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Interview: Fortress NSW Unions: Fashions Afield Industrial: Pay Dirt Politics: Infrastructure Blues History: Big Day Out International: Making History Economics: The Fear Factor Review: The Robots Revolt Poetry: The Corporation's Power
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Bikies Needle Heroines A dozen motorcycle gang members, some wearing helmets and bandanas, crashed the Kemalex Plastics picket line at Dandenong South on Thursday. [full story] Bosses Play China Card Auto component manufacturers, Tri Star and Spicer Axle, have targeted 800 employees for the dole queue and at least two other manufacturers, employing more than 600 people, say job losses are inevitable. [full story] Giant Collapses on Ankle Angry delegates from the union�s construction and timber divisions mounted a protest outside QBE�s Parramatta offices, last Friday, after learning insurance company-ordered cuts to workers compensation payments had resulted in Isabelita Cruz having her power cut off. [full story] NAB Cuts More Than Jobs Finance Sector Union NSW secretary Geoff Derrick says that under anenterprise agreement with 24,000 workers, NAB is prohibited from reducing jobs without a commensurate reduction in overall workload. [full story] Left Footers Kick Back Bishop Christopher Saunders, chairman of the Catholic Social Justice Council, is urging the faithful to consider the position of more than one and a half million Australians, dependent on the minimum wage. [full story] Oh Brother, Tim Plays House His surprise entry has attracted the support of Unions NSW, with secretary John Robertson calling on members and affiliates to help evict Brunero's competition. [full story]
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Motorcycle gangs are being used to intimidate women picketing a Melbourne company that wants to turn them into sham contractors.
Major NSW employers are using John Howard�s free trade agreements to slash jobs and demand $250 a week wage cuts.
CFMEU picketers have shamed insurance giant QBE into forking out for a 57-year-old woman�s ankle operation.
The National Australia Bank will have to cut service levels by nearly 10 per cent in order to shed 2,000 jobs, under a binding agreement with its workers.
Australia�s minimum wage must "adequately" reward workers and "meet the needs" of families, according to the Catholic Church.
Former Workers Online hack Tim Brunero has turned up in the Big Brother house where he has called for the downfall of Prime Minister John Howard.
