Chris Slee

  • Union supporters to defy 'second wave'

    MELBOURNE — About 70 people filled Comrades Bar on July 28 to discuss opposing industrial relations minister Peter Reith's "second wave" anti-union legislation. At the monthly Politics in the Pub, organised by 91̳ Weekly,

  • Victorian union delegates respond to Reith

    MELBOURNE — A July 7 Victorian Trades Hall Council-organised meeting of about 1000 union delegates passed a resolution calling for a "sustained campaign" against the federal government's "second wave" industrial relations

  • Unfair dismissal victory

    MELBOURNE — In a decision handed down on January 27, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission found that Mervyn Vogt was unfairly dismissed from his job with Telstra, and ordered his re-instatement with back pay. Vogt, a

  • Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers

    Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workersMELBOURNE The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) is planning a stop-work rally of its Victorian members to express solidarity with workers at the Australian Dyeing Company

  • Textile workers force company to talk

    Textile workers force company to talkMELBOURNE After 50 days of being locked out, members of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) at the Australian Dyeing Company (ADC) have won a couple of victories in

  • Hanson: an echo of the past

    An editorial in a recent edition of the Irish Echo (a paper for Irish people in Australia) draws some interesting parallels between anti-immigrant prejudice today and anti-Irish prejudice in 19th-century Australia. Some 19th-century

  • CPSU leaders accept ATO deal

    CPSU leaders accept ATO dealThe tax section council of the Community and Public Sector Union has voted to recommend acceptance of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management's latest agency agreement offer. Section secretary Shane

  • ATO offers revised agreement

    ATO offers revised agreementFollowing the rejection of a proposed agreement in a staff vote, the Australian Taxation Office management has offered a few concessions in an attempt to get a revised agreement approved. At first,

  • Tax workers reject non-union agreement

    Australian Taxation Office workers have rejected an attempt by management to push through a non-union agency agreement. Some 62% of general employees, (those in the lowest seven levels of the public service

  • Tax office seeks non-union agreement

    Tax office seeks non-union agreementMELBOURNE — Australian Taxation Office managers are conducting a staff vote on a non-union certified agreement. The proposed agreement includes provisions that will make it easier to sack

  • Tax office sackings defeated

    Managers in the Individual Non-Business Taxes (INB) section of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have announced that they will not go ahead with plans for compulsory redundancies. The plans have been hanging over

  • Telstra unfair dismissal case adjourned

    Telstra unfair dismissal case adjournedMELBOURNE — The Industrial Relations Commission hearing of the unfair dismissal case of Mervyn Vogt has been adjourned to April 14. Vogt, a Community and Public Sector Union delegate at