Albanese Provides Timeframe for Safe Rates for Truck Drivers
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TWU NEWS,
NATIONAL NEWS
In
a speech to the NSW Transport Workers Union delegates conference today,
federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese MP, provided a timetable
for the introduction of safe rates for truck drivers across Australia.
FAIR WORK AUSTRALIA TO RULE ON QANTAS SEX DISCRIMINATION
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AVIATION
The Transport Workers Union yesterday filed an application for a
general protections dispute with Fair Work Australia that seeks to
reverse a recent decision by Qantas to bar all women from 47 new
permanent positions created at Sydney Airport.
UNIONS TELL QANTAS: FIX SEX-DISCRIMINATION FIASCO NOW
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AVIATION
The Transport Workers Union has filed an application for a general
protections dispute with Fair Work Australia that seeks to reverse a
recent decision by Qantas to bar all women from 47 new permanent
positions created at Sydney Airport.
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Paid parental leave ‘over my dead body’, says Abbott
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NATIONAL NEWS
Reports that Liberal leader Tony Abbott is considering a
taxpayer-funded paid maternity leave scheme must be treated with
extreme suspicion given his track record as a supporter of WorkChoices
and previous hardline opponent of helping working mothers, say unions.
DRIVE FOR SAFE RATES REACHES CANBERRA
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NATIONAL NEWS,
SAFE RATES
The Transport Workers Union has rolled into Canberra after a 2000
kilometre trip through regional NSW from Brisbane, highlighting the
importance of a National system of safe rates for truck drivers.