
Issue No 82		20 December 2000

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Unions Head West

The Labor Council is planning to go to the bush early in 2001 to assist rural unions to develop a campaign strategy for rural and regional NSW.

The Australian Workers Union and the Labor Council recently held a Rural Issues Forum in Young and invited unions employers and local Government representatives to attend. Representatives at the forum were angry about being totally ignored and could believe that there is no strategy whatsoever to address their issues

There was general consensus about the major issues, in particular the banks foreclosing on property owners particularly, after the one third of NSW had been flooded and crops devastated. Also the price of petrol in the bush was high on the list..

One of the AWU Delegates who attended the forum said that these issues directly affect workers as well as employers however no one is listening or doing anything about them. There are about three property owners in Young who are about to lose their farms.

Labor Council and the rural unions want to make sure the issues affecting Rural and Regional NSW are addressed and will be developing an issues paper after conducting a number of Rural Issues Forums.

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Issue 82 contents

Interview: Being Michael Costa
Labor Council’s secretary on the 2KY sell-off, the Olympics and his plans for the future.

Unions: Millennial Milestones
In a year of highs, some trade union stories stuck in the collective consciousness. Here's ten of the best.

International: Eric Lee's Year in Review
The editor of Labourstart looks back on the global issues that mobilized labour in the past 12 months.

Organising: Dispatches from the Field
Despite the 'Botsmanesque' critiques which have been levelled at Organising, it would be hard to deny that the year 2000 has seen more and more unions in NSW latch onto the approach - at least in principle anyway.

Economics: Who Gets Gold??
At the end of this Olympic year, Sydney Uni's Frank Stilwell charts the winners and losers in the new sport of redistribution of income.

Politics: Election 2000: The Winner is Gridlock
In the last in his series on the US Federal Election Campaign, Michael Gadiel, our roving reporter, gladly signs off.

Satire: Chaser Launches Book
In the great tradition of repackaging old material to cash in on Christmas, the team from The Chaser & Silly 2000 has produced its first book.

Review: Cultural Wasteland
The spotlight was on Australian culture in 2000. But was it a missed opportunity, asks Peter Zangari.

» Mad Monk's Secret Union Past

» New Life for Trades Hall

» Top Cop is Our Organiser of the Year

» All We Want for Christmas

» Summer for Social Justice

» Unions Return to Mosh Pit

» Unions Head West

» Big Bastard Censors Dissidents

» South Coast Labor President Steps Down

» As a Died in the Wool Westie Steps Up

» Dying Workers' Asbestos Plea

» Workers at Centre of Turn Of the Century

» Truth about S11 Starting to Come Out

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» The Greatest Team Ever?

» ABC Online Did Strike

» Why Nader Vote was not Wasted

» John Scrooge's Christmas Gift

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