I have included a video of the Brisbane rally in support of Ark Tribe with the article from Critical Times below as they offer commentary on the current predicament for building unions immediately prior to the 2010 federal election.… Go to Article
Category: Unions
Leftside: wavin’ on the breeze
Book Launch of jim sharp’s book of poems, ‘leftside’
Saturday 31st Jul at 3:00- 5:00pm
TLC Building 16 Peel St., South Brisbane.… Go to Article
Urgent community notice: Stop Unimin from destroying Stradbroke Island
Stradbroke Island is sacred Aboriginal land colonised by the British in the 19th century, the land is called Minjerribah.
For over 50 years sand miners have had their way with Minjerribah – Stradbroke Island (Straddie).… Go to Article
From where does change come?
“Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground” — from ‘Fire and Rain’ by James Taylor.
We were reminded yesterday that the Australian people do not choose the Australian Prime Minister.… Go to Article
1919 Townsville Meatworkers’ Strike
G’day comrades,
I’ve always been bemused as to why the TOWNSVILLE MEATWORKERS ‘ STRIKE of 1919 hasn’t got more attention from materialist historian’s (sic).… Go to Article
ANTaR news – justice for Peter “Bo” Duncan! March on Labour Day!
Third justice rally for Peter ‘Bo’ Duncan
Time: 10 a.m. Date: Saturday 1 May 2010
Venue: Queens Park, Toowoomba (corner Margaret & Hume St.)
… Go to ArticleThe Internationale
- Arise! ye workers [starvelings], from your slumbers;
- Arise! ye prisoners [criminals] of want.
- For reason in revolt now thunders
- And ends at last the age of cant.
May Day 2010
‘antipodean’s conscience’ by jim sharp
antipodeans conscience
turner wud sting albions
genteel conscience to the core
with his masterful slave ship painting
wholl take the antipodeans racialist throat?… Go to Article
Chicka is our future
by Les Malezer
Many recipients of this email [/readers] will not need to be reminded of Chicka Dixon and his impact on Aboriginal affairs.… Go to Article
Mining windfall handed to union boss
Mining windfall handed to union boss
CLANCY YEATES, MICHAEL WEST AND ANDREW CLENNELL
March 18, 2010
A former union boss, John Maitland, has amassed a $9.8 million stake in a controversial coalmining project, after the state government granted an exploration permit through a deal which has been slammed as a favour to union mates.… Go to Article
People going to Work — North Korean art exhibition at GOMA
: Choe Yong Sun North Korea (DPRK) b.1958 ‘The construction site’ 2005
Linocut on paper 65.5 x 52.5cm Collection Nicholas Bonner, Beijing —One of the exhibits from Nth Korea at GOMA’s APT6
I thought the GOMA exhibit from North Korea was very good and urge people to go and see it.… Go to Article
Days of Hope
About 15 years ago LeftPress screened Ken Loach’s ‘Days of Hope which ends with the 1926 Miners Strike. Ken Loach has made many political films including ‘September 11, 1973’ about the military coup in Chile.… Go to Article
Victorian Trades Hall Council Bulletin – March 2010
Launch of the ASU Campaign to Abolish the Local Government Inspectorate
The Australian Services Union launched their “Recover Our Rights” campaign today to get rid of the secretive Local Government Investigations and Compliance Inspectorate – LGI.… Go to Article
Picket at Herron, Tennyson
Sigma Herron workers at Tennyson have been picketing 24hrs a day against a shit redundancy deal since last Thursday.
Management and scabs have started aggressively driving in and out through picket, couple of workers have been hit 1 seriously.… Go to Article
Support Fair Deal For Cleaners
City cleaners have been campaigning for better wages and conditions for more than three years.
Other major contractors have signed up to the Clean Start Collective Agreement which delivers better wages and conditions and higher cleaning standards in office buildings.… Go to Article
‘The Long Night’ – a story from the 1998 MUA dispute
The pickets on East Swanston Dock in Melbourne were a telling factor in the failure of the strategy by the government and Patricks to crush the MUA.… Go to Article
20th Anniversary of Melbourne Tramways dispute
by Peter Riley and Margaret Creagh
On the night (Saturday 30th January 2010) I brought along some memorabilia: photos, documents, clippings from news media from the time (of the dispute).… Go to Article
Vale Alistair Hulett — eulogy by David Rovics
“There’s a man in my bed I used to love him
His kisses used to take my breath away
There’s a man in my bed I hardly know him
I wipe his face and hold his hand
And watch him as he slowly fades away” — Alistair Hulett, “He Fades Away“
Alistair Hulett has has died.… Go to Article
What roles can the Union and Green movements play in Key themes: Saving the planet?
One-day Conference Saturday 6 February 2010
What roles can the Union and Green movements play in Key themes: Saving the planet?… Go to Article
Call for Union Boycott of Israel
BDS Movement requests international trade unions to build ties with Palestinian unions
A trade union boycott of Israel means that trade unions cut economic, social and political ties with Israel and build ties with Palestinian unions.… Go to Article
Many Ships to Mt Isa — an autobiography of Pat Mackie
by Greg Mallory
He (Pat Mackie) sees his own needs very simply, voices them fearlessly and becomes a phenomenally effective workers’ spokesman and trade union organiser, a power to be reckoned with in the industrial world.… Go to Article
Vale Pat Mackie
I have just read in the morning paper that Pat Mackie has died at the age of 95.
Pat was a great wobbly and to pay tribute to Pat Mackie’s life I have found this story ‘Red Cap’ about Pat written by Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
How a union survives
“There are plenty of examples of socialists who are not Marxists; but to be a Marxist, you have to be a socialist” — H.… Go to Article
A ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict?
The following is a report of an ALP/Union Forum titled A two state solution to the Israel Palestine conflict held at Qld parliament on Remembrance Day, 11th November 2009.… Go to Article
Who will save Yungaba — ‘the land of the sun’?
by Ian Curr
“Job and me and Jesus sittin’
Underneath the Indooroopilly bridge
Watchin’ that blazin’ sun go down
Behind the tall tree’d mountain ridge
The land’s our heritage and spirit
Here the rightful culture’s Black
and we sittin’ here just wonderin’
When we get the land back”
— Kev Carmody ‘Thou shalt not steal’
If you walk underneath the Storey bridge you can see what has happened.… Go to Article
‘Killing no Murder’
The factory-owners of the time formed a “trade union” to resist the factory legislation, the so-called “National Association for the Amendment of the Factory Laws”, based in Manchester, which collected a sum of more than £50,000 in March 1855 from contributions on the basis of 2 shillings per horse-power, to meet the legal costs of members prosecuted by the factory inspectors and conduct their cases on behalf of the Association.… Go to Article
Review: Dagworth Day – the musical
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”.… Go to Article
Victorian Union’s rally to demand "Best Practice" National OHS Laws
by Peter Curtis AEU
7,000 workers marched on the Victorian Parliament, and a further thousand in Geelong, calling on the Brumby ALP Government to pressure their federal counterparts to make the best Occupational Health and Safety laws possible through the national ‘harmonisation’ process.… Go to Article
QRail not for sale!
A few weeks ago the State Government announced it wants to privatise Queensland Rail (other than passenger services), Queensland Motorways, the Port of Brisbane, Forestry Plantations Queensland and the Abbot Point Coal Terminal.… Go to Article