by Humphrey McQueen
Dare Australia’s Labor government gaol Adelaide builders’ labourer, Ark Tribe?
Tribe’s crime is that he refuses to attend a secret hearing of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).… Go to Article
Category: Unions
FOCO NUEVO in June 09
Foco Nuevo continues to bring great acoustic performances in the inviting atmosphere of the newly-named Ellen Taylor Community Centre (previously called Ahimsa House).… Go to Article
Labor Party puts more of Queensland up for sale
“You can’t make figs grow on barren trees” — Ernie Lane speaking about the ALP in Dawn to Dusk-reminiscences of a rebel.… Go to Article
Abolish the Australian Building & Construction Commission
Click on the recording of Julia Gillard’s speech to the ACTU congress and reply by ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence and while it is playing read the explanation below.… Go to Article
Luncheon Discussion: Trade Union Exchange Program
Sunday Luncheon You are invited to Adam’s Oriental Restaurant.
SUNDAY 31st May. 11.30 am
Speaker: Grace Grace Member for Brisbane Central .… Go to Article
The Lenin Problem — Social Movement versus Business Unionism
Inaugural Alex Macdonald Lecture –
The Lenin Problem: Social Movement versus Business Unionism
to be presented by Professor Margaret Levi
Thursday 14 May
WILLIAM GALLOWAY AUDITORIUM
2nd Level
QCU Building
16 Peel Street, South Brisbane
Refreshments 6pm
Lecture commences 6.30pm
Entry by GOLD COIN DONATION.… Go to Article
May Forum: Collective Resistance, what will it mean?
All those interested in Union & Community Renewal are invited to participate in the …
May Forum:
Collective Resistance, what will it mean?
… Go to ArticleMay Day Fiesta @ Turnstyle
May Day Celebrations
Union & Community renewal
May Forum: Collective Resistance, what will it mean?
6pm for 6:30pm start
Friday,
22 May 2009
Keynote Speaker: Humphrey McQueen (historian).… Go to Article
Union & Community Weekends
Strategies for Union and Community Organising
Three weekends of reflection, relationship building, and future planning April 18th & 19th, April 25th & 26th, May 1st – 3rd
Over one weekend at the historic Camp Eureka near Warburton, and two weekends at the MUA, we will bring together young union organisers, students, environmental campaigners and social movement activists with veterans of the labour movement and the Left.… Go to Article
Federal Government bails out yet another renegade company
Community radio station 3CR has done an interesting interview about 338 Drive Train workers sacked without pay or entitlements.
DriveTrain management has stripped $17M in assets from company using the time worn technique perfected by Corrigan in the Patricks dispute of 1998.… Go to Article
Support Pacific Brands Workers
The Pacific Brand workers are having a rally and it would be great to see some support from FairWear supporters!
Outside Myer in the Bourke St Mall
12 noon Thursday the 5th March… Go to Article
Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters
By Humphrey McQueen
12 February 2009
February 12 is the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Their personal convictions towards slavery were pretty much the same.… Go to Article
‘Something is rotten’ in the state of Victoria, in its University?
… Go to ArticleFriends of Victoria University invite you to join National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members in largest ever
mass-redundancy in Australian university history – 31 October 2008
industrial action.
The Voice of the Workers
Report from Building Unions Rally, Queens Park Brisbane on 2 Dec 2008.
- Building where her partner and fellow worker died
At the rally two women came up on stage – one was the partner of one of the workers
who had died after a fall of a swinging gantry at a Gold coast high rise (pictured) on 21 June 2008.… Go to Article
WorkChoices repealed but no dancing in the street
Union members may be interested to hear that legislation to repeal WorkChoices will be introduced on Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008.
The deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will introduce ‘Fair Work’ legislation in the Federal parliament to repeal WorkChoices and rewrite the Workplace Relations Act that was introduced in the parliament in 1996 at the beginning of the Howard era.… Go to Article
No Job Security at QRail
Presently workers at QRail are discussing new enterprise agreements. In June 2008 QR signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with unions setting down rules for the current round of enterprise bargaining as agreements expire towards the end of 2008.… Go to Article
Protected: After the Waterfront: unions — here to stay?
Still Left Standing: Book Launch
As part of a joint effort by Zapata’s Bookshop and the LeftPress collective
“After the Waterfront – the workers are quiet” 
Written by the LeftPress Collective
is being launched at
Zapata’s bookshop
(26 Horan Street,
West End) this
Friday, 14th November at 6 pm.
… Go to ArticleAustralia Post fails in bid to link CEPU to Union Solidarity
Report from Workplace Express (an IR Club web publication)
08 October 2008 4:20pm
The AIRC has rebuffed an attempt by Australia Post to establish a connection between the CEPU and left-wing community protest group Union Solidarity.… Go to Article
WorkLife Forum: trade unions in 21st century
Forum – Fighting for Union Rights under Labor
The Rise and then the Fall
The Rise and then the Fall by Ian Curr — Print friendly PDF
This year, 2008, everyone has been talking about the fall of the stock markets around the world — “more than a third wiped off the market” says the ABC’s finance pundit, Alan Kohler.… Go to Article
Bert & Norma Nord — two of the old comrades
Norma Nord struggled for many years in the peace movement, more particularly in the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom.… Go to Article
Frameworks of Flesh – Builders’ Labourers Battle for Health and Safety
New industral laws under the ALP
BT’s podcast of ABC report of Julia Gillard’s IR speech at the National Press Club 17 Sept 2008
Fair Work Australia — The following comment(s) from Julia Gillard on Unfair Dismissal:
… Go to Article“In the past small business operators have raised genuine concerns about the impact of unfair dismissal laws on their business activities.
Qld Building Unions call statewide stoppages and rallies for Friday, September 12
Foreign farm workers caught in trap | The Australian
by Elizabeth Wynhausen
A RED Ferrari 360 Modena tools down the main street of Robinvale on Saturday mornings. A Vietnamese man is at the wheel.… Go to Article
Qld power industry day of action
Qld power industry day of action on Wednesday 14th May 2008
with thanks to ASU-Queensland Services Branch
Members employed by Ergon, Energex and Powerlink will be holding a 24-hour strike from 6:00am this coming Wednesday 14th May 2008 to 6:00am the next morning.… Go to Article