
Issue No 116		19 October 2001

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International Workers to Converge on Sydney

Sydney is to host a major international union conference of metal industries in the week following the federal election campaign.

The ballots will be barely closed when thousands of delegates to the international Metalworkers Federation will converge on Sydney to attend the week-long conference.

Top of the agenda will be the impact of corporate globalisation on domestic economies around the world, with a rally on Tuesday 13th through the city streets to highlight the issue.

The Australian Workers Union, Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union are all affiliates to the IMF. The Labor Council of NSW has endorsed the rally.

AMWU president Julius Rowe briefed the Labor Council on the conference, which is scheduled to coincide with the WTO meeting in Qatar.

The Workers United, Need a New Slogan!

With the a major street demonstration planned, organisers want to go beyond the usual lines of "the workers united ..." and "whatta we want ..."

The AMWU, AWU, CEPU along with all the major unions, community, social, environmental and religious organisations are marching to support global justice, fair trade and to oppose any new WTO agreements at Qatar on Tuesday November 13.

The rally coincides with the International Metalworkers Federation World Congress in Sydney. 1000 union delegates from all over the world will lead the march.

Info on the rally and a list of supporters is at http://www.sydneyrally.org.

"We need new, good and loud chants that will be heard and remembered," the AMWU's Natasha Holmes says. "They have to be short, catchy and relevant!"

The best chants will be printed up and distributed to be used in the rally. A final selection will be posted on Workers Online and the sydneyrally website.

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Issue 116 contents

Interview: The Green Machine
Nick Bolkus outlines Labor's environmental stance and lays down the gauntlet to Bob Brown's Greens.

Industrial: Regaining Control
France�s 35 hour week stems from the program of the Left coalition government which went to the polls in June 1997 with the policy of �worksharing�.

Unions: Home Of The Longest Day
Australia has a dubious new prize to put in its cluttered national trophy cabinet. We are increasingly the most over-worked nation in the world.

Campaign Diary: Week Two: Fightback
Labor's doing everything to win a normal campaign - but this is no normal campaign.

Economics: Who Will Notice When You Die?
Johann Christoph Arnold asks whether the anti-globalisation movement is the answer to an epidemic of loneliness.

History: American Terror
Incredible revelations about the work of the US National Security Agency through the Cold War years help put the current War of Terror into perspective.

International: Global Day of Action
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US last week, the ICFTU has announced that preparations for the Global Unions Day of Action on November 9 will go ahead.

Satire: World Gripped by Fear as Howard Third Term Looms
The global community has uniformly condemned the recent terrorist attacks, which horrifically helped revive the re-election prospects of John Howard.

Review: Flashbacks
Cultural theortician Neale Towart consults his record collection in a bid to understand the chaos gripping the earth.

» Unions Triumph in Bra Battle

» Ansett's Redundancy Edict: Hand in Uniforms

» Economic Management Libs Style: Porkbarrelling And Profligacy

» Long Hours Ranks Swell

» Extra Security Urged at Chemical Sites

» Regional Airport Security Ignored By Anderson

» "Sack or Back" Shier

» Backpay For Exploited Guest Workers

» Nurses to Test New Equal Pay Laws

» Libs Back Unions as Compo Police

» Racism Rocks Workplaces

» Community of Sydney to Back CFMEU

» Green Activist Restrictions Lifted

» Hotel Union Cautious About Employer Gloom

» International Workers to Converge on Sydney

» Workers' Bank Opens Shopfront

» Face The Music And Shove It Up The Junta!

» Activists Notebook

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» Joy is at it Again!

» The Extra Yards

» Water Aid

» Redunancy Under Attack

» Orwell No Anarchist

» Ways Around Treaty Rights

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