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NSW government orders nurses and midwives to stop organizing and striking, orders removal of strike information from social media. Union defies government, fined $130,000 for doing so. (regionriverina.com.au)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

government bans what you can say.

does Australia has any fee speech laws?

edit: not fixing my typo because it makes more sense this way

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Australia has implied freedom of expression, but there's actually a lot of laws regarding things you cannot say, mostly around being 'offensive'

    the Union Accords which came into effect in the 1990s made it functionally illegal for Unions to strike, they only time they're allowed is duing a Bargaining Agreement negotiation, and they need permission to do so

    a lot of our unions are also now huge amalgamations, so when for example construction workers strike, the forestry workers Union (the same union, CFMEU) cops a fine, and everyone gets mad at the workers struggling for better conditions

    there's huge anti Union sentiment here, less than %20 of person are in their Union, and a lot of what the struggle for is a bigger piece of capital's cake (especially because theyre not allowed to do secondary strikes in solidarity with other workers outside of their job site, so there's no strikes to support international workers)

    the colonies suck, but you gotta struggle where you are

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