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1971 strike by seven rugby players against playing in the Australian national team during the Apartheid-era tour by the all-white South African Springboks. [8] 1973 ABC strike, strike by women script assistants at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [9] [10] 1973 Broadmeadows Ford strike, strike at the Broadmeadows Assembly Plant. [11] [12 ...
Shearers' Strike Manifesto, 1891. The 1891 shearers' strike is credited as being one of the factors for the formation of the Australian Labor Party. On the 9 September 1892 the Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party was read out under the well known Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine following the Great Shearers' Strike. [4] The State Library of ...
The most famous incident during the strike was the burning and sinking of the steamer Rodney, which was transporting non-union labour up the Darling River. When the boat was moored in a swamp 23 miles (37 km) above Pooncarie , a few miles above the Moorara shearing shed , unionists boarded, took control, offloaded all passengers, then soaked ...
The defeat of the great 1891 shearers' strike and the 1890 Maritime strike led the AWU to reject direct action, and it has been a force for moderation in the Australian union movement ever since. It was a firm opponent of the Industrial Workers of the World , the Communist Party of Australia , NSW Premier Jack Lang and other radical forces in ...
The Wide Comb dispute was a landmark Australian industrial dispute. Australian sheep shearers, represented by the Australian Workers' Union, opposed the alteration of the Federal Pastoral Industry Award to allow the use of shearing equipment that used combs wider than 2.5 inches. [1]
The 1929 Australian timber workers' strike was the first large strike during the depression when Justice Lukin handed down a new timber industry award that increased the working week from 44 to 48 hours and reduced wages. During the strike Lukin ordered a secret ballot to be held which was the first attempt to enforce a secret ballot in an ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
A strike camp at Hughenden, 1891. The Queensland Shearers Union was one of the first Australian unions, founded in the latter half of the nineteenth century.The union was instrumental in the development of the 1891 Australian shearers' strike, seen today as a key development in the Australian labour movement.