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Co-operative?
Follow the actions of these unionised workers in the US – now a cooperative is on the agenda in response to redundancies. http://www.truth-out.org/republic-windows-workers-consider-employee-owned-co-op/1330711182
Right to strike campaign
Campaign launched for unions’ right to strike Sunday, February 26, 2012 By Susan Price Len Cooper, the secretary of the Victorian Telecommunications Division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union, wrote to Victorian unions last August inviting them to take part in a discussion “aimed at leading to the formation of a campaign on the [...]
ACTU for the right to strike reforms of FWA
ACTU submission on the FWA Review February 2012 Section only on the Restrictions on taking protected industrial action – one key reform for the Gillard government and Minister Bill Shorten “The UN and ILO recognise the freedom to strike as a fundamental human right. It is particularly important in the context of collective bargaining. However, [...]
Len Cooper: Campaign for the Right to Strike
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE AND ORGANISE IN AUSTRALIA by Len Cooper (Please distribute. Make your contributions to education for the Right to Strike Campaign,) “It is not well understood in Australia, but working people are denied the right to strike almost entirely. We are within a hairs breath of being denied the right to strike [...]
Melbourne forum on strikes and right to strike
In Australia – No Right to Strike Qantas lockout, Nurses denied justice! Tuesday 6.30pm 28 February Socialist Alliance Public Meeting Resistance Centre Level 5, 407 Swanston St Melbourne City (opposite RMIT) Paul Gilbert, Asst Secretary, Australian Nursing Federation Baiada Chicken Factory Worker, 2011 strike participant Len Cooper, CEPU – Telecommunications State Secretary & founder of [...]
Global Stagnation and China
Global Stagnation and China By John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney February 2012 — Monthly Review Five years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 began there is still no sign of a full recovery of the world economy. Consequently, concern has increasingly shifted from financial crisis and recession to slow growth or stagnation, [...]
Occupy and black bloc debate
Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism? By Michael Albert Friday, February 10, 2012 from Z magazine “But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women [...]
The job guarantee
Professor Bill Mitchell’s power-point presentation at The Northern Institute CDU yesterday on how government’s can move towards full employment with the Job Guarantee.
News from LabourStart
- Australia: BHP's aim is to break the power of unions
- Turkey: Support for Arrested KESK Women
- Ireland: IMPACT calls on Government to deliver reforms on collective bargaining and employees' rights
- Australia: Unions wrap up ACTU Congress with renewed vigour to campaign for rights at work and fairer Australia
- Colombia: Urgent Action: Colombian union leaders in danger
- Europe: IndustriALL-European Trade Union Born Today with Merger of Three Federations
- Bangladesh: Workers suffering from low wages end days of strikes and riots sparked by disappearance of trade union leader
- Switzerland: Unions hold protest at International Olympic Committee to support Canadian Rio Tinto workers
- Global: Full coverage of IUF congress in Geneva
- Turkey: Turkish Government ’s anti-democratic attack on the right to strike
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