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Interview: The Month Of Living Dangerously Unions: Staying Mum Economics: Precious Metals Industrial: The Cold 100 History: The Vinegar Hill Mob Legal: Free Agents Politics: Under The Influence International: How Swede It Was Review: Keating's Men Slam Dance on Howard
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Howard Chews Up Lollipop Men The AWU claims Blacktown-based Complete Traffic Services is using AWAs to slash wages in regional NSW, by $32 a week, increase working hours and junk security of employment. [full story] Ridout: WorkChoices �Revolutionary� AiG chief Heather Ridout said her organisation never supported the junking of unfair dismissal rights and Australians had ended up with harsher laws than employers wanted. [full story] Voters: WorkChoices Rotten New polling, in 12 marginal seats across six states, shows 62 percent of voters believe people who sign a Workchoices AWA will be worse off and that 57 percent reject government's central premise of more jobs. [full story] Terror: WorkChoices Rule Office of Workplace Services spin doctor, Leo D'Angelo Fisher, conceded the Minister's office had to be in the frame for a report that sought to ridicule five people who objected to being sacked. [full story] Bussies Go Gangbusters Drivers have banned the use of buses with external emergency release buttons, saying they allow thugs to swarm onto buses, threatening drivers and passengers. [full story] Strikers Drive Deal Workers at three Victorian companies owned by Huon Corporation called off a 10-day strike after their unions secured the deal. [full story]
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AWAs are being used to slash the earnings of traffic controllers across NSW.
The federal government has gone over the top with its �revolutionary� workplace revamp, according to Australia's largest employer organisation.
WorkChoices is on the nose with two thirds of voters in marginal electorates.
Embarrassed OWS officials won't rule out Kevin Andrews as the source of last week's hatchet job on battlers who stood up to WorkChoices. 
Fed-up bus drivers are taking action to protect the public from Sydney's notorious 'White Cap' gang.
Striking auto-parts workers have rescued 20 jobs and won $4000 payments for 100 retrenched staff, after originally being offered nothing by their bankrupt employer.
