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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.
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.
 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
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.
Hit For Six
Kind Words
Sorely Missed
All the Best
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Workers Blood on the Walls
Staring up at the detailed mural inside Trades Hall's renovated atrium that has taken more than a year of planning and painting, Birgitte Hansen calmly explains that a finish date will again have to be pushed back.
"Today was the day but now I think that next week will be the finish. It's ok, after all I did lose two months because of rain damage," Birgitte, Unions NSW's artist-in-residence since September 2005, says.
The 20-metre-high mural was commissioned by Unions NSW's Neale Towart and Secretary John Robertson to celebrate the achievements of the union movement and show the human face of the long struggle for fair pay and conditions.
Birgitte calls the mural a "time wall" as it chronicles milestones in the history of the union movement such as the 888 campaign for 8 hours work, rest and sleep.
The people included are a cross section of the millions of workers who have taken up tools or served their community over the last few hundred years. Towards the rear of the time wall is a woman holding her teachers certificate and represents the liberation of women, Birgitte says.
Disaster struck Birgitte's work mid-year when constant rain broke through her waterproof cover and soaked the mural. Birgitte watched despairingly as whole sheets of pain fell from the walls.
But dwelling on the past is not what Birgitte's work is about and she continued to focus on finishing the mural and its important message of the future, which is reflected in the young faces, full of hope for what lies ahead.
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