Miners – our ruling class leaders. http://thisistherealstory.com.au/
Go Home on Time Day
Half of all full time employees ‘donating’ free hours of work to employers every week The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the modern Australian workplace has found that more than half of all full time employees are doing unpaid overtime each week. Australia at Work – a five year longitudinal study of 8,343 employees, [...]
On carbon markets
Unravelling Carbon Markets by Larry Lohmann Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register -The Crisis and the Left -Lohmann spoke to Ed Lewis [...]
More by Brian Manning on Gurindji
Brian Manning cited in the NT MUA branch news november 2011. His full speech and poem cited earlier here http://chriswhiteonline.org/2011/09/2003/ “I took the photograph on the morning after I arrived in the Gurindji’s Camp in the dry bed of the Victoria River in august 1966. With the first load of food supplies to sustain the [...]
Against Rudd against strikes
One of my more popular posts is on ‘Concerns for the right to strike: Kevin Rudd ˜Facing the Future” 17/4/2007′ Still reads well and now with Gillard’s Fair Work Act the repression of strikes continues. http://chriswhiteonline.org/2008/09/concerns-for-the-right-to-strike-kevin-rudd/
Oppose Gillard’s Intervention
Opposition in the NT to Gillard’s Second Intervention Joint statement from Intervention Rollback Action Group (Central Australia), Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition and Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney – Friday November 25 2011 ‘Stand against Macklin’s decade of discrimination – No second Intervention! The Labor government has introduced Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory legislation that [...]
ACTU claims
Unions condemn employer militancy, pledge to improve and strengthen workers’ rights 22/11/2011 Unions have today resolved to vigorously defend workers’ rights against a new wave of employer militancy that is threatening the livelihoods of working Australians. A meeting of unions in Melbourne today has condemned the antagonistic and counter-productive behaviour of Australian employers emboldened by [...]
Poultry workers win
Congratulations to all the NUW members at Baiada in Laverton for your hard work and fearless efforts over the last four months of negotiations and 13 days on the picket line. Your resolve has lead to a new Agreement that you were told you would never have. While many members have said they are grateful [...]
Nurses fight on
2011 EBA Update: Victorian ANF Members resolve to continue action A statewide mass meeting of public sector ANF members resolved today to continue with the industrial action contained in resolutions of the 4th and 11th November 2011, including ensuring that the bans do not endanger anyone’s health, welfare or safety. Members heard of the various [...]
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