"Defend Our Unions" is organising a discussion meeting for Monday 8 May.
Details below (but subject to final confirmation).
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Draft leaflet for 8 May meeting (it's also attached as a Word file)
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Defend Our Unions
New directions for the union movement:
Lessons from the "Green Bans"
Discussion meeting
7pm, Monday 8 May
Paddington Workers' Club
2 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
The discussion will be led by Greg Mallory, who will present information
and ideas from his recently completed PhD thesis on the social
responsibilities of the trade unions.
For more information on the Defend Our Unions Committee, contact:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone 0416 238840. Mail: c/o Solidarity Infoshop, 264 Barry Parade,
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
The Brisbane Defend Our Unions Committee was formed in 1998, and our first
activity was to help organise solidarity with the Maritime Union of
Australia during the waterfront dispute. In 1999 we worked to help build a
rank-and-file movement against Peter Reith's proposed "Second Wave"
anti-union legislation. We believe that continued vigilance is necessary.
Big business has backed down only temporarily on its moves further to limit
the ability of trade unions to organise in the workplace and to take
effective industrial action. In all our ongoing activity, the Defend Our
Unions Committee aim to support trade-union struggles and trade-union
rights by helping to create a network of rank and file activists able to
assist and inform each other in their efforts.
In the next few months we aim to organise a series of informational
meetings and seminars on issues of labour history, trade-union strategy,
and political economy, so that activists can develop links, exchange ideas,
and acquire information for the struggles to come. We also run an e-mail
list which trade unionists can use for information and debate. To join it,
send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
message "subscribe".
All trade unionists and activists are welcome to join us in our efforts.
LL.QE
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