Dave Mizon

  • Caltex moves against 35-hour week

    MELBOURNE — Delegates and officials from the main unions in the oil industry met with ACTU secretary Bill Kelty on June 14 to discuss a campaign in response to the massive attack by Caltex on the wages and conditions of Kurnell

  • Victory for Shell workers

    MELBOURNE — Workers at Shell's Geelong refinery returned to work on May 5, having won the reinstatement of six colleagues. The settlement of the dispute also set in place a procedure requiring management to prove that a refinery

  • Saboteurs at Coode Island?

    Saboteurs at Coode Island?MELBOURNE — Police claim they have evidence suggesting that the August 21 and 22 explosions and fires at Coode Island, which caused a toxic smoke plume to drift over the city, were

  • Workers block provocation by Mobil

    Workers block provocation by MobilMELBOURNE — Workers at Mobil's Yarraville terminal won a victory over management on October 15 after four days of strike action. The strike followed a series of provocative actions by the

  • Hawke government, ACTU in disarray over wages

    They couldn't even get their rhetoric straight. Prime Minister Bob Hawke ended the ALP national conference with a call for the Industrial Relations Commission to reopen the national wage case while ACTU secretary Bill

  • Shocking Safety Conditions

    MELBOURNE — As part of the settlement to the Hoechst dispute, a Health and Safety Review Committee was set up to investigate the problem of DCB (dichlorobenzene) contamination. The committee was made up of an independent consultant