http://www.apheda.org.au/projects/easttimor/index.html Union Aid Abroad – Apheda East Timor Home Overseas Projects East Timor Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA maintains an office in Dili staffed by both Australian and Timorese personnel which oversees an extensive program of capacity building and training, including * vocational education * establishing and strengthening trade unions * literacy training for rural people * [...]
Environment debate
When the Climate Change Center Cannot Hold by Patrick Bond Last week when 350.org and thousands of allies valiantly were trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s activism, global climate governance is [...]
Incitement!
“Our liberties had not been won by mining magnates or stock-exchange jobbers, but by genuine men of the working-class movement who had died on the gallows and rotted in dungeons and were buried in nameless graves. These were the men to whom we owed the liberties we enjoyed today.” BLF organiser Samuel Champ, Hobart, 1916. [...]
Iran jails strikers
In a drive to destroy the independent union at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex in southern Iran, a court on October 12 sentenced six union leaders to prison on charges of “endangering national security.” Their only crime was to lead a strike. Haft Tapeh workers have repeatedly had to resort to strikes and [...]
Rudds (in)humanity
Rudd ignores the Humane Solution. Rudd, so-far ahead of the Liberals, shows no leadership on refugees and much can be said about reverting to Howard’s fear politics…and ALP MPs remain silent! Here is another right-wing union view from Unions NSW. ‘The Australian Government must immediately find a humane solution for the 78 Sri Lankan asylum [...]
Equal pay?
In the debate on strategies for equal pay for equal worth for many women workers, this background research by Christine Short and Margaret Nowak is invaluable. ‘Persistent Australian Gender Wage Inequality 1990 to 2003: Stakeholders’ Views of Why and How’ Journal of Industrial Relations 2009 51: 262-278. http://jir.sagepub.com/content/vol51/issue2/ Christine Short’s new book is “Why and [...]
350
350 reasons to be alarmed at the environmental crisis and why the ETS will not work. http://www.350reasons.org/ http://www.350.org/
Venezuelan struggles
Venezuela: The Battle for Workers’ Control and building the triangle of socialism…and more. From Left Streamed. http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/#ls26
Killer Company
“KILLER COMPANY – JAMES HARDIE EXPOSED” By MATT PEACOCK, ABC BOOKS REVIEW 1: Andy Alcock In his brilliantly researched book, Killer Company, ABC journalist Matt Peacock exposes the criminal history of the Reid family and others involved in the management of the asbestos manufacturing company, James Hardie. Peacock details how JH pursued policies very similar [...]
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