On Tuesday 20 July members of the construction unions struck in support of South Australian rigger Ark Tribe. 

Christian saints had to die before priests or monks wrote up their exemplary lives. But Bob Hawke is lucky. He is the living husband of his biographer, Blanche d’Alpuget.

Early on Wednesday morning, a dockworker at the West Melbourne Appleton Dock was crushed to death when a steel beam fell on him.

More than 70 lecturers and staff from seven faculties at the University of NSW (UNSW) have been stood down for participating in industrial action.

The 2010 Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights showed that from 2008 to 2009, murders of trade unionists increased by 30 per cent to at least 101.

South Australian construction worker Ark Tribe will appear in court today. He is facing up to six months’ imprisonment for not attending an Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) interrogation.

Workers from the Social and Community Services (SACS) sector protested across Australia on June 10 demanding a sorely needed funding boost from state governments.

In an article that appeared on Crikey.com yesterday, an anonymous construction worker drew attention to the hypocrisy endemic to mainstream media reporting.

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has sold out its members by calling off the proposed boycott of the NAPLAN tests.

May Day this year brought hundreds of thousands, if not millions of workers across the globe out on the streets to protest.

The annual Labor Day march in Brisbane on May 3 saw around 5,000 workers marching.

May Day, also known as the International Workers’ Day, commemorates the commitment and sacrifice that millions of people have made in the name of the workers’ movement. It is also a time to raise the demands of today.

Thousands of unionists, including 10,000 in Melbourne and thousands more across the country, rallied on April 28 to call for the abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and to mark the International Workers’ Memorial Day.

We are constantly told that Western Australia is booming. It is for some. But while the super-rich rake it in, workers are losing out.