By Mark Bahnisch on March 12, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin has witnessed a series of very large and sustained protests against a bill supported by Republican Governor Scott Walker which would strip public sector unions of collective bargaining rights and do all sorts of other nasty things to [...]
Posted in Activism, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged collective bargaining, unions, wisconsin |
By Kim on January 6, 2011
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged 1980 cabinet papers, Fair Work Australia, ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, labour market, propaganda, resources boom, unions, wages breakout, workplace relations |
By Kim on July 29, 2010
… Now Robert Gottliebsen at Business Spectator has one. The thrust of this allegation is that Julia Gillard produced a very business friendly draft of the Fair Work Act, and Greg Combet and Kevin Rudd intervened to make it more [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business spectator, fair work act, Federal Election 2010, Greg Combet, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leaks, Robert Gottliebsen, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2010
One aspect of the calls to sort the RSPT out in order to give the government ‘clear air’ (which I think emanate more from the journosphere than from Labor MPs, with the probable exception of Gary Gray) is that there’s [...]
Posted in Advertising, Economics, Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, AWU, campaign, CFMEU, chris lloyd, Federal Election 2010, Gary Gray, Jim Turnour, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Leichardt, media narrative, mining industry, mining seats, Queensland, rspt, Rudd government, stephen long, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 18, 2010
Apropos of the AWU’s Resources Super Profits Tax ad [reproduced here on LP], Peter Van Onselen has written a piece in today’s Australian warning Paul Howes of the dire consequences should he engage in that cardinal sin, appearing to advocate [...]
Posted in Advertising, History, Language, Media, Politics | Tagged ACTU, Advertising, Bill Kelty, class politics, class warfare, labour movement, Media, mining industry, Paul Howes, Peter Van Onselen, political discourse, political rhetoric, reform, rspt, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 1, 2010
As already documented on LP, Kevin Rudd occupied himself this week by performing perhaps the most spectacular policy backflip imaginable, the sidelining of the CPRS. Or perhaps unimaginable, because I suspect very few people saw this coming. Rudd’s climate change [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, backflip, class cleavages, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, martin ferguson, May Day, paul norton, political culture, political sociology, reform, reversal, social democracy, Tanya Plibersek, The Greens, Tony Abbott, unions |
By Kim on April 12, 2010
Sheesh, election years can be depressing some times. If it’s not having the green lycra clad form of Action Man Abbott on the tv screen for 9 days in a row, or craven policy reversals on brown people in boats, [...]
Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Arkansas, asylum seekers, Bill Clinton, Julia Gillard, labor party, myschool, NAPLAN, national tests, New Labour, parents, school education, strikebreakers, teachers unions, Tony Abbott, triangulation, unions, wedge politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
I’m speaking at a forum organised by the Search Foundation on Saturday: Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push. There’s a great line up of speakers, including Professor John Quiggin, Peter Simpson of the Queensland ETU and Dr Patricia Ranald [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, Markets, Notices, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Activism, ALP, Anna Bligh, breaking the addiction, Brisbane Workers Community Centre, BWCC, campaign, challenging Bligh's privatisation push, ETU, event, forum, ideology, John Quiggin, neo-liberalism, notice, Patricia Ranald, Peter Simpson, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland rail, search foundation, unions |
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