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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.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Manufacturing jobs lost in the northern suburbs

Over the past 3 years over 16,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Victoria with more than 58 companies closing down. Even before negotiations have concluded between Australia and China over a free trade agreement. Australian companies are already dumping hundreds of jobs in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne alone. This list in the northern suburbs so far is:

650 Kodak , 500 Autoliv, 40 Kozmo Industries, 80 Webco, 150 Decco, 151 Kraft- Biscuits,
50 Meritor (part of Home Leather)
The Northern Community & Union Solidarity will continue to provide a strong leadership role with other community groups in the ongoing mass campaigns to involve even wider sections of workers to defend workers' rights and our standard of living.

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