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 →
Intervention Walk-Off protest house
TRADE UNION WORKERS BRIGADE TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY WALK OFF PROTESTING NT INTERVENTION Dear Trade Unionists and supporters of Aboriginal Rights, Thank you to all who supported the east coast speaking tour raising awareness of the Ampilatwatja community Walk-Off protesting the NT Intervention. www.interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com The tour generated growing public and trade union support for the walk [...]
Read more →Canberra rally for refugees
Rally: let the refugees into Australia 5:30 pm Friday 13 November Petrie Plaza (near the merry-go-round), Civic Instead of bringing refugees picked up by an Australian Customs ship to Australia, the Government has tried for four weeks to force them to get off in Indonesia. They had tried to come to Australia by boat from [...]
Read more →Go Home on Time Day
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 [...]
Read more →Union communication
X-mas coming…check out this Union Communication services. http://www.unionist.com/
Read more →OHS update
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.
Read more →Michael Moore on ABC Lateline Business
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/200910/s2728183.htm
Read more →McQueen on Capital refined
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 [...]
Read more →Boats
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 [...]
Read more →ACTU: bring in asylum seekers
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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