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Polls Apart
The tragic bombings in London may knock industrial relations off the front pages over the next few days, but it is unlikely to end the groundswell of opposition to the Howard Government's mad grab at workers' rights.
Interview: Battle Stations
Opposition leader Kim Beazley says he's ready to fight for workers right. But come July 1, he'll have to be fighting by different rules.
Unions: The Workers, United
It was a group of rank and filers who took centre stage when workers rallied in Sydney's Town Hall, writes Jim Marr.
Politics: The Lost Weekend
The ALP had a hot date, they had arranged to meet on the Town Hall steps, and Phil Doyle was there.
Industrial: Truth or Dare
Seventeen ivory towered academics upset those who know what is best for us last week.
History: A Class Act
After reading a new book on class in Australia, Neale Towart is left wondering if it is possible to tie the term down.
Economics: The Numbers Game
Political economist Frank Stilwell offers a beginners guide to understanding budgets
International: Blonde Ambition
Sweden can be an inspiration to labour movements the world over, as it has had community unionism for over 100 years, creating a vibrant caring society, rather than a "productive" lean economy.
Training: The Trade Off
Next time you go looking for a skilled tradesman and can’t find one, blame an economist, writes John Sutton.
Review: Bore of the Worlds
An invincible enemy has people turning against one another as they fight for survival – its not just an eerie view of John Howard’s ideal workplace, writes Nathan Brown.
Poetry: The Beaters Medley
In solidarity with the workers of Australia, Sir Paul McCartney (with inspiration from his old friend John Lennon) has joined the Workers Online resident bard David Peetz to pen some hits about the government's proposed industrial relations revolution.
 Then There Were Three
Dad's Choice Goes AWAL
OEA Invokes Sgt Schultz
CFMEU Resists Standover Tactics
Tall Tales and Two
Corrine Throws Stones
Cardinal Adds Weight to Concerns
Bosses: Unions Beat AWAs
16 Hours to Recover Worker
Choice Gets Confusing
Attack Derailed In Qld
PM Pulls Rank On Ads
HT Lee Gravely Ill
Activists Whats On!
The Soapbox
State of the Union
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson lifts the lid on ‘The Nine Myths of Modern Unionism’ The Locker Room
Wrist Action
Phil Doyle trawls the murky depths of tawdry sleaze, and discovers Rugby is behind it all. Culture
To Hew The Coal That Lies Below
Phil Doyle reviews Australia's first coal mining novel, Black Diamonds and Dust. Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite State MP, Ian West, reports from Macquarie Street that the Premier is all the way with a State Commission.
Don’t Call Me Customer
Do It Yourself?
Goodthink
Vale the Eight Hour Day
The vision thing
Campaign Pushes Right Buttons
It’s Time to Punt the PM
Bob Each Way
Ads Value
Travel Allowance?
Hits the Mark
Reforms not an Erosion
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Letters to the Editor
Bob Each Way
Whilst the unions can take full credit for their campaign against proposed changes to IR reforms, I certainly hope that Bob Carr doesn't get the idea that he can ride the wave of community support that unions have evoked.
Bob has some major restructuring decisions ahead of him in order to cut costs and the burden of these cost cutting measures will surely impact on many workers and their families.
Let him also not say that his Government has not caused many of the gross inefficiencies that exist across the board in NSW.
I stand by my opinion that Unions NSW should distance themselves from Bob and his crew and be willing to take them to task on behalf of workers just as you are now taking it up to the Howard Government.
The Carr Government, in my opinion, have some major credibility issues just as Mr Howard's Government's planned reforms smell of contempt for the rights of workers and their families.
We may disagree on things political, but Unions NSW will always have my support in areas where they are willing to support the rights of working men and women and their families and take it up to the policy makers in spite of any political affiliations they may have.
John McPhilbin
NSW
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