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That�s Our Team
Here�s a test. Hands up all those who watched the news last night. Who can remember the weather forecast for tomorrow? What about the forecast in Perth?
Interview: Dot.Com
Evan Thornley was a labour activist. Then he rode the tech wave. Now he's home with new ideas on how Labor can win the economic debate.
Workplace: Dirt Cheap
In her new book, Elizabeth Wynhausen learns how hard it is to live on the minimum wage.
Industrial: Daddy Doesn�t Live With Us Anymore
Andreia Viegas� tells the story of the loss her young family has felt since her husband was killed at work, and the need for justice for families who fall victim to industrial manslaughter.
Economics: Who's Afraid of the BCA?
Big Business's agenda for Australia has gone from loopy to mainstream at the speed of light, writes Neale Towart
International: From the Wreckage
Working people across Iraq are struggling to build their own independent unions � and are successfully organising industrial action on the vital oil fields as well as in hotels, transport outlets and factories, Writes Andrew Casey
Politics: Infrastructure Blues
With much attention given belatedly to the shortage of infrastructure, little attention has been given to the structure of infrastructure, writes Evan Jones
History: Meat and Three Veg
A new book recounts the impact of the Depression on women workers, writes Neale Towart,
Savings: Super Seduction
Sharks are circling your super. From July 1, banks and financial planners will have access to the nesteggs of an extra four million workers, writes Jim Marr.
Politics: Popping the 'E-Word'
Federal shadow treasurer Wayne Swan unveils Labor's new economic doctrine.
Poetry: To Know Somebody
This week saw an appointment to the ABC Board that was even more breathtaking than that of Liberal Party figure Michael Kroger. Resident Bard David Peetz celebrates the occasion with a reworking of an old Bee Gees hit.
Review: Off the Rails
A new play on the impact of rail privatisation in Britain has a poignant message for Sydney commuters, writes Alex Mitchell
Rev Kev: Innocent Shall Be Guilty
It�s Official - Taskforce "Hopeless"
Hollywood For Tropfest Evictees
Miner Problem for Feds
Students Driven to Sleep
Brogden Dances On Graves
Let Them Drink Beer
Traffic Fines Parked
The Airline That Flew a Kite
Hundreds Resist Porridge
Experts Back Better Childcare Pay
Mushroom Mums Win
Rotten Fruit Exposed
Workers Sue Rumsfeld
Activist�s What�s On
The Soapbox
The Big Picture
Think about this: It takes 150 tonnes of iron ore to buy a plasma TV, writes Doug Cameron. The Locker Room
Reducto Ad Absurdo
Phil Doyle offers advice for the lovelorn, and finds that things are getting smaller
New Matilda
Work is In
The rise and fall of the working hours debate in france is relevent to Australian workers, writes Daniel Donahoo and Tim Martyn Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite MP surveys the upcoming conservative centralist collective attack. Postcard
Postcard from Harvard
Australian union officials making the annual pilgrimage to the Harvard Trade Union Program learnt that, at least, they are not alone, says Natalie Bradbury.
Stay Terra Firma on Tax
Janet�s Job No Victory
Royal Finger Lickers
Will $20 Restore Carr?
Two Ideas
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Students Driven to Sleep
Over seventy percent of university students say their education is being undermined by employer inflexibility, a survey has found.
Students report missing lectures, failing to hand in assignments and being too tired to study in the Unions NSW survey of 1200 undergraduates.
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Twenty percent felt pressured to do unpaid overtime, and more than 70 percent wanted to know more about unions.
The survey results show unions need to increase efforts to educate students about their rights and recruit activists of the future, says Asren Pugh, Unions NSW student organiser.
Last year Unions NSW set up the Working Students Union Network.
Part time campus organisers put on forums, lectures and training workshops and ran a non-corporate careers day.
New student activists helped union members in last year's rail dispute, handing out leaflets and talking to commuters.
The program led to a doubling of applications to the peak body's "Union Summer" program, where students score short term internships with affiliates to gain practical experience.
This year the program has been expanded to employ four organisers on separate campuses and is targeting specific faculties to link students with their unions.
Nursing, education and media students are amongst the first to be targeted.
Pugh says union activists who are also students find it easier to organise their fellow undergraduates because they understand the structure of universities.
"Our aim is the get students informed and active around union campaigns before they get on the job," says Pugh.
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