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  • Building unionist threatened with jail

    MELBOURNE &#151 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

  • More attacks on Victorian unionists

    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,

  • Tony Abbott slams AMWU

    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

  • Victorian AMWU plans industrial campaign

    MELBOURNE &#151 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

  • AMWU leaders charged

    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

  • Unions unite against royal commission

    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

  • Royal commission secretly taping workers

    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

  • M1: Uniting progressive activists

    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

  • Sacked Rio Tinto miners supported

    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

  • M1 protests war on refugees

    The Socialist Alliance, NSW Greens, Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, International Socialist Organisation, Socialist Alternative, Refugee Action Collective, Free the Refugees Campaign, Sydney People Against a New Nuclear Reactor, Wilderness

  • Hugo Boss workers attacked

    MELBOURNE — Workers sacked by Hugo Boss (formerly called Flair Menswear) found themselves under greater attack this week. Twenty-five workers and leaders of their union, the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA),

  • Flair Menswear hit by first strike

    MELBOURNE — Elizabeth Vujkov has worked for Flair Menswear, now owned by Hugo Boss, for 23 years. She was shocked when she was told on February 26, along with 119 others, that the whole manufacturing section of the company was being