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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.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Successful IR Public Meeting in Glenroy

Last night from 7-9pm Thusday 14 September at St Matthews Hall cnr Widford St & Melbourne Ave Glenroy locals and activists gathered to hear speakers and ask questions discuss what has been happening since we last met at this location.

One local Melbourne Avenue resident (who was letter boxed with a leaflet about the night's meeting) reminded us all that 35 years ago there was a rising working class community expectation for an end to Conscription & the war in Vietnam, the end of the bleak years Liberal Government... in this very building an overflowing, huge community rally was held and out of that upsurge came the improvements in the local area which may now be taken away if we do not organise again...more

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Successful rally outside ABCC hearings

On Monday 24 South West Community Solidarity organised a successful community outside the ABCC hearing in Portland. Around 60 members of the community assembled to show solidarity to the union members being "interviewed" by the ABCC. The following day another assembly was organised attracting up to 20 people. Given the conservative nature of the electorate this is an amazing result, congratulations to all who participated.

more info: South West Community Solidarity | Rally outside of ABCC hearing in Portland

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Friday, July 21, 2006

Uniting Church promote progressive IR laws

The Uniting Church has recently outlined a progressive industrial relations policy for dealing with its employees. Some of the guiding principles guiding the new industrial relations policy are:
  • A belief that people are not simply human resources alongside other resources
  • A workplace that will better enable people to be whole in all their lives
  • A workplace which encourages, as far as possible, a sharing of insights and skills regarding management of the workplace
  • A workplace that encourages the participation of unions and employer organisations.
more...

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Support CFMEU members facing huge fines

URGENT ACTION NEEDED
Please send urgent messages of solidarity to the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union of Western Australia. jmellor@cfmeuwa.com.

107 rank and file members of CFMEU working on the Perth to Mandurah rail project face individual fines of up $28 000 for taking strike action in February this year. Another 323 workers could face similar fines. Court proceedings are expected to begin on August 12th. more

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Nation wide action against IR laws

Successful Rallies
Protests have taken place around Australia against the Federal Government’s Industrial Relations Laws. Workers, unionists, church groups and community members rallied to highlight the devastating impact the new laws are having in weakening workers bargaining positions, and stripping them of hard fought rights. more..

What's the next step?
The education campaign against WorkChoices has been extremely successful. Union Solidarity are urging supporters to get active in your local area. The great work of mobilising and educating the community needs to continue.
More Reports
Victorian Trades Hall: Gallery 1 | Gallery 2

Indymedia: Images 1 | 2 | 3
Reports: Perth | Sydney
Regional Centres: Geelong | Wodonga | Newcastle workers march on Spotlight

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Deakin Community Breakfast in Mitcham

Deakin Community Breakfast in Mitcham outside Federal Liberal Member for Deakin Phil Baressi’s office.

7.30am June 29
5/602 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham

Government IR laws push down workers’ wages and cut conditions while prices, petrol and interest rates are all going up.

Download leaflet

more info: www.rightsatwork.com.au | ACTU hotline 1300 362 223

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

WorkChoices or Justice at Work?

Communities, unions and churches creating a fairer future 7 June - Melbourne Town Hall
6.30pm for 7.00pm-9.00pm (close 10pm)

A range of informative speakers discuss:
  • The new workplace and welfare laws
  • The moral dimension - impacts on the most vulnerable
  • Building solidarity in the community.
MC - Father Bob Maguire
more details.

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

June 1 student strike for young workers' rights.

Melbourne: 1.30pm.
June 1
State Library,
cnr Latrobe & Swanston sts.

Students and young workers across the country will be taking action on June 1 against the Howard government's attacks on workers' rights. The "Work Choices" legislation is aimed at making it easier for bosses to rip off working people, and it's going to impact on young people especially harshly.

What "Work Choices" will mean for you:
  • Slash in pay rates
  • Sacked whenever the boss feels like it
  • More bullying and harassment at work
  • No weekend pay rates
  • Forced to negotiate with the boss without a union.
French students recently showed the way when they led the fight against their conservative government's attacks on young workers' rights and forced it to back down through ongoing mass protests. This victory show that if we put up a fight, we can win. Join the strike on June 1, and tell your friends and family about it.

more info: Bri 9639 8622 | 0439 694 505.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Moreland Public Forum

Moreland Stands Up!

Now is the time to stand with your community.

6.30pm
Wed May 17
Brunswick town Hall

Speakers:
  • Kelvin Thompson, federal ALP member for Wills
  • Sharan Burrows, ACTU president
  • Brian Boyd, secretary VTHC
  • speaker from Victorian council of social services
  • Phil Cleary, community leader
more info: James dimivasso@hotmail.com | 0405 309 283

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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

March 29 Victorian Delegates Meeting


Victorian union delegates and shop stewards rallied in Melbourne on Wednesday 29 March to plan the next steps in the fight against the Howard Government’s IR laws. Over 4,000 unionists attended a VTHC delegates and shop stewards’ rally at Dallas Brooks Hall to ratify a resolution that condemned Howard’s IR laws and called for a mass mobilisation of Victorian workers at the next national day of protest set down for June 28.

After the meeting union leaders led a march through the city to Australia Post to show solidarity with union delegate, Peter Vining, from the CEPU-Postal Division who has been the target of workplace intimidation. The rally then brought parts of central Melbourne to a standstill as they marched to Liberal Party headquarters in Exhibition St where union leaders burned a copy of the new Federal IR Bill. ACTU President, Sharan Burrow, promised to “light a fire in the emotions of everyone all around the country. This is no a fight about a decent Australia.”

more | copy of resolution passed at meeting.

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