News from the working class - We Are Union VTHC

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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Play all

December 13, 2019

Listen to the audioguide for the Workers Museum at Trades Hall

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We swear by the southern cross to stand truly by each other

December 01, 2019

“There is no flag in old Europe half so beautiful as...

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Eight hours to work, Eight hours to play, Eight hours to sleep...

November 19, 2019

On 21 April 1856 stonemasons working on the University of Melbourne...

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Eight bob a day. A fair day’s work, For a fair day’s pay.

November 18, 2019

Victorian union members went all out to show off their wares - this armour, for example, was made by members of the United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society for wearing in the...

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Trades Hall

November 17, 2019

“A people’s palace…built and own’d by hardy sons of toil...”

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"No means of redress unless we strike!"

November 16, 2019

In the 1880s, Victoria was rightly earning a reputation for militant...

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