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Issue No. 153 | 20 September 2002 |
Less Is More
Interview: Still Flying International: President Gas Politics: Australia: A Rogue State? Unions: Welfare Max Bad Boss: Welcome to Telstra! Health: Fat Albert: The Grim Reaper Satire: Iraq Pre-empts Pre-emptive Strike Poetry: A Man From the East And A Man From The West Review: The Sum Of All Fears
Retailers Lift Veil on Outworkers Super Fund Leads Options Assault Pressure Grows for Refugee Debate Abbott�s Mates Apply the Hilton Slipper Sydney Airport Wins On Casuals Bushfire Recovery Rights Recognised Premier Oil Pulls Out of Burma
Legends The Locker Room Bosswatch Awards Week in review Activists
Why We Are a Terrorism Target Radio Doco on 1973 Ford Strike An Atmospheric Piece
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Radio Doco on 1973 Ford Strike
ABC Radio National's Hindsight Program presents a 1hour documentary on the 1973 Ford Broadmeadows (Victoria) Strike.
Hear the story of the predominantly migrant auto workers fighting for better pay and conditions who revolted against their bosses and their union.
"A match lit on wages that set off a conflagration on work environment." - Laurie Carmichael (ex AMWU)
"The bosses couldn't believe that migrants who barely spoke English could be so militant, more militant than their union." - Giovanni Sgro' (Filef - Italian Migrant Workers' Federation and their Families.)
The 1973 dispute became infamous for the riot that took place at the Ford Broadmeadows plant when striking workers refused to accept a compromise pay rise offer from Ford management and return to work after only three and a half weeks. The militancy of a section of the rank and file - most of them migrants - outflanked that of union leadership and ended up forcing a continuation of the strike which was successful in obtaining an increase in Ford's offer. The dispute was an explosion of anger against the rigidity of Taylorist work organisation in a pre-computerised auto industry and highlighted the communication problems that existed between management, unions and migrant workers at the time. It is also remembered for the inter-ethnic solidarity of the predominantly migrant workforce that became an inspiration for those involved in the struggle for a progressive multicultural Australia.
Interviews with Italian, Greek, Egyptian and Turkish migrant workers, migrant activists and former unionists.
On air date: September 22 at 2pm, repeat September 26 at 1pm.
Frequencies in capital cities...
Adelaide 729AM | Brisbane 792AM | Canberra 846AM Darwin 657AM | Gold Coast 90.1FM | Hobart 585AM Melbourne 621AM | Newcastle 1512AM | Perth 810AM | Sydney 576AM For more information, log on at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/history.htm
For frequencies in regional Australia, log on at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/freq/map.htm
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