Workers Issues in Australia & the Pacific
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 19, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Union, courts and media team up against bus drivers’ strike
By Mike Head, September 12, 2009
The mass media, the union and the industrial court joined forces against 130 bus drivers when they walked off the job in western Sydney to fight the imposition of new timetables.
Australia: Workers protest against Labor government assault on safety laws
By our correspondents, September 2, 2009
Workers in several cities demonstrated yesterday against moves by the Australian government to undermine occupational health and safety legislation. The trade unions, however, are merely seeking a pla...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
August 29, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Australia: Bus drivers strike in defiance of union
By Mike Head, August 26, 2009
A six-hour strike by 130 bus drivers in western Sydney against the imposition of new timetables has produced furious denunciations in the media because the workers defied their union.
Australia: Court case against West Gate workers ends in plea bargain
By Terry Cook, August 26, 2009
The decision to seek a plea bargain, rather than launch a public campaign to defend the 12 men, was primarily aimed at burying the issue and defusing a potentially explosive confrontation between buil...
Australia: Growing opposition among Victorian paramedics to Brumby-union sell out deal
By Margaret Rees, August 25, 2009
Opposition is rapidly developing among Victorian paramedics against an “in principle” three-year industrial agreement announced by the state Labor government and Ambulance Employees Association on...
Australia: West Gate employer uses Rudd government’s new laws to attack workers
By Chris Sadlier and Terry Cook, August 14, 2009
One of Australia’s largest construction firms is using the Rudd government’s new workplace laws at a key project in Melbourne to deepen the attack on workers’ wages, conditions and basic rights.
Australia: Victorian paramedics protest for safer conditions
By Perla Astudillo, August 5, 2009
Around 500 ambulance workers rallied in central Melbourne to demand safer working conditions and better pay.
Australian unions endorse Labor’s draconian industrial relations laws
By Terry Cook, August 4, 2009
Union delegates to Labor’s national conference last week lined up completely behind the Rudd government’s draconian “Fair Work” industrial relations regime.
Australia: Labor government’s new industrial relations body bans paramedic strike
By Chris Sadlier, July 22, 2009
Fair Work Australia (FWA), the Labor government’s new industrial relations tribunal, yesterday banned planned strike action by ambulance paramedics in Victoria.
Australia: Sacked Nylex workers rally outside ANZ bank
By our correspondents, July 15, 2009
Sacked workers from the bankrupt manufacturing company Nylex staged a protest outside the ANZ bank in Melbourne’s central business district yesterday to demand full payment of their redundancy and e...
