Retaining members in public sector unions by Alex White on DECEMBER 3, 2011 University of Warrick academic Jeremy Waddington and UNISON national officer Allan Kerr authored a fascinating article for the Industrial Relations Journal, Membership retention in the public sector. The article examines membership retention in one of the United Kingdom’s largest public sector unions, [...]
US unions, immigrants occupy
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements by David Bacon, Truthout. Oakland, California – When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp “Planton Seattle,” camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the [...]
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra against the ‘Second Intervention
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra criticises Gillard’s ‘Second Intervention’ otherwise known as ‘Stronger Futures in the NT’, a new Commonwealth Government initiative from Minister Macklin that maintains key racists powers introduced through Howard’s NT Intervention. Dr Gondarra is a Senior Elder from Elcho Island. This message was screened in Sydney on Saturday December 3, at a [...]
Rich schools to get more?
Outlandish Funding Bonanza for Private Schools ‘A report published today by the public education advocacy group, Save Our Schools, finds that two voucher models of school funding proposed to the Gonski Review would deliver billions of dollars in additional funding for private schools and no increases for government schools. Trevor Cobbold, author of the report [...]
To strike or not to…
My book review of ‘Reviving the Strike’ now also posted at Left Focus here http://leftfocus.blogspot.com/2011/12/important-book-review-reviving-strike.html Also posted on the new Evatt website http://evatt.org.au/news/reviving-strike.html
Troops out of Afghanistan
Send letter to delegates at ALP conference http://stopwarcoalition.org/sign-on-letter-to-pm-julia-gillard-troops-out-of-afghanistan/
Doctors against uranium sales to India
The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) has called on the Government and the ALP to lead the world towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, rather than risking nuclear weapons proliferation by selling Australian uranium to nuclear-armed India. MAPW Vice-President Dr Margaret Beavis said in a 15 November media release: “We cannot guarantee the [...]
Cooperation not intervention
Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory From ACOSS 23 November 2011 Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not ‘intervention’. The groups support new investment in secure jobs [...]
Occupy: union lessons
What Can Labor Learn? It won’t be easy for union leaders to accept the Occupy movement’s most important lesson. BY Mike Elk Unions’ ability to take full advantage of the Occupy movement will hinge on their ability to embrace social movements, and their willingness to take bold actions in smart strategic campaigns and to stick [...]
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