Union seminar discusses solidarity

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - 10:00

Seventy people attended an all-day trade union seminar organised by the group Union Solidarity on March 19. The highlight was a panel on the lessons of the 1998 maritime dispute featuring Kevin Bracken, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia; Michele O'Neil, Victorian secretary of the Textile, Clothing, Footwear Union of Australia; and Martin Kingham, Victorian secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.

Photo by John Ayers, courtesy of the CFMEU

From Green Left Weekly, April 6, 2005.

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