Tag: Cuts
Lessons for Australia? Tax workers strike to stop Tories’ job cuts
Posted by John, June 29th, 2014 - under Strikes, Tax Office.
Tags: Cuts, Fighting back
Comments: 3
Are there lessons for Australia in what tax staff in the UK are doing? Some 50,000 tax workers at HMRC offices around Britain began a week of rolling strikes on Monday of this week writes Annette Mackin in Socialist Worker UK.
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A message from the Stop the HUSS Cuts collective on the La Trobe University occupation
Posted by John, August 23rd, 2012 - under La Trobe, Occupations.
Tags: Cuts
Comments: 3
We have occupied the Agora area as a symbolic place for assembly, as it represents not only the heart of the university (which these cuts threaten to rip out) but also a public space for the discussion of ideas and debate which we value so highly.
La Trobe students occupy Bundoora campus to stop the cuts
Posted by John, August 22nd, 2012 - under La Trobe, Occupations, Universities.
Tags: Cuts
Comments: 1
Students voted to occupy the campus with a number of students volunteering to stay overnight and indefinitely until Open Day. The collective also demanded the rejection of the proposed cuts, for the university to enter into negotiations with the NTEU in good faith, a shift in focus on saving money to saving jobs and for a redistribution of executive pay to save other jobs at the university.
What would an Abbott Government look like? Let me introduce Campbell Newman
Posted by John, August 6th, 2012 - under Labor Party, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, Neoliberal unionism, Neoliberalism, Public servants, Public Service, Public services, Queensland, Strikes, Struggles, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Campbell Newman, Cuts
Comments: 5
The lack of a real union fight against the Bligh government laid the groundwork for a vicious anti-worker Newman government. The same lack of a union fight against the Gillard government is laying the groundwork for a vicious anti-worker Abbott Government.
The time has come to stand up against the Bobbsey twins of job slashing wage cutting neoliberalism, Labor and the coalition.