James Vassilopoulos

  • ANZ to sack hundreds

    ANZ to sack hundredsEsanda, the financial services arm of the ANZ Bank, plans to sack 700 workers — a 40% of its work force. Esanda has been undertaking an 18-month review to restructure and cut costs. Some of

  • Bosses prepare to slash conditions

    Bosses prepare to slash conditionsThe Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is coordinating a campaign to slash working conditions. It is preparing a test case to be put to the Australian Industrial Relations

  • Liberals threaten environment office

    Liberals threaten environment officeEnvironmental Defenders Offices (EDOs) have been threatened with funding cuts because they are defending the environment. The EDOs each receive around $70,000 a year from the federal

  • Korean workers prepare to strike

    Korean workers prepare to strikeSYDNEY — The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is launching another general strike, according to Jongsoae Oh, a leading member of the KCTU. Oh told a public meeting held on February 25

  • Arnott's workers the 'innocent victims'

    Arnott's workers the 'innocent victims'Contrary to last week's claim by Arnott's Biscuits' managing director Chris Roberts that the company is the "innocent victim" in the current extortion attempt, the real innocent

  • Why is union membership falling?

    It should come as little surprise that union membership has fallen yet again. The percentage of workers who are in unions has been declining for more than 20 years now. In August 1996, 31% of the work force were in unions,

  • The tax 'reform' we don't need

    What do Graeme Samuel, president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), the Young Liberals and Jeff Kennett all have in common? Well, if you believe the establishment press, they are

  • South Korea: people's power strikes again

    On January 15, more than 600,000 South Korean workers went on strike. This was followed by another general strike on January 22. Thousands of students and workers armed with stones battled cops wearing full body armour and

  • Liberals offer $8 worth of crumbs

    SYDNEY — A Tandberg cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald captured very well the Liberal government's offer of an $8 a year increase to low-income earners. It shows a worker walking away from Howard sitting at his big, big

  • Living wage case: Too little, too late

    Is the ACTU's living wage case a salvation for the growing number of working poor, or is it merely a public relations stunt to make the ACTU appear relevant to workers? The ACTU has lodged a claim before the Australian

  • Telstra to sell shops

    SYDNEY — In early October, Telstra management announced, first to the media and later to staff, that the Telstra Shops and Mobile Sales and Service Centres are to be sold to an "affiliated dealership, leading to the loss of