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Deep Impact
No the sky didn�t fall in, but there were an awful lot of acorns falling on Australian workers this week as John Howard�s dream of a workplace without rights became a reality.
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.
Doctors Orders - Take a Walke
Teens Changing the Landscape
Voters Desert Howard
Electrical Boss Zaps Safety
Buggers in Office
Pub With No Beer
Telstra's Townsville Shocker
ABCC: Safety a Gas
Rough Night Pays Off
Game, Set, Match Building Workers
Feds AWA Offers No Choice
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
Sing-a-Long Unions
The Earl Speaks
Market's Blind
Hi Guys!
Let Us Rejoice
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News
Pub With No Beer
Sixty sacked brewery drivers turned off the Tooheys taps at a popular watering hole after being punted by blue brew barons.
Contract drivers facing a loss of more than $20 million in pay-out entitlements are taking their case to Sydney drinkers with a petition calling on Tooheys to reverse its decision.
More than 1000 drinkers have already signed up.
Tony Sheldon from the Transport Workers Union said turning off the beer taps symbolised turning off the livelihoods of drivers' families.
"Sixty Australian family-owned businesses are on the verge of being destroyed," Sheldon said. "These drivers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up their businesses to solely carry beer for Tooheys. Some of them could lose their family homes over this."
The TWU slammed the Federal Government's proposed Independent Contractors Act, pointing out it would strip contractors of any collective rights.
The drivers took their case to federal parliament earlier this week, presenting politicians with a bottle of beer to remind them of the impact the new law would have on workers in their predicament.
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