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	<title>Crikey &#187; unions</title>
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		<title>The child labour unions of Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2099200,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2099200,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latin america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's the world's most vulnerable workforce, but many of Latin America's fourteen million child workers are joining unions and fighting for better working conditions. Bolivia's Union of Child and Adolescent Workers represents 15,000 workers aged 8-18.]]></description>
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		<title>Essential: Qantas divides voters, Fair Work Australia the only winner</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/essential-qantas-divides-voters-fair-work-australia-the-only-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/essential-qantas-divides-voters-fair-work-australia-the-only-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paywalls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=257430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters disapprove of Qantas management's decision to ground its fleet, but don't approve of the way anyone in the dispute conducted themselves except the industrial relations regulator, Essential Report has found.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Delegitimising unions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/03/delegitimising-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/03/delegitimising-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey reads have their say.]]></description>
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		<title>Delegitimising unions in the great game of labour v capital</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/delegitimising-unions-in-the-great-game-of-labour-v-capital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/delegitimising-unions-in-the-great-game-of-labour-v-capital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macro economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As voters become more estranged from corporations and economic reform, neither labour nor capital is responding effectively to the sentiment.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>135</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: meh on the republic, but fired up about Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/24/essential-meh-on-the-republic-but-fired-up-about-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/24/essential-meh-on-the-republic-but-fired-up-about-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=254548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters blame Qantas management for its dispute with unions, today's Essential Report finds. But support for a republic isn't going anywhere.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make or break: manufacturing should be weaned off the public teat</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/31/make-or-break-manufacturing-should-be-weaned-off-the-public-teat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/31/make-or-break-manufacturing-should-be-weaned-off-the-public-teat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs figures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make or break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=244133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Huge industry subsidies by the taxpayer do little to preserve jobs or the industries themselves, writes <b>Ian Hanke</b>, of Agitate.com.au and the HR Nicholls Society.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Power Index: the plotters behind the Rann coup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/01/the-power-index-the-plotters-behind-the-rann-coup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/01/the-power-index-the-plotters-behind-the-rann-coup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=238723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don Farrell and his Shoppies Union mates have done it again. One of the plotters who called time on Mike Rann’s South Australian premiership last Friday was right-wing factional boss and union leader Peter Malinauskas.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/01/the-power-index-the-plotters-behind-the-rann-coup/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>IR study shock! Employers resent employees exercising rights</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/ir-study-shock-employers-resent-employees-exercising-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/ir-study-shock-employers-resent-employees-exercising-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Mines and Metals Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=232536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Independent research" reveals the surprising outcome that mining companies dislike unions. A media release from the Australian Mines and Metals Association exposes the stance.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/ir-study-shock-employers-resent-employees-exercising-rights/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grattan: The dirty war between Julia and Kristina</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/national/pms-sophies-choice-for-premier-20101018-16qu2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/national/pms-sophies-choice-for-premier-20101018-16qu2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=179118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has PM Gillard placed NSW Premier in the <em>Sophie's Choice</em> position that she's claiming over workplace safety reforms? At the heart of the fight is a debate over the role of unions and the NSW government dependence on them, argues <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Old unions, new battlefront</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/unions-face-fight-on-a-new-front-20100922-15mex.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/unions-face-fight-on-a-new-front-20100922-15mex.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=173845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian union movement coughed up more than $30 million to fight John Howard and WorkChoices. It may have scored a victory but the real battlefront lies elsewhere: particularly in sustaining its membership base, writes <b>Mark Davis</b>. 
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The inner workings of Sharan Burrow</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/business/working-for-a-greater-union-20100627-zbw3.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/business/working-for-a-greater-union-20100627-zbw3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian council of trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Trade Union Confederation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharan burrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=148854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ACTU president <b>Sharan Burrow</b> has just been announced as secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. How did a female teacher rise up so high in the blokey world of union politics? <b>Ben Schneiders</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Colless: Tony, don&#8217;t be afraid of the big bad union</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new media campaign by ACTU called <a href="http://www.actu.org.au/Campaigns/Dontgobacktoworkchoices/default.aspxl">"Don't Go Back To WorkChoices"</a> is an unfair and untruthful attack on Tony Abbott. The Libs<em>need</em> to offer a suitable IR alternative since Rudd's policies are collapsing, writes <b>Malcolm Colless</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midwives damn AMA-induced amendments to maternity reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/midwives-damn-ama-induced-amendments-to-maternity-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/14/midwives-damn-ama-induced-amendments-to-maternity-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Medical Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home births]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midwifery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Practices Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=105489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than listening to medical advice on the long-awaited maternity reforms, the government pays attention to a union more focused on protecting incomes than helping prospective mothers, writes <b>Professor Lesley Barclay</b> and <b>Professor Sally Tracy</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The NSW Right is a dead, dead duck</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-nsw-right-is-a-dead-dead-duck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-nsw-right-is-a-dead-dead-duck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The flaming rage of neutered warlords and right-wing unions about their loss of influence within the NSW ALP will blow itself out, writes NSW ALP Left insider <b>Joe Sammaras</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trade unions, AFR, out of the loop on jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Financial Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two stories in <i>The Australian Financial Review</i> and other papers this morning illustrate just how out of touch both the paper and the Australian trade union movement are with the economy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crabb: Is the Coalition a bunch of union bigwigs?</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/questionable-logic-all-round-20090918-fva2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/questionable-logic-all-round-20090918-fva2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[question time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work choices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=87890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Opposition is like a "crumbly old trade union", writes <b>Annabel Crabb</b>. The evidence? Tony Abbott declared an industrial dispute on Question Time and threatened to <em>strike</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Australian actors call cut on overseas ads</title>
		<link>http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/08/actors-strike-on-overseas-ads.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/08/actors-strike-on-overseas-ads.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[television advertisements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=78645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Actors in the Media Arts and Entertainment Alliance are striking on overseas commercials being shot locally, after the Screen Producers Association of Australia terminated its rates and conditions agreement. Although, as the SPAA wryly noted: "You cannot strike if you are not employed."]]></description>
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		<title>Unions win some lose some at Ruddfest 09</title>
		<link>http://wl.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25873069-5013404,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://wl.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25873069-5013404,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP national conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ruddfest 09 delivered "good outcomes" for unions, with entitlements for workers of collapsed companies. But workplaces will not become more "union friendly".]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Unions at Ruddfest</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2009/2640519.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2009/2640519.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP national conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian council of trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=77213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How are unions involved in the ALP national conference and what are they asking for? ACTU President <b>Sharan Burrow</b> explains in an interview on <em>ABC Radio National</em>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>ACTU bites its tongue, retreats to attic</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/actu-bites-its-tongue-retreats-to-attic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/actu-bites-its-tongue-retreats-to-attic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFMEU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/actu-bites-its-tongue-retreats-to-attic/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What trade-off has the ACTU received for biting its tongue about the building industry? So far, just some half hearted words of encouragement about 'buying Australian'.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Ltd and the cold shoulder of redundancy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/29/news-ltd-and-the-cold-shoulder-of-redundancy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/29/news-ltd-and-the-cold-shoulder-of-redundancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Limited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The journalists' union is taking a hard look at News Limited's redundancies, writes <b>Christopher Warren</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Globe gives in</title>
		<link>http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/07/globe_union_ove.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/07/globe_union_ove.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=75151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <em>Boston Globe</em>'s largest union has finally agreed to a deal with parent New York Times Co., accepting $10m in pay and benefit cuts. But the paper's future is still far from assured.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Union had better back big safety claims against Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/union-better-back-its-big-safety-claims-against-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/union-better-back-its-big-safety-claims-against-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALAEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/union-better-back-its-big-safety-claims-against-qantas/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did Qantas last June allow a Boeing 767 which had experienced severe turbulence before landing at Cairns continue its journey without completing all of the mandatory inspections required?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/union-better-back-its-big-safety-claims-against-qantas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Union makes demands on Fair Work&#8217;s first day</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25721007-601,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25721007-601,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Manufacturing Workers Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=70954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not exactly a move to set employers at ease. On the first day of Fair Work Australia, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union started pushing for a pay rise. Industry is concerned, says <strong>Ewin Hannan</strong>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Globe and Times Co reach tentative agreement</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/media/24globe.html?ref=media</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/media/24globe.html?ref=media#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Globe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=69327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After months of negotiation, the Boston Newspaper Guild has agreed to a contract settlement to keep the paper running. But not without compromises and significant wage cuts.]]></description>
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