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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Lives on Hold
ACTU Secure jobs report now available… scroll down to the bottom to Lives on Hold. Worth reading and debating. http://www.actucongress.org.au/site/media-releases/1622-unions-pledge-to-tackle-the-growing-crisis-of-insecure-work-in-australia-with-a-national-campaign
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 [...]
We Built this Country
SYDNEY BOOK LAUNCH “WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS 1787 TO THE FUTURE” by Humphrey McQueen The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’. Howard Guille, former secretary of the [...]
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 [...]
Review: We Built this Country
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 [...]
FWA review
Fair Work review is an opportunity to dispel employer myths and strengthen workers’ rights 20 December, 2011 ACTU Media Release Next year’s review of the Fair Work Act must not become a forum for employer grandstanding, and unions will take a strong interest to ensure the voices of working Australians are heard and that their [...]
MP pay system not for workers
Union leaders are understandably upset that their union members do not get these large increases. Putting aside the Remuneration Report’s recommended high level for the base rate for MPs, one issue is the wage fixing system itself- that under the Fair Work Act for all and for the political elite their own. Our political elite [...]
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