While the government commits billions of dollars to the black hole of AUKUS, universities are underfunded, allowing a听management culture,听which now pervades universities, to look for course and job cuts. Rowan Cahill reports.
Workers & unions
Federal Labor鈥檚 decision to place the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union into administration may become a significant headache for the so-called party of the working class. Sue Bull reports.
Workers from the Grand Hyatt, Marriott and Westin hotels in San Francisco are striking for wages, health insurance and retirement benefits, reports Serena Ashmore.
Thousands of workers went on strike across Peru, followed by nationwide protests, to demand that Congress repeal laws that favour organised crime and criminalise the right to protest, and call on the government to take action against worsening extortion and violence, reports Ben Radford.
Rank and file members of Boeing鈥檚 largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, voted resoundingly to reject a tentative agreement and to extend their strike, reports Malik Miah.
Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the protests against the visit of 鈥淜ing鈥 Charles and talk to NTEU national councillor Markela Panegyres about the recent vote to boycott Israel.
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Four years after 1700 Qantas workers were sacked and outsourced, and a year after the High Court agreed that it was illegal, Qantas has been ordered to compensate them. Jim McIlroy听reports.
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Responding to the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union National Council has decided, overwhelmingly, to support an academic institutional boycott of Israeli universities.听Jonathan Strauss and Markela Panegyres report.
Those cheering on Labor鈥檚 attack on the construction division of the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union claim the union is responsible for the shortfall in promised new homes. Sue Bull reports.
Transport workers in Peru鈥檚 Lima and Callao region went on strike on October 10鈥11 to demand that the government act against the worsening violence and extortion that workers face at the hands of organised crime groups, reports Ben Radford.
United States singer-songwriter George Mann 鈥 a former union organiser and activist based in New York 鈥 is touring Australia, reports Kerry Smith.
The Environmental Defenders Office and Lock the Gate Alliance said Glencore and Yancoal鈥檚 decision to withdraw one of two open-cut coal mine expansions in the Hunter Valley is good news, but not the end of the matter. Kerry Smith reports.
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