Workers at Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books have announced they will go on a five-day strike in the lead up to Christmas as part of their campaign for better wages and conditions. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Psychologically injured workers will have their support payments cut after two-and-half-years, in new laws proposed by NSW Labor and agreed to by the Liberal-National Coalition. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The Community and Public Sector (Victoria) called a protest, which drew 200 people, to oppose cuts to the State Library of Victoria. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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More than 110 booksellers from Berkelouw Books and Harry Hartog stores across New South Wales went on strike for better pay, penalty rates and to end casualisation, reports Isaac Nellist.
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A mass meeting of the Victorian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union drew more than 1500 workers to discuss government recommendations to cut the public service and a campaign against it. Brandon M 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.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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Isaac Nellist argues that Labor’s refusal to tackle the growing divide between the haves and have-nots has paved the way for One Nation’s popularist non-solutions to the cost-of-living and housing crises.
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A powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel, was led by striking Italian dockworkers, report Majid S and Rachel Evans.
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The master-apprentice model has been in decline for at least two centuries because the structure of work has changed. John Quiggin argues for a rethink, beyond nostalgia.
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Sensational reports of alleged thuggery and corruption in the construction industry have obscured the political treachery of Labor’s attacks on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, argues Sue Bull.
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The Indian diaspora in the West is globally celebrated for its professional success and often cast as the “model minority”. Yet, a significant segment of this community has, paradoxically, become a pillar of support for right-wing, often xenophobic, movements in India and abroad, argues Aishik Saha.