1990 -
Qantas and other airlines implement a "blacklist" to intimidate future pilots and punish every individual who dared take part in the pilots' strike by never letting them work in the industry again.
2008 -
Qantas expresses outrage at their engineers' union implementing a "blacklist" of scabs: Read more »
As one might expect, in the leadership debate, Howard made a few claims about the IR "reforms". Lets examine the veracity of some of these claims, remembering of course that one does not need to tell an outright lie to be untruthful. For example, when Howard was asked whether, under his WorkChoices laws employees could be deprived of all their redundancy entitlements, he didn't tell an outright lie - he did not say "no". Read more »
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