I’m putting together a post on Labor’s IR backdown, but I’m snowed under at work right now so I’m not really in the mood to finish writing it just yet. In the meantime, here’s some video and music you might find interesting. Kath & Kim: “Bloody Howard” You’ve surely heard that this week’s episode of [...]
An inspirational nature film. Watch what happens when the lions pick on the weakest buffalo.
John Howard made news recently by putting a couple of dull speeches up on YouTube, and Kevin Rudd has launched a big site to sells bumper stickers. As Mark has pointed out, these token efforts don’t really take the online plunge, they just move the same old campaign from talkback and letters pages to a [...]
A recent episode of Channel 9′s drama McLeod’s Daughters showed how AWAs are introduced as take-it-or-leave it contracts that cut pay and conditions. The script was apparently inspired by the real-life case of Bill Schultze, an Adelaide teenager who was pressured to sign an AWA by BP — it cut his pay by $2/hour, supposedly [...]
Last time I posted about the ACTU’s ad campaign, I couldn’t find a clip of the one called “Boys in the Boardroom”, but here it is: This is very effective ad — it highlights the fact that WorkChoices encourages employers to use AWAs to cut labour costs, and compares those wage cuts to soaring executive [...]
The ACTU has started showing more television advertisements, like this one (warning: rude words): Wait, that’s not the right one — but it is great! Anyway, here’s one of the real ads: There’s another, more recent ad called Boys in the Boardroom, but I can’t find a clip online yet. It looks like there’s a [...]
Although this blog is usually quite strictly focussed on Australian issues, I have been asked by the LHMU to mention something that happened in the United States last week, and which is one of LabourStart’s Act NOW! campaigns. As you know, this blog supports the LHMU’s Clean Start for Cleaners campaign. A similar campaign — [...]
A CEPU organiser noticed that postmen were listening to iPods while doing their rounds, and the union realised that this was a great way to provide their members with information about the current Australia Post EBA negotiations. So far, three episodes of the EBA7 podcast have been produced: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [...]
This week, Australian Story featured ACTU secretary Greg Combet in an episode called Man of Steel — a play on his resemblance to Clark Kent as well as his personality. It’s a very interesting exposition of Combet’s background, his home life, his commitment to working Australians, and his possible future in politics. A large part [...]
The US National Labor Relations Board is considering whether to classify certain employees as “supervisors”. This is ostensibly on the basis that they sometimes direct the work of other employees — such as new staff, who need guidance while they learn the ropes. You might think this sounds like a good thing, as these workers [...]
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