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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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From Comrades to CUBs Recently retired RLPA secretary Tony Butterfield, a former Unions NSW organiser of the year, says the Association�s new leadership has failed to consult with members and doubts the proposal will be endorsed. [full story] Workers Demand Right to Know As unions put forward a proposal to change the law to force company to tell customers where their information is sent overseas, Westpac is refusing to tell their back office workforce what it intends to do with them. [full story] Flying Kangaroo Eyes Passage to India Up to 400 employees currently working in-house at Qantas Information Technology Pty Ltd (QFIT), including programmers, website developers and application support staff, are at risk. [full story] It�s A Secret: Ballot Boosts ABC Campaign Where unions could previously organise a strike on the strength of a show of hands they must now hold a secret ballot of members, a strategy designed to undermine union solidarity. In this case, it backfired. [full story] Brake WorkChoices, NSW Urged Western Sydney-based Futuris Brakes, which supplies brakes to state-owned corporation RailCorp, is refusing to negotiate a collective agreement with its workers. [full story] City or the Bush? It�s Telstra�s Call Under the new guidelines, �regional work� is now defined as being within 30 kilometres of a town centre rather being based on the services available at the work site, such as guttering and street lamps. [full story]
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The man who turned the Rugby League Professionals Association into a trade union has warned a proposed new deal to take NRL funding would sideline players� industrial rights.
Westpac has been forced to delay plans to send up to 500 jobs to India as community anger grows about the off-shoring of Australian jobs.
Qantas is even further advanced on plans to send jobs to the sub-continent, with two Indian companies short-listed to take over the airline�s IT functions.
Organisers of Thursday�s nation-wide strike at the ABC would like to issue a special thankyou � to none other John Winston Howard, architect of the IR changes designed to weaken unions and undermine working conditions.
The Iemma Government is facing pressure to pull the pin on a brake manufacturer forcing its workers onto AWAs.
A change in the definition of what makes a rural job has led to pay cuts of $25,000 per annum for more than 100 Telstra sub-contractors.
