More than 5000 unionists, largely construction workers, marched through the CBD on May 1 to mark May Day, the international day of workers鈥 struggle. Jim McIlroy reports.
May Day (International Workers' Day)
Episode 8: 麻豆传媒 journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.
South Korea unions are fighting back against the right-wing Yoon Suk-yeol government, reports Clive Tillman. Strikes are planned for July on the back of record-breaking May Day mobilisations.
This year鈥檚 May Day celebration in Cuba was interrupted by severe storms that knocked out electricity in much of the country, but this didn't dampen the spirits of more than 150 activists from the United States visiting on a solidarity delegation, reports Walter Smolarek.
The South Coast Labour Council organised the听first big union protest听against Labor's AUKUS nuclear听submarines in Port Kembla. Jim McIlroy 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
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.
Hundreds of unionists and their families attended the Labour Day march on the Gold Coast.听Susan Price reports.
More than 5000 unionists marched from Belmore Park to Hyde Park calling for 鈥渏ustice鈥, 鈥渁 better future鈥 and to 鈥渟how the bosses we mean business鈥 on May 1. Jim McIlroy and Pip Hinman report.
A central theme of听the May Day march in Sydney was that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal-National Coalition government had to be voted out at the federal election听on听May 21. Video by Peter Boyle.
In the lead-up to a federal election, some May Day rallies across Australia from April 30 to May 2 were bigger than usual. Kerry Smith reports.
Fred Moore spent his life fighting for the underprivileged. He was proud that unions played an important role in pushing for rights for First Nations peoples, was concerned about women's rights and was an internationalist. Robynne Murphy bids him farewell.
Sydney鈥檚 May Day march highlighted the green ban imposed by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union on the demolition of a heritage-listed building in Parramatta. Pip Hinman reports.
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