Monday, November 28, 2005
Union Songs: 200,000 visits
Union Songs at http://unionsong.com/ had its two hundred thousandth visitor sometime yesterday
The collection is now approaching 400 songs and poems nearly half of them Australian and most of them written in recent times
Anyone wanting songs about AWAs or Individual Contracts (as proposed by our neocons) might find this selection of interest:
The Contract - Eric Bogle at http://unionsong.com/u084.html
The Eight Hour Day - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u053.html
Rapping with Johnny Howard - John Tomlinson at http://unionsong.com/u060.html
You're Fired! - David Peetz at http://unionsong.com/u300.html
Solidarity Forever (2005) at http://unionsong.com/u333.html
Mark Allen - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u035.html
Morris McMahon Picket Shanty - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u206.html
Bye Bye Awards - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u088.html
Part of the Union - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u314.html
Come to the Meeting - Don Henderson at http://unionsong.com/u085.html
Bring Out The Banners - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u034.html
Stand Together - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u078.html
Hold That Line - Geoff Francis and Peter Hicks at http://unionsong.com/u142.html
United - Ginger Tom at http://unionsong.com/u256.html
Black Armband - John Hospodaryk at http://unionsong.com/u152.html
Call To Arms - Richard Mills at http://unionsong.com/u089.html
Do the slowly-chokie - David Peetz at http://unionsong.com/u297.html
Right That Time - Maurie Mulheron at http://unionsong.com/u039.html
Stand and Defend - Jim Lesses at http://unionsong.com/u244.html
Cowper Wharf - Phyl Lobl at http://unionsong.com/u178.html
Dear John - Phyl Lobl at http://unionsong.com/u226.html
The Telephone Tree - Wendy Lowenstein at http://unionsong.com/u073.html
With These Arms - Tim O'Brien at http://unionsong.com/u063.html
I Can't Abide - John Dengate at http://unionsong.com/u046.html
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The collection is now approaching 400 songs and poems nearly half of them Australian and most of them written in recent times
Anyone wanting songs about AWAs or Individual Contracts (as proposed by our neocons) might find this selection of interest:
The Contract - Eric Bogle at http://unionsong.com/u084.html
The Eight Hour Day - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u053.html
Rapping with Johnny Howard - John Tomlinson at http://unionsong.com/u060.html
You're Fired! - David Peetz at http://unionsong.com/u300.html
Solidarity Forever (2005) at http://unionsong.com/u333.html
Mark Allen - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u035.html
Morris McMahon Picket Shanty - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u206.html
Bye Bye Awards - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u088.html
Part of the Union - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u314.html
Come to the Meeting - Don Henderson at http://unionsong.com/u085.html
Bring Out The Banners - John Warner at http://unionsong.com/u034.html
Stand Together - Bernard Carney at http://unionsong.com/u078.html
Hold That Line - Geoff Francis and Peter Hicks at http://unionsong.com/u142.html
United - Ginger Tom at http://unionsong.com/u256.html
Black Armband - John Hospodaryk at http://unionsong.com/u152.html
Call To Arms - Richard Mills at http://unionsong.com/u089.html
Do the slowly-chokie - David Peetz at http://unionsong.com/u297.html
Right That Time - Maurie Mulheron at http://unionsong.com/u039.html
Stand and Defend - Jim Lesses at http://unionsong.com/u244.html
Cowper Wharf - Phyl Lobl at http://unionsong.com/u178.html
Dear John - Phyl Lobl at http://unionsong.com/u226.html
The Telephone Tree - Wendy Lowenstein at http://unionsong.com/u073.html
With These Arms - Tim O'Brien at http://unionsong.com/u063.html
I Can't Abide - John Dengate at http://unionsong.com/u046.html
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Sunday, November 27, 2005
Cardinal Pell: IR changes threaten fair go ethos
The Federal Government's Workplace Relations Bill is likely to be passed by the Senate.
We probably won't see too much change immediately. But these are the most significant legislative changes for Australian workers in 100 years.
Major concerns are that the "no disadvantage" test has been removed so that minimum wage rates can be progressively reduced in real terms, conciliation and arbitration will be limited, entitlements such as overtime rates, penalty rates and rest breaks can be reduced and there will be much less protection against unfair dismissal.
This Bill will increase the "Americanisation" of the Australian workplace in some unfortunate ways through its hostility to unions and by further increasing the wage differentials between the very rich and prosperous and those battlers at the other end of the spectrum.
We probably won't see too much change immediately. But these are the most significant legislative changes for Australian workers in 100 years.
Major concerns are that the "no disadvantage" test has been removed so that minimum wage rates can be progressively reduced in real terms, conciliation and arbitration will be limited, entitlements such as overtime rates, penalty rates and rest breaks can be reduced and there will be much less protection against unfair dismissal.
This Bill will increase the "Americanisation" of the Australian workplace in some unfortunate ways through its hostility to unions and by further increasing the wage differentials between the very rich and prosperous and those battlers at the other end of the spectrum.
Pittwater: historic Liberal defeat
The NSW Liberal Party was in total disarray last night after its third safest seat, Pittwater, previously held by Coalition leader John Brogden, was captured by an independent.Local mayor Alex McTaggart surfed to victory in the northern beaches seat on the back of a record-breaking swing of 25 per cent.
He obliterated the 20.1 per cent majority which Mr Brogden received at the 2003 state election and finished with a final preferential vote of 56 per cent, compared with 44 per cent for the Liberal candidate Paul Nicolaou.
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The Sunday Telegraph 27-11-2005 reported: "Howard and the NSW Liberals are on the nose. Last night, federal Cabinet ministers pointed to the PMs failure to sell industrial relations reform as one cause of the Pittwater revolt" and "Federally, this result is being watched closely by Howard's enemies. There is a sense that the PM may have lost his magic touch. NSW is his domain, but he is no longer master of it ".
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Singers of Renown: Paul Pobeson sings Joe Hill - December 5
John Cargher will broadcast his 2000th Singers of Renown program on ABC Radio National, 4pm on December 10.On December 5 he will play a Paul Robeson recording of Joe Hill, which he sang on site to workers building the Sydney Opera House in 1960.
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