The CFMEU’s tradition of struggle can inspire all workers and explains why the ruling class wants to break its power, argues Jonathan Strauss.
Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU)
Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union members rallied to demand that the administrators and High Court tell the truth. Jonathan Strauss reports.
Michael Hiscox, Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union ACT branch secretary, has been sacked by the appointed administrator Mark Irving and the branch placed into administration. Zane Alcorn reports.
Thousands of trade unionists went on strike and marched to New South Wales parliament on May Day, International Workers’ Day, to remind Labor of its need to provide safe working conditions and better pay. Isaac Nellist reports.
The anti-union Coalition wants to attack workers’ rights and conditions, but Labor’s attack on the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union shows it is no friend to workers, argues Isaac Nellist.
Trade unions have led the fight for peace since the fight against conscription in World War I. Steve O’Brien argues that we need to resist attacks on the trade union movement, because it will stymie the peace movement.
Rank-and-file construction members of the Construction Forestry, Maritime and Employees Union have been campaigning to keep the manufacturing division within the union’s amalgamated structure. Sue Bull reports.
Construction workers protested outside the Fair Work Commission to demand that Esther Van Arend, a former Construction, Forestry Maritime and Employees Union health and safety organiser who had been unfairly sacked by the CFMEU administrator, be reinstated. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
The dangerous impacts of Labor’s forcible administration of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union are being revealed, with some bosses flouting occupational health and safety laws more recklessly. Sue Bull reports.
Federal Labor’s decision to place the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union into administration may become a significant headache for the so-called party of the working class. Sue Bull reports.
Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the protests against the visit of “King” Charles and talk to NTEU national councillor Markela Panegyres about the recent vote to boycott Israel.
Responding to the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union National Council has decided, overwhelmingly, to support an academic institutional boycott of Israeli universities. Jonathan Strauss and Markela Panegyres report.
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