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Labour Review issue no. 189 - September 2007
| Policy |
Workplace Industrial Relations on the Eve of Work Choices: a Report on a Survey of Employers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria
Few employers have any problems of the kind that necessitate radical IR change – they do, however, clearly have fears and imagined problems which these policies address. Once employers have experienced power in the form of increasingly unrestricted managerial prerogative, this support is likely to solidify. |
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| Social issues |
A Fair Go For All Australians: International Comparisons, 2007
This report shows that the number of Australians living in poverty has increased over the past 10 years. |
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| union organising |
The Struggle for Fair and Just Food
For the past 15 years the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based worker organization consisting of Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants who work low-wage agricultural jobs in the state of Florida, has been fighting for fair and just working conditions and an end to “indentured servitude in the fields of Southwest Florida.” |
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| union rights - international |
The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy
For the last quarter century, corporate America has been at war against the labor movement. After a long period in which unions were an accepted part of the economic and political landscape, most corporations adopted a much more hostile attitude toward unions. |
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| corporations |
It's Not Easy Being Ultra-Rich
On Labor Day we customarily give a nod to America's underpaid and overworked blue and pink collar workers -- janitors, flight attendants, forklift operators and the like. |
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| working conditions |
The Utah Mine Disaster: Don't Call It an Accident
Three lives are lost and counting in the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah. The flamboyant, camera-hogging mine owner, Bob Murray, has called this a "once in a lifetime" accident, like a car crushed by a boulder suddenly dislodged. These horrors happen. |
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