O’Farrell attacks unions and wages: bring Tahrir Square to Sydney
The newly elected O’Farrell conservative Coalition government in New South Wales is removing unions from the public sector pay negotiating framework and imposing public sector wage cuts by limiting...
View ArticleThe decline of Australian unionism
The trade union movement in Australia continues to endure a crisis. This is reflected on one hand in the loss of membership: after increasing every decade since the 1940s, over the last 20 years union...
View ArticleReclaim our unions
First there was the Craig Thomson affair, with allegations Thomson used his Health Services Australia union credit card to pay for prostitutes and perhaps fund his election campaign. Now it is the...
View ArticleFrom uranium to gay marriage: Labor’s stampede to the right continues
I had the pleasure of listening to a press conference with Julia Gillard today. She started off by arguing that the party conference, to be held in Sydney in early December, should overturn the...
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Militant unionism can beat back Abbott
Toll picket line “Fair Work Unleashes Mob Rule – And It’s Spreading!” Every day over the past year, some hyperventilating headline writer had the job of proving that the Labor government was...
View ArticleLet’s liberate Tony Abbott right now
Holden is going to close down car manufacturing in Australia in 2017. Almost 3000 workers at the Holden plants in South Australia and Victoria will lose their jobs. Estimates vary as to the flow on...
View ArticleThe new McCarthyism and the Royal Commission into unions
The reactionary and viciously anti-union Abbott government has announced a royal commission into union ‘corruption’. This is code for a royal commission into unions. It is a witch hunt designed to...
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