Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Brian Boyd spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Sue Bolton on August 20 about some Victorian unions鈥 plans for another mass mobilisation against the Work Choices legislation.
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On August 30, the Tasmanian parliament approved an operating permit for Gunns Ltd聮s proposed $2 billion Tamar Valley pulp mill. The independents-dominated upper house voted by 10 votes to four to allow the mill to go ahead.
I walked with Roberto Navarrete into the national stadium in Santiago, Chile. With the southern winter鈥檚 wind skating down from the Andes, it was empty and ghostly. Little had changed, he said: the chicken wire, the broken seats, the tunnel to the changing rooms from which the screams echoed. We stopped at a large number 28. 鈥淭his is where I was, facing the scoreboard. This is where I was called to be tortured.鈥
聯The brutal killings of these Indonesian domestic workers occurred in an atmosphere of impunity fostered by government inaction聰, argued Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women聮s Rights Division of New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW), on August 17. Varia was referring to the deaths in early August of Siti Tarwiyah Slamet, 32, and Susmiyati Abdul Fulan, 28 聴 two Indonesian women domestic workers beaten to death by the Saudi family that employed them.
Two trade unionists have been murdered in Panama for opposing mass dismissals and the obligation to join the yellow union, SINDICOPP, controlled by construction giant Norberto Odebrecht. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which has three affiliated organisations in Panama 聴 Confederacion de Trabajadores de la Republica de Panama (CTRP), Confederacion General de Trabajadores de Panama (CGTP) and Convergencia Sindical (CS) 聴 has condemned the murders.
On August 28, a Tuesday, the centre of the city of Cochabamba was unusually quiet, even compared to Sundays. Most shops had their shutters down, and the chaotic combination of small street stalls was replaced by a few women selling orange juice on one corner, another selling nuts. Some young boys played with a ball on the main road 聴 normally alive with trufis, micros and taxis, but on Tuesday almost empty. The quiet was a product of a strike organised by the right wing, targeting the government of Bolivia聮s indigenous president, Evo Morales.
On August 22, more than 5000 workers at a mobile phone component factory in Shenzhen, southern China, struck against their bosses聮 attempt to increase their work hours without extra pay.
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