International Solidarity Actions
Noel Washington had been charged with refusing to an attend an ABCC interrogation about what happened at a union meeting and was due to face court in Melbourne on 2 December 2008.
A week before he was due to stand trial the Director of Public Prosecutions suddenly called for the charges to be dropped.
With the support in Australia and from around the world for rights on site, cracks are beginning to show, but the bad laws still exist and they need to be abolished immediately.
World Federation
of Trade Unions,
The WFTU Secretariat
Cyprus Building, Wood, Mine and
General Workers Trade Union
Michalis Papanicolaou, General Secretary
Union General de Trabajdores del
Ecuador
General Union of Ecuadorian Workers
Karlos Sanchez
Relaciones Internacionales
Unión
Internacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores de la Construcción, Madera
y Materiales de Construcción UITBB
International Union of Construction, Wood and Construction Materials Workers
Union
Syndicale de la Construction de Paris
M. Benyahia Belhacen, Secretary
Sitentel – Telefonicos
Nancy Ramirez
Delegate
Portuguese
Federation of Workers' in Agriculture, Food and Hotel Industries of Portugal
(FESAHT)
Joaquim Pires, National Director
Syndicat national
des travaillleurs de Travaux publics, du Bâtiment, de l'Habitat et de
la Construction (SNTPBHC-UTS)
National Union of Public Workers and Building Workers
Assane Diop, Secretary General and Executive Director, ILO Social Protection
Sector
La Federación de
la Construcción y Madera de la Confederación Intersindical Galega
(Galiza-Spain)
The Construction and Wood Workers Federation of the Intersindical, Galicia
Xosé Xoan Melón González
Secretacio Nacional de la FCM-CIG
Langile Abertzale en Batzordeak,
Nationalist Workers' Committee
Igor Urrutikoetxea
International Relations
Building and Wood Workers
International
Anita Normark
General Secretary
International
Brotherhood of Teamsters
James Hoffa, General President
1. Don't Jail Ark Petition
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2. Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures
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