The US labour movement is in campaign mode to attack corporate interests lobbying against the new Employee Free Choice Act promoted by the unions and President Obama. Corporate America says they cannot afford in this crisis to have new workers’ rights. Unions press the opposite – new workers’ rights are central to improving the economy [...]
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US: freedom to organise campaign
US unions are campaigning for the freedom to organise. I receive daily campaign updates from the AFL-CIO to lobby to support The Free Choice Bill. But there are no daily emails from Australian unions and the ACTU to pressure the DPM, the ALP caucus and the Senate to amend the Fair Work bill before the [...]
USA: Israel attack on Gaza
The Israeli’s step up their genocide of the Palestinians. I condemn this brutality. In the US… http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/315.html
MPs pattern bargain but not workers
In the Financial Review yesterday, DPM Gillard remains tough in Labor’s crack-down on pattern bargaining. Pattern bargaining – industry-wide industrial action in pursuit of an industry agreement or identical enterprise agreements – is like workChoices specifically prohibited by her Bill (sections 412 and 422). Her “Fair” Work Bill retains all of the WorkChoices repressive regime [...]
The G-20 vs. the G-6 Billion
The message from last weekend’s G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: The game can’t go on. The game must go on. In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, European leaders had flirted with the idea of actually trying to [...]
Global unions response to G20
Trade union leaders from the G20 countries put forward a comprehensive plan to turn around the global economy, in meetings with world leaders in Washington DC on the eve of the financial crisis summit hosted by the US government on 15 November. The top level union delegation will discuss the plan with IMF Managing Director [...]
US unions mobilized
US unions sucessfully mobilized unionists and workers to vote for Obama and for reforms: on the economy, for green jobs and alternative energy, higher minimum wages, health care, rights to join a union, withdrawing troops from Iraq and ending the Reagan-Bush right wing political era. Follow the US union movement’s commentaries. The AFL-CIO blog http://blog.aflcio.org/ [...]
After black friday… if she blows!
If she blows? by Humphrey McQueen 11 October If it is dodgy to speculate about the timing of, or the immediate trigger for a depression, six consequences can be predicted with almost 100% accuracy. >Above all, a collapse of real existing capitalism is not going to move the world one toenail closer towards being a [...]
Socialists on the financial crisis
This is a link to a challenging socialist analysis of the current world capitalist financial crisis by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin ‘They say they won’t intervene. But they will.’ This is how Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, responded to Paul O’Neill, the first Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush, who openly criticized his [...]
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