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If you are a working person you might have noticed that there are a lot of things stacked against you. This little page is run by the Industrial Workers of the World; our aim is to even the odds.
Unions can ensure the wages of volunteer emergency services workers like firefighters are protected in the event of forced absences from work. BOYCOTT FOSTERS LARGER FOR SACKING VICTORIAN VOLUNTEER BUSH FIRE FIGHTERS Firefighters sacked by Foster's Sunday, February 15, 2009 » 07:06am Workers say brewing giant Foster's deliberately made 115 employees redundant in the aftermath of the Victorian bushfires to minimise publicity. Maintenance and trade staff working at the Abbotsford plant in inner Melbourne, including Country Fire Authority (CFA) volunteers Shane Cramer, Dave Dixon and another unnamed worker, were notified of their redundancies on Thursday. Foster's publicly apologised for the timing of the announcement on Friday, saying it was 'a very unfortunate accident'. |
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Indymedia reports from the MUA state conference Restream the radio show here: http://www.rtrfm.com.au/restream/6195 Alex Whisson and Ray Grenfell from Perth Indymedia Radical Radio interviewed international trade unionists attending the MUA state conference this week. UK - Steve Todd, National Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. Steve spoke about the current wildcat strikes in the UK, the attempted infiltration by the BNP and the future for workers in the UK and abroad in the context of the economic crisis. South Africa - Yongamela Manene, National Secretary of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) Yongamela spoke about SATAWU's decisions to boycott all Israeli vessels entering South Africa, the similarities between apartheid South Africa and Palestine and the current political and economic situation in South Africa. |
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100+ rally in support of 7-Eleven workers in Geelong By UNITE member, Kirk Leonard http://www.unite.org.au/2009/02/16/100-rally-in-support-of-7-eleven-workers/ On Friday February 13 more than 100 people attended a rally outside the 7-Eleven store in the heart of Geelong. The protest called for 7-Eleven to start paying its workers the legal minimum wage and for all unpaid wages to be paid back to them. The rally was also demanding that one of the workers, who was sacked for making a complaint, be reinstated. This particular 7-Eleven store on Moorabool Street is particularly dodgy. The operator makes any new employees work for up to 2 months in what he calls an “unpaid trial”. When he realised that some of the workers were thinking of reporting his illegal behavior to the Workplace Ombudsman, he threatened them with violence. |
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http://www.unionbook.org/pg/pages/view/31/ UnionBook is a social networking platform for trade unionists around the world. If you already have an account on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo or any other social network, we're not suggesting that this is a replacement. But we feel that UnionBook fills a void - a need for trade unionists to have a platform that we control, that is advertising-free and that respects our privacy. Facebook, for example, does none of those things. Because we don't control it -- Facebook is, after all, a profit-making business -- any groups, causes or events that we create can be deleted by the company without any right of appeal. And this has already happened. f you're too active doing the kind of networking that we trade unionists do all the time -- recruiting friends, sending out messages, and so on -- Facebook can blacklist you and close your account. This has already happened to a number of union activists. |
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From UNION SOLIDARITY http://www.unionsolidarity.org/ Public Protest against Telstra's actions Support a good, union-negotiated EBA 12.30pm Monday 9 February Testra T Shop Crn Bourke & Swanston Sts Melbourne more info: www.yourrightsattelstra.com/ www.cepuconnects.org
It ain’t left or right. It’s up and down. Here we all are down here struggling while the Corporate Elite are all up there having a nice day! —Carolyn Chute, author of The Beans of Egypt Maine and anti-corporate activist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Chute |
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Sacked aviation workers in Timor Leste win back pay 22 January 2009 Aviation workers in the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, who were sacked from a ground handling company, have won US$30,000 thanks to the concerted efforts of their union. http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/2982 Some 14 workers, employed by Timor Aviation Services, which used to provide Dili Airport with ground handling services, were sacked after they made official complaints over workers being underpaid. The union representing the workers, the ITF-affiliated Sindicato Maritime, Energy and Transport Workers of Timor Leste (SMET-TL), embarked on a year-long struggle to see the workers win justice and Timor Aviation held accountable. As a result, the Timorese government awarded the workers more than US$30,000 in back pay. |
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On Friday February 13 between 12 noon and 1pm UNITE will stage an action outside the 7-Eleven store at 115 Moorabool Street Geelong. This store is located on the corner of the mall in the Geelong city centre. UNITE has opened a second front in our campaign against 7-Eleven’s super-exploitation. Workers in the Moorabool Street store are only paid a flat rate of $10 per hour and some have been forced to do an unpaid trial of up to 2 months! To top it off one worker was stood down for making a complaint and other workers have been threatened with violence. The Workplace Ombudsman is now investigating the employment practices at the store and complaints have also been registered with Worksafe and the Police. UNITE is demanding that the store start paying all of their workers at least the minimum wage plus penalty rates. We also want the worker who was stood down to be reinstated and for the franchise owner to pay back all of the wages he has stolen from the workers over recent years. The facts are that many 7-Eleven workers across Australia are being underpaid. |
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The Alternative Liberal Party (aka "you labour we party!") supposedly faces extinction. see http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/ http://www.theage.com.au/national/factionhit-alp-faces-extinction-20090125-7pgl.html http://www.theage.com.au/national/labor-leaders-back-party-stability-deal-20090126-7q0f.html But can we believe the good news? Once proud to claim to represent the interest of white Australian workers, the contemporary ALP — a largely middle class institution — now claims to represent the interests of ‘working families’; a mantra repeated endlessly during the last Federal election campaign by KRudd & Co. Despite a declining membership, however, the ALP still retains a stranglehold over the trades union movement, and the labour movement more generally. (See : Union Control of the ALP, Presentations given on 26 March 2008 by [former] trade union leader and Senator Elect for NSW, Doug Cameron, and former union official [and Communist] Mark Aarons.) The ALP, in turn, is dominated by the right. |
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Reply-To: iuf@iuf.org Destroying permanent jobs - could it make the most profitable beverage in the world? CASUAL-T®. DISPOSAL JOBS CAN DO THAT http://www.iuf.org/casualtea IUF Condemns Murders of Russian Union/Social Activists, Calls for Government Action In a letter to the heads of the Russian government dated January 26, the IUF has called for swift action by the authorities in the face of growing violence against trade union and social activists. http://www.iuf.org/den5665 Nestlé USA Ordered to Pay Back Wages to 6,000 Workers Clocking Off for Work Clothes Changes http://www.iuf.org/den5649 |
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