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WGAR News: Unions Slam Closure Of Remote Aboriginal Communities In WA: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:56:28 +0000

Newsletter date: 19 April 2015

Longshore Workers, Truckers: Shut the Ports, Coast to Coast!

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:31:18 +0000

December 2011

Following Dec. 12 West Coast Port Blockade

Longshore Workers, Truckers: Shut the Ports, Coast to Coast!

Occupy protesters blockade the port of Oakland, California, December 12. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Support the striking poultry workers at Baiada!

Flowerpower — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:28:19 +0000

On Wednesday 9th of November, workers at Baiada Poultry began indefinite protected industrial action in their campaign for secure and permanent jobs. The campaign under the umbrella of the NUW began when every single worker in the largely migrant workforce at the plant has voted to strike The So far the picketline has come under sustained attack but held strong. Firstly the company employed 30-50 security guards. Then a picketor had their arm broken when a security guard tried to drive through the picketline. The company then successfully received an injunction banning all NUW officials from the picketline. The picketline is relying on community support to now succeed. Lastly on Friday night, 80 police officers rushed the picket line in an attempt to break it but retreated after the line held. Contact Workers Solidarity Network mobile: 0431445978 to find out how to help. Please come to Baiada Poultry (17 Pipe Rd, Laverton Nt) when you can: "nothing goes in, nothing goes out!". Occupy Melbourne Solidarity protest 15t November

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Verdict delivered in case of persecuted Aboriginal family

United Front — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:37:28 +0000

Over the last two days, the verdict was delivered in the case of the five adult defendants arrested on trumped up charges following a violent police raid on the home of an Aboriginal family living in the Outer Western Sydney suburb of Riverstone. The police raided the home after 8am in the morning after the 21st birthday party of "Tisha" (i.e. Letisha) Hickey. During the raid in September last year, Tisha was dragged across the road and crushed by police leaving her with bruises on her arms, legs and stomach. A sleazy male cop also lifted up her skirt and inappropriately touched her.

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Racist Police Brutality

Demand Equal Pay in 2011 - ASU rally and march, 8 June 2011

peter — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:04:40 +0000

8 June was a National Day of Action, with rallies across Australia demanding pay equity for workers in the community and health sector. The rally in Melbourne was held in wet and wintry conditions, but as one speaker said, these did not dampen workers’ resolve to pursue the pay increases that Fair Work Australia had just announced they were entitled to. Several thousand gathered outside Trades Hall to hear speakers before marching through the CBD to Parliament House to make their voices heard there.

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Mubarak's folly: The rising of Egypt's workers

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:32:08 +0000

By David McNally

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Crackdown on Rio Tinto bosses a good thing

United Front — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:52:07 +0000

The Australian mainstream media are full of denunciations of China over the trial of the four Rio Tinto executives in Shanghai. However, from the standpoint of trade unionists and opponents of the oppression of Aboriginal people and the peoples of the ex-colonies, the prosecution of the Rio bosses is a good thing.

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Unionists rally for Safe Sites and Pay Equity - 1 September 09

peter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:05:31 +0000

Two campaigns coincided in the rally held on Tuesday in Lygon Street outside Trades Hall - opposition to legislative changes threatening to water down work safety laws in Victoria, and demands for pay equity for women.

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Strike for climate justice

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:16:55 +0000

Strike for Climate Justice! December 11th 2009 – Jeffrey Luers, May 09.

Around the world people are beginning to feel the heat of global warming, entire nations to tiny communities are suffering the effects of climate change.

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WGAR News: Unions Slam Closure Of Remote Aboriginal Communities In WA: Amy McQuire, New Matilda

Contents:

Longshore Workers, Truckers: Shut the Ports, Coast to Coast!

Following Dec. 12 West Coast Port Blockade

Support the striking poultry workers at Baiada!

Verdict delivered in case of persecuted Aboriginal family

Demand Equal Pay in 2011 - ASU rally and march, 8 June 2011

Mubarak's folly: The rising of Egypt's workers

Crackdown on Rio Tinto bosses a good thing

Unionists rally for Safe Sites and Pay Equity - 1 September 09

Strike for climate justice