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A meeting to learn about some past experiences which can help us better understand how to fight Work Choices and the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act today
Saturday 17 February, 3pm
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Since Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard took the leadership of the Australian Labor Party on 4 December 2006, the ALP's website has been changed to remove any upfront commitment to repeal John Howard's anti-worker laws.
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Radio 4 are looking for nominations for laws which should be repealed for a discussion programme they want to do in the new year. It would be a good opportuity to nominate laws passed since 1984 which restrict the movement of trade unions.
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John McDonnell MP spoke to Solidarity about the campaign for a Trade Union Freedom Bill
Some of us have been working for trade union reform for five years. We have lobbied for change from Labour, but it has been like crying in the wilderness. The official TUC response has been to point to the legislation the Labour government has introduced, to the rights that have been won.
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From Amicus:
Hundreds of UK trade unionists are to protest outside the Australian Embassy this week (Thursday 30th November) at anti-worker and anti-trade union labour laws introduced by the Australian government.
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Mass industrial unions were created in the USA during the mid-1930s as a result of a series of bitter and extremely violent battles between workers on one side and capitalists and their police. National guards and hired thugs were used and spies employed by detective agencies were sent to infiltrate the labour movement. Labour legislation, most of it during FD Roosevelt’s “New Deal” Federal government encouraged the organising drive of the unions.
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Report by Bob Carnegie. On September 14, at the Irish Club in Brisbane, a hugely sucessful meeting was held by the recently formed Workers’ and Civil Rights Coalition (WCRC).
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By guest blogger Maria Exall
The Monday evening fringe meeting organised by the United Campaign for the Repeal of the Anti-Union Laws and the Institute of Employment Rights on the Trade Union Freedom Bill was packed. Over 200 delegates and visitors met to hear the latest reportback on the Trade Union Freedom Bill campaign.
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Graph: figures for striker-days in Australia, to June 2006.
On Tuesday 29 August, thousands of Australian trade unionists held rallies in major cities in solidarity with 107 construction workers on the Perth-to-Mandurah rail project, in Western Australia.
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Whenever we start to stand up for ourselves, we come up against the anti-union laws. It’s not just the outrageous court rulings - such the injunctions awarded to EWS or Midland Mainline in the last couple of years - it is also the everyday shackles that these laws keep around us.
