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Each week our dynamic team of presenters pack the one hour program with information about your rights at work, and other social issues.We let you know about the laws that cover you at work - your right to fair pay, to fair conditions, to a safe work place, and to fair compensation if you are injured at work. We let you know how you can make sure you are treated right.We also feature great music, including local bands and gigs, and updates of what's happening in and around Adelaide. Smart and sassy, it's activist media at its best. Definitely worth listening to!
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Working Australians to suffer as WorkChoices-era pay commission saves its worst for last

Published: 7/07/2009 Todays decision by the soon-to-be-scrapped Fair Pay Commission is another kick in the guts for working Australians from the Liberals WorkChoices, say unions. More than 1...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:48:00 GMT

Time to celebrate new IR laws - stronger rights and protections for Australian workers

Published: 1/07/2009 New industrial relations laws, which begin today, represent an historic step forward for the rights of working Australians and their families. The new laws mark a turning poin...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:19:00 GMT

SackWatch: who is sacking workers

from http://www.crikey.com.au/Andrew Crook writes: Unemployment data released this morning has confirmed suspicions that the April jobless figure was a mere blip on the radar, the last glimm...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:20:00 GMT

What's on YR@N tonight? Thursday 11the June 2009

Please forward to your networks!   What's on YR@N tonight? Thursday 11the June 2009 - The trial of Ark Tribe - SA Public Sector Job Cuts and do we need and anti-corruption commission?- Should...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:16:00 GMT

Unions put forward new plan to protect jobs and workers' entitlements

Published: 2/06/2009 A new plan to protect the jobs and entitlements of Australian workers affected by the global downturn has been endorsed today by unions at the triennial ACTU Congress being he...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:47:00 GMT

Pacific Brands must halt plans to send jobs offshore: unions

Published: 29/05/2009 Commenting on the secret overnight move by Pacific Brands to ship machinery bought with a  government subsidy out of Australia, ACTU President Sharan Burrow said: There is...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 22:45:00 GMT

Invitation to AUtonomies exhibition - on now!

In recognition of National Reconciliation Week 2009, SA Unions and Artlab Australia would like to invite you to Autonomies  a photographic exhibition by Jessie Boylan with Emma King. In 2007 the ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 06:29:00 GMT

Jobs, jobs, jobs Budget (with a bit of tough love) will protect working families in downturn

Published: 12/05/2009 Responding to the 2009 Federal Budget, ACTU President Sharan Burrow said:For working Australians and their families this is a Budget for jobs, jobs and jobs with a bit o...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 04:57:00 GMT

PAID MATERNITY LEAVE: AN HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT

PAID MATERNITY LEAVE: AN HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENTFrom Sharan Burrow, ACTU PresidentWhat a wait its been. Thirty years after Australian women and unions first began campaigning for paid maternity leave,...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 20:46:00 GMT

ACTU and unions welcome paid maternity leave scheme for working mothers

Published: 10/05/2009 Unions welcome the historic introduction a universal, government-funded paid maternity leave scheme covering the majority of Australian women and their families.The campaign...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 07:28:00 GMT