
Issue No 77		10 November 2000

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Cup Workers Score Heady Brew

Victorian IT workers with Primus were celebrating on Melbourne Cup regardless of their tip after joining up to the union and scoring a Cup-Day pay bonus.

The Community and Public Sector Union scored 35 new members a Cup Day bonus at Primus of $30 per hour after a grassroots campaign by those forced to work on Cup Day, which is in Victoria a public holiday.

The CPSU collected more than 150 signatures from workers angry about the Cup Day and got more than 50 workers to vote in favour of taking industrial action against the company earlier the week.

CPSU assistant secretary Stephen Jones says the win had added spark to the organizing campaign throughout Primus, which is a leading supply of IT services, to companies including Virtual Communtiies (the ACTU's computer venture).

"The end result is we recruited 35 new members out of a three-day campaign. We have high union visibility in a company that was un-unionised three months ago," Jones says

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US Election: Democracy Version 1.0: Time for an Upgrade America
This week the world's greatest democracy is looking pretty rickety. Michael Gadiel reports from the front line.

Interview: Crikey! A Corporate Commando
He may be a lapsed Lib, but Stephen Mayne is making life hell in the boardrooms of corporate Australia. And he might have some clues for unions too.

Unions: Class of 2000 Hit Redfern
They're just out of acting school and straight into the union. Tomorrow's stars and today's union members.

International: US Cleaners Fast for Justice
Talks between striking janitors and the cleaning contractors who employ them resumed on Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut.

History: Racing Radio
The Cup is over, but the races go on, and so does Labor council's radio station, 2KY, as it celebrates its 75th Anniversary.

Legal: A Pandora's In-Box
Screening of employee's emails could be in breach of telecommunications laws, according to Minter Ellison lawyer Megan Dixon.

Satire: Our Snobs Are Tops
Tony Moore on why the lucky country has always been a tosser�s paradise.

Review: Brassed Off With a Tutu
Billy Elliott, currently a hit at the box office, gives a new twist to the working class rags to riches story.

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