Canberra Labor attacks bus drivers
Here in Canberra we have a scab Labor Government in power with the support of the Greens. The Stanhope Government organised potential strike breakers and directed departmental staff to supervise...
View ArticleWorkChoices – it’s alive!
WorkChoices is dead, buried, cremated. Tony Abbott, leader of the Opposition, trying to inter a policy which destroyed the previous Coalition Government. It isn’t. Labor’s Fair Work Act retains most...
View ArticleNurses and QANTAS workers: a tale of two campaigns
According to a Victorian Australian Nurses Federation delegate: ANF NURSES HAVE JUST VOTED TO CONTINUE INDUSTRIAL ACTION, UNANIMOUSLY!!! Fair Work Australia, go shove it. We are going hard, going...
View ArticleShorten’s shortfall: the Fair Work Act ‘Review’
The Fair Work Act maintains the hated Workchoices regime with a few changes as sops to the trade union bureaucrats and to give the impression to workers that they have done something major when they...
View ArticleVictory to Victorian nurses
Nurses in Victoria are defying a Federal Court order and continuing to strike in support of a campaign for an 18.5% pay increase over just under four years and against changes that would worsen the...
View ArticleHands off our nurses, Baillieu and Gillard!
The Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association is considering taking the Victorian nurses’ union to court for contempt over the alleged refusal of nurses to comply with a federal Court order to cease...
View ArticleColes: the bell TOLLS for thee
‘Nothing in; nothing out.’ That’s the slogan and the aim of over 250 National Union of Workers’ (NUW) members and community supporters at their indefinite picket of the Coles’ distribution centre at...
View ArticleBring back WorkChoices? It is still with us
John Howard has been calling for a return to individual employment contracts, a key component of his rotten WorkChoices industrial relations laws. You remember John Howard. He was the man who lost not...
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Grocon: Labor’s laws and the state’s thugs combine to attack building workers
Picket line workers at Grocon in Melbourne’s CBD. Picture: Pinder Trevor Source: HWT Image Library Police on horse back this morning attacked building workers at a picket line at the Grocon Myer...
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Exposing the media lies about construction workers
He is the boss of an $800 million company. He has the vocal support of the most powerful media outlets and the full backing of governments in three states. He has access to the best justice that money...
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Fair Work, building workers and 7-Eleven
The 7-Eleven business model is now obvious. Employ vulnerable people who are for example on student visas and get them to work say eight hours and only pay them for four. You judge they won’t complain...
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