Tim Gooden
The new anti-worker laws have been in place for only a month and in that time the horror stories the ACTU warned us about have come true.
Workers have been sacked for "operational requirements", Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs -
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Sue Bolton
In the early 1900s, the car manufacturing boss Henry Ford said, "Why is it when I hire a pair of hands, I get a human being as well?"
Ford wanted a worker machine, not a human being, and Australia's federal government and major
MELBOURNE — On May 1, community radio station 3CR 855AM celebrated 30 years of being on the air with a day of special programming featuring rare archive material and historical interviews.
3CR was established to provide a voice for those denied
On April 20, two workers were shot and killed by police, another was crushed to death and 40 others wounded when Mexican authorities attacked striking workers occupying the Sicartsa steel mill. Parts of the plant have now been taken over by the army
Rachel Evans
On April 26-29, 40 university presidents and office bearers of the National Union of Students attended an NUS-organised "president's summit" in Canberra to discuss the restructuring of student organisations under the Howard
WOLLONGONG — PM John Howard was met by 200 Shoalhaven protesters on April 24 demanding that his government abandon its anti-worker laws. Arthur Rorris, South Coast Labour Council secretary, told the protesters: "It's appalling to think that Howard
John Gauci, Sydney
At the April 27 Unions NSW meeting it was reported that four Sydney-based combined delegate meetings would take place at the following locations:
May 18, 10am — Masonic Centre, Sydney and Blacktown RSL; lMay 15, 10am —
John Percy
SYDNEY — Fairfield City Council has caved in to pressure from the right-wing Vietnamese Community in Australia (VCA) and agreed to the group hoisting the defunct flag of the old Saigon regime on council land on three occasions each
One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 21, the eight-hour-day movement began in Australia when stonemasons and building workers marched through Melbourne.
The young working class of this country proved its industrial worth as one trade after
Eva Cheng
Seeking to break the increasingly explosive momentum of nearly three weeks of continuous mass protests and strikes despite shot-to-kill military curfews, on April 24 Nepal's King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah announced on national television
Law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques has taken legal action against the Howard government to force it to make an immediate decision on the application for refugee status of David Wainggai, the only one of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived
Justin Tutty, Darwin
If Compass Resources gets its way in the Rum Jungle region, the site of the Northern Territory's first and dirtiest uranium mine, the future of the NT town of Batchelor looks bleak. Rum Jungle is very close to Browns Cut where
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