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Abbott tells corporate leaders that WorkChoices was not an economic mistake, not all bad, but politically a mistake.
WorkChoices was necessary as regulation for unlimited freedom for profit making and undermining unions.
Turnbull was to hide WorkChoices 2. With Abbott the contest is back in the open.
But the Murdoch press weekly has propaganda “Abbott [...]

From ABC Radio National.
‘The Matilda Myth, on radio and online, makes the case that the real swagman, immortalised in our ‘Ballad of the Fair Go,’ didn’t drown himself in a billabong but was most probably murdered beside one, assassinated to silence the rebellion of the 1894 Shearers’ Strike.
This contentious hypothesis, based on the [...]

Turkey: The Working Class
(Literally) Takes the Stage
by Sungur Savran
After at least a decade and a half of stagnation, the working class movement of Turkey is making a great stride forward, thanks to the militant
action of the workers of a now privatised former state economic enterprise,Tekel, the state monopoly of tobacco and alcoholic beverages.
The resolute [...]

IUF on Turkey: 10,000 workers protest despite police violence.
TEKEL Workers Protest in Ankara
Workers, their family members and supporters have been demonstrating in near-freezing temperatures in protest against a snap government decision to close their workplaces at the end of January 2010.
The protest began in front of the headquarters of the AKP (the political party [...]

We all know Abbott.
One memory I have is in Adelaide at an AIRS conference addressed by Abbott as Workplace Relations Minister spinning his Building and Construction laws.
At the time little building work in Adelaide meant few strikes.
More union industrial action in Melbourne and Perth had Abbott’s ‘double-speak’ labelling lawful and legitimate workers [...]

The right to strike in Australia by Aron Neilson.
He is a dual qualified Solicitor in both Australia and England and is a Legal Officer for UNISON in the UK. This appears in ICTUR journal ‘International Union Rights’ Vol 16 Issue 4 2009.
Aron Neilson looks at the historical development of the right to strike in [...]

Political discourse and contested debates on the labour movement. Margarita Windish in a Socialist Alliance discussion of union work.
http://alliancevoices.blogspot.com/2009/11/notes-on-our-trade-union-work.html

“Our liberties had not been won by mining magnates or stock-exchange jobbers, but by genuine men of the working-class movement who had died on the gallows and rotted in dungeons and were buried in nameless graves. These were the men to whom we owed the liberties we enjoyed today.” BLF organiser Samuel Champ, Hobart, 1916.
The [...]

In a drive to destroy the independent union at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex in southern Iran, a court on October 12 sentenced six union leaders to prison on charges of “endangering national security.”
Their only crime was to lead a strike.
Haft Tapeh workers have repeatedly had to resort to strikes and other actions [...]