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| UpdatedCatholic and worker solidarity used to help Australians wrestle more with their vote than they seem to do now.
Topics: world-politics, political-parties, government-and-politics, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, unions, australia, united-states, united-kingdom
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Some public sector radiologists are threatening to cut back their services, saying their skills are not being recognised by SA health authorities.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA lockdown of South Australian prisons ends as the union representing prison staff and the State Government head to the Industrial Relations Commission.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321, sa
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| UpdatedA union places inmates in all South Australian prisons in lockdown over what it says is a failing by the Corrections Department to address overcrowding concerns.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, murray-bridge-5253, sa, adelaide-5000, port-augusta-5700, mount-gambier-5290, cadell-5321
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There are calls for limits on FIFO workers amid concerns that one of the NT's few surviving mining towns is losing the last of its residential workers.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, unions, federal---state-issues, human-interest, community-and-society, industrial-relations, nt
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| UpdatedNorthern Territory union members rally against NT WorkSafe, calling for the immediate resignation of its head, after a spate of accidents, including the death of a sailor last month.
Topics: government-and-politics, unions, community-and-society, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe Federal Opposition says there is no link between two major donations close to policy announcements during last year's election campaign, slamming suggestions the payments were linked to policy decisions.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, unions, government-and-politics, alp, australia
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An Adelaide-based company that unwittingly constructed portable buildings using asbestos-contaminated materials from China is fighting a SafeWork NSW order to remove the deadly substance from a wind farm, south-west of Sydney.
Topics: courts-and-trials, occupational-health-and-safety, asbestos, unions, health, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, taralga-2580, nsw, sa, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000
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Griffin Coal has fronted up to allegations that scrapping a pay deal for its maintenance staff has adversely affected the West Australian town of Collie.
Topics: mining-rural, community-and-society, work, unions, government-and-politics, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedTrucking organisations express frustration at missing a Transport Workers Union safety forum, and call for better cooperation on driver conditions.
Topics: unions, occupational-health-and-safety, road-transport, sa, australia
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| UpdatedWorkplace rules and overtime for staff will be amended as part of the overhaul of Queensland Rail to improve train services for passengers, Acting Transport Minister Jackie Trad says.
Topics: rail-transport, public-sector, state-parliament, alp, unions, brisbane-4000, robina-4226
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| UpdatedA shortage of driving instructors meant Queensland Rail staff who were supposed to be learning how to operate trains were left "sitting about" during the state's rail crisis, the drivers' union claims.
Topics: government-and-politics, unions, rail-transport, state-parliament, parliament, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedCentrelink staff will launch two weeks of rolling industrial action from February 13 in response to the Government's debt-recovery scheme.
Topics: welfare, government-and-politics, unions, australia
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The New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian is committed to providing better death and disability insurance cover to paramedics.
Topics: health, state-parliament, parliament, unions, community-and-society, doctors-and-medical-professionals, workplace, work, tamworth-2340, nsw
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An appeal by the AFP over a ruling for it to pay court costs over an unlawful raid on the CFMEU's Canberra offices is dismissed by the ACT Supreme Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unions, royal-commissions, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian Council of Trade Unions secretary Dave Oliver resigns after five years in the top job and 30 years with the union to spend more time with his family.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, alp, political-parties, work, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, australia
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Workers at Coffs Harbour engineering company WE Smith demand answers after they turn up to work to find the gates locked and signs relating to the business removed.
Topics: manufacturing, industry, unions, coffs-harbour-2450
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Topics: engineering, manufacturing, industry, business-economics-and-finance, unions, government-and-politics, coffs-harbour-2450
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Topics: unions, government-and-politics, engineering, manufacturing, industry, coffs-harbour-2450
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Former head of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, Dave Hanna, denies he received free work on his house from construction bosses.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, unions, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
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Bus drivers want assaults on them to be treated as seriously as those on health and emergency workers, with dozens of attacks recorded this year already, including two caught on camera and shared exclusively with the ABC.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
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The building union is fined more than $50,000 by the Federal Court after threatening "Armageddon" and national industrial action in a dispute at the Royal Adelaide Hospital site in 2013.
Topics: unions, building-and-construction, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSixty workers are locked out of the Parmalat dairy processing plant at Echuca in northern Victoria, while the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union continues to negotiate over an enterprise bargaining dispute.
Topics: dairy-production, unions, echuca-3564
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| UpdatedDocuments obtained by the ABC reveal the New South Wales branch of the RSL spent more than $93,000 defending a senior executive accused of vilifying a young, gay RSL member.
Topics: unions, veterans, defence-and-national-security, law-crime-and-justice, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedSouth Australian nurses are considering industrial action over over plans to permanently close 55 beds at two of Adelaide's major public hospitals.
Topics: health-policy, health-administration, health, states-and-territories, healthcare-facilities, unions, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000