
Issue No 94		04 May 2001

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Unions Get Down to Workers Comp Talks

The NSW Labor Council's negotiating team has spent the past week in talks with government officials over their concerns with the workers compensation package.

Working parties canvassing specific areas of concern were held every day this week, where unions detailed how the current package would leave injured workers worse off.

Tuesday looms as a vital day next week, with Industrial relations Minister John Della Bosca due to formally respond to the trade union concerns.

A campaign committee is planned for Tuesday afternoon when a decision will be made on whether to reignite rolling industrial action

The key areas of concern with the legislation remain:

- the binding nature of the proposed medical panels

- the US-based injury assessment guidelines

- the increased common law thresholds

- and the absence of measures to address non-compliance by employers and workplace safety.

Related Action Continues

While the talks have been continuing, bans on parliament House - including beer deliveries and lift maintenance - have remained in place.

And the Transport Workers Union ramped up its campaign to have WorkCover properly police the trucking industry with a blockade of the city's streets Thursday.

An estimated 200 trucks drove through the city in morning peak-hour bringing the city's traffic to a crawl.

TWU state secretary says the action is to draw attention to the 176 lives lost through trucking accidents every year.

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  Issue 94 contents

Interview: Global Action
The CFMEU has been a world leader in fighting the war on global corporations. John Maitland has been one of the generals.

Unions: Sisters United
In her May Day address, Bus Union state president Pat Ryan looks at the role women have played in the labour movement.

Politics: M1 and the Trade Unions
Phil Davey was one of the forces behind S11 but chose to sit out M1. He looks at this week's action.

History: Il Duce Roberto?
His modern-day fan club might not like it, but Rowan Cahill argues wartime PM Robert Menzies sailed close to the winds of Fascism.

International: Cuban Call for Global Labour Rights
An international meeting of union representatives in Cuba has vowed to start a campaign to defend workers rights from the effects of globalisation.

Economics: The G-Word
ACTU President Sharan Burrow asks if there's a better way forward for global trade.

Media: Birth Of A Nation
East Timor's young journalists are struggling with language barriers and technical difficulties most Australian media professionals wouldn't be able to comprehend. But they're keen and eager to learn.

Review: The Tremulous Hopes of the Fifties
Behind the the good times mythology of the 1950s was a desperate quest for the ordinary.

Satire: Teen Angst Poems a ï¿½Dangerï¿½
The Teen Angst Gun Massacre Affair has broadened, with staff at the NSW Department of Education revealing that ï¿½gangs of conspiratorsï¿½ have been found operating out of high school poetry competitions.

» Workers Seek Security on Back of Living Wage

» Temple Workers Return to India Victorious

» Unions Get Down to Workers Comp Talks

» Firefighters Hand Hoses To Politicians

» Unions Back Corruption Fight

» 'Workers Bank' Protest Rally Backs Cleaners

» Smoking Decision Sparks Call for Pub Bans

» Boycott Trade, Travel with Burma

» Qantas Takeover No Impulse Buy

» Sick Chicks Win Privacy Rights

» Arnotts Workers Seek More than Crumbs

» Jageth Backs Jakarta Hotel Workers

» Equity Members Send a Dear John Letter

» New Theatre Under Threat

» A Toast to May Day

» Activist Notebook