|
Democracy Rules
The hysterical response to the ACTU�s blueprint to restore industrial democracy to the Australian workplace only serves to underline what a brazen grab for employer privilege the Howard Government�s changes to IR really are.
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.
Medibank Sale "Critical"
Broken Down and Packaged for Export
Child's Play: New Low for Spooks
Judge Lashes Building Laws
Buy Gum and Masticate on "Associates"
Bosses on the Barbie
No Secrets On Union Agenda
OWS: Better Never Than Late
Youth Workers Beat AWAs
Kiwis Demand Shelf Respect
Meat Man Steaks Claim
Heinemann Chooses Its Laws
Air Safety Crashes
Super-Size Me
Less is More for Dixon
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.
Tony Terrific
|
other LaborNET sites |
|
Labor Council of NSW
Vic Trades Hall Council
IT Workers Alliance
Bosswatch
Unions on LaborNET
Evatt Foundation
|
|
|
Tool Shed
Billion Dollar Baby
He�s happy to throw rights and lefts down at the block, but when it comes to the big time, Frank�s a pushover.
*****
A month after taking on the Man down at Redfern's block, Planning Minister Frank Sartor has apparently lost his nerve.
The Lord Mayor turned Minister for Lord Mayors turned to water when grilled on radio about why the Hungry Mile was left off the list for proposed names for the East Darling Harbour development.
Sartor, quite uncharacteristically, said the matter was out of his hands.
"I was not on the panel, I was not - the Government nor I were part of this process, we just set up the process," Diamond Frank Sartor said.
"The view of the panel I think was and the view of the staff that have advised me - the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority - is that it would be better to name a street the Hungry Mile rather than a suburb."
It was a strange statement from a man who has been given Sim City-like powers over planning in NSW.
You wouldn't think a suburb name would be a problem.
So now instead of a name that invokes the history of the area we have a list that stretches from the yawn-worthy to the snooze-worthy.
The Toolshed's particular favourite is "Waratah Bay".
The Waratah is a flower that invokes passion in every New South Welshman whenever they try to understand the rules of Rugby Union.
Trouble is, I doubt most people from Sydney have ever seen a Waratah - at least in the wild.
It could well be that our state flower might be as mythological as Frank's lack of sway on the issue.
Something that ain't myth, however, is the hardship the people on the wharves went through and the fight they put up to get the working conditions the rest of us enjoy today.
Show Us YOUR TOOL!
The most inspiring interpretation of this week's tool get's a souvenir edition of Ship of Tools. Deface the Tool of the Week, click the button above to post your artwork, fill out the form and send your entry in and we'll post the winners next week in the Tool of the Week Gallery.
|
|
|
|
Ship of Tools - All the tools in one shed!
|
|
View our Gallery of Tools
View entire issue - print all of the articles!
Issue 324 contents
|