Australian university workers speak out against casualisation, cuts and restructuring
“I think a collective unified struggle of university staff across the country would be a lot more effective than what we are doing now.”
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“I think a collective unified struggle of university staff across the country would be a lot more effective than what we are doing now.”
Why has Australia’s United Workers Union refused strike pay to locked-out Coles workers? One of the key issues raised by workers throughout the near-three month lockout of Coles supermarket warehouse workers at Smeaton Grange in southwestern Sydney has been why the United Workers Union (UWU) has rejected calls to provide strike pay, let alone organise solidarity action by any of its 150,000 or more members. Last Tuesday, the Smeaton Grange workers voted, 167 to 163, to reject the latest sellout deal struck between Coles and the UWU, taking a significant stand against the sweeping destructio...