Unions

The significance of last month's rally in Canberra has been drowned in moral effluvia by the media and politicians. Peter Reith dismissed the rally as a 'stunt', but in reality he was terrified...

With the end of the pilot’s dispute, another chapter of shame closes for the leadership of the Australian labour movement. Their role in this episode has been nothing short of scabbery. The Pilots Federation now...

Striking Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) members have over the last couple of weeks staged protest demonstrations against Bob Hawke, the Labor government and the airline in various locations. As is well known, the...

The recent court decision against the Pilots Federation, with the threat of $10 million fines has profound implications for every worker in Australia. It has effectively confirmed that it is illegal for workers not...

As the pilot’s dispute moves into its fourth month, still only 10% of the airlines own planes are flying. In frustration Tourism Minister Holding has put forward the idea that the pilots who refused...

A heavy defeat for the pilots would be a victory for all union busters and for all those who want workers to pay for the economic crisis. The airline companies want to crush the Australian...

The pilots dispute is the most important since the Hawke government came to power in 1983. The government’s main strategy has been to make the workers pay for the capitalist crisis through the wage-cutting...