Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) Victorian secretary Michele O鈥橬eil was so furious when she heard the Labor Party鈥檚 reworking of its industrial relations policy that she penned an open letter to Labor leader Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard in protest [see page 8].
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On August 29, 60 people attended a public meeting in Dulwich Hill to launch a sister-city relationship between the inner-west Sydney municipality of Marrickville and the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
A spirited demonstration outside Toyota聮s Melbourne headquarters on August 28 highlighted the company聮s abuse of workers聮 rights in the Philippines.
On August 31, after booking a flight with Jetstar Airways, Duncan Meerding, a legally blind 20-year-old Hobart resident, phoned the airline聮s service centre to request assistance in navigating on and off the plane, in navigating the Sydney Airport Terminus and with baggage recovery.
Shipping costs
"The US Defense Department said on Thursday that a flawed system designed to rush supplies to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan let a small-parts supplier improperly collect $998,798.38 to ship two 19-cent washers 鈥 The lock-washer
On August 30, footwear workers formerly employed by Michaelis Bayley Holdings Pty Ltd 鈥 maker of the Homy Ped shoe brand 鈥 staged a protest outside the company鈥檚 Footscray offices. According to Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) secretary Michele O'Neil, the company has sought to avoid redundancy provisions contained in the enterprise bargaining agreement it had committed to honour two years ago.
Sydney is to be shut down in the lead-up to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit from September 2. US warmonger-in-chief George Bush will be attending amid an unprecedented amount of money and effort being spent on security.
In this centre of the tourism industry, a new opportunity is emerging to organise the recreational diving industry. The catalyst for this has been the refusal by Brooke O聮Mara to continue to work under a $3 per hour 聯training聰 contract. Many work under similar contracts in the industry.
聯The Australian Labor Party under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard has ceased to be a party that in any serious way can be said to represent the interests of working people in Australia聰, Socialist Alliance national coordinator Dick Nichols said on August 28.
For nearly seven years, the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy has guarded the Kuradji man burial site, artefacts and middens at Sandon Point at the bottom of Bulli Pass, in the northern Illawarra. Planning minister Frank Sartor, using recently legislated powers, has given approval to Stockland and the Anglican Retirement Village Trust for a huge development the size of a suburb on the site.
Three-metre high security fences, heart-stopping tasers, a bone-smashing water cannon, mobile prison buses and 鈥 perhaps most disturbing of all 鈥 the threat of automatic incarceration for randomly abducted protesters? Welcome to the growing international phenomenon of 鈥減opulation control鈥. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is in Sydney, and NSW security chiefs are telling you to follow orders, shut up and stay away. Prison cells are ready and waiting if you fail to heed the warning.
On August 28, 100 people met at the Newcastle Town Hall to protest against the Newcastle City Council聮s proposal to close Mayfield聮s public swimming pool.
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