ALP right loses AWU electionsIn elections in the Australian Workers Union, the positions of national secretary, national president and two of the four national vice-presidents have been won by a broad coalition,
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Green Left Weekly has obtained documents from the Electrical Trades Union which indicate that the union is not serious about campaigning against the $22 billion privatisation of the NSW power industry. The ETU is
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Up to 1000 jobs will be lost under Qantas plans to contract out its customer service and ramp services work at Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth airports. According to the Australian Services Union (ASU), almost all workers
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Increased power to sack workers@box text intro = Peter Reith, the minister of industrial relations, is threatening to introduce new legislation to completely exempt small businesses from unfair dismissal laws if the
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A bonus for racists contained in the recent federal budget is the savaging of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, which will lose 40% of its funding over two years. The commission has been a strong
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Thousands of jobs will be lost as a result of the federal budget. The public service will be savaged, with 16,500 jobs cut. Last year 11,200 public servants jobs were cut. This should put to rest claims by media
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Women fight for a future@box text intro = LIVERPOOL — When dock workers on the east coast of the United States boycotted ships from Liverpool, Women of the Waterfront (WoW) went to the house of the director of the
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LIVERPOOL — The Liverpool dockers, in the 20th month of their dispute with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC), are determined to fight on. Despite the obstacles and hardships — 90 dockers have had their houses
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Moses Havini, the Australian representative of the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) has grave concerns about the deals negotiated at a meeting between Prime Minister John Howard and PNG PM Julius Chan in Sydney on
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Car workers march on BrusselsOn March 16, 150,000 workers from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and England marched on Brussels to protest against the closure of Belgium's Renault car plant at Vilvoorde. The rally
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Last October, federal industrial relations minister Peter Reith quietly tabled a report in parliament titled Enterprise Bargaining 1995. The report, written by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), was not highly
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New attack on public sector workersMinister for industrial relations Peter Reith has escalated the government's attack on public sector workers by allowing departments to introduce Australian Workplace Agreements or