cfmeu.net.au/news/ News feed from Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union - National. en-gb Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:02:00 EST Copyright: (C) Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union - National, see cfmeu.net.au/site/pages/ for terms and conditions of reuse 15 The Gillard Labor Government?s Protecting Workers? Entitlements package will provide the strongest protection of employee entitlements Australian workers have ever had. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3565.html Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:56:00 EST One of the fears you hear in the debate over asylum seekers is that Australia is being flooded by refugees. Well, fear not. Australia is being flooded by new arrivals - but they're not refugees. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3556.html Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:46:00 EST AUSTRALIA should reduce its need for skilled migrants by boosting its home-grown skilled workforce, Employment Minister Simon Crean says. The more effective it was in developing a skills agenda, the less it would need to rely on people from overseas, he said. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3553.html Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:31:00 EST The new Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRTT) deal announced this morning by the Gillard Government has been welcomed by our Union as a significant gain for the Australian people and our mining communities. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3552.html Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:46:00 EST In the heated, protracted battle over the Australian Building and Construction Commission, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. When I first looked at the law that underpins the commission, I expected many of the strongest attacks to be wildly overstated. I was wrong. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3551.html Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:30:00 EST GURINDJI member Peter Inverway grew up hearing his stockman father's tales of once having been paid in rations, never dreaming he might one day know the same indignity. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3544.html Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:53:00 EST Not surprisingly, with the stakes so high, truth has been cast aside. The ever more hysterical arguments from industry spokesmen are so intellectually bankrupt, so bereft of reason, they defy description. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3538.html Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:02:00 EST The pay decision from Fair Work Australia for 1.4 million award-dependent workers breaks the drought after a wage freeze of almost two years under the Howard Government?s wage-setting tribunal. The $26 a week minimum wage rise will help working families meet increases in the cost of living after having been left behind under WorkChoices. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3537.html Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:19:00 EST Mine workers in the Hunter Valley have endorsed the Resource Super Profit Tax and launched a campaign for greater investment in social and community infrastructure for mining regions. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3535.html Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:40:00 EST The CFMEU stands with the people of Gaza and the international community in condemning the unprovoked and cowardly Israeli commando attack on the Freedom Flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people in the blockaded Gaza. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3525.html Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:16:00 EST A car filled with drums of petrol is driven at high speed into an office building, setting it on fire. By sheer luck there is no loss of life. It is a scene reminiscent of a Baghdad bombing. But this is not Iraq, it is Sydney and the offices belong to the NSW branch of the CFMEU. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3522.html Tue, 25 May 2010 10:50:00 EST In a press conference on Monday 17th May, NSW CFMEU Branch secretary Andrew Ferguson stated in the strongest possible terms that the CFMEU would not be threatened or intimidated despite the violent firebomb attack on the union's Lidcombe office on Thursday last. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3519.html Wed, 19 May 2010 09:23:00 EST THE proportion of workers in a union rose last year, bucking a long-term trend that had seen involvement in organised labour drop to historically low levels. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3512.html Fri, 14 May 2010 09:44:00 EST As western countries have outlawed asbestos, the industry has turned its focus to the developing world. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3505.html Mon, 10 May 2010 16:32:00 EST The key question is how we extract our dividend and what we do with it. The Howard government largely squandered the dividends it received from the earlier phase of the mining boom. The Rudd government doesn't intend to make the same mistake. The proceeds of the resource super profits tax are dedicated to lifting wealth creation across the economy, overwhelmingly through reductions in other taxes. cfmeu.net.au/news/rss.xml cfmeu.net.au/news/3504.html Thu, 06 May 2010 16:07:00 EST