Key NSW public sector workers firefighters, teachers and nurses are to negotiate new agreements this year and are fighting a tough campaign for fair wages as they face attacks from an anti-worker state Labor government.
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A report released on June 5 by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) calls for massive job cuts and fair hikes to make Sydney train services more efficient. The report recommends cuts amounting to $480 million a year, the June 6 Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Mining giant Xstrata has been condemned by environmental campaigners for its failure to release 1999 data quantifying the impacts of mining operations on lead levels in the Mount Isa area.
The Bolivian government nationalised on June 2 the TR-Holdings company, which owns 50% of the stocks of the Transredes company, consolidating the process of nationalising Bolivias gas industry begun on May 1, 2006, the Bolivian News Agency (ABI) reported.
The Colombian government appeared on June 3 in Geneva before the Committee on the Application of Standards at the ILOs annual session of the International Labour Conference.
I cannot say that I ever liked Ehud Olmert. But now I almost feel sorry for him.
Abridged from a June 2 report on http://electronicintifada.net.
Under the jackboot of Howards Northern Territory intervention, the great majority of Aboriginal people supported Rudd in the last election. Now they feel betrayed by the Rudd Labor government, commented Sam Watson, the Socialist Alliances national Indigenous affairs spokesperson, at its Queensland state conference on May 31.
The June 5 South Australian Labor government budget has been praised as outstanding by business groups and the corporate media. The budget reduces business taxes and funds extensive infrastructure development.
“America, this is our moment”, stated Barack Obama on June 3 after winning enough delegates to become the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
The below appeal for solidarity was posted on < htt. Please send messages of support to arahkiri2009@yahoo.com.
In a massive show of support for the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) established to unite the mass movement that supports the Bolivarian revolution led by President Hugo Chavez on June 1 some 2.5 million PSUV members participated in an historic process of electing candidates for the upcoming regional elections in November.
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