Sue Bolton

  • CFMEU's national 36 hour campaign continues

    BY MICK BULL & SUE BOLTON The campaign by the construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) to extend the 36-hour working week to all building workers, regardless of which state they happen to be

  • Armed police terrorise Melbourne building workers

    MELBOURNE — Armed federal police and immigration officers carried out a Rambo-style raid on an inner-city building site on February 20. The police and immigration officers stormed the Bayview building site in Port Melbourne at

  • Vic unions plan lunchtime protest against war

    MELBOURNE — Victoria’s unions have joined those in Western Australia, calling for organised labour to play a stronger role in building mass opposition to the threat of a war against the Iraqi people. Victorian Trades Hall

  • Truce in Victorian AMWU

    On October 24, the Victorian state council of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union appointed Dave Oliver as state secretary of the AMWU, and industrial officer Steve Dargavel as assistant state secretary, with responsibility for

  • NSW AMWU printing delegates condemn sacking

    SYDNEY &#151 Delegates from the NSW printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union met on August 22 to discuss the sacking of national industrial officer for the printing division, Denis Matson, by AMWU national

  • Cameron sics lawyers on to GLW

    At 2.30pm on August 7, Green Left Weekly received an email from Taylor & Scott, lawyers acting on behalf of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron, in which they demanded that an article

  • Militant unionists face further attacks

    As the royal commission into the building industry continues its assault on militants in the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, state attacks on the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union

  • Cameron strips AMWU state branches of power

    SYDNEY — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national conference, held July 21-25 at Sydney's plush Parkroyal Hotel, adopted a series of rule changes which strip decision-making power from state branches and shift it to the

  • Civilising the building industry

    BY SUE BOLTON & SAM WAINWRIGHT On July 24, the day after the Australian Industrial Relations Commission rejected the Australian Council of Trade Unions' petition to compensate workers for excessive overtime, Construction, Forestry, Mining and

  • Doug Cameron's intimidation steps up

    The Federal Court will decide on July 22 or 23 whether to overturn the suspension of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union’s Victorian secretary Craig Johnston. Johnston was stood down by the AMWU national office on

  • Green Left Weekly reaches regional centres

    BY SUE BOLTON& ALISON DELLIT While the majority of Green Left Weekly's readers live in Australia's capital cities, during the last 10 years, the paper's distribution has expanded into a number of regional centres. GLW is now distributed in Alice