|
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
||
|
|
Issue No. 258 | 08 April 2005 |
|
||
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
|
|
Cash Grab Targets Families Unions NSW secretary, John Robertson, said the Prime Minister�s recipe would equate to a two percent jump in home loan interest rates. [full story] Wattyl Lacks Colour Since staff sprung a senior manager describing 350 strikers as "blobs" in an internal email, the company has been in whitewash mode. [full story] Censors Ban Workers Online "This is about freedom of speech," says Geoff Derrick from the Financial Sector Union (FSU). "Workers Online is one of the only independent worker oriented industrial news services available to white collar private sector employees." [full story] Stink Over Water That�s the vision of privatised water that Sydney Water staff will take to the public this week. [full story] Cole Slurs Slide Without fanfare, the Industrial Registrar wrote to the CFMEU conceding that after considering Cole�s allegations in "some detail" there were no grounds to "conduct an investigation or commence a prosecution" against the NSW branch�s Wage Claims Department. [full story] Table Hands Stuffed Three of the women, employed by Print Mail Logistics at Hobart and Kingston, have not been rostered for any shifts since challenging their employer over all-in rates, more than $2.50 below the award minimum. [full story]
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Search All Issues | Latest Issue | Previous Issues | Print Latest Issue |
|
© 1999-2002 Workers Online 
|
|
Australia�s lowest paid workers would be $2300 a year worse off under the federal government�s minimum wage prescription.
Wattyl bosses have painted themselves into a corner by labelling striking workers "blobs" in an insult that barely registers on the industrial scale.
Finance company SunCorp is using an email and internet firewall to block access to Workers Online.
Raw sewage pumped into the Harbour, massive increases in household bills, foul-smelling air, and multinationals being paid squillions to leave town. 
Authorities celebrated the second anniversary of Cole Commission findings by quietly disposing of more slurs against building workers.
Sixty Tasmanian women could be owed $1 million after stuffing envelopes for four years on flat-rate AWAs that deny overtime and weekend penalty rates.
