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Lessons from the Cleanstart Campaign

March 22, 2021

From an organiser's written statement: I deny that I said "Consolidated [Property Services] does not give cleaners enough time to clean." I did say "Consolidated take the premium rent paid by office building...

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Two Plebiscites, Alike in Indignity

March 19, 2021

In the foyer of Trades Hall, when you walk in from...

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Posties, Paradoxes and the Pandemic

March 16, 2021

One of the workers at Australia Post reportedly showed up at...

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Victoria's Truth Telling Commission

March 15, 2021

A joint statement between the Victorian government and the First Peoples'...

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Unions Were Always Cool

March 13, 2021

In the wake of many headlines to come out of the...

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The Missing ‘W’

March 09, 2021

There used to be an extra letter in the abbreviation we now use for International Women’s Day. It wasn’t violently pulled down and removed in a swift act of revisionism. Rather, it was...

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Solidarity Sauce: Workers on Strike At McCormick

March 08, 2021

Last week we reported on a United Workers Union action taking...

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A Monument of One's Own

March 05, 2021

Did you know that there are more public sculptures of famous...

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All The Workers, United

February 25, 2021

United Workers Union members at Peters Ice Cream in Mulgrave have...

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An Act of Solidarity with Myanmar

February 24, 2021

Every night at 8pm local time, residents of the largest city...

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Family Court Abolished by Federal Government

February 23, 2021

With everything else going on, you can be forgiven for not knowing that, very quietly, the federal government abolished the Family Court last week. While it was technically merged with the Federal Circuit...

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John Dias and Nelson Mandela

February 22, 2021

The safe was empty. To this day, no one knows what...

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