1,000 Australian construction workers strike against delegate's dismissal

More than 1,000 construction workers went on strike at a construction site in Sydney after a union delegate was stood down for speaking out on the site's safety. The workers were ordered back to work by the Fair Work Commission, which deemed the action was unlawful, and banned the union (the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) from industrial action on this matter for the next three months. Workers must organise to fight laws that criminalise industrial action.

More than 1,000 construction workers went on strike at a construction site in Sydney after a union delegate was stood down for speaking out on the site's safety. The workers were ordered back to work by the Fair Work Commission, which deemed the action was unlawful, and banned the union (the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) from industrial action on this matter for the next three months. Workers must organise to fight laws that criminalise industrial action.