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Interview: The Last Bastian Unions: High and Dry Security: Liquid Borders Industrial: No Bully For You History: Radical Brisbane International: No Vacancies Economics: Life After Capitalism Technology: Cyber Winners Poetry: Do It Yourself Poetry Review: Hard Labo(u)r
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Telstra Dogs on Injured Woman A Telstra representative told Jackie Skelton�s union, the CPSU, a compensation offer would be made in the first week of January but, instead, weekly payments were cut and she was forced to sell her Brisbane home. [full story] Strike Three and We�re Out Piling Contractors Queensland moved its employees to new entity, Piling Contractors Australia, in a last ditch bid to defeat delegate protection clauses negotiated with construction unions. [full story] Boxall Beats Hasty Retreat In a shock midweek move, Boxall demanded by memo, that staff wanting to hand out how to vote cards for election candidates obtain written permission from their employer. [full story] Ashfield Moves on Home Truths Councillors are expected to overwhelmingly endorse the measure next Tuesday as western Sydney municipalities move the asbestos debate from compensation to prevention. [full story] Pratt in Warwick Farm Plunge Pratt is trying to undermine packaging industry wages and conditions by forcing through 14 separate, non-union, site agreements that would shatter workers� bargaining power, according to the AMWU. [full story] Robert Reich's 2020 Vision Robert Reich, academic and US Labor Secretary in Clinton�s first term, will be the guest of the NSW Labor Council to lead discussion its Working NSW project to deveelop a vision for the workplace in 2020, [full story]
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A Brisbane woman, zapped between the ears by 240 volts of alternating current at a call centre, is still waiting for Australia�s largest company to deliver on its compensation promise.
Western Sydney Orbital workers won reinstatement for the last of three sacked delegates when a contractor ditched a ruse that would have left employees without a negotiated agreement.
CPSU members have rolled an attempt by hardline Department of Workplace Relations boss, Peter Boxall, to curtail their rights to participate in tomorrow�s federal election.
Alterations to Ashfield properties will soon become conditional on developers or home owners obtaining asbestos certificates.
Billionaire Richard Pratt is betting a thousand dollars a head on Warwick Farm employees turning their backs on colleagues striving for a national agreement.
The man who gave the Clinton Administration a soul - and one of the world�s most celebrated thinkers on the future of work � will travel to Australia in December.
