Archive
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Howard's demise: a win for workers
2007 - Nov - 27The result of the recent Federal Election (24/11) is cause for great celebration for workers in general and the organised labour movement in particular. It was first and foremost a plebiscite on John Howard’s draconian WorkChoices legislation. ...read more
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Building Workers at Pointy End of Howard’s IR Laws
2007 - Nov - 12As we head into the last days of the federal election campaign it is worth re-capping on some of the more nasty aspects of John Howard’s draconian IR policies....read more
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Federal Election must see Howard Government defeated Monday 15 October 2007
2007 - Oct - 15Federal Election must see Howard Government defeated15 October 2007...read more
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Pertinent and timely comments by Kim Beazley - 21 September 2007
2007 - Sep - 21Yesterday (20 September 2007) in his address to the Federal Parliament, former ALP Federal Opposition Leader, Kim Beazley, made some important comments about the trade union movement....read more
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A people’s alternative to APEC - Seeing Howard’s IR Laws within the Bigger Picture…”
2007 - Sep - 03More and more Australians are beginning to see the links between the policies that come out of Canberra and the requirements of U.S. policy....read more
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Dr Haneef case exposes the lack of rights with 457 Work visas
2007 - Aug - 06When the bodgey terrorist legal case against Dr Mohamed Haneef recently fell to pieces, the federal government still held a ‘trump card’, the ability to pull the Sec. 457 visa that allowed him to come to work in Australia in the first place....read more
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Union Defence Campaign of 2004-2007
2007 - Jul - 12In the lead up to the Federal election it may be timely to explore the role of the major union and community mass mobilisations and protests against the Howard government’s IR laws, particularly since the October 2004 Federal election result....read more
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MUA in 1998 - WE'RE NOT
2007 - Jun - 04The MUA 1998 Waterfront dispute was indeed a watershed event that goes to the heart of the Howard Government’s anti-union, anti-worker vendetta, that began in earnest in 1996 and is ongoing....read more
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A General Right to Strike Not For Giving Away - 23 April 2007
2007 - Apr - 24A General Right to Strike - Not for Giving Away ...read more
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We must defeat John Howard – March 28 2007
2007 - Mar - 27Still plenty of things to do to achieve this end...read more
