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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.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Community assembly to save 3 AMWU members jobs

A community assembly has started at an engineering shop in Heidelberg (Melbourne) to save the jobs of three AMWU members, sacked for answering back. There has been a long struggle to get the union onto the site. The boss now has used Howard's IR laws to get rid of three "trouble makers".

action commences

6am Tue 2 May
Finlay Engineering
617 Waterdale Road
Heidelberg West

more info: Dave Kerin 0412 484 094

update: this struggle was successful! see Finlay workers back on the job.

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