National union congress talks Right To Strike Saturday, May 19, 2012 By Paul Benedek, Sydney About 100 unionists packed the Unions NSW Atrium on May 14 to discuss the right to strike campaign, at a fringe event of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress that began the same day. Titled “Advance Australia Fair? [...]
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Give a pluck
At the ACTU Congress,Paul Richardson Assistant National Secretary of the NUW reported on the campaign to unionise some 3,000 workers in the chicken industry – mostly migrant-the sucesses e.g. the strike and two week community picket at Baida -see reports early on this blog, ending precarious contracts, enforcing OHS laws – you will remember the [...]
IWW – then and now
IWW -then and now by Humphrey McQueen The ashes of Joe Hill Let’s start from three interlocked expressions of the IWW’s approach to educating, organising and agitating: its humour, its slogans and its songs. In comparison, today’s grouplets, including the IWW, seem po-faced. The first aspect is the power of IWW satire, sarcasm and irony. [...]
ACTU on the economy
ACTU Congress Jobs & the Economy Australian unions have been central to the advancement of progressive economic and social policy in the past. Unions have fought for, and secured, vital elements of the social wage, like pensions, superannuation, Medicare, and income for the unemployed. Australian unions have always had a vision for a fair and [...]
Support BHP workers
BHP dispute This ACTU Congress declares its full support for the 4,000 mineworkers who have been attempting to negotiate a new Enterprise Agreement at BHP’s seven Central Queensland coal mines for over 18-months now. We note that the while the CFMEU, AMWU and the ETU have been negotiating in good faith BHP has refused to [...]
ACTU Congress: day 2
This morning the ACTU released the report of the Inquiry into insecure work headed by former Deputy PM Brian Howe. It is called “Lives on Hold Unlocking the Potential of Australia’s Workforce”. This 85 page report is well worth reading and studying, but more importantly campaigning with unions for the implementation of its recommendations too [...]
ACTU Youth Congress
I am attending the ACTU Congress this week as an observer and doing some reports for radio 3CR. Before the ACTU Congress on this Monday is the Youth conference. In the draft policy: “Unions have a responsibility to represent, grow and organise the next generation of workers and union members. Unions need to actively focus [...]
Strike debates
The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control at the ACTU Congress 2012 by Chris White. Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control. 1. Unions’ right to strike campaign is to repeal all Fair Work Act penal powers and for a ‘firewall’ protection for workers [...]
US labor and China
Relevant read as the same wrong views on China and unions from some Australian union leaders as well. A Time for Honest Self-Reflection The US Labor Movement and China by ALBERTO C. RUIZ The statistics are chilling. In a country where workers have no real right to organize a union, they face an ever falling [...]
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