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UNITY ISSUE 40

 May 2008

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Contents

Cover

Inside Cover
Who can help if you are injured at work?

Need constructive legal advice?

Checking your entitlements

Difficulty hearing?

Taylor & Scott claims settled.

Ready to help

Editorial and Contents
Howard out, but the fight still goes on

 

EBAs

Wage rises locked in as bosses line up to talk

$20,000 reasons why EBAs matter

Election 07: The aftermath

Making Labor deliver

Barry’s victory march

Union puts pressure on over role of taskforce

Workchoices: rest in pieces

Comcare review welcomed

 

Guest workers
Perth builder fined over exploitation

Hat’s the way to aid comrade

Boss in jail for assault

 

Your union

Financial report for year 31 December 2007

The fight never ends

Howard’s end helps lift membership numbers


Staff moves
He’s back

Trading places

Koh made of right stuff

Time to clock off

 

Regional

Barnsley workers get paid

Fatherly love costs da his job

Union answers the call


Apprentices
Call for quota on government contrac ts

Shane finds it pays to stand up for your rights

Claim a rebate on rego

Two-year fight ends with a win for TABMA workers

 

In brief

Hotline launch – companies in liquidation/administration

May Day March

 

Labour Hire
What a rip-off

Union push to weed out the “Dodgy Brothers”

 

Wage claims

Labels help speed contractor payments

We recover millions for underpaid workers

Union finds money trail for Mobile Concrete

 

Super/ACIRT/Long Service

ACIRT Recoveries 2007

CBUS reaches out to grieving family

Interstate deal helps boost long service

Blitz on rorting

Ben Ellis – in League with the union

 

OHS

$750,000 for Juric

Lucky escape

Final victory for a working class hero

Barclay ‘failed’ worker

Have a heart – Cardiac Responder – Defibrillators on building sites

Safety alert – operating concrete booms near overhead power lines

Reo bars guidance


Death in the workplace

Union win eases pain

Keeper of the flame – Gerry’s death spurs sister into action

The hurt that never ends

 

Power sell-off
CFMEU in front line

Union busts pyramid scheme

 

Legal
A Union Man for Life

 

Special edition – Non-English speaking Unity

 

Awards
Sydney CFMEU Construction EBA Rates of Pay

            What about site allowances?

State Building & Construction Industry Award

          Fares allowance per day: $15.40

          Leading Hands Allowances per hour

          Meal allowance: $11.30

National Building & Construction Industry Award

          Fares allowance per day: $15.40

          Leading Hands Allowances per hour

          Meal allowance: $11.30

National Joinery & Building Trades Products Award

          Leading Hands Allowances per week

Mobile Crane Hiring Award

          Extra Allowances

State Glassworkers Award

State Apprentices

Apprentice Alert

 

Multilingual
Arabic
Chinese
Croatian
Greek
Italian
Korean
Macedonian
Portuguese
Serbian
Spanish
Vietnamese

 

World Briefs

NZ Labor needs you

Buried alive

Blood games

Strikers jailed

Protest ends in violence

Irish ‘tiger’ bites workers


Community
Marae appeal creates a stir

This is not a life

Unionist’s work honoured

Fundraiser puts Lidcombe in the pink

Literacy courses for workers

Parliament house reunion

 

Letters
Energised by sell-off protest

Union’s long service

Congratulations on beating Howard

Putting in the hard yards

Organiser’s care appreciated

Who are the biggest thieves?

From tragedy comes a lesson


Drugs & Alcohol
National honour for Les

Fairfield RSL takes up fight against addiction

 

Back cover – The Organiser
Meet the man at home in the surf or on site

 

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