Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant
Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated.
Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media]
The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, which have always fought to tie workers to the requirements of the corporate profit system and to the Australian ruling elite’s alignment with the dominant imperialist power of the time initially Britain and then, after World War II, the United States.
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Union Calls for Paid ‘Vax Leave’ for All Australian Public Servants
The New South Wales (NSW) government should lead the nation by example and provide all public sector workers paid vaccination leave, the state’s peak union body said.
“One of the barriers workers are facing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is finding the time to do it while they are working,” Unions NSW wrote in a post on Twitter. “That’s why we’re calling on the NSW government to lead by example and provide a 1/2 day of paid leave to all workers so they can get vaccinated.”
Unions NSW Secretary Mark Morey said the cost of missing work is one element that is preventing people, especially those who are insecurely employed, from getting their vaccination.