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Interview: On Holiday Unions: One Day Longer Industrial: Never Mind the Bollocks Politics: Spun Out Economics: If the Grog Don't Get You .... History: Taking a Stand International: The Split Legal: Pushing the Friendship Poetry: Simple Subtractions Review: Sydney Trashed
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�Disgusting� AWAs Court Out Judge Peter McCusker found Bakers Delight paid teenagers �grossly less� than award rates and said he was �troubled� that federal government's Office of the Employment Advocate had okayed the rip-off. [full story] Andrews Agenda Rolled in DEWR CPSU members at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations secured an in-principle deal, last week, that will maintain their access to the AIRC and deliver average 16 percent wage increases, over three years. [full story] Sick Days Get Hadgkiss Sniffing The CFMEU accused Hadgkiss of �victimisation� after his Taskforce filed prosecutions against job delegate, Peter Levy, and a crane drive in the Western Australian Industrial Magistrates Court. [full story] Fun Guy Skips Work, Docks Staff Imperial Mushrooms locked their workers out when it learned of the protest by supporters of Carmen Walacz Vel Walewska, sacked after questioning the terms of an AWA that cut her take-home pay. [full story] Nurse Launches Neighbourhood Alert Genevieve Thyer letterboxed her Erina neighbours about how contracts threatened job security. [full story] Security Staff Bush Whacked The Republican-dominated board endorsed the legality of a national security firm�s rule, that workers must not �fraternise, on duty or off duty, date or become overly friendly with client�s employees or with co-employees�. [full story]
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A national bakery chain used AWAs to rip up to $3 an hour out of the wage packets of young Australians.
Thousands of public servants have knocked off an AWA-driven campaign to undermine their wages and conditions.
Building Industry secret policeman Nigel Hadgkiss wants thousands of dollars in fines imposed on Perth rank and filers who gave evidence for their union.
Seventy mushroom pickers have lost a day's pay because their employer lacked the courage to front a union protest over its misuse of individual contracts.
A Central Coast nurse, forced to use individual contracts against her staff, has quit to lead the charge against AWAs.
George Bush�s National Labour Relations Board has ruled employers can ban employees from talking to one another inside or outside the workplace.
