Time for a ‘millionaires’ tax’ to ensure the wealthiest Australians pay their fair share Reforms to make the wealthiest Australians pay their fair share of tax must be stepped up, including the introduction of a new “millionaires’ tax”. At next week’s ACTU Congress, unions will discuss proposals to shift the tax burden off the shoulders [...]
Tag Archives | Workers Rights
Strike debates
The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control at the ACTU Congress 2012 by Chris White. Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control. 1. Unions’ right to strike campaign is to repeal all Fair Work Act penal powers and for a ‘firewall’ protection for workers [...]
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
US labor and China
Relevant read as the same wrong views on China and unions from some Australian union leaders as well. A Time for Honest Self-Reflection The US Labor Movement and China by ALBERTO C. RUIZ The statistics are chilling. In a country where workers have no real right to organize a union, they face an ever falling [...]
General strike?
“If you want a General Strike organize your co-workers” An Interview with Joe Burns, author of “Reviving the Strike” (review this blog) April 28th, 2012 by Camilo Viveiros https://t.co/qoRke0ut Introduction: Many in the Occupy movement have called for a general strike on May 1st but most Occupy activists aren’t involved in labor organizations or organized [...]
We Built this Country
SYDNEY BOOK LAUNCH “WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS 1787 TO THE FUTURE” by Humphrey McQueen The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’. Howard Guille, former secretary of the [...]
Workers’ Control
“Ours to Master and to Own Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present” edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket Books, 2011) Review by Chris White This excellent series of essays is essential reading for anti-capitalist activists and all those who know that we do not need our bosses. Occupiers at night can [...]
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