How Workers Run Argentina’s “Recuperated Workplaces†From Global Labor Strategies In a previous post, we described the process by which workers in 200 workplaces in Argentina occupied their workplaces and began running them themselves. In this post we will examine how the workplaces are actually run and how their workers are dealing with the managerial, [...]
Global Warming and Global Labor
Global Warming and Global Labor While world leaders play the “blame game†for their failure to negotiate a binding climate agreement in Copenhagen, trade unions from around the world, almost unnoticed, have forged their own common approach to climate protection. http://laborstrategies.blogs.com/global_labor_strategies/ Unions in different countries and industries inevitably have different interests. But remarkably they have [...]
Water action
Water Action Coalition at the Australian Civic Trust calls for a Public Inquiry with the Open Letter to South Australian Members Parliament House. The Water Action Coalition (WAC) is a diverse and broadly represented group of concerned South Australians that are calling on all members of the South Australian Parliament to support WAC’s call for [...]
Deaths at work
ACTU says: Tragic deaths of young workers must be stopped: call for urgent changes to Insulation Scheme The Federal Government should immediately halt the Ceiling Insulation Stimulus Scheme until there are major improvements to its safety, training and licensing standards, say unions. The tragic recent deaths of three young workers — two by electrocution and [...]
Greens
With its sharp right turn to Tony Abbott as leader, the coalition has left small-L liberal voters to back the Greens, sending a message to Canberra, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. “From human rights to social justice, including issues important to women, support for better funding for public health and education and protection [...]
Abbott
We all know Abbott. One memory I have is in Adelaide at an AIRS conference addressed by Abbott as Workplace Relations Minister spinning his Building and Construction laws. At the time little building work in Adelaide meant few strikes. More union industrial action in Melbourne and Perth had Abbott’s ‘double-speak’ labelling lawful and legitimate workers [...]
Dum splits threeways
I was wrong in an earlier blog with Tweedledum splitting left wing and right wing as it’s a three way split. The change is too breathtaking to keep up. The political viciousness and treachery by all is intense. Some observations at 9am. 22 million Australians are removed from the interests of these very small number [...]
Cameronisation of Turnbull
4.10 pm Canberra. While we are waiting for the Liberals , here is The Cameronisation of Turnbull by Alex White Recently, Turnbull went to visit David Cameron, the very successful UK Tory leader. Cameron has been extremely successful in transforming the unelectable Tories to a forward looking, “progressive†conservative party. He has turned areas of [...]
Hockey
2pm Canberra. While waiting for Hockey, I remembered this on June 29 from Dr Norman Abjorensen, ANU. Dog Days for the Liberal Party of Australia “If Malcolm Turnbull survives it will prove one thing: that the Liberal Party has a potent death wish. What should have been the Coalition’s great asset – and only a [...]
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