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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
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Defence Dirty on Cleaners
Cleaners working at the Defence Department's Canberra offices are fighting the imposition of Australian Workplace Agreements that threaten their job security.
The Defence Department recently awarded its 'garrison support' contract to multinational service company Serco Sodexho - which is insisting employees sign individual agreements if they want to keep their jobs.
Seventy-five cleaners at the Defence Department's Russell Offices want to negotiate a collective agreement.
"The majority of the cleaning staff at defence wants to be covered by a collective agreement and they are very unhappy with how the contract change has been handled," said Lyndal Ryan of the LHMU.
Serco Sodexho has backed away from the pay cuts of around $25 per week they were expecting cleaners to take under the new contract, said Ryan.
But the cleaners are still concerned the agreements threaten their job security.
The cleaners rallied outside the Defence Department this week, but failed to win any government support.
Howard told parliament he was aware of the cleaners' campaign, but backed Serco Sodexho's right to decide how to manage their business.
Serco Sodexho has only guaranteed current employees a job interview in the transition to the new contract.
The cleaners have enlisted the support of Bishop Pat Power, Labor Senator Kate Lundy and Macedonian community leader Steve Taskovski, who have requested a meeting with Serco Sodexho in support of the cleaners' campaign for a collective agreement.
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