaborNET
Evatt Foundation
|
|
|
News
Mum Takes on Bullies
A "bullying" employer sacked a Gold Coast mum by couriered message after she refused to sign a non-union individual agreement.
"They had no right to terminate me because I had done nothing wrong," Alev Atasoy said. There were no written warnings. This all happened because I stood up for my rights and consulted with my union."
Call centre operator CardCall began trying to move employees onto federal AWAs after dozens signed up the CPSU.
Communications Section secretary, Paul Ingwersen, confirmed the union would be chasing reinstatement for Atasov who he said had been subjected to years of bullying by her "rogue employer".
"We will be doing everything we can to have Alev reinstated because she needs the job and this sort of management behaviour cannot be tolerated," he said.
Atasoy had been informed by CardCall management that she would be promoted to team co-ordinator but this was subsequently withdrawn, leaving her the only senior staff member denied such a position.
After she arranged a September 14 meeting between management and her union, over the issue, she says she was called into a meeting and "berated" for involving the union and refusing to sign an AWA.
She said she was so upset by management's behaviour that she developed a migraine and had to go home sick. The following day she received a couriered letter at her home terminating her employment.
Ingwersen said Atasoy had been bullied for years by CardCall management.
In March, 2003, she reduced her hours after harrassment over looking after a sick child.
Ingwersen said, even then, she faced "months of further bullying" that resulted in her having to take unpaid stress leave.
 View entire issue - print all of the articles!
Issue 238 contents
|
