[APWSLMembers 6] FW: Australian workers on the march

[parat Nanakhorn]

>From: "AAWL" <aawl at aawl.org.au>
>To: "* AAWL" <aawl at aawl.org.au>
>Subject: Australian workers on the march
>Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:43:20 +1000
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>australian workers on the march
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>120,000 workers on the march !
>Melbourne Australia
>Thursday 30 June
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>The Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Australian Council of Trade 
>Unoions called stop-works and rallies to defeat the proposed Industrial 
>Relation laws aimed at cutting wages, conditions and the rights of all 
>workers.
>
>120,000 workers marched in Melbourne in a massive display of unity and 
>determination.
>
>Many tens of thousands of workers also rallied in Perth, Adelaide, 
>Brisbane, Hobart and Darwin as well as in regional centres.
>
>All unions were represented on the Melbourne march. The Australian 
>Government is attacking the fundamental rights of workers to organise in 
>unions. Victorian Trades Hall Council Secretary Brian Boyd, said the rally 
>was one of the biggest trade union demonstrations seen in Melbourne. Union 
>leaders as well as Labour Party leader Kim Beazley addressed the rally 
>pledging continued activity to defeat the new laws.
>
>A statements of solidarity were received from the Scottish Trades Union 
>Congress, which is currently involved in the protests around the G8 summitt 
>in Gleneagles Scotland, and active in supporting the Make Poverty History 
>and Respect Workers' Rights demonstrations.
>
>Messages of solidarity were also received from Chile, and from the Southern 
>Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) meeting in 
>Bangkok Thailand. The delegates at the SIGTUR meeting wrote a letter of 
>solidarity addressed to the working people of Australia and marched to the 
>Australian Embassy in solidarity with the rallies being held in Australia.
>
>Everywhere workers' rights are under attack. But through workers' unity 
>across workplaces, industries, regions and countries we can defeat these 
>attacks and defend our rights.
>
>Information: Victorian Trades Hall Council   www.vthc.org.au
>Australian Council of Trade Unions:   www.actu.asn.au
>Melbourne Indymedia:   http://melbourne.indymedia.org
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