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18 August 2008
Australia:
Labor government scapegoats air traffic controllers
17 June 2008
Australia:
An eyewitness account of a Victorian teachers' union ratification
meeting
16 June 2008
Two
letters and a reply on the teachers' dispute in Victoria, Australia
11 June 2008
Australia:
Unions move to negotiate as Qantas rules out improved pay offer
for engineers
3 June 2008
Australia:
Victorian teachers' union opposes mass meetings to discuss industrial
agreement
2 June 2008
Australia:
Victorian teachers' union convenes delegates' meetings to ram
through industrial agreement
28 May 2008
Australia:
NSW teachers strike against attacks on jobs and conditions
27 May 2008
Australia:
Escalating hostility among Victorian teachers to government-union
deal
24 May 2008
Australia:
Details of the proposed AEU-Victorian government sell-out teachers'
agreement
21 May 2008
Australia:
NSW teachers strike but union prepares to deliver staffing changes
20 May 2008
Australia:
Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers' union sell-out!
15 January 2008
Australia:
Labor's Julia Gillard threatens legal action against strikes
28 September 2007
Australia:
Riot police attack sacked transport workers
3 April 2007
Australia:
Union's refusal to defend jobs leaves Tristar workers in limbo
11 December 2006
Australia:
Ajax workers facing loss of jobs and entitlements
22 November 2006
Australia:
Labor Party and unions stifle opposition to Ford job cuts
9 August 2006
Australian
construction workers face huge fines for striking
27 July 2006
Australia:
Car unions work with administrator to impose job losses
29 June 2006
Tens
of thousands march against Australian IR laws
WSWS interviews Australian workers about IR laws,
the Labor party and the unions
27 June 2006
Australia:
Kim Beazley, the trade unions and Howard's WorkChoices legislation
A question and answer on Australia's trade union rallies
16 June 2006
Australia:
Workers' conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
23 March 2006
Australian
Workers Union washes its hands of Boeing workers
19 December 2005
Australia:
Unions isolate locked-out Boeing workers
29 July 2004
Lou Di Gregorio defends tramway sackings
Australian union continues to attack
the SEP
9 July 2004
Australia: an open letter to Melbourne tram workers
Why the Rail Tram and Bus Union is attacking the SEP
1 July 2004
Australia:
tram union attacks SEP after "unauthorised" strike
28 June 2004
Australia:
Workers First union leader plea bargains for suspended sentence
27 May 2004
Australia:
Critical lessons from the tramway sackings in Melbourne
5 June 2003
Strike
at Sydney metal company enters 12th week
29 January 2003
Australian
construction union moves to shut down Grocon dispute
14 June 2002
Australian
government incites company action to bust steel strike
13 March 2002
Letter
from an Australian Telstra worker on the death of a 10-year-old
boy
23 January 2002
Australian
union chief jeered as Qantas workers throw out pay deal
20 December 2001
Australian
airline plans all-out assault on maintenance workers
18 December 2001
Australian
government threatens intervention in power dispute
5 December 2001
Feltex
dispute signals renewed offensive against Australian workers
13 September 2001
Australian
union hoses down another entitlement dispute
6 September 2001
Australian
nurses union accepts cuts to conditions
27 August 2001
Former
Australian prime minister hired to close down Maintrain strike
14 August 2001
Australian
unions end Tristar strike over workers' entitlements
23 June 2001
Angry
protest in Australia against Labor government changes to workers
compensation
15 May 2001
Divisive
union campaign raises vital questions for Australian workers
19 April 2001
Australia:
State Labor government to make further inroads into workers compensation
11 April 2001
Mitsubishi
workers in Australian plants face uncertain future
20 January 2001
Australian
Federal Court decision sets the stage for further spread of non-union
contracts
West Australian nurses issue challenge to government's
health cuts
17 January 2001
Australia:
Union ends STP strike with workers still owed millions of dollars
22 December 2000
Australian
power workers reject union attempt to impose job cuts
14 October 2000
Australian
union manoeuvres with BHP in coal mine stoppages
17 August 2000
Australian
library workers fight cuts to jobs and services
30 June 2000
Media promotes "militant" union faction
in Australia
What is Workers First?
6 May 2000
Australia's
Telstra suspends workers on flimsy charges of storing pornography
6 April 2000
Australian
building unions and their phoney 36-hour week campaign
24 February 2000
New
figures show Australian union membership in free-fall
10 February 2000
Labor
Party invokes emergency measures against Australian electricity
workers
5 February 2000
Sacked
Australian textile workers picket for $11 million in unpaid entitlements
NSW government wants to "eliminate restrictions"
Australian teachers continue their fight against new award
4 February 2000
ACTU holds talks with BHP
Australian unions prepare to impose company demands on Pilbara
workers
27 January 2000
Behind the dispute over individual contracts
BHP prepares new global strategy at its Australian iron ore mines
26 January 2000
Australian
trade unions reject national strike against BHP
6 January 2000
A lesson in the failure of syndicalism
Australian union leader Norm Gallagher dies at 67
5 January 2000
Port
worker's wife killed on New Zealand picket line
29 December 1999
Australian
unions call strikes as BHP shifts to individual contracts
15 December 1999
Supreme Court declares government's gag clause invalid
Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory
26 November 1999
Australian state government faces demand for teacher's
reinstatement
Test case to be held in Supreme Court
12 October 1999
Australian
trade unions to oversee public sector job cuts
25 August 1999
Australian
firefighters demand better death and disability pensions
10 August 1999
"Second
wave" industrial laws to strip workers' rights in Australia
20 July 1999
Australian
tycoon uses police and helicopters against Visy Board strikers
13 July 1999
Australia:
Sacked Oakdale miners work without pay to recover entitlements
5 June 1999
Maritime
Union of Australia determined to impose job cuts
24 May 1999
Australian
manufacturing union presides over massive job losses
7 May 1999
Coronial
inquest reveals deadly conditions in Australian trucking industry
30 April 1999
Australia:
Union defends BHP after serious explosion at Newcastle steelworks
13 April 1999
12 months on
What was the "victory" on the Australian waterfront?
20 February 1999
Australian
communications union faces membership decline
30 January 1999
Australian
textile strike enters second month
14 January 1999
Australia:
Union betrayals cut wages
18 December 1998
Australian
miners union calls strike against coal price cuts
15 December 1998
Australia:
Key ACTU meeting reveals unions in decline
12 November 1998
Australian
union to impose Telstra's cuts
11 November 1998
Australian
union profits from job destruction
5 November 1998
New
union agreement facilitates job cuts in steel industry
2 September 1998
Job
cuts fuel giant profits in Australian telecommunications
26 August 1998
Another
coal mine closes in Australia
21 August 1998
Australian communication workers face new impasse
Telstra demands deeper cuts
11 August 1998
Australian
warehouse strikers threatened with dismissal
28 July 1998
More
warehouse strikers arrested in Sydney
25 July 1998
Another death in an Australian coal pit
Hundreds turn out for miner's funeral
23 July 1998
Australia:
Support won for victimised teacher
17 July 1998
Australian
warehouse workers face police attacks
16 July 1998
Inquiry
covers up causes of Australian mine disaster
15 July 1998
Victimised
Australian school teacher dismissed
9 July 1998
Another
mine death in Australia
3 July 1998
Bipartisan line-up against
Australian dock workers
Documents reveal Labor's waterfront conspiracy
18 June 1998
Closure threatened in
mining disaster town of Moura
Australian coal union imposes sweeping job cuts
2 May 1998
Thousands of jobs axed in
Australian coal mines
Unions allow offensive to proceed
14 April 1998
Strike activity in Australia at a record low
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