6.00am Monday
16 October
Botany Cranes Yard
Botany NSW

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Why Blockade Botany Cranes:

• The company employs a former Liberal Party staff-member who is leading the attack on workers rights and safety conditions.
• The company's union delegate, Barry Hemsworth, has been victimised and sacked using Howard's new anti-worker laws. Barry is on the State Executive of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. He was sacked for "insubordination" - i.e. standing up for his fellow workers' rights.
• No unfair dismissal means Barry has few remedies for his unfair treatment - this is why we need to act!
• This company is compromising the safety of their staff and undermining their rights at work. If w do not stand up and defend Barry and his workmates, no one will!

more info: Worker Solidarity NSW workersolidaritynsw@gmail.com

The Darebin Worker's Rights & Social Justice Campaign group would like to invite you to a film night.

BETRAYED - Length approx. 1 hour.

7:00 pm show to start 7:15 pm
Monday 2nd October
Northcote Library meeting room
Separation St
Northcote

Description - It is the story of Canadian merchant seamen. A documentary about the way in which the canadian seaman union was attacked in the early 1950s by the same canadian government that its members had served so bravely during the second world war.

Light refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome, including children and entry is free. To assist with catering purposes could people please try to R.S.V.P by the 30th of September.

Please feel free to distribute this information

more info Gary 0415103375 | 98430626 | gary.harper@tpg.com.au

Film by Mohammed Alatar. Shown on September 28th to commemorate the anniversary of the 2nd Intifada.

7pm Thurs
Sept 28
Victorian College of the Arts,
40 Dodd St
Southbank
Art Auditorium (enter via gate 4)

Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network [MPSN]

more info: www.melbourne-palestine.info | 0418 316 310 | melbourne.palestine@gmail.com

Land Rights not Uranium Mining

BHP Head Office
8am Wednesday
September 27
180 Lonsdale St
Melbourne

A non-violent action to mark the anniversary of the testing of nuclear devices in Maralinga harming both Indigenous traditional owners and Australian servicemen. Information on the dangers of the nuclear industry will be disseminated.

more info: http://www.nukefreeaus.org/

Keep the pressure on the CEO

Mooney Valley Council meeting
6pm Tuesday
19 September
The Civic Centre
Crn Kellaway Ave & Mt Alexander Rd

We ask you all to come to the council meeting at put pressure on the CEO and show your support for the library workers struggle to maintain existing conditions. It's time we all worked together to resist this attack on workers entitlements.

Download and distribute: Library workers leaflet

Send a protest email

WorkChoices Moonee Vally style!
Library workers are management's latest target at Moonee Valley City Council. CEO Peter Black and Ed Small are attacking existing conditions for new library staff. Management are going after library workers 35 hour week. The 35 hour week compensates staff for working evenings and Saturday mornings without penalty rates. Council are employing new staff on a 38 hour week and plan to work them outside the normal spread of hours without penalty rates!

This means new staff will have to work longer hours that will fall outside of the normal spread of hours without penalty rates.

Moonee Valley City Council Management plan to do this by "agreement" with new staff. But they are using Howard's definition of "agreement" that is – if new staff want a job or existing staff want a promotion they have to "agree" to lower conditions than the other staff – if they don't "agree" to be disadvantaged they don't get the job! That's the choice, NO Choice!

MVCC Library workers need you're support to send a strong message to MVCC management, that they can't get away with this.

more info: ASU Organisers, Michelle Jackson 0418 539 054 or Rebecca Coyle 0419 508 262.

10.00am Wednesday
27th September 2006
Dallas Brooks Hall
East Melbourne

Please maximise a big turn out of delegates and shop stewards.

The VTHC Executive Council has called an all unions’ delegates and shop stewards mass meeting as part of the preparations needed to make the next ACTU National Day of Protest (including Sky Channel), on 30 November 2006 at the MCG, a big success.

4-6pm Wednesday
September 13th
Safeway / Big W
crn Lonsdale & Swanston Sts
Melbourne
Please come along and bring union & community flags & banners.

WOOLWORTHS - THE LOW PAY PEOPLE
Woolworths Australia own outlets such as Safeway and Big W. In New Zealand they own a company called Progressive Enterprises. Over 500 Progressive employees in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch Distribution Centres have been locked out of their workplaces by Woolworths until they agree to abandon their claim for a national collective agreement.

The lockout follows the indefinite suspension of workers after they commenced a 48hour strike over two weeks ago. The workers are claiming a measly 8% wage increase and allowance parity between the four distribution centres.

Woolworths have decided to take on these workers in an attempt to keep their pay at poverty levels. Say no poverty wages in retail and distribution. Say no to greedy employers attacking our right to collectively bargain.

Support the locked out workers by not shopping at any Woolworths outlets.
Woolworths Australia own brands including Safeway, Food For Less, Dick Smith Electronics and PowerHouse, Tandy, Woolworths Liquor, BWS, First Estate, Dan Murphy’s, Plus Petrol, BIG W, Woolworths Ezy Banking, Woolworths HomeShop and GreenGrocer.

Also send a message to the Progressive Enterprises Managing Director, Marty Hamnett. Tell him you will not be shopping at places owned by Woolworths. marty.hamnett@progressive.co.nz

more info: www.shelfrespect.org | www.unite.org.au

International Day of Action in Support of the Toyota workers in the Philippines

Tuesday 12 September
11.45-12.30pm
MELBOURNE CENTRAL TOWER
360 Elizabeth Street (cnr Lonsdale street)
Melbourne

Organised by:

• Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (Aust)
• International Metal Workers' Federation

In 2001 after many years of struggle by Toyota workers in the Philippines for the right to belong to a union and collective employment agreement, the Toyota Philippines Corporation fired 300 workers . The remaining workers went on strike in support of reinstating the sacked workers. The strike was brutally suppressed by troops using live ammunition. Many of the sacked Toyota workers have been on strike since 2001 demanding their jobs back and the right to a collective agreement. On August 16, 2006, police brutally attacked a demonstration by 200 Toyota workers.

TOYOTA PHILIPPINES REINSTATE THEM NOW!

more info: AMWU 1300 732 698 | amwu@amwu.asn.au | www.imfmetal.org./toyotaphilippines

The Beyond Nuclear Symposium will be held in Melbourne on September 15-16, 2006.

Friday
Melbourne State Library
Swanston & Latrobe St
Melbourne.
Doors open 8.30am for registration. Start 9am sharp.

Saturday
Trades Hall
cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts
Carlton South.
Start 9am.

Fri Sept 15 is a day of expert speakers such as retired diplomat Prof Richard Broinowski, Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff and Dr Bill Williams (Medical Association for the Prevention of War), Jillian Marsh (Adnyamathanha Traditional Owner), Prof. Jim Falk (Melbourne Uni), Margie Lynch (Traditional Owner of a site short-listed for nuclear dumping in the NT), James Thier (Australian Ethical Investment), Julie-Anne Richards (Climate Action Network Australia) and renewable energy expert Dr. Mark Diesendorf (University of NSW).

Saturday September 16 is a day of workshops and campaign building in which people from across the country will come together to build on current strategies and create new alliances to strengthen the anti-nuclear, clean energy movement.

more info: Jim Green jim.green@foe.org.au

• Louise Morris louisemorris@graffiti.net |0408 667100.
• info & registration | http://www.foe.org.au/bni_symp.htm
• weblink: http://www.foe.org.au/bni_symp.htm

Friday 8 September
6pm onwards
Trades Hall
Crn Lygon & Victoria Sts
Carlton

Jack's convictions have been quashed on appeal but his persecution by the Australian government continues...show your solidarity and join us on Friday 8th September at Trades Hall to show your opposition to control orders and to celebrate Jack Thomas' court victory over the Howard government.

Defenders of civil liberties and lovers of freedom are all invited to an evening of music, defiance and solidarity with Jack and all victims of the terror laws.

Music, door prize, finger food. Alcohol and alcohol free rooms. Donation on entry - proceeds to Jack Thomas' family for their continuing legal expenses.

Despite the ongoing harassment from the government, Jack is out of prison and all convictions against his have been quashed. We don't get to celebrate victories very often these days so let's make the most of this one, and show that we won't let the government undermine this fantastic legal and
political win!

more info: Civil Rights Defence 0407 856 628 | www.civilrightsdefence.org

Support Your Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres!

"The Walk of Hearts"
Thursday Sept 14
12noon-2pm
Treasury Gardens
Melbourne


"The Walk of Hearts" is a statewide effort linking all Neighbourhood Houses in a Victoria-wide web representing community connectedness. Every local community will publicly express the importance of their Neighbourhood House to them. Houses will walk or travel in some way during the weeks August 31 - September 13 with a symbolic " heart of their community" to Melbourne finishing at Treasury Gardens on Thursday, 14 September. The campaign aims to gain the support of all-Victorian political parties to fund all Neighbourhood Houses so that they can be open 5 days a week.

"The Walk of Hearts" will culminate at the"Big House" (a symbolic house set up in Treasury Gardens) in Treasury Gardens, on Thursday 14th from 12 noon -2 pm where all local Members of Parliament and candidates in the coming State election are invited to come and give their whole-hearted support for their local Neighbourhood House.

more info: Mary Robb projects@anhlc.asn.au | www.anhlc.asn.au

RALLY
2pm Saturday
September 23
State Library
crn Swanston & La Trobe sts
Melbourne

• Australian troops out of the Middle East
• Don't attack Iran, don't attack Syria
• Respect diversity: solidarity with the Muslim community
• Hands off Lebanon, freedom for Palestine
• Defend civil liberties

Gather for speakers and a march to a peace concert
Speakers include:

• Ian Thomas, father of Jack Thomas
• Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth
• Carlo Carli, state Labor MP for Brunswick
• Kevin Bracken, state secretary Maritime Union of Australia
• Catherine Ryan, Unity for Peace

PEACE CONCERT
4pm onwards
Trades Hall
crn Victoria & Lygon sts
Carlton

Acts include:

• The Josh Owen Band
• The Brothahood (Islamic hip-hop)
• Actors for Refugees (theatre)
• Donnie Dureau (acoustic)
• Organic Intellect (hip-hop)

+ speakers on the situation in Lebanon and Palestine

$10/$5 unwaged, under-12s free. Profits to Doctors for Iraq and Human Appeal International (aid to Lebanon)

Halal food on sale for a pre-Ramadan feast. No alcohol in performance area.

Organised by Unity for Peace, the coalition which brought Cindy Sheehan, Dr Salam
Ismael and Anas Altikriti to Melbourne in May for a national peace conference.

more info: www.unityforpeace.org | 0418 316 310 | David Glanz, dglanz@optusnet.com.au

Wednesday September 6th
11am - 2pm
Monash University,
Clayton Campus
Enter Via North Rd and make you way to the Campus Centre

Workshops to be held on the day include:

• 12pm - APESMA, Contracts, new leg
• 1pm - Panel Discussion on WorkChoices AEU / NTEU
• 2pm - Workshop: Picketing, Union Solidarity & Unite

The Monash Student Union have organised the event to assist in letting students know about their rights at work. The day will consist of a wide range of stalls and workshops. UNITE Secretary, Anthony Main will be doing a joint workshop with Union Solidarity Co-ordinator, Dave Kerin. The topic will be an introduction to industrial action.

more info: Stef, Monash Student Union 0401301204 | UNITE Office 93281555

Western Suburbs Legal Service Invitation to the Community

Wednesday 27
September 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Newport Senior Citizens Centre
13-15 Mason Street
Newport
Next to Paine Reserve - rear Newport Library

SPEAKERS:

• Sharan Burrow - ACTU President
• Yasser Bakri - Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union
• ...and other workers will speak about their experiences of fighting for their workplace rights.
  

How will the Federal Government's work place laws affect your working and family lives?
How are workers fighting for their workplace rights?
What can you do in your workplace and community about these laws?

Refreshments and finger food after the meeting. The Western Suburbs Legal Service AGM will be held before the public meeting at 6.30pm. All Welcome.

Organised by the Western Suburbs Legal Service - 9391 2244 (or 0417 456 001).