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Trades Hall

Deirdre Mahoney on Gay Discrimination at Work


The first detailed breakdown of industry by industry discrimination against gay and lesbian workers is due for release next month, and Labor Council plans to use the opportunity to launch a Gay Workers' Rights booklet.

The Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Research, located at Sydney Uni, produced the report following focus groups earlier this year, in which numerous union members and officials participated.

Labor Council secretary Michael Costa will launch the leaflet, which is being prepared in conjunction with the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, and details what steps a worker can take to end the discrimination.

This follows Labor Council's recent appearance, with gay and lesbian members, before the NSW Upper House Committee investigating whether to amend legislation so that gay and lesbian couples would officially be recognised as de factos.

Labor Council is also taking part in a nationwide coalition of peak gay and lesbian rights lobbies pushing for changes to superannuation laws. The coalition is developing a broader community and industry campaign around the issue of gay and lesbian superannuation rights.

Within the union movement, Labor Council also plans to trial information sessions for organisers in select unions as to what are their responsibilities in ending discrimination at the workplace, and is looking at extending gay and lesbian workplace support groups via the internet.


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Features
*  Interview: A Crack to the Skull
Rail, Tram and Bus Union state secretary Nick Lewocki took on the Carr Government�s radical rail refrom agenda and walked away a winner. He looks back on the week the trains stood still.
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*  Economics: Green Backs and Dirty Dollars
Paul Ehlrich says the real culprit behind the environmental crisis isn't so much the huge numbers of people in the world or conspicuous over-consumption in the West but an economic system that confuses price with cost.
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*  Unions: Tally Ho!
A landmark meat industry decision might not have the impact the reith cheer-squad hopes for.
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*  History: The Western Express
West Australian historians are undertaking a project to chronicle that state's rich rail history.
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*  Republic: The Referendum: A Spot of Reading
John Passant looks a the propaganda passing as information in the lead-up to the referendum.
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*  Indigenous: Australia Snubs Nose at the UN
The United Nations General Assembly will be told that Australia has breached an international convention on racial discrimination that Malcolm Fraser�s Government ratified 24 years ago.
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*  International: Desert Flashpoint
The United Nations has confirmed that demonstrations were suppressed in Western Sahara last month.
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*  Review: Temper Democratic
Humphrey McQueen has been a fearless critic of received opinions across a range of subjects for many years, and as a consequence has been criticised or more often ignored in debates in Australia.
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*  Satire: Tax Cuts Come in the Nick of Time for Struggling Packers
Welfare groups have called upon on the Federal Government to bring forward the date of proposed capital gains tax cuts.
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*  Labour Review: What's New in the Information Centre
Read the latest issue of Labour Review, a resource for union officials and students.
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