Ark Tribe is a construction worker from South Australia. Like any other Australian worker, Ark just wants to rock up for work in the morning in as safe an environment as possible, do his job, and make it home at the end of the day. Unlike other Australian workers, Ark is facing six months in [...]
Job guarantee
The Job Guarantee strategy is to reduce chronic joblessness which has wrecked families across Australia since the neo-liberal attack on full employment began in the mid-1970s and is essential for the Rudd government to create jobs in this recession. This is the creation of ‘public good’ jobs to provide work for the unemployed. Professor Bill [...]
Unfinished Business: Fair Work Act
Unfinished Business: Labor’s Fair Work Act and the New Union Agenda by Search President Rob Durbridge The Fair Work Act 2009 starts to replace Workchoices in July but the final chapter will take a disappointingly long time…some AWAs may continue until March 2013. The new laws are a welcome change from the anti-union radicalism of [...]
Wal-Mart China agreement
The Bad and the Good of the Wal-Mart ACFTU Collective Agreement by China Labor News Translations, www.clntranslations.org CLNT has obtained and translated the collective agreement in effect between one of the individual unionized Wal-Mart stores in China and the responsible local trade union committee. It represents the template agreement that has been followed by all [...]
Protest Burma regime
http://www.aucampaignforburma.org/index.htm Aung San Suu Kyi is charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest and if convicted faces three to five years in prison. Burma campaign Australia is outraged that the Burmese military dictatorship is using this incident as an opportunity to extend the illegal detention of Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma Campaign Australia [...]
Global economic crisis
The Global Economic Crisis continues to worsen, making millions unemployed, bankrupting companies, sending house prices crashing, and destroying people’s savings. The crisis represents the complete failure of three decades of free-market policies that put the interests of big corporations before the public interest.From Search. So, why did it happen? Deregulation and growing inequality The immediate [...]
Pensions and Superannuation
Pensions and Superannuation from the Search Foundation. What has happened? Total estimated superannuation assets decreased by 7.6 per cent in the period October December 2008 to $1.05 trillion. Over the 12 months to December 2008, there was a 14.8 per cent decrease. That is a loss of $183.3 billion in a year, with the biggest [...]
Environment Global Crisis
Environment Global Crisis Fact Sheet 3 from the Search Foundation Green Jobs tackle global warming and the economic crash at the time. They can help us move towards a low carbon economy and provide opportunities for millions of workers around the world to be part of a ‘just transition’ to a fair society and a [...]
Melbourne meeting: Fight goes on
Who the hell was Clarrie O’Shea? Find out what he and other unionists did in May 1969, and Why it is important for us all today May 1969 Six days of nation-wide mass protests and industrial action by millions of workers and supporters defeat the anti-worker laws and free Union Secretary, Clarrie O’Shea, from goal [...]
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