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Workers Online Digest Edition - Issue 293

Highlights

*The Bottom Ten
Nathan Brown digs through his voluminous dirt files and comes up with the top 10 grubs of the year. http://workers.labor.net.au/features/200513/d_review_grubs.html

* The Things People Say
It was a year of quotable quotes, reports Phil Doyle.
http://workers.labor.net.au/features/200513/a_guestreporter_abc.html

* Melbourne Burns AWAs
Eighteen Melbourne workers have kicked a big hole in John Howard's plan to deunionise Australia. On Monday, December 19, their employer, Colrain, wrote to the Office of the Employment Advocate, asking that their AWAs be scrubbed. http://workers.labor.net.au/293/news1_burn.html

* Teenager Hit With Shrapnel
Eighty people protested outside a Geelong fish and chip shop that paid a 16-year-old schoolgirl with 1196 five cent pieces. http://workers.labor.net.au/293/news7_shrapnel.html

* Boeing Steals Christmas
Boeing won't explain its preference for individual agreements, as its refusal to negotiate a collective agreement condemns Newcastle employees to Christmas on the picket line.
http://workers.labor.net.au/293/news93_boeing.html

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