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National Right to Strike Campaign

By on February 3, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

The National Right to Strike Campaign 2012 is underway. Unions and community groups resolve to have the Fair Work Australia Act become ILO compliant to protect the right to strike. First is a broad based education campaign to highlight the necessity of Australians to have the right to strike. PM Gillard retained the restrictions and [...]

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Insecure work

By on January 19, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia http://securejobs.org.au/ I recommend two changes for more secure work. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have an effective right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a limited period and apply more secure contracts of employment. [...]

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Review: We Built this Country

By on January 18, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Book Review, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions, by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00 Review by Howard Guille This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions. Read it, as the author says, with the earlier volume ‘Framework of Flesh: Builders’ labourers battle [...]

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Strike decline

By on December 8, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

Whatever you might have heard, industrial action is in decline by GRAEME ORR We are told industrial action is flaring across the nation. In truth, what is flaring is that elements of the media are reheating well-worn claims by opportunists in big business, who want a rewrite of the 2009 Fair Work Act. Industrial action [...]

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To strike or not to…

By on December 3, 2011 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Labour Law, Right to Strike, US politics, Workers Rights

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

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Gillard retains coercive powers against workers

By on November 13, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

Struggle against coercive powers of ABCC. I wrote this three years ago. The politics is still relevant in 2011 as PM Gillard is not repealing the coercive powers against construction and building workers and their unions, just changing the name. http://chriswhiteonline.org/2008/11/1984-remains-dpm-firm/ The rights on site struggle goes into 2012 for this Parliament. CFMEU campaigns… http://cfmeu.asn.au/campaigns/national/bad-laws-cost-lives

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Abolish coercive powers

By on November 9, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

ABCC abolition bill should go further and abolish coercive powers The Gillard Government should follow through on its mandate to abolish the ABCC by ensuring its coercive powers are not moved to another organisation, the CFMEU said today. CFMEU Construction National Secretary Dave Noonan said the legislation introduced to the House of Representatives today was [...]

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On strikes and their revival

By on October 26, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Book Review, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, US politics, Workers Rights

Book Review by Chris White of Joe Burns ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America’ (2011 IG Publishing). I urge debate on reviving the strike. Joe Burns has a stimulating analysis and conclusion in his book ‘Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.’ Australia’s labour [...]

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We Built This Country

By on October 12, 2011 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Book Review, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Workers Rights

‘We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions’ by Humphrey McQueen Order copies from bookshops or Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011. The following are the timelines. 1780s to 1850 Unions 1788 The first BLs are convicts. Some run away from floggings to range the bush. 1829 ‘Free’ workers are controlled by Masters and [...]

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