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If you are a working person you might have noticed that there are a lot of things stacked against you. This little page is run by the Industrial Workers of the World; our aim is to even the odds.
Basic workers’ rights including holidays, penalty rates and sick leave are at risk thanks to Tony Abbott’s confirmation today of a return to WorkChoices-style individual contracts under the Liberal Party. http://www.rightsatwork.com.au/Home/Media/Abbott-confirms-that-revival-of-WorkChoices-by-Lib.aspx |
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Psychopaths use charm and manipulation to achieve success in the workplace, according to a US study. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/psychopath-workplace-jobs-study |
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Liz Jackson reports on the insider who stole a bank’s secrets, then sold them, sparking panic among the world’s super rich. http://www.theage.com.au/tv/show/four-corners/tax-me-if-you-can-20110829-1jhsk.html |
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The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles. All of that -- which is independent of the exponentially greater sums spent on foreign wars, occupations, bombings, and the vast array of weaponry and private contractors to support it all -- is in response to this mammoth, existential, the-single-greatest-challenge-of-our-generation threat:
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The riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn’t unique to England; in fact, it represents part of a growing global class chasm that threatens to undermine capitalism itself. |
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Organised ttruck and bus drivers have made their presence felt in Rosehill after they occupied busy James Ruse Drive. |
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If you believe the Murdoch media, the Convoy of No Confidence is a "revolt of working people", led by a motley "amalgam of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers who are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore." That's how The Australian reported it over the past week. But is something darker going on? As I examined the convoys myself (as part of an investigative report for US magazine, eXiled Online) I found some disturbing unanswered questions that media sources, centre-left and centre-right alike, have shied from touching. Firstly, is the Convoy of No Confidence just another Astroturf group - a fake grassroots organisation - much like the Tea Party groups in the US organised with funding from the Koch Brothers? |
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Following negotiations with the cleaning contractor LCC, who covers contracts at the prestigious Heron Tower near Liverpool Street - the IWW Cleaners and Allied Grades Branch has secured significant gains to the benefit of our low-paid. The IWW had launched a campaign to secure full payment of the living wage £8.30 per-hour for, a resolution of staff shortages, issues of unfair dismissal and anti-union conduct by management. |
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Millions of dollars worth of bonuses handed out to BlueScope Steel executives are a "slap in the face" to the 1000 workers whose jobs have been axed, a union says. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8289068/bluescope-bonuses-a-slap-in-the-face |
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