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Issue No. 271 | 08 July 2005 |
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Interview: Battle Stations Unions: The Workers, United Politics: The Lost Weekend Industrial: Truth or Dare History: A Class Act Economics: The Numbers Game International: Blonde Ambition Training: The Trade Off Review: Bore of the Worlds Poetry: The Beaters Medley
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Then There Were Three The traditional five-day working week, penalty and overtime rates will all be up for grabs under the federal government�s new regime, Andrews admitted, last week. [full story] Dad's Choice Goes AWAL Masterton Homes told carpenter Phil Withington to sign the AWA, which would have slashed his family�s income by more than $7000 a year, or he wouldn�t have a job. [full story] OEA Invokes Sgt Schultz On the condition of anonymity, he said last week, that "around 85-90 percent" of new AWAs coming across the Advocate�s desk are for new starters. [full story] CFMEU Resists Standover Tactics The Workplace Relations Minister, last week, tried to stop thousands of Victorian companies signing off on a negotiated agreement with the CFMEU by holding hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government projects over their heads. [full story] Tall Tales and Two Two fact sheets produced by the government under the banner of �Building Better Workplace Relations� reveal inconsistencies. [full story] Corrine Throws Stones Momentum is building for the �Last Weekend� as regional communities around the state plan local BBQs to back the Sydney day. [full story]
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Australian workers will be left with just three core entitlements � the minimum wage, unpaid parental leave and sick leave � if Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews gets his way.
A 52-year-old father of three has been sacked for refusing to sign an AWA with his employer of 26 years.
More than 80 percent of AWAs being lodged with the Office of the Employment Advocate cover new starters who get no choice in the matter, according to a senior staffer.
Kevin Andrews is threatening building industry employers with a federal government blacklist, in defiance of advice from his own department.
The Howard government is telling employees one thing and employers another as it scrambles to salvage its IR agenda. 
Glass House star Corrine Grant has pitched into the Rights at Work campaign and will MC the massive family protest planned at Sydney Olympic Park for August 7.
