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- Title
- 8 hour day: a celebration and a sober reflection
- Author(s)
- Love, Peter
- Abstract
- Victorian workers would celebrate the 150th anniversary of Melbourne building workers' victory in their campaign for the Eight Hour Day on 21 April 2006. National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is requesting its members to join in the 150th anniversary celebrations to expression their support for collective bargaining, an equitable work/life balance and the return of the Eight Hour Day as the practical and symbolic expression of civilized community standards.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union, Vol. 13, no. 1 (Mar 2006), p. 30
- Publication year
- 2006
- FOR Code(s)
- 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
- Keyword(s)
- 19th century history; Australia; Building workers; Collective bargaining; Eight hour day; History; Labour history; Melbourne; National Tertiary Education Union; NTEU; Stonemasons; Work/life balance; Working conditions; Working hours
- Publisher
- National Tertiary Education Union
- ISSN
- 1321-8476
- Publisher URL
- http://www.nteu.org.au/publications/advocate
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 Peter Love. Paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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