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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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Gillard’s construction laws:CCU

By on August 19, 2009 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission

FRAMING AN ACCURATE DEBATE ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LAWS CCU Senate submission august 2009 2.1 In order to have a meaningful public debate about the DPM’s Construction Bill it is important to be clear about the nature of the existing laws and the laws as they would be if the Bill were passed. 2.2 The [...]

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Shipping reforms

By on August 19, 2009 in Public Policy

Govt must urgently adopt shipping reforms 30 Jul 2009 The Maritime Union of Australia today urged the Federal Government to urgently adopt reforms to revitalise Australian shipping in circumstances where there are real and ongoing threats of further losses of Australian trading vessels from the coastal trade. “It’s become clear to the Maritime Union of [...]

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Bushfires:UFUA

By on August 19, 2009 in Environmental crisis, Public Policy

Bushfire Royal Commission evidence by Peter Marshall UFUA Witness statements and cross examination at the Victorian Bushfire Royal commission have revealed how a complex bureaucratic emergency management system failed on Black Saturday, February 6. Authorities were unable to give bushfire threatened residents adequate warnings, nor could they track the path of the fires that killed [...]

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BALIBO

By on August 16, 2009 in Social justice

Balibo (M) Director : Robert Connolly (The Bank) Starring : Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Phillips, Bea Viegas review by Andy Alcock The film Balibo has taken Australia by storm. For several weeks from late July to mid August, it was the subject of lively discussion on many [...]

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ALP Conference – Boyd

By on August 13, 2009 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

ALP National Conference – The Struggle for a Working People’s Agenda Brian Boyd VTHC Secretary Between 30/31 July and 1st August in Sydney, the Australian Labor Party conducted its first national Conference since the 2007 Federal election. As with the last such Conference (July/August 2007), there was a tense struggle to win useful industrial, social [...]

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Timor review

By on August 13, 2009 in Book Review

BOOK REVIEW by Andy Alcock: “THE LONG PATROL – AUSTRALIA & EAST TIMOR’S WARS” by Richard Plunkett (Black Dog Books 2008) $16.95 Since Timor Leste gained its independence in 1999, it seems that there is a never ending stream of books being written about the country. This is probably the case because not many thought [...]

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