
Issue No 111		14 September 2001

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Unions Take Message to Migrant Workers

By Mark Morey

This week Fairfield MP Joe Tripodi and Labor Council Secretary, John Robertson, launched the first series of translated "Join a Union" pamphlet produced by the Labor Council.

The pamphlets have been designed to address the major issues and questions initially asked by non-English speaking workers in relation to Australian unions and unionism. The pamphlets have been translated into Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, English, Filipino, Hindi, Korean, Italian and Vietnamese and are available to all unions and organisers via LABORNET. Once unions download the pamphlets they can include the names of organisers and the union details. It is intended that further languages will become available as resources permit.

The pamphlets are a result of the Labor Council's Productive Diversity Project that aims to increase the accessibility of non-English Speaking Background (NESB) workers to unions.

Prior to the launch of the pamphlets a forum, "Getting the Union Message Out: Non-English Speaking Background Workers and Unions", was held that discussed a range of issues facing non-English speaking workers in relation to work and unionism. The forum, heard from Caroline Alcorso, Sydney University, Jagath Bandara NSW Branch of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union and Debbie Carstens, Asian Women at Work [Transcripts of these talks were included in WoL Issue110]

For more information regarding the pamphlets contact Labor Council's Special Project

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Issue 111 contents

Interview: Amidst the Debris
ACTU President Sharan Burrow surveys the wreckage from a week that rocked the world.

Politics: Consequences of Empire
The horror of the events in New York has not led to all American and international observers feeling committed to bloody revenge.

Industrial: Grounded
Ansett workers lay bare their feelings at seeing their company driven into oblivion.

International: Election Results from East Timor
Fretelin as expected has topped the poll in East Timorďż˝s first free democratic election and the violence predicted by some has not eventuated.

E-Change: 3.2 The Electronic Consumerist
In their latest instalment Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel ask how effective has the law become in safeguarding the things that really matter to us?

Legal: Howard's Falkland War
Zoe Reynolds chronicles the bizarre tale of the Tampa and how a group of refugees bacame pawns in a bigger political game.

Compo: Round Two Begins
Nancy Searle reviews the Sheahan Report and highlights some of the areas of concern to injured workers.

Economics: Knowledge, Power, Banking
Raj Patel questions whether a new World Bank initiative is actually designed to control the way the Third World thinks.

Review: Political Theatre
The Naked Theatre Company is a youthful, adventurous, professional, Sydney theatre company committed to the development and production of Australian playwrights.

Satire: Howard US Visit "Marginally Overshadowed"
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his US trip was a complete success, if slightly upstaged towards the middle.

» Howard Deserts Ansett Workers

» Trans Tasman Battle for Entitlements

» Qantas Workers Move To Protect Their Entitlements

» Unions Denounce Muslim Attacks

» Fund Established for New York Workers

» Australian Unionist Lost in New York

» US Flight Crews Support Ansett Workers

» Compo: Threshold Too High

» Della Moves on Premium Evasion

» Travel Site Severs Burma Links

» Paint Company Wants Strike Declared Illegal

» Casino Staff Locked Out Again

» Tax Staff to Strike Back

» Union Applauds Deet Ruling On Clothing

» Unions Take Message to Migrant Workers

» Get Ready to Wobble

» Activists' Notebook

» STOP PRESS: Howard Rolls Abbott on Entitlements