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Issue No. 250 | 21 December 2004 |
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Interview: The King of Comedy Unions: Ten Simple Rules Politics: Rampant Indivdualism International: Global Struggle Economics: Cashing in the Year History: Grass Roots Review: Cultural Realities Poetry: Y-U-C-K
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Unions Make Hardie Pay Their campaign - rallying workers, asbestos victims, councils, state governments and plaintiff lawyers - saw the building materials giant agree, this week, to open-ended funding of Australian asbestos compensation claims for at least 50 years. [full story] Hadgkiss Gives Mourners Grief The Taskforce filed writs after efforts to get its hands on the personal bank accounts of employees at Melbourne�s Concept Blue site were rejected by Justice Marshall, in the Federal Court, as "foreign to the workplace relations of civilised societies, as distinct from undemocratic authoritarian states." [full story] Mum Gets "Hopson�s" Choice Maree Cunningham was "horrified" when her policeman husband delivered the Greater Building Society�s version of "congratulations" to her bedside. [full story] AWAs Crash on Broken Hill Wayne Nicholas threatened 30 Silverlea Community Care employees with the sack if they didn�t agree to become the state�s lowest paid disability workers. [full story] No Fun in the Sack All State Electrical Contractors went into voluntary liquidation without paying holiday pay, leaving displaced workers no prospect of being paid at all over the holiday period. [full story] Tax Office Draws Blood Workers handling foul-smelling tax returns in Penrith raised the alarm and at least one Perth has been reported as coughing up blood. [full story]
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Unions are on the brink of forcing James Hardie to become the first multi-national in Australian history to hand over billions of dollars on moral rather than legal grounds.
The Building Industry Taskforce wants 11 people fined for stopping work to honour a dead colleague.
A Newcastle woman who worked until three days before giving birth by caesarean section was fired while recovering in hospital. 
AWAs have been run out of Broken Hill after the boss who tried to foist them on disability workers shot through.
A firm has gone bust three days before Christmas, leaving 200 workers without money to buy presents for their kids.
Cost cutting is the leading suspect for an outbreak of blisters, rashes, eye irritations and nausea rocking tax processing centres in two states.
