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Public meeting: Does the right to strike exist in Australia?

Date and Time: 
Tue, 28/02/2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: 
Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).
Contact Name: 
Chris
Contact Phone: 
9639 8622
Contact Email: 
peterson_err@hotmail.com

Only dictatorships ban strikes don't they? Wrong. Australia has so many legal restrictions to stop workers taking meaningful industrial action that the right to strike is effectively illegal. Victorian nurses and state public servants were forced to lift their effective industrial bans. Qantas workers had done very little before being locked out and banned from taking industrial action.

Speakers: Len Cooper (Communication Workers Union telecommunications state secretary and founder of right to strike campaign); Tim Gooden (Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary); Paul Gilbert (Australian Nurses Federation), a Baiada chicken factory worker (participant in 2011 strike).

Organised by Socialist Alliance.

  • By Anonymous at 17 Feb 2012 - 11:20
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