Archive for 'Building industry'
Of police and other deaths
Posted by John, December 8th, 2012 - under ABCC, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Deaths at work, Deaths in custody.
Comments: 10
Perhaps the difference in treatment in death is that police protect the profit system, whereas workers don’t. We workers make the profit for the bosses. We are expendable and our deaths at work are nothing to them compared to the death of a police officer.
By their eulogies shall ye know the bosses and their system.
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Canberra – the building site death and injury capital of Australia
Posted by John, November 26th, 2012 - under ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT politics, Australian Capital Territory, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Safety at work.
Comments: none
The best way to ensure there is safety on building sites is to give the workers power to cut off the flow of profits to the bosses, without loss of pay, when sites are unsafe, or for workers to take that power. The stakes are high. It will take a long and bitter campaign of strikes and wildcat action to force the building bosses in Canberra and elsewhere to take safety seriously and to save lives.
Grocon: will it be pigs and wigs or workers and hard hats who win?
Posted by John, September 4th, 2012 - under Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Clarrie O'Shea, Class struggle, Grocon, Strikes.
Comments: 1
If Grocon wins it will be a setback for all workers. That’s why it is important for building workers to fight back in the way that has the greatest chance of success – striking and shutting down the building industry and cutting off the flow of massive profits to bludgers like Grollo and his ilk, and in doing that calling on other workers to join them to bury Labor’s anti-worker Fair Work Act.
Safety on building sites
Posted by John, September 3rd, 2012 - under Australian Financial Review, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Safety at work.
Comments: none
A letter of mine in today’s Australian Financial Review in defence of the CFMEU building union and safety on site. http://www.afr.com/p/opinion/safety_the_top_priority_for_unions_Yk2q2HAF0tkhZYO1J7nH7L
The blood on Labor’s hands
Posted by John, September 2nd, 2012 - under Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Afghanistan, Asylum seekers, Australian Labor Party, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, Capitalism, Death, Labor Left, Labor Party, Refugees, Soldiers.
Comments: 4
Capitalism is a system built on the blood of its soldiers, indigenous people, refugees and workers. Only overthrowing this system of death can bring peace and safety to the world.
They die for profit
Posted by John, August 30th, 2012 - under ABCC, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian army, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Grocon, Picket, Picketing, Profits, Strikes.
Comments: 6
One task for the Australian left is to link the fight for lives and against the bosses’ killing machine on building sites to the fight in Australia against the Australian ruling class’s killing machine in Afghanistan. That ruling class killing machine is in Afghanistan repressing Afghans to protect the system that produces Grocon’s safety practices and profits.
Thiess turds
Posted by John, November 19th, 2010 - under Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, Thiess.
Comments: 1
Ban all Thiess and Leighton work. Bring the bastards to their knees. And send a message to all the building bosses that enough is enough. Let the fightback begin today – against Thiess, against the Australian Building and Construction Commission, for safety on site, for big pay increases.
Defend Ark Tribe: defend the right to strike
Posted by John, October 31st, 2009 - under Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Trade unions.
Comments: 4
Is the rank and file prepared to push the struggle for the right to strike all the way, and bring in members of other unions on and off building sites across Australia?
Is Ark Tribe Labor’s next political prisoner?
Posted by John, August 12th, 2009 - under ABCC, ALP, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Clarrie O'Shea, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Strikes.
Comments: none
Industrial action across Australia can smash Labor’s ABCC and save Ark Tribe from jail. Now is the time to begin organising for this.
Sick the ABCC onto BHP and Rio Tinto
Posted by John, August 6th, 2009 - under ABCC, ALP, AMWU, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Bribery, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd.
Comments: 3
It’s time for Julia Gillard to order the ABCC to investigate if Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have been bribing foreign officials and committing a crime in Australia.