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Lockdown Book Club: Sci-Fi for Unionists Edition

September 10, 2021

Science fiction, like the union, is the realm of True Believers. We imagine different worlds just as we imagine a better one for ourselves and then fight for it. So, True Believers, are...

Arts

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One Nation Doesn’t Want to Hear Workers’ Voices, Only Its Own

September 10, 2021

Pauline Hanson says she supports "the truckies" but hasn't voiced her...

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Workplace Manslaughter and the Long Fight for Justice

September 06, 2021

On March 21st, 2018, two mates went to work and never...

Spring St | OHS | Industrial Manslaughter | Elections

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Dear Comrade: Can They Really Stop Us Talking About Our Pay?

September 06, 2021

If I can’t talk about my pay at work (or outside...

Women | Pay Gap | GV | Industrial | Dear Comrade

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Gender is a Rip-Off

August 31, 2021

There is something I will take away from the gender pay...

GV | Pay Gap | womens_news | Women

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Organising For Equality in a Pandemic

August 31, 2021

“We'll win in the same way we've won everything from paid parental leave to anti-discrimination laws: by getting organised and fighting together with other women.”

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Dear Comrade: My Son Is About To Start an Apprenticeship

August 24, 2021

Dear Comrade, I’m overjoyed to report that my son has been...

Apprentices | Rights at Work | ETU | YWC

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All the Way With Clarrie O’Shea

August 23, 2021

It’s May 16, 1969. “Call Clarence Lyell O’Shea,” commanded Justice John...

Industrial | History

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A Unionist’s Guide to Lockdown Viewing

August 23, 2021

Lockdowns suck. We don’t really have a better way of saying...

Arts | Covid19

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VaxSolidarity

August 23, 2021

At the moment, the best way best way to show solidarity...

Covid19 | OHS

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Security Guards are Fighting for Secure Jobs

August 22, 2021

2020 and 2021 haven’t been good years for anyone (except Jeff Bezos) but security guards have copped a pretty raw deal. It seemed that every failure of quarantine or logistics during the pandemic...

Covid19 | Industrial | Spring St

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Winning Sick Pay for Casual Workers

August 16, 2021

by Judy Kuo When corporate profits are put ahead of the...

Gig | OHS | Industrial

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Morrison’s “Protecting Migrant Workers” Bill Will Do Anything But

August 16, 2021

After demonstrating a pattern of not caring one iota about migrant...

Auspol

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