The Carmichael Centre is co-sponsoring an event with RMIT BHRIGHT on the future of just transition & industrial policy in Australia.
The event features Prof. Emer. Roy Green (UTS), Prof. Phil Toner (USyd), & Dr Gemma Beale (AMWU)
Register in-person & online:
events.humanitix.com/the-future-o...
And Laurie was central to the campaign for shorter working hours that led to the introduction of the 38 hour week - he argued that workers had a right to enjoy the benefits their productivity and hard work created, not just their employers.
Laurie Carmichael actively practiced the politics of worker solidarity - you may have heard of the massive Moratorium March against the war on Viet Nam in 1970 - that came from many years of hard and patient organising work to build a movement against the war, Laurie was there through that hard slog
I didn't realise it was the centenary of Laurie's birth today - a remarkable unionist who shaped modern Australia. Laurie spent a lifetime of leadership with the AMWU and then the ACTU; among other things theorising union responses to automation in the 1970s @australianunions.bsky.social
Today is the 100th birthday anniversary of Laurie Carmichael, the legendary manufacturing trade unionist for whom our centre is named.
Read about Laurie's life and work on our website www.carmichaelcentre.org.au/about_laurie...
Australian workers have so much to gain from the renewable energy transition, but the Coalition’s nuclear plan only brings false promises, lost jobs, and scarce and dangerous work.
Read the new Carmichael Centre Commentary by @cdwjoyce.bsky.social:
www.carmichaelcentre.org.au/nuclear_cost...
Economist: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the wages explosion.”
Economist: “There was no wages explosion.”
Sherlock Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”
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