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Weasel Words
We are living in an era where words are not always as they seem, and where language is used to shape the world rather than just describe it.
Interview: On Holiday
Historian Richard White looks back on the Aussie vacation - and finds a way of life is under threat.,
Unions: One Day Longer
Nathan Brown travels to the Boeing picket line and find a group of workers with a steely determination to stick together.
Industrial: Never Mind the Bollocks
Jim Marr plays the Howard Government's industrial relations spin job on its merits.
Politics: Spun Out
Canberra’s latest campaign underlines the need for controls over government advertising, according to Graeme Orr and Joo-Cheong Tham
Economics: If the Grog Don't Get You ....
Evan Jones explains how the way we purchase alcolohol reflects the type of economy we live in.
History: Taking a Stand
Neale Towart looks at two books that chronicle how to build community support against social injustice.
International: The Split
Amanda Tattersal outsider's account of an insider's shake-out at the AFL-CIO Convention 2005
Legal: Pushing the Friendship
George Williams argues that the federal government’s constitutional powers are not sufficient to enact a comprehensive national industrial relations scheme
Poetry: Simple Subtractions
The latest blitz of taxpayer-funded advertising has revealed a crisis of arithmetic in government ranks has moved resident bard David Peetz to prose.
Review: Sydney Trashed
Sydney band SC Trash are on a mission to give new life to folk and country music – and the politics of common sense. Nathan Brown had a beer with them
 AWAs Bully the Sisters
Busted: Howard's 14 Percent Furphy
Top End of Town to Write IR Laws
New Laws Make Green Bans History
Hardies Dodges Responsibility
Blokes Wouldn’t Cop Child Care Wages
MPs Duck As Unions Hit the Road
Profits Do Not Mean Security
Dodgy Wagons Rolling In
Telstra: Death By 1,000 Cuts
Andrews Shafts Employee Safety
Indon Rail Workers Roll Paycut Plan
Activist's What's On!
Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite MP, Ian West, goes away for a couple of weeks and look what happens… The Soapbox
The Last Weekend
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson's speech to the Last Weekend - how the Howard government laws will undermine the Ausrtalian way of life. The Locker Room
A Concept Is Born
In which Phil Doyle helps the proponents of the vision thing across the road. International
Workers Blood For Oil
A new book by Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson lifts the lid on the bloody reality of US backed democracy for Iraq's trade unions Postcard
London Post
During his recent stay in London IEU industrial officer John Shapiro was living only a few hundred metres from the site of one of the bomb blasts.
Capital Terror
Think of the Kids
Let’s Talk
Stupid Sale
The Meal
Stand Your Ground
Convenient Flagellation
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Let’s Talk
Because I feel so strongly about the negative effect of the governments proposed changes to IR legislation on Australian workers I am organising a Forum on this topic at my local community centre.
Speakers including our federal member of parliament, union organisers, IR researchers and representatives from church and community organisations will explain the implications of the changes and their effects on every Australian worker and their family.
I will speak from the perspective of Job Watch, a community legal centre which has providing advice to workers about their employment problems for almost 25 years and has a large collection of case studies which show the problems that can arise when an employee tries to negotiate individually with their employer over wages and conditions.
The Forum will be held at the Jika Jika Community Centre, corner of Plant and Union Streets in Northcote on Wednesday 31st August commencing at 7.30.
Everyone interested in discussing the issues and finding out what they can do to fight the government's proposals is welcome. Entrance is free.
Anne Learmonth
Victoria
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