What policy makers can do is to examine these detailed evidence – based arguments in this lodgement of complaint about the Fair Work Bill to the International Labour Organisation. Political discourse depends on the merits of the arguments that the Rudd/Gillard government, like Howard, is in breach of fundamental international standards. Rudd is striding the [...]
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John Bellamy Foster: Financial crisis, imperialism and environment — `Socialism is humanity’s best chance’ On September 17, 2009, John Bellamy Foster appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the financial meltdown, social change and democracy. A conversation with John Bellamy Foster, editor of the US-based socialist magazine Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of [...]
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New global warming
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7.Right to strike concluding
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Right to strike as human right 6.
I contend this ‘doublethink’ applies again with the Fair Work Act (2009) – albeit in a different form.
A new ‘1984 doublethink political spin’ that ‘WorkChoices is dead’ and the Fair Work Act (2009) establishes ‘the right to strike’ and ‘fair rights for workers’ and a ‘fair balance for all’.
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