Workers & unions

Construction union leader Michael Ravbar gave a speech at an August 27 rally in defence of the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union.

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Progressive International’s Tanya Singh spoke to Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (People’s Rights Party, HKP) co-founder Ammar Ali Jan about the challenges of building a new workers’ party in Pakistan — and the HKP’s recent victories for Lahore’s most vulnerable workers.

Tens of thousands of construction unionists marched in Magan-djin/Brisbane on September 17 and in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Country/Sydney the next day, to demand their elected officials be reinstated and Labor’s new anti-union law be withdrawn.

Defending the right of a union to conduct its own investigations into alleged wrong-doing is beyond the pale for the political and media establishment. Jonathan Strauss looks at their attempts to take down the Greens, along with the CFMEU.

Capitalism has long ceased to provide for the majority, yet its institutions — government, the RBA and the corporate media — continue to try to tell us that there is no alternative. Graham Matthews argues that solidarity is key.

Marand Precision Engineering workers across two sites have began a series of four-hour strikes. Tim Gooden reports.

As ACTU Secretary Sally McManus defends Labor’s new anti-CFMEU law, more unions are showing their solidarity and asking why the rule of law no longer applies to CFMEU officials. Sue Bull reports.

Public sector nurses and midwives in New South Wales took strike action for a wage rise and other necessary improvements. Kerry Smith reports.

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French president Emmanuel Macron has named right-wing politician Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, ignoring the popular vote that gave the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire the largest group in the National Assembly, reports John Mullen.

Greens MP for Griffith, Max Chandler-Mather, addressed the Construction Forestry, Mining Employees Union rally, telling them that the new law prevented them from due process. Video by Alex Bainbridge.

A new group — Defend the Unions – Defend the CFMEU — has been formed to force the new anti-CFMEU law to be repealed and to reinstate the sacked CFMEU officials. Mary Merkenich reports.

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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen are joined by Nova Sobieralski to discuss Labor's attacks on the CFMEU and the NDIS amendment bill, and talk to socialist council candidate Rachel Evans.Ìý