The minority Canberra Labor Government will freeze public service recruitment in response to an $85 million cut in GST revenue.

Most people would consider it fair that people working 10-hour days in 40-degree heat, away from their families for four weeks at a time, be treated like human beings. But not the parasites in the CEO boardrooms and parliament.

Miners at an Xstrata coalmine in Tahmoor, south-west of Sydney, have been on strike for three weeks.

When we are at work we lose almost all say over how we spend our time, how we look, how we behave and even when we can go to the toilet.

Abbot's desire to see workers in leg-irons shouldn't blind unions to the appalling industrial regime being run by the Labor government.

Following an eight-day strike, workers at Woodside Petroleum’s liquid natural gas processing plant near Karratha are being threatened with $22,000 fines.

Last December the corrupt and undemocratic practices of the student Labor factions at the National Union of Students conference in Ballarat led to the near abolition of our national union.

On January 28 the My School website was launched with great fanfare – but in the face of strident opposition from teacher and parent organisations.

Julia Gillard has told thousands of construction workers at Woodside Petroleum’s Pluto gas-processing plant to “get back to work”.

National Tertiary Education Union members at 16 universities across four states went on strike on 16 September. Entirely predictably, the union's membership increased in the run-up to the strike on every campus involved.

As the Rudd government's new anti-union laws came into operation on 1 July this year, the Australian Industry Group's Peter Nolan claimed that the bosses weren't too worried - "We don't expect to see any massive outbreak of industrial activity". Unfortunately, so far he's right.

The determination of the Rudd government to sink the boot into trade unions is indicative of a long term trend within the ALP - the sustained effort by a section of the party's parliamentarians to reduce the role of the trade unions in the party's affairs.

"Bullshit!", "Shame!", "One law for all!"... Delegates at the ACTU Congress in Brisbane had no intention of letting Julia Gillard get off lightly when she baited them about her Government's determination to enforce Labor's new IR laws that are little more than WorkChoices with a light makeover.