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Independent Media Transcript 12 February 2006
UKZN staff and students strike against management
by CCS SA IMC 8/2/06
DURBAN, 8 FEBRUARY 2006 - On the third day of their strike two thousand University of KwaZulu-Natal staff marched on campus today in defiance of management's ban on mass action. All four unions at UKZN (COMSA, NEHAWU, NTESU and UNSU) had called for Wednesday to be a day of stay-aways and marches at UKZN's Westville Campus and the large turnout proves the strength of the UKZN strike, which has been ongoing since Monday and has, according to unions, severely impacted on registration of students at the university.
Staff at UKZN are on strike because the 2006 wage negotiations deadlocked when management only offered a 4% annual increase. In addition, unions accuse UKZN management of an "increasingly authoritarian style of management" and accuse them of "erod[ing] academic freedom".
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Photos: March
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Ari Sitas Responds to Management Requests to Inform on his comrades
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Video Mass Action
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Military presence increased in Melbourne for 2006 Commonwealth Games?
by elliot_k MELB IMC 9/2/06
Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon has warned of an increase in police and military activity in Melbourne in preparation for the Commonwealth Games. Officials say a major security sweep of Melbourne is underway at the athletes' village...
Military presence increased in Melbourne for 2006 Commonwealth Games - From Wikinews Australia Aerial shot of Commonwealth Games venues, Melbourne - A 24-hour temporary police station inside the 20-hectare Parkville site will be staffed by 109 officers. The station will house a monitoring centre for the village's closed-circuit TV network. Melbourne's newest police station, keeping tabs on nearly 6000 athletes and officials from 71 countries will operate for seven weeks.
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Sources * "Security measures stepped up for Games". Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 5, 2006 * Peter Ker "Village security check". The Age, February 8, 2006 ??* Shaun Phillips "Army set to move on city". Herald Sun, February 6, 2006 * Ben Schneiders "Games get their own police station". The Age, February 6, 2006 ?elliot_k
en.wikinews.org/wiki/Military_presence_increased_in_Melbourne_for_2...
Comments:
The Racist Bastards?
by Ana 9/2/06
Bastards making Melbourne more of a police state and quashing and protest and resistance to the white imperial bullshit country is founded. I suppose that genocide, the destruction of indigenous culture and the theft of land and resources does not make for "good pr". Make a stand and get out on the streets with the people of the land during the Stolenwealth Games. Our family are definitely out there supporting our brothers and sister...Go!!! the Black GST
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Posters Posters Posters?
by Bill Posters 9/2/06
Flour and water buddy, go sick... ?Get the FREE poster here!
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by cam SYD IMC 2/2/06
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