{"id":27709,"date":"2011-11-13T02:36:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27709"},"modified":"2011-11-13T03:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:38:16","slug":"community-picketbbq-in-solidarity-with-baiada-workers-7pm-sunday-november-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27709","title":{"rendered":"Community Picket\/BBQ in Solidarity with Baiada Workers, 7pm, Sunday, November 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=17+Pipe+Road,+Laverton+North&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=17+Pipe+Rd,+Laverton+North+Victoria+3026&amp;gl=au&amp;ll=-37.821128,144.815878&amp;spn=0.022306,0.033088&amp;t=m&amp;z=14&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=17+Pipe+Road,+Laverton+North&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=17+Pipe+Rd,+Laverton+North+Victoria+3026&amp;gl=au&amp;ll=-37.821128,144.815878&amp;spn=0.022306,0.033088&amp;t=m&amp;z=14&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<h2><strong>WHEN<\/strong> : 7pm, Sunday, November 13<br \/>\n<strong>WHERE<\/strong> : 17&#8211;19 Pipe Road, Laverton North (Melways map 40, D10)<\/h2>\n<p>Striking workers at Baiada Poultry factory have been standing strong in the face of a brutal police assault on their peaceful picket line on Friday night that saw one worker hospitalised. Now they need your support.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has banned officials from the NUW, the workers&#8217; union, from supporting or organising a picket so union members and supporters have stepped in to organise a community picket.<\/p>\n<p>Join the rally to stand up for decent wages, decent working conditions, and the right to peaceful protest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6091\/6336704079_9a77a30851.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Sydney, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/occupy-sydney-takes-on-a-new-meaning-protesters-turn-to-squatting-20111109-1n6t7.html\">Occupy Sydney<\/a> briefly occupied a Coles supermarket in solidarity with striking workers. (Baiada supplies chickens to Aldi, Coles, KFC, Nando&#8217;s, Red Rooster and Woolworths.) On the other hand, from her vantage point on Sydney\u2019s desperately impoverished North Shore, trollumnist Miranda Devine has written in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=spvvAdAN5bA\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em> some <em>blah blah blah<\/em> on the subject of the EVIL! UGLY! union thugs of the NUW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/lateline\/content\/2010\/s3083390.htm\">Ho<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worksafe.vic.gov.au\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/wsinternet\/worksafe\/sitetools\/news\/poultry+giant+convicted,+fined+for+not+ensuring+contractor+safety\">hum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that, in addition to providing low pay and hazardous working conditions, Baiada is one of several companies the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/content\/index.phtml\/itemId\/1006465\/fromItemId\/2332\">instituted proceedings against in the Federal Court<\/a>, alleging misleading or deceptive conduct in relation to the promotion and supply of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangechicken.com.au\/\">chicken products<\/a>, specifically its claim that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/animals\/free-to-roam-20110917-1kf1h.html\">free-to-roam means two chickens being allocated a space equivalent to an A3 page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/sa.org.au\/index.php?option=com_k2&#038;view=item&#038;id=7134:poultry-workers-hold-off-riot-police-attack&#038;Itemid=392\">Poultry workers hold off riot police attack<\/a>, Corey Oakley (SAlt), November 11, 2011 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/node\/49435\">Poultry workers hold picket line despite police attack<\/a>, Ben Courtice, <em>Green Left Weekly<\/em>, November 12, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Larger Map WHEN : 7pm, Sunday, November 13 WHERE : 17&#8211;19 Pipe Road, Laverton North (Melways map 40, D10) Striking workers at Baiada Poultry factory have been standing strong in the face of a brutal police assault on their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,893],"tags":[1324],"class_list":["post-27709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","tag-baiada-poultry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-7cV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27709"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27735,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709\/revisions\/27735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}