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Ark – one of our tribe
Posted by John, November 26th, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Building unions, Building workers.
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The only way to smash the ABCC is to strike and cut off the flow of profits to the building bosses. Workers did that in 1969 with Clarrie O’Shea. They struck and smashed the penal powers then. They can do the same today with the ABCC.
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Safety on site
Posted by John, September 29th, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, CFMEU.
Comments: 1
The ABCC is not about stamping out lawlessness but stamping out building unions, the one group of unions still committed to defending their membership by sometimes taking industrial action over shoddy work and safety practices and defending jobs and wages.
The ‘crime’ these unions commit is being real unions.
Building unions: putting lives before profit
Posted by John, September 13th, 2010 - under Ark Tribe, Building unions, Building workers, Canberra, CFMEU.
Comments: 7
Only mass strikes can save and, if convicted, rescue Ark Tribe from jail, smash Labor’s ABCC and put people and their lives before profit.
Victory to Ark Tribe. Victory to building workers across Australia.
Victory to Ark Tribe
Posted by John, June 14th, 2010 - under Ark Tribe.
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Ark Tribe goes to court tomorrow charged essentially with being a unionist and facing 6 months jail for this ‘crime’. The only support he has received is from his and other unions, and the radical left. That not only tells you which side we are on – the workers’ – it also tells you which […]
Defend Ark Tribe; defend our unions
Posted by John, June 13th, 2010 - under Ark Tribe, Right to organise, Rights on site, Safety at work, Strikes.
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Ark Tribe is a building worker. He faces six months in jail for being a unionist. His fifth court appearance starts this Tuesday in Adelaide. Here’s how the website rightsonsite describes his situation: Ark Tribe is a construction worker from South Australia facing six months in jail. He has been charged with not attending an interview with the Australian Building […]
Julia Gillard is the Peter Reith of the Labor Party
Posted by John, April 11th, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Julia Gillard, My School, Scabs, Teachers.
Comments: 12
Julia Gillard is the Peter Reith of the Labor Party. Of course she’s more nuanced, more articulate and has more influence over the trade union movement than Reith. That makes her more dangerous to workers and more useful to the bosses. Her value to capital and closeness to the trade union and Labor Party bureaucrats explains why, if […]
Our legal system and theirs: Hu, Hicks, Habib, Haneef…
Posted by John, March 31st, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian justice, Australian politics, BHP, China, David Hicks, Julia Gillard, Justice, Mamdouh Habib, Mohamed Haneef, Rio Tinto, Stern Hu.
Comments: 8
Australian justice is like Chinese justice – it represents the interests of the rich and powerful.
Defend Ark Tribe: defend the right to strike
Posted by John, October 31st, 2009 - under Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Trade unions.
Comments: 4
Is the rank and file prepared to push the struggle for the right to strike all the way, and bring in members of other unions on and off building sites across Australia?
Is Ark Tribe Labor’s next political prisoner?
Posted by John, August 12th, 2009 - under ABCC, ALP, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Clarrie O'Shea, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Strikes.
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Industrial action across Australia can smash Labor’s ABCC and save Ark Tribe from jail. Now is the time to begin organising for this.
Sick the ABCC onto BHP and Rio Tinto
Posted by John, August 6th, 2009 - under ABCC, ALP, AMWU, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Bribery, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd.
Comments: 3
It’s time for Julia Gillard to order the ABCC to investigate if Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have been bribing foreign officials and committing a crime in Australia.