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UNITY ISSUE 31 - MARCH 2005
 

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Company fines
Children benefit from a landmark ruling
Leighton ‘flouts’ contract
Glass company to face court
Driver wins sleeper case
Directors pay the price
Work crimes happening in a police station
British director jailed for industrial manslaughter

Industrial manslaughter
Young widow asks: How could this happen?
 

Asbestos
Victory: Asbestos victims win fight against Hardie
Call to end asbestos industry
Asbestos risk on Lidcombe Hospital site
Bush regenerators exposed to asbestos
Asbestos uncovered in Westmead Hospital
Councils crackdown on asbestos removal
 

Politics
Truth overboard: don’t buy the lies
Interest rates
The Economy
 

EBAs
EBAs – get in before the crunch
We’ve fought before and we’ll fight again
 

Workplace Health & Safety
Don’t put up with deadly sites
MPM’s shocking safety
Labourer in coma after fall
Tips for getting attention
Beware Tiger Tails
Union slams electrical plans
Worker hospitalised after fall
Tough rules on traffic control
Harness recall after death
Lucky escape
Carpenter plunges nine metres
 

Civil
State system gives Lane Cove workers a better deal
Experience pays for Mick
Major backpay win for M7 workers who stuck together
 

Regional
Kingscliff site shuts after death as North Coast area shaken by tragedy
Down tools until safety fixed
Reinstatement for workers
Digging deep for the Salvos
On the frontline after 40 years
North Coast area shaken by tragedy
Hunter workers make Picnic Day a big success
 

Wollongong
Long haul for South Coast Equipment
Stick together – and win
Taskforce refuses to meet with workers
 

Public Service
Fighting to keep public hospitals in public hands
 

Cover Story
Walters workers shafted – Union weighs in to fight
 

Picnic Day
Big Day Out
 

Calendar
Your No Work Long Weekends for 2005
 

Awards
CFMEU Sydney Construction EBA rates of pay
Site Allowance Matrix
National Building & Construction Industry Award – rates 8 June 2004
National Joinery and Building Trades Products Award – rates 8 June 2004
Mobile Home Hiring Award – rates 8 June 2004
Glassworkers (State) Award – rates 8 June 2004
Apprentices – Private Building and Construction Industry
 

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Letters
Wage Claims
 

Apprentices
Award Highlights women with the write stuff
 

 

Community
Unionists help rebuild lives
How to donate
It’s official: Les is outstanding
Walk to aid world’s needy
Schizophrenia research
Get a taste of New Zealand
If the shoe fits, but it
Fugen workers Lend a hand
 

Briefs
Working ourselves to death
Retired members rally
Long Service a nice surprise
Directory’s wrong number
Keep your ACIRT up to date
 

Legal affairs
Electrolux – and what it means to you
CFMEU Victory Against Taskforce
 

Briefs
En Espanol
Italian building worker gets entitlements
 

Drug and Alcohol Program
Close shave for Program