Qantas Strikes

Taken from Communist Party of Australia

Qantas management is clearly prepared to destroy the airline, as it now exists, in order to complete its non-unionised, cheapjack makeover of the once iconic, widely respected and publicly owned national carrier.

Joyce almost says as much: “I’m fighting for the survival of Qantas into the long term, and if we have to take short-term pain and to stand up to the unions, and resist these bully-boy tactics to make sure that the company survives, we will do that.”

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Revolution

Kindly submitted by http://www.newseda.com

YCL condemns TUC backed pay cut for the lowest paid

Taken from www.ycl.org.uk


The TUC’s call for a pay cut for workers earning the minimum wage has been accepted by the government. The TUC had requested that the National Minimum Wage be increased by 3%, far below inflation, whilst workers wait for economic growth ie. more profitable monopolies.  Consequently the full rate of the NMW has been increased by 2.5%, the rate of 18-20 year olds has been increased by 1.2% and the rate for 16 & 17 year olds by just 1%.

Inflation for September 2011 stands at 5.6% and that is the minimum amount by which the cost of living has increased.

YCL Acting General Secretary, Mick Carty, said that “the least young workers can accept is a TUC that promotes their interests not one which ignores the fundamental class antagonism in society and continues to attempt to find a compromise with the monopolies”.

Occupy Bristol

Picture taken from https://network23.org/occupybristol/

They have free cake!

There has been recent controversy over the occupy Bristol event on College Green disrupting the Remembrance Day events in the next few weeks. The Occupy Bristol website has statements from members and lots of information.