Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).
A discussion about legal limits on the right to take industrial action and a campaign to win back the right to strike.
Speakers: Len Cooper (Communication Workers Union telecommunications state secretary and founder of right to strike campaign);
Tim Gooden (Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary);
Paul Gilbert (Australian Nurses Federation). Only dictatorships ban strikes don't they? Wrong. Australia has so many legal restrictions to stop workers taking effective industrial action that the right to strike is effectively illegal. Victorian nurses and state public servants were forced to lift their only effective industrial bans. Qantas workers had taken very little industrial action before being locked out and banned from taking industrial action.