NSW firefighters, members of the Fire Brigade Employees Union, took strike action for one hour on February 15 after talks with the NSW state government on a pay offer broke down. The FBEU is seeking a 3.5% pay increase each year for three years, to keep pace with inflation.
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Members of the NSW Teachers鈥 Federation (NSWTF) have much to be concerned about 鈥 salaries, public education system award conditions, staffing arrangements and the teacher shortage responsible for increased teacher workload and lowering of teacher qualifications standards.
This year is the 100th anniversary of International Women聮s Day. Each year, people gather all over the world on March 8 聴 or the closest weekend 聴 to celebrate working class women and the struggle that has gone before us, and to continue the struggle into the future.
Five Indigenous activists in the Socialist Alliance share their responses to the Australian parliament鈥檚 apology to the Stolen Generations on February 13. All five attended the protest against the racist intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, held on the eve of the apology.
Stationery giant Esselte, which last year attempted to force its workforce onto AWAs, is threatening compulsory redundancies against eight workers due to changes to 聯business processes聰.
The basic argument in favour of the privatisation of electricity generation and distribution is simple 鈥 public ownership allows too much bargaining power to electricity workers and their unions (which they will always use to defend 鈥渋nefficient practices鈥 and 鈥渙verstaffing鈥); it also fosters over-investment in generation capacity by engineers concerned to guarantee service reliability (鈥済old-plating鈥).
In the afterglow of saying sorry to the Stolen Generations, the federal Labor government introduced its first piece of industrial relations legislation into parliament on February 13 鈥 the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill. While the government claims that this legislation is the first step in dismantling Work Choices, in fact, it will leave most of Work Choices intact.
On February 13, 50 people attended an angry public meeting at the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Services centre in East Perth. The meeting called for an immediate cessation of transporting prisoners long distances in road vehicles following the death in custody on January 27 of an Aboriginal elder.
Hollywood writers won gains following a 14-week strike against TV and film producers that ended with a new contract giving them a percentage of revenue for programs streamed on the internet 聴 a demand that industry bosses had vowed to resist.
Since January 12, more than 1600 delegates to the founding congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 聴 along with thousands of local socialist battalions (branches 聴 have been discussing the new party聮s program, principles and statutes, and in large part the future of the Bolivarian revolution.
Justice secretary Jack Straw has been forced to order an investigation into allegations that a senior Muslim MP was bugged while visiting a constituent in prison. The February 5 Morning Star reported that Labour MP and government whip Sadiq Khan was allegedly bugged while visiting his constituent Babar Ahmad in a prison in Milton Keynes.
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"You know, women are now very active in the Kuwaiti parliament." 鈥 Emperor George Bush II, speaking in US ally Kuwait, January 12. Associated Press reported on January 22: "Kuwait's only female politician survived an attempt
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