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Crisis

By on May 22, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Social justice, Workers Rights

Labor can deal with its crisis in a labour way by Rob Durbridge The crisis besetting the Federal Government looks like a rising Queensland flood, while Abbott and Co watch and wait for the Government to drown. It’s a crisis with multiple causes, linked by the failure of a leadership without a sense of identity [...]

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Minimum wage claim

By on May 21, 2012 in ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Unionism, Workers Rights

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 [...]

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Give a pluck

By on May 20, 2012 in ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

At the ACTU Congress,Paul Richardson Assistant National Secretary of the NUW reported on the campaign to unionise some 3,000 workers in the chicken industry – mostly migrant-the sucesses e.g. the strike and two week community picket at Baida -see reports early on this blog, ending precarious contracts, enforcing OHS laws – you will remember the [...]

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IWW – then and now

By on May 18, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Unionism, Workers Rights

IWW -then and now by Humphrey McQueen The ashes of Joe Hill Let’s start from three interlocked expressions of the IWW’s approach to educating, organising and agitating: its humour, its slogans and its songs. In comparison, today’s grouplets, including the IWW, seem po-faced. The first aspect is the power of IWW satire, sarcasm and irony. [...]

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Unions support cooperatives

By on May 18, 2012 in ACTU, Public Policy, Unionism

Manufacturing hopes rest on union-supported co-operative ventures Australian unions have endorsed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) support for co-operative operations, recognising the critical role they play in advancing the organisation’s Global Employment Agenda and promoting decent work. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the 2012 ACTU Congress had endorsed the position in support of co-operatives as [...]

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ACTU Congress: action groups…

By on May 17, 2012 in ACTU, Unionism

Insecure work campaign and report http://www.securejobs.org.au TCFUA campaign for sucessful legislation for outworkers See http://www.tcfua.org.au United Voice for Earlychildhood Educators in Child care Centres Big Steps campaign http://bigsteps.org.au At the ACTU Congress there are a range of other supportive issues for unions. Not exhaustive, but they include… Strong support for Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and [...]

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ACTU on the economy

By on May 17, 2012 in ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Public Policy, US politics, Workers Rights

ACTU Congress Jobs & the Economy Australian unions have been central to the advancement of progressive economic and social policy in the past. Unions have fought for, and secured, vital elements of the social wage, like pensions, superannuation, Medicare, and income for the unemployed. Australian unions have always had a vision for a fair and [...]

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Support BHP workers

By on May 16, 2012 in ACTU, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism

BHP dispute This ACTU Congress declares its full support for the 4,000 mineworkers who have been attempting to negotiate a new Enterprise Agreement at BHP’s seven Central Queensland coal mines for over 18-months now. We note that the while the CFMEU, AMWU and the ETU have been negotiating in good faith BHP has refused to [...]

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Battling corporate Chevron

By on May 16, 2012 in ACTU, International, Unionism

Chevron Campaign The 2012 ACTU Congress recognises the work of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Construction unions on the Chevron campaign and fully endorses a National and International campaign against Chevron. The ACTU recognises that multi-national companies like Chevron and its contractors are exploiting loopholes in Australia’s Migration Act – loopholes which mean [...]

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