BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — The ACT Trades and Labor Council has decided to back the planned M1 blockade of Mining Industry House and to move its traditional May Day march from the following Saturday, May 5, to May 1 itself.
The TLC voted at its April 4 meeting to encourage affiliates to organise contingents to the 7am blockade and to agree to an M1 Alliance offer to organise a joint rally at noon, which will march to Garema Place in central Canberra.
The union council has also decided to produce an information pamphlet explaining to workers why they should oppose corporate globalisation and support the M1 protest.
The M1 action is gaining considerable support amongst the city's workers, with delegates in the Community and Public Sector Union amongst the most vocal backers of the labour council's decision.