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ABCC preliminary findings

A paper by Murray Wilcox, the former Federal Court judge who is reviewing the role of the body to replace the Australian Building and Construction Commission after early 2010, makes a number of preliminary findings. Building workers ...

World Day for Decent Work

Global economic turmoil has made the right to decent work and full employment more essential than ever, Australian unions say. For workers around the world, organising and collective bargaining rights are crucial to giving workers real ...

2 December: Noel Washington Rally

Supporters of civil rights and construction workers will rally against the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) on Tuesday December 2 - the date and time that CFMEU official Noel Washington goes on trial for refusing to ...

IR reform must not discount the unions

Work Choices is on the way out and the new industrial-relations laws can't come quickly enough. Collective bargaining as the centrepiece of a new IR system will turn Work Choices on its head; however there are ...

Rights On Site campaign

Senator Doug Cameron has used part of his maiden speech to the Senate, to describe the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) as undemocratic. "It is unacceptable that rank and file union members and their officials can ...

Campaign for workers rights

Brian Boyd, Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary, urged unions to "crank up" the campaign to have federal Labor restore genuine collective bargaining rights for workers. He criticised the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister for favouring business ...

Power sell-off: Energy workers strike

Energy workers across NSW walked off the job on Friday to protest the Government's decision to sell off retailers in the power industry. The action comes in response to Morris Iemma's blatant disregard for the political process ...

Iemma: "We'll bypass Parliament"

Morris Iemma has announced he is intending to push on with a form of electricity privatisation after a tumultuous day in State Parliament. The State Government introduced its electricity legislation as planned in the Upper House, but ...

NSW: Power to the people!

April 2007: NSW State Election Iemma says "No Power Privatisation if Labor wins" Labor holds NSW November 2007: Rudd Labor landslide wins Federal Election ... Howard loses seat. 2 weeks later ... November 2007: Costa unveils NSW Power ...

No to Power sell-off!

The report by the Auditor-General on the privatisation of the electricity supply industry is a classic case of a government writing the desired result into the terms of reference. One of its key findings is that "nothing ...