Live News Feed: South Coast Labour Council
Chilis Workers - Tip of the Iceberg
The Federal Workplace Ombudsmen’s announcement today that the owners of Chilis Restaurant will be prosecuted for alleged breaches of Industrial Relations laws is just scratching the surface of the exploitation of young workers that has been made possible by the Federal Government’s IR laws according to the South Coast Labour Council.
03 August 2007 [Read More]
SCLC Urges Skills Policy Overhaul
The South Coast Labour Council will launch a discussion paper today urging a fundamental overhaul to the funding and implementation of Apprenticeship and Traineeship programs which, if implemented, would result in a massive increase in training and job opportunities particularly for young workers.
14 February 2007 [Read More]
Jervis Bay – Howard’s First Reactor
The South Coast Labour Council today warned that the Federal Government had only one real option for a nuclear reactor site on the eastern seaboard, after the States ruled themselves out – Commonwealth territory at Jervis Bay.
23 November 2006 [Read More]
Iemma's Credibility On the Line
Revelations in the media that the tender process for rescue helicopter contracts in NSW do not allow regional bids have angered the South Coast Labour Council, labeling the exercise a sham and a disgraceful act, calling on the Premier to make good his assurance to the people of the Illawarra and South Coast that the community will be able to tender for our region in an open and fair exercise.
13 October 2006 [Read More]
Summit Targets Manufacturing
A manufacturing and related industries summit held yesterday in Wollongong brought together a range of idustry leaders, unions, experts and other stakeholders and resolved to form a regional body to promote and develop the manufacturing industry in the Illawarra.
05 September 2006 [Read More]
Fair Pay Farce Hits Wollongong
The Australian Fair Pay Commission hearing in Wollongong last night turned into farce when none of the 5 Commissioners turned up to hear the submissions of the people of the Illawarra and South Coast.
18 August 2006 [Read More]
Steel Boss Blasts FTA with China
Comments in this Weekend's Australian newspaper attributed to Bluescope Steel boss Kirby Adams, blasting the Federal Government's stance on a proposed Free Trade Agreement with China have been welcomed by the South Coast Labour Council.
16 July 2006 [Read More]
Bluescope Job Cuts - Summit Called
The South Coast Labour Council on behalf of affiliated steel industry unions calls on all stakeholders in the region’s steel and related industries to participate in an urgent summit addressing the impact of the decision by Bluescope to shut its tin mill operations in Port Kembla and to address the future for this industry in the Illawarra.
30 June 2006 [Read More]
Hundreds Rally Against PM in Nowra
The Prime Minister John Howard was met by around 200 Shoalhaven protesters this morning demanding that his government abandon its anti worker laws or the people of Shoalhaven will abandon his government.
24 April 2006 [Read More]
SCLC Goes Online
The South Coast Labour Council has launched its web site today as it moves to top gear in the campaign against the Federal Government’s radical and oppressive workplace laws.
22 March 2006 [Read More]
10,000 March in 'Gong - Largest Ever
Yesterday’s meeting of working people in Wollongong constituted the largest protest ever held in the city with the overall South Coast tally standing at over 15,000 for the national day of community protest.
16 November 2005 [Read More]
Unions Welcome Bluescope IR Concerns
The South Coast Labour Council has welcomed comments in today’s Australian newspaper by Bluescope Steel voicing concerns over the Federal Government’s proposals to abolish the existing NSW state system of industrial relations and to replace it with a unitary national system.
17 June 2005 [Read More]
Unions Back Walters Contractors
The Disputes Committee of the South Coast Labour Council today endorsed bans imposed by contractors on the completion of work at the Sydney Water project in Wollongong in the wake of the Walters collapse.
16 February 2005 [Read More]
Rail Cuts Hit Shoalhaven Hard
A survey of the Shoalhaven community including Nowra and Kiama, has found that 78% of commuters believe that the recent timetable changes including the replacement of late night services with busses has made traveling ‘less convenient’ and will reduce their ability to access basic services.
20 October 2004 [Read More]
'Gong Skill Shortage - No Surpise
The South Coast Labour Council claimed today that the skill shortages faced by many sectors of the regional economy were not really surprising given the short term attitude many employers, both public and private have toward skill formation and retention.
19 August 2004 [Read More]
Vale Bill Whiley
It is with great sadness that the Miners Union announces the death of outstanding
trade union and community activist Bill Whiley who died last night aged 76,
after a brave battle with the asbestos related disease, mesothelioma.
06 August 2004 [Read More]
New Medical/Rescue Deal for Gong
A meeting of Combined Union Delegates last night in Wollongong resolved unanimously to endorse the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ambulance Service of NSW and Illawarra Health regarding the use of Emergency Department (ED) doctors from Wollongong Hospital for ‘out of hospital’ emergencies including industrial accidents.
10 June 2004 [Read More]
Sth Coast Considers District Strike
A meeting of combined unions district delegates in Wollongong last night voted unanimously to consider district wide industrial action in the Illawarra if the NSW government did not progress demands for a local medical retrieval unit within 14 days.
20 April 2004 [Read More]
Economic Policy For the Workers?
The South Coast Labour Council will be releasing a discussion paper next week entitled "Rethinking Australia's Economic Policy" which seeks to challenge the orthodoxy of economic thought that dominates the approach of both major political parties in this country.
06 June 2003 [Read More]
Fix Medicare? Raise the Levy
The South Coast Labour Council has called for an increase to the Medicare levy to be considered as an alternative to the proposed medicare changes.
01 May 2003 [Read More]
5000 March in Wollongong Againt War
An estimated 5000 people marched through the streets of Wollongong on Saturday 8 February to demonstrate their opposition to war against Iraq and Australian involvement.
09 February 2003 [Read More]
Wollongong No War Rally Sat Feb 8
A broad coalition of opposition to war against Iraq has emerged on the South Coast with union, business, church, political and other community leaders joining forces to pledge resistance to any Australian involvement.
06 February 2003 [Read More]
Vale Peggy Errey
Peggy Errey, one of the South Coast’s most loved and respected unionists passed away on the weekend after a lengthy illness.
02 December 2002 [Read More]
Wollongong Jobless Rate a Disgrace –
South Coast Labour Council Secretary, Arthur Rorris, has labeled Wollongong’s official jobless rate of more than 10% a disgrace and has demanded an action plan from all levels of government to address this issue.
18 November 2002 [Read More]
Battlers Vs The Banks
The Illawarra Mutual Building Society Annual General Meeting in Wollongong tomorrow will be the scene of an interesting battle, between the community and IMB workers on the one hand and IMB Management and Directors on the other.
24 September 2002 [Read More]
Unions Demands that BHP Come Clean
The South Coast Labour Council affiliates meeting last night resolved to call a combined unions district delegates meeting for 5.30pm September 12, 2002 to discuss BHP’s attacks on their workers and their unions. The meeting was informed that BHP in the NSW IRC refused to rule out legal action against individuals despite making statements to the media earlier that they would not do so.
29 August 2002 [Read More]
W’Gong and Hunter Unite for Jobs
The South Coast Labour Council and Newcastle Trades Hall Council representing more than a hundred thousand workers in regional NSW have joined forces to organise a regional jobs summit. The summit, to be held in September was the result of a meeting between the two council secretaries in June and has now been endorsed by both peak councils. The full text of the joint resolution is attached.
02 July 2002 [Read More]
Ruddock Responsible for Slave Labour
The South Coast Labour Council has called for the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to stop passing the buck and accept responsibility for the slave labour scam operating at a Hindu Temple in Helensburgh, north of Wollongong.
27 February 2001 [Read More]
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