GLW issue 631, published 2005-06-29.

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Anti-union laws will hurt millions - If you don't fight, you lose!

Sam Wainwright There's a change in the air. In the first few months after PM John Howard was re-elected and he revealed the full scope of his government's anti-worker agenda, depression and despair were everywhere to be found. The message coming

Seeing Red: Fight-back kit against Howard's IR plans

Dick Nichols The fourth issue of Socialist Alliance's quarterly magazine Seeing Red, now out, focuses on the federal Coalition government's plans to break the back of the Australian trade union movement through its "reforms" to industrial relations

'Touch one - touch all!'

Ron Perkins, Perth Perth's Unions-WA organised June 30 protest rally against the federal government's proposed anti-worker industrial laws looks set to be the largest since unions mobilised against the state Coalition government's infamous "second"

SHOCKFACTS: Australia's work force

Half of Australia's workers (around 3.8 million) earn less than $678 a week ($35,351 per year). The work force grew by just over 400,000 new jobs from 2000-2003, but 64.8% of these pay less than $600 a week. More than 2 million people earn less
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