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Employers plan to break waterfront union

By Frank Enright "The company's intention to extend the further utilisation of supplementaries [casuals] at the expense of permanent employees is yet a further example of the confrontationist tactics and policies within the stevedoring industry

A bleak world pre-Stonewall

The Boys in the Band Directed by Kevin Jackson New Theatre, Newtown, until March 19. $16/11 Reviewed by Tom Flanagan The Boys in the Band is a play dealing with gay issues that dates from the pre-Stonewall era. First performed in New York

DSS heats staffing dispute

DSS heats staffing dispute BRISBANE — The Department of Social Service escalated a dispute with the Public Service Union on February 18, by taking the state PSU branch to the Industrial Relations Commission over alleged breaches of dispute

From ivory towers to degree factories

By Rob Miller The media have become fond of comparing university students today with their counterparts in the '60s and early '70s and concluding that students now are much more conservative. This is usually explained by the inane "the '60s were

... and ain't i a woman?: Women-only facilities

Women-only facilities In recent years we've heard claims by men that facilities for the use of women only are discriminatory against men, and therefore should be stopped. In 1990 a senior officer in the Commonwealth Department of Health, Dr

US airline workers debate ownership plan

By Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik By mid-year the largest airline in the country, United Airlines, could be "controlled" by its union employees. Leaders of the machinists' and pilots' unions say an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is the best

Industrial round-up

Adelaide By Melanie Sjoberg Nineteen waterside workers at Port Adelaide were sacked on March 17 after refusing to work "double header shifts" in protest over the sacking of 55 workers in Sydney. Daryl Grey, South Australian branch

That's entertainment

What to do on a Saturday night in any major city in Australia? You could always sit in front of the TV and watch the winter Olympics. Perhaps a video is more your style. Anything to avoid mixing it with the crowds at the local pub band night.

Wingti attempts to mislead NZ

By Frank Enright Speaking on Radio New Zealand's Morning Report program on February 15, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti turned truth on its head. "Paias Wingti claimed that there was no blockade of Bougainville, that PNG troops

C.D.s and Other Things

By Gyorgy Scrinis and Peter Lyssiotis When the Compact Disc first emerged in the 1980s, it participated in the undermining of one of our most long-held assumptions. With the C.D., the whole distinction between Side A and Side B of the old vinyl

Dealing with unemployment: too little, too late

By Frank Enright "'All these years we've given our kids everything they've wanted. All of a sudden we felt like an insect that was going to get walked on — he hit the bottle. We fought, the kids got upset, I walked out with a black eye.' —

Dick Nichols

Dick Nichols Solidarity with the Sydney wharfies! With the intervention of industrial relations and transport minister Laurie Brereton into the Sydney wharf dispute, the grounds are being laid for an outcome that would not only make it very