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Seven Year Itch
For the past seven years, over 335 issues, Workers Online has been chronicling events in the labour movement and passing our judgments on all things union.
Interview: Flying High
The Australian international Pilots Association has rejoined the ACTU and president Ian Woods is taking it into new airspace.
Unions: TUF on Toll
As transport giant Toll expands across the region, unions are working together to boost their bargaining power, writes Jackie Woods.
Industrial: Forward to the Past
Anti-union building laws draw their inspiration from a century ago, writes Neale Towart
Economics: Debt and the Economy
Household debt is at record levels. Interest rates are rising. Production of real things is not increasing. The military generates most demand. How long can it go on?
Obituary: The Charlatanry of Milton Friedman
Evan Jones busts some myths about the grand-daddy of free market economics
Environment: Low Voltage
Nuclear Power and Prime Ministerial Pronouncements are seriously short of a few volts, writes Neale Towart
Legal: The Fair Deal
Anthony Forsyth proposes a social partnership agenda for Australia
Review: A Little History
The Little History of Australian Unionism is exactly that; fifteen thousand words on the topic, writes Rowan Cahill.
 Global Campaign for Jailed Iranian Union Leader
Bully Tactics Can’t Dull Protests
Which Bank Slashes Work Rights?
Sunday’s The Day For Future Rallies
Carmel Saves Job, Loses Bonus
Case Dismissed: No Justice in WorkChoices
China (S)trains Procurement Policy
Contracts Out on Sole Traders
Car Companies Do The Dirty
Historic Case Restores Security
Final Hurdle for Medibank Sell-Off
The Soapbox
Address to the Nation
ACTU secretary Greg Combet's speech to the National Day of Action Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West recalls a time when the earth was flat, unions ran the country and Honest John Howard was the workers’ best friend. Health
Sick System
Punitive IR laws and a commercially-driven workers compensation scheme are conspiring to bully injured workers, writes Dr Con Costa.
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Global Campaign for Jailed Iranian Union Leader
The Labourstart website is coordinating a global camaign to free Mansour Osanloo, the leader of the bus drivers union in Tehran. With direct emails to the Iranian president.
Lab ouirstart's eric Lee says over 2,500 protest emails have been sent, but that the situation is worsening.
"We know that Oslanloo has been taken to Evin prison where authorities claim that they are "negotiating" with him," Lee says.
"The authorities also claim that he will be allowed one visitor, his mother -- but no one has told the guards outside the prison. His mother waited in vain for a chance to see her son. His family has not even been allowed to phone him.
"Clearly the authorities are hoping to break his will -- and thereby weaken the emerging trade union movement in Iran.
"Remember that this is a movement which managed to completely shut down the capital with a transport strike earlier in the year, despite massive repression.
"It is essential that we turn up the pressure and flood the Iranian government with more messages this week. "
English:
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c
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