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Saving our books

By on September 8, 2009 in Public Policy, Social justice

Lobby the ALP government to save Australian authors. Campaign petition handed to Parliament today. http://savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com/

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OHS rallies

By on September 8, 2009 in Labour Law, Social justice, Workers Rights

On 1st September 2009 a 7000 strong Melbourne Union rally demanded “Best Practice” National OHS Laws. They called on the Brumby ALP Government to insist that their federal government counterparts make the best laws possible in the national ‘harmonisation’ process for OHS law. Both rank and file Health and Safety delegates and union officials addressed [...]

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Welcome to new look website

By on September 4, 2009 in Featured

Welcome to the new-look Chris White Online. Chris’s website has received a re-design to make it fresher and easier to navigate, as well as install a number of upgrades to avoid spam and viruses. Leave a comment below if you have any problems navigating the new site, or if there are any features you think [...]

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AVAAZ

By on August 30, 2009 in Environmental crisis, Social justice, Uncategorized

Web based actions https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ Sign the Climate Change petition and others

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DPM’s Second rate OHS

By on August 26, 2009 in Labour Law, Public Policy, Workers Rights

There have been heated debates behind the scenes over the DPM’s national OHS ‘harmonisation’ – read lowest common denoninator second rate health and safety changes. This has spilled over into a public union and community campaign next week september 1st (see ACTU campaign), I decided to learn some of the details at a public report. [...]

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Unemployment

By on August 25, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis

Unemployment: the coming crisis Professor John Quiggin Australian Research Council Federation Fellow School of Economics and School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin At the ACTU Jobs Summit, 20 July 2009. Employment and output in the crisis Employment and unemployment move in line with cyclical fluctuations in economic activity. However, there [...]

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Creative Unions

By on August 24, 2009 in Collective Bargaining, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

It is worth looking at this Creative Unions site that is an experiment in bringing together unionists to strengthen our collective knowledge and skills in communication strategies and design. http://www.creativeunions.org Creative Unions is a not-for-profit social venture in strengthening trade union communications and design. A large part of our jobs is running campaigns, communicating with [...]

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West Papua

By on August 23, 2009 in Public Policy, Social justice

West Papua – Andy Alcock. The reason why the West Papuan just struggle is a forgotten war is that the Indonesian military (TNI) has virtually closed the place off from the outside world; just as it did in East Timor for most of the 24 years it occupied that country. Another reason is that the [...]

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Factory in the Hands of Workers

By on August 19, 2009 in Public Policy, Workers Rights

Zanon belongs to the people: FASINPAT wins definitive expropriation by Marie Trigona Znet August, 14 2009 The workers at Argentina’s occupied ceramics factory FASINPAT won a major victory this week, the factory now definitively belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it [...]

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