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		<title>Tony Abbott’s manufacturing policies will strangle innovation and cost 100 000 Australian jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott’s plan to gut programs like Enterprise Connect centres will hurt innovation, employment and small business, the leaders of the AWU-AMWU Manufacturing Alliance warned today. The Manufacturing Alliance Unions believe that the Abbott Coaltion’s policies will put around 100 000 manufacturing jobs at risk. “ States like Queensland could see 18,400 jobs disappear while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=317&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing workers and their families would take a big hit if Joe Hockey became Treasurer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey&#8217;s announcement that he wanted to slash subsidies to key Australian manufacturing industries would put at risk the security of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers and their families. The Manufacturing Alliance union leaders, Paul Howes, of The Australian Workers&#8217; Union, and Dave Oliver of the Australian Manufacturing Workers&#8217; Union, said today that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=310&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Alliance campaign to promote jobs in SA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heads of Australia’s biggest blue-collar unions are in South Australia today meeting workers at the ASC, a submarine and ship building company, as part of the two unions’ Manufacturing Alliance jobs campaign. The Manufacturing Alliance is calling for better government procurement policy and policies to encourage innovation in Australia’s manufacturing industry to create jobs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=296&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Alliance campaign to promote jobs in Kwinana</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/09/29/manufacturing-alliance-campaign-to-promote-jobs-in-kwinana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heads of Australia’s biggest blue-collar unions are in Kwinana, Western Australia today to address workers at the Alcoa refinery, as part of the two unions’ Manufacturing Alliance jobs campaign. The Manufacturing Alliance is calling for better government procurement policy and measures to encourage innovation in Australia’s manufacturing industry to create jobs. The Australian Workers’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=298&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria must boost local manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/08/21/victoria-must-boost-local-manufacturing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Government should urgently step up measures to secure local manufacturing jobs in response the global financial crisis and emerging international competition, the Manufacturing Alliance said today. In a submission to State Parliament’s Inquiry into Manufacturing in Victoria today, Australian Workers’ Union Victorian Branch Secretary Cesar Melhem called for a stronger Victorian Industry Participation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=294&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Steel Industry Innovation Council a win for Australian jobs</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/08/06/247/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manufacturing Alliance strongly supports today&#8217;s announcement by Minister Kim Carr that a Steel Industry Innovation Council will be established to ensure access to both public and private sector projects. Manufacturing Alliance delivers a great result AWU National Secretary Paul Howes and AMWU National Secretary Dave Oliver said that this was a great result for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=247&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Alliance Unions welcome new Buy Australian initiatives</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/08/06/244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing workers will welcome today&#8217;s Federal Government Buy Australian announcements because they provides assurances that Australian manufacturing will get better access to government and private sector opportunities, the leaders of the Manufacturing Alliance unions said today. &#8221; This is a good commonsense announcement and a win for Australian workers, a win for Australian business and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=244&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New polling shows Australians support our manufacturing industry</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/08/06/new-polling-shows-australians-support-our-manufacturing-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manufacturing Alliance today released polling that revealed Australians would like to see a stronger Government approach to local content and procurement. The online poll of 1,044 randomly selected people across the country found: 93 per cent agreed providing secure, well-paid jobs for Australians was important. 85 per cent agreed the best way to preserve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=240&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Alliance to protect and promote Australia&#8217;s manufacturing industry</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/07/23/new-alliance-to-protect-and-promote-australias-manufacturing-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDIA RELEASE Australia’s two largest Blue Collar Unions are in Canberra today to launch an Alliance to address the jobs crisis in the manufacturing industry and to ensure that Australia remains a country that makes things. The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) represent over 250,000 workers and have members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=143&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Country That Makes Things – the AMWU-AWU Manufacturing AlliancY</title>
		<link>http://manufacturingalliance.org.au/2009/07/08/a-country-that-makes-things-%e2%80%93-the-amwu-awu-manufacturing-alliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary and Dave Oliver, AMWU National Secretary Manufacturing employs around a million Australians directly, many of them in key regional centres such as Ballarat, Newcastle, Gladstone, Whyalla and Kwinana. It is an important national asset. But unlike other manufacturing nations, in Australia, for over a decade, it has been the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manufacturingalliance.org.au&#038;blog=8393864&#038;post=103&#038;subd=armstronghenry&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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