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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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Broken Down and Packaged for Export Zu Zhihong, 49, became the latest victim of Immigration Minister Amanada Vanstone's plan to cut Australian earnings, when he was deserted by Lakeside Packaging after breaking both wrists at its Campbellfield factory. [full story] Child's Play: New Low for Spooks The accusations were levelled by a Brisbane man who retaliated by forming a Workers Civil Rights Committee. [full story] Judge Lashes Building Laws Justice Tony North lashed sections of Howard's Building Industry legislation while tossing out another batch of prosecutions served up by the Prime Minister's controversial Building Industry Commission. [full story] Buy Gum and Masticate on "Associates" The multi-national abandoned negotiations when it couldn't get its own way on clawbacks, and hit employees with AWAs. [full story] Bosses on the Barbie Supporters of Radio Rentals technicians, locked out for a month in a bid to starve them onto income-slashing AWAs, will protest outside the homes of company directors. [full story] No Secrets On Union Agenda The report 'A Fair Go At Work', based on a high-level international fact finding tour, earlier this year, recommends a system based on good faith collective bargaining with the onus on employers to prove this is not what the majority want. [full story]
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A Chinese tradesman who sold his family home to get to Australia has been left destitute and injured in suburban Melbourne.
John Howard's Building Industry police are grilling kids and standing over employers to prevent people getting work.
John Howard's Building Industry laws are so out of whack with community standards that successful convictions could undermine respect for the law, a Federal Court judge has suggested.
American gum giant, Wrigleys, is using WorkChoices to try to chew up the living standards of nearly 100 Sydney families.
The battle for a collective agreement at Radio Rentals will move to the well-heeled suburbs of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, this weekend.
Employers would have to show the majority did not want a collective agreement before they could force contracts on their workers, under a union plan to restore democracy to the workplace.
