Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis by Martin Hart-Landsberg Martin Hart-Landsberg (marty@lclark.edu) teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and is the author with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2005). The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions. Many, encouraged by [...]
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Government Schools Lose from Government Funding of Private Schools A new study says that government schools are the clear “losers” from government funding of private schools over the past four decades. It shows that government funding of private schools in Australia has increased socio-economic segregation between government and private schools and allowed private schools to [...]
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Protected Action Results Bans by UNSW emplyees: Support your stood down colleagues Enterprise bargaining UNSW style against the union, the NTEU. This also involves ADFA, ACT. http://www.nteu.org.au/unsw/blog/view/post/postId/367 Please support some 70 academic and general staff who have been stood down without pay by UNSW VC Fred Hilmer for imposing bans on the recording and transmission [...]
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Too many fatalities on the waterfront; unions call for urgent taskforce to improve safety Workplace safety on Australian waterfronts must be overhauled to stem the mounting death toll among stevedoring workers. Three deaths and a spate of serious injuries and near misses in a little over six months is not good enough and suggests that [...]
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Ark Tribe Court Case Update: Hearings continued for three days this week. Ark Tribe’s lawyer has suggested to the court that the ABCC has acted beyond it’s powers. As a result the defense has called into question much of the evidence put forward by prosecutors. For more than two years, Mr Tribe and his family [...]
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Strikes end at two Chinese automotive suppliers Automotive News China http://www.autonewschina.com/en/article.asp?id=5488 Automotive News | 2010-7-22 GUANGZHOU/TOKYO(Reuters) – Chinese factory workers at two suppliers for foreign automakers returned to work on Thursday after winning hefty pay rises, ending strikes that again highlighted the carmakers’ vulnerability to their China suppliers. The strikes at Atsumitec Co, which supplies [...]
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Deeper challenges with the 2010 federal election Statement of the SEARCH Foundation Committee, July 21, 2010 The best outcome from the high-stakes federal election campaign now underway would be the return of a Labor government with the Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate, and perhaps making a breakthrough into the House of [...]
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OHS law reform should not rely on Courts for clarification from SafetyAtWork Since the early 1970′s OHS law has been “de-lawyer-fied”. The intention of the law is to empower workers and employers to manage safety in the workplace to meet basic human rights – the right not to be injured at work, the obligation not [...]
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This Tuesday, July 20, construction worker Ark Tribe will face court in Adelaide for what could be the last time. His ‘crime’? Sticking up for his safety rights on site and then refusing to be coerced into an interview with the unfair Australian Building and Construction Commission. For this, Ark now faces up to six [...]
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From Water Wars to the Fight for Climate Justice Bolivia’s UN ambassador, Pablo Solón, gave this talk to the Shout Out for Global Justice, sponsored by the Council of Canadians and attended by nearly 3,000 people on June 25 in Toronto, during the ten days of protests against the G20 meeting. Other speakers included Maude [...]
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