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Issue No. 317 | 28 July 2006 |
Independent of Facts
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
Ridout: WorkChoices �Revolutionary� Telstra Boss Gets Crossed Line Prof: Fair Pay Should Be Lower
The Soapbox Politics The Locker Room
Swimming Uphill Help is at Hand
Labor Council of NSW |
News Spooks Tail Early Risers
The construction union is putting the acid on NSW federal MPs and shadow ministers to talk with building workers in the lead-up to the next election. To make it possible, MPs have to be on the job by 6.30am so they don't eat into company time and expose workers, and possibly themselves, to massive fines. Gillard told building workers she completely endorsed Kim Beazley's promise to do away with WorkChoices. And she turned over a personal donation of $150 to a fighting fund for 107 Perth workers facing $28,000 fines for supporting a sacked job delegate. Mal Peters, a safety rep from that site, and his wife Bernadette, joined Gillard at the Parramatta meeting. Workers Online understands the Prime Minister's secret building industry police force tailed the Perth couple around Sydney meetings. Industry sources say Building Industry Commission inspectors visited a Sydney University construction job after the couple spoke there. They said the spooks made inquiries about right of entry, meeting authorisation, and whether discussion had gone beyond the lunch break. CFMEU state secretary, Andrew Ferguson, said he had been made aware of Commission activity. "It's what they do," he said. "The Commission was set up by the federal government to run a campaign of intimidation and it does that to the best of its ability. "Any effort to build solidarity or stand together with fellow workers gets their attention because the government doesn't like it and they are a political police force running a political agenda."
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