Russell Pickering

  • Protest at Woodside AGM

    PERTH — Woodside Petroleum shareholders were greeted by protesters representing the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Friends of Australian Rock Art at the Perth Convention Centre on April 19. FARA's message to Woodside's annual general

  • Second anniversary of Siev-X drownings marked

    BY TERRICA STRUDWICK& RUSSELL PICKERING BRISBANE — On October 19, 90 people gathered in King George Square to remember the 353 men, women and children who drowned in October 2001 while trying to reach Australian shores aboard the SIEV-X. The

  • Construction workers protest attack on unions

    BY RUSSELL PICKERING& PAUL BENEDEK Last week, thousands of construction workers walked off Perth and Sydney work sites in protest against federal government plans to undermine pass legislation restricting the ability of unions to defend workers'

    BY RUSSELL PICKERING
    & PAUL BENEDEK

    Last week, thousands of construction workers walked off Perth and Sydney work sites in protest against federal government plans to undermine pass legislation restricting the ability of unions to defend workers' wages and conditions in the construction industry.

  • CPSU/CSA members hold stopwork

    PERTH — A lunch-time mass meeting of 1000 public service employees on September 17 voted to begin an industrial campaign in support of better pay and conditions after Premier Geoff Gallop government's refusal of anything

  • Construction workers strike over industry deaths

    PERTH — Fifty building sites from Woodvale to Kwinana ground to a halt on September 8 as 4000 construction workers downed tools for 24 hours to protest the death toll in the building industry. The latest fatality, that of a

  • CFMEU queries WA police industrial hit-squad

    PERTH — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has written to Western Australian police minister Michelle Roberts seeking information about special training being given to six senior regional police

  • Gallop evicts Swan Valley Nyungah community

    PERTH &#151 On June 9-10, the Western Australian government of Labor Premier Geoff Gallop rammed through a draconian law evicting the Swan Valley Nyungah Community (SVNC) from their traditional land. The Reserves (Reserve 43131)

  • Threat to split WA anti-war movement

    PERTH — Not everyone has been pleased by the success of the NOWaR Alliance (Network Opposing War and Racism) in organising some of the biggest anti-war protests ever in Perth. Jan "JJ" Jermalinski, who claims to represent

  • WA youth defy media anti-protest hysteria

    PERTH — Despite a hysterical campaign by the Western Australian media and police opposing the right of young people to protest against the Iraq war, a 400-strong anti-war rally was held by Youth and Students Against the

  • Socialist Alliance discusses unity proposal

    PERTH — Left unity was the topic of discussion at a November 12 Socialist Alliance public meeting, attended by 40 people. The speakers at the forum included Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) district secretary Nikki Ulasowski,

  • Construction workers spied upon

    PERTH — Construction workers walked off a Perth building site on October 7, after construction company Sizer Builder installed surveillance equipment to monitor union activities. The Construction, Forestry, Mining

  • Strike against workplace deaths

    PERTH — Two thousand building workers rallied on the steps of Parliament House on September 24 to protest another death in the construction industry. Five days earlier, Des Walsh, a 47-year-old rigger with three