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01 December 2000 |
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NewsLocal Action to Back Burma Sanctions
The Australian representative of the Burmese democracy movement last night called on Australian workers to back a landmark ILO ruling over the military regime's use of slave labour.
The ILO last month handed down the historic ruling, that calls on all member nations to cease investment and other assistance that could lead to further breaches of core labour standards. Addressing the NSW Labor Council, Dr Myint Cho said several unions, such as those representing energy workers, have already started pressuring governments and major companies to withdraw from Burma. Labor Council secretary Michael Costa pledged the NSW union movement's support for the sanctions in both local and international forums. Big Win With Burma Fundraiser Meanwhile, Phil Davey reports that Labor Council, the CFMEU and PSA held a fundraising concert last Thursday night for Burma which packed the punters in. Over 250 people partied into the small hours of the morning to the sounds of salsa supremos BABALU and funk superstars B'DUSSY. Proceeds from the gig went to assisting working people escaping the dictatorship in Burma and living as refugees on the Thai Burma border. The concert was complimented by some rowdy singing and co-ordinated fist waving from a visiting group of Korean construction workers who had earlier in the evening taken Labor Council's weekly meeting by storm with a similar performance. Concert goers from the local Burmese community reciprocated after the Koreans sang with a number of traditional Burmese fighting songs which had everyone on their feet. The Burma gig takes to six the number of concerts which NSW Unions have put on this year. The LHMU, Labor Council and CFMEU put on two concerts early in the year for independent Timorese radio station "Voice of Hope". 2,000 CDs were donated by the public for "Voice of Hope" at these concerts. A fundraiser for workers locked out at Joy Engineering was put on by the AMWU and CFMEU in July and two S11 fundraising gigs were put on by an alliance of unions in August. Well over $10,000 was raised at these six gigs, and total attendence at these Union sponsored concerts over the year topped 2,000
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   Interview: Chewing the Fat with DellaIn a rare extended interview, NSW 's new industrial relations minister State John Della Bosca outlines his vision for the new workplace. Unions: Organising - There Is No ChoiceLHMU national secretary Jeff Lawrence responds to Brisbane Institutue director Peter Botsman's attack on organising. Corporate: The Riddles of Democracy at TelstraShareholder activist Stephen Mayne explains how the big guys ran roughshod when he and trade union activists attempted to stand for the Telstra board. Education: Training for ChangeLabor Council's Michael Gadiel outlines a traiing agenda for the 21st century. History: A Stack of HypocritsBallot rigging, sanctioned by the courts, sponsored by the government were a Liberal Party and Bob Menzies speciality - and they introduced legislation to legalise it. International: African Unions Go To War Against AIDS The war on AIDS is now the number one priority of the ICFTU's African Regional Organization (AFRO), which has launched an ambitious five-year action plan in nine of the most severely afflicted African nations. Satire: Teenage Hackers Behind Shock Cabinet Reshuffle Seasoned front-benchers and political greenhorns alike were joined in stunned surprise today, as a sudden Cabinet reshuffle radically altered the shape of the Federal Government. Review: Manufacturing DissentA new production explores Australian's approach to refugees and their experiences coming to a strange land.
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