James Vassilopoulos

  • Industrial commission undermines wages

    Industrial commission undermines wagesThe Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) ruled on October 20 that paid rates awards — awards that specify actual pay, rather than minimum pay — will be changed so as

  • Rio Tinto sacks Hunter Valley miners

    Rio Tinto sacks Hunter Valley minersRio Tinto, the giant Anglo-Australian transnational, announced on October 20 the sacking of 115 coalminers at its Hunter Valley No. 1 open-cut mine. The retrenchments are aimed at

  • Wharfies' anger at Patrick deal grows

    Wharfies' anger at Patrick deal growsWharfies are angry following their experience of the enterprise agreement between Patrick Stevedores and the Maritime Union of Australia. The deal came into operation in early October.

  • The GST can be stopped

    In classical Orwellian doublespeak, editorials in the establishment press following the election declared, "A mandate is a mandate", and demanded that the Coalition government be allowed to implement its goods and services

  • Unity party preferences Labor above anti-racists

    The Unity — Say No to Hanson party is barely 10 weeks old yet already it has 3000 members. It is standing 74 candidates in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA. In three states, its Senate tickets have a direct preference swap

  • Davids workers await decision

    SYDNEY — Negotiations for an enterprise agreement between the National Union of Workers and Davids, the wholesale grocer, have stalled according to Gary Cripp, NUW delegate at the Silverwater warehouse. The Federal Court

  • Preferences are important

    With opinion polls showing the Coalition and Labor each scoring about 40% of primary votes, preferences will be crucial in determining which major party will form government after October 3. The major parties cannot hope to

  • Socialists pose alternative industrial policies

    We spend at least one-third of our lives at work. Wages and working conditions, health and safety conditions, the right to organise, levels of stress and how hard our employers push us are all very important to workers. These

  • Unions and the One Nation threat

    The rise of the racist, anti-worker One Nation presents a big challenge to the union movement. The federal election will be a further test after the 23% statewide vote One Nation received in the Queensland elections. Unions,

  • Davids workers return to work

    SYDNEY — In a legal victory for the National Union of Workers (NUW), the Federal Court on August 27 ruled that Davids, the wholesale grocer, must reinstate 52 workers sacked from its Silverwater and Blacktown warehouses.

  • Water companies' criminal record

    What the hell is going on! That sums up the feelings of many Sydneysiders as, for the second time within a month, they have been warned to boil their water, following the detection of the parasites giardia and

  • Racism: the record of the Coalition and ALP

    Racism: the record of the Coalition and ALPPeter Beattie, the Queensland Labor premier, was quoted in the August 8 Courier-Mail responding to charges by Resistance that both major parties had carried out racist policies