Despite claims of corruption and so-called 鈥渋llegality鈥 in the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), Labor's new laws is aimed at nobbling one of Australia's most militant unions that has managed to protect the health and safety of workers in the very dangerous construction industry.
Anti-union law and legislation
A coordinated string of political strikes brought Finland to a standstill from February 12鈥16, when more than 130,000 workers took rolling strike action in response to an array of neoliberal reforms proposed by conservative prime minister Petteri Orpo鈥檚 National Coalition government, reports Clive Tillman.
Canadian dockworkers in British Columbia voted on August 3鈥4 to accept a new tentative agreement with employers, reports Jeff Shantz.
May Day marches were organised in Boorloo/Perth, Gadi/Sydney,听Meanjin/Brisbane,听 Muloobinba/Newcastle,听Kombumerri/Gold Coast,听Walyalup/Fremantle and Tarndanya/Adelaide. Susan Price, Jim McIlroy,听Alex Salmon and Renfrey Clarke听report.
Thousands of workers took to the streets in a national day of action to demand wage rises and protest anti-union laws, report Jacob Andrewartha, Sue Bolton, Alex Bainbridge and Jim McIlroy.
The NSW government enacted new anti-protest laws with Labor's support, but it is having difficulty getting its new anti-union laws through. Jim McIlroy reports.
Almost a month after Ukraine鈥檚 parliament adopted two anti-worker bills, President Volodymyr Zelensky finally ratified Draft Law 5371, removing union rights for most of the country鈥檚 workers, reports Federico Fuentes.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, social conflict inside the country was not put on hold: any illusion that its defence needs might produce a truce in the class struggle soon vanished, reports Dick Nichols.
Beware those who tell you federal Labor's small target strategy is just a tactic. Alex Bainbridge听argues we can kick Morrison out and reject听Labor's narrow vision that agrees with听key planks of Coalition's policy.
More than 60 unionists and supporters of the labour movement met after the Sydney May Day march on May 6 to discuss the next steps of the Right to Strike campaign.
The meeting, which built on the success of a previous meeting held on April 14, called for the critical addition of the right to strike as a core demand of the Australian Council of Trade Unions' (ACTU) Change the Rules campaign.
It is a basic right of working people to organise collectively through our unions
We own our own labour and should have the right to control our labour by organising collectively through our unions. Workers and our unions should not be prosecuted or penalised for organising our labour.
Our current industrial laws are anti worker, anti union and simply unjust and make it harder for workers to organise to defend our wages, conditions and living standards.听
The historical and current injustices following the establishment of industry superannuation and the subsequent undermining of this important social policy initiative needs to be scrutinised.
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