October 2007 |
SA CFMEU members campaign for better treatment of mesothelioma sufferers 04 October 2007 CFMEU members in Adelaide have joined the campaign to provide better treatment for mesothelioma sufferers. South Australian members are demanding the Howard Government lists chemotherapy drug Alimta on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. |
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February 2007 |
SA construction workers to vote on strike action 08 February 2007 The first strike ballot for the construction industry in South Australia was authorised late yesterday by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. |
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October 2003 |
SA rally against anti-union legislation 22 October 2003 The federal government’s blatantly anti-union legislation targeting the construction industry will be focus of a protest rally in Adelaide tomorrow, Thursday 23rd October, with CFMEU National Secretary John Sutton giving the keynote address.
The most unsafe industry in Australia is set to become even more dangerous, if the proposed federal government laws become a reality.
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May 2003 |
THE TRUTH WINS! 02 May 2003 “Today, unions finally received a measure of justice, and the federal government’s unfair crusade via the Cole Royal Commission has been exposed.”
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October 2002 |
SA building industry to stop work 23 October 2002 Construction workers across Adelaide will stop work tomorrow to attend a rally at Richmond Oval at 11.00am.
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September 2002 |
Workers complaints about industry rorts ignored by Commission. 09 September 2002 The Building Industry Royal Commission is expected to again ignore evidence of serious, and often life threatening safety concerns by building workers when it sits for three days from Monday in Adelaide at the Supreme Court of South Australia, Victoria Square. |
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April 2002 |
Young worker killed on SA site 11 April 2002 The CFMEU expresses its deepest sympathies to the family and work-mates of Lee Alexander who suffered severe injuries yesterday in a workplace accident on the Baulderstone Hornibrook project at Glenelg and subsequently died from those injuries.
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July 2001 |
Union calls for government intervention over asbestos clean-up 06 July 2001
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April 2001 |
The Olsen Government must resign and a new government must nationalise the power industry 27 April 2001 It is hardly suprising that AGL’s electricity contracts have been accepted by businesses when they have no other choice stated Martin O’Malley, CFMEU State Secretary and President of the UTLC, responding to an article in the Advertiser (25/4/2001). |
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International Day of Mourning: poem read by SA worker suffering from asbestosis 27 April 2001
The following poem was read by a South Australian worker at the Workers’ Memorial in Adelaide today, as part of the commemorative ceremony for the International Day of Mourning 2001. |
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March 2001 |
UTLC elects CFMEU Secretary as its new President 26 March 2001 South Australia’s leading trade union body, the United Trades and Labor Councilc (UTLC) has elected Martin O’Malley as its President for 2001-2002.
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‘On your bike Minister!’ 08 March 2001 SA construction workers will hold a rally in Adelaide today (March 8) to demand that the State Government take immediate practical measures to improve safety in the workplace.
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January 2001 |
Union demands SA Gov’t invest in Workplace Safety 24 January 2001 The South Australian Branch of the CFMEU is calling on the State Government to put more resources into Workplace Services following the deaths of two workers on building sites within one week.
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