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Interview: Public Defender Legal: Craig's Story Unions: Wrong Way, Go Back Industrial: WhatChoice? Politics: Queue Jumping History: Iron Heel Economics: Waging War International: Under Pressure Poetry: Billy Negotiates An AWA Review: A Pertinent Proposition
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D-Day For Political Rights With ACTU secretary Greg Combet warning a trade unionist would be Australia's next political prisoners, 100,000 CFMEU members plan to stare down $22,000 fines for attending the national action. [full story] Bosses In Sack Race John Howard's �Workchoices� give employers the right to punt anyone for �economic, technical or structural or similar� reasons. His legislation describes these broad get-out provisions as �operational�. [full story] �Choice� By Decree Nearly half a billion extra dollars have been set aside, over four years, to bring �Workchoices� to fruition with most of the spend earmarked for the Office of the Employment Advocate and an expanded Office of Workplace Services. [full story] Howard Barges Into Workplace Legal experts say the new Act will empower the Minister to disallow sick leave, notice provisions, redundancy pay and a host of other conditions in AWAs, collective agreements and State awards, without reference to Parliament. [full story] Della Grounds Boeing Locked out Boeing workers from Williamtown have welcomed the move by the NSW Minister for Industrial Relations, John Della Bosca, to refer the Boeing dispute to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. [full story] Wal-Mart Sees the Light As thousands of Wal-Mart employees and former employees head to court over allegations of wage abuse, chief exec Lee Scott says the time has come for Congress to act. [full story]
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November 15 looms as the day industrial action becomes a criminal act, after the Prime Minister confirmed building workers would be jailed if they refuse to pay fines for attending the national protest day.
Employers will get the green-light to victimise trade unionists under new laws that allow them to sack anybody in Australia, as long as they are clever about it.
The federal government will lavish hundreds of millions of dollars on partisan agencies to ramp up its attack on Australian workers.
The Howard Government has given itself the right to veto negotiated conditions under legislation it says will get third parties out of Australian workplaces.
The NSW Government has used special ministerial powers to drag Boeing before the state industrial umpire in a bid to end a long running lockout.
Penny-pinching retailer Wal-Mart wants the US minimum wage increased, after discovering the low-paid can't afford to shop in its stores.
