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For Queen and Country
There�s nothing like a Commonwealth Games � and one on home turf to boot � to get one thinking about Australia�s relationship with Britain and the monarch who still reigns over us.
Interview: Organising In Cyberspace
Workers Online speaks to the ACTU's Union Organiser of the Year, Greg Harvey from the RTBU, who has been using cutting edge ways to communicate with a blue-collar workforce spread across five states.
Industrial: How Low Is Low
Neale Towart looks at the much hyped link between minimum wages and employment
Industrial: Cloak and Dagger
The Howard Govwernment has begun rolling out workshops to inform employers on how to use WorkChoices. Sean Ambrose sneaked through the doors for Workers Online.
Unions: Bad Medicine
Nathan Brown reports on how Australia Post�s dodgy Faculty Nominated Doctor system is leaving sick workers feeling worse.
History: Right Turn, Clyde
Bob Gould believes news of Clyde Cameron�s demise may be premature
Economics: Long Division
Kenneth Davidson looks at a successful political strategy
International: Union Proud
A University of California librarian calls for union labels to increase worker visibility
Politics: Howard�s Sick Joke
Phil Doyle looks at an attack on one of the great achievements of the union movement
Indigenous: The year of living dangerously
That mob in parliament house seems to be hopelessly out of touch with Indigenous Australia. So much so, that Graham Ring wonders if the House on the Hill is becoming a �cultural museum�.
Review: Lights, Camera, Strike!
Mandrake the Electrician has been down to the video store over the summer and rounded up the Top Ten Union Movies of all time.
Culture: News Front
If the owners are selling off papers, perhaps the unions should buy them says Mark Dobbie.
 Fleas Bite Back
Visa Boss Restrained
Howard's Holiday Secrets
Picket Buster Carpeted
No Ticket No Start For Asbestos
On The Road Again
WorkChoices Goes Mental
United Cuts Hit Turbulence
Bad News for Bullies
Vegie Contracts Poisonous
Mac Attack
Work Choices Canned
Work Pressure Kills: Judge
Activist's What's On!
The Soapbox
Australian Fascism
Rowan Cahill critiques Gerard Henderson�s unique take on history
Parliament
Westie Wing
Will Westie's Wings be clipped, or will the Hills Angels repent and deliver? The Locker Room
The Heart Of The Matter
Phil Doyle rolls up the red carpet and celebrates the death of an old foe
Revelations of St John
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United Cuts Hit Turbulence
United Airlines has been threatened with widespread industrial action if it fails to meet a Tuesday deadline to withdraw plans to sack 150 staff in Sydney and Melbourne.
United Airlines plans to hire two non-union contractors to handle reservation calls and airport work in Australia. It also plans to outsource call centre services to TeleTech Holdings Inc. of Englewood, Colorado, to provide the call center services starting in June and Millers Point, Australia-based Patrick Corp. to provide bag handling and other airport ramp work, UAL said in a statement yesterday.
The plan is part of the move to cut $7 billion in annual costs by 2010. The airline, based in Elk Grove, Illinois, only exited bankruptcy last year.
The Australian Services Union Assistant National Secretary Linda White issued a list of demands to management at United Airlines and gave them until midday, Tuesday to withdraw its plans.
The ASU's Michael Flinn said United's plan would see only 20 current workers remain employed.
Workers want guarantees that there will be no limits on redundancy entitlements for those who leave, and that current working conditions will be kept for those who stay, he said.
Mr Flinn said the workers will consider strike action if the conditions are not met by Tuesday, and they will also be refusing to do overtime until then.
"What that means is that if they reach the end of their shift and passengers have not been checked-in, then they will not proceed to check the rest of that flight in," he said.
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