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
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MELBOURNE — 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
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MELBOURNE — 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
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MELBOURNE — As the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry began sitting again in Melbourne, a union leader has been threatened with imprisonment, a former union leader has condemned union activities and 5000
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MELBOURNE — The federal Coalition government is rolling out its big guns to attack Victoria's militant trade unionists. In the latest outburst, immigration minister Philip Ruddock slammed the Victorian branch of the Construction,
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MELBOURNE Tony Abbott, federal workplace relations minister, used parliamentary privilege on May 29 to savagely attack the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and, in particular, Craig Johnston, the secretary of the
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MELBOURNE — Craig Johnston, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), may be under attack, but along with the rest of the militant union branch's Workers First leadership, he is
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MELBOURNE — "The workers united will never be defeated", 300 unionists chanted, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland, on May 22. The event was a public meeting, titled "They
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MELBOURNE - The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has found itself under major attack from both its national office and the state government, in what many of the union's supporters believe is an
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MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, headed by Terence Cole, was accused on May 16 of using secretly taped evidence to discredit construction workers and their unions. John Cummins, Victorian
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MELBOURNE — Two hundred people demonstrated outside mining giant Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on April 18. The action, organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was in protest at the company's
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MELBOURNE — The city's immigration department offices are almost certain to be closed on the morning of May 1 when protesters against racist attacks on refugees, the US war drive and union bashing will converge on them. The Community