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Issue No. 279 | 02 September 2005 |
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Interview: Polar Eclipse Industrial: Wrong Turn Unions: Star Support Workplace: Checked Out Economics: Sold Out Politics: Green Banned History: Potted History International: Curtain Call Review: Little Fish Poetry: Slug A Worker
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Trucks Run Down Mums Auto component manufacturer National Parts has been slammed for its heavy-handed tactics on the lawful and peaceful picket line. [full story] Boom! Biff! It�s Howard Unplugged The incidents at Hartley - just west of the Blue Mountains � is a sign that the coming changes to federal industrial relations are emboldening employers to take on their unionised workforce. [full story] Fun Guy Spreads Fertiliser Mushroom mum Carmen Walacz Vel Walewska and Imperial Mushrooms boss, Kevin Tolson, are before the industrial umpire as it emerged the lengths to which he will go to bury the issue. [full story] Doors Close on Battered Mums They took the drastic action after the Tamworth Women�s Refuge was closed due to a service �restructure�, leaving the more than 2000 families a year who use the service without adequate care. [full story] Bing Lee Peddles Rubbish Miguel Reyes, who had worked at the Villawood Warehouse for four years, was hurriedly sent packing soon after joining the National Union Of Workers. [full story] Bless This Bus Father Adrian Horgan has endorsed the tour and will be on hand to welcome the bus when it hits Bathurst, along with workers who can no longer access sick leave without permission from managers under a new AWA. [full story]
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Female workers on a peaceful picket line say they are being harassed after they had to dive for cover when a truck reversed at them.
A mine manager who stymied a safety inspection and shirt-fronted an organiser has threatened workers that their pay will be slashed if they join a union.
The employer at the centre of a row over AWAs at a Sydney mushroom farm has offered workers a $1000 �gift� in a bid to quell concerns amongst his workers.
Community workers sacked on the spot when a Tamworth women�s refuge closed are setting up their own service in the street outside.
A worker sacked by retail giant Bing Lee for putting rubbish in a dumpster has been reinstated with back pay in a ruling by the state�s industrial umpire.
A Bathurst preacher is so outraged by Telstra�s treatment of its call centre staff that he has cut a radio advertisement promoting the Rights at Work bus as it begins the second leg of its NSW tour.
