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Unions lose out to the bureaucrats
It's generally believed that Work Choices is a political liability for the Howard government, but by the time of the next federal election, this...
New Way of Building Construction Deals
The Federal Government's new construction industry, industrial relations legislation tends to reinforce a view that for workplace reform to occur...
Bumpy road that's paved with failure
The financial collapse of any car parts maker received front page headlines not so long ago. But they have become so regular that such news is...
Compo drives NSW exodus
If you were thinking of visiting a country and saw on television a huge refugee exodus from that country, you'd be cautious about visiting. Surely...
Truth hard to find in new IR
Do the Howard Government's new industrial relations laws let bosses screw workers? If they do, the Government should be tossed out at the next...
AWAs unlock West's mining wealth
Kim Beazley's recent commitment to eliminate all Australian workplace agreements is tantamount to killing the goose that lays the nation's golden...
Workers lose in Beazley scheme
Kim Beazley's commitment to eliminate Australian workplace agreements (AWAs) threatens the essence of workplace reform over the past two decades....
State unions are very different beasts
With the Federal Government pushing for a single, national industrial relations system, it's worth considering the different industrial relations...
Too early to damn Work Choices
Is the Howard government's model of individual work contracts immoral? Many say yes. They believe that individual work arrangements destroy the...
Work safety injustice
Recently the NSW government announced proposals to changes to their work safety laws. They have made the correct move of eliminating presumption of...