Tom Flanagan

  • Public sector unionists will oppose pay deal

    SYDNEY — Opposition is rising among public servants in New South Wales to a pay offer made by the state Labor government. The pay deal is being put forward as an agreement between the NSW government, the Public Service Association

  • CFMEU demands justice for retired worker

    CFMEU demands justice for retired workerSYDNEY — Sixty members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union occupied a furniture factory in Milperra, south-west Sydney, on December 1 to demand that 61-year-old Heather

  • NSW teachers reject government 'insult'

    NSW teachers reject government 'insult'SYDNEY — At least 20,000 teachers marched on New South Wales parliament on November 18 to protest against the government's pay and conditions proposal. Some estimates put the attendance

  • Building workers rally for Workcover

    SYDNEY — Ten thousand construction workers jammed the streets in a march from Sydney Town Hall to NSW Parliament House on July 28. Andrew Ferguson, state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU),

  • Visy workers keep fighting

    Visy workers keep fightingSYDNEY — Seventy students, along with union and community activists, joined striking workers on the picket lines at Visy Board factories at Smithfield and Warwick Farm on July 15.

  • Cleaners join union and fight back

    SYDNEY — Housekeeping staff at the Hyde Park Plaza in Sydney have won an important victory. Their employer, Mirvac, backed off from its attempt to contract out their jobs after a lively and well-attended picket on June 25.

  • Major parties propose less democracy

    SYDNEY — The dust settled after the March 27 NSW state poll to reveal an upper house (Legislative Council) with 13 MPs on the cross benches. The Labor Party has 16 and the Coalition 13. Four parties are represented for the first

  • Shadowboxing with Mark Latham

    SYDNEY — About 90 people attended a seminar titled "Globalisation and the Third Way" presented by the International Socialist Organisation on April 16 at the University of Technology, Sydney. Speakers were ALP parliamentarian Mark

  • Suspension of needle exchange increases HIV risk

    Suspension of needle exchange increases HIV riskSYDNEY — "Redfern is surely one of the most urgent and obvious places in NSW for a government-funded injecting room. It is not the place to suspend a needle exchange program",

  • Democratic Socialists to contest NSW elections

    Democratic Socialists to contest NSW elections Democratic Socialists to contest NSW electionsThe Democratic Socialists have announced four candidates for the NSW elections scheduled for March 27. Standing in Port Jackson is

  • North-east forests decision imminent

    SYDNEY — One hundred people held a two-hour rally outside NSW parliament on October 29 to demand protection for the remaining old-growth forests in north-east New South Wales. Organised by the NSW Forest Alliance, the rally aimed

  • Jabiluka struggle intensifies

    Jabiluka struggle intensifiesDARWIN — Aboriginal opposition to the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine was highlighted on May 19 when senior traditional owner Yvonne Margarula was arrested and charged with trespass on her own land.