Trade unions in support of Earthworker – socially based cooperatives. Please listen to Dave Kerin and endorse and join for $20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-9MNbKuAA 100,000 Australians for Earthworker Co-operative Union and community partners are pushing ahead to establish Eureka’s Future in the Latrobe Valley – the initial work, by CFMEU Mining and Energy in the Business Plan. [...]
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Peacebus
Support the Peacebus – now in Darwin. Read here and forward http://www.peacebus.com/AboutPeacebus/
Unions attack government failures at Rio
No Social Justice Without Environmental Protection Sharan Burrow on our environmental crisis. ITUC 22 June 2012: The global trade union movement is bitterly disappointed at the Declaration of the Rio+20 Summit, a declaration that lacks the concrete measures necessary now to end senseless environmental destruction, drive investment into the green economy to create jobs and [...]
earthworker cooperative
Unions support for earthworker cooperative http://earthworkercooperative.com/
Crisis
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 [...]
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 [...]
May Day
May Day is remembering socialist ideals – popular self-government and the economy run democratically by working producers to meet people’s needs and no more war. Chomsky on May Day http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/29-4 Photos May Day http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/may-day-2012-big-photo-galle.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/may/01/may-day-rallies-pictures Leo Panitch on May Day http://www.socialistproject.ca/inthenews/MayDay.html The claiming of May 1 as a day for political protest grew out of [...]
Australian Options
Australian Options no 68 Magazine started by the late Elliott Johnston QC We need new subscribers $20 per year CONTENTS 2 Editorial: Searching for a better socioeconomic system 3 Fair reforms for growth and prosperity to all Dr Cassandra Goldie 6 Recognising Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in the Constitution Professor George Williams FOCUS: The Murray-Darling Basin [...]
ACTU Congress 2012
Save the date: ACTU Congress 2012: 15-17 May, Sydney 26 March, 2012 | Media Release Almost 1000 delegates representing workers from every industry and sector in Australia will attend the ACTU Congress at the Sydney Convention Centre from 15-17 May. This is the largest and most important gathering of Australian unions. Delegates will debate and [...]
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