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Labour Start photo – manual labour
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For research on ICT in schools with student voices ‘Listening to Students’ and Educators’ Voices: Research Findings’ by Associate Professor Kathryn Moyle, the DPM has released this:
http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Resources/Pages/Resources.aspx
http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_091022_114337.aspx

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The Fair Work Bill. The National Employment Standard. Right to information?
Rights to information and consultation about work and employer decision-making is a key industrial relations issue. The ACTU found in a survey of 8,000 workers 70% were ‘very concerned or concerned’ about the lack of information and consultation in their workplace.
So what is the [...]

I am reading the Fair Work Bill that has new National Employment Standards,. But a standard that is not enforceable is not a right. Here is the family friendly fraud.
The DPM’s response to the work/family collision is a NES ‘entitlement’. Employees with at least twelve months’ service can request ‘a change in working arrangements’ to [...]

I am in London and met Daniel Blackburn the Director of the ICTUR, the International Committee on Trade Unipn Rights at their Internationa Office. Iasked: What are the priorities of ICTUR’s work?
Without question the trade union rights situation in Colombia remains the most serious in the world. Miguel Puerto, a Colombian human rights lawyer [...]

Too many articles to handle? If you missed out on a great article from last month, here’s a quick digest of the most popular that you may want to check out:

Leighton: Gillard’s honourable men
Posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission – Comments: (0)
On Monday, 27 October, a floor collapsed [...]

These X-mas posts on Gaza are from the Australians for Palestine.
War is Over!

No, Julia! New York is Not Working
New York City Schools Chancellor and prospective US Secretary of Education, Joel Klein, is in Australia next week to spruik his school reforms. The Federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard, claims that reforms such as reporting individual school results are “working” and have produced “remarkable outcomes”. She says that there [...]