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- Dec 10, 2021
- 7 min
Restoring Solidarity Bargaining: is it possible?
Earlier this week, as the ACTU pointed out, the government’s mid year economic update (MYEFO) confirmed that the Morrison government...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 8 min
We defeat the “Ensuring Integrity” Bill: tactical victory or strategic breakthrough?
How should union movement activists define the first defeat of the Ensuring Integrity Bill (EIB)? A major strategic breakthrough or a...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 8 min
Just transition and green new deals – “Plan B AAA-Rated”: workers taking charge
The Australian school students strike on September 20 put forward 3 general demands for climate justice, that they have repeated since:...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Morrison government escalates class warfare
Dear Friends, click here to listen to Caroline and I discuss the Morrison’s government’s intentions on behalf of employers to make the...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 7 min
Annual Wage Review decision: class warfare continues
Last Friday the Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down its decision arising from the Annual Wage Review (AWR). This annual Review is...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
A delicate moment | Michael Roberts Blog … this is actually a big deal for the Australian elec
IMF chief economist, Gita Gopinath reckoned the global economy had entered “a delicate moment”. She offered a decisive insight: “If the...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Kimberley Clark’s closure of Huggies in south west SYDNEY can be reversed: from April to May 1st cou
Global unions IndustriALL and UNI, are holding a day of action on 11 April against Kimberly-Clark’s restructuring plans and the company’s...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Wages, wage suppression and crocodile tears
House price falls are not the economy’s biggest worry Reserve Bank governor Dr Philip Lowe had more sensible things to say in three hours...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding exploitation
https://portside.org/2019-01-26/erik-olin-wright-1947-2019 This obituary for Erik Olin Wright makes me regret not paying more attention...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
Fine Dining and Class Warfare … Australian Style
Sticking up for Big Hungry Profiteering Over the past few days various media reports have highlighted the delicious connections between...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Productivity Commission and Superannuation: Wage Theft on a Grand Scale?
Yes, its 2019 and Caroline Pryor is back with Radio Skid Row’s “Workers Radio” … 88.9FM. Today I joined her to discuss the arrest of...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Cops, protest and the future of work
From time to time police, and their union, seek pay rises and other improvements in their conditions. They are protesting when they do...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Preparing for New Parliamentary Power: Reproducing or Breaking the Electoral Cycle
In this article for the SEARCH Foundation I expand somewhat on some brief comments in other posts: https://www.search.org.au/preparing_fo...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 9 min
Right to strike mystery in an election year: back to 1993?
My hunch is that soon Labor and union negotiators will turn to their 1993 version of the right to strike to finalize their workplace and...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The coming economic recession and its interaction with climate change
grist.org/article/what-the-stock-market-crash-means-for-the-climate/ I have thanked John Pratt for sharing this article, and do so again....
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Economic Recession, Changing the Rules and Climate Change: welcome to 2019
In his latest blog Michael Roberts provides another useful summary of the current economic situation globally and in some specific...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The latest wages data, election strategy and #changetherules
New wages data and what it might mean On Wednesday (November 14th) the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its quarterly...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
Changing the rules going global: unions and climate change
Last week 3 significant reports from distant parts of the world highlighted the crucial role that workers and their unions can play in...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 5 min
Impending crisis, the broken rules of the system v the 90%
Here, Michael Roberts gives a good overview of the global picture regarding new levels of instability in the economic system. Instability...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Not just workplace relations, a whole network of broken rules!
The ACTU’S Change the Rules Campaign draws attention to the “broken rules” – from the point of view of workers – in the Fair Work Act...
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