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Issue No. 175 | 24 April 2003 |
Domestic Relations
Interview: Picking Up The Peaces Unions: The Royal Con National Focus: Around the Grounds Economics: The Secret War on Trade International: United Front History: Confessions of a Badge Collector Politics: Stalin�s Legacy Review: Such Was Not Ned�s Life Poetry: Osama's Top Recruiter Satire: Woolworths CEO Denied Bonus After Company Posts Profit
Medicare Bombshell � Bosses To Pay Another Cole Man Bites The Dust Legal Tussle Looms Over Email Laws Recycled Training Stitch-Up Exposed Contractors Code Fires a Blank Sweet Talk � Big Business Style Bosses, Workers Unite on Grey Threat ANZ Workers Want Cut of Billion Dollar Profit Union Exhibition for Wollongong Howard Attacks Education - Again
The Soapbox The Locker Room Culture Postcard
Robert's Conquest? Success Breeds Contempt Join the Dots Still Walking
Labor Council of NSW |
News Union Exhibition for Wollongong
The historic exhibition, an artistic trip through labour history, will show at the Wollongong City Gallery from September 15 - 23. When Workers Unite finished its debut public outing in Sydney the week before Easter. The UTS showing was the first time such a large collection of union posters, badges, and banners had been exhibited together. Alban Gillezeau and the Labor Council of NSW's Neale Towart were the driving forces behind getting the exhibits together. More than 100 posters covered issues including sexual harassment (most popular with the various TAFE student groups), the eight-hour day, environmental issues (green bans, oil spills and pollution), anti-war and anti-nuclear campaigns, political actions (posters on Joh and Co in Qld, Howard and Reith) and occupational health and safety issues capped by a graphic photo of a worker painting the harbour bridge whilst holding on with one hand, perched above The Rocks with no harness in sight. There were 20 sets of Australian badges grouped by themes such as amalgamations, annual membership, May Day, union representatives, delegates and shop stewards15 large banners of various unions, plus memorabilia and a great collection of British mining union badges chiefly from the 1970-1 and 1984-85 coal strikes. Banners included a beautiful reproduction of the Sydney Labor Day Committee's Eight Hour Day banner, originally designed by Edgar Whitbread. Other interesting "ephemera:" included a Gauloise cigarette packet in the unusual red colouring. Gauloise are always blue but in 1982 the worker took over the factory and a way of gaining strike funds was to continue to produce cigarettes. They did this in a special red packet. Our international man of collections, contacts and knowledge of all things union, Bill Pirie managed to get hold of one of these packets. Negotiations are underway for a Newcastle season after the exhibition finishes in Wollongong.
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