Corporate Site Will Watch The Boss

Date: 11 December 2001

Workers will be able to map the corporate landscape for the first time, with the release of a new campaigning website with the capacity to track connections between companies online.

The Labor Council of NSW has developed Bosswatch, Australia's first inter-relational corporate database, to allow workers to understand who is really behind their employer.

Bosswatch will allow users to track the networks of influence including directors, shareholders and subsidiary companies. It uses information that is publicly available, but which has never before been linked through the one database.

"Bosswatch will be a campaigning tool for workers who want to know who is exerting influence on their employer," Labor Council secretary John Robertson said.

"It will allow unions and members of the public to share information about corporate influence across industry to get a better idea about the make-up of the Australian economy.

"By exposing these linkages, Bosswatch will become a potent tool in the struggle to civilize globalization."

Bosswatch has been designed by Social Change Online.
It can be found at http://www.bosswatch.labor.net.au

WHERE: Labor Council Training Room
Ground floor, 377 Sussex Street

WHEN: 11am, Wednesday, December 12.

For further information

Contact:	John Robertson
Union:	Labor Council of NSW
Contact Mobile:	0407 457838
WWW:	http://workers.labor.net.au/

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