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Union Solidarity aims to build a mass based united front campaign on the ground to defeat the repressive IR laws. Union Solidarity is a wide network of affiliated community and welfare organisations and unions with the single aim of building a broad people’s movement to beat back attacks on workers, unions and communities.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Striking staff typical of future: union

By Meaghan Shaw, The Age, December 20, 2005

FORTY-FIVE migrants fighting to retain their working conditions at a Laverton factory are typical of those who will find it harder to negotiate pay rises under new workplace laws, a union says. Process workers at New Wave Leathers went on strike last Wednesday [Dec 14] after talks with management broke down. read more...

NUW background article.

You can visit the picketline at Raymond Rd, North Laverton, Melways ref:40 B9.

 
 

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