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  Issue No 45 Official Organ of LaborNet 10 March 2000  

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Games Edict: Dance for Free


Performers at the Opening and Closing ceremonies at the Olympic Games have been told they'll have to dance for free if they want to be part of the event.

 
 

Some of the available talent...

Organisers of the ceremony have begun advertising for performers - prepared to commit for five months and will hold auditions this weekend.

But despite a $62 million budget for the ceremonies, no money has been allocated for professional performers.

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance says the decision is an 'insult to all professional performers' that could compromise the quality of the ceremonies.

MEAA state secretary Michel Hryce says its fine to involve school children and community groups in the ceremonies, but the spectacle would require some level of professional involvement.

"This is a chance to showcase Australian talent, instead it could end up being like a school Eisteddfod," Hryce says.

Pool Structure 'Started to Talk'

Meanwhile, the building workers union has reacted angrily to claims by the Olympic Coordinating Authority that their decision to ban work at Homebush Bay Aquatic Centre was 'a stunt'.

CFMEU organiser Graeme Childs told Labor Council there were a very real danger that workers could have been injured of the action had not been taken.

Childs says the CFMEU attempted to have the safety issues addressed for six weeks before workers walked off the job this week.

Concern was initially raised when concrete slabs, meant to weigh 2.5 tonnes, registered double that weight when being lifted by cranes onto the extension platform.

As the project managers refused to act, bolts started to pull and the structure "started to talk to us", Childs says. Riggers placed props under the structure and demanded action be taken.

WorkCover inspectors later vindicated the action, issuing prohibition notices speaking of 'ceiling tiles falling from roof'' and 'supporting structural steel not adequate and risk to public and workers.'


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: Working Women
Nareen Young talks about how services are being delivered to our most vulnerable workers - and what unions need to do to make them their own.
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*  Unions: Into the New Frontier
IT professionals are part of the new workforce that unions need to win over - and while they are often contractors, they're workers too.
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*  History: Handling The Ladies
1943 - women were filling the gap in the workforce left by the diggers abroad and Australian managers needed some advice on how to deal with these strange creatures.
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*  Technology: Building The Hypermacho Man
In a stinging critque of the �Wired� culture, Melanie Stewart Miller argues digital cultural is creating a new super-Man.
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*  International: The Long March Home
Trade union women round the world used International Women�s Day to launch the World March of Women Against Poverty and Violence.
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*  Satire: Kerosene Dilution Racket
The nursing home industry has been rocked by a new scandal with the revelation that some unscrupulous proprietors have been diluting their patients� kerosene baths with illicit liquids.
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*  Review: Power and the Back Bar
In an upcoming book, Julia Gillard argues the ALP retains a male culture that is fast losing step with contemporary society.
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News
»  Services Threatened Over Olympic Bonus
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»  Games Edict: Dance for Free
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»  Revealed: Secret State Transit Corporatisation Plans
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»  Women Demand Better Pay from Faye
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»  Telstra, Banks Whack Rural Australia
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»  Casuals Inquiry Still On Union Agenda
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»  Shaw, Sams Pay Tribute to John Whelan
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»  Teachers� Website Mysteriously Blocked
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»  Cash Bonus for Bilingual Workers
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»  Women Demand Better Pay from Faye
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»  Shareholders Push Global Action
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»  Fair Wear Conquers Schools
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»  TWU Calls on Workers to Steer Clear of Woolworths
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»  Push to Strike Out Parrish Directors
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Columns
»  The Soapbox
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Tool Shed
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Letters to the editor
»  TV Show Seeks Bankrupt Worker
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»  Crosby Spot On
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»  Confused About Workplace Rights
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»  Global Campaign Against Yahoo!
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»  Teachers Row
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