Unions call for a $26 wage rise to help our lowest paid catch up to average earnings Unions will seek a $26 a week pay rise for Australia’s lowest paid workers in 2012, whose wages have fallen well behind average income earners over the past decade and are not keeping pace with the cost of [...]
Tag Archives | Social justice
Jobs and the right to strike
ACTU CONGRESS 2012 Sydney See http://www.actucongress.org.au/site/ ACTU CONGRESS Fringe Event Public meeting AUSTRALIAN JOBS AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE Discussion and Drinks: Mark Lennon, Ged Kearney, Brian Boyd, Dean Mighell, Len Cooper & more… Time: 5.15pm – 6.15pm Date: Monday 14 May 2012 Where: Unions NSW Atrium, Trades Hall
Budget
Union stories from this link http://oz.labourstart.org/ Ged Kearney ACTU Responding to the 2012 Federal Budget, ACTU President Ged Kearney said: “The 2012-13 Federal Budget will help shape a fairer Australia, through a more progressive tax system, better assistance for low and middle income earners and protection for jobs in struggling businesses. “The Government has had [...]
Our spending on the military
Australian Defence Facts and Figures Australia is among the top military spenders per capita. This is not something to boast about! There are alternatives – for example, well resourced public schools with better facilities and smaller classes to educate the citizens of the future; more beds in our public hospitals with more nurses with better [...]
Australian Options
Australian Options no 68 Magazine started by the late Elliott Johnston QC We need new subscribers $20 per year CONTENTS 2 Editorial: Searching for a better socioeconomic system 3 Fair reforms for growth and prosperity to all Dr Cassandra Goldie 6 Recognising Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in the Constitution Professor George Williams FOCUS: The Murray-Darling Basin [...]
Free the refugees
National Convergence in Darwin on the refugee question. Rallies and rock and roll and protest – also protests check in your state. Weather is changing from the wet season to the dry. Time to be in Darwin this Easter weekend. Darwin is an hourly horror for detained refugees. Darwin is rapidly becoming Australia’s detention capital. [...]
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
McQueen on WikiLeaks
Humphrey McQueen: WikiLeaks can help us interpret and change the world More than 400 people crowded into a lecture theatre at the University of Technology Sydney on February 17 a public forum, “Don’t shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy”. The forum was organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition. http://stopwarcoalition.org/support-assange-and-wikileaks-coalition/ Speakers at the [...]
Regional employment
‘Creating effective employment opportunities in regional Australia’ Professor Bill Mitchell Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) University of Newcastle in Darwin at CDU Thursday 9 February 2012 10.00am – 11.30am The Northern Institute Yellow Building 1, Level 1, Room 39 Australian regions face many challenges and at present regional policy development [...]
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