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Fight the TAFE cuts - Support the education unions and members
2012 - May - 10Posted Thursday 10 May 2012
Save TAFE Rally - a big success
Today, outside Premier Baillieu's office at 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne nearly 2000 TAFE teachers, staff and community supporters rallied in defence of the public TAFE system and against the proposed $300 million cuts....read more -
Fight the TAFE cuts - Support the education unions and members
2012 - May - 04Posted Friday 4 May 2012 - R A L L Y
Thursday May 10, 2012
12.30 - 1.30 pm
1 Treasury Place, Melbourne
Outside Premier Baillieu's office
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2012 Victorian State Budget
2012 - May - 02Posted 2 May 2012
Baillieu’s ‘May Day’ Victorian Budget not good news for working Victorians
by Brian Boyd VTHC Secretary Yesterday VTHC Officers and staff showed the union movement’s general opposition to the second Baillieu Victorian State budget, by protesting outside the State Parliament as Treasurer Kim Wells tabled his documents....read more -
May Day 2012
2012 - Apr - 27Posted Friday 27 April 2012
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Workers Memorial Day - Friday 27 April 2012
2012 - Apr - 26Reposted: Thursday 26 April 2012
Friday 27 April 2012 (for 28 April)
WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY
MOURNING THE DEAD AND FIGHTING FOR THE LIVING
At the 'Remembrance Rock'
Corner Victoria and Lygon Streets
Carlton South...read more -
Protest to Defend Penalty Rates
2012 - Apr - 18Posted: 9.45 am 18 April 2012
Saturday 5 May
11:00 am
ANZ Corner
Collins and Elizabeth Streets Melbourne CBD
Some of Australia’s biggest banks are lobbying to get rid of penalty pay rates on Saturdays and Sundays. They propose to pay workers no compensation for giving up time for family, friends and leisure....read more -
VTHC Labour Day Dinner a Success
2012 - Apr - 17Posted: 17 April 2012
Proceedings were opened by the VTHC Secretary Brian Boyd. He welcomed everyone to the 156th anniversary of Labour Day in Victoria.
He specifically gave a special welcome to Senator Gavin Marshall and his electoral team. In addition he also welcomed Victorian ALP Opposition State MP’s - Anthony Carbines, Lily D’Ambrosio, Jane Garrett, Danielle Green, Bronwyn Halfpenny, Jill Hennessy, Sharon Knight, Tim Pallas, Johan Scheffer, Lee Tarlamis, Brian Tee and Gayle Tierney....read more -
Workers Memorial Day
2012 - Apr - 13WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY
Friday 27 April 2012 (for 28 April) INVITATION TO ALL HEALTH AND SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES AND DELEGATES
WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY MOURNING THE DEAD AND FIGHTING FOR THE LIVING
At the ‘Remembrance Rock’
Corner Victoria and Lygon Streets
Carlton South...read more -
Labour Day - Eight Hour Day - Victoria
2012 - Apr - 04Posted 4 April 2012 - 12pm
By Brian Boyd, VTHC Secretary
Back on the 21st April 1856 a worldwide achievement of the labour movement occurred in Melbourne. The ‘eight hour day’ was won by stonemasons working on projects at Melbourne University Parkville and the Victorian Colonial Parliament House in Spring Street, on the city’s edge....read more -
Posted 3 pm Friday 30 March 2012
2012 - Mar - 30WORKCOVER RALLY SUCCESS
Yesterday around 500 shop stewards and OHS delegates from nearly 20 unions, protested on the steps of Victorian Parliament against the Baillieu government’s plans to steal $471 million from WorkSafe....read more -
Unions Rally Against Baillieu Cash Grab Against WorkSafe
2012 - Mar - 28Posted: Wednesday 28 March 2012 11.00 am
Tomorrow Victorian unions will rally on the Parliament House steps at 12 Noon to protest legislation before the parliament that will allow the Baillieu Government to steal $471 million from the Victorian WorkCover Authority. VTHC Secretary Brian Boyd said today: "Other community and legal groups will join rank and file workers to tell the government their cash grab against WorkSafe is not on....read more -
N.U.W. Launches Important Poultry Industry Discussion Paper
2012 - Mar - 27Tuesday 27 March 2012
Today VTHC Officers Brian Boyd and Luke Hilakari attended a launch of the NUW’s “Better Jobs 4 Better Chicken” campaign. NUW National Secretary Charlie Donnelly, NUW Victorian Secretary Tim Kennedy, along with nearly 40 rank and file workers from the poultry industry, released a Discussion Paper aimed at getting a better deal for both consumers and industry workers. Extracts from the Discussion Paper: "Indirect employment in the Poultry industry – including cash-in-hand, contract, labour hire and casual work – threatens the health of Australian families....read more -
WorkCover Rally Rescheduled to Thursday 29 March 2012
2012 - Mar - 23Posted: Friday 23 March 2012 10.00 am...read more
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Consultations for a National Anti-Racism Strategy
2012 - Mar - 22Posted: Thursday 22 March 2012, 2 pm.
The Australian Human Rights Commission and its partner agencies are holding public consultations around Australia over the next few months as part of the developing the National Anti-Racism Strategy. The aim of the Strategy is to promote a clear understanding in the Australian community of what racism is and how it can be prevented and reduced. The Australian Government committed to developing a National Anti-Racism Strategy as part of Australia’s multicultural policy, The People of Australia. It is anticipated that the Strategy will be launched in July 2012 and implemented between 2012 and 2015....read more -
WorkCover Rally 12 noon Tuesday 27 March 2012
2012 - Mar - 22Posted: Thursday 22 March 2012, 9.45 am...read more
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Posted: Tuesday 20 March 2012, 2 pm
2012 - Mar - 20STOP BAILLIEU GOVERNMENT'S "MONEY GRAB" FROM WORKSAFE
The legislation to allow $471 million to be taken out of the Victorian WorkCover Authority is proceeding through the Victorian Parliament. Please support:
PROTEST RALLY
12 noon
Tuesday 27th March 2012
Steps of the Victorian Parliament
Spring Street
Melbourne
Demand WorkSafe Money for OHS not State Budget 'Black Hole'...read more -
Thursday 15 March 2012
2012 - Mar - 15STOP BAILLIEU GOVERNMENT'S "MONEY GRAB" FROM WORKSAFE
The legislation to allow $471 million to be taken out of the Victorian WorkCover Authority is proceeding with haste, through the Victorian Parliament. Please support: PROTEST RALLY
12 noon
Tuesday 27th March 2012
Steps of the Victorian Parliament
Spring Street
Melbourne Demand WorkSafe Money for OHS not State Budget ‘Black Hole’....read more -
HACSU STATEWIDE STOP WORK MEETING AND RALLY
2012 - Mar - 099th March 2012
For 1 pm assemble Trades Hall steps and march through City
(All unions and activists welcome)...read more -
Victorian Nurses demand negotiations now
2012 - Mar - 05Monday 5 March 2012
By Brian Boyd, VTHC Secretary
Public support for Victorian nurses during their long drawn out EBA dispute has always been high. However as the trickery and game playing of the Victorian Baillieu government becomes more and more exposed, that support is increasing daily. Nurses rallying outside Victorian hospitals are experiencing high expressions of support; hand waves out of car windows, car horns blaring and yells of “good on ya” are common place. Even patients are willing to step outside and stand next to their nurses....read more -
Victorian Nurses mass rally today – ANF fight for fair EBA continues.
2012 - Feb - 2222 Feburary 2012
Public sector nurses, midwives and mental health nurses from across Victoria’s public health system will leave safe night duty staffing levels to attend a stop work meeting today to discuss the progress of their enterprise bargaining negotiations since they last met on 16 December 2011. These negotiations determine pay, conditions and staffing levels as well as who will provide nursing, midwifery and mental health nursing care to patients in public health services. This meeting will determine the campaign’s next stage....read more -
Hands Off WorkCover Mr Baillieu
2012 - Feb - 1313 February 2012
The AWU is pulling out all stops to prevent the Baillieu Government raiding WorkCover funds and compromising safety for Victorian workers.
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Education - Clara Weekes Project - Schools visits
2012 - Feb - 099 February 2012
The Clara Weekes Project aims to educate students about their rights at work and about the values of unionism. The program is named in honour of Clara Weekes, a teacher born in 1855 who was Secretary and President of the Victorian Lady Teachers’ Association for a period of over 20 years, working to improve the conditions of women teachers. Clara Weekes went on to be involved in the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Temperance Union.
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Conservatives try to ‘brow- beat’ working- class voters as job losses escalate
2012 - Feb - 099 February 2012
It’s on again. The conservative political parties, led by the Liberals, are out there trying to snow the working people of Australia....read more -
Baillieu's health lottery: bed audit reveals Government forcing hospital cost cutting 1516 public hospital beds closed during December and January
2012 - Feb - 099th February 2012
The Baillieu Government had more than one and a half thousand public hospital beds closed across Victoria between 23 December 2011 and 25 January 2012. The figure is more than double the number of beds nurses closed during the peak of their industrial action between 12 and 26 November 2011. The beds, closed for all or part of the period between 23 December 2011 and 25 January 2012, included intensive care beds, paediatric beds, surgical beds, coronary care beds and sub-acute beds....read more -
VTHC Says Fair Work Australia's Decision Today on Equal Pay for Equal Work is Historic
2012 - Feb - 011 February 2012
The Victorian Trades Hall Council said that the Fair Work Australia ruling today justifies the decades long union campaign to win equal pay for equal work....read more -
Employers hammer away for 'more restrictions'
2012 - Jan - 1717 January 2011
by Brian Boyd
VTHC Secretary
We started 2012 with where the employer associations and conservative politicians left us at the end of 2011. They are continuing to bang on about how some elements of the organised workforce have found various ways to protect hard won gains and even add some modest wage increases and a few job security undertakings,
via the Fair Work Act. I emphasise some unions, because in fact the Fair Work Act continues to throw up many difficulties for unions overall. Last year’s Qantas dispute is unfinished business for some unions; the ANF-Victorian Branch is fighting on into this year for a just and fair EBA outcome, as is the CPSU/SPSF-Victoria, HACSU and others who have to negotiate with the Baillieu Government....read more
