Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
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Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out: Avoid UK labour law pitfalls Posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 in Collective Bargaining – Comments: (0) King’s College professor of law Keith Ewing [...]
Read more →The Capitalist Workday, the Socialist Workday
This speech was delivered by Michael A. Lebowitz at the “Roundtable Discussion on the Reduction of the Workday” (Centro International Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela, 24 April 2008). As May Day approaches, there are four things that are worth remembering: 1 For workers, May Day does not celebrate a state holiday or gifts from the state but [...]
Read more →Greens: Forward to where?
There are increasing concerns that the Government’s Forward with Fairness legislation will not be delivering sustainable fair workplace laws but rather will be serving up Work Choices-lite. The Greens have already argued the award modernisation process will result in a deterioration of minimum conditions of work, particularly affecting workers who are not able to access [...]
Read more →Global unions response to G20
Trade union leaders from the G20 countries put forward a comprehensive plan to turn around the global economy, in meetings with world leaders in Washington DC on the eve of the financial crisis summit hosted by the US government on 15 November. The top level union delegation will discuss the plan with IMF Managing Director [...]
Read more →Paid Maternity Leave – Put it in 2009′s Federal Budget
Right now the Rudd Government is looking to drop paid maternity leave from 2009′s federal budget. Opinion polls, talk back radio and letters to editor clearly show time after time that Australians support government-funded paid maternity leave. From the YRAW campaign. The DPM’s own experts, the Productivity Commission, has said that government-funded paid maternity leave [...]
Read more →Education campaign for our future
From the Australian Education Union. In Australia the federal government shares responsibility with state and territory governments for funding schools. Money is provided for both the ongoing operations of schools and for the capital works (new buildings and equipment) that schools need. Unfortunately at a federal government level there has been a dramatic decrease in [...]
Read more →Avoid UK labour law pitfalls
King’s College professor of law Keith Ewing drew parallels between Australia and the UK experience following the introduction of new union recognition laws by the Blair Government in his speech to the seminar. He said that while the new laws had been intended to facilitate collective bargaining, the proportion of UK workers now covered by [...]
Read more →US unions mobilized
US unions sucessfully mobilized unionists and workers to vote for Obama and for reforms: on the economy, for green jobs and alternative energy, higher minimum wages, health care, rights to join a union, withdrawing troops from Iraq and ending the Reagan-Bush right wing political era. Follow the US union movement’s commentaries. The AFL-CIO blog http://blog.aflcio.org/ [...]
Read more →Unions are fun
Robert Day, a branch secretary with the British public sector PCS in Birmingham, is the winner of the first-ever Labour Photo of the Year competition organized by LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. Day’s photo — entitled ‘Trade Unions are Fun!’ — shows trade unionists marching through Birmingham, led [...]
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