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Interview: Australia@Work Unions: State of the Union Industrial: Fashion Accessories Legal: Leg Before Picket Politics: Business Welfare Brats Health: Cannabis Controversy Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn History: Politics In The Pubs Review: Three Bob's Worth Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
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Health System to Subsidise Shonks A discussion paper released by Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews, proposes denying contractors access to the Workplace Relations Act, along with state occupational health and safety, workers comp and anti-discrimination rules. [full story] Who Likes Bing Lee? "Bing Lee�s slogan is �Everything�s Negotiable�," says Mark Ptolemy from the National Union of Workers (NUW). "That obviously doesn�t apply to their own workers." [full story] Death Threats Shut Campsie All the telephone threats have been received since union reps went public about a clothing industry sweatshop at nearby, Bexley. [full story] Thumbs Down for Union Busters The �sweeping industrial reforms� will hit in a climate where voters of all political persuasions feel the economy is not delivering for working families. [full story] Advocate Pours Salt on Wound Channel Seven reality program, My Restaurant Rules, exposed the truth about AWAs when it broadcast an episode in which Pink Salt boss, Evan Hansimikali, tried to use the non-union individual contracts to impose massive wage cuts on staff. [full story] United Front Beats Drug Boss The workers succeeded in securing a union endorsed EBA � the first for the pharmaceutical plant - with the support of the local community and other workers. [full story]
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Federal Government is moving to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of contractors in a move that will cost taxpayers up to $14 billion a year.
Bing Lee is using threats and pay offs to stop Villawood warehouse employees joining a union. 
Police sealed off streets near the Campsie Railway Station yesterday after the sixth bomb threat on TCFUA offices in the space of three weeks.
The federal government�s upcoming assault on trade unions will meet resistance from some unlikely quarters, with non-members and Liberal Party voters agreeing it won�t serve the nation�s interest.
Federal Government�s Employment Advocate is backing the tv restaurateur who wants to use AWAs to slash wages by $300 a week.
A nine-day lockout has ended with a comprehensive win for workers at Merck Sharp and Dohme�s South Granville factory.
