The National Right to Strike Campaign 2012 is underway. Unions and community groups resolve to have the Fair Work Australia Act become ILO compliant to protect the right to strike. First is a broad based education campaign to highlight the necessity of Australians to have the right to strike. PM Gillard retained the restrictions and [...]
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Decent work
Vision video: 2 million unionists. Should this promotion of unionism be on TV? Discuss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zpwA0lI_nZU
Insecure work
Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia http://securejobs.org.au/ I recommend two changes for more secure work. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have an effective right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a limited period and apply more secure contracts of employment. [...]
Canadian labour
Canadian Labour At The Crossroads? Doug Nesbitt A wage cut of fifty per cent. An elimination of pensions. Cuts to benefits. These demands have inevitably led to a major showdown at a locomotive factory in London, Ontario between the 700 unionized workers of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) and Caterpillar, a massive U.S.-based corporation. The workers, members [...]
Sit down strikes
Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement Sit-in strikers at General Motors’ Fisher No. 1 plant. By Don Fitz [See also With Babies & Banners, the classic 1977 documentary about the 1936-37 Flint sit-down strike, and the role of women in it.] January 3, 2012 – Links International Journal of [...]
Union arrests in Greece
On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, President of the power workers’ union GENOP/DEI, along with more than a dozen of his fellow trade unionists. They will appear in court on Tuesday 10 January 2012 to face charges that could see them jailed for up to five years. They were protesting [...]
GM occupied
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy By Michael Moore On this day, December 30th, in 1936 — 75 years ago today — hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them. The workers couldn’t take the [...]
Schweppes locks out workers
Read here for the details. Say to retailers that you do not want to buy Schweppes products. As argued on this blog, here is another reason why the lawful lock-out ought to be denied to the more poweful employer. Workers and their unions have such a limited right to strike that our so-called “fair” bargaining [...]
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