E D I T O R I A L

The End
In vintage Workers Online fashion we have detected a minor, but telling, factual error in last week’s missive/suicide note. It’s not a seven year itch – this is, in fact, the end of an eight year project.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: The Terminator
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson looks back on the highs and lows of a year when the battle lines were drawn.

Industrial: Vive La Resistance
Jim Marr glances back through a year of news and discovers plenty of reason for optimism…

Unions: Breaking News
The web offered new ways of covering unions issues. Here’s ten ways Workers Online tried to do things differently.

History: Seven Deadly Sins
Looking back on our annual year-ender editorials gives a nice overview of the journey we have taken.

Economics: Back to the Future
Political economist Frank Stilwell looks back at a year that saw the passing of the drivers of two strains of economic thought.

Politics: Organising and Organisations
Organising for unionists can mean overcoming the “union”. The “rolling of the right” by the BLF rank and file shows the power of workers united to defeat the power of bosses and certain union bosses.

International: Web Retrospective
Unions and the web – What's changed in the last seven years? The short answer is – everything and nothing, wrties Eric Lee

Review: Shock Therapy
Unreconstructed Kazakhi journalist Borat is unleashed on the ‘US and A’ offending everyone – except the bigots.

N E W S

High Flyers Go For Gold

Hospital Staff Prescribe Radical Surgery

Holland Goes Dutch on Safety

New Thinking to Transport Sydney

Check Mate - Track Your Personal Info

WorkChoices on a Trolley

See No Evil, OEA

Feltex Carpets PM's Fibs

Workers Blood on the Walls

Lift For Unfair Dismissal Campaign

No Discrimination on Choice

Vanstone Opens New Meat Market

Activists' Notebook

C O L U M N S

The Future
So Where to Now?
Amanda Tattersall outlines her plans for Working NSW and the challenge of connecting research, communications and campaigning.

Obituary
Gone But Not Forgotten
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006). His memory is still being honoured, writes Jim Marr

Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite politician bids adieu and hangs up his chestnuts.

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Hit For Six

Peter,

I read your editorial, and sort of got hit for a six. But I understand exactly what you are saying, and wish you and your future well. Workers Online was a whole new ball game for me; I didn't have a clue about this online stuff before the Joy Dispute, but covering that opened up a new world, for which I am grateful. I seem to have filed some 80 or so pieces over the years to WO, and a variety of feedback I've had and seen indicates that WO reached a wide and diverse audience. I am proud to have been a part of a great idea, a pioneering initiative, and a bloody good bit of labour movement journalism.

with some sadness, but also with understanding, I note the end of Workers Online, of which I have been a reader, and contributor to, over the years. As an historian, I hope that Unions NSW will keep Workers Online archived online and accessible to researchers in the years ahead. The e-journal has become a souce for researchers of various kinds; I have notcied a large amount of footnote and text references in academic articles and books to the journal in the areas of IR, political economy, labour history, politics.

In the best traditions of labour movement journalism, Workers Online not only was part of its times, it also helped make them. The likelihood of the journal becoming of more interest to researches, will, I am sure, increase.

Rowan Cahill,

President,

Sydney Branch,

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.

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