
Issue No 119		16 November 2001

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Consumer Boycott Call for Sugar Co-op

A consumer boycott of Sunshine Sugar products has been endorsed by major unions involved in the sugar industry dispute over the lock-out of 350 workers on the NSW north coast.

The Union movement believes that it has traced Sunshine Sugar products from the mills and refinery to the supermarket shelves with sufficient precision for a targeted boycott to be very effective.

Commenting on the proposal CFMEU State Secretary Andrew Ferguson says what management at Sunshine Sugar is doing with this lockout is morally indefensible.

"They are not just trying to starve 350 Australian families into submission, they are ruining Cane farmers and holding the entire North Coast economy hostage," Ferguson says.

"We are hopeful that management will reconsider their position, cease the lockout and negotiate a sensible settlement of this dispute."

The movements peak union bodies, the Labor Council of NSW and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) this week received delegations of locked out workers and were strongly supportive of initiating a national campaign in support of mill workers.

Ferguson has pledged to raise the dispute to a national level to highlight the bastardry of mills management and ensure locked out workers are financially supported by other Australians.

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Interview: Out of the Rubble
Michael Costa argues that Saturday's election result could have been much, much worse.

Unions: Sixty-Forty Are Good Odds!
John Robertson argues that while there may be many problems with the ALP, union power is not one of them.

Politics: Wrong Way, Go Back
Labor's failure in the federal election is the result of more than bad luck. It is the result of a shift to populism that has left the Party bereft of core principles.

Campaign Diary: Week Five: All Washed Up
If you can stand it, relive the fatefull final week of a most remarkable election campaign.

International: Trade Piracy Unmasked
As the trade barons met in Qatar to chart out their agenda, George Monbiot looks at the machinations behind the scenes.

Factions: The Party's Over
Chris Christodoulou renews his call for a breakdown of the factional system to bring new life into the ALP

History: The Fall-Out
Neale Towart looks back to Labor's reaction to its loss in the 1954 'Petrov election' and finds warnings for today's post mortem.

Media: Elite Defeat
Rowan Cahill looks at the intellectual paucity in the PM's ongoing attacks on 'elite opinion'.

Satire: Crean 'Listens To Australian People': Will Sink Refugee Boats
Simon Crean, the most likely candidate to replace Kim Beazley as Labor's leader, says he will take heed of the message sent to the ALP by Australian voters at the Federal Election.

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