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Justice, Applied Liberally
To think, Phillip Ruddock used to be a liberal.
Interview: Australia�s Most Wanted
The ACCC is the latest state agency to turn its guns on the construction union. National official, Dave Noonan, discusses the implications.
Industrial: The Fox and the Contractor
With new laws looming for �independent contractors�, Foxtel subbies have had the carpet pulled from under their feet, writes Nathan Brown.
Unions: Industrial Wasteland
A group of inner-Sydney veterans appear to be working to strip their families of retirement incomes. Jim Marr records their desperation.
International: Two Bob's Worth
German and British workers are participating in business decisions while WorkChoices locks Australians out of the conversation, writes Anthony Forsyth.
Economics: National Interest
John Howard claimed that interest rates would always be lower under a Coalition government than under Labor, Neale Towart crunchess the numbers.
Environment: The Real Dinosaur
Economic ignorance remains at the top and the critics are oblivious says Sol Power
History: Only In Spain?
The experiences of self management during the Civil War have been the one positive factor to come from that tragic event, and the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation thrives today.
Review: Clerk Off
Nathan Brown draws solace from some fellow social misfits.
 Boss Gives Dad the Finger
Amber's Law Pulps WorkChoices
Westfield Flogs Good Deal
Building Workers Spooked
Bankers to Train Assassins
Astroboy Blasts Off
First Global Deal Docks in Germany
Bans Stop the Press
Deportation for Pay-To-Work Tradesman
Telstra in Bush Bloodbath
Boss Punts Assaulted Teen
Ballots Stuffed By WorkChoices
Howard in a Spin
Extras � The Waterfront.
Activist's What's On!
Legends
Westie Wing
MLC Ian West ventures beyond Macquarie St and into the desert of the eco rats. The Soapbox
Testing Times
Former RLPA secretary and Newcastle Knights prop, Tony Butterfield, fires up over dawn raids. Obituary
Dare to Win
The union movement has lost an inspirational leader of working men and women, writes Jeana Vithoulkas Fiction
Tommy's Apprentice
Chapter Two - Tommy�s Tale.
Please Don�t Go
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First Global Deal Docks in Germany
A German shipowner has signed what is believed to be the first collective agreement that applies around the globe.
The International transport Federation is hailing its deal with Leonhart and Blumberg as a new approach to arresting the decline of conditions due to globalisation.
ITF coordinator Dean Summers says the deal, covering 45 vessels, locks the employer into a total crew cost and gives access to ITF inspectors to monitor wages and conditions.
Summers says the deal is a world first and significant in that the company owner Frank Leonhardt is also the head of the German shipowners association.
The ITF has been developing the global CBA strategy as a response to the downward spiral of wages and conditions under Flag of Convenience shipping, where companies register under third world flags and apply thi8rd world labour laws to their crews.
"We are taking the approach that if we can't force the ship back to its home flag, at least we can bring decent conditions to the ship," Summers says.
He says the agreement is a model that will now be served on other shipowners around the globe.
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