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The purpose of such a meeting would be to: We will publish more on this soon. |
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Migrants from Burma left their country as refugees. They are being pressured by the Thai government to submit their details, return to Burma to complete verification and then supposedly return to work "legally" in Thailand with temporary Burmese passports. This is a policy of mass deportation of Burmese refugee workers to put them at the mercy of the military government in Burma, which has a terrible record of oppression and murder. |
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We writing a joint May Day message together with comrades around the world To help with this we have a May Day survey
It takes three minutes to complete. Click here to fill in the survey The proposed statement will be in the next mini news
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Workers at Xstrata coal mine in New South Wales, Australia have been locked out in a bitter dispute over sackings but they are determined to keep fighting until Xstrata managers sit down with unions and negotiate a fair agreement. |
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Come to hear a report from CFMEU unionists who have returned from a solidarity visit to help the Alyawarr community build a new community house. Monday 1 March at 6:30 pm CFMEU Construction National Secretary Dave Noonan said that the union was more than willing to do what they can to lend a hand to communities in need. “Our members are proud to pitch in and do what they can to help,” Dave Noonan said. “The community asked for assistance from the union to help tackle some of their housing needs, so that’s what we’re doing.” |
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Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 6 pm Elections for Executive All are welcome. Only AAWL members and affliates may vote |
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Mostly they come from India. In small home-based workshops workers, including children, are paid just 17 to 33 US cents an hour to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: Squatting in front of primitive grinding wheels, using their fingers to press agate and other semi-precious stones against the wheels to shape them. In the process they are covered with silica dust. Thousands of men, women and children in India have died miserable deaths due to silicosis, while polishing gemstones for export to the US. |
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AAWL will join workers all around the world on the 1st of May to celebrate May Day. AAWL would like to write a joint May Day message together with comrades around the world, suitable for presentation at workers' rallies and meetings on 1 May 2010. We would like the joint May Day message to be able to be published with the names of the endorsing organisations. A number of unions and organisations have informed us that they would like to participate, so we have prepared this survey to help us in preparing a draft statement. Please fill in the survey, or contact us at mayday@aawl.org.au We will circulate an initial draft at the end of February 2010. |
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