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Interview: Australia�s Most Wanted Industrial: The Fox and the Contractor Unions: Industrial Wasteland International: Two Bob's Worth Economics: National Interest Environment: The Real Dinosaur History: Only In Spain? Review: Clerk Off
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Boss Gives Dad the Finger In a statement, sighted by Workers Online, a 46-year-old Korean says the employer refused to call an ambulance after four of his fingers were hacked off at work. [full story] Amber's Law Pulps WorkChoices The NSW Government announced it would write the laws, pushed by unions, on the same day it was revealed Amber Oswald had been stood down without notice. [full story] Westfield Flogs Good Deal In a blow to the Howard Government's anti-worker agenda, shopping centre chain Westfield has become the first non-state owned company to use NSW law to dodge WorkChoices. [full story] Building Workers Spooked Workers Online understands some of the 107 construction workers charged with striking illegally, in support of a sacked delegate, recognised two Building Industry Commission officers, at the rally, dressed in �Howard Out� t-shirts. [full story] Bankers to Train Assassins Bankers Trust, the Westpac investment arm, has told 77 Adelaide based staff in the retail administration processes area their jobs will go to lower cost Indian labour. [full story] Astroboy Blasts Off Working Families for Wal-Mart member and prominent businessman, Herman Cain, lashed out at �Hezbocrats� - including Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton - for disagreeing with the company's policies. [full story]
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A Bankstown company tried to deport a father of two after his fingers were chopped off in its workshop.
A Sydney schoolgirl who stood up to her boss has scored for teenagers across NSW with confirmation the state government will make it illegal to push dodgy contracts on youngsters.
Resistance to WorkChoices has moved to the top end of town with retail giant Westfield buying into a NSW award and steel giant Smorgon smelting individual contracts.
Claims that Building Industry spooks infiltrated last week's protest rally outside the Federal Court in Perth are under investigation.
Finance sector workers whose jobs have been sent to India are being offered cash inducements not to look elsewhere until they have trained up workers who have under-cut them.
Wal-Mart has been forced to back away from comments by a front organisation, linking critics of the anti-union employer with Hezbollah.
