A case study on how casual workers at the University of Melbourne in Australia got organised and won back $45 million in Stolen Wages. Read about the campaign highlights and the lessons learned.
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Unions
In Australia, Fitness Workers Are Organizing
Learn about a union campaign by casual fitness workers who organised in Australia to push for better pay and work conditions.
Jane McAlevey: Organizer Extraordinaire
A guide to Jane McAlevey’s work including key takeaways and a plethora of links to books, articles, videos, podcasts, workshops and more.
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.
Jean Young, Kath Williams and the Fight for Equal Pay
Read an excerpt from the book Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia about the fight for equal pay.
How to Organise about Climate Related Workplace Health and Safety Issues
Resources produced and compiled by the Australian Services Union for workers organising around climate change and extreme weather related workplace health & safety.
Labor Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack
The 2023 book Labour Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in which he argues for the importance of ‘strategic workplace organising’
Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74
A timeline of the Green Bans implemented by NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in the early 1970s.
Every Worker in Australia: A Race Class Narrative
This guide offers a blueprint for building and sustaining the collective power needed for workplace and electoral wins.
Revolution Is For Us: Gay Liberation, Unions and the Left in the 1970s
Two pivotal events that set the platform for contemporary campaigning by Australian LGBTQI+ movements: union bans and 1978 Mardi Gras protest.
Organising! A Remedy for Despair: How Workers at the University of Melbourne won back $45 million in Stolen Wages
A case study on how casual workers at the University of Melbourne in Australia got organised and won back $45 million in Stolen Wages. Read about the campaign highlights and the lessons learned.
In Australia, Fitness Workers Are Organizing
Learn about a union campaign by casual fitness workers who organised in Australia to push for better pay and work conditions.
Jane McAlevey: Organizer Extraordinaire
A guide to Jane McAlevey’s work including key takeaways and a plethora of links to books, articles, videos, podcasts, workshops and more.
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.
Jean Young, Kath Williams and the Fight for Equal Pay
Read an excerpt from the book Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia about the fight for equal pay.
How to Organise about Climate Related Workplace Health and Safety Issues
Resources produced and compiled by the Australian Services Union for workers organising around climate change and extreme weather related workplace health & safety.
Labor Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack
The 2023 book Labour Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in which he argues for the importance of ‘strategic workplace organising’
Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74
A timeline of the Green Bans implemented by NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in the early 1970s.
Every Worker in Australia: A Race Class Narrative
This guide offers a blueprint for building and sustaining the collective power needed for workplace and electoral wins.
Revolution Is For Us: Gay Liberation, Unions and the Left in the 1970s
Two pivotal events that set the platform for contemporary campaigning by Australian LGBTQI+ movements: union bans and 1978 Mardi Gras protest.