While so many struggle to meet rising household bills, Labor refuses to take action to stop the supermarket duopoly from price gouging. Josh Adams reports.
Workers & unions
Staff and students at Monash University rallied on October 7 to demand secure jobs, smaller class sizes and genuine consultation. Brenna Dempsey 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Port workers on the United States鈥 Eastern and Gulf coasts took three days of strike action on October 1 and won an average wage rise from $39 an hour to nearly $63 an hour over six years, reports Malik Miah.
Union bodies, leaders and rank-and-file Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union members are pushing back against Labor鈥檚 unprecedented draconian anti-CFMEU law. Pip Hinman reports.
Support for Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and Vice Presidential candidate Butch Ware is the highest since the party鈥檚 candidate Ralph Nader ran for president of the United States in 2000, report Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.
The COVID-19听pandemic was an accelerant for money-pinching administrative bureaucrats to experiment with eliminating student-teacher classes. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Independent Peter Chen edged out Rank-and-File Action candidate David Brophy by six votes for president of the National Tertiary Education Union University of Sydney Branch.听Valerie Chidiac 补苍诲听Sandra Kallarakkal report.
Monash University management has raised the price of parking, arguing it will encourage staff and students to travel more 鈥渟ustainably鈥. Brenna Dempsey argues it will affect those less well off, who have to drive.
In one of the biggest protests in 50 years, nurses and midwives across NSW walked off the job for a 15% pay rise and safer working conditions. Kerry Smith reports.
Building workers鈥 unions from around the world are speaking out in solidarity with the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union after Labor placed the construction division into administration and sacked elected officials. Fred Fuentes reports.
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Workers at Boeing鈥檚 commercial division in the United States overwhelmingly voted on September 12 to reject a tentative collective agreement and take strike action, reports Malik Miah.
Construction union leader Michael Ravbar听gave a speech at an August 27 rally in defence of the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union.
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