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 →
On 9 September 1910, four State unions formed the Australian Builders’ Labourers’ Federation, with Tasmania following in November and West Australia joining in 1966. Humphrey McQueen will publish a broad brush history of the Federation in April next year, titled We Built This Country, builders’ labourers and their unions, 1780s to the future (Ginninderra Press). [...]
In Australia, we’re in a pretty lucky position when it comes to dealing with multinational companies. Just this year we negotiated a world-first nation wide agreement with the anti-union company FedEx. It’s important we stand together, not just at home, but in other countries. Because some multinational companies take advantage of foreign labour laws and [...]
The Best Hated Man in Australia The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield 1875 – 1921 by Paul Robert Adams Book review by Chris White During our tweedledum-dee election I read the biography of Percy Brookfield – a conviction left labour politician. Historian Dr Paul Robert Adams takes us through Brookfield’s exciting story – the [...]
CWU TV – video news for union members The UK Communications Workers Union – covering the postal industry (such as British Mail) has a fantastic, high quality “TV” channel online. The production qualities for CWU TV are very high, and it is up to date, covering recent issues like the UK Labour leadership vote. The [...]
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From Left focus three perspectives on the election http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2010/08/election-reflections-three-perspectives.html
South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions Patrick Bond The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African (SA) government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the [...]
The Nanhai Honda strike in China and the union from Australia Asia Worker links http://www.aawl.org.au/content/chinese-workers-demand-democratic-unions and China Labor News Translations July 2010 http://www.clntranslations.org/article/56/honda ‘One of the most interesting dimensions of the recent strikes at three Honda auto components factories in the Pearl River Delta region has been workers’ clearly articulated demand for their enterprise unions [...]
Australia Asia Worker Links Reports on workers and their unions in struggle and campaigns from Bangladesh, Korea, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia. http://aawl.org.au/
