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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Andy Alcock: campaign on OHS
ARK TRIBE, THE ABCC & THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS IN OHS&W by Andy Alcock Introduction I was asked by the members of the Eco Socialist Convergence in South Australia to prepare a pamphlet about the struggles by the union movement to have the most effective OHS&W laws in Australia to protect workers from death, disease and [...]
Apple in China
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?ref=global-home
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. [...]
Canadian labour
Canadian Labour At The Crossroads? Doug Nesbitt A wage cut of fifty per cent. An elimination of pensions. Cuts to benefits. These demands have inevitably led to a major showdown at a locomotive factory in London, Ontario between the 700 unionized workers of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) and Caterpillar, a massive U.S.-based corporation. The workers, members [...]
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 [...]
2012: China strikes
Strikes and protests continue into the New Year The recent upsurge in worker activism in China is continuing into the New Year with five more strikes and protests in five different provinces getting media attention last week. About 10,000 workers at a Chengdu steel plant staged a massive protest over low pay on 4 January. [...]
Sit down strikes
Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement Sit-in strikers at General Motors’ Fisher No. 1 plant. By Don Fitz [See also With Babies & Banners, the classic 1977 documentary about the 1936-37 Flint sit-down strike, and the role of women in it.] January 3, 2012 – Links International Journal of [...]
Union arrests in Greece
On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, President of the power workers’ union GENOP/DEI, along with more than a dozen of his fellow trade unionists. They will appear in court on Tuesday 10 January 2012 to face charges that could see them jailed for up to five years. They were protesting [...]
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