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Open for Business?
While our focus in recent months has rightly been on the federal political arena, the first skirmish in the battle for rights for NSW workers will occur at the state election, due in just nine months.
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
 Laughing All The Way To MacBank
Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb
AWAs - Just Say No!
Andrews Puts Contracts on Families
Safety Laws Mine New Depths
Builder Threatens Homes
Beazley to Halt Maxi-Scam
Umpire Stumps Minister
Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
Councils Trash Workers
Union Journo Escapes Fiji
Canucks Crash Howard’s Party
The Soapbox
Albo's Meltdown
Labor's environment spokesman Antony Albanese argues that Chrernobyl is one reason why the ALP should stand firm on nuclear. The Locker Room
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.
Psychometric Testing for Bullies
Pleased with Beazley
What is Working Class
National Day of Protest
Tax Cuts
Solidarity
Independent Contractors
Drought Proofing
Higher Profile for Labor
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Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
A child care worker in western Sydney who asked for a permanent job after three years as a casual has been frozen out of her job.
Denise Guthrey was offered a two-month contract by Wirraway Pre School that saw her rate cut by almost four dollars an hour.
Guthrey refused to sign the contract and was told in front of other staff she would now be employed as a 'casual relief' teacher only and her old role would be readvertised.
Despite not being officially sacked, Guthrey has been asked to return her keys to the centre, along with her work diary.
Guthrey had been working at the Cranebrook childcare centre for an average of 13 hours a week supporting children with 'additional needs', such as developmental delays, speech problems, autism and behavioural issues.
Having been there so long with stable days and hours, early in 2006 asked for a temporary part-time position.
After two months of deliberation her employer offered her a two month contract which saw her wages drop from $18.36 an hour to $14.74 and gave her one hour less work. She would be unable to access any leave entitlements due to the short term of the contract.
Guthrey told delegates at last week's Unions NSW meeting that she had turned to the LHMU for advice.
The union is negotiating with the childcare centre to secure Guthrey's position.
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