I just wanted to wish you all a happy international workers day and leave you this 1901 tango as a gift. In honour of all the workers everywhere who fought and fight for our right to a dignified existence and our right to be lazy! I translate the recited introduction and the lyrics: “Tango also […]
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When Labor turned on them in 1990, Melbourne tram workers fought job cuts through occupying their depots and taking control of the transport system, writes David Glanz.
The post ‘A festival of defiance’—how tram workers took on a Labor government appeared first on Solidarity Online.
After a historic nine days of strike action over the past 21 months, NTEU members at the University of Sydney have voted 364-290 against a further three days’ strike in their current enterprise agreement campaign.
The post New sector benchmark, but NTEU officials scupper fantastic Sydney Uni fight appeared first on Solidarity Online.
American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.
The post Chris Hedges: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Cleanaway garbage collectors, members of the Transport Worker Union, staged a 24-hour strike on 11 April at four Sydney depots and in Canberra against the company’s EBA offer which would cut wages and conditions.
The post Garbage workers reject rubbish EBA offer appeared first on Solidarity Online.
This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 4th at the Independent National Convention in Austin, Texas.
The post Chris Hedges: Reclaiming Our Country appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Even within the booming anti-union consulting industry, this is an unusually high amount of spending.
The post Filings Reveal Amazon Spent Over $14 Million to Bust Union in 2022 Alone appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Thousands of construction workers took to the streets around the country today, demanding a decent pay rise, an end to the scourge of silicosis and the cancellation of vicious prosecutions against their unions.
The post Construction workers march in their thousands appeared first on Solidarity Online.
‘If it’s innocent, why delete it?’ The anonymous Facebook page buying ads to support pro-Graham candidates in the Unite executive elections was deleted hours after Skwawkbox exposed it on Monday. The page, named ‘Executive Council Elections’, had originally been set up in December under the name ‘The Manifesto’, but re-named to buy a string of […]