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WORKERS at frozen food giant McCain in Tasmania, Australia, are celebrating a win as the company’s union-busting tactics have been declared illegal.
The Australian Fair Work Commission has ruled that McCain had acted illegally in locking out members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) twice in two weeks — even before they had begun taking industrial action, reversing a previous ruling.
Workers at McCain Foods in Smithton, north-west Tasmania are campaigning for improved pay and conditions.
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
This is a remarkable set of hop hip, salsa, reggae, soul, cumbia and traditional Mexican music finds TONY BURKE
New releases from Madalitso Band, Gabriel da Rosa, and Femi Kuti
