Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws Friday, 24 October 2008 from ACTU The unacceptably high human cost of workplace death and injury highlights the need for stronger national workplace health and safety laws, the ACTU said today. As union members around the country hold [...]
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PM could say this
PM and the DPM could say this on TV and at meetings…it may assist. Obama says it. any Labor MP? Being in a union assists facing the coming depression. Being in a union assists your rights at work. Being in a union assists collective bargaining. Being in a union is about fairness.
Chinese workers fight back
The case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd This case of unusual rank and file union activism in China can be seen as both good and bad news. The good news is that, in the North-Eastern Chinese port city of Yantai there are workers’ willing to struggle for two years for their right to form [...]
Safe Work Australia?
Safe Work Australia – Joint Greens, Coalition & Xenophon statement The Deputy Prime Minister is walking away from safety consultation at the highest level by refusing to incorporate the Senate amendments in the Safe Work Australia Bill. An unlikely alliance of the Greens, the Independents and the Coalition says that Julia Gillard is turning her [...]
What to do with the capitalist crisis
The global finance chaos is a disaster. Australia’s two main political parties have no long term answer for it, and the Australian people need a good alternative, as it shifts into chaos in the real economy.It is a disaster, not for wealthy bankers and shareholders, but for ordinary people trying to find affordable housing, well-paid [...]
In the national parliament wednesday october 15th 08
I admit to watching question time on TV in the National Parliament from time to time. Today, the PM’s immediate action with this package to the threat to growth by the international capitalist financial crisis is prudent. Turnbull was unsure. The opposition weak. Every Labor Minister was in fine dominant form. The PM attacked extreme [...]
Nothing if you are made redundant
An ALP government insisting there be no redundancy entitlements for millions of working families! This is another outrage. The Rudd government’s vigorous hard-line to keep WorkChoices to appease employer interests is denying any redundancy pay to workers who work for businesses under 15. With this severe capitalist financial crisis, these are the precarious workers already [...]
Inside your rights at work campaign
When Labor won the November 2007 election it was widely accepted that the Your Rights at Work campaign, against the Howard Government’s Work Choices legislation was a key to the victory. Public opposition to Work Choices grew from the commencement of the ACTU’s television advertising campaign in June 2005 and remained high throughout the period [...]
Repressive IR laws against building and construction workers have to go now
I have read many legal cases where the conduct of Howard’s industrial policeforce the the ABCC is in question. The latest on friday is the acting chief justice of the Federal Court Justice Jeffery Spencer accusing the ABCC of bias in pursuing an unfounded coercion case against the plumbing union and its leader while ignoring [...]
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