Strikes and lockouts- Commons Library

Workers Rights Hub: Start Here

The Workers Rights Hub contains a wide range of resources to support people engaged in organising, campaigning and narrative change for economic justice, labor rights and the future of work.

Bargaining for the Common Good

Resources for union leaders, community organisations, and researchers on how you can join together and bargain for the common good from the Bargaining for the Common Good Network.

Cesar Chavez on march from Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers. One man is carrying a flag. Title reads 'Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields".

Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields: Documentary about the Farm Workers Movement

Watch this documentary about César Chávez and his efforts to organise farm workers in the central valley of California, United States.

Title reads 'Noncooperation'. Icon of two hands held out in a X formation. Top half yellow circle reads 'Tactic'.

Tactics: Noncooperation

What is noncooperation? Here is a collection of resources curated by the Commons librarians about what noncooperation is, how to do noncooperation and examples from around the world.

paper cut of a red triangle pointing to a cut out of australia|black and white photo of women protesting|black and white photo of men protesting during The Depression|In 1971

People’s History of Australia Podcast

People’s History of Australia-podcast and blog looking at Australian history from the perspective of ordinary people fighting together for a better life.

Book cover reading United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia with an image of unionists marching.|Photo of union activist Louisa Dunkley|Three women working as domestic workers pose with a dog outside a mansion in the 1890s

Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.

Title reads 'Australia's History of Workers' Rights

Australia’s History of Workers’ Rights, Strikes and Campaigns

Learn about the history of Australian workers rights, strikes & campaigns from resources at the Australian Trade Union Institute ATUI Library.

Against Fascism and War: Pig Iron Bob and the Dalfram Dispute, Port Kembla 1938

The 1938 Dalfram dispute involved workers at Port Kembla in Australia striking and refusing to load iron on a ship bound for Japan in 1938.

A large group of men on strike sitting on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in front of one of the opera house sails. Some are wearing hard hats|A Group of people marching along street with arms linked in a rally.

How Workers Defeated Anti-Strike Laws in the 1970s

Read an excerpt from the book, Without Bosses: Radical Trade Unionism in the 1970s, about workers retaining the right to strike.

Strikers walking along a rocky beach next to the water holding signs. One reads Equal rights for all workers.|A group of about 15 men wearing hats posing for a photo and celebrating a win by holding their fits up in their air.

Defending Unionism: The Weipa Dispute, 1995

Learn how workers in Weipa forced a mining company to accommodate collective bargaining by combining strike action and a port blockade.

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