PERTH — On March 21, labour historian Michael Crosby presented the WA Labour History Society’s annual Harold Peden Memorial lecture to 50 people at the Unions WA office. Crosby, author of Power at Work — Rebuilding the Australian Trade Union Movement, stressed the need to rebuild the activist structures in unions in order to fight the Howard government’s IR legislation. He cited the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union’s efforts to organise cleaning industry workers, and concluded by saying that the union movement could not rely on the ALP to defeat Work Choices.

Alex Salmon

From Green Left Weekly, March 29, 2006.
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