It is worth looking at this Creative Unions site that is an experiment in bringing together unionists to strengthen our collective knowledge and skills in communication strategies and design. http://www.creativeunions.org Creative Unions is a not-for-profit social venture in strengthening trade union communications and design. A large part of our jobs is running campaigns, communicating with [...]
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West Papua
West Papua – Andy Alcock. The reason why the West Papuan just struggle is a forgotten war is that the Indonesian military (TNI) has virtually closed the place off from the outside world; just as it did in East Timor for most of the 24 years it occupied that country. Another reason is that the [...]
Factory in the Hands of Workers
Zanon belongs to the people: FASINPAT wins definitive expropriation by Marie Trigona Znet August, 14 2009 The workers at Argentina’s occupied ceramics factory FASINPAT won a major victory this week, the factory now definitively belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it [...]
Shipping reforms
Govt must urgently adopt shipping reforms 30 Jul 2009 The Maritime Union of Australia today urged the Federal Government to urgently adopt reforms to revitalise Australian shipping in circumstances where there are real and ongoing threats of further losses of Australian trading vessels from the coastal trade. “It’s become clear to the Maritime Union of [...]
Bushfires:UFUA
Bushfire Royal Commission evidence by Peter Marshall UFUA Witness statements and cross examination at the Victorian Bushfire Royal commission have revealed how a complex bureaucratic emergency management system failed on Black Saturday, February 6. Authorities were unable to give bushfire threatened residents adequate warnings, nor could they track the path of the fires that killed [...]
Save our schools
Save our schools gives critical analysis of educational issues. If you believe the DPM is doing well in education, read this website. http://www.soscanberra.com/
Procurement debate
In the lead up to the Labor conference, the right-wing are attacking the unions’ sensible procurement policy. Here is the ACTU 2009 policy. ‘Government Procurement Policy Australian Jobs, Industry and Decent Industrial Relations Preamble 1. The federal and state governments’ expend billions of dollars every year on the acquisition of goods and services. At a [...]
ACTU Jobs summit
The ACTU Jobs Summit: Pathways to Recovery addressed the impact of Global Financial Crisis on working Australians and their families. Opening with an address from Professor Richard Freeman from Harvard University, the summit heard from four workers who have recently lost their jobs – representing a small part of the over 115,000 Australians and the [...]
Pay freeze
Pay freeze for low paid workers is unfair and discriminatory, say unions 8 July 2009 A pay freeze for workers reliant on minimum award wages is unfair and discriminatory, say unions. The decision to freeze award minimum wages will leave more than 1.3 million Australians worse off in real terms. The average award worker will [...]
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