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Global Downturn
Workers brace for new Recession
What the world needs
..
is a shorter work week
Australian Labor Party
How
long beyond their use-by date?
ACTU accuses Libs':
"Idle on shorter work hours"
Ford
Australia
Workers get nine-day fortnight and extra leave
Korea:
Workers continue fight to save jobs
Russia:
Workers strike against Putin Laws - build solidarity with Mexican
Workers
U.S.
Religious
group calls for ‘free time / free people’ campaign
Wollongong
SWWAC
gets max coverage in Illawarra for SWW
"Free
Trade vs Fair Trade":
And the fight for a
worldwide campaign to shorten working hours
Australia 2000:
IWorking
life - harder, poorer
Ideas for a new economy:
Potential users tool kitting points the way
OTHER
NEWS 
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SWWAC
NEWS
UPDATED December 2000
ACTU
accuses Austaralian Liberal Federal government of being idle on shorter
work hours
Australian
Council of Trade Unions secretary Greg Combet says that while France has
a 35 hour week and all European countries are setting 48 hour caps on
weekly work the Howard/Reith government remains idle on the issue.
The
ACTU is running a test case in the Industrial Relations commission to
get award guidelines to ensure work hours are ‘reasonable’.
‘Changing
the long hours culture can stimulate employ-ment growth’ &
reducing the pressure to work unreason -able hours is not only smart it
is also fair says Combet. For
most workers longer hours is not about getting ahead, it is about
keeping a job. For further
on the ACTU work-time-life campaign see getalife@actu.asn.au
or www.actu.asn.au/
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