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Howe: ACTU report Lives on Hold.

By on May 16, 2012 in ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Unionism, Workers Rights

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 [...]

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ACTU Congress: day 2

By on May 15, 2012 in ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Unionism, Workers Rights

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 [...]

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General strike?

By on May 1, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

“If you want a General Strike organize your co-workers” An Interview with Joe Burns, author of “Reviving the Strike” (review this blog) April 28th, 2012 by Camilo Viveiros https://t.co/qoRke0ut Introduction: Many in the Occupy movement have called for a general strike on May 1st but most Occupy activists aren’t involved in labor organizations or organized [...]

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We Built this Country

By on April 10, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

SYDNEY BOOK LAUNCH “WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS 1787 TO THE FUTURE” by Humphrey McQueen The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’. Howard Guille, former secretary of the [...]

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“Fair”? Work Act

By on March 11, 2012 in Labour Law, Right to Strike, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

WorkChoices and the Fair Work Act: Removing the Choice to Strike by Chris White (The following is from the Journal of Political Economy no 56 p68 www.jape.org. But this key Howard repression of strikes remains in 2012 in the Fair Work Act and hence I only add in the ALP government. Unions still campaign for [...]

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ACTU for the right to strike reforms of FWA

By on February 29, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

ACTU submission on the FWA Review February 2012 Section only on the Restrictions on taking protected industrial action – one key reform for the Gillard government and Minister Bill Shorten “The UN and ILO recognise the freedom to strike as a fundamental human right. It is particularly important in the context of collective bargaining. However, [...]

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Len Cooper: Campaign for the Right to Strike

By on February 29, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, ACTU, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

THE RIGHT TO STRIKE AND ORGANISE IN AUSTRALIA by Len Cooper (Please distribute. Make your contributions to education for the Right to Strike Campaign,) “It is not well understood in Australia, but working people are denied the right to strike almost entirely. We are within a hairs breath of being denied the right to strike [...]

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Fair Work Act Review

By on February 15, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Environmental crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Fair Work Act Review Submission by Chris White I recommended two changes for more secure work to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have a real right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a [...]

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Andy Alcock: campaign on OHS

By on February 1, 2012 in ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

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 [...]

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