National Convergence in Darwin on the refugee question. Rallies and rock and roll and protest – also protests check in your state. Weather is changing from the wet season to the dry. Time to be in Darwin this Easter weekend. Darwin is an hourly horror for detained refugees. Darwin is rapidly becoming Australia’s detention capital. [...]
We Built this Country
Review of McQueen’s history of the BLF We Built this Country. http://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2012/04/01/review-of-we-built-this-country/ The recorded program of Humphrey McQueen’s Book launch We Built this Country can also be listen to as a podcast on Solidarity Breakfast. “>
China: Foxconn and Apple report
Fair Labor Association releases Apple labor investigation report, details serious worker issues at Foxconn factories. http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2912210/fair-labor-association-apple-foxconn-investigation-labor-report On February 13, FLA launched an independent investigation into labor rights allegations at Foxconn, an Apple supplier in China. FLA assessors logged more than 3,000 staff hours inside the factories. They evaluated conditions based on visual observation and review [...]
Timor Leste: Ceremony most democratic!
Ceremony most democratic! Chris White reports on Timor Lester’s Presidential elections 2012 (An April 5th update with corrections on the earlier post) Observer I was on March 23rd an International Solidarity Election Observer in Dili for the first round for this new nation’s Presidential elections. Fretilin’s Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres gained the highest vote with [...]
ACTU Congress 2012
Save the date: ACTU Congress 2012: 15-17 May, Sydney 26 March, 2012 | Media Release Almost 1000 delegates representing workers from every industry and sector in Australia will attend the ACTU Congress at the Sydney Convention Centre from 15-17 May. This is the largest and most important gathering of Australian unions. Delegates will debate and [...]
The WorkChoices restoration
The Workchoices Restoration or “Unfinished Business”: The Qantas lockout and power at work under the Fair Work Act A shorter version is in Australian Options by Don Sutherland – November, 2011 The context for the Qantas and Nurses’ dispute Right now, about 40% of the Australian workforce is employed in “precarious” or “flexible” employment, and [...]
“Fair”? Work Act
WorkChoices and the Fair Work Act: Removing the Choice to Strike by Chris White (The following is from the Journal of Political Economy no 56 p68 www.jape.org. But this key Howard repression of strikes remains in 2012 in the Fair Work Act and hence I only add in the ALP government. Unions still campaign for [...]
Kerin: Enough
Dave Kerin from the new community group Enough has helped run a daily picket outside Telstra’s Collins St office in Melbourne for the past three weeks. The picket is a protest against Telstra’s decision to send hundreds of jobs offshore. Kerin is also an activist with the Socialist Alliance. A speech Kerin gave at a [...]
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