What is the trade union movement doing to organise young, minority and flex workers? How does it cope with globlisation? What are its activities at the local level? How does it put social justice on the agenda? Editors of Union renewal website: Dirk Kloosterboer and Tonny Groen (Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV).
Archive | October, 2009
Ecological policy
Global Economic Crisis: Challenges for the Rudd Government Creating an economy that supports local and global ecological sustainability and justice Geoff Evans Faculty of Science and Information Technology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle. Paper given at SEARCH Roundtable Introduction The convergence of the economic crisis, unprecedented biodiversity collapse and climate change [...]
Killing no murder
Killing no murder video on a Brisbane building site http://bushtelegraph.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/killing-no-murder/#comment-7362
Lockout NZ
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.This is what a lockout looks like. http://tinyurl.com/y89l6tm This is what it means to work for an employer that won’t recognize the right to join a trade union. An employer that assaults workers, brings in scabs, and defies the courts and the law. Support the workers at [...]
ILO minium labour rights denied to Australian workers
What policy makers can do is to examine these detailed evidence – based arguments in this lodgement of complaint about the Fair Work Bill to the International Labour Organisation. Political discourse depends on the merits of the arguments that the Rudd/Gillard government, like Howard, is in breach of fundamental international standards. Rudd is striding the [...]
US labor against war 2009
Statement from US labor against war. Australian labor has to be involved in this debate. IRAQ Despite hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 4300 US fatalities and an unknown number of Iraqi deaths and personal trauma, the people of Iraq and the US have little to show for it. Violence and economic devastation abound. [...]
NFSA – film on Indonesia Calling
National Film and Sound Archives On the theme of Canberra and living here I enjoy viewing their films. The images and sounds of film, television, radio and recording are a reflection of our creativity – a window onto our life and times, our dreams and stories, our place in the world. The National Film and [...]
News from LabourStart
- Israel: Union workers across Israel strike on behalf of subcontracted workers
- Australia: The reality of the gender wage gap
- Singapore: Migrant Worker Sit-In Makes Waves in Singapore
- Bahrain: Help free trade union leader Mahdi 'Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb!
- Canada: Quick end to lockout at Rio's Quebec smelter unlikely
- Israel: Histadrut reaches deal with employers, not gov't - strike to go ahead
- Brazil: VIDEO: Police strikers occupying legislature in tense standoff as more than 1,000 soldiers and police surround them
- Australia: Bosses yearn for a paradise lost
- Norway: Lots of nominations for the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights
- China: VIDEO: Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture
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