Archive for 'Labor sackings'
Shorten’s shortfall: the Fair Work Act ‘Review’
Posted by John, December 20th, 2011 - under Industrial action, Industrial relations, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Strikes.
Tags: Bill Shorten, Fair Work Australia
Comments: 3
Industrial action, especially strike action, has the potential to win real gains for workers, to defend jobs and to help rebuild unions. The way to reform industrial relations in Australia is to make the draconian anti-strike and other rotten provisions of Labor’s Fair Work Act a dead letter by concerted strike action challenging the rule of the bosses.
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No to Labor’s spending cuts: tax the rich instead
Posted by John, November 29th, 2011 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Public services, Tax, Tax the rich, The rich.
Tags: Community and Public Sector Union
Comments: 6
If these attacks on public servants and public services, low and middle income superannuants, students, backpackers, middle aged dependent spouses and mums are what Labor is prepared to do to the Australian working class when we have the best performing economy in the world, imagine what it will do if the situation in Europe worsens and drags down the global economy and Australia with it.
Labor, triumphalism and the budget from hell
Posted by John, January 8th, 2010 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Labor wage cuts, Public Service, Resistance, Social services, Strikes.
Tags: Australian bourgeoisie, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Fighting back
Comments: 4
Our hope at the moment must be that the apparently growing number of strikes and other industrial disputes in Australia boil over into a generalised campaign for wage increases, social services and jobs.
Costello quits: changing of the guard in the house of reaction
Posted by Leonie, June 16th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Labor wage cuts, Neoliberalism, Peter Costello, Reaction.
Tags: ACTU, ALP, Australian politics, Capitalism, Great Recession, Howard, HowRudd, HowRuddistas
Comments: 2
This is Costello’s legacy – the threat of unemployment, attacks on wages and conditions and an economy teetering towards oblivion.
Fair suck of the sav, Kev
Posted by Leonie, June 12th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Labor wage cuts, Mate, Working class.
Tags: Australian politics, Australianisms, Butterflies
Comments: 3
Now that Rudd has started calling us mate, be afraid, be very afraid. Start organising now in workplaces and unions to defend jobs and living standards. And butterflies.
‘Left’ Labor and Greens attack workers and services
Posted by Leonie, May 18th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Labor wage cuts, The Greens, The Left.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU
Comments: 4
The left wing Labour Government in the ACT is attacking workers and public services with Greens support.
The Tax Office: the attacks on staff continue
Posted by Bill, May 3rd, 2009 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Living standards, Public Service, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, Tax Office, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian Tax Office, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Demonstrations, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: 5
By striking and stopping Government revenue, tax officers can win large wage increases and job security.
Stats sacks staff
Posted by Bill, April 18th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: none
According to Satuday’s Canberra Times, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun to carry out its decision to sack 180 staff. This week 31 learned they are going. More will get the boot in the coming weeks. My union, the CPSU, has done nothing but talk. Only mass meetings of all CPSU members to consider indefinite strike […]
Social democracy rules, OK?
Posted by Bill, April 14th, 2009 - under Jobs, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Maternity leave, Nationalisation, Neoliberalism, Obama, Occupations, Paid maternity leave, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Social Democracy, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Australian, The Great Recession, The Left, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, United States, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Work hours.
Tags: 30 hour week, ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, CFMEU, Class struggle, Creative destruction, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 13
Social democratic controlled burning won’t prevent the firestorm of the Great Recession from destroying hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. Rudd Labor will fan the flames.
Public servants: get thee to a tannery
Posted by Bill, April 7th, 2009 - under Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service.
Tags: Australian politics, Australian Services Union, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: none
The Budget is on 12 May. Labor Ministers are positioning themselves to blame others for the brutal attacks on living standards they are preparing.