Sue Bull

  • Airshow anti-war protest takes off

    BY TRISHA REIMERS & SUE BULL GEELONG — Amid huge local controversy, more than 200 people protested against a war on Iraq outside the Avalon International Airshow on February 15. The protest was organised by the Geelong Anti-War Coalition. The

  • Grocon takes on the CFMEU

    MELBOURNE — Many in Melbourne are watching as Australia’s biggest builder takes on Australia’s strongest union. Every media outlet raced to get pictures of 650 Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members working

  • Union solidarity committee holds first meeting

    MELBOURNE — "Building rank-and-file unionism" was the topic of discussion at the first public meeting of the Trade Union Solidarity Committee, which was held on November 19 at Trades Hall. The committee was set up by the Socialist

  • AMWU Campaign 2003 takes shape

    MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) metal division stewards arrived from all over Victoria to discuss their next enterprise bargaining campaign on November 14. Over 250 stewards gave unanimous support to a

  • CFMEU's Kingham could be jailed

    MELBOURNE &#151 Martin Kingham, the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), faces the possibility of six months' imprisonment. Kingham was formally charged with being in contempt of the

  • 'No justification for new war'

    BY SUE BULL& GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE &#151 A public meeting against war on Iraq on September 26 attracted 250 people. The meeting was organised by the Victorian Peace Network. Featured speakers at the meeting were Dr Scott Burchill from Deakin

  • Anatomy of a corporate media beat up

    MELBOURNE &#151 Readers of the September 14 Age newspaper may have thought they were about to get a real inside story when they saw the front-page teaser: "Craig Johnston: The Making of a Middle Class Revolutionary". But they would

  • AMWU fights it out in court

    MELBOURNE &#151 The Victorian office of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union remains in limbo, awaiting a resolution to the dispute between the AMWU's national office and elected Victorian officials. By September 14, most

  • AMWU dispute: Cameron's corporate unionism

    MELBOURNE — The struggle between militant Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union officials and the AMWU national office took a dramatic turn on September 2. By noon of that day, the elected state secretary of the

  • Hundreds turn out for Skilled Six fundraiser

    MELBOURNE — Despite much adverse publicity, 400 supporters of the Skilled Six turned out on August 30 at Williamstown Town Hall for a dinner to raise funds to help cover their legal costs. It was a tremendous show of

  • AMWU national council attacks militants

    MELBOURNE &#151 As the picket line set up by Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union officials and their supporters reached its 12th day on August 26, an emergency AMWU national council was meeting. The workers, striking

  • Victorian AMWU stewards unanimously back leaders

    MELBOURNE &#151 The corporate media may have imposed a total blackout on the picket imposed by members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) against the union's national officials, but thousands of