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May 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Hundreds of unionists and workers have rallied through the streets of Melbourne to mark international workers’ day.
The procession, led by a team of bagpipe players, wound its way through the main streets of the city centre before concluding at Trades Hall.
The May Day march, now in its 118th year, is when workers’ wins, struggles and efforts to achieve better deals for workers are highlighted.
Melbourne May Day committee president John Speight said the traditional day was an opportunity to pay tribute to the pioneers who played a part in improving working conditions.
“This state was the first state and first country that got the shorter hours in 1856,” Mr Speight said.
“This is part of a celebration of those victories and also bringing people together for the fights coming on.”
The main theme of this year’s march is on workers’ right to strike.
Mr Speight said workers are a long way from having the right to strike in protected conditions.
“At the present time you’ve got to jump through a lot of hurdles so workers have got the right to strike,” he said.
“In some cases they can only strike on the basis of an enterprise bargaining agreement on wages and conditions.”
Mr Speight said tough budgets had led to thousands of workers getting terminated and he feared heavy-handed tactics like those used recently by Toyota, which called in security guards and escorted workers off site to sack them, would be followed by other employers.
“This is a company that had a lot of government assistance, and the way they treated their workers there, they got goons in to take them from where they’re working and put them in vans and took them across the road, with the vans all blackened out.
“Now we haven’t seen that in Australia.”
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