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Interview: Out of the Bedroom
Reverend Jim Wallis is leading a crusade to take the moral debate into the public arena.
Industrial: Cloak and Dagger
The Howard Government has begun a series of workshops to sell its WorkChoice vsision. Sean Ambrose sneaked through the doors for Workers Online.
Unions: Lockout!
Jim Comerford�s eyewitness account of the 15-month Lockout of 10,000 New South Wales miners in1929-1930 records the inside story of Australia�s most bloody and bitter industrial conflict
Legal: The Fantasy of Choice
Professor Ron McCallum argues the WorkChoices laws are built on a fundamental fiction.
Politics: Labor Pains
Labor has dealt itself out of the crucial workplace relations debate by failing to articulate a credible policy alternative to Howard�s new WorkChoices legislation, argues Mark Heearn and Grant Michelson
Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose
Evan Jones pays tribute to John Kenneth Galbraith, a big man who never stopped arguing that economics should serve the public good, not create public squalor.
Corporate: House of Horrors
Anthony Keenan takes a tour of Sydney�s notorious, Asbestos House, courtesy of Gideon Haig.
History: Clash Of Cultures
Neale Towart with a new take on Mayday through the words of a punk icon
International: Childs Play
An ILO report into Child Labour shows some progress is being made to curb this gobal scurge .
Culture: Folk You Mate!
Phil Doyle dodges Morris Dancers to find signs of Working Life at the National Folk Festival in Canberra over the Easter Weekend.
Review: Last Holeproof Hero
Finally, a superhero who has worked out how to wear his underpants. Nathan Brown ogles V for Vendetta
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Howard Hunts Heroes
The Howard Government is out to destroy the crack mine rescue team that saved the lives of Brant Webb and Todd Russell.
The NSW Mines Rescue Service, a specialist operation half-owned by the CFMEU, worked hand-in-glove with the AWU to rescue the gold miners buried 1000m below Beaconsfield in Tasmania. [full story]
Workplace Cop Shrugs Shoulders
The Office of Workplace Services has washed its hands of Victorians docked pay after raising funds for Larry Knight�s bereaved family.
Three Bendigo construction workers, employed by contractor McFee Propriety Limited, had their pay docked after delivering proceeds from a whip-around to a union office in town. [full story]
Gerry Built Apartments Fall Behind
A Perth builder is trying to import another 53 Filipino construction workers, despite plummeting productivity across his low-wage empire.
Gerry Hanssen already uses �guest labour�, AWAs and body hire to undercut going industry rates by hundreds of dollars a week. [full story]
NFF Axe Over Childcare
National Farmers Federation headkicker, Paul Houlihan, is coming after Sydney childcare workers in an effort to strip them of pay equity gains.
Houlihan�s company, IR Australia, has drafted AWAs that seek to dud employees at more than 50 Childs Family Kingergartens of every cent they won in a recent pay equity case that found they had been victims of the �undervaluing of women�s work�. [full story]
Ballarat Suffers Maxi-Rort
A company boasting record profits has tossed 35 regional Victorians out of work to retain 25 Chinese welders, imported under John Howard�s cut-price labour scheme.
Ballarat-based manufacturer, Maxi-TRANS, punted 13 locals a fortnight ago, and another 22 last week. [full story]
Hunter Collects on Jobs
Seven months of AMWU campaigning has secured 3500 Hunter Valley jobs as part of a $2.2 billion manufacturing windfall.
The figures were confirmed when the NSW Government announced major rolling stock contracts would be awarded to either Goninans or EDI Rail, in an about-face that removed the prospect of off-shoring the giant rail deals. [full story]
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A Sort Of Homecoming
Phil Doyle plays to the whistle. Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite MP, Ian West reports from Macquarie Street on some strange collective acction.
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