Supporters of the National Campaign for the Right To Strike initiated the sign-on statement below.
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Australian law has never provided for the unrestricted right to strike. The first Australian industrial law, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1904, penalised Australian striking workers with fines and jail sentences.
Before that, Australian workers had to comply with the British Master and Servants Act of 1837, which meant that a worker could face jail if they were absent from work for an hour without permission.
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Is there a surplus or is there not? Does delivering a $1.5 billion surplus in 2012-13 make Wayne Swan a 鈥済ood economic manager鈥? Are you a winner and grinner or a loser soon to be driven to the boozer? Blah, blah, blah. Enough, enough already with the budget spins and counterspins.
You want something real to worry about from the budget? Worry about your job if you are lucky enough to still have one, and worry about what will happen to you if you lose it.
Fair Work Australia鈥檚 findings into the Health Services Union (HSU) have revealed serious breaches of the union鈥檚 rules, as well as federal regulations governing registered organisations.
"We are all Greeks" was the proud solidarity message worn by many at the Sydney May Day march on May 6. This simple message captured the widespread solidarity felt with the working people of Greece 鈥 including the unemployed, pensioners, students and small business owners 鈥 who are being forced to pay a painful price to bail out the biggest banks in the world.
last night participated in a peaceful action on the Hobart waterfront. Activists used a projector to place images and messages about Ta Ann on the side of a vessel that was in port loading veneer.
91自拍论坛 columnist Carlos Sands rants, raves, and is literally moved to tears by the arguments of defenders of Israel in his second outing on 91自拍论坛 TV. And as 19 Palestine solidarity activists face court in Melbourne, he has some choice words for Max Brenner and the Murdoch media.
The University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence and the university Senate further displayed their 鈥渄emocratic鈥 views on May 7 by sending riot police to break up protests by more than 500 students and staff.
released the statement below on May 11.
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Today, the Brisbane magistrates court supported the efforts of Gladstone local Mark Driscoll in his stand defending the destructive dredging of the Gladstone Harbour in the Great Barrier Reef.
Organisers of a Sydney Palestine solidarity protest 鈥 鈥 released the statement below on May 11.
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The NSW Police have contacted the organisers of the Al-Nakba commemoration march in Sydney threatening to seek a Supreme Court injunction unless the march is cancelled.
The protesters have decided to assert their right to public protest, saying that they will contest any attempt to prohibit the march.
About 40 unionists protested outside the annual meeting of mining giant Rio Tinto's board meeting on May 10 against the company's involvement in the London Olympic Games. Rio Tinto is manufacturing medals for the games.
At the same time, the mining corporation has staged a lock-out of 800 mine workers at the Alma smelter in Canada. Unions say the lock-out began after the Canadian workers refused contracts that would cut wages of new workers by half.
An the bank鈥檚 interest rate policy had created 鈥減ublic relations鈥 challenges, but said: 鈥淲e are in it for the long haul and part of that is an education process for our customers and us.鈥
Allan Rees, spokesperson for the No Aircraft Noise (NAN) party, believes that the site south of Wilton must be assessed as a replacement airport for Sydney. 鈥淭his is the only way to end the growing noise nightmare for 100,000 people,鈥 he said on May 9.
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NAN has campaigned for decades to get the Sydney airport moved out of the city on the grounds of its detrimental health and environmental impacts.
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