Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Franciscoβs major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers.
Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lose their jobs in the near future.
ABM has been a union company for decades, and many of the workers have been there for years. Olga Miranda, president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87, said: βTheyβve been working in the buildings downtown for 15, 20, some as many as 27 years.
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A new Sydney-based arts project is inviting artists to submit work that investigates a radical perspective.
The inaugural Live Red Art Awards will culminate in a festival and exhibition at the Addison Road Community Centre in October 17, 2010, and focus on interactive, multidisciplinary art that excites, engages and inspires audiences to imagine a different world.
An award of $3000 will be granted to the artist whose work best reflects the project's theme β βAnother world is possible, but we must fight for itβ. There will also be a people's choice award of $500.
On May 10, skilled trades members of the Electrical Trade Union (ETU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union from Geelong and Broadmeadows Ford plants held a 24-hour stoppage.
They were demanding better pay and conditions under their enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) and took their protest to the street.
Ford wants to freeze the wages of all fixed-term employees at the current (2008) level one entry rate ($986.65 a week).
The company did not verify the length of its proposed wage freeze.
Truth is stranger than fiction! What else can describe the extraordinary revelation by Fremantle Greens MP Adele Carles on April 25 of her four-month affair with Liberal Party MP and now ex-treasurer Troy Buswell, and her subsequent resignation from the Greens on May 6?
For some commentators in the corporate media, the pity of the whole thing is that Buswellβs βconsiderable talentsβ will go to waste and his potential to succeed Colin Barnett as premier has been undone by his bad judgment.
The tremendous success of the April 19-22 World Peoples Summit on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, has confirmed the well-deserved role of its initiator β Bolivian President Evo Morales β as one of the worldβs leading environmental advocates.
Since being elected the countryβs first indigenous president in 2005, Morales has continuously denounced the threat posed by the climate crisis and environmental destruction.
Morales has pointed the figure at the real cause of the problem: the consumerist and profit-driven capitalist system.
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