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Spin Cycle
As another successful Week of Action comes to an end, we have again been exposed to the Howard Government�s defence of its IR laws, perhaps the flimsiest in Australian political history.
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.
Bold Post Spy at Rally
NRL Throws Tradition a Dummy
Ballarat Derails AWA Push
Graphic Glimpse Behind the Veil
Biz Blows Cover
John Howard Vs God (0:1)
Andrews A Bit Rich on Wages
Sydney Backs Booze Deliverers
Record Numbers in Blacktown
Hardie Busted Over Burn Victim
Sacked Mum Has Last Laugh
Unions: Book Dodgy AWA Bosses
Jobs War Gathers Pace
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.
Man-Goat Love Drug Link
Dare To Dream
Better Get A Lawyer
The Last Laugh
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Unions: Book Dodgy AWA Bosses
Unions are expecting the Office of Workplace Services to launch more than 2000 prosecutions over unlawful AWAs registed in the first months of Workchoices.
The Office of the Employment Advocate confessed that up to a quarter of the individual contracts he had solicited, in the first three months of WorkChoices, fell below legal minimums.
About 14 per cent of all AWAs analysed by the Office of the Employment Advocate since Work Choices laws came into effect in March have been found to underpay workers, while 11 per cent have breached minimum leave standards, according to Employment Advocate Peter McIlwain.
McIlwain told the Senate estimates committee AWAs found to be in breach of fair pay and conditions standards would be referred to the Office of Workplace Services.
McIlwain said his office had "analysed" 6263 in the first four weeks of Work Choices.
An OWS spokesman told the Financial Review the number of agreements referred to the agency for violation of standards had "undoubtedly" increased since then.
He said breaches would be pursued and prosecutions were warranted.
Unions NSW secretary, John Robertson, said every breach should be prosecuted.
"The requirements are minimalist. If employers can't even meet Howard's reduced standards they should pay the price," Robertson said.
The latest admission from the Advocate, comes on top of his revelation that every single agreement analysed in the first four weeks removed at least one condition the federal government had said would be "protected by law".
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