140 NUW members at Swift Australia, a subsidiary of JBS, the world’s largest multinational meat conglomerate with head offices in Brazil and USA, have been locked out for more than 5 weeks because they refused to accept an EBA that increases working hours up to 12 hours a day, wipes out shift and overtime penalties and delivers a measly 2% annual wage rise.… Go to Article
Dear Friends
At the recent Eureka Day in Ballarat, Grahame and Esme Garner were honoured for their lifelong devotion to political activity for workers self management and industrial democracy with an EAM (Eureka Australia Day Award).… Go to Article
Stations of the Southern Cross – 156th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion
On one level the Eureka stockade was a dispute over mining licences at Ballarat gold diggings in 1854.… Go to Article
To all NTEU Members
Support Your Colleagues at UNSW and Macquarie
An Urgent Message from the NTEU General Secretary
Dear Friend,
Around 150 NTEU members have imposed bans on the transmission of examination results at the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University.… Go to Article
Congrats ark tribe
there are too few comrades
With sufficient zeal & will
whence face to face
with an unyielding
ruling class obduracyas well as turn a challenge
on its head & upset
their all too suggestive
Fashioned status quo
Power-over fashion
— Jim Sharp
Leaving the court, Mr Tribe pumped the air with his fist and vowed to fight for other workers if they faced charges under the laws.… Go to Article
Friday 19th November 2010
A personal message from Ark Tribe
Dear Supporter,
This case is always on my mind. It’s not been a comfortable few years.… Go to Article
Support the City Hall construction workers.
by Owain Jones on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 1:48pm
Workers at Brisbane City Hall construction site have been sacked for attending a lunch time, off-site union meeting.… Go to Article
Rejection of the Communist Party Dissolution Act at the Referendum on 22 September 1951
Following an informal discussion in Brisbane on Sunday 31 October, I offered to provide some background materials for activities around the 60th anniversary of the victory.… Go to Article
The wiles of Labour politicians – the futility of fearful and reactionary Labour leaders have been revealed in this record, and the lessons I and others so bitterly learned should preclude any further waste of time and enthusiasm in vainly endeavouring to make figs blossom and fruit on barren trees.… Go to Article
… Go to ArticlePalestine: What We Are Not Hearing & How is Peace Possible?When: Wednesday October 27 2010 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Undumbi Room, Parliamentary Annexe, Queensland Parliament, Cnr of George and Alice Streets, Brisbane, QLD, 4000
RSVP: 20th October 2010
Contact: Jodie
Anna Baltzer is coming to Brisbane with her acclaimed presentation about the conflict and what can be done to bring peace and justice to Israel/Palestine.
Media release: 12 October 2010
Pro-choice activists have condemned the trial of a Cairns couple under Queensland’s anti-abortion laws. Pro-Choice Action Collective activist, Kathy Newnam who has attended the first morning of the trial said “this trial is an absolute disgrace.… Go to Article
Even England, the home of the 1980s Thatcherite ideas on public policy has come to realise the folly of many of those policies.… Go to Article
On 4 September 1977 Joh Bjelke Petersen, the Premier of Queensland, said the day of the political street march is over.… Go to Article
Thursday afternoon often sees me near the Enoggera Army Base where alongside the main road we of the ‘Vigil’ hold posters protesting Australia’s involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.… Go to Article
This story I’m about to tell,
About a bloke, you all know well.
A Union Rep. here on the job
And known by all of us as Bob.… Go to Article
Commonwealth Land Tax Office 1910 Branch of the Treasury
The ATO’s beginning
November 11, 1910 was a special day in Australia’s history because it heralded a new era of national unity.… Go to Article
Introduction
The capitalists are murdering towns, suburbs, farms, rivers and seas. They are killing people in wars and through environmental destruction.… Go to Article
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The union movement has lost its way.
Rather than concentrate on where power lies they have become tied up in economic rationalist ideas of efficiency and not with what matters to people.… Go to Article
Hello People,
I know you all probably feel overloaded but may I suggest that you subscribe to Workers BushTelegraph on YouTube
You may not be aware, but I put a lot of stuff on the Workers BushTelegraph channel that you may find relevant (union, political music) .… Go to Article
Hi Everyone,
Here’s a short video by the ETU, on behalf of Tommy Sebasio.
Tommy, an Aboriginal electrician and key figure in his community of Bamaga, worked for Ergon Energy for 20 years, running the power and electricy network for the whole Northern Peninsula.… Go to Article
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Yesterday, Sunday 15 August 2010, I went to a rally and march against global warming in Brisbane’s King George Square (KGSq).… Go to Article
Three weeks ago about 30 Palestine solidarity activists disrupted the normal days business of the Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetic company Seacret.… Go to Article
Development
Why do none of the political parties support ‘ecologically sustainable development’?
Energy
If the ALP and the federal Labor government support clean energy why is coal going gangbusters here in Queensland?… Go to Article
Because of the best efforts of the organisers for Hiroshima Day 2010 in Brisbane there were plenty of plastic seats in Brisbane Square, but only a few people turned up to answer the call in the Press Release.… Go to Article
Dear all
Also see two motions from the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers’ Union (LHMU) and Queensland Teachers‘ Union.… Go to Article
Liberals Shun forum on Higher Education
Both the sitting Liberal (now independent) Michael Johnson and the new Liberal candidate for Ryan, Jane Prentice did not take part in the policy forum on Higher Education.… Go to Article
