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Wag the Dog - Bosses Try the Back Door Strip


Hospitality employers are attempting to translate newly stripped-back federal award into the NSW jurisdiction, sparking claims of a backdoor strategy to overthrow the state system.

The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union says the action is occurring around the Motels, Accommodation and Resorts Award, which was stripped back to the 20 core award conditions by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in June.

Employers are now trying to have the same provisions from the State Counterpart Award - a move that would result in a number of important and progressive entitlements being removed.

These include restrictions on the use of casuals, delegate noticeboards, trade union training leave, first aid provisions

The state award covers hundred of small operators, particularly rural hotel-motels, where the LHMU says workers need the protection of a strong award.

"This is a technical legal issue, but it could affect a lot of workers," LHMU research officer Aaron Magner says.

The LHMU has asked the Labor Council to look at the issue, concerned it will leave the state system irrelevant.


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: Let Sleeping Dogs
Republican campaigner Jason Yat-Sen Li dusts off after Saturday�s vote. We ask him: where to now?
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*  Republic: Readers Speak - Kerry the Face to Deface
We asked and you have spoken; Sydney heiress Kerry Jones is the Workers Online choice for desktop doodling, as the official winner of our Defacement of a Nation competition.
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*  Economics: Understanding the Economy
Who was voted thinker of the millenium in a recent BBC Online poll? Karl Marx shooed it in. And another socialist, Albert Einsten, came second.
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*  Unions: Come Fly Away!
With just four weeks to go, Labor Council's Organiser of the year Award is up for grabs. We've only had the one entry ...
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*  Work/Time/Life: Better Times for Casuals in the Sunshine State
The Queensland Council of Unions has mounted a case in the Queensland IRC to increase wages for casual workers by up to $2.00 extra per hour.
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*  International: All Black Fate Looms for New Zealand Right
The New Zealand economic experiment � for many years the cherished role model of the Australian Liberal Party � is just about to face an angry jury.
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*  History: Who Remembers Egon Erwin Kisch?
Egon Erwin Kisch was a well known progressive journalist living in Germany when he was invited by the Australian branch of the world committee against war and fascism to speak at a conference in Melbourne in 1934.
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*  Review: Bizarrism - Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy
The strange story of Donald Crowhurst or how to cheat and become a God.
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*  Satire: Support Surges for Armenian Republic Model
The assassination by gun crazed extremists of the Armenian Prime Minister has been cautiously backed by Ted Mack and the Direct Electionist lobby as a possible new Republican model.
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»  Bank Workers Win $3000 Payment for New Years Eve
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»  Union Organiser Thrown Off Bridge
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»  Justice at Last for Waterfront Asbestos Victims
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»  Timor Update: Positions Vacant; Upcoming Events.
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Columns
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Piers Watch
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Letters to the editor
»  Fall of Communism as foreseen in 1931
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»  Reith an Error of Judgment
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»  Republic Post Mortem
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»  The Boston Strangler
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»  SOS From New York
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»  Maguire@Work - Wasn't it Satire?
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