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A Values Call
Opposition leader Kim Beazley has copped a bit of flak in the past week for his Aussie Values Pledge, but we reckon he got it at least half right.
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.
 From Comrades to CUBs
Workers Demand Right to Know
Flying Kangaroo Eyes Passage to India
It�s A Secret: Ballot Boosts ABC Campaign
Brake WorkChoices, NSW Urged
City or the Bush? It�s Telstra�s Call
Compo Rights a Burning Issue
2500 Get Coles Shoulder
Hardie Payrise Stiffs Victims
WorkChoices Reverse Somersault with Pike
Qantas Workers Ground AWAs
Latest Import: Childcare Workers
Let Tem Eat Cake!
Mugabe Thugs Mug Unionists
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.
Fair Crack
Aussie Values DOA
It�s Not Cricket
Kim�s New Platforms
Reaping What You Sow
Roll Out the Tanks
Auntie Hijacked
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Hardie Payrise Stiffs Victims
James Hardie shareholders and victims have lashed out at directors who are set to grant themselves a 130 per cent pay rise while asbestos payouts remain unpaid.
Directors will see an extra $1.1 million dollars after Chairwoman Meridith Hellicar back flipped on a promise made last year to not grant any increases for directors until compensation had been resolved.
Hellicar will pocket the biggest increase, with her annual paycheck set to soar from $285,000 to $397,000.
The decision comes almost two years after Hardies agreed to a payment deal for victims of its asbestos products.
Asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton said the move was "outrageous".
"We don't want these people paid before the victims," Banton said. "The money should be paid before they get a pat on the back".
Australian Shareholders' Association chairman Stephen Matthews said James Hardie it would be "insensitive to apply the increase before the agreement is signed off."
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