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
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MELBOURNE — Five hundred people protested on September 2 against a visit by the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Janaka Perera. Because of the protest, Perera's meeting was shifted to another venue. Perera, a former
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MELBOURNE — One thousand shop stewards and health and safety representatives came together on August 23 for a meeting called by the Victorian Trades Hall Council in support of the state Labor government's planned industrial
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MELBOURNE — The Australian Tax Office is preparing to sack thousands of its workers, following a 9% cut in the department's funding announced in the May federal budget. The tax office has taken on several thousand new workers in
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The civil war raging in Sri Lanka cannot be ended through negotiations between the government and Tamils fighting for self-determination, a visiting Sri Lankan farmer activist has said. It is "the unarmed people of all ethnic groups
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BY CHRIS SLEE & GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — On June 30 Socialist Alliance activists took their campaign in the federal electorate of Aston to the streets to protest the first anniversary of the GST. The Aston by-election, to be held on July 14,
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MELBOURNE — In its first election campaign, in the by-election for the federal seat of Aston, the newly-formed Socialist Alliance plans to put the street back into street campaigning, calling an anti-GST protest for Wantirna on June
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MELBOURNE — Two hundred power workers and supporters gathered outside Nauru House on May 16, the first day of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing on Yallourn Energy's application for an arbitrated award that would take away
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MELBOURNE — The Power Workers Support Committee has begun holding public meetings in Melbourne's suburbs to build support for the Yallourn Energy workers. Public meetings were held in Sunshine on May 2 and Brunswich on May 10.
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MELBOURNE — On February 26, the Industrial Relations Commission rejected an appeal by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union against the termination of its bargaining period with Yallourn Energy. The union had appealed
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MELBOURNE — Workers in the power stations and coal mines of the Latrobe Valley have launched a new division of their union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, which will give them substantially more autonomy and
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MELBOURNE — On February 5, the Industrial Relations Commission began a hearing on the dispute between Yallourn Energy and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. The CFMEU is appealing against the termination of its