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Interview: Out of the Bedroom Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Lockout! Legal: The Fantasy of Choice Politics: Labor Pains Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose Corporate: House of Horrors History: Clash Of Cultures International: Childs Play Culture: Folk You Mate! Review: Last Holeproof Hero
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Howard Hunts Heroes 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 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 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 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 Ballarat-based manufacturer, Maxi-TRANS, punted 13 locals a fortnight ago, and another 22 last week. [full story] Hunter Collects on Jobs 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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The Howard Government is out to destroy the crack mine rescue team that saved the lives of Brant Webb and Todd Russell.
The Office of Workplace Services has washed its hands of Victorians docked pay after raising funds for Larry Knight’s bereaved family.
A Perth builder is trying to import another 53 Filipino construction workers, despite plummeting productivity across his low-wage empire.
National Farmers Federation headkicker, Paul Houlihan, is coming after Sydney childcare workers in an effort to strip them of pay equity gains.
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.
Seven months of AMWU campaigning has secured 3500 Hunter Valley jobs as part of a $2.2 billion manufacturing windfall.
