Photos from successful APHEDA dinner in Canberra last week. “It is no longer possible to protect workers’ rights in one country, while in neighbouring countries with whom we trade, workers face exploitation and sweatshop conditions. The fight for workers’ rights in one country has to be a fight for workers’ rights in every country. I [...]
Unions must move left
mobilizing model produces unions that are directed by fulltime paid staff, in which workers play a subordinate role. At worst, workers become almost irrelevant in a numbers game in which the size of the union is what counts, rather than creating an organization they can learn to use to challenge the employer at work to win better wages and conditions.
US unions call for a fairer global economy
The 2009 AFL-CIO Convention has ended, but the global union movement is keeping its attention focused on Pittsburgh, as world leaders arrive for the G-20 summit. AFL-CIO members expressed solidarity with workers around the world and recognized that we can’t solve the international economic crisis alone. Convention delegates approved a resolution calling for a coordinated [...]
NTEU strikes
The NTEU today held sucessful strike action in bargaining. One innovation is to live-tweet and twitpic university strike ‘At the National Tertiary Education Union University Strike we are going to do live updates and mini videos on the picket lines at RMIT University and the University of Melbourne. You can follow along on twitter: @NTEUVictoria. [...]
No more workplace deaths
Andreia Veigas’ husband Glen was working on a building site when he cut into a live wire that should have been disconnected. An hour and a half later, Andreia had to identify his body. That’s why Andreia’s supporting the safer workplaces campaign. Watch her story here: http://www.nswrightsatwork.com.au/nomoreworkplacedeaths/
OHS campaign continues
From the Your Rights at Work team an email OHS lobbying campaign http://www.rightsatwork.com.au/ohscampaign and with the ACTU OHS radio ad going to air, worker pressure on Gillard is increasing. ‘It is time to remind our governments that Australian workers cannot live with second rate safety standards. (See earlier OHS posts on this blog )In the [...]
G20
What’s in Play at G20 Pittsburgh? by Andrew Jackson The London G-20 summit last fall may go down in history as the meeting that saved the world. That’s a huge exaggeration of course, but leaders did agree to a program of co-ordinated monetary and fiscal stimulus which may have arrested an economic free-fall, and they [...]
Workers unite
Workers of the World Unite! A New Message for Labour Day 2009? by Leo Panitch What is the significance of the way not only Keynes but even Marx has been brought back into fashion amidst the global economic crisis? This is a question well worth pondering on the day (Canada) that is officially designated to [...]
Climate action book
Free Public Seminar and Book Launch Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions Dr Mark Diesendorf Deputy Director, Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW Mark’s book will be launched by Shane Rattenbury, speaker, ACT Legislative Assembly Event organised by Nature & Society Forum Thursday 24 September, 5.30-7.00 pm Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre, NCEPH Building 62a [...]
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