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	Australian workers facing
		The lowest paid workers in Australia are particularly vulnerable to the end of wage setting - the most recent minimum wage setting that took place in April (2005) could be the last.
		The deepest impact of the accord on union structures was the amalgamation it initiated.
		Manufacturing positions that constituted 26 percent of the labour market in 1966 were reduced to 12 percent by 2002.
	home.clear.net.nz /pages/wpnz/may305-ozworkers.htm (1241 words)

	Australian manufacturing union presides over massive job losses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A recent report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on job losses in the manufacturing sector reveals the outcome of this perspective and throws some light on the underlying reasons for the sharp divisions emerging in the union's leadership.
		This was the period in which the AMWU, in league with the Labor government under the banner of international competitiveness, launched its drive for "industrial restructuring".
		The amalgamations to produce "super unions" were carried out to expand the dues-paying base needed to maintain the privileged union apparatus and also to strengthen the leadership's control over the membership.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/amwu-m24.shtml (891 words)

	Australian manufacturing workers hit by wave of lockouts
		Workers at KSB Ajax in Victoria were locked out for 10 days in July after they implemented a campaign of 10-minute rolling stoppages four times daily.
		The Australian Workers Union (AWU) at the Laverton plant, although a party to Campaign 2003, allowed its members to remain on the job even though Smorgon had engaged scab labour to do the work of the ETU strikers.
		Left in the hands of the union leadership all attempts by manufacturing workers to defend their conditions will be rapidly transformed into a means of entrenching already-existing levels of exploitation.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/sep2003/amwu-s22.shtml (1429 words)

	- UAW News
		Unions around the world have sent messages of support and solidarity to the UAW expressing their deep sorrow and outrage over the tragic events of September 11.
		The members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union are shocked and horrified by the death and destruction caused by the terrorist acts in the United States this week.
		At this moment, the Ukrainian Trade Union of Defense Industry Workers, on behalf of 118 thousand of its members, expresses its sincere condolence to families and relatives of the victims of those shabby and barbarous acts.
	www.uaw.org /news/01/091901unionsupport.html (2012 words)

	National Tertiary Education Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU - formally called the National Tertiary Education Industry Union) is an Australian trade union for University academic and general (non-academic) staff.
		General staff can also be members of the Community and Public Sector Union, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (in security and catering areas), the Australian Services Union (in clerical areas) or the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union depending on their job role.
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions opposes competitive unionism and demarcation disputes with its National Council resolving that "competitive unionism wastes resources, is destructive of unity and solidarity, results in lesser outcomes and is a barrier to recruitment and retention of members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Tertiary_Education_Union (417 words)

	Kodak sacks 600 workers - National - www.theage.com.au
		Workers at Kodak's Coburg factory digest the news of the plant's closure after a being told of the job losses at a staff meeting yesterday.
		But the union movement said it had urged Kodak to investigate ways of keeping the plant open in recent years and staff would be left with poor job prospects.
		Workers were told the news at a staff meeting at the factory at 3.30pm yesterday.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/09/16/1095320897290.html (908 words)

	Workers rally for sacked grandmum \| \| The Australian
		WORKERS staged a rally in Melbourne today in support of a 60-year-old grandmother whose union claims she has been sacked because she's a "liability" under the new IR laws.
		AMWU Victorian secretary Dave Oliver said Ms Palmer was sacked last week for being a "liability" under the new workplace laws after 14 years working for the wire and tube manufacturer.
		The AMWU said Ms Palmer had been unlawfully terminated and had lodged an application in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for a conciliation hearing.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19382287-1702,00.html (547 words)

	Australian Manufacturing Workers Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The AMWU is considered to be a left-wing union by the trade union movement.
		In 1992 the union merged with the Confectionery Workers' Union.
		The AMWU merged in 1976 with the Federated Shipwrights' (forming the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union) and in 1983 with the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union (forming the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights Union).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Manufacturing_Workers_Union (1186 words)

	WA metalworkers: $28,600 fines for 15 minutes : Melbourne Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		TCC alleges that the union meeting ran 15 minutes over time and is using that to prosecute the workers and the union for tens of thousands of dollars.
		The Victorian executives of the CFMEU and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) are planning a meeting to re-establish a political and industrial alliance.
		However, the WA construction workers’ dispute with Leighton was resolved, yet the ABCC kept investigating the workers and several months later served the writs.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/08/119733.php (3228 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Australian union moves to protect Filipino workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says it will do whatever it takes to protect Filipino workers who claim they are being exploited by a welding company in Australia's north eastern state of Queensland.
		Three workers claim they were sacked after joining a union - but the company says it was downsizing.
		Doug Cameron - from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says the company is allegedly planning to sack more workers and the Howard Government couldn't care less.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1768480.htm (288 words)

	ADC Australia - Cable workers to get hearing
		The union has won a hearing before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) tomorrow morning and warned of litigation and industrial action if the firm, ADC Australia, refused to negotiate.
		She said ADC management had avoided negotiating directly with the union even though the remaining workforce was up to 80 per cent unionised.
		Workers had been told jobs would be outsourced to Thailand, she said.
	www.ferret.com.au /articles/AF/0C00F7AF.asp (480 words)

	Green Left - Multinational or `Big Australian' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The unions even prepared a document, which is littered with corporate accounting jargon, to persuade current BHP shareholders that the merger proposal is not in their best interests.
		The unions claim that it was necessary for them to take a position on the merger because the BHP work force is a major stakeholder in the company, and therefore has an interest in knowing that any merger decisions are sound and in “Australia's national interest”.
		If the unions were really concerned to ensure that ownership of BHP serves the interests of working people, rather than capitalist shareholders, they should campaign for the company to be nationalised and run by a board made up of publicly elected officers.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2001/449/26051 (747 words)

	For a Class-Struggle Fight to Defeat Howard's Union Busting!
		While the reformists peddled the myth of a union victory and deep-sixed the treacherous role of the union bureaucrats, the result was a sell-out which saw hundreds of jobs lost, speed-ups, increased casualisation and an end to the closed shop on the waterfront.
		Thus protectionist union leaders such as Michelle O’Neil, who blames government tariff cuts for the loss of jobs and conditions in the textile and clothing industry, serve to tie workers to their exploitative bosses and pit them against their international class brothers and sisters.
		Instead of opposing Australian imperialist plunder abroad, the pro-capitalist union leaders have given approval and support to military expeditions, such as the neocolonial occupation of East Timor in September 1999 which laid the basis for Australia’s theft of the Timor Sea oil and gas.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/asp/191/unionbusting.html (4146 words)

	Ben Nichols, Australian Alcoa workers strike over toxic emissions
		Workers and local residents have long complained that the refinerys liquor burning unit (LBU) is responsible for a cocktail of toxic chemicals that is causing sicknesses such as multiple chemical sensitivity and Good Pastures Disease.
		Workers and residents have accused Alcoa of hiding this vital information on the health impact of its emissions.
		Workers and residents have raised the dangers since 1996 but the AMWU has confined industrial action to isolated stoppages at Wagerup and Kwinana.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/24/199.html (1068 words)

	Workers meet over components jobs \| \| The Australian
		UP to 700 workers in Victoria's automotive industry will meet to discuss their future today with a major components supplier expected to go into voluntary administration.
		Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) state secretary Dave Oliver said the Huon Group, owner of Empire Rubber in Bendigo, Nylex at Frankston and Mills Elastomers at Dandenong, was expected to appoint an administrator tomorrow (Friday).
		National Union of Workers state secretary Antony (Antony) Thow said the news was a huge blow to workers at the three factories.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19625338-1702,00.html (399 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Australians who go to the doctor have got a right to know that the person treating them has got the right kind of credentials.
		If you're an Australian worker who is in a tough situation you couldn't have a better person looking after your interests than Doug Cameron, and I think given he represents the manufacturing sector, he's got a right to put a view and put it strongly.
		Workers are thrown in jail for actually complaining against the conditions in China.
	www.ten.com.au /library/documents/MTP240451.doc (3964 words)

	Asia Times: Union threatens action against Indonesian planes
		The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has passed a resolution criticizing the government, saying it has failed to condemn the deaths.
		A meeting of AMWU airline delegates in Sydney passed the resolution Tuesday, recommending its 1,200 airline members hold urgent mass meetings and consider industrial action.
		Roe said workers at the Qantas jet base, which services international planes including those from Indonesia, would hold a stopwork meeting when the next Indonesian plane came in and consider refusing to work on it.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/AD28Ah01.html (285 words)

	Australian labor union says IMF backed "reforms" is an attack on workers - 09/19/05 \| Workers Independent News
		Australian labor union says IMF backed "reforms" is an attack on workers - 09/19/05
		Australian labor union says IMF backed "reforms" is an attack on workers - 09/19/05
		Doug Cameron, National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, says the Australian government's plan for what they call 'industrial relations reforms' is a thinly-veiled attack on workers:
	www.laborradio.org /node/1491 (250 words)

	Defend the Victorian AMWU! Defend Workers First! Defend Craig Johnston! Defend democratic unionism!
		AMWU National Secretary, Doug Cameron, who has consistently opposed the Workers First leadership of the Victorian branch ever since it was elected in 1998, told the July 10 Australian that "Workers First is not the future of the union".
		When Johnston, along with three other AMWU members, was recently committed for trial on charges arising from alleged involvement in the vandalising of the offices of labour hire firm Skilled Engineering, the national leadership of the AMWU called for him to stand down.
		Instead of defending fellow union members and pointing to the obviously political nature of these cases the Cameron leadership went to the media with a call for Craig Johnston to stand down as Victorian AMWU secretary.
	www.socialist-alliance.org /unionsolidarity/tudefensereso2.shtml (1190 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Australian car workers strike ruled illegal
		The AIRC ruling came after the Australian government described the dispute as a threat to the national interest and asked the commission to terminate the bargaining period.
		The Australian unemployment rate could top 7% for the first time in nearly two years when July labour force data is released on Thursday, according to economists.
		The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) said on Friday it would spread the strike to other industries, including aviation, rail and food unless their employers reversed their refusal to negotiate.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/business/1475412.stm (578 words)

	Aussie manufacturing 'needs to change'
		A manufacturing industry union has urged the federal government to abandon what it calls its wage-cutting approach to Australian manufacturing.
		AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron said a national manufacturing forum report had been compiled after agreement between unions, employers and state and territory governments.
		Mr Cameron said the report showed a range of means to be pursued and none of them involved slashing the wages and conditions of workers and importing cheap labour from overseas which, he said, were the federal government's policies.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=64727 (401 words)

	National Union of Workers - Huon workers walk off the job in support of 122 sacked mates
		National Union of Workers Victorian State Secretary Antony Thow and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Victorian Secretary Dave Oliver said workers have determined to take control of the factories and are not prepared to release any assets until full entitlements are secured for redundant workers.
		AMWU State Secretary Dave Oliver said the workers will not be eligible for the Federal Government’s GEERS scheme which is meant to provide a safety net for workers in just this sort of situation.
		The National Union of Workers is an Australian trade union covering the following industries: warehousing and distribution; food manufacturing; rubber; plastic and cable-making; dairy; cold storage; poultry; fish and game processing; skin and hide; wool; oil; pet food; pharmaceutical manufacturing; milling; market research; merchandising and sales representatives.
	www.nuw.org.au /articles/vic/MediaReleases/huonout (700 words)

	active sydney - webcast news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In contrast, the AMWU national council consists of around 28 full-time, paid officials, and they can call a meeting at a moment's notice and override the democratic processes of the elected state bodies of the union.
		This refers to the fact that, on July 9, the AMWU national council suspended Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston on an allegation of “gross misconduct” pending an internal union inquiry on the matter.
		Cameron's lawyers object to the claim that “Mr Cameron or the AMWU `rammed through in contravention of union rules' decisions of the food and confectionary division `election procedure'.” As with the veto rule, the proportionality of voting wasn't an issue before the union became highly factionalised.
	www.active.org.au /sydney/webcast/front.php3?article_id=1799 (1493 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Allegations of violence in the union movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As its national secretary, he’s taken a strong stand on violence and intimidation in the union movement, one which he says has put him in the firing line of so-called ultra militants across the country”.
		Victorian AMWU metal division secretary and Workers First member Steve Dargavel responded to the innuendo that Workers First might be behind the attack.
		Bronwyn Halfpenny is the Victorian secretary of the food and confectionary division of the AMWU and a founding member of Workers First.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2003/563/29141 (735 words)

	Doug Cameron, Manufacturing Workers' Union
		Mr Cameron lost at the conference, but now he and his union are to take their case directly to voters.
		The manufacturing industry is in crisis at the moment, our industry is about six per cent smaller than comparative manufacturing industries overseas.
		We think that if the federal government and John Howard continues to ignore manufacturing industry, continues to tell us that if you simply have inflation under control, you have interest rates down and you introduce a GST that manufacturing's going to be okay.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_671.asp?s=1 (2456 words)

	The Free Trade Agreement (A-US-FTA) and Australian nationalism : Melbourne Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A position paper by the Australian Conservation Foundation argues that Australia's environment could be under threat through current quarantine standards, the labelling of genetically modified foods and the existence of national parks being defined as trade barriers.
		While there is substantial foreign investment, Australian big capital itself invests around the world, and in particular is a major exploiter of the raw materials and labour of neighbouring countries, backed up by an increasingly militaristic foreign policy.
		Such measures, which used to be advanced by the trade union left, include expansion of the public sector paid for by increased corporate taxation, a shorter working week with no loss in pay to share available work, retraining on full pay for workers in threatened industries and the nationalisation of companies that threaten layoffs.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/01/60158.php (1531 words)

	Australian Bankers Association - 2005
		Sydney, 10 February, 2005: The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) said the Australian Workers’ Union’s (AWU’s) statement that employees should be given priority over lenders in the event of insolvency is very short-sighted.
		Banks are sympathetic to the impact on individuals and their families if they lose their job without receiving their entitlements.
		Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Inquiry into Australia’s Insolvency Laws, 31 July 2003, pp 16-17
	www.bankers.asn.au /default.aspx?ArticleID=838 (223 words)

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