Manufacturing hopes rest on union-supported co-operative ventures Australian unions have endorsed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) support for co-operative operations, recognising the critical role they play in advancing the organisation’s Global Employment Agenda and promoting decent work. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the 2012 ACTU Congress had endorsed the position in support of co-operatives as [...]
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ACTU on the economy
ACTU Congress Jobs & the Economy Australian unions have been central to the advancement of progressive economic and social policy in the past. Unions have fought for, and secured, vital elements of the social wage, like pensions, superannuation, Medicare, and income for the unemployed. Australian unions have always had a vision for a fair and [...]
HSU and rats and rats…
ACTU Congress and HSU. I can assure you that this issue did not dominate Congress despite the media headlines, but had to be addressed. Dave Oliver said unions “cannot tolerate the sorts of things revealed in the Fair Work report into the HSU and that kind of behaviour is not acceptable in our movement”. Unions [...]
Behind unemployment figure
← The myths that abound in Federal Budget Papers Australian labour market – converting unemployment into hidden unemployment by Bill Mitchell Today’s release by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) of the Labour Force data for April 2012 reveals a weak labour market with the employment gains being confined to part-time work and workers dropping [...]
Budget
Union stories from this link http://oz.labourstart.org/ Ged Kearney ACTU Responding to the 2012 Federal Budget, ACTU President Ged Kearney said: “The 2012-13 Federal Budget will help shape a fairer Australia, through a more progressive tax system, better assistance for low and middle income earners and protection for jobs in struggling businesses. “The Government has had [...]
Our spending on the military
Australian Defence Facts and Figures Australia is among the top military spenders per capita. This is not something to boast about! There are alternatives – for example, well resourced public schools with better facilities and smaller classes to educate the citizens of the future; more beds in our public hospitals with more nurses with better [...]
Free the refugees
National Convergence in Darwin on the refugee question. Rallies and rock and roll and protest – also protests check in your state. Weather is changing from the wet season to the dry. Time to be in Darwin this Easter weekend. Darwin is an hourly horror for detained refugees. Darwin is rapidly becoming Australia’s detention capital. [...]
Chomsky on war with Iran
Noam Chomsky: What are Iran’s intentions? http://www.truth-out.org/what-are-irans-intentions/1330707877 Time for Australia to be independent from US/Israel.
McQueen on WikiLeaks
Humphrey McQueen: WikiLeaks can help us interpret and change the world More than 400 people crowded into a lecture theatre at the University of Technology Sydney on February 17 a public forum, “Don’t shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy”. The forum was organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition. http://stopwarcoalition.org/support-assange-and-wikileaks-coalition/ Speakers at the [...]
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