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Striking Out Rights
As Australian trade unionist prepare for the latest National Week of Action, broader consequences of the IR changes are becoming apparent. And they are not good for democracy.
Interview: Rock Solid
Bill Shorten gives the inside story on the Australian Workers Union's involvement in the Beaconsfield rescue.
Industrial: Eight Simple Rules for Employing My Teenage Daughter
Phil Oswald bought up his kids to believe in their rights; so when his 16-year old daughter was told to cop a pay cut she was never going to take it quietly.
Politics: The Johnnie Code
WorkChoices is encrypted deep in the PM's political DNA, writes Evan Jones
Energy: Fission Fantasies
Adam Ma�anit looks at the big business push behind the 'clean nuclear' debate that is sweeping the globe.
History: All The Way With Clarrie O'Shea
The WorkChoices Penal Powers are the latest in a long line of penal sanctions against trade unions, writes Neale Towart
International: Closer to Home
If Australia can forgive its debt to Iraq, why not to Indonesia and the Philippines, write Luke Fletcher and Karen Iles
Economics: Taking the Fizz
While the Treasurer has been popping the post-Budget champers, Frank Stilwell gives a more sober assessment.
Unions: Stronger Together
Amanada Tattersall looks at the possibilities of strengthening alliances between unions, environmental and community organisations
Review: Montezuma's Revenge
Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a film about racism and retribution, writes James Gallaway.
Poetry: Fair Go Gone
Employers in the land rejoice, for we are girt by greed.
 Tooheys Orders a Blue
Safety Standards Go East
Libs Laugh At Sacked Mum
Stoner's Cognitive Faculties Functioning
Rail Workers Gagged
Post Delivers Threat
Elderly Face WorkChoices Assault
Good Yarn Hits Cyberspace
Business Buckets WorkChoices
Hands Off Our Vital Stats
Telstra Plays Tag and Release
Multi Yanks Howard's Chain
Nurses Reject Low Road
Micks Bone Up On WorkChoices
Activist's What's On!
The Soapbox
The Beaconsfield Declaration
As the Prime Minister feted Brant Webb and Todd Russell, their colleagues were outside with a message to the rest of Australia. The Locker Room
Run Like You Stole Something
Phil Doyle observes that there are some tough bastards out there. Parliament
The Westie Wing
That fun-loving friend of the workers, Ian West, reports from the red leather of the Bear Pit. Education
Class Action
Phil Bradley draws the lines between education funding and the current skills crisis.
More Proof
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Letters to the Editor
Fire Up
When a union official turns up on any non-city site some blokes avoid him like the plague. Unless of course they need his help, cries of 'what has the union ever done for me' and 'I don't have to be in a union' can be heard at such times.
But rest assured you will not hear keep the increases unions won during the EBA. Or keep your lock down weekends, I never asked for them!
Time to be honest blokes, the history of the union movement and fairness at work are the same story. Thousands of acts of guts and solidarity, some by just one bloke who stood proud.
Once not even boots came free, for some they do not now, 44 hours at single rates of pay, included Saturday mornings that's what was worked once. I ask that we each undertake to get two new members for our union, whatever one that is, not same numbers stagnation, but growth for all unions.
And just once get to hear and understand Robbos speach he gives at the your rights at work bus. If I can not fire you up, Robbo surely can!
But surely fire up we must! Get of the fence we must! Understand why we must win, and understand what a loss means to our kids.
Allan 'Belly' Bell
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