Keith Ewing
Keith Ewing
Employment Rights Bill rally
Mick Lynch, Maryam Eslamdoust, Tabusam Ahmed, Lori Holmes, Lord John Hendy, Prof. Keith Ewing, Mick Whelan, Steve Gillan, Carolyn Jones.
Tolpuddle Fringe event
Sarah Woolley, Maryam Eslamdoust, Alex Gordon, Gawain Little, Prof. Keith Ewing, John McDonnell, Steve Preddy.
"Socialism, work, technology and the struggle for jobs"
Communist Review No 99, Spring 2021 "Future of Work: Socialism, work, technology and the struggle for jobs" by Gail Cartmail, Michael Roberts, Leo Impett, Ursula Huws, Andrew Maybury, Roger McKenzie, Tony Burke, Sarah Woolley, Keith Ewing, Andy Bain and the Communist Party Future of Work Group.[1]
Resist-Repeal-Replace
Maxine Peake, Lord John Hendy QC, Prof Keith Ewing, Andy McDonald MP, Eileen Turnbull Shewbury24 Campaign, Matt Wrack FBU, Dave Ward CBU, Sarah Woolley Bakers Union, Paddy Lillis USDAW, Kate Ewing, Mike Rix GMB, Yvette Williams Grassroots Black Left, Andy Green CTUF, Go North West Buses, Strike Map UK...
Covid, the Law and Workers Rights
Prof Keith Ewing, Ben Chacko, Hazel Nolan, Sandra Trotter - Chair Phil McGarry.
A New Deal for Workers
Institute of Employment Rights with Jo Grady, Keith Ewing, John Hendy, Barry Gardiner MP, Carolyn Jones, Christina McAnea.
Launching IER Manifesto for Labour Law
Ian Lavery with John Hendy QC and Prof. Keith Ewing launching Institute of Employment Rights Manifesto for Labour Law, June 2016.
Catalyst Forum
On August 16 2010, Catalyst Australia and the Australia Institute sponsored a high-powered forum on corporate power, looking at the global financial, finance and mining capital in Austalia.
Jack Gray is a significant voice on global finance with UN credentials, and presently works at the University of Technology Sydney. He reviewed the global financial crash of 2008-09 and concluded that virtually nothing had been learnt from that crash. He presented figures to show that the global finance sector had expanded so much since 1970 that it represented today a 4.5 per cent tax on the rest of the economy.
Josh Fear, Deputy Director of the Australia Institute, spelt out the details on Australia's banking system - he called the session: 'Banks Behaving Badly'.
Maree O'Halloran, Director of the Welfare Rights Centre, reported that banks continue to send pre-approved credit cards to people relying on welfare benefits.
Christopher Zinn, Director Magazine, reported that very few people switch banks, despite the repeated urgings of Treasurers and Prime Ministers to 'use competition' to get a better deal.
In the next session, entitled 'Well Resourced', Tony Maher from the Mining & Energy Division of the CFMEU said that the mining companies were worse than the banks, and certainly bigger.
Dr Rae Cooper from Sydney University, John Sutton (CFMEU), and Rod Masson of the Finance Sector Union presented detailed critiques of corporate conduct for women at work, on health and safety in John Holland Construction, and on employment conditions in the finance sector.
The final session was on 'the hand that feeds - corporate donations and political parties'.
Prof Keith Ewing of Kings College London related lessons from the British elections, noting that big political donations are a glob problem. These corporate donations mean that governments a sensitive to corporate criticism, not public criticism, they promo 'free markets' and 'free choice' in lifestyles, and allow media promote their own interests as the public interest.
He noted that Australia was very lightly regulated on politic donations, and they only get reported after the elections is over. He called for: A ban on all foreign donations
Lee Rhiannon, then a Greens Senate candidate, drew attention the Canadian model, and criticised the failure of both Labor a Liberal Governments, state and federal, to implement restrictions on political donations, after repeated promises to do so.
Louise Tarrant, National Secretary of the Liquor Hospitality a Miscellaneous Union, argued that the political donations debate was a proxy for the struggle over corporate influence, which can only be countered by a citizen capacity for collective action, whe people overcome fear and fatalism, and engage their political w for the common good.
SEARCH Foundation is a member of Catalyst Australia.[2]