The Ansell 100 shareholder campaign will propose resolutions at its annual general meeting in November calling for remediation and justice for Bangladeshi Mediceram workers in Malaysia, who were caught up in modern slavery. Ron Guy reports.
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Sam Wainwright argues we urgently need to step up the fight within the union movement to stop AUKUS and the associated drive to militarism. If there is a war we need to fight right now, it is the one to destroy their attempt to claim social license for these death machines.
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Almost one hundred workers and community activists joined a three-hour picket outside the Dubai-based logistics and port company DP World, at Port Botany, for better pay and conditions for security guards. Rachel Evans reports.
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A convoy drove to the United States Pine Gap spy base and 500 people from across the country gathered outside the gates of the military facility to demand it be handed back to Traditional Owners. Kerry Smith reports.
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Unionists rallied outside the United States Consulate, calling for an end to the US bombing of Iran. Jim McIlroy that they also highlighted the great cost of US wars on Australian workers.
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Warren Smith, from the Maritime Union of Australia, said DP World’s push to automate its container terminal operations at four terminals across the country is a union-busting exercise. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Workers across Australia joined millions around the world in marking May Day as the symbol of class solidarity and internationalism.
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Anti-war protesters held a snap action outside the Downing Centre court to demand that charges against people protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog are dropped. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Join May Day rallies for workers’ rights, peace over May 1–4.
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Two unions have called on the federal government to pull back from supporting the illegal United States-Israel attacks on Iran. Kerry Smith reports.
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Workers and unionists gathered at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, to protest Carnival Cruise’s exploitation of its migrant workforce. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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War is not an unfortunate accident that occasionally interrupts “normal” economic life; it is built into a system that puts private profit and imperialist rivalry above human need, argues Warren Smith.