Howe Inquiry submissions surpass 500 as workers share their stories about insecure jobs ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions 6 February,2012 Fact Sheet The Howe Inquiry into insecure work in Australia has been swamped with more than 500 submissions, including around 450 from workers eager to tell their stories. More than 100 of the submissions [...]
Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe
Crisis, revolt and the left in Europe By Dick Nichols The class struggle may be more advanced in Europe, but I sorely miss what we have created in the Socialist Alliance, as should become clear later in this talk. My aim is to sketch the present phase of the class struggle in Europe, assess the [...]
National Right to Strike Campaign
The National Right to Strike Campaign 2012 is underway. Unions and community groups resolve to have the Fair Work Australia Act become ILO compliant to protect the right to strike. First is a broad based education campaign to highlight the necessity of Australians to have the right to strike. PM Gillard retained the restrictions and [...]
Rinehart’s control
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has just bought a major stake in Fairfax media — in a bid that could turn The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald into mouthpieces for climate denial to protect her mining interests. But together we can foil her plan. Rinehart has already bought Channel Ten’s agenda — and Australia’s ownership [...]
Andy Alcock: campaign on OHS
ARK TRIBE, THE ABCC & THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS IN OHS&W by Andy Alcock Introduction I was asked by the members of the Eco Socialist Convergence in South Australia to prepare a pamphlet about the struggles by the union movement to have the most effective OHS&W laws in Australia to protect workers from death, disease and [...]
Decent work
Vision video: 2 million unionists. Should this promotion of unionism be on TV? Discuss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zpwA0lI_nZU
Apple in China
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?ref=global-home
Tent embassy protest justified
TV beat-up on justified protest. What is losing a shoe compared to losing a continent. http://wgwau.com/blog/2012/01/26/the-tent-embassy-debacle-from-a-protesters-pov/
Insecure work
Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia http://securejobs.org.au/ I recommend two changes for more secure work. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have an effective right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a limited period and apply more secure contracts of employment. [...]
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