Editing Sydney Opera House (section)

==== Strike and Workers' Control ====
In 1972, a construction worker was fired, leading the [[Builders Labourers Federation|BLF]]-affiliated workers to demand his rehiring and a 25% wage increase. In response to this, all the workers were fired, and in revenge the workers broke into the construction site with a crowbar and brought their own toolboxes. [[Workers' control]] was applied to the site for five weeks as the construction workers worked 35 hours a week with improved morale, more efficient organization and fewer people skipping work. The workers agreed to end their work-in when management agreed to give them a 25% wage increase, the right to elect their foremen, four weeks annual leave and a large payment for their troubles.<ref>{{Cite book|title=New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism – Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s|last=Ness|first=Immanuel|year=2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 March 2022 |title=The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In |url=https://commonslibrary.org/the-1972-sydney-opera-house/ |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=The Commons |language=en-AU}}</ref>