Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Labour Start photo – manual labour http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmasad/3951175816/ View other photos http://www.labourstart.org/lpoty/
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
Web based actions https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ Sign the Climate Change petition and others
