Sue Bolton

  • 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

  • Drop the charges against AMWU militants!

    MELBOURNE — As attacks on the militant leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union are stepped up, the Skilled Six Campaign has begun meeting. The campaign group was set up by Melbourne

  • Abbott threatens right to strike

    You have to give federal workplace relations minister Tony Abbott full marks for trying &#151 he's having another crack at getting anti-union laws through parliament. On June 26, Abbott introduced two new workplace relations bills

  • Militant unionists to face trial

    MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand

  • Why Abbott targets Victoria's militant unions

    MELBOURNE — Federal workplace relations minister Tony Abbott is lashing out at the two main militant unions that defend their members' rights, regardless of the federal government's anti-worker industrial relations laws. The two

  • AMWU food and confectionary election result unclear

    The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried out on May

  • Unions and the war in Palestine

    Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON"> Unions and the war in Palestine Unions and the war in Palestine  Israel’s brutal

  • Doug Cameron rides roughshod over AMWU members

    MELBOURNE — Showing breathtaking disregard for the wishes of his Victorian members, national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Doug Cameron convened a telephone hook-up of AMWU national council members on May

  • Food workers offered a militant alternative

    SYDNEY — In the election for national secretary of the food and confectionary division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), workers have the opportunity to vote in favour of militant unionism. Assistant state

  • NEW ZEALAND: Anderton splits from Alliance party

    On April 3, New Zealand Alliance party leader and deputy prime minister Jim Anderton announced that he and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee would not stand under the Alliance banner in New Zealand's national elections, due in

  • SOUTH KOREA: KCTU leaders resign after ranks revolt

    The leaders of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) resigned en masse on April 3, in response to heavy criticism of their decision to call off general strike in solidarity with striking power workers on the day it was due

  • Rallies to free Tian Chua

    BY SUE BOLTON & CHRIS SLEE On April 10, protests were held around the world to call for the unconditional release of six Malaysian government critics, including Tian Chua, the organiser of the Labour Resource Centre in Malaysia. The critics have