ATO staff to meet
Community and Public Sector Union members employed by the Australian Taxation Office will hold stop-work meetings August 20-22 to consider industrial action against management's plans for compulsory redundancies. Fifty workers are facing the immediate threat of being declared "excess" in Victoria and NSW.
The CPSU subdivision delegates committee at Melbourne's Casselden Place Tax Office has written to CPSU national secretary Wendy Caird reminding her of her promise that if anyone in any section of the Australian Public Service was made compulsorily redundant, APS-wide industrial action would occur.
Burmese activists mark anniversary
PERTH — Thirty Burmese people held a picket here on August 10 to publicise the democracy struggle in Burma. The picket was organised by a coalition including the Democratic Students Organisation of Burma (WA) and Human Rights for Burma.
Organisers told Green Left Weekly that the action also commemorated the 1988 uprising against the one-party state and for democracy and human rights in Burma. On August 8 that year, hundreds of thousands of people marched on Rangoon City Hall. By midnight, the military had begun firing on the demonstrators. Many were killed and others jailed. Many are still imprisoned.
For more information, contact Raymond at PO Box 325, Mt Lawley, WA 6050.