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NTEU: higher education

Posted 30 July 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Public Policy, Social justice, Uncategorized | No Comments

WHERE THE PARTIES STAND ON HIGHER EDUCATION The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) today released results of a survey it has conducted of the major Australian political parties’ stance on key higher education, research, industrial relations, Indigenous and other policy issues. A summary of the results and the individual party responses can be downloaded from [...]

China – auto workers protest

Posted 20 June 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Dear Friends, This is an interesting commentary on the spate of strikes traversing across China’s auto components industry. Apparently, there has also been a strike at a Toyota plant. Don Sutherland Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union http://www.autonewschina.com/en/index.asp Automotive News China Room 1303, Building 2, Lane 99, South Hongcao Road, Shanghai 200233 Telephone: 86-139-1851-5816 Fax: 86-21-6495-0895 COMMENT [...]

David Pope cartoonist

Posted 19 June 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

The Canberra Times has David Pope Cartoonist daily. His cartoons are worth looking at http://www.scratch.com.au/ He is well known as being Hinze, used often by unions. His books are worth getting. http://www.scratch.com.au/archive/2010/100605s.jpg

Socialism

Posted 17 June 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

THE SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE Real Human Development by Michael A. Lebowitz Book ad: from Monthly Review Press “. . . one of the foremost works in the new theory of socialist transition, and a worthy complement to Lebowitz’s previous works, Beyond Capital and Build It Now.”—John Bellamy Foster; editor, Monthly Review “. . . should be [...]

International Workers’ Memorial Day wednesday 28th april

Posted 26 April 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Unions and OHS Reps make work safer The theme for 2010 International Memorial Day for deaths at work CFMEU. Since the introduction of the Australian Building and Construction Commission in 2005, we have witnessed a massive increase in deaths and serious injuries in the construction industry. The statistics tell us what so many families of [...]

Boycott unfair tests

Posted 12 April 2010 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

The AEU’s decision to boycott NAPLAN has been coming for some time. Teachers are winning the public debate. The DPM on the ABC tonight gave a (rare) disastrous floundering account, more spin than merit. But more to come. Julia Gillard delights in her plans to use parents to undermine teachers’ industrial action. Why? – unless [...]

Manual labour

Posted 02 November 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized, Workers Rights | No Comments

Labour Start photo – manual labour http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmasad/3951175816/ View other photos http://www.labourstart.org/lpoty/

ICT in schools

Posted 22 October 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

For research on ICT in schools with student voices ‘Listening to Students’ and Educators’ Voices: Research Findings’ by Associate Professor Kathryn Moyle, the DPM has released this: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Resources/Pages/Resources.aspx http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_091022_114337.aspx

AVAAZ

Posted 30 August 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Environmental crisis, Social justice, Uncategorized | No Comments

Web based actions https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ Sign the Climate Change petition and others