tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912372009-04-01T16:45:22.713+11:00Union 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.dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12907321545771917488noreply@blogger.comBlogger248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14791237.post-69950071706842082452008-07-26T11:18:00.004+10:002008-07-26T12:06:38.704+10:00

Assembly at CSR > Enlarge imageFriday 25th July 2008 saw 100 Union Solidarity activists from the Western suburbs shut down the CSR construction site, Lyell St Yarraville. Workers and their unions on this site have a range of longstanding issues.CSR have employed a man named John Kint who has an extremely bad history of eliminating workers' and unions' democratic rights through the Howard years,

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Rally against attacks on full time jobs. 4pm Wed25 June Australia Post Headquarters321 Exhibition St, CityAs part of a grand restructuring process of mail delivery Australia Post intends to shut down three mail centres in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Not only will this mean a reduction of services in the western suburbs but an attack on working conditions of Australia Post employees. The

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Truck held up outside the letter centreMost mail to Melbourne residents will not be delivered today [Fri June 13] after an impromptu strike by postal workers at the Dandenong distribution centre last night.The strike began at 5.30pm yesterday, just before the 6pm shift began, with workers picketing the letter distribution centre on Nathan Road for several hours.Australia Post spokeswoman Nadine

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Workers at Boeing vote to return to work at a mass meeting, the open and democratic way to make decisions during industrial disputes.The strike at Boeing's Fishermans Bend plant ended last night (Sun 27 April) with a vote to return work. For nearly three weeks workers stood up to massive legal threats and company lies while showing solidarity with a worker who was unfairly dismissed.The return to

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Community AssemblyWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leaflet | Boeing Workers Fundraising Concert | Support PosterFri 25 April:Quick UpdateSupport for strike growingBoeing's legal threats softening?Workers vote to continue strikeSolidarity concert for workers Sat May 3.Another legal developmentSupport for strike

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Community AssemblyWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leaflet | Boeing Workers Fundraising Concert | Support PosterWed 23 April:Quick UpdateBBQ at Community Assembly Thurs 24 April 12noonBoeing's legal deadline for return to work passesBoeing starting to move?Solidarity concert for workers.BBQA BBQ for the Boeing

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Community AssemblyWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leaflet | Boeing Workers Fundraising Concert | Support PosterMon 21 April:Quick UpdateMass meeting voted overwhelming to continue disputeBoeing rejects workers proposed settlementBoeing continues to threaten striking workers with legal actionSolidarity concert for

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Community AssemblyWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leafletFri 18 April:Battle of the meetingsYesterday (April 17) Boeing in a fairly transparent effort to affect a return to work organised a meeting of employees at Docklands. At most 200 turned up. Boeing promised to drop all legal action but only if they returned

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Community Assembly6am Thur 17 AprilWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leafletWed 16 April:Management's plan thwartedA mass meeting this morning of 500 Boeing workers and supporters at 6am prevented efforts to break the picket line. It was rumored that strike breakers in buses with assistance of police would bust

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Community Assembly6am & 2pm Wed 16 AprilWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 BusDownload and print support leafletTue 15 April: Boeing workers continue their strike action as the Federal Court has insisted on mediation between Boeing and AMWU to resolve the issue. A workers mass meeting yesterday (Mon 13 April) determined to continue the strike

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Show of support for AMWU worker sacked - 500 on strikeCommunity AssemblyWharf RoadFishermens Bend(Off Todd Rd - Melways E12)Public Transport 235, 237 or 606 Bus Thurs 10 April: This week Boeing at Fishermans Bend (Melbourne) sacked an AMWU member unfairly. When fellow workers tried to organise a mass meeting Hawker De Havilland tried to prevent it by running to the Industrial Relations

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A Community Assembly was held 20th March between 6am - 10am at Visy in Charles St, Coburg [Melbourne].The action was in support an AWMU member who was unfairly dismissed by Visy. The community assemblies could escalate if Visy do not reinstate the sacked worker.

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Show of support for workers sacked after refusing to sign AWA'sOn Friday March 7 a successful community assembly of up to 150 union and community activists shut down Qantas Valet parking operations at Melbourne Airport.The action took place from 6.00am in support of ASU members who were either forced on AWA's or sacked for refusing to sign.Two thirds of the ASU's staff were reportedly sacked

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Around 100 people marched against the Federal Government’s racist intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory on Sunday (Nov 18), calling for community autonomy and investment in Indigenous-determined, Indigenous-controlled solutions to poverty, health problems, and child abuse.The protest, held at the GPO Building in Bourke St Mall, was part of a National Weekend of Action

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On the eve of the Federal election - which in the event saw an emphatic end to the Howard Government in Australia - unionists and others rallied at the State Library in protest at the Australian Building and Construction Commission’s banning of the Eureka flag from building sites on the pretext that it implied a pressure on workers to join a union - something denied by the unions...moresource:

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Extracts from speeches made at a rally held in Melbourne at the old GPO building on Thursday 15 November, expressing solidarity with the people of Pakistan and calling for an end to Australian Government support for the Musharraf dictatorship ... There was a long list of speakers, including two who spoke in Spanish with an interpreter, so individual speeches are unavoidably truncated.source:

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About 100 supporters assembled around 11am this morning (Tues 5 June), outside the CSR property on Lyell St, Yarraville, where the Ormiston is docked. The crew were notified during the morning that they were expected to bring the boat to Webb Dock at 3pm this afternoon. One of the workers said:This morning’s community assembly was held in solidarity with the crew of the Ormiston, who expected to

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About 60 supporters gathered outside Elliot Engineering* on Friday May 11 between 6 am and 12 noon. Delivery trucks were turned away by the peaceful Community Assembly.* Elliot Engineering is part of a group of companies behind the outrageous lockout of union members in the La trobe Valley48 workers from Mechanical Engineering Services have been locked out for 34 weeks from the Yallourn Workshop

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Community Assembly6am-2pm FridayMay 11 Elliot Engineering176 Colchestar Rd KilsythIn response to the employer violence on the picket last Friday and in support of the workers in Latrobe Valley who have been locked out for 34 weeks a community assembly will be held outside Elliot Engineering in Kilsyth.* Elliot Engineering is part of a group of companies behind the outrageous lockout of union

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The month long dispute at Preston Motors is over. A breakthrought came on April 13 and NUW workers voted to return to work. Lessons learntYet again another employer has been forced to negotiate with the relevent union in dispute through community assemblies and wider support. Congratulation to the workers at Preston Motors who stuck together and were successful in achieving a much improved union

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Community Assembly Shuts DeliveriesColes Myer Distribution CentreUnion Rd, Somerton(Melway 180 C9)Download support leaflet An unlucy day for Coles Myer on Friday 13 April at their distribution centre in Sommerton. A community assembly successfully stopped all deliveries in and out. The centre's deliveries were stopped from 6am until 10am.Metal construction workers at the Coles Myer

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Picket report Wednesday 11 April.Overall a quiet day on the picket, management seems to have given up on trying to move anything through the picket expect for one incident with a confused truck driver. There was also a lack of the usual mouthing off by some of the security staff and sales reps. Signs, perhaps, that management has accepted the picket as a fact.Word came down to the picket that

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Preston Motors1551 Sydney RdCampbellfield[Melways: F7, map 7]Another successful community assembly took place this morning outside Preston Motors in Campbellfield (Thurs 5 April) as the company still refuses to negotiate with the union in good faith, management have even knocked back an offer by the AIRC (Australian Industrial Relations Commission) to intervene...moreMore Support NeededNUW

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Preston Motors1551 Sydney RdCampbellfield[Melways: F7, map 7]Another successful community assembly took place on Thurs morning (22 March) with workers from a range of unions attending.The action was mostly free of incident apart from one deliberate attempt to drive a truck through the picket. Luckily no one was injured and the driver after being "politely" asked to move on did so.Over 30 workers

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8-11am22 MarchPreston Motors1551 Sydney Rd[Melways: F7, map 7]Around 70 workers and members of the community assembled this morning (Mon 19 March) at Preston Motors in Campbellfield. The action spread over two hours and two gates stopped deliveries and supplies in support of striking NUW members.Over 30 workers working in the spare parts/stores section of Preston Motors began a strike on Tuesday,

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