Melanie Sjoberg

  • KOREA: Unionists seek Daewoo boss' arrest

    Representatives of the Daewoo Motor workers' struggle committee and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions have launched an international campaign to arrest Kim Woo-Choong, former chairperson of the Daewoo group of companies. They

  • Should union leaders 'bridge the divide'?

    Rubbing shoulders with the 3200 corporate and political heavyweights at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, was one lone Australian trade union official: ACTU president Sharan Burrow. Maybe she thought it was a

  • BHP moves to slash maintenance workforce

    BY MELANIE SJOBERGAND BRONWEN POWELL WOLLONGONG — Four thousand BHP Port Kembla workers voted for a 24-hour strike after an angry debate at a stopwork meeting here on November 9. "This is about job security", Graham Roberts, Australian Workers

  • A world of women's cinema

    Short films, documentaries, experimental and animation pieces, all made by women, as well as digital and interactive artwork by women, are but some of the planned highlights of the 10th annual international film festival,

  • Reith offers 'help' to workers

    Seemingly desperate to deflect scrutiny of his telecard escapades, workplace relations minister Peter Reith has launched yet another discussion paper proposing amendments to the Workplace Relations Act. The changes would place

  • Reith comes to rescue of outsourcers

    BY STUART MARTIN& MELANIE SJOBERG Workplace relations minister Peter Reith is yet again planning to tinker with his own draconian industrial relations laws, this time with the aim of ensuring that employers can cut the pay and conditions of workers

  • S11 a 'watershed' for unions

    The S11 mass protests in Melbourne against the World Economic Forum, September 11-13, united a diverse alliance in condemnation of the neo-liberal economic order. Some of the most significant participants in this alliance were

  • S11: Unions agree to march to Crown Casino

    BY SEAN HEALY& MELANIE SJOBERG MELBOURNE — Victorian Trades Hall Council has confirmed that its labour rights rally, scheduled for September 12, the second day of protests against the World Economic Forum, will march to the WEF's Crown Casino

  • Campaign 2000 industrial action

    Campaign 2000 industrial actionMELBOURNE — Industrial action associated with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's (AMWU) "Campaign 2000" is on the rise as the union campaigns for employers to agree to its claims

  • S11: Trades Hall hesitant

    MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council will endorse and participate in three events associated with protests against the September 11-13 World Economic Forum (WEF) summit here — but the major event, the start of the

  • Sacked workers seek action from ALP

    Sacked workers seek action from ALPMELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of

  • Democracy slides in the AMWU

    The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national conference in August adopted a strategy the union hopes will stop the decline in manufacturing industry jobs, reduce job insecurity and strengthen the union. National secretary