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Interview: Court's in Session Industrial: Whose Choices? Politics: Peter's Principles Environment: TINA or Greener? History: Its Not Just Handshakes and Aprons International: US Locks out Jose' Bove Education: No AWA - No Job Culture: Jesus was a Long-Grass Man Review: Charlie the Serf
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Taskforce Shrugs Bashed Teen Worker The anti-union watchdog is washing its hands of the attack of the Cook Islander who was being paid just $50 per month. [full story] Abattoir Blues About 20 workers at the Packer family-backed Teys Brother's abattoir at Naracoorte refused to sign Australian Workplace Agreements, which stripped workers of the Australia Day holiday, other public holidays and whittled down penalty rates. [full story] Car Plant Puts Pedal to Metal According to a 41-point plan obtained by Workers Online, workers at Dana Car Parts could be stood down without pay if union members at another business took 'action(s). [full story] Call Me Now: Rev Kev Calls to the controversial hotline, set up by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations to �explain� industrial relations changes, cost an average of $33 per minute. Workers Online understands the going rate for a call to a phone sex hotline is about $5 per minute. [full story] Fat Boss Sings US multinational United Group Services, has told the workers, including 38-year veteran, Steve Tsoukalas, who built the icon, to take the pay cut and brush the union they wants to keep his job. [full story] Unions Back After This Break A hastily assembled picket in Waterloo by around 30 members of Equity and other unionists sang, yelled, whistled and whooped outside the location of the shoot for Quaker's Oats. [full story]
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The Building Industry Taskforce has brushed a teenager who was allegedly bashed in the face by his boss with a claw hammer, leaving him with horrific injuries.
A South Australian abattoir has called in Chinese guest workers to replace locked out meatworkers trying to hold onto their Australia Day holiday.
Manufacturing workers at a Melbourne car parts plant are the first victims of WorkChoices, with the employer revealing plans to slash wages by up to $200 a week.
Calls to the WorkChoices hotline cost taxpayers six times more per minute than phone sex.
Workers at the Sydney Opera House will be picketing opera-goers after being told they have to sign non-union contracts that strip them of up to $20,000 a year, or face the sack.
An attempt to make the first non-union TV ad in Australia since 1992 fell apart when a vocal demonstration proved to be too noisy for producers to shoot the commercial.
