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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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OWS: Cash for Query Scam Doctor�s receptionist Rhonda Walke has been told she must pay to see the results of five page report into her sacking, after 20 years of service, by the Office of Workplace Services. [full story] Watchdog Bites Own Pups A Howard appointee to the Federal Court has upheld a decision by a federal government department to ban its own staff from attending next week�s Your Rights at Work rally in their own time. [full story] Silver Lining to Qantas Storm The Qantas pilots� union, AIPA, is approaching the private consortium, including Macquarie Bank and Texas Pacific Group in a bid to take a stake in the deal which they say could restore standards to the airline. [full story] Wages Heading South Under WorkChoices The research by ACTU President Sharan Burrow, shows NSW workers have experienced the biggest fall in real wages for full time workers of all the States. [full story] Hardies Finally Coughs Up Hardie and the NSW Government this week signed a tax office approved, Amended Final Funding Agreement which will see the first payments to the asbestos compensation fund as soon as next February. [full story] Face Up to Save Harbour The pictition�s aim is to stop the closure of Sydney as a working harbour and highlight the negative social and environmental impacts of the plan to move port operations to Port Kembla and Newcastle. [full story]
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One of the first victims of WorkChoices has been told she has to pay nearly $100 to discover the results of a government investigation.
As workers around the nation prepare to rally on November 30 workers in the Howard Government�s own employment rights watchdog are feeling the bite of WorkChoices
The threat of a private equity takeover bid could actually be in the interests of Qantas workers battling the spread of low-cost internal competition.
Workers in NSW are being hard hit by the Government's industrial relations laws with average wages for full time employees dropping $33 a week in real terms over the last year.
After six years of campaigning and two and a half years of intensive negotiations, unions and asbestos victims groups have secured a final deal from James Hardie to compensate Australian victims of its asbestos products.
The maritime union is calling on Sydneysiders to put their faces to a historic �pictition� � a photographic collage with a mission to protect the working harbour.
