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		<title>After the Waterfront &#8211; the workers are quiet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS Australia totters on the brink of recession AND with the continuing decline in union struggle — You can order the book by sending your address with $10 plus postage to: LeftPress PO Box 5093 West End 4101. You can read it online. Access each chapter by clicking the chapter title on the &#8216;blogroll&#8217; —&#62; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=34&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A menace is stalking our workplaces – the menace of global capital. All the Powers of the old Market remain intact but new, global, forms of oppression are emerging: the unprecedented and worldwide explosion in credit which traps and enslaves not only individuals and households but also entire countries and regions, stripping them of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=16&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1: Wide awake &#8212; the rise of union solidarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early 1998, around Australia, thousands of workers massed in solidarity with the Maritime Union of Australia. &#8220;MUA HERE TO STAY,’’ they chanted. Many workers and socialists were hoping that the tide had turned, that unionism was returning as a growing force in the Australian political landscape. The pickets, the rallies and the overwhelming sense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=15&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2: Nodding off to sleep &#8212; Unions embrace economic rationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Labor Party (ALP), Trade Unions and Economic Policy After the end of World War II the economic and political program of Australia’s trade unions edged closer to the ALP. Trade union leaders were overwhelmingly ALP members. Most trade unions maintained direct links to the Australian Labor Party, through affiliation and support. While trade unions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=17&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 3: Industrial relations nightmare &#8212; Courses of action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before WorkChoices, industrial relations and other laws were anti‑worker. The law recognises workers as the subjects of capital. The system relies on workers’ compliance — forced or misled, stick or carrot. Unions have already begun to oppose such laws more rigorously. But what strategies are to be followed? 1. Accept the IR legislation and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=31&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4: Comatose &#8212; Corporate unionism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When enterprise bargaining was introduced many unionists thought that EBA negotiations offered improvements for workers. Many still say that today. But is this an illusion? Was it only an improvement for the insiders in the Industrial Relations club? Or were there real advances for workers? Did wage parity go out the door and some workers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=18&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5: Arise ye workers from ye slumbers &#8212; New direction for unions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of unions is of paramount importance, and unions themselves have played on the grim statistics to try to shore up commitment to recruitment. The ACTU-supported publication Power at Work argues that if the percentage of workers in unions declines at the current rates the union movement has only eight years to live.[1] This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=28&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 6: A case study &#8212; The 1998 MUA dispute</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political Framework of the MUA Dispute In Australia, economic rationalism has dominated our political system and economy since the defeat of the Whitlam government in 1975. Both Labor and Liberal/National governments have subscribed to the philosophy of the free market, and overseen the deregulation of the labour market. This is really re-regulation – with institutions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=20&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appendix: A brief history of union responses to attacks on workers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What We Face — Threats to Union Solidarity Since the end of the Second World War Australian Governments have placed restrictions on the right to strike and have attempted to defeat worker solidarity. After the war, left-led unions prepared to fight for collective bargaining in preference to arbitration and conciliation courts. The weapon they used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wpos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1739482&amp;post=27&amp;subd=wpos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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