
Issue No 54		19 May 2000

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Letters to the Editor

Our Teachers' Coverage

Dear Editor,

I enjoy reading Workers Online very much and find it interesting especially the news from other parts of the world. I usually get on via the Teachers Federation website.

How about an article or two about the Labor Party orchestrated vilification and denigration campaign targeting Public School Teachers? What a pathetic Labor Party this is that has to resort to a propaganda campaign to win an industrial dispute. As a (former) Labor voter I'm fuming that they are being allowed to get away with it.

Harry Ladomatos

Nth Ryde.

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I too have been surprised by the lack of support for the Teachers Federation (letters, Paul Benedek, WO 12/05/00)by affilate unions of the Labor Council.

Do affilates support the tactics of the Carr Labor government in collaboration with the Murdoch Press to demonise teachers, to encourage scabs to attack the union?

Do any of you have the guts to say to Carr when your swanning around in the back rooms that he should get out and have ago at teaching in one of our less than adequately resourced high schools, out here in the south west?

The Labor State Government have acted in this whole dispute like the grubby politicans they are. Where no lie is too big and no tactic too small,(to quote someone).

Time they were told.

Paul Palmer

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I disagree with the criticism of the coverage by Workers Online of the teachers' salaries and status dispute. Workers Online has published a series of good articles on this dispute including "Teachers Deal Still Undone" in the April 14 edition.

Readers should also check the LaborNet live news feed. It has had eight articles about the Teachers Federation in the past two months.

Wayne Patterson

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Issue 54 contents

Interview: South of the Border
Victorian Trades Hall chief Leigh Hubbard on life under Bracks, militant unionism and why more people march in Melbourne.

Politics: Jeff Shaw's Second Wave
The full text of the NSW Industrial Relations Minister's speech to Labor Council announcing the Carr Government's IR reform agenda.

Unions: Reith's Laws: Just Say NO
The ACTU has called on Labor and the Democrats to reject Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's anti-industry bargaining Workplace Relations 2000 Bill out right.

History: A Breed Of Their Own
Labour historian Greg Patmore explains what makes his fraternity tick - and why they're still going strong and making history.

International: Sony's Asian Showdown
The Japanese electronic giant Sony is threatening to shutdown production facilities in Indonesia - where a prolonged strike has cost it US$200milliom - and move to next door Malaysia where electronic workers are banned from forming a union.

Human Rights: Good Guys, Bad Guys
Everywhere we look -in our newspapers, on the television, in reports by business leaders, academics and politicians - advocacy of human rights seems to be on a collision course with governmental and business interests.

Review: New Workers, New Challenges
A new wave of thought is arguing that working life is changing - but this doesn't necessarily deal unions out the action.

Satire: Rain Man Withdraws Endorsement of Qantas
After the third major safety incident in the space of a year, Qantas has lost the confidence of the most famous public supporter of its once unblemished safety record, the autistic star of Rain Man, Raymond.

» Carr Moves on Casuals

» Democrats Wavering on Reith Bill

» Exit Visas for Child Care Workers

» GST Pay Claims to Target Allowances

» Tide Turns On Competitive Tendering

» Joy Takes Message To The World

» Mines Out as Rio Tinto Torps Talks

» Political Economy for Activists, 2000

» Unions March for Reconciliation

» STOP PRESS: AK-47s used in coup against union-aligned Fiji Labour Government