News from the working class - We Are Union VTHC

Melbourne's Green Bans

March 26, 2021

We know that union members have long campaigned for better pay and conditions… But did you know they’ve also fought to help protect green spaces, ecosystems, and some of our most beloved heritage...

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Kids on Gender

March 26, 2021

Nine Melbourne primary school kids call it like they see it,...

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Nurses Strike of 1986

March 25, 2021

In 1984 nurses had voted to remove the no-strike clause from...

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Sophie Mirabella Is The Worst, but Christian Porter Wants Her on the FWC

March 23, 2021

Former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella has been announced as Christian Porter's...

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The 888 Movement Wasn't As Dramatic As You Think

March 22, 2021

The story goes that stonemasons all over Melbourne forcefully downed tools...

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A Women’s General Strike

March 22, 2021

As a union official and a feminist, rarely a week goes by when I don’t daydream about the women of Australia rising up in a large-scale strike; banners blazing bright, standing firm against...

Industrial | Women

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Commonwealth Bank Are Unrepentant Wage Thieves

March 22, 2021

What a horrible thing to say! We here at Megaphone Journal...

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Lessons from the Cleanstart Campaign

March 22, 2021

From an organiser's written statement: I deny that I said "Consolidated...

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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' Assembly was released last week, announcing the establishment of the country's first Truth-Telling Commission. Known as the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission(the Wemba Wemba word...

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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...

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