Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) staff have made history by rejecting a management proposed deal on pay and conditions for the fourth time, each time by a larger margin.
Two other enterprise bargaining agreements were also rejected by staff in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the National Museum of Australia.
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union () was launched on November 21 to challenge the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees鈥 Association (SDA) in the wake of several wage scandals.
RAFFWU secretary Josh Cullinan said enterprise agreements struck between major retailers and the SDA mean 鈥渆very day retail and fast food workers have over one million dollars taken from their pay packets鈥.
Cullinan said the RAFFWU is determined to help these underpaid workers.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped for US Education Secretary , a conservative billionaire who 鈥渄oes not hide her contempt for the public schools,鈥澛犅爃istorian Diane Ravitch.
Solidarity actions were held in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on November 16 as 100,000 people joined in the Bersih 5 democracy march in Kuala Lumpur on November 19.
Bersih is the Campaign For Free and Fair Elections in Malaysia and this was its fifth major mobilisation since 2007.
More than 50,000 donations have been made to Planned Parenthood, a US non-profit group promoting reproductive health, in the name of anti-choice Vice President-elect Mike Pence in a show of creative resistance and organising against the incoming Donald Trump administration.
About 100 members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and other unions rallied outside the Indonesian consulate in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra on November 16 in support of 1000 Indonesian truck drivers and port workers who have been on indefinite strike since November 1.
Come December, North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters will likely be receiving support from hundreds of US veterans who have committed to their cause.
Organiser Wes Clark Jr, a former US army officer best known as co-host of the Young Turks show, called the Standing Rock resistance to DAPL 鈥渢he most important event up to this time in human history鈥.
The Young Workers Centre at Victorian Trades Hall on Facebook on November 17 calling on burger restaurant chain Grill鈥檇 to 鈥淪top the scam鈥.
A Grill鈥檇 employee has come forward, accusing the chain of using traineeships as an excuse to pay lower wages. Employees are being signed up to hospitality certificates, but the business refuses to schedule regular training sessions.
Since being elected in November last year, Argentina鈥檚 right-wing President Mauricio Macri has pushed harsh neoliberal measures, including mass lay-offs. This provoked big protests and strikes, and the growing influence of the radical Left and Workers Front (FIT) reflects the push back by popular sectors against the right-wing offensive.
On November 19, more than 20,000 people filled a football stadium in Buenos Aires for a mass rally called by the FIT.
Hundreds of people protesting in front of Turkey鈥檚 parliament building in Ankara burst into celebrations on November 22 after the government announced the withdrawal of its proposal to exonerate child rapists.
Proposed legislation would have allowed men accused of sexually abusing underage girls to go free if they were married to their victims.
Usually, when people mention dying in a ditch, they are discussing something they would much rather avoid. But for the South Australian state Labor government of Premier Jay Weatherill, dying in a ditch seems a positive ambition.
For Weatherill and his cabinet, the 鈥渄itch鈥 is the government鈥檚 plan to host up to a third of the world鈥檚 high-level nuclear waste in a giant dump in the state鈥檚 remote north. The dump scheme was rejected decisively on November 6 by a government-organised 鈥淐itizens鈥 Jury鈥.
Leichhardt residents and other opponents of the controversial $17 billion WestConnex motorway project picketed a test drilling rig site near Pioneer Park on November 21, preventing the site鈥檚 establishment for 24 hours.
Protests continued at the site for several days after that, with information pickets planned every morning over the next week.
Due to route changes announced by Sydney Motorway Corporation (SMC) in early November, the M4鈥揗5 link tunnel is now slated to go underneath a larger part of Leichhardt than previously proposed.