Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific

Permanent and contract employees at privately-owned Brahmani Steel protested outside the Revenue Division office in Kadappa on May 20 to demand payment of six months' outstanding wages. Management told workers that they would be paid if they accepted voluntary retirement. The workers, who had been employed at the company for at least six years, rejected the "offer" and submitted a ...

An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers

The pending shutdown of Ford Australia's operations is part of a vast restructuring of the international auto industry that is devastating the jobs, wages and conditions of car workers around the world. It raises the necessity for the working class to respond with its own global political strategy, based on a socialist and internationalist perspective, in defence of its independent ...

Man struck with metal pole in Sydney attack

Riverwood 2210 A man has been struck on the head with a metal pole in what police believe was a random attack in Sydney's south-west.Police say the 51-year-old man was walking to his car in a laneway at Riverwood around 10.00pm (AEST) yesterday when he was set upon by two men.The pair punched him repeatedly in the face and struck him in the back of the head with a metal pole before ...

South Sydney says Ben Teo focused on Cronulla despite off-field turmoil

Redfern 2016 South Sydney coach Michael Maguire says forward Ben Te'o is very focused on doing right by the Rabbitohs against Cronulla after a tumultuous week in which he was alleged to have punched a Brisbane woman in the face.Te'o denies the allegations from the women, who suffered a fractured eye socket last month, and defended himself through several hours of questioning by the ...

Gillard seizes Liberal MPs Gonski support

Adrian Piccoli's comments in support of Labor's school reforms, saying they proved the Coalition was misleading the community over Gonski. "I wouldn't normally ask you to look at the words of a Liberal minister but I am asking you to do that today," she said in a speech at a candidate training day in Western Sydney on Saturday. Mr Piccoli publicly refuted the federal ...