Victorian Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) vice president Noel Washington will now face the Geelong Magistrates Court on September 12. Washington was summonsed on June 19 to appear in court on August 8 for failing to comply with the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). Lawyers acting for Washington contested the charges.
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KATOOMBA 聴 Stepping up its campaign against the state Labor government聮s plan to privatise NSW electricity, People Power Blue Mountains held a public meeting on August 9, attended by 75 people.
聯All those who want to live in a healthy, equal society should vote for the Socialist Alliance聰, Soubhi Iskander, one of three candidates to contest ward 3 of the Blacktown City Council elections for Socialist Alliance on September 13, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
On August 13, Justice Bernard Bongiorno began his summing up in the trial of 12 Muslim men accused of terrorist offences.
When does a worker, even a casual or part-time worker, join a union? When it聮s clear that membership brings better pay, working conditions and job security. Why, then, is union membership among workers at an all-time low? Because in so many industries union membership doesn聮t seem to bring these benefits.
On August 6, in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima by the US in World War II, a vigil to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons was held outside Hobart聮s Town Hall. The vigil, attended by 40 people, had a street theatre component to it titled Target X. Members of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and medical students demonstrated the effect nuclear weapons had on people.
On August 4, the Australian Education Union聮s (AEU) federal president Angelo Gavrielatos announced the union聮s proposed reforms for teachers聮 career structure and salaries. It amounts to an endorsement of the divisive 聯performance pay聰, in which schools are treated as businesses rather than places of teaching and learning.
In recent years, there has been an intensive, continuous process of concentration and centralisation of corporations operating and controlling the entire production process of global agriculture.
The below appeal for solidarity has been issued by Peace and Justice for Colombia (PJFC), . Liliany Obando was a featured international guest at the Latin America and Asia International Solidarity Forum held in Melbourne over October 11-14 last year. Obando has been contracted to carry out work for Agricultural Workers Union Federation (FENSUAGRO), although she was never an official representative or member of a leadership body of the union.
Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government聮s land reform programs were attacked on August 7 by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralded by the Bolivarian revolution in their rural Andean mountain valley of El Vallecito.
When does a worker, even a casual or part-time worker, join a union? When it聮s clear that membership brings better pay, working conditions and job security. Why, then, is union membership among workers at an all-time low? Because in so many industries union membership doesn聮t seem to bring these benefits.
鈥淎ll those who want to live in a healthy, equal society should vote for the Socialist Alliance鈥, Soubhi Iskander, one of three candidates to contest ward 3 of the Blacktown City Council elections for Socialist Alliance on September 13, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
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