CPSU activists to hold training day

CANBERRA — The Members First caucus in the Community and Public Sector Union is organising a training day on August 16 for all CPSU members in the ACT who want to build an alternative type of unionism to the CPSU's “service unionism”.

A series of workshops and discussions are planned on union activism, the current state and structures of the CPSU, current and coming fights for improved wages and conditions as well as attacks from the federal government such as proposed changes to the Workplace Relations Act.

For more information phone Andrew Hall on 0438 624 744; or email <membersfirst@bigpond.com>.

Bendigo ‘Green Week'

BENDIGO — The La Trobe University Bendigo campus Student Association and the La Trobe Environmental Action Forum (LEAF) held a “Green Week” between July 28 and August 1, during which the main cafeteria area was allocated for environmental and social justice organisations to set up campaigning stalls.

Among the participating organisations were the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Greens, the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Bendigo Women's Association.

A band night organised to raise funds for LEAF and the International Pilgrimage against Nuclear War drew 150 participants.

Bus drivers strike against sacking

MELBOURNE — Bus drivers employed at the Ventura bus company's Oakleigh and Knoxfield depots went on strike on July 25 in support of a sacked union delegate.

Seventy of the 160 striking bus drivers at Oakleigh initially refused to return to work after an instruction to do so was issued by the Industrial Relations Commission the next day. The drivers returned to work on July 28 after the IRC decided to accelerate an unfair dismissal hearing for the sacked delegate.

From Green Left Weekly, August 6, 2003.
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