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 →
OHS review
BOOK REVIEW: Andy Alcock
“Framework of Flesh – Builders’ Labourers battle for Health & Safety”
by Humphrey McQueen (2009) Ginninderra Press (Port Adelaide)
I am very interested in this topic, because at an early age, I was confronted with the hazardous circumstances in which building workers were forced to accept.
For most of his working life, my father [...]
Columbian documentary Canberra
Stop criminalisation of International Solidarity!
Stop State Terror in Colombia!
Saturday, March 6th, 7:30pm
Garema Place, ACT Canberra
A documentary on the current struggles of the Colombian people will be screened, introduced by Colombia solidarity activists.
Followed by the controversial documentary that Uribe does not want you to see.
At the time Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agrees to accept [...]
Abbott vs unionism
Abbott tells corporate leaders that WorkChoices was not an economic mistake, not all bad, but politically a mistake.
WorkChoices was necessary as regulation for unlimited freedom for profit making and undermining unions.
Turnbull was to hide WorkChoices 2. With Abbott the contest is back in the open.
But the Murdoch press weekly has propaganda “Abbott [...]
Waterfront death
TRAGIC BRISBANE DEATH RINGS BELL FOR URGENT CHANGES IN WATERFRONT SAFETY 21 Feb 2010
As the family of dock worker Brad Gray mourn, co-workers and the Maritime Union of Australia are demanding overdue action to prevent a repeat of the fatality.
Brad was tragically killed on Saturday just before
3pm in an horrific workplace injury while working the [...]
Matilda myth ABC
From ABC Radio National.
‘The Matilda Myth, on radio and online, makes the case that the real swagman, immortalised in our ‘Ballad of the Fair Go,’ didn’t drown himself in a billabong but was most probably murdered beside one, assassinated to silence the rebellion of the 1894 Shearers’ Strike.
This contentious hypothesis, based on the [...]
Ecology Under Fire
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Ecology Under Fire:
Climate Change, Copenhagen and Prospects for Change
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With this workshop we tried to answer the following questions: What is at
stake in Copenhagen?
Can Capitalism and Environmental Sustainability Coexist?
How will climate change alter our socio-economic and political landscapes?
What needs to [...]
Socialism
Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass
by Michael A. Lebowitz
[Presentation of “El Socialismo no Cae del Cielo: Un Neuvo Comienzo” at the 2010 Havana Book Fair, 18 February 2010.]
‘There’s an old saying that if you don’t know where you want to go, any road
will take you there. As I’ve said on many occasions, this [...]
Red-Green alliance?
I went to the Brisbane Red-Green conference Saturday 6th February.
‘What roles can the Union and Green movements play in saving the planet?
Red, Green and In-between: Reviewing Labour and the Environment in Historical Context’.
Organised by the Brisbane Labour History conference, with The Centre for Work, Organisation and Well-being and The Department of Employment Relations, [...]
Workers at Xstrata mine fight back
‘It’s hot, there are flies, and we’re all sick of sausages – but morale amongst the coalminers here at Tahmoor is higher than ever.
Workers at Xstrata coal mine in New South Wales, Australia have been locked out in a bitter dispute over sackings but they are determined to keep fighting until Xstrata managers sit down [...]
News from LabourStart- Australia : Premier attempts to neutralise conflict with teachers ahead of Sunday protest
- Australia : LHMU warns hospital privatisation equals job cuts
- Australia : Motherhood wonderful, just not so super
- Australia : Aussie maritime workers back footy greats
- Australia : AMWU rallies to ensure jobs in battle against privatisation
