These awards are legally binding agreements between employers and unions made in arbitration courts which cover some 800,000 Victoria workers. Fines for breaking the law would be 50,000 Australian dollars for organizations (US$1 = about A$1.4) and $1,000 for individuals.
The government intends to create a new arm of the existing magistrates' courts to enforce the new law. Workers in industries designated as "vital" will be completely prohibited from striking.
"Secondary boycotts" (that is, solidarity strikes and bans) will also be punished.
Within the extremely restricted range of
24 instances in which such strikes would of
International Viewpoint # 239
ICANE
The Shenzhen
THE Chinese
Communist Party congress in the third week of
October ended its deliberations with a call for an
CHINA of the Communist Party get worse with the economic reform conducted under one-party dictatorship.
The stock market is a part of the market economy. After a short period of experimentation, reality turns out to be different from expectations embodied in the state's ordinance on shares entitled: "Methods economic "revolution" along market lines. The mix of economic reform and tough political control associated with the rule of
Deng Xiaoping is to be preserved.
However it would be rash to assume that this formula represents a stable policy for China's long-term future; a sharp insight into some of its contradictions was provided by recent events around the issuing of shares on the market at Shenzhen in south China.
ZHANG KAI*
HERE is much to learn from the