Ray Fulcher

  • Steel Line Doors strikers tour Melbourne

    Steel Line Doors strikers tour MelbourneMELBOURNE — Three workers from Steel Line Doors in Brisbane, who are among 17 unionists on strike against racial and trade union discrimination since November, toured Melbourne

  • Shearers union recognised

    Shearers union recognisedMELBOURNE — Following formal recognition of the Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) by the Victorian Employee Relations Commission on December 23, the union is now set to seek registration in

  • Shearers oppose union sell-out

    Shearers oppose union sell-outBALLARAT — The breakaway Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) is angry over the proposed award restructuring deal the right-wing AWU-FIME is set to conclude with the

  • Melbourne Workers Theatre funding slashed

    MELBOURNE — A fortnight prior to the state government's "Arts 21" package being unveiled on November 23, the Melbourne Workers Theatre had its funding cut by $20,000. Arts 21 is the Kennett government's policy supposedly

  • Court intervenes in building union elections

    MELBOURNE — In what was described as an "exceptional decision" by sources in the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Victorian Industrial Relations Court on November 14 overturned the May

  • DSS dispute escalates

    DSS dispute escalatesMELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Social Security voted on October 19 to escalate industrial action in a dispute over staffing and resources.

  • Thousands protest in Melbourne rally

    Thousands protest in Melbourne rallyMELBOURNE — "This is the revival of a campaign against privatisation by Keating and Kennett", John Halfpenny, Trades Hall secretary, told a rally of 6000-10,000 unionists and

  • Action to save Moe hospital

    Action to save Moe hospitalMELBOURNE — A cavalcade of 1500 cars drove down the Princes Highway in Moe, Gippsland on July 31 to protest the government's plans to close the town's public hospital and replace it with a

  • Macedonians march against discrimination

    Macedonians march against discriminationMELBOURNE — Forty thousand Macedonians and supporters marched on Parliament House on July 30, demanding that the federal Labor and state Liberal governments end their discrimination

  • Union refuses to help disabled DSS worker

    The Western Australian branch of the Public Sector Union is refusing to help a union member, who resigned after 12 years with the Department of Social Security. Colin Harrison cited the mishandling of a privacy investigation and

  • Campaign aims to save Victorian ambulance services

    Campaign aims to save Victorian ambulance servicesMELBOURNE — Seventy people attended a public forum here on May 29 to discuss Victoria's ambulance service and work out ways of campaigning for improvements. The forum,

  • DSS delegates reject agency bargain

    MELBOURNE — An agency bargaining deal between the Department of Social Security and the Public Sector Union will not go ahead following a decision by the PSU National Delegates Committee (NDC) to withdraw from discussions and