
Issue No 42		17 December 1999

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George to Kick Start NSW IR Reforms?

Outgoing ACTU President Jennie George could reignite stalled proposals to regulate labour hire and independent contractors.


	Jennie farewelled at the Labor Council dinner

NSW Labor Council secretary Michael Costa is lobbying the Carr Government to appoint George to chair a high-level committee looking at the spread of labour hire and the casualisation of the workforce.

Costa says it's an important issue for governments to address and that George is ideally suited to the task of chairing a committee of union, employer and community representatives.

George announced she would be leaving the ACTU on International Womens Day, in March 2000, at the ACTU Council meeting earlier this month. Another former teacher, Sharan Burrow, is tipped to replace her.

NSW unions paid tribute to Jennie at the Labor Council Executive Dinner, presenting her with a scroll of honour in recognition of her services to unionism.

Costa said that despite some in the movement attempting to rewrite history, George would be remembered for her role in holding the movement together after the fall of the Keating Government.

"I have no doubt, that were it not for Jennie the union movement would be in worse shape than it is now," he said.

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Issue 42 contents

Interview: Costa Bravo
Labor Council�s chief trouble maker chronicles the battles of the past year and ponders those still to come.

Unions: More Wins Than Losses
Workers Online ranks the Top Ten industrial relations stories from a year of frenetic activity.

International: Eric Lee's Year in Review
The editor of Labourstart looks back over his favourite stories of 1999.

Politics: So Many Questions
It was a year in politics that threw up more questions than answers. We look at some of the sticky ones.

Republic: Referendum With Class
Labor heretic Michael Thomspson analyses the failure of the Republican proposition.

Environment: Seattle Kills Greens V Jobs Bogey
The sight of US unionists, environmentalists and human rights activists being attacked by police in Seattle shows how far the progressive movement has come.

Deface a Face: Give Him a Hairdo
What better present could Michael Costa offer Workers Online readers than the chance to give him a Deface a Face style make over?

Labour Review: What's New at the Information Centre
See the latest issue of Labour Review, our resource for officials, activists and students.

Review: Cultural Wasteland
Workers Online resident door-bitches Zanga and Paul pass judgement on the year that finished the millennium.

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» Union Aid Agency to Establish Dili Office

» Job Vacancies at the LHMU

» Guest Report

» Sport

» Trades Hall

» Piers Watch

» Aquilina's Insult

» Well Done 1999

» US Union Site Worth a Look

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