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Quick 🧵 of industrial disputes and news! #ausunions

'In Spring 2020, when a scab operator set up a company paying bottom-of-the-barrel rates in a crude attempt at undercutting the militant members of the MUA, the workers of Port Botany went feral.'

A new cartoon by sam wallman with words by Shane Reside overland.org.au/2023/07/peelin…

Pls come down to 9 S Boundary Rd E Somerville at 6am tomorrow Wednesday the 28th June to support and celebrate the first protected action strike on an australian farm in literally generations United Workers Union Victorian Trades Hall Council 24/7 strike presence to follow, visitors welcome any time

Extruding corrugated plastic pipe.

Okay people WHO WANT TO SAVE THE PRESTON MARKET FROM DEMOLITION AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, follow Save The Preston Market! here

Almost sixth months of industrial action 🤯 against a guy worth $24 BILLION

Strike fund: bitly.ws/F5Yi
Petition: megaphone.org.au/petitions/visy…

a boss at the port in Whyalla took down this poster from the break room and cut it up, so the MUA members sticky taped it back together and stuck it up again hahaha 🥲 MUA

workplace poster for my mate who works at the Bureau of Meterology. sounds like a cooked place to work at the moment, which the bosses tried to band-aid by....... renaming the BOM as 'The Bureau' recently, which addresses a total of zero of the issues there hahah

there’s a prototype break room operating for gig workers in Naarm. delivery riders are some of the most precarious & atomised workers in australia. plz spread the word to anyone working in these industries & encourage them to drop in to 391 Queen st 1-7pm today or tomorrow only !

Australia's trams, trains and buses are running over 40 years late on meeting the requiremends of the Federal Disability Discrimination Act.

It's time to make public transport accessible, says sam wallman in his latest cartoon / campaign poster. overland.org.au/2023/05/make-p…

Happy May Day! here is an ode to the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union RAFFWU one of my favourite unions, based on a quote from Anwen Crawford at the Better Read Than Dead strike

This week will see workers in universities taking industrial action, protesting and organising against the myriad of issues in the sector - particularly fair pay, manageable workloads and action against casualisation. #ausunions

zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself

Neither NIMBY nor YIMBY but a secret third thing (medium density state-led suburban development with a focus on affordability and meaningful community engagement)