Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) were 聯abolished聰 by the Rudd Labor government in February. However, mining giant BHP has taken advantage of 聯gaps聰 in the new laws to sign up 46 new employees to a virtually identical Enterprise Workplace Agreement, according to Steve McCartney, WA president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
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Indonesian labour activist and chairperson of the Deliberative Council of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas), Dita Sari, has declared that she will run for the Star Reform Party (PBR) in the 2009 legislative elections.
A number of student organisations have responded angrily to the revelation that the National Union of Students (NUS) has reneged on agreements to advocate that the government lower the age of 鈥渋ndependence鈥 to 18-years-old immediately.
It鈥檚 easy to get confused about forests and climate change. Deforestation and forest degradation contribute to around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy. Climate scientists say that preserving our forests is a quick, easy and cheap way to prevent further global warming.
The Socialist Alliance campaign for Marrickville council is underway, with a ticket of three committed activists nominated for the north ward. The candidates are Pip Hinman, Jill Hickson and Howard Byrnes.
Political and social conflict continues to grow in Peru in the wake of a general strike against the neoliberal policies of President Alan Garcia聮s government, which saw much of the country paralysed on July 9.
Mamdouh Habib, who was tortured in Egypt then detained in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for three-and-a-half years before being released in February 2005 without charge, has faced continal harassment and persecution since his return to Australia.
When does a worker, even a casual or part-time worker, join a union? When it聮s clear that membership brings better pay, working conditions and job security. Why, then, is union membership among workers at an all-time low? Because in so many industries union membership doesn聮t seem to bring these benefits.
鈥淎ll those who want to live in a healthy, equal society should vote for the Socialist Alliance鈥, Soubhi Iskander, one of three candidates to contest ward 3 of the Blacktown City Council elections for Socialist Alliance on September 13, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
El Salvador is an exciting Central American nation to be watching at the moment, because if current polls are to be believed, the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), looks set to win the parliamentary elections in January, and the presidential elections in March.
Which bank? Umm, the whole lot of them, actually. But let鈥檚 start with 鈥渢he bank鈥, the Commonwealth Bank, because its profit report came out last week.
After a massive campaign launched in February by survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the Indian government announced on August 8 that it would concede their demands to establish an 聯empowered commission聰 for rehabilitation of victims and the environment, and pursue legal action against Dow Chemicals.
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