Australia is wonderful. You had better believe it. Not only do we have the Olympics and Academy Award nominees, Australia has the largest number of share owners in the world. Forget Crown Casino, we are on the hottest
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The ACTU has gained a small win in its legal challenge to BHP's offer of individual contracts (Australian Workplace Agreements — AWAs) to iron ore workers in the Pilbara. On January 31, the Federal Court granted the ACTU an
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Imagine how you would feel if your boss called you into an office and presented you with a contract outlining your new working conditions. "This is a special contract just for you", s/he might say, but you know that your work
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Victimised unionist garners supportSYDNEY — Organising Works trainee John Gauci has received messages of support since Green Left Weekly revealed a decision by his union to suspend its sponsorship of him. The NSW branch of
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What are the CPSU officials afraid of?The NSW branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has "suspended" its sponsorship of Organising Works trainee John Gauci just four weeks before the end of his traineeship.
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Next time you're having a conversation around the barbecue, ask your friends how they view the relationship between the Labor Party and the trade unions. You are likely to hear unions described as distant entities
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The national officials of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), threatened by a rank and file ticket in the union's elections, have resorted to rumour-mongering in an effort to protect their cosy bureaucratic niche. The
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Intimate Union: Sharing a Revolutionary LifeAn autobiography by Tom and Audrey McDonaldPluto Press Australia, 1998Aspects of many of the dramatic shifts in the world's and Australia's politics and labour movement during the last
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More taxes, more cuts in SAADELAIDE — The state Liberal government crowed on May 27 about delivering a "balanced budget" for the next financial year. Treasurer Rob Lucas laid the blame for tax hikes on those who opposed the
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ADELAIDE — Two hundred people attended a SA United Trades and Labor Council (UTLC) public meeting on May 21 to hear Jennie George, ACTU president, speak on the latest round of changes to the federal industrial relations laws
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ADELAIDE — "Sexual harassment is against the law", ACTU president Jennie George reminded more than 60 participants at the launch of a new publication of the SA United Trades and Labour Council, Uniting to Eliminate Sexual
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ADELAIDE — Long-time union and environment activist Davey Thomason has suffered police harassment and may have been sacked from his position as an organiser with the SA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy