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Blue Mountains Union News: Unions NSW: You Call That Fairness Joe?

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Friday, May 15, 2015. Unions NSW: You Call That Fairness Joe? This week the Abbott-Hockey Government have handed down their second budget and we are sorry to say it’s not a pretty sight for working families. Sign the petition to reverse the cuts to Paid Parental Leave. This can only mean fewer hospital beds, longer waiting times and the further decimation of community health and services. Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey are...

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Blue Mountains Union News: May 2015

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Sunday, May 31, 2015. ACRS: Reef scientists report. Australia’s leading coral reef scientists have called for huge coalmining and port developments in Queensland to be scrapped in order to avoid “permanent damage” to the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian Coral Reef Society. The report notes that nine proposed mines in the Galilee Basin. 8220;Such policies are inconsistent with opening new fossil fuel industries like t...

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Blue Mountains Union News: ACTU: Royal Commission proves its political stripes again

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Tuesday, May 19, 2015. ACTU: Royal Commission proves its political stripes again. The Trade Union Royal Commission has again proved it is a political operation designed to push the government’s agenda by releasing a discussion paper to the media before its public release. This Royal Commission has no claim to independence, impartiality or adherence to transparent due process. 8220;The trade union movement is committed ...

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Blue Mountains Union News: ACTU: Budget fail – no jobs, no growth, no opportunity

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Friday, May 15, 2015. ACTU: Budget fail – no jobs, no growth, no opportunity. If the Abbott Government’s plan to create jobs is a $5 billion company tax cut – then it has no plans for jobs. Ironically, despite selling this budget as a budget for jobs, the Government is still forecasting unemployment to stay above 6 per cent for the next three years. Instead the government has tied childcare assistance to unfair cuts to...

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Blue Mountains Union News: Humphrey McQueen: Disturbing the Status Quo

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Humphrey McQueen: Disturbing the Status Quo. A talk given at the Katoomba section of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, 17 May 2011 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Varuna Writers’ Centre. Why was I having a little tea and a little chat with the Darks? No national consciousness is possible without the structures for its dissemination. P R ‘Inky’ Stephensen returned from a decade in the UK in 193...We have seen ...

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Blue Mountains Union News: UNions NSW: Jeff Shaw Memorial Lecture 11 June 2015

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Tuesday, May 19, 2015. UNions NSW: Jeff Shaw Memorial Lecture 11 June 2015. You are invited along to this year’s Annual Jeff Shaw Memorial Lecture which will be presented by Phillip Boutlen S.C on Thursday June 11th at Trades Hall. There will be refreshments and finger food available after the event in the atrium. To RSVP please contact Mary O’Donoghue – 9881 5999 modonoghue@unionsnsw.org.au. ROD BROOKS MEMORIAL 2016.

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Blue Mountains Union News: 18 May – CENTRELINK, MEDICARE WORKERS TO WALK OFF THE JOB OVER GOVT ATTACK ON RIGHTS AND CONDITIONS

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Saturday, May 16, 2015. 18 May – CENTRELINK, MEDICARE WORKERS TO WALK OFF THE JOB OVER GOVT ATTACK ON RIGHTS AND CONDITIONS. CPSU: MAY 15, 2015. Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support staff will kick off a week of rolling public service industrial action at 11.30am on Monday 18 May, with a series of one-hour stop work meetings. 8220;No major private sector employer in Australia is making such nasty offers. 8220;You can...

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Blue Mountains Union News: Carmichael mine risks exposed

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Blue Mountains Union News. News and views - Blue Mountains Unions Council (BMUC Inc.). Friday, May 15, 2015. Carmichael mine risks exposed. Lawyers fighting to have Queensland’s land court stop the construction of Australia’s largest coal mine say they have made the touted economic benefits look “ridiculous” beside the risk of environmental damage. The court was in a “dramatically better position” than state and government decision makers who had relied on Adani’s information, he said. Politics in the Pub.