The National Right to Strike Campaign 2012 is underway. Unions and community groups resolve to have the Fair Work Australia Act become ILO compliant to protect the right to strike. First is a broad based education campaign to highlight the necessity of Australians to have the right to strike. PM Gillard retained the restrictions and [...]
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Insecure work
Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia http://securejobs.org.au/ I recommend two changes for more secure work. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have an effective right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a limited period and apply more secure contracts of employment. [...]
Review: We Built this Country
We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions, by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00 Review by Howard Guille This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions. Read it, as the author says, with the earlier volume ‘Framework of Flesh: Builders’ labourers battle [...]
ABCC remains
ABCC hangs on, but legislation to scrap it will be debated early next year from Dave Noonan CFMEU Despite our best efforts, the ABCC has received a stay of execution. The legislation introduced by the Labor Government to scrap it was not debated this year, and won’t be back in Parliament until February at the [...]
Strike decline
Whatever you might have heard, industrial action is in decline by GRAEME ORR We are told industrial action is flaring across the nation. In truth, what is flaring is that elements of the media are reheating well-worn claims by opportunists in big business, who want a rewrite of the 2009 Fair Work Act. Industrial action [...]
ACTU claims
Unions condemn employer militancy, pledge to improve and strengthen workers’ rights 22/11/2011 Unions have today resolved to vigorously defend workers’ rights against a new wave of employer militancy that is threatening the livelihoods of working Australians. A meeting of unions in Melbourne today has condemned the antagonistic and counter-productive behaviour of Australian employers emboldened by [...]
Gillard retains coercive powers against workers
Struggle against coercive powers of ABCC. I wrote this three years ago. The politics is still relevant in 2011 as PM Gillard is not repealing the coercive powers against construction and building workers and their unions, just changing the name. http://chriswhiteonline.org/2008/11/1984-remains-dpm-firm/ The rights on site struggle goes into 2012 for this Parliament. CFMEU campaigns… http://cfmeu.asn.au/campaigns/national/bad-laws-cost-lives
Abolish coercive powers
ABCC abolition bill should go further and abolish coercive powers The Gillard Government should follow through on its mandate to abolish the ABCC by ensuring its coercive powers are not moved to another organisation, the CFMEU said today. CFMEU Construction National Secretary Dave Noonan said the legislation introduced to the House of Representatives today was [...]
On strikes and their revival
Book Review by Chris White of Joe Burns ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America’ (2011 IG Publishing). I urge debate on reviving the strike. Joe Burns has a stimulating analysis and conclusion in his book ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.’ Australia’s labour [...]
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