Unions have always been at the forefront in the battle for equality. Unions fight for equal pay for women, against discrimination in big multinational companies like Nestle, and opening up opportunities and providing support in non traditional workplaces. To mark International Women’s Day and continue the struggle of women world […]
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Australian uranium has been fuelling Fukushima. We must stop the mining and export of this unsustainable and dangerous resource so that we will not have any more nuclear disasters. There will be protests in many Australian cities against the mining and export of uranium, and to remember the many victims of […]
Trade unionist and political prisoner Liliany Obando was released on Thursday 1 March 2012 from the prison where she had been held for almost 4 years on charges of "rebellion". Liliany was arrested in 2008 while serving as the Human Rights Coordinator for FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest organization of peasant farmers […]
International Women ‘s Day is marked by protests worldwide that highlight and build campaigns for women’s rights. Women’s struggle to liberate themselves from the unjust corporate system frees us all. Together we learn the strength of our collective power. This year, an IWD protest in Melbourne has been organised by […]
More than 100 million workers in India stopped work for a 24 hour strike on 28 February. The strike demands included: Increase the minimum wage; Greater employment protection; An end to contracting out & outsourcing of jobs; Social security for unorganised & informal workers. You can read reports on the strike in the different […]
Victorian nurses started rolling strike action on 24 February 2012 against the Baillieu state government over nurses’ wages, patient ratios, staffing levels and the commitment to provide safe and expert care to patients. The Australian Nurses Federation (Victoria Branch) is Victoria’s nursing industrial and professional body representing more than 63,000 […]
Unionised Affco meat workers in New Zealand have gone on strike on strike today in support of 776 workers locked out by the company. Pickets started at the five lockout-affected North Island meat plants from 5am. The five plants are Affco’s national headquarters, Horotiu in the Waikato, Moerewa in Northland, […]
Workers united to protest against State land grabbing and in support of tea workers’ livelihoods on 25 February in Kandy. The protest and demands were special as was the solidarity across the sectors – Domestic workers, Garment workers, Co-operative workers, Rubber and Tea workers came in support of the tea […]
On 16 December at least 16 people were killed and hundreds more injured in Kazakhstan when the Nazarbayev regime ordered the use of troops and police against unarmed striking oil workers and their supporters who were protesting in a city square. Independent video footage shows police firing on protesters running from the […]
Wednesday 7 March 2012 – 6pm to 8pm You are invited to the AAWL Annual General Meeting Evatt room Trades Hall Lygon Street Carlton Activities report – Proposals for 2012 All AAWL members and affiliates are welcome You can join or renew your membership at the door Download the AGM leaflet […]