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 [...]
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US union winning struggles in Ohio and Wisconsin
At the ACTU Congress inspiring reports from two US union activists Shari Obrenski Clevand Teachers Union and Eric Barnes from Wisconsin explaining how US unions are sucessful in mobilising hundreds of thousands in Wisconsin and Ohio pushing back the extreme Republican state anti-union and no collective bargaining allowed attacks. Their campaign extended to mobilisation citizens [...]
Chomsky
A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? On the History of the US Economy in Decline by Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through [...]
Troublemakers
In the US Labor Notes Conference Troublemakers unionists organise in their thousands. “You can get depressed hearing all the stories of low-wage and immigrant workers,” Ahmad said. But at Labor Notes, “the energy is amazing.” Vision sharpens, and all of a sudden the movement that can stand up against the odds comes into view. http://labornotes.org/2012/05/troublemakers-union-gathers-stronger-ever [...]
War or peace
War or Peace. My Report on the Basewatch meeting Saturday april 28 3.30 pm CDU Darwin With veteran whafie and NT political leader Brian Manning, I with 40 others attended Darwin’s public meeting on the US military machine in Australia. I applaud the Basewatch group for an informative meeting over 2 hours on this question [...]
Politics: Winner take all
Winner-take-all politics 20 February, 2012 – 12:51 Frank Stilwell Concern with economic inequality is making a modest political comeback. Barrack Obama has made it a recurrent feature in his speeches, while Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has copped flak for saying he is more concerned with the broad middle class than the very rich or [...]
Co-operative?
Follow the actions of these unionised workers in the US – now a cooperative is on the agenda in response to redundancies. http://www.truth-out.org/republic-windows-workers-consider-employee-owned-co-op/1330711182
World without nuclear weapons
Follow the campaign Global Zero for a world without nuclear weapons. http://www.globalzero.org/en/about-campaign
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