The continuing global economic crisis is starting to have a greater impact in Australia with a recent rise in the unemployment rate. As with many other governments around the world, the Australian government has embarked on a strategy of austerity that will impact on workers the hardest. In a familiar global pattern, the Australian government is embarking on a program of slashing social welfare, public education and health, lowering taxes and charges for businesses, while attacking the rights of workers to organise. In response, the Australian Confederation of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for a national Day of Action on the 4th of March.
The continuing global economic crisis is starting to have a greater impact in Australia with a recent rise in the unemployment rate. As with many other governments around the world, the Australian government has embarked on a strategy of austerity that will impact on workers the hardest. In a familiar global pattern, the Australian government is embarking on a program of slashing social welfare, public education and health, lowering taxes and charges for businesses, while attacking the rights of workers to organise. In response, the Australian Confederation of Trade Unions (ACTU) has called for a national Day of Action on the 4th of March.
