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 →
Worker participation?
Worker participation is not on the ALP’s Fair Work Australian agenda. But worker participation is debated in Europe.
“The type of labour needed by European companies – skilled, mobile, committed, responsible, and capable of using technical innovations and of identifying with the objective of increasing competitiveness and quality – cannot be expected simply to obey the [...]
Poll:Liberals bring back WorkChoices
ACTU media release. Liberals will bring back WorkChoices to cut wages and conditions at next election: new poll
A majority of Australians believe a Liberal Government led by Tony Abbott-led will bring back WorkChoices, a new national opinion poll released today shows.
The poll of 2,099 working Australians finds fewer than one fifth (18%) believe it unlikely [...]
Why My School fails the test
Why My School fails the test by JEREMY LUDOWYKE
WITHIN a few hours of the My School website overcoming its quizzical technical teething problems, the grey gnomes of at least one media empire drew forth from its feverish burrowing that great false grail of accountability, state league tables.
Melbourne High School, one of our nation’s most accomplished [...]
Resistance lives
Z Net
Worth looking at
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet
Z Communications.
‘We have placed a Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International online for you to consider endorsing.
We hope you will join Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Fernando Vegas, John Pilger, Trevor Ngwane, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Susan George, Boris Kagarlitsky, Francois Houtart, Michael Albert and nearly 900 others…to Endorse!
The Proposal page includes information about [...]
Gulf Troubled Waters Community Forum
”Gulf Troubled Waters Community Forum”
Sunday 7th March 2010
Cove Sports & Community Club (Club Cove)
Oval Road Hallett Cove SA
“Gulf Troubled Waters” Forum provides the community a unique opportunity to understand a broad spectrum of environmental issues associated with Gulf St Vincent through the eyes of the Mid-South Coast.
Never before has the Mid-South Coast had to [...]
School comparison flawed
Call for Inquiry into Bias Against Govt. Schools on My School
A study published today by Save Our Schools, a public education advocacy group, calls for a full independent public inquiry into ‘like school’ comparisons on the My School website.
SOS spokesman, Trevor Cobbold, said that the comparisons are biased against government schools and littered with flaws [...]
Valery’s bus
Peter Botsman and Valery’s Bus.
On ABC Radio National report today.
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2010/s2814344.htm
‘I want to leave something behind, something special for them.’
‘I would like to have an arts and crafts workshop where all kinds of people, especially children can learn and create Aboriginal art. That is my dreaming, that is my dream.’
Gayili Marika Yunupingu
‘When Gayili goes hunting and [...]
US economy and China
The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis
by Martin Hart-Landsberg
The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions.
Many, encouraged by mainstream media and politicians, believe that China’s trade policies bear primary responsibility for the structural decay of our economy and that recovery will require, above all, pressuring the Chinese [...]
Repression of Columbian
AUSTRALIAN POLICE THREATEN COLOMBIAN UNION CAMPAIGN
Rob Durbridge
President, SEARCH Foundation
Recently I was a witness to an interview by the Australian Federal Police of Alejandro Rodriguez, a young Argentine-Australian engineer and union member.
Alejandro is a friend who is involved in a campaign to raise awareness about the [...]
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