Monthly Archives: May 2010

International Cleaners' Day

Clean start update … International Cleaners’ Day is just around the corner. On that day – June 15 – cleaners around the country will be awarding the Golden Toilet Brush to the worst cleaning company in Australia as judged by …

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International Cleaners’ Day

Clean start update … International Cleaners’ Day is just around the corner. On that day – June 15 – cleaners around the country will be awarding the Golden Toilet Brush to the worst cleaning company in Australia as judged by …

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The Blood in Your Coffee (and Milk) Thickens: Nestlé Replaces Union on Strike, Continues to Flout SC Decision

The Justice and International Mission Unit has been highlighting the issue of Nestlé workers in Cabuyao in Laguna, Philippines. Recently Bishop Jesse from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines spoke to Senator Gavin Marshall about the situation and …

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The Blood in Your Coffee (and Milk) Thickens: Nestlé Replaces Union on Strike, Continues to Flout SC Decision

The Justice and International Mission Unit has been highlighting the issue of Nestlé workers in Cabuyao in Laguna, Philippines. Recently Bishop Jesse from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines spoke to Senator Gavin Marshall about the situation and …

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Filipino Triumph Workers – take action now

Source: Clean Clothes Campaign Monday, 10 May 2010 10:51 On the 4th of May, the Triumph workers in the Philippines were violently evicted from their picket line. More than 200 security forces invaded the former factory grounds, removed the protesting …

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Hit the 'emergency stop' button on the war in Afghanistan

A note from:  Simon Moyle, Jacob Bolton, Jessica Morrison, Simon Reeves and the rest of the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective Here’s your invitation to hit the ‘emergency stop’ button on the war in Afghanistan! In the week before Easter 2010 the …

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Hit the ‘emergency stop’ button on the war in Afghanistan

A note from:  Simon Moyle, Jacob Bolton, Jessica Morrison, Simon Reeves and the rest of the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective Here’s your invitation to hit the ‘emergency stop’ button on the war in Afghanistan! In the week before Easter 2010 the …

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Hungry for … work justice?

The Justice and International Mission Unit (JIM) have been talking about the need for employers of children, like the fast food chains, should take more responsibility. JIM have also been in contact with the Tasmanian and Federal Governments about the …

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Hungry for … work justice?

The Justice and International Mission Unit (JIM) have been talking about the need for employers of children, like the fast food chains, should take more responsibility. JIM have also been in contact with the Tasmanian and Federal Governments about the …

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We will now have to pay for more jails

The AGE, letter to the editor, 15-May-2010 NOW that the government has changed position on suspended sentences (“Brumby in backflip on sentencing”, The Age, 14/5) more people may be going to jail. However, credible research from NSW has found that …

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