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  • Abbott's latest attack: Defend the right to strike!

    Any white-collar worker or member of an industrially weak union is kidding themselves if they think that the federal Coalition government's legislation restricting the rights of building workers won't also affect them. At the press

  • Cardinal: 'We need more socialists in the union movement'

    Several years ago, when former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Brett Cardinal was working in Papua New Guinea, he got involved in an argument about the economic domination of rich countries. An older man listening to

  • AWU betrays Pilbara workers

    An attempt by trade unionists working in the Pilbara mines in Western Australia to end rivalries between their unions, to present a united face to the mining industry bosses, has been sabotaged by the Australian Workers Union. At

  • Postal workers stand up for right to sit down

    MELBOURNE — Postal workers took their anger at the bullying tactics of Australia Post to the streets on August 24. It was a warning to AP that postal workers were ready to fight to reverse a policy that disallows workers in AP shops

  • Qantas launches assault on unionised workers

    In a move described by many delegates to the ACTU congress as having echoes of the 1998 waterfront dispute, Qantas on August 19 provocatively introduced three labour-hire workers from the company Blue Collar to work as baggage

  • ACTU congress fails to break from lobbyist strategy

    MELBOURNE — The ACTU executive's choice of guest speakers at the peak union body's 2003 congress, held August 18-21, left a bitter taste in the mouths of many unionists. On the second day, Qantas board "chairman" Margaret Jackson

  • Sixteen unionists fined over Skilled Six case

    MELBOURNE — The case against 16 of the unionists charged over protests at the Johnson Tiles factory and the Skilled Engineering offices on June 15, 2001, was finalised at the county court on July 30. The 16 unionists, members of

  • MUA militancy: A major victory

    Anyone who thinks union militancy is dead, hasn't been paying much attention lately. In the last two months, the WA and Victorian branches of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Victorian branch of the postal union have elected

  • Unionist singled out in Skilled Six court case

    MELBOURNE — Fifteen Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members and one Electrical Trades Union member appeared in the county court on July 21 and 22 over an industrial dispute involving Johnson Tiles and Skilled

  • Martin Bright strike enters fourth week

    MELBOURNE — Workers from OneSteel subsidiary Martin Bright Steels have been on strike since July 4. The Martin Bright dispute is part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Campaign 2003. There are 80 workers on the site,

  • Election victory for postal union militants

    MELBOURNE — In a victory for militant unionism, the Members Reform Team, consisting of rank-and-file postal workers, has won control of the Victorian postal and telecommunications (P&T) branch of the communications division of the

  • Rebellion in the maritime union

    According to many long-time members of the Maritime Union of Australia, there has never before been such a rebellion from the ranks of the MUA and its forerunners &#151 the Seamens Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers