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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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Senators Back Rorters' Charter Their actions will cost Japanese woman, Sachie Murata, and thousands like her, any chance of justice. [full story] Families Last in WorkChoices The study, carried out by Dr Don Edgar, has been circulated to all Federal Senators ahead of this week's vote on the radical reshaping of Australian workplace law. [full story] Howard Loses Poll Position Twin polls, run for the News Ltd and Fairfax organisations last week, saw Howard's approval rating drop to its lowest levels in nearly five years. [full story] Printers Stamp on Low Paid The Printing Industries Association is appealing an Australian Industrial Relations Commission decision on a skills based classification, which would boost pay for an employee's on-the-job skills. [full story] Tough Men Back CFMEU Bruce Bennedick and Evan Fraser, residents of a 24-hour care facility have personally thanked the CFMEU, and Unions NSW, for helping save their home. [full story] Kiwis Fly into Starbucks Workers walked out of 10 of the multi-national's outlets around Auckland city, last week, after the bosses of the Karangahape Rd store, in trendy Ponsonby, tried to draft in managers to cover the duties of strikers. [full story]
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Liberal Senators knew they were giving free kicks to Australia's worst bosses when they agreed to rubber stamp John Howard's Workchoices legislation.
A Family Impact Statement into the Howard Government's WorkChoice laws paints a picture of domestic upheaval and social dislocation.
Months of strategic trade union campaigning are being cited for the drastic plunge in John Howard's approval ratings.
Printing companies are holding out on a $30 a week win for low skilled workers in anticipation of the Federal Government's industrial relations changes.
Two wheelchair-bound qualdriplegics have gone into bat for federal government's favourite scapegoat, the CFMEU.
A Kiwi campaign to boost minimum wages and conditions has brewed into the world's first Starbucks strike.
