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Interview: The Baby Drought
Social ethicist Leslie Cannold has delved into why women - and men - are having fewer children. And it all comes back to the workplace.
Industrial: Lies, AWAs and Statistics
David Peetz uncovers the truth behind the latest statistics on earnings under Australian Workplace Agreements.
Workplace: The Invisible Parents
Current government policies about work and family do not reflect the realities of either family life or the modern workplace. writes Don Edgar.
History: Bruce�s Big Blunder
The Big Fella, Jack Lang, gives an eyewitness account of the last time Conservatives tried to dismantle Australia�s industrial relations system.
Politics: All God's Children
The battle for morality is not confined to Australian polittics. Michael Walzer writes on the American perspective
Economics: Spun Out
The business groups are feeling cocky. The feds have announced their IR changes, business says they don't go far enough. What a surprise, writes Neale Towart
International: Shakey Trials
Lyndy McIntyre argues the New Zealnd IR experiment provides warnings - and hope - for the Australian union movement.
Legal: Civil Distrubance
Tom Roberts argues that there is more at stake than an attack on building workers in the looming legsilation.
Review: Crash Course In Racism
Paul Haggis flick Crash suggests that when cars collide the extent of people's prejudices are revealed sans the usual veil of political correctness, writes Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: You're Fired
New laws will leave bosses holding the whip and workers with a Raw Hide, writes resident bard David Peetz
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Broken Hill Confronts "Choice"
Broken Hill disability workers say that they will lose their houses and cars, and have to leave town if they are forced onto AWAs.
"We just want to give our kids a safe environment and stability and many of us here are going to lose it," says local disability care worker Mary-Ellen Crimp. "Many of the staff here are young, with young families. We�re all getting a lesson." [full story]
BHP Faces Losses
A mining company that used AWAs to boost production faces courtroom showdowns with safety authorities and two bereaved women.
Western Australian authorities confirmed, last week, they would lay four charges against BHP Billiton over the death of AMWU member, James Wadley, in a horrific gas explosion. [full story]
Howard Threatens Babies
The Howard Government�s push to remove work rights will cause Australia long-term economic damage by lowering the birth rate, a leading sociologist has warned.
Melbourne University academic Leslie Cannold told the Working NSW conference "Things Break Down� that her research into fertility decisions had led her to industrial relations. [full story]
Working Between the Flags
Surf lifesavers are battling to keep their heads above the flood of workplace changes flowing from Canberra.
John Restuccia, Surf Lifesaving NSW director of lifesaving, warns the very people who rescue thousands of Australians every summer are those being targeted by employer demands for "flexibility". [full story]
Hadgkiss Makes History
The federal government has spent $66 million on a union-busting exercise that will yield only one prosecution, the director of the Building Industry Taskforce has revealed.
Nigel Hadgkiss made the admission to a Senate Estimates Commission while refusing to rule out attacking civil liberties in pursuing the Howard Government�s anti-worker agenda. [full story]
Bob The Organiser
Bosses at a Sydney warehouse accused NSW Premier Bob Carr of forming a picket line when he came to listen to workers forced onto AWAs.
The workers at Appaloosa Holdings, Banksmeadow, met Carr outside the gate, during morning tea, to explain how they were being forced to choose between individual contracts or the sack. [full story]
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Ashes to Dust
In which Phil Doyle travels to distant lands in search of a meat pie, and prepares for the joys of sleep deprivation Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West lists the Top Ten reasons why workers in NSW can gain some solace from having the Labor Party sitting on the Treasury benches� The Soapbox
Dear John
In response to this year�s Federal Budget, Bishop Kevin Manning wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, Mr John Howard
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