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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 →
Tag Archives: Right to Strike
South African strike
South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions Patrick Bond The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African (SA) government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the [...]
VTHC
We didn’t rally around the country leading up 2007 to see anti-union reactionary Tony Abbott become Prime Minister, three years later! by Brian Boyd VTHC secretary When you cut through all the media hype and mis-information the issue is clear cut – it’s a No vote for Abbott. Because the union movement’s highly successful campaign [...]
Rights for delegates
Don’t vote for candidates who do not committ to new labour law rights for delegates. Lobby your candidates now. Make sure your union campaigns for this reform. From the YR@W campaign Charter of Delegates Rights Elected union workplace delegates are the volunteers who are crucial to ensuring we all have rights at work. Delegates are [...]
UNSW protected bans
Protected Action Results Bans by UNSW emplyees: Support your stood down colleagues Enterprise bargaining UNSW style against the union, the NTEU. This also involves ADFA, ACT. http://www.nteu.org.au/unsw/blog/view/post/postId/367 Please support some 70 academic and general staff who have been stood down without pay by UNSW VC Fred Hilmer for imposing bans on the recording and transmission [...]
China strikes
Strikes end at two Chinese automotive suppliers Automotive News China http://www.autonewschina.com/en/article.asp?id=5488 Automotive News | 2010-7-22 GUANGZHOU/TOKYO(Reuters) – Chinese factory workers at two suppliers for foreign automakers returned to work on Thursday after winning hefty pay rises, ending strikes that again highlighted the carmakers’ vulnerability to their China suppliers. The strikes at Atsumitec Co, which supplies [...]
Ark
This Tuesday, July 20, construction worker Ark Tribe will face court in Adelaide for what could be the last time. His ‘crime’? Sticking up for his safety rights on site and then refusing to be coerced into an interview with the unfair Australian Building and Construction Commission. For this, Ark now faces up to six [...]
China strike
New strike hits Honda parts supplier in China http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/7590095/new-strike-hits-honda-parts-supplier-in-china/ Don Durfee, Reuters July 15, 2010, 3:54 pm HONG KONG (Reuters) – A strike has broken out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan’s Honda Motor, the latest in a string of stoppages by Chinese workers demanding a bigger piece of the country’s economic [...]
WorkChoices?
Abott and Abetz claim WorkChoices is cremated. They will keep Gillard’s Fair Work Act ‘that is not bad’, but with ‘tweaking’. The ruling corporations and employer organisations know major sections of WorkChoices remain in the Fair Work Act. Gillard and Crean promise no changes to the Fair Work Act. Australian workers campaigned for Our Rights [...]
