Over the last two weeks, members of the Construction, Forestry, Manufacturing, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) have been holding the line in a picket outside of the factory of plasterboard manufacturer, Knauf. The dispute came about in response to the refusal of bosses to engage in discussions with workers about safe working conditions, casualisation and pay rises, as inflation attacks workers across the country.

Climate change is any change in the climate, lasting for several decades or longer, including changes in temperature, rainfall or wind patterns. Climate change is caused by the excessive amount of greenhouse gases entering the Earth’s atmosphere due to human activity.

As long as we depend on our exploiters, we must take nothing for granted. This is the bitter lesson learned recently by Australia’s Uber drivers, who are facing the uphill battle to be recognised as, in fact, employed by Uber. The struggle for the rights workers are entitled colours a new but familiar era of class antagonism in Australia.