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Economics: Super Seduction Interview: Bono and Me Unions: The Eight Hour Day and the Holy Spirit Economics: OEC-Who? Technology: From Widgets to Digits Education: Dumb and Dumber Health: No Place for the Young History: The Work-In That Changed a Nation Review: Dare to Win Poetry: Labor's Dreaming
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Plastic Man Crosses the Line ABM Plastics owner, Abe Waisman, is planning the new development, ABM Seal Pac, a stone’s throw from picketing former employees dudded of $2.5 million in redundancy pay. [full story] Taskforce Loses "Payback" Evidence Father of two, Michael McGann, has been unemployed since being dumped by the controversial Taskforce, last October. [full story] Court Out … Again Justice Murray Wilcox rejected allegations brought by Taskforce boss, Nigel Hadgkiss, that a Wollongong sub-contractor had been drummed off a site because he refused to join the CFMEU. [full story] Blue Chips Fried in CBD At least two banks, and an outlet of a national retail chain, were being cleaned by virtually unpaid labour, it emerged, when the LHMU secured $15,000 in backpay for six Koreans, this month. [full story] Bosses Duck Decapitation Brendan Brown was killed instantly, and three others seriously injured, after prefabricated flooring collapsed on the Baseline Constructions site in Rhodes. [full story] Computer Driven Posties Other Posties are being "sweated" and bullied to achieve computer driven deadlines, forcing them to be clocked at speeds of up to 60km an hour on footpaths. [full story]
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A businessman with three homes and two Porsches has flicked 110 staff to set-up shop across the road.
Nigel Hadgkiss’ Building Industry Taskforce has "lost" interview records at the centre of a former Detective Sergeant’s claims of "payback" and "victimisation".
The Federal Court has upheld the right of unions to police health and safety in tossing out another batch of prosecutions run by the Building Industry Taskforce.
Banks and prestigious retailers are among central Sydney businesses profiting from exploited Korean labour.
A Sydney building worker was decapitated in the same week company directors called on the Howard Government to water down safety laws.
Management forced a postie to sign a medical release as he lay "doped up" in hospital after an accident where he had been left on his own by Australia Post management.
