Issue No 88 | 16 March 2001 | |
NewsTide Turns on Award-Stripping
Attempts to import the Howard government's award stripping agenda into the sate IR system have been stymied by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.
The IRC has rejected a push by Employers First to import the award-stripping that's occurred at the federal level into counterpart state awards. A Full Bench ruled that while award-stripping was based on the federal Workplace Relations Act, there was no similar legislative justification in NSW> Labor Council assistant secretary John Robertson says the decision means that workers on counter-part awards - which are widespread in the construction and agriculture sectors, are protected from the Howard-Reith-Abbott agenda. The case was launched by the Australian Workers Union and backed by Labor Council and NSW Industrial Relations Minister John Della Bosca.
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Interview: Labor Law Shadow Attorney General Robert McClelland outlines his plans for workers entitlements, legal aid and a Bill of Rights Unions: Poetic Justice The ACTU kicked off its 2001 Living Wage campaign this week with a new shock tactic: poetry. Technology: Big Brother�s Legacy Organisations with restrictive staff email polices risk locking themselves in the Industrial Age by treating their staff as units to be monitored. Corporate: Scumbags Exposed On the eve of the inaugural Corporate Scumbags Tour, we look at the worst of the worst from the Top End of Town. International: Playing Away Pat Ranald looks at a proposal to hold Australian companies to basic standards when they invest in developing countries. Environment: Nuclear Titanics The Maritime Union has joined Greenpeace in a campaign to stop our seas becoming a nuclear highway. History: Out of the Bog Neale Towart looks at the life of big Jim Larkin, one of the heroes of an Irish trade union movement that continues to thrive. Politics: Westie�s Macquarie Street Alert The Workers MLC, Ian West, provides the first in a series of regular rundowns on the upcoming Parliamentary session Review: The Next American Century? How will the United States maintain its global power in an era when the very notion of the nation-state is under challenge? Satire: Dollar Crashes Through Psychological 0.00c Barrier The bedevilled Australian dollar dropped below the crucial 0.00c barrier losing its battle to avoid the humiliation of being worth less than the commemorative Bradman coins distributed by the Sunday Telegraph last weekend.
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