Your Firefighters Need Your Help!
 Community Meeting 7:30pm Thurs 15th January Footscray Fire Station 69 Droop St Footscray The Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Service Board is attempting to force Footscray firefighters to occupy the recently refurbished fire station at 69 Droop Street, Footscray, despite significant safety concerns. The refurbished/reconstructed fire station will cause a delay in the firefighters responding to fires and incidents because of being badly designed. The new design breaches the Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Service Board's own Disability Action Plan and the ‘Design and Delivery Manual for New and Refurbished Fire Stations for MFESB’. more info: www.firecrisis.com Labels: Community Solidarity, Fire Crisis |
WA: Support workers at Amcor Beverage Cans
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12 Hour Picket
7pm Friday 14 November to 7am Saturday 15 November 153 Bannister Rd Canning Vale. These workers are in an EBA campaign, fighting to keep their current conditions and win a decent pay rise. Show some solidarity, join them on the picket line. Labels: Community Protest, Community Solidarity |
Speak out against the powers of the ABCC! Defend Noel Washington
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Further events in the campaign to abolish the powers of the ABCC:
We are not terrorists. Give us back our civil liberties! Community Solidarity contingent in the annual Fremantle Festival Parade. Help us make people aware of the ABCC powers. Come in orange overalls (if you've got some!). 3pm Sunday November 16 Fremantle Esplanade (parade starts 4pm). All out in support of Noel Washigton. Mass rally & march the day Noel's case goes to full trial, 11am Tuesday 2nd December Solidarity Park (near Parliament House), March at 11:30 on offices of ABCC 250 St Georges Tce Organised by UnionsWA, MUA, CFMEU, AMWU & CEPU. Noel Washington faces six months in prison for refusing to cooperate with the extraordinary and coercive powers of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. Anyone interrogated by this outfit does not have the right to silence, can not choose their own lawyer and can not discuss what the commission has asked them about. These powers breach basic human rights and the ILO conventions to which Australia is a signatory. We are calling on the federal government to completely abolish the ABCC and all its powers. "These laws they have at their disposal have no place in a so-called democratic society like Australia and they use those laws freely to go after ordinary workers." Noel Washington more info: wasolidarity@yahoo.com.au | www.unionsolidarity.org | www.rightonsite.org.au Labels: ABCC, Community Solidarity, Noel Washington |
WA: Community Solidarity Protest against the ABCC
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12:15pm Friday
Oct 31, 250 St Georges Tce Perth (outside ABCC offices). The date coincides with the next court hearing for Noel Washington, a Victorian union official who has refused to cooperate with the repressive Australian Building and Construction Commission. He faces six months in prison for refusing to answer the ABCC's questions. The special powers of the ABCC have been condemned five times by the International Labor Organisation for breaching conventions that Australia has ratified. However the Rudd government has decided to keep the ABCC in place till 2010 after which it may retain it in modified form. Community Solidarity and the union movement are demanding that all the ABCC powers be abolished. more info: for leaflets Sam 0412 751 508 or Dave: 0410 410 592 | www.unionsolidarity.org | www.rightonsite.org.au | www.constructingfear.com Labels: ABCC, Community Solidarity |
Community Solidarity [Western Australia]
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Community Assembly at National Foods
Friday 6am October 19 86 Radium St Bentley 20 - 40 people stopped milk trucks both supply and Woolworths delivery at National Foods. The action organised by Fremantle Community Solidarity included rank and file AMWU and MUA members. Members at the site got a great boost from the action and all involved were happy it went well. Background Workers employed by National Foods (Pura Milk, Yoplait, Berri and other brands) are negotiating their EBA and are locked in a struggle over their wages and conditions. A particular sticking point has been the employer’s refusal to meet workers’ demands for income protection insurance should they fall sick or get injured outside work hours. The Community Solidarity group is organising a community picket in support of the workers’ claim. Under the WorkChoices regime struggling workers need to support each other in order to defend and extend their rights at work. Your attendance at the picket will help turn the tide against Howard’s anti-worker laws. more info: Sam 0412 751 508 | wasolidarity@yahoo.com.au | www.unionsolidarity.org/2007/01/community-solidarity-western-australia.html Contact Details
Downloads  Download Leaflet Past Actions Community action targets Alcoa Building work at Alcoa’s new aluminium processing plant at Pinjarra in WA was halted Wednesday and Thursday morning (Nov 1&2) by the Peel Community Solidarity group. The community action, which involved holding mass meetings in the middle of the road, is the first of its kind in WA. On October 31 thirty building workers were sacked after Alcoa cancelled a building firms contract. C.E.C.K, the new contractor, indicated that the workers would be re-employed under AWA’s (individual contracts) resulting in a 25% reduction in conditions. Alcoa refused to negotiate in good faith with the union representing the workers, the Australian Workers Union (AWU). In response the community decided to discuss the issue on the main access road into the plant during a shift change. As Alcoa employs about 2,000 employees the action caused a traffic gridlock. After Alcoa continued to hold out the action was repeated on the morning of November 2. Alcoa attempted to divert traffic along back roads. However the community decided to have a meeting in the middle of the new access point to the plant. At its peak traffic was banked up for 10km. Only after the community was informed that Alcoa would negotiate with the AWU was the action adjourned. Alcoa have been warned to expect future “road meetings” if they are not serious about resolving the issue. Labels: Community Solidarity |
