The Post Office alsways stood for what was the best of British...

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The education union has hailed a deal that will make Victorian teachers the highest-paid in the country as the best deal for its members in more than 25 years. The agreement between the State Government and the Australian Education Union (AEU) resolves a 14-month industrial row, …

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There were conflicting reports about the whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destined for Zimbabwe, after it was turned away from South Africa's port city of Durban.

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PLANS for Australia's first national literacy and numeracy test are in jeopardy, with teachers in four states threatening to walk out on the day of the crucial exam in pursuit of higher wages. Teachers in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia look set to  …

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UP TO 4000 Catholic school teachers will stop work today amid a series of state school teacher strikes, as pressure mounts on the Government to improve its teachers' wage offer. The state's principals have also foreshadowed their own industrial campaign, which could take place f …

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VICTORIAN students face industrial chaos in both the state and private school systems over the next few weeks, with teachers in public and Catholic schools and state principals planning more strikes as they push for a pay rise from the Brumby Government.

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Terry McMeekin, humanities teacher of 30 years, Berwick Secondary College. "WE ARE the lowest paid teachers in Australia and I don't see why we're worth any less than teachers in other states when we certainly deliver the results.

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TEACHERS are demanding more than recent pay rises for nurses and police, warning Premier John Brumby they may thwart his plans to revamp schools unless they get a better deal. The Age revealed on Saturday the Government was planning to use sensitive enterprise bargaining negotia …

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SMALL businesses are being urged to sack workers before Labor overhauls the industrial relations laws as one of the nation's biggest employers races to put 15,000 staff on five-year employment contracts before Work Choices is scrapped.

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It was boudn to happen, though my money was riding on the French doign it first: the power German union is not happy and is about to launch strike action against Airbus' industrial reforms. This action is not going to do anybody any favours...except Boeing.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff downing tools next week.

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Officially, the facility in Oak Ridge does some precision metal machining for both the civilian and military parts of Boeing's business, but unofficially the facility is known as a key centre for some very advanced weapons related development.

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Up to 1.5 million local government workers are set to walk out in a drawn out dispute with the Government over the Local Government Pension Scheme and retirement ages.

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