The Labor government’s demolition plans are directly aimed at boosting property investor profits by semi-privatising the construction of new apartment blocks on lucrative, inner-city sites where public housing towers have stood for decades.
Daniel Andrews spoke as a defender of Zionist oppression and called for philanthropists to withdraw funding from any organisation opposed to the mass slaughter of Palestinians.
“I can’t sleep thinking about what would happen if I lost my job because I didn’t meet the standards a few times and my average wasn’t high enough.”
Amid conditions of an acute housing crisis, the destruction of 6,600 working class homes represents an enormous assault by the Labor government not just on the residents but on public housing as a whole.
The SDA deal commits Woolworths, Australia’s largest private sector employer, to little more than the bare minimum it could legally get away with.
Business analysts have warned that the demise of Qenos is a sign of things to come as other energy intensive industries cease operations in Australia, destroying thousands more jobs.
Workers are voting on a proposed union-management agreement that will worsen conditions, increase casualisation and keep wages barely higher than the legal minimum, with no guaranteed annual increases.
Dairy workers across Victoria have begun a two-day strike demanding cost-of-living pay increases.
The union had advanced a claim for 7 percent per annum, but the deal includes nominal pay increases of 7 percent in the first year, then just 4 percent in the second year, 3.5 and 3.5 percent per annum in the third and fourth years, scarcely an improvement on the initial company offer.
Under the proposed union-management deal, API workers will receive an average nominal wage rise of 4.5 per annum over four years, keeping their wages lower than their counterparts in other warehouses.
Despite a campaign of isolation by the United Workers Union, workers have taken an important stand, determined to secure a pay increase that enables them to survive crippling mortgage interest rates, soaring rents and energy prices.
The developers and builders of the massive apartment block were alerted to fire-safety design flaws after it was completed in 2005 but failed to act on the warnings, jeopardising hundreds of lives early this month.
The announcement, on top of 500 job cuts at Geelong and Broadmeadows over the past year, means Ford has slashed close to half of the small product design and development workforce it maintained after shuttering its Australian factories in 2016.
Opening the new Queensland distribution centre, Albanese claimed it would create 320 jobs. The reality is that the facility is part of a $1 billion investment in job-cutting technology by major supermarket chain Coles.
The collapse of Porter Davis Homes leaves 1,700 buyers with unfinished builds, while some subcontractors, including bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers and painters, have not been paid since before Christmas.
In the four days following the engine failure, five Qantas flights turned back to their take-off airports due to technical malfunctions.
Goodman Fielder has attempted to use firefighters and police to intimidate workers in a two-week pay dispute in Melbourne, Victoria.
Whichever capitalist party takes office after the Victorian election will intensify the decades-long assault on public healthcare.
Country Road workers have returned to work under a union-management agreement that does nothing to address bottom-of-industry wages.
For the company, the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered soaring profits. For workers, long hours and the risk of infection.
