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Interview: A Life And Death Matter
Macquarie Street and Canberra are squaring off over safety in the workplace, NSW Minister for Industrial relations, John Della Bosca, explains what's at stake.
Unions: Fighting Back
When John Howard's building industry enforcer started threatening people's homes, one couple hit the road. Jim Marr met them in Sydney.
Industrial: What Cowra Means
The ruling on the Cowra abattoir case highlights the implications of the new IR rules, according to John Howe and Jill Murray
Environment: Scrambling for Energy Security
Howard Government hypocrisy is showcased in its climate change manoeuvring, Stuart Rosewarne writes:
Politics: Page Turner
A new book leaves no doubt about whether the faction came before the ego, Nathan Brown writes.
Economics: The State of Labour
The capacity of the state to shape the political economy and thus improve the social lives of the people must be reasserted, argues Geoff Dow.
International: Workers Blood For Oil
A new book by Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson lifts the lid on the bloody reality of US backed democracy for Iraq's trade unions
History: Liberty in Spain
Worker Self-Management is good management. The proof in Spain was in Catalania, Andalusia and continues in the Basque Country, as Neale Towart explains.
Review: Go Roys, Make A Noise
Phil Doyle thought he'd find nostalgia, but instead Vulgar Press' new book, Maroon & Blue is a penetrating insight into the suburban mind under stress.
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Spin Bowls Fair Pay
John Howard's Fair Pay Commission is defending its move to oursource public consultations to a Melbourne pr firm.
The shock move, which appears to fly in the face of Commisioner Ian Harper's desire to meet a low paid person, was revealed in Wollongong, last Thursday. [full story]
�Battler� Liberal on Safety
Jackie Kelly's husband is being accused of smashing a video camera and attacking a union official inspecting safety breaches at the couple's yet to be completed riverfront mansion.
�F*** off my site,� screamed Garry Clark at two CFMEU officials responding to a public complaint about holes in fencing next to public land, which allowed local youngsters onto the sprawling building site. [full story]
Radio Rentals Launches Hit
An Adelaide company is using WorkChoices to rip $86,000 out of the pocket of a long-serving employee, sack union activists, and strip its entire workforce of core award protections.
Radio Rentals sacked three union activists on the spot, last week, and tried to impose sub-standard AWAs on anyone left standing. [full story]
Under the Pump
An Adelaide gas station has hit a schoolboy with a $7 an hour AWA to make up for petrol theft by customers.
Bel Air BP suspended part-time teenager, Bill Schultze, for two weeks after he failed to capture the registration plate of a petrol thief, earlier this year. [full story]
Privacy Goes East
Westpac customers� information, including child support and dishonoured cheques, could be headed to India under a plan to outsource jobs.
The move threatens almost 500 jobs from the Concord Service Centre, which has already seen 90 jobs disappear this year. [full story]
Which Bank Tossed Out of Court
Commonwealth Bank efforts to block shareholder activism by employees have been tossed out by the federal court.
The Bank used John Howard�s IR legislation to claim union members had tried to �coerce� financial market figures to intervene in collective bargaining on their behalf. [full story]
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