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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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Sunday’s The Day For Future Rallies
Unions NSW has flagged the next major mass mobilisation of workers will occur on a Sunday in April to give all workers and their families to take a stand.
A major rally, with a target of 100,000 participants, will be held in Sydney on April; 22, immediately before the ALP National Conference.
Final details have yet to be released, buy a major city venue has been booked and some Australian's biggest musical names have pencilled the date into their diaries.
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson says the increased power employers have to prevent workers protesting meant weekends were the way to mobilise people.
"The behaviour of some employers in stopping workers attending this week's rally were heavy-handed and un-democratic," Robertson says.
"But we recognise that workers being threatened with disciplinary action, against a back drop of eroding job security, face a lot of pressure to stay away."
Full details of the event will be announced early in the new year.
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