... and ain't I a woman?: Equal pay victory
After a two-year battle, Sydney electronics manufacturer HPM has finally agreed to union demands for an enterprise bargaining agreement ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. Women at this plant
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By Allen Myers
On February 3, Helen Coonan, a Liberal senator from NSW and the government's deputy whip in the Senate, delivered a speech on "reform" of the Senate to the Sydney Institute, a right-wing think-tank. An abridged version of the speech,
By Anthony Benbowand Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — For the last 12 months, the Olsen Liberal government has been trying to privatise the state Electricity Trust (ETSA). A community and industrial campaign has so far thwarted Olsen's plan to ram the
State-sanctioned death
By Brandon Astor Jones
LIFE'S EMOTIONAL GUTTERTrying to wade through the treacherous middle-mire of the inner being's need for familial-stealthWe sometimes, quite inadvertently, encounter those ageless
Work for whom?
"It's more productive to work behind the scenes than grandstand with rhetoric." — Former foreign minister Gareth Evans, replying to remarks by Laurie Brereton about the ALP's record on East Timor.
Not really
"It was the biggest
By Vannessa Hearman
More than 60 police were brought from around central Queensland to the Gordonstone coalmine near Emerald on February 11 as 250 unionists solidified their picket line near the entrance to the site. Twenty-two picketers were
Correction
In last week's Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly the article on the resignation of Queensland MUA organiser Jeff Langdon contained the following sentence: "Langdon claimed the branch leadership did not send copies of his resignation letter to ships
Organising students and youth in the Philippines
By Jo Brown
A new socialist youth organisation called the Ligang Sosyalistang Kabataan or Socialist Youth League (LSK) was launched in the Philippines late last year. The Philippine student
Workers Online, an internet "newspaper" for workers in Australia, is being posted every Friday from February 19 at <labor.net.au/workers/magazine> by the NSW Labor Council. Industrial news articles, features, interviews and columns are
Complex sounds of Ireland
Tóg é go bog éKilaKila Music through Larrikin/Festival Records For anyone who was touched by the commercial success of Riverdance, Irish band Kila, which is hitting the tour circuit as a part of Womad,
It's time to uncover the real Whitlam
By Kerryn Williams
Have you ever been in the middle of a free education rally and heard someone yell out from the crowd "Bring back Gough"? To some, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam personifies the
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — In a decision handed down on January 27, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission found that Mervyn Vogt was unfairly dismissed from his job with Telstra, and ordered his re-instatement with back pay. Vogt, a
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