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Go Home on Time Day

By on November 10, 2009 in Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

Do you find yourself working back late? Never quite getting out the door on time? Well, Go Home On Time Day on November 25 is your chance to make up for it! The website address is www.gohomeontimeday.org.au Why Go Home On Time? The Australia Institute is organising this day. According to a new survey by [...]

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Union communication

By on November 10, 2009 in Workers Rights

X-mas coming…check out this Union Communication services. http://www.unionist.com/

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OHS update

By on November 10, 2009 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Labour Law, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

This Model Act does not attempt to strike a balance between an employer’s and worker’s rights and obligations. The law does not provide or protect workers’ rights. It is a clear example of legislation which destroys any form of balance in favour of favouring even championing employer rights to the detriment of maintaining or improving good workplace OHS.

It is a disgrace that as well as PM Rudd and DPM Gillard accepting 2nd rate OHS at the National level, State Labor leaders are not challenging the watering down of their own State OHS provisions.

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Michael Moore on ABC Lateline Business

By on November 5, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/200910/s2728183.htm

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McQueen on Capital refined

By on November 4, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy

Capital refined – by Humphrey McQueen Introduction Developing policies in the interests of working people calls for the precision about our enemy that Marx offered throughout Capital. For Marx, the practice of science required penetrating beyond appearances to specify the structured dynamics in the accumulation of capital. His critique isolated the forms and stages through [...]

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Boats

By on November 3, 2009 in Social justice

Two boats: “Merak” & “Ocean Viking” From the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre http://www.asrc.org.au/ “Merak”* is anchored off the Indonesian port of Merak and has 255 people on board including “Alex”- (see Senator Fielding Comments below- cant even get his boats straight in this article in The Australian) These people came recently from Sri Lanka- we [...]

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ACTU: bring in asylum seekers

By on November 2, 2009 in Social justice

Time to show our humanity and allow asylum seekers to come to Australia: unions Unions are calling for the Federal Government to allow a group of 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers aboard a Customs ship to be taken to Australian territory. ACTU President Sharan Burrow said it is time for Australians to show our humanity [...]

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Manual labour

By on November 2, 2009 in Uncategorized, Workers Rights

Labour Start photo – manual labour http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmasad/3951175816/ View other photos http://www.labourstart.org/lpoty/

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UN on Gaza war crimes

By on October 31, 2009 in Social justice

Gaza was a war crime that cannot and must not be ignored. And those responsible must be prosecuted. Yet our Labor government is doing nothing. John Wight: ‘The millions who came out in unprecedented mass demonstrations from Buenos Aires to Birmingham, from Montreal to Madrid, in response to Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza back in [...]

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