{"id":563,"date":"2008-12-02T08:26:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-12-02T19:25:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:25:45","slug":"rudd-abolish-the-abcc-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Rudd: Abolish the ABCC NOW."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remnants of the HoWARd anti-union onslaught yet remain, <strong>an entire year<\/strong> after Rudd &amp; Labor were elected on the promise that they would scrap WorkChoices- and all that went with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/content\/2007\/s2091034.htm\"><strong>KEVIN RUDD<\/strong><\/a>: If elected, we will abolish WorkChoices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ridiculous and draconian laws YET remain on the books which criminalise union organising activity, up to and including taking away a right to silence when being questioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcc.gov.au\/\">Australian Building and Construction Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Melbourne, there&#8217;s a community rally on Monday 8 December you should attend to show your support for the abolition of the ABCC and the halt of all WorkChoices prosecutions of trade unionists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a title=\"Community Rally, Monday, December?8th\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/justice4luke.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/01\/community-rally-monday-december-8th\/\">Community Rally, Monday, December?8th<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><small>December 1, 2008 by justice4luke<\/small><\/p>\n<p>A community rally, with speakers and free breakfast, has been organised for Monday December 8th, between 8:30am and 9:30am, outside Jesuit Social Services Central Office:<\/p>\n<p>371 Church Street<br \/>\nPO Box 271<br \/>\nRichmond VIC 3121<br \/>\nTel: 03 9427 7388<br \/>\nFax: 03 9427 1819<br \/>\njss@jss.org.au<\/p>\n<p>Please consider attending, and please help us publicise this event. Your organisation is also invited to endorse this rally.<\/p>\n<p><em>Justice for Luke!<br \/>\nStop the victimisation of union activists!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Endorsed by<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/justice4luke.wordpress.com\">justice4luke<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionsolidarity.org\/\">Union Solidarity<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remnants of the HoWARd anti-union onslaught yet remain, an entire year after Rudd &amp; Labor were elected on the promise that they would scrap WorkChoices- and all that went with it. KEVIN RUDD: If elected, we will abolish WorkChoices. Ridiculous and draconian laws YET remain on the books which criminalise union organising activity, up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}