Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva was sentenced on July 12 to nine years and six months jail over corruption charges聽in the Operation Car Wash investigations. The ruling came a day after the Brazilian Senate's approval of President Michel Temer's聽unamended labour reform bill, which has been heavily criticised by trade unions and social movements.
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It doesn't take much to set off Tony Abbott and his right-wing shock-jock chorus, does it?
When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull referred, in a in London, to the historical fact that Robert Menzies went to great pains back in 1944 to not call his new political party 鈥渃onservative鈥, but rather the Liberal Party, Abbott and crew started howling.
Just months after an Electrical Trades Union (ETU) victory against Carlton and United Breweries, a much larger battle looms over Melbourne鈥檚 industrial landscape.聽
In early July, the behemoth Crown Casino laid off its entire electrical workforce. Like the Carlton brewery before it, the casino has tendered an electric gaming contract to the poker machine supplier Amtek. Just three weeks ago Amtek advertised the new casino positions, with wages set at 50% of the old salary.
Venezuelans were taken by surprise with the announcement that opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez would serve out his jail term under house arrest. The move is an unprecedented concession that seeks to calm the waters in the lead up to the July 30 Constituent Assembly elections.聽
But the conflict in the country is showing it has multiple faces. On July 10, a day after the official election campaign began, a candidate was assassinated in the middle of a campaign event.
Far North Queensland Stop Adani groups mobilised when the Queensland government announced its latest "governing from the regions" exercise would be in Cairns over July 10鈥14.
They wanted their message that the massive Carmichael coalmine must be stopped to become the main issue and not the government鈥檚 pork-barrelling.
A conference on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian justice will be held at the University of Sydney over July 28鈥29.
Free and open to the public, the conference will be the largest ever held on BDS in Australia, with three keynote lectures, four discussion panels and more than 30 separate talks on a wide array of topics.
The dispute between the Australian Greens and the NSW Greens, which erupted during the debate over the federal Coalition鈥檚 Gonski 2.0 funding bill, is puzzling to many.
This is because both Green parties agreed not to support the Gonski package on the basis that, even after amendments, it was still inequitable.
However, it appears that NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon become the patsy for another, more significant, battle in the Greens 鈥 one which goes to heart of the type of party it aspires to be.
Hundreds of Haiti's factory workers protested in Port-au-Prince on July 10 against the government鈥檚 proposed paltry rise in the minimum wage.
Currently paid US$4.75 a day, workers mainly from factories outsourced to foreign companies are demanding wages rise to US$12.75 dollars for eight hours of work.
However, the government has said the minimum wage should only rise by 55 cents.
Thousands of landless workers marched on July 12 through the streets of the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, to demand the cancellation of debts contracted with the national bank.
The demonstrators have been blocking the centre of the capital since July 10, setting up their camp in front of the National Congress.
National secretary of the Finance Sector Union Julia Angrisano gave this speech at the CFMEU鈥檚 National Day of Action to Stop the Attacks on Workers on June 20. It was an inspiring speech that raiased some key issues affecting bank workers today.
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Superannuation should provide a comfortable retirement for the several million workers who signed up to the 1983鈥95 鈥渟uperannuation revolution鈥 by the ACTU and Hawke-Keating Labor governments. But what should be in a super account to provide a comfortable retirement for this 鈥減ioneer鈥 generation?
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