Archive for 'Maternity leave'
Social democracy rules, OK?
Posted by Bill, April 14th, 2009 - under Jobs, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Maternity leave, Nationalisation, Neoliberalism, Obama, Occupations, Paid maternity leave, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Social Democracy, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Australian, The Great Recession, The Left, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, United States, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Work hours.
Tags: 30 hour week, ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, CFMEU, Class struggle, Creative destruction, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 13
Social democratic controlled burning won’t prevent the firestorm of the Great Recession from destroying hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. Rudd Labor will fan the flames.
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Billions for bombs, nothing for mums
Posted by John, February 27th, 2009 - under Keynesianism, Maternity leave, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Defence, Economics
Comments: 1
Labor sees paid maternity leave as an impediment to keeping women out of the workforce. So they won”t introduce it.