Democracy is a funny thing
In Canberra the local Labor Party changed its rules to disenfranchise the Community and Public Sector Union. My keen reader will remember that the CPSU is affiliating to the ALP around the country to...
View ArticleThe International Day of Mourning and the ABCC
440 workers died at work last year. Tens of thousands were injured, many seriously. Others die painful deaths from diseases and illnesses contracted from work. Every week a building worker dies on...
View ArticleRudd Labor: anti-union to its rotting core
For building workers it is work choices all over. Rudd Labor will keep the draconian and repressive powers of John Howard’s Australian Building and Construction Commission. It will move the body to...
View ArticleEqual pay: Labor is the enemy
Clearly Labor is the enemy of working women. The Gillard Government’s decision to oppose the Australian Services Union test case before Fair Work Australia for equal pay in the community and social...
View ArticlePut a socialist into the Senate?
I am looking forward to the Labor Party pre-selecting a real left-winger for the top Senate spot to replace Senator Kate Lundy in the Australian Capital Territory. Such a person would, among other...
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