Workers Online Editorial:
As for the unions, the key message that the laws will be resisted - and that this is only the beginning of the campaign cut through. If there is still uncertainty about where the campaign will actually go; at least there is a real sense that this is just a step on a longer march - which can only end with a change in federal government.

In this context, November 15 was not just a set piece, but the culmination of six months of grass roots organising, at a workplace and a community level. And behind Tuesday's glitz, tens of thousands of workers were giving their emails and mobile numbers to a central database, what could be the most potent political weapon this country has seen.

There is no denying that once the laws pass the Federal Parliament there will be significant challenges for the union movement. But in building a broad alliance with the community to fight these changes on a cultural level, unions are giving themselves every chance of winning the long-term battle.

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