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Interview: Common Ground Industrial: A Low Act Unions: The Number of the Least Politics: The Smoking Gun Economics: Microcredit, Compulsory Superannuation and Inequality Environment: Low Voltage History: The Art of Social Justice Review: Work�s Unhealthy Appetite Culture: A Forgotten Poet
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Abrasive Giant Pinged on Sackings Long serving NUW delegates, Jeff Gearin and Tony Seymour, were marked for the chop when the abrasives multinational tried to impose non-negotiated AWAs on staff at Lidcombe and Wetherill Park. [full story] Offshoring Good for CV: Qantas �We had to go to a presentation where they said being part of the offshoring was a good opportunity for us and something to put on our cv, because we know how to deal with it. It was really humiliating,� said Dagmar Salat, who works on the airline's main website, Qantas.com. [full story] Records of Convenience The rip-off was exposed in Newcastle, last weekend, when ITF inspectors busted the Maltese flagged coal carrier, Caravos Horizon, for fraudulent book keeping. [full story] Construction Lives Going Cheap Thirteen South Koreans vacated digs at the Lake Bolac caravan park after WorkCover inspectors shut the grain silo job in a paddock, 100km west of Ballarat. [full story] Suncorp in Dee Why Denial The insurance giant confirms its involvement via a bold billboard on the site but tells dudded contractors it is not responsible for paying the freight. [full story] States Fall to Unions In what the AFL-CIO has dubbed the 'Victory for Working Families', an estimated 187,000 union volunteers mobilised voters in the final days of the campaign, delivering 74 per cent of all union votes to the Democrats. [full story]
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Picketers fighting for a collective agreement at Saint-Gobains have been buoyed by the reinstatement of two unlawfully sacked delegates.
Qantas IT workers, facing unemployment as their jobs are sent to India, have been told the job cuts will be good for their careers. 
Flag of Convenience ships, invited onto the coast by the Howard Government, claim to pay seafarers more than three times what they are actually getting.
Another el cheapo construction job, run on 457 visas, has been closed on safety grounds.
Suncorp is skiting about its role in a Dee Why development but playing Pontius Pilate when it comes to paying contractors for their work.
US union campaigners have shown Australians how to change government after a massive grass roots campaign delivered both houses to the Democrats in mid-term elections.
