Labor can deal with its crisis in a labour way by Rob Durbridge The crisis besetting the Federal Government looks like a rising Queensland flood, while Abbott and Co watch and wait for the Government to drown. It’s a crisis with multiple causes, linked by the failure of a leadership without a sense of identity [...]
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The strike
National union congress talks Right To Strike Saturday, May 19, 2012 By Paul Benedek, Sydney About 100 unionists packed the Unions NSW Atrium on May 14 to discuss the right to strike campaign, at a fringe event of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress that began the same day. Titled “Advance Australia Fair? [...]
IWW – then and now
IWW -then and now by Humphrey McQueen The ashes of Joe Hill Let’s start from three interlocked expressions of the IWW’s approach to educating, organising and agitating: its humour, its slogans and its songs. In comparison, today’s grouplets, including the IWW, seem po-faced. The first aspect is the power of IWW satire, sarcasm and irony. [...]
Howe: ACTU report Lives on Hold.
Extract from Brian Howe’s speech to the ACTU launching his 84 page “Lives on Hold” report: “Australia must pursue universality in labour law. Doing this effectively requires: Expanded definitions of employers and employees; Reforms to better capture indirect employment arrangements like labour hire and dependent contracting; A firmer definition of casual work; and Expanded National [...]
ACTU Congress: day 2
This morning the ACTU released the report of the Inquiry into insecure work headed by former Deputy PM Brian Howe. It is called “Lives on Hold Unlocking the Potential of Australia’s Workforce”. This 85 page report is well worth reading and studying, but more importantly campaigning with unions for the implementation of its recommendations too [...]
Chomsky
A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? On the History of the US Economy in Decline by Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through [...]
Troublemakers
In the US Labor Notes Conference Troublemakers unionists organise in their thousands. “You can get depressed hearing all the stories of low-wage and immigrant workers,” Ahmad said. But at Labor Notes, “the energy is amazing.” Vision sharpens, and all of a sudden the movement that can stand up against the odds comes into view. http://labornotes.org/2012/05/troublemakers-union-gathers-stronger-ever [...]
Strike debates
The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control at the ACTU Congress 2012 by Chris White. Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control. 1. Unions’ right to strike campaign is to repeal all Fair Work Act penal powers and for a ‘firewall’ protection for workers [...]
ACTU job protection debate
Australian Jobs Protection to be discussed at ACTU Congress Australians believe everyone should pay their fair share. Everyone should contribute. Everyone is entitled to a fair go. How can it be that: Some of our richest Australians, like billionaire Clive Palmer, did not pay tax in his main private company last financial year. BRW lists [...]
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