{"id":389854,"date":"2018-12-20T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-union-leader-warns-of-eruption-of-working-class-struggle\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:23:31","slug":"australian-union-leader-warns-of-eruption-of-working-class-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australian-union-leader-warns-of-eruption-of-working-class-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Mike Head<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>This week\u2019s three-day Australian Labor Party national conference in Adelaide ended as it began, with anxious warnings that rising \u201canger and frustration\u201d in the working class could erupt out of the control of the party and its trade union partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trade union movement in our country is sounding an alarm,\u201d Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus told the conference at the start of her speech on Tuesday. \u201cWorking people are crying out for action on insecure work and crying out for fair pay rises.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageLeft\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/b43030e8-a5ce-4f17-bf5f-632b57a288aC\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/b43030e8-a5ce-4f17-bf5f-632b57a288aC\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span>Sally McManus<\/span><\/div>\n<p>McManus invoked the spectre of a literal tsunami of social unrest. \u201cThe trade union movement is an early warning sign of the tremors before the waves meet the coast,\u201d McManus pleaded. \u201cWe must take action now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union bureaucrats are well aware that millions of workers are outraged by soaring social inequality, falling real wages and the destruction of full-time jobs, accompanied by rising rates of casualisation and the ripping up of previously hard-won working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Discontent is building up among young workers, who are suffering the worst exploitation in what the corporate media dubs the new \u201cgig economy.\u201d Only half of 25-year-old workers have full-time work, despite 60 percent having tertiary education qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>McManus\u2019s prominent role at the conference, and the content of her presentation, pointed to how closely the party and union leaders are working together to try to suppress working class discontent and channel it behind the return of yet another pro-business Labor government.<\/p>\n<p>The ACTU leader was given pride of place on the speakers\u2019 list, and received a standing ovation from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/20\/work-d20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle By Mike Head 20 December 2018 This week\u2019s three-day Australian Labor Party national conference in Adelaide ended as it began, with anxious warnings that rising \u201canger and frustration\u201d in the working class could erupt out of the control of the party and its trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}