Sue Bull, Ballarat
A long campaign by three unions at the University of Ballarat for an enterprise bargaining agreement is coming to a head.
After 19 months of negotiations, a no-holds-barred fight is on for a union-based agreement; management is
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July 28
1941: Several unions hold 24-hour strike protesting the banning of the Communist Party of Australia.
July 30
1936: General strike in Bangladesh protests the killing of demonstrators.
1921: The Communist Party of South Africa is
On July 11, Port Moresby-based workers at Telikom marched to the prime minister's office, where they told chief secretary Joshua Kalinoe that they were on "indefinite holiday", and would switch off the county's telecommunications. The workers are
In a midnight raid on July 21, Zimbabwean police forcibly removed hundreds of homeless people from churches in Bulawayo, taking them to the Hellensvale transit camp, set up to house those made homeless by the government's crackdown on illegal
On July 15, half-a-million public sector workers joined a one-day strike to protest cuts to their pensions, a wages freeze and higher taxes. Organised by the Common Front of Civil Service Unions (FP), the strike involved garbage collectors, transport
I wrote recently in this column about the seemingly strange fact that many of the wealthiest Australians report being dissatisfied with their lives in general and even with the state of their finances in particular.
For example, a greater
Julian Coppens
On July 17, 1500 people rallied in London in solidarity with the victims of the July 7 London bombings and in opposition to the rising racism and Islamophobia that has resulted.
Since the bombings, the Muslim community has been
Israeli security forces threatened to put "a bullet in the head" of peaceful Palestinian, Israeli and international peace protesters in Asira village in the Occupied West Bank on July 23. According to a statement issued by the International
The TakeBy Avi Lewis and Naomi KleinBarner Alpa Productions/National Film Board of Canada, 2004
REVIEW BY SEAN CAIN
With the popularity of such documentaries as Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's The Corporation and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit
Just got his CV up to scratch
"Philip Cooney resigned as chief of staff of the White House council [on environmental quality] last Friday, two days after the New York Times reported that he edited some descriptions of climate research in a way that
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