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Interview: Rock Solid Industrial: Eight Simple Rules for Employing My Teenage Daughter Politics: The Johnnie Code Energy: Fission Fantasies History: All The Way With Clarrie O'Shea International: Closer to Home Economics: Taking the Fizz Unions: Stronger Together Review: Montezuma's Revenge Poetry: Fair Go Gone
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Howard's Advocate Fesses Up Employment Advocate, Peter McIlwain, told Senate Estimates he had registered more than 6000 individual contracts, in the first month of WorkChoices, without checking their content. [full story] Cowra - Work Slaughter Legal Those talks have already stalled as the company, with Waterfront War mastermind Paul Houlihan in charge, attempts a radical overhaul of the tally system which will see workers paid an extra $1 per hour for killing hundreds of extra animals a day. [full story] You're Killing Us - BHP Charged Again The South Australian Industrial Relations Court laid the counts, less than a year after an independent inquiry warned the minerals giant its AWA-based strategy impacted on safety standards. [full story] Revealed: Beaconsfield Led AWA Charge In an interview with Workers Online, AWU national secretary, Bill Shorten, revealed the co-operation that transfixed a nation, last month, was a relatively new phenomenon. [full story] Warehouse Pushes the Envelope The threat was delivered as the federal court ruled employers could make promotion, and even employment, conditional on signing individual agreements. [full story] Independent Schools Push Class Warfare Just days after Sydney's Newington College backed down from plans to have staff re-apply for their jobs, the peak body admitted it has been doling out advice on how schools could enforce non-union workplace agreements. [full story]
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John Howard's workplace point-man is green-lighting AWAs that deny Aussies overtime, penalty rates and public holidays, sight unseen.
Cowra Abattoir has restarted its stalled bid to cleaver workers rights, armed with a government report that rules its tactic of sacking staff and telling them to reapply for lower paid jobs is legal.
Three criminal charges have been laid against BHP Billiton in relation to last year's death of a father of two who suffocated on mud and dust, 500 metres below its Olympic Dam uranium mine.
The Beaconsfield mine, where Larry Knight lost his life, spent years running the Minerals Council of Australia�s anti-union agenda.
A Sydney law firm alleges a union organiser applied �duress� by warning members an AWA would cost them $50 a week.
The Association of Independent Schools is plotting to have unions expelled from NSW schools.
