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Issue No. 130 | 05 April 2002 |
Lights Out on The Hill
Interview: Change Agent Industrial: Balancing the Books Unions: Breaking Out Politics: Pissing on the Light on the Hill History: Of Death and Taxes International: Now That's a Strike! Satire: Mugabe Voted Miss Zimbabwe: Denies Election Rigged Poetry: Flick Go The Branches Review: Red, Red Clydeside
Brogden's Worker Creds On The Line Melbourne Faces Budget Day Gridlock Unions Call for Middle East Peace Queensland Casuals Step Forward Worker Stood Down for Dunny Action Indigenous Jobs on Union Agenda Building Workers Honour Fallen Cop Robbo and Latham to Go Three Rounds ACT Health Workers Flex Muscles Casual Rights On Agenda As Full-Time Jobs Collapse Workers Health Centre Offers Affordable Care
The Soapbox Sport Week in Review Postcard
Chikka's Legacy Socialists in the UK Organising Globally Grape Disappointment Union Resignations : Crisis or Opportunity?
Labor Council of NSW |
News Indigenous Jobs on Union Agenda
Labor Council secretary John Robertson is offering to host a multi-party forum that will address the practical reality of getting Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders into meaningful training and employment. "We should use our corporate contacts to get commitments on engaging local communities in developing structured employment programmes," Robertson says. "Being a good corporate citizen is about more than signing a check and washing your hands of this issue and so is being a good trade unionist. "If we are going to move beyond tokenism unions need to take a leadership role and part of that is ensuring that Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders are present at all levels of our own organisations." Robertson was responding to an address from Kevin Tory, a trade unionist for 45 years, who convenes its Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Committee. Tory asked Aboriginal Council delegates to identified themselves, an exercise which revealed just three of more than 100 worker representatives present were of indigenous descent. His committee lists employment, training, education and pegging back frightening indigenous incarceration rates as targets for immediate action.
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