Melanie Sjoberg

  • Bondi speak-out on Olympic deceit

    Bondi speak-out on Olympic deceitSYDNEY — Riding the wave of protest against the volleyball stadium on Bondi Beach and against the numerous evictions imposed by profiteering property owners in the area, a lively speak-out

  • Unionists oppose unjust world economic order

    Unionists oppose unjust world economic orderThe protests in Seattle and Washington against the global corporate rich have become a catalyst for activity in the struggle for a more humane and just world. In Melbourne on

  • ACTU congress goes nowhere

    The Australian Financial Review claimed breathlessly that the "new" leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, president Sharan Burrow and secretary Greg Combet, "unveiled a radical policy agenda that shifts the union

  • Members First result shows desire for an alternative

    "The results in the Community and Public Sector Union national election show that a large number of members oppose the policies of the leadership and are willing to back a team of progressive activists", Jim McIlroy, Members

  • Student death highlights campus safety problems

    SYDNEY — The death of a 26-year-old student at the University of NSW has sparked anger on the campus about unsafe work practices. A lunchtime protest on the issues was held on May 18. UNSW has been undergoing construction work

  • Reith helps bosses fight pattern bargaining

    "The manufacturing industry campaign, which is already underway and escalating in Victoria ... presents a serious threat to the workplace relations system", minister for workplace relations Peter Reith told parliament on May 11,

  • The revolution will be live

    SYDNEY — The revolution will be live at the Seymour Centre from May 31 in the form of some of the most powerful songs from the turbulent 1960s to the present. The show aims to celebrate music and its capacity to change, as well

  • Rebels in the unions: A unionism that won't buckle

    Manufacturing bosses, politicians of both Labor and Liberal stripes and right-wing media commentators are watching closely the current election inside the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), which ends on May 19. And

  • Bosses cry poor

    A May 1 decision by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has granted a $15 per week safety-net increase to those awards applying to workers forced to rely on the basic rate. The decision caused a collective whine from

  • Members First to contest CPSU national elections

    Members First to contest CPSU national electionsArguing that the current leaders of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have not stood up to challenge massive job losses and outsourcing in the Australian Public

  • UTS unionists vote for industrial action

    UTS unionists vote for industrial actionSYDNEY — Academics and general staff at the University of Technology, Sydney have voted to begin rolling strikes at the university to secure a new enterprise agreement. The unionists

  • The Accord is dead! Long live the 'new relationship'

    Federal ALP leader Kim Beazley and Labor's industrial relations spokesperson Arch Bevis have finally caught up with the common view that the Accord is dead ... or have they? In an interview with Workers Online (March 3),