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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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Hardie Rewards Asbestos Rats NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson said the payout again highlighted the fact that James Hardie had learnt nothing in recent months about ethical behaviour. [full story] Kentucky Fried Kids Daniel Guyomar was standing on a fryer to clean an extraction hood at a KFC outlet at Cranbourne when he fell into a deep fryer. He was hospitalised for 19 days following the incident. [full story] Miner Shafts Democracy A proposal to grant Collie tradesmen local government representation leave is one of half a dozen clauses Westfarmers Coal is seeking to have ruled "not pertaining" to the employer-employee relationship. [full story] Fine Drop in Ocean of Blood The TWU�s Scott Connelly said 524 people had died in NSW truck accidents since 37-year-old, Darri Haines, was killed in a 1999 fireball, after bodgeying logbooks and consuming methamphetamines in a bid to meet schedules. [full story] Sydney Water Outsources Brains The engineers, in charge of purchasing some of Sydney's most important water assets, are being made forcibly redundant with their jobs expected to go to short-term contractors. [full story] Head Injuries to No Injuries Newly-elected MP Peter Garrett will hand out safety achievement awards at the third annual UnionSafe NSW Safety Delegates Conference this week. [full story]
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Unions are demanding that more than $10 million in payouts to disgraced James Hardie executives go to victims of their asbestos scam. 
A fast food company that pleaded guilty to frying a 17-year-old in a vat of oil has had an OHS conviction quashed on appeal.
Corporate Australia is seeking massive fines against the AMWU and four rank and file delegates in a bid to deny workers the opportunity to serve on local councils.
A $55,000 fine imposed on a transport operator whose driver was incinerated on the Pacific Highway has sparked calls for Workcover to go after the "Mr Bigs" of road transport.
Three engineering experts are being dumped by Sydney Water as part of a
process that could compromise the utility�s ability to ensure the quality of water supplies, APESMA warns.
The man who risked industrial deafness to bring us the legendary Head Injuries album is making a stand for workplace safety.
