Workers Issues in Australia & the Pacific
An unholy alliance at Australian Workers Union conference
By Terry Cook, February 24, 2009
Why would the Australian Workers Union invite Cardinal Pell to be the keynote speaker at its national conference? Pell is certainly not known for his support for unions and was an ardent supporter of ...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
February 21, 2009
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
January 17, 2009
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General Motors cashes in on Australian car industry fund
By Terry Cook, January 7, 2009
The Labor government will give General Motors Holden $149 million from its $1.3 billion “Green Car Innovation Fund”. Despite the government’s grandiose claims, its auto industry assistance packa...
Australian job losses spread to mining sector
By Terry Cook, December 23, 2008
After thousands of job losses across the financial and banking sector, the impact of the global economic crisis is spreading to other sections of the Australian economy, with almost daily reports of l...
Australia: Big business and unions line up behind Labor’s “fair work” laws
By Terry Cook, December 9, 2008
Business, unions and the federal Opposition have all endorsed the Rudd government’s Fair Work Bill, which went before parliament last week after nearly a year of “fine tuning” to satisfy corpora...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 22, 2008
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 22, 2008
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
November 15, 2008
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Australia: Northern Territory teachers resist Labor government’s attack on public education
By Katrina Morrison, November 13, 2008
After voting down a proposed industrial agreement negotiated between the government and the union last September, teachers are now threatening further industrial action. The standoff in the NT comes a...
Australia: NSW Labor’s pay offer to teachers foreshadows savage spending cuts
By Erika Zimmer, November 3, 2008
A salaries “offer” made by New South Wales Labor Premier Nathan Rees to the state’s public school teachers foreshadows savage cuts to government spending.
New South Wales teachers speak out: “We’re starving the public schools”
By our reporter, November 3, 2008
On October 25, delegates to a New South Wales Teachers Federation council meeting in Sydney spoke to World Socialist Web Site reporters about the latest offer by the NSW government.
