Tears of Gaza is a gut-wrenching full length promotional documentary (83mins) of the 2008-2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military, three years ago to the day. It uses actual footage from local Palestinian crews of the bombs falling, the terror of the Palestinians targeted and the ensuing chaos of getting the wounded to overcrowded [...]
GM occupied
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy By Michael Moore On this day, December 30th, in 1936 — 75 years ago today — hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them. The workers couldn’t take the [...]
Schweppes locks out workers
Read here for the details. Say to retailers that you do not want to buy Schweppes products. As argued on this blog, here is another reason why the lawful lock-out ought to be denied to the more poweful employer. Workers and their unions have such a limited right to strike that our so-called “fair” bargaining [...]
Worst anti-union companies
This Year’s Worst Companies to Work for if You Want the Right to Join a Union By Liana Foxvog and Sean Rudolph, International Labor Rights Forum Today we published our list of this year’s Scrooges for workers’ right to unionize. The companies that topped our list are Dole, Hershey’s, Philippine Airlines, and Wal-Mart. These corporations [...]
Socialism…
Australian Options magazine no 67 out now editorial: Whither Capitalism; Whither Socialism? ‘AO founder Elliott Johnston posed “the question of socialism, however named” just before his recent death. The hundreds who attended his memorial service heard of a tireless campaigner for justice and social change on which to build a better world. Far from being [...]
FWA review
Fair Work review is an opportunity to dispel employer myths and strengthen workers’ rights 20 December, 2011 ACTU Media Release Next year’s review of the Fair Work Act must not become a forum for employer grandstanding, and unions will take a strong interest to ensure the voices of working Australians are heard and that their [...]
ABCC remains
ABCC hangs on, but legislation to scrap it will be debated early next year from Dave Noonan CFMEU Despite our best efforts, the ABCC has received a stay of execution. The legislation introduced by the Labor Government to scrap it was not debated this year, and won’t be back in Parliament until February at the [...]
ye are many
Jim Sharp Poem/1090 [1]16/2011 We are the 99% a materialist concept of class struggle endures recurrently high & low “rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number- shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you- ye are many- they are few” by Percy Shelley
MP pay system not for workers
Union leaders are understandably upset that their union members do not get these large increases. Putting aside the Remuneration Report’s recommended high level for the base rate for MPs, one issue is the wage fixing system itself- that under the Fair Work Act for all and for the political elite their own. Our political elite [...]
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