Strike Wave in China Puts Heat On Official Union by Jane Slaughter December 2011 ‘China faced its second wave of strikes in two years, as thousands of workers in industrial southern provinces—including the sanitation workers in Nanjing—took action. The strikes put heat on the country’s official union. China faced its second wave of strikes in [...]
On Roxby
Rethink Roxby: Our Uranium fuelled Fukashima Adelaide Voices, Opinion by David Noonan, Independent Environment Campaigner. Australia uranium fuelled the Fukashima nuclear disaster yet our governments have just approved the world’s largest uranium project in BHP Billiton’s proposed new open pit mine at Roxby Downs. “We can confirm that Australian obligated nuclear material was at the [...]
Occupy and the waterfront
December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown Occupy and Class Struggle on the Waterfront by MIKE KING ‘On December 12th, the entire Occupy movement on the West Coast will blockade their respective ports to shut down “Wall Street on the Waterfront.” This is both an effort to build a mass social struggle in the US against [...]
Insecure work inquiry
Update Workers have an extra month to tell their story to Inquiry into Insecure Work 15 December, 2011 | Media Release Workers, unions, community and other representative groups have an extra month to contribute their experiences to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia, with the deadline for submissions now extended until late-January. ACTU [...]
Supply chains
Organising through Supply Chains International Union Rights Journal Volume 18 issue 3 2011 http://www.ictur.org/Eng/IUR.html ICTUR This edition on Organising through Supply Chains has ‘A global union’s direct action promotes organising in the US’ against the giant global IKEA chain. Chicken processing workers in the UK and Ireland from Unite campaign against casualisation through increased agency [...]
T-L diary
Timor-Leste diary 2012 http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=860ecd1c884d98cf6535a1aa1&id=f44d227bd7&e=5397062eac
China toys
Making Toys without Joy: ICTI CARE Covers Labour Rights Violations for Global Toy Brands like Disney, Walmart & Mattel from SACOM In Guangdong province, where 70% of China’s toys are exported, migrant workers’ basic salary is around CNY 850-1320 (USD 134-208), actually the same as the statutory local minimum wage. And the minimum wage is [...]
Strike decline
Whatever you might have heard, industrial action is in decline by GRAEME ORR We are told industrial action is flaring across the nation. In truth, what is flaring is that elements of the media are reheating well-worn claims by opportunists in big business, who want a rewrite of the 2009 Fair Work Act. Industrial action [...]
Amin urges audacity
Audacity, More Audacity by Samir Amin The historical circumstances created by the implosion of contemporary capitalism requires the radical left, in the North as well as the South, to be bold in formulating its political alternative to the existing system. The purpose of this paper is to show why audacity is required and what it [...]
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