Chris Slee

  • Forum discusses Sri Lanka peace process

    MELBOURNE — About 40 people attended a forum on the peace process in Sri Lanka, held at Monash University on November 24. It was organised by supporters of the Uthayam Tamil newspaper and Radio Shakthi, a Sri Lankan radio program on

  • Royal Park meeting roasts Labor

    MELBOURNE — More than 100 people attended the annual general meeting of the Royal Park Protection Society on November 13, at which they heard speeches from candidates in the November 30 Victorian election. Labor candidates,

  • Tax staff vote on agreement

    On October 30, Australian Taxation Office (ATO) staff began to vote on a new agency agreement. Voting will close on November 7. Opponents of the agreement, including supporters of the Members First group within the Community and

  • Tax office workers strike

    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown of

  • ATO unionists to strike

    MELBOURNE &#151 Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) held stop-work meetings during the week of September 9 to 13, at which they voted to hold a two-hour strike on

  • Tax office jobs under threat

    Public sector management is threatening the job security and flextime rights of workers in the Australian Taxation Office. Negotiations are underway for a new industrial agreement for the ATO. The Community and Public Sector Union

  • Tax workers want pay rise without strings

    The Australian Taxation Office's insistence that staff must meet "corporate indicators" before receiving a pay rise will likely be a hot issue in negotiations on a new certified agreement for the agency. At a May 16-19 meeting of

  • Union and commission stand off

    MELBOURNE — On May 6, Anne Duggan, the Victorian training officer of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was ordered by Commissioner Terence Cole to give the royal commission into the building industry the

  • Rallies to free Tian Chua

    BY SUE BOLTON & CHRIS SLEE On April 10, protests were held around the world to call for the unconditional release of six Malaysian government critics, including Tian Chua, the organiser of the Labour Resource Centre in Malaysia. The critics have

  • Building workers to defy Royal Commission

    MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial

  • Building workers protest Abbott's kangaroo court

    BY CHRIS SLEE& SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Between 8000-10,000 building workers marched through central Melbourne and converged on the Collins Street headquarters of the federal royal commission into the building industry on October 10, the day of the

  • Yallourn arbitration favours company

    MELBOURNE — The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has ruled that Yallourn Energy's draft enterprise agreement, known as EB2000, should be adopted as the award governing workers' pay and conditions, despite its rejection in