Live News Feed: ACTU

Fed judge slams ABCC
The anti-worker bias of the Australian Building and Construction Commission has again been exposed by the acting chief justice of the Federal Court who has found the ABCC turning a “blind eye” to dishonest employer behaviour.
10 October 2008 [Read More]

Childcare unionists on SBS TV
LHMU members Elizabeth Johnstone, Shirley Kelly and Susan Nolan were on SBS TV’s “Insight” program on 7 October.
09 October 2008 [Read More]

Mine tragedy exploitation
The Beaconsfield Mine musical, to premier at the Melbourne Fringe Festival this week, is a distasteful exploitation of a tragedy, Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) National Secretary, Paul Howes, said.
07 October 2008 [Read More]

Bank Union's new lending charter
The Finance Sector Union has joined with policy think-tank The Australia Institute and Care Financial Counselling service to launch the Finance Sector Union’s Charter of Responsible Lending today in Canberra.
04 October 2008 [Read More]

ITUC launches Youth Blog
In the lead-up to the World Day for Decent Work on 7 October, the ITUC today officially launches its Youth Community Blog (YCB).
03 October 2008 [Read More]

Fair Pay increase good start but ...
While US bankers may be wondering how they will pay for their yachts and island resorts cleaners across Australia are more focused on paying their rents.
02 October 2008 [Read More]

Fixing Sydney, Transport & Planning
The public transport woes of Sydney are bandied about by the media, politicians and public – but is a solution in sight?
02 October 2008 [Read More]

What women want
What women want – a new media script for female politicians…. An NSW Fabians event.
02 October 2008 [Read More]

ACTU backs AWU green vision
The Australian Workers’ Union has been a fantastic advocate for its members during the current Climate Change debate, journalists at the National Press Club were told by ACTU President, Sharan Burrow.
02 October 2008 [Read More]

New laws must deliver Rights at Work
Members of the AMWU national council traveled to Canberra and delivered a clear message to Labor to deliver all the rights workers voted for at the last election.
01 October 2008 [Read More]

Cochlear workers lobby Canberra
Cochlear workers’ battle for a union collective agreement has taken them to Canberra, where a delegation met with Labor MPs and pressed for the rights they were promised last election.
01 October 2008 [Read More]

Don't let companies avoid green regs
The Australian Workers’ Union believes the responsible thing to do for our environment is to establish a carbon reduction scheme which does not force offshore our emissions-intensive trade-exposed industries.
30 September 2008 [Read More]

Protecting the Qld dream
Joyanne Higginbottom worries that her children and her neighbour’s kids won’t be able to buy a house and have the Queensland lifestyle she and her generation enjoy.
30 September 2008 [Read More]

Help lift cleaners out of poverty
Cleaners have been raising their voices about the crisis in cleaning and contract cleaning firms around Australia committed to working with us to fix the crisis - now they need to put their money where their mouths are and sign the ground breaking Clean Start Agreement to fix this industry.
30 September 2008 [Read More]

Building Commissioner must resign
The CFMEU today called on Australian Building and Construction Commissioner, John Lloyd, to apologise and resign after eight charges against construction worker Brian Shearer were withdrawn by the Department of Public Prosecutions.
26 September 2008 [Read More]

Breakthru cleaners’ fair deal fight
The LHMU – The cleaners’ union – today (25 September) announced a breakthrough for office cleaners in the Clean Start campaign. Rose Cleaning Services, one of the ACT’s top five cleaning companies, has just signed the Clean Start Collective Agreement for fair wages and working conditions for cleaners.
25 September 2008 [Read More]

New ITUC Green Jobs report
The launching of a major report “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low Carbon World” in New York today is a major step towards action to help create millions of new environmentally-friendly jobs around the world while underlining the need for just and fair transition for workers and their families affected by climate change and by government decisions to cut carbon emissions.
25 September 2008 [Read More]

Protest jail threat CFMEU official
Supporters of civil rights and construction workers will rally against the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) on Tuesday December 2 - the date and time that CFMEU official Noel Washington goes on trial for refusing to submit to an ABCC interrogation.
24 September 2008 [Read More]

New Opp Minister on Workchoices?
The appointment of Michael Keenan to the Shadow Employment and Workplace Relations ministry gives the Coalition the chance to rethink its support of WorkChoices and support a fairer IR system, the ACTU said today.
22 September 2008 [Read More]

AWU praises Gvt carbon plan
Prime Minister Rudd’s initiative to finance and develop carbon capture and storage technology has real potential to secure and support thousands of current jobs in regional Australia, the Australian Workers’ Union ( AWU) said today.
19 September 2008 [Read More]

CEPU talks to save 800 jobs
The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) today said it will meet with Telstra management on Monday 22 September 2008 in order to save up to 800 jobs.
18 September 2008 [Read More]

Urgent CEPU briefings on Telstra
The CEPU will be holding mass member briefings of Telstra members across Australia next Saturday, 20 September.
18 September 2008 [Read More]

Telstra must resume talks now!
Workers in Telstra’s Wholesale and Service Advantage (Call Centric) divisions have shown great courage in rejecting the company’s inadequate non-union job contract.
17 September 2008 [Read More]

Clear message to Telstra
Unions today urged Telstra management to respect the rights of its workers to be represented by unions after the company’s offer of a non-union job contract was rejected by employees.
17 September 2008 [Read More]

Union video forum !
Whether taking a DIY approach with camcorder and laptop, establishing an in-house broadcast studio or outsourcing to create slick ads and campaign materials, the video medium has much to offer trade unions.
16 September 2008 [Read More]

Centrelink staff threatened
Four out of five Centrelink employees say they have witnessed violent or aggressive behaviour at work according to a national survey by the CPSU.
15 September 2008 [Read More]

Poll: give Telstra employees choice!
According to opinion polling commissioned by the CEPU, almost 90 per cent of Australians believe the Federal Government must now intervene to ensure that Telstra workers are represented by their union, if they choose.
15 September 2008 [Read More]

Gvt nurse operator uses WorkChoices
Unions have called for the Federal Parliament to scrap what remains of Work Choices after revelations yet another major employer is still exploiting the Howard Government’s industrial relations laws to deny workers the right to union collective bargaining.
15 September 2008 [Read More]

What happened to the Left?
In years gone past the Left was a serious political force that held sway in once powerful trade unions, the Australian Labor Party and the broader community.
13 September 2008 [Read More]

Time for Telstra to end manouverings
After the company’s second legal defeat this week, Telstra management should now back down on its failed Work Choices strategy, sit down with unions and discuss a better pay offer to staff, say unions.
12 September 2008 [Read More]

Another day, another Court loss
With the heat on Telstra in the lead up to next week's votes on the Wholesale and Service Advantage non union agreements, management did what management does best.....
12 September 2008 [Read More]

R U a Kiwi in Oz, do you know one?
New Zealanders living in Australia are eligible to vote in the New Zealand election this spring.
10 September 2008 [Read More]

Qantas workers concerned
Off-shoring, contracting out and cost-cutting by QANTAS is impacting on maintenance standards according to a new poll of Qantas maintenance workers.
10 September 2008 [Read More]

Qld workers throw off AWA shackles
An AWU campaign to end individual agreements, at one of the biggest employers in regional Queensland , has had a resounding victory.
10 September 2008 [Read More]

AWU demands BHP shutdown in WA
The Australian Workers’ Union is calling for a complete shutdown of all BHP’s Iron Ore operations in Western Australia following the third death at a BHP site in about 6 weeks, and the 2nd in two weeks at Yandi.
05 September 2008 [Read More]

Cowboys on the North-West gas fields
A global energy industry corporation, using a slight of hand trick, has improved their enormous bottom line, by paying skilled guest workers, on the North-West Gas Shelf off Western Australia, between S4 and $10 an hour.
05 September 2008 [Read More]

What happened to the Left?
In years gone past the Left was a serious political force that held sway in once powerful trade unions, the Australian Labor Party and the broader community.
12 September 2008 [Read More]

Defending shearers work rights
Shearers across rural Australia need to be aware that the farmers’ lobby is pushing for significant changes to their working conditions, under the guise of modernising their Award.
04 September 2008 [Read More]

Fatigue is a killer
Watch the Victorian Ambos Fatigue is a Killer advertisement
03 September 2008 [Read More]

Hotels crisis hits Sheraton
Sydney hotel workers will demonstrate today outside the Sheraton on the Park Hotel to draw public attention to the crisis in Australia’s luxury hotel industry which is threatening Australia’s reputation as a tourist destination.
03 September 2008 [Read More]

Unacceptable bank delays
It is not good enough for some of the largest commercial banks to take almost a week before passing on Tuesday’s cut in official interest rates to their customers, unions say.
03 September 2008 [Read More]

Merchant Marine finally recognised
Hundreds of seafarers, young and old will join others with links to the sea to gather for the inaugural Merchant Navy day in Adelaide today.
03 September 2008 [Read More]

Integrated transport strategy: MUA
MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin calls on government to make good on its strategy for a nationally integrated transport plan encompassing shipping and ports.
03 September 2008 [Read More]

Total chaos as IBM blocks pay talks
Major airlines, banks, customs and other key services face meltdown this week as a result of IBM refusing to negotiate a collective agreement with employees.
01 September 2008 [Read More]

Protect PS whistleblowers
CPSU has called on the Rudd Government to introduce strong protections for public servants that act in the public interest by exposing corruption, maladministration and illegal activity.
30 August 2008 [Read More]

Hunter on climate change frontline
Big regional industrial centres, such as Newcastle and the Hunter, are smack-bang on the front-line of Australia’s current climate change debate and the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) wants to ensure that decisions about their future are not just made in our big metropolitan centres.
29 August 2008 [Read More]

Telstra workers want collective ag't
Telstra workers should be given the choice to have their unions negotiate a collective agreement rather than have the company’s managers push a non-negotiable job contract upon them.
28 August 2008 [Read More]

Mine Union backs Rights on Site
The Mining and Energy Union is giving its full support to a campaign launched yesterday to pressure the Rudd Government to restore democratic and civil rights to workers in the construction industry.
26 August 2008 [Read More]

‘Rights on Site’ campaign launched
Three construction workers, all of whom have been personally attacked by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), will today launch the ‘Rights on Site’ campaign in Parliament House.
25 August 2008 [Read More]

Centenary of a great Oz union
More than 250 people came together in the NSW Parliament House last night to pay tribute to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association and to salute its iconic former leader Laurie Short – now 92 years old.
21 August 2008 [Read More]

Queensland’s LGA misled members:AWU
The leadership of the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) owes an apology to its members, and to the hard-working local government workforce, for consistently promoting the discredited WorkChoice laws to Queensland Councils, AWU Queensland Secretary, Bill Ludwig, said today.
21 August 2008 [Read More]

AWU win for local gvt workers
An Australian Workers’ Union win in the Federal Court in Brisbane today takes the WorkChoices yoke off the shoulders of local government workers, Bill Ludwig, AWU National President and Queensland Branch Secretary, said.
20 August 2008 [Read More]

Protest Iran union repression
Repression against labour activists in Iran is intensifying. In recent weeks, there have been numerous cases of arrests and jailings.
20 August 2008 [Read More]

AWU talks to Meet the Press
The Australian Workers’ Union will back the pilot program for guest workers in the agricultural sector to be announced today by the Federal Government, if the program provides a regulated and transparent process in the hiring of seasonal workers from overseas.
17 August 2008 [Read More]

A life in politics.........
Modern politicians are sometimes ridiculed by the public, obsessively scrutinised by the media, often have difficult relations with colleagues, and rarely have much quality time for their family. The question is whether public life is worth it?
16 August 2008 [Read More]

Don't privatise Vic TAFEs!
The Victorian Government is planning the most serious overhaul of our public TAFE system in recent history. These plans have serious consequences not just in the education sector, but every industry affected by vocational education.
16 August 2008 [Read More]

Banks put profits ahead of customers
Australia’s banks are selfishly putting their profits ahead of their customers who are under financial pressure from high interest rates.
13 August 2008 [Read More]

AWU says email your MP now!
This time last year, it was clear who was threatening our rights at work - the Howard Government.
13 August 2008 [Read More]

MUA says protect LNG from ETS
The Maritime Union of Australia had the following letter published in today's Australian.
13 August 2008 [Read More]

Time to deliver new workplace laws
Signs of a slowdown in the economy underline the need for the urgent scrapping of Work Choices and restoration of a strong safety net of rights and entitlements for Australian workers.
13 August 2008 [Read More]

Luxury hotel tries to gag workers
One of Australia’s largest hotel operators has threatened to discipline - and potentially dismiss - any staff member who talks to the media about their workplace. The Starwood-operated Gold Coast Sheraton Mirage’s media gag extends to discussions with lawyers, union representatives and even government officials. The LHMU the hotel workers' union believes even communications between workers and the Workplace Ombudsman could be affected.
12 August 2008 [Read More]

Union calls for TCF Industry Plan
The Australian textile clothing and footwear industry is ready to emerge from the dark decade of Howards neglect.
11 August 2008 [Read More]

Cuban trade unionist visits Sydney
Gilda Chacon Bravo will speak at MUA offices in Sydney about events in Cuba including dealing with the historic advances made by the Cuban people and the progressive changes taking place in Cuban society.
11 August 2008 [Read More]

ITF Australia rescues ship's crew
Three day stand-off wins the day for abused crew on board flag of convenience ship in Whyalla.
10 August 2008 [Read More]

Finishing Keating's super revolution
I got short shrift when I called for this year's promised income tax cuts to be paid into the nation's savings as government superannuation contribution, when I gave the first speech for 2008 at the National Press Club in January.
07 August 2008 [Read More]

Israel/Palestine union agreement
The Israeli national trade union centre Histadrut and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), both of which are affiliated to the ITUC, have reached a landmark agreement to protect the rights of Palestinian workers employed by Israeli employers, and to base future relations on negotiations, dialogue and joint initiatives to advance “fraternity and coexistence between the two peoples.
07 August 2008 [Read More]

MUA calls for gvt intervention
The proposed private equity takeover of Asciano, the company operating Patricks Stevedores, represents a failure of government policy that will devastate the Australian waterfront, the Maritime Union of Australia warned today.
06 August 2008 [Read More]

Stop Korea union arrests
Following a massive wave of protests and demonstrations, on 24 July the South Korean government issued arrest warrants for top leaders of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) including Lee Suk-haeng (President) and Lee Yong-shik (General Secretary). Ms. Jin Young-ok, First Vice-President of the KCTU has been arrested and detained.
05 August 2008 [Read More]

IOC inaction on labour rights
International mobilization in 35 countries calls for positive action to clean up Olympic supply chains
04 August 2008 [Read More]

AWU leader @ Newcastle IR society
Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary, to address annual Finnigan Rudd Memorial Dinner of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW, Newcastle Branch on Thursday August 28, 2008.
04 August 2008 [Read More]

Telstra must accept umpire’s ruling
Telstra Human Resources should abide by a ruling of the federal Department of Workplace Relations and immediately resume talks with unions about a new enterprise agreement.
04 August 2008 [Read More]

AWU leaders talk lower-carbon jobs
The AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, today begins a national tour of regional centres to build grassroots understanding of the implications of the move to lower-carbon standards for AWU members’ jobs, and for the living standards of Australian families outside the capital cities.
02 August 2008 [Read More]

ABCC report outdated discredited
The release today of the Australian Building and Construction Commissions 'Economic Analysis of Building and Construction Industry Productivity: 2008' report is fundamentally flawed, said Dave Noonan, National Secretary CFMEU Construction Division.
02 August 2008 [Read More]

Fight against draconian ABCC
Today, Victorian trade union delegates confirmed their deep anger at the continued existence of the undemocratic, anti-worker and anti-union Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) and resolved to intensify the fight to have it abolished along with the underpinning legislation and code.
30 July 2008 [Read More]

Construction rights on site!
Construction workers should have the same rights as the rest of the workforce.
30 July 2008 [Read More]

Employers take advantage
Employers are taking advantage of restrictions on union entry to cut rights at work
29 July 2008 [Read More]

Solidarity with ZCTU
Trade union leaders Lovemore Matombo & Wellington Chibebe - ON TRIAL TOMORROW (30 July) in Harare!!!!!!!!!!
29 July 2008 [Read More]

AMWU members want action on climate
A new poll shows that workers in areas that rely on energy intensive industry overwhelmingly support action on climate change if there is government support for new industries.
26 July 2008 [Read More]

TWU welcomes safe rates pay system
The Transport Workers Union has today welcomed today’s announcement that the National Transport Commission (NTC) will investigate and report on options for implementing a national system of safe rates for employees and owner-drivers.
26 July 2008 [Read More]

Hear workers voice on climate change
Employees in industries at risk deserve protection with trading permits, the AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, has written in today's Melbourne Age
24 July 2008 [Read More]

Emissions permits for workers
The Australian Workers’ Union wants to put our members at front and centre of the emissions trading debate, the AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, said today.
23 July 2008 [Read More]

We too are ZCTU!
This is a photo mosaic of Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe, the President and General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU).
22 July 2008 [Read More]

Unions, business joint skills pact
Australia’s unions and the nation’s two largest employer bodies will hold an historic meeting today (Tuesday) to forge a shared approach to the skills and training needs of the national economy.
22 July 2008 [Read More]

Time to wake up on sexual harassment
The ACTU has backed the Sex Discrimination Commissioner’s national plan to tackle gender inequality in the workplace including more education to eliminate sexual harassment and discrimination.
22 July 2008 [Read More]

AWU and Beaconsfield Inquiry
The Australian Workers’ Union is hopeful that the inquest into the death of miner Larry Knight will determine the cause of the collapse of the mine on Anzac Day in 2006.
22 July 2008 [Read More]

Gillard berates Telstra tactics
Telstra's decision to abandon negotiations with unions for a new enterprise agreement have received a cold reception in Canberra, with Deputy PM Julia Gillard rejecting the company's reasons for walking away from talks.
19 July 2008 [Read More]

Union anger over Qantas job cuts
The Australian Services Union has reacted strongly to Qantas' announcement that it plans to cut 1,500 jobs by December.
19 July 2008 [Read More]

Voters and workers' rights
A major national poll is showing that the public is losing patience with the demands of business lobby groups who want to keep major aspects of WorkChoices.
19 July 2008 [Read More]

ACTU on Qantas job cuts
The decision by Qantas to shed 1500 jobs in Australia and overseas is disappointing and unions will seek to work with the airline to minimise compulsory redundancies for the workforce.
18 July 2008 [Read More]

Telstra workers pay at risk
Telstra workers will be very disappointed with the decision taken by the company’s Human Resources managers to call off talks with unions.
17 July 2008 [Read More]

Global Day of Action July 17
Unionists will join a global day of protest on Thursday against private equity firms they say exploit workers.
16 July 2008 [Read More]

Sign a paid maternity leave petition
Australia and the United States are the only industrialised nations without a system of universal paid maternity leave.
15 July 2008 [Read More]

ABCC attacks CFMEU over OHS demand
Court proceedings have begun today against a Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union official, Robert Mates, who stood up for workers health and safety at a Heidelberg work site run by Anthony Goss.
14 July 2008 [Read More]

Saving Oz energy & resource jobs
Up to 15,000 Australian jobs could be under threat, Australia’s biggest energy and resource union, the AWU warned today.
14 July 2008 [Read More]

Power workers tell Old Macdonald off
Power workers walked off the job at the Munmorah and Vales Point power stations on the NSW central coast last week to protest against Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald, who was using the Munmorah site for a press conference
11 July 2008 [Read More]

Iran's Osanloo still jailed
A year to the day since his violent arrest, the ITUC, The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Amnesty International are calling on the world not to forget jailed Iranian trade unionist Mansour Osanloo.
11 July 2008 [Read More]

Diving industry safety
Australia’s dive industry is booming but lacks critical unified safety standards and professional training, said the Australian Workers' Union in Cairns today.
10 July 2008 [Read More]

Climate change mustn't hit workers
Tackling climate change offers huge job creation opportunities for Australian manufacturing but only with the right government support, said the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union today.
08 July 2008 [Read More]

Working Australians & a green future
The Rudd Government’s commitment to meet their Climate Change timetable is admirable, Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary, said today.
07 July 2008 [Read More]

Politics of Climate Change in NSW
Climate change is now accepted as a real and imminent threat. The findings of the Garnaut Report and the introduction of emissions trading will require wide ranging changes in practice and attitude to the environment, including a vision that extends beyond the electoral cycle.
05 July 2008 [Read More]

AWU on Garnaut
The Garnaut Draft Report’s recognition of the importance for Australia, as an exporting nation, of the big resource, energy and metallurgical mining industries, is welcomed by the Australian Workers' Union - our biggest resource and energy union.
04 July 2008 [Read More]

Vic ambo online campaign
Ambo morale crisis could see 700 Victorian ambos walk away and sink govt recruitment plans
02 July 2008 [Read More]

Global energy misusing guest workers
The Australian Workers Union has called on the Federal Government to urgently stop a global energy industry corporation moving a barge from Australia to Indonesia, while investigations into their misuse of foreign labour are completed.
01 July 2008 [Read More]

New AWU Secretary for WA
Australia’s biggest resource and energy union will begin an aggressive new campaign to re-establish the Australian Workers’ Union back into Western Australia’s mining heartland with the election of a new WA Branch Secretary, Stephen Price.
30 June 2008 [Read More]

CFMEU on warpath over ABCC powers
Is a trade unionist compelled to give evidence on what was said at a meeting of workers? Answer: yes. At least, if the building industry's watchdog, the ABCC, requests attendance.
27 June 2008 [Read More]

Sydney Eric Lee workshop!
Enthusiastic Melbourne unionists have snapped up nearly every seat to hear Eric Lee from Labourstart give a one day workshops on union web campaigning. There are a lot more places available in Sydney where the bookings have been slower! So book now!
26 June 2008 [Read More]

Creating 3 million 'green jobs'
Australia can take strong action to tackle climate change and create millions of new job opportunities, according to a major report released today.
26 June 2008 [Read More]

USU petition to protect ahm services
The United Services Union (USU) today launched a petition to urge Australian Health Management fund (ahm) CEO, Mick McLeod, not to go ahead with the takeover by Medibank.
26 June 2008 [Read More]

Costa's power sell-off disaster
More than 1.5 million people will be ripped off if the State Government makes an early bid to sell Energy Australia, warned the United Services Union today.
26 June 2008 [Read More]

Unions and The Net: The Next Stage
Eric Lee from Labourstart will be holding one day workshops in Sydney on July 9th, and Melbourne on July 11th, which will deal with the current threats and opportunities for unions using the net for campaigning and networking. The workshops will also cover current issues such as the use of social networking sites, Second Life and Web 2.0.
25 June 2008 [Read More]

USA must pressure China to go green
Australian Workers’ Union National Secretary Paul Howes this week met with Republican and Democrat Senators to lobby them for a global emissions trading scheme which protect the jobs of resource industry and manufacturing workers in Australia and the USA.
25 June 2008 [Read More]

Politics of Climate Change in NSW
Climate change is now accepted as a real and imminent threat. The findings of the Garnaut Report and the introduction of emissions trading will require wide ranging changes in practice and attitude to the environment, including a vision that extends beyond the electoral cycle.
24 June 2008 [Read More]

Support the Big Picture in Zimbabwe
You can help support democracy and workers' rights in Zimbabwe - just by showing your face.
19 June 2008 [Read More]

Feds pressured on NGO worker paycut
As a result of the ASU campaign launched on 5 June 2008, Federal Ministers Jenny Macklin, Joe Ludwig and Wayne Swan have received hundreds of emails from workers affected by the changes that are being made to the way that income is calculated by Centrelink for the purpose of determining Family Assistance payments.
18 June 2008 [Read More]

Are you under debt stress?
When was the last time you were able to visit your local bank branch without being offered a credit card or a loan?
17 June 2008 [Read More]

AWU plan to trap CO2
Australia’s biggest energy and resources union – the Australian Workers Union - wants the Federal Government to provide R&D funds to research and study the potential of creating new climate change jobs in Australia based on trapping CO2 offshore.
16 June 2008 [Read More]

Child Labour Action Guide
On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour, the ITUC is launching a new “Mini Action Guide on Child Labour,” providing campaigning tools and direct support to trade unions to fight against child labour. According to the ILO, some 218 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these children work long hours, often in dangerous conditions.
14 June 2008 [Read More]

New ILO Social Justice declaration
Following two successive years of debate, the ILO’s annual International Labour Conference adopted a major Declaration on “Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation.”
14 June 2008 [Read More]

Childcare fees increases unwarranted
The LHMU the Childcare Union says any childcare fee increases above inflation are unwarranted because of the Australian Government's unprecedented allocation in the May budget of more than $600 million for the childcare sector.
12 June 2008 [Read More]

Hungry Mile recognition extended
After a concerted campaign by Sydney's maritime workers and their union, the Hungry Mile is now set to be the official locality name around a stretch of Hickson Road in Sydney.
12 June 2008 [Read More]

Boeing give Sydney workers a voice!
Boeing is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial jets and military aircraft, with approximately 1300 employees at its Australian subsidiary Hawker de Havilland.
11 June 2008 [Read More]

Play Fair torchbearers confront IOC
The Play Fair 2008 campaign handed over 12,000 names of people that carried the alternative Olympic Flame for labour rights.
11 June 2008 [Read More]

Bosses can afford maternity leave
The ACTU is calling on all businesses to help fund a national paid maternity leave scheme which would provide Australian women with at least 14 weeks paid leave.
11 June 2008 [Read More]

Time to energise the Bush - AWU
The biggest selling daily newspaper in Australia the, Melbourne Herald-Sun, has this morning run a major Opinion piece by the AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, arguing the union’s case why business and government must accept that it is Time to Energise the Bush.
10 June 2008 [Read More]

AWU Paternity leave submission
The Australian Workers Union has called for the inclusion of ‘Daddy Days’ or Paternity leave in a submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Maternity leave.
07 June 2008 [Read More]

Give Pacific workers union rights
The Australian Workers Union will back a Federal Government scheme to allow Pacific Islanders to come to Australia under a pilot scheme for guest workers in the agricultural sector.
06 June 2008 [Read More]

Calling all Kiwis
In October or November 2008 New Zealand will have a General Election. A Your Rights At Work NZ Campaign has been established in Australia to get eligible New Zealand voters based in Australia enrolled to vote.
27 May 2008 [Read More]

Union versus Asbestos
The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) has organised the largest asbestos survey and research program to ever be undertaken at a single work site in Australia.
21 May 2008 [Read More]

Budget and childcare: the real story
The increased childcare tax rebate will grab the headlines but the substance in the Budget on childcare relates to the funding of an integrated care and education program worth nearly $1 billion dollars, the LHMU the childcare union said tonight.
13 May 2008 [Read More]

What parents want from long day care
The first comprehensive national survey of what parents want from long day care (LDC) is released today. The survey found 90% of children use LDC between 7 and 11 hours per day, a length of time parents say they need to support their workforce participation.
13 May 2008 [Read More]

Racing stewards back at work
AWU harness racing stewards return to work today, satisfied with the outcome of an Industrial Relations conciliation hearing late yesterday.
10 April 2008 [Read More]

Vic Harness racing strike will cost
Harness racing in Victoria is expected to come to a standstill indefinitely from tomorrow (Wednesday) when the state’s 13 official stewards take lawful strike action, the AWU said today.
08 April 2008 [Read More]

Health and safety review welcome
Unions have welcomed today’s announcement by the federal Labor Government of a national review of workplace health and safety laws.
04 April 2008 [Read More]

Transport plan crucial for jobs
Victoria’s ability to provide sustainable, skilled jobs for working people would be threatened if the State Government did not act on recommendations to build two new tunnels under Melbourne, the Australian Workers’ Union said today.
04 April 2008 [Read More]

Sculpture remembers wharfie dispute
Melbourne wharfies mark ten years since iconic waterfront dispute
04 April 2008 [Read More]

Waterfront dispute 10th anniversary
Today Stevedores on the Fremantle docks will stop work for two hours and march through the streets to mark the tenth anniversary of the iconic Patrick waterfront dispute.
04 April 2008 [Read More]

$47mill Ansett super unclaimed
Almost seven years since the collapse of Ansett it appears that almost $47million worth of superannuation remains unclaimed by around 1,959 former Ansett employees whose super was transferred to AUSfund after Ansett Airlines collapsed in September 2001.
04 April 2008 [Read More]

Hunter region 2020 and unions
The Hunter Region 2020 conference this weekend will be told unions expect the Rudd Labor Government to support intitiatives which invest in new technology and promote smart manufacturing for our region.
04 April 2008 [Read More]

Banks push debt on working families
Banks are ‘pushing debt’ onto working families: unions call for cuts to lending targets.
02 April 2008 [Read More]

Harness racing in Vic to be crippled
Harness racing in Victoria will be severely disrupted from Friday when stewards take industrial action.
02 April 2008 [Read More]

Virgin needs high standards
Richard Branson should demonstrate his commitment to the growth of the Australian aviation industry by announcing the heavy maintenance of his aircraft, using Sydney as an international hub, will be done in this country.
01 April 2008 [Read More]

Unions welcome start of AWA bans
Unions welcome the ban on new Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) that takes effect today (12 midnight Friday 28 March) but plan to continue the campaign to scrap Work Choices in its entirety.
28 March 2008 [Read More]

Rural workers will cheer end of AWAs
Low-paid workers in the rural sector will be cheering today when Parliament finally ends the most hated symbol of the WorkChoices era – the individual contract Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA).
19 March 2008 [Read More]

Clyde Cameron - a great AWU man
A long-serving Federal Labor MP and AWU official, Clyde Cameron, has died aged 95. Mr Cameron played an important role in the history of the Australian Workers' Union.
17 March 2008 [Read More]

Union poll gives Super nod to Rudd
A national poll completed for the Australian Workers’ Union has shown that Australians would give Prime Minister Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan the green light to deliver their election tax cuts into their retirement savings – instead of in cash.
14 March 2008 [Read More]

Commonwealth unions to meet
With the 53-member Commonwealth this week celebrating “Commonwealth Week”, the ITUC is supporting the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG)* in its call for the organisation of mainly English-speaking countries to take action in support of workers’ rights, equal pay for women, and climate change.
13 March 2008 [Read More]

Hotel workers launch rescue package
Research by the LHMU, the hotel workers’ union, reveals a crisis in luxury hotels with devastating staff turnover levels, record injury rates, dangerous workloads, bullying by management and Australia’s biggest number of low paid workers.
11 March 2008 [Read More]

Unions condemn Mid East massacre
The ITUC has condemned the killing of at least eight religious students in Jerusalem, and the wounding of several others, by an assassin on 6 March. Militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack.
11 March 2008 [Read More]

End rural worker wage freeze!
AWU members in the rural sector want an end to the wage freeze imposed on them by the Howard Government created Fair Pay Commission.
10 March 2008 [Read More]

Calling all Kiwi unionists
At the end of this year New Zealand will have a general election. New Zealand unions have asked the Australian union movement to support their campaign to get eligible New Zealand voters, based in Australia, enrolled to vote.
06 March 2008 [Read More]

Work laws must respect Oz values
Australia’s work laws should respect our democratic values, and ensure working people are allowed to have a voice in their workplace.
06 March 2008 [Read More]

Climate Change and insurance workers
Last week IAG and Suncorp - Australia’s two largest general insurance companies -blamed lower than expected annual profits on extreme weather events.
05 March 2008 [Read More]

Westpac employees say NO
Hundreds of FSU members have faxed their signatures to the FSU office to condemn Westpac’s plans for further offshoring.
05 March 2008 [Read More]

Oz unions back Iran campaign
As part of the ASU commitment to ITF International Railway Safety Day, we will be joining with International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and ACTU affiliates in supporting two critical issues this week. Trade unions internationally are calling for a global day of action on March 6 to highlight the situation of detained union leaders in Iran, to demand their release and to highlight human rights abuses against the people of Colombia. Australian unionists, including ASU members, will be participating in a series of events around the country.
05 March 2008 [Read More]

CFMEU calls for apprentice quotas
Building companies that win government construction contracts, including the low-cost housing program announced yesterday, should be required to meet a formal apprentice quota, the CFMEU said today.
05 March 2008 [Read More]

MUA: Safety breaches risk lives
Construction of the NSW Government's desalination plant is riddled with safety breaches that are putting lives at risk, striking divers warned today.
04 March 2008 [Read More]

ACTU Exec working families agenda
The Executive of the ACTU will meet in Melbourne today to consider a new campaign plan to improve the wages, working conditions and superannuation of working families.
04 March 2008 [Read More]

Gaza: Cycle of Violence Must End
With the Israeli army withdrawal from Gaza, the ITUC has called for the Israeli and Palestinian authorities to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible.
04 March 2008 [Read More]

CPSU welcomes new PS bargaining
The CPSU has welcomed the release of new workplace bargaining guidelines for the public sector.
03 March 2008 [Read More]

MUA divers protest
The construction of the Kurnell Desalination Plant faces delays because a contractor is flouting the NSW Government's guidelines on workers rights, the Maritime Union of Australia warned today.
03 March 2008 [Read More]

AWA meatworks investigation
It is unethical for employers to continue to push workers onto AWAs that cut their pay and conditions when a Government ban on the use of Work Choices AWAs is imminent say unions.
03 March 2008 [Read More]

Women earn 16% less than men
Women earn 16% less than men: International Women’s Day - International Pay Equity Report
03 March 2008 [Read More]

ACTU warns on rate rise
It is too soon for working families to be slugged with another interest rate rise and the Reserve Bank should wait and see before inflicting another increase on home buyers this week says the ACTU.
03 March 2008 [Read More]

Squattocracy @ Struggle: AWU history
SQUATTOCRACY & STRUGGLE, a 55 minute radio feature for the Hindsight history program, looked at some of the early years of the Australian Workers’ Union through the eyes of one family in the frontier town of Bourke.
02 March 2008 [Read More]

AWU lobbies for Tas hospital
The AWU has stepped up a campaign in support of the Rosebery Hospital after the Tasmanian branch won the backing of the 130,000 member union’s National Executive at their two-day meeting in Hobart.
29 February 2008 [Read More]

Qantas Valet parking protest
About two thirds of staff at Qantas Valet Parking at Tullamarine Airport are expected to work their last shifts today as a new AWA contractor takes over.
29 February 2008 [Read More]

Fairpay commissioner pockets $38,000
News that pay commissioner Professor Ian Harper pocketed a $38,000 pay rise last year while award wage workers got a measly $10 a week is proof that the former Howard Government’s Work Choices IR laws favoured big business and executives at the expense of ordinary workers say unions.
28 February 2008 [Read More]

Mansour Osanloo - Freedom Will Come
Watch this You Tube video which explains why unions are organising a global action day on 6 March 2008 to express our solidarity with Iranian workers once again.
27 February 2008 [Read More]

Qantas must back valet parking
Qantas should immediately step in and save 170 valet parking workers from major cuts to their wages and conditions say unions.
26 February 2008 [Read More]

Qantas Valet Parking forces AWAs
An AWA offer has been re-issued not once, not twice, but three times in just nine days by the new contractor due to take over Qantas' Valet Parking service this Saturday.
26 February 2008 [Read More]

March 6 will be day for Osanloo
Events will be held worldwide on 6 March 2008 as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists dedicate the day to demanding the release of imprisoned Iranian union leader Mansour Osanloo.
26 February 2008 [Read More]

Union Control of the ALP?
After almost 120 years is it time to cut the labour movement’s Gordian knot, that most intricate relationship between the fortunes of the political wing (the ALP) and the industrial wing (affiliated trade unions)?
25 February 2008 [Read More]

Stop the Sell-Off
Stop the Sell-Off, Keep Power in Our Hands.

Rally tomorrow outside NSW Parliament House.
25 February 2008 [Read More]

Centrelink cuts - bad for community
The CPSU has warned that Government moves to cut 2,000 jobs from Centrelink will lead to more queues and longer waiting times for clients.
24 February 2008 [Read More]

Who backs Iranian union camp'n?
A quick report for the many people asking about the progress of the LabourStart campaign to support Mahmoud Salehi and Mansour Osanloo – two jailed Iranian trade unions.
23 February 2008 [Read More]

Squattocracy and Struggle
SQUATTOCRACY & STRUGGLE, a 55 minute radio feature for the Hindsight history program, will look at some of the early years of the Australian Workers’ Union through the eyes of one family in the frontier town of Bourke.
22 February 2008 [Read More]

Unions blast bank foreclosures
Unions are calling on banks and home lenders to change the way they deal with families struggling to pay their mortgages, after reports of homeowners returning from work to find their locks had been changed.
22 February 2008 [Read More]

Support Qantas Valet Parking workers
About 170 workers across major airports in Australia currently need your support. In the dying days of AWAs in Australia, the new firm contracted to provide Qantas' Valet Parking wants to put all staff on a five year AWA.
21 February 2008 [Read More]

Super way out of tax cut dilemma
Protecting our members from higher interest rates and bigger mortgages - which eat away at wage packets - is a key issue for the AWU.
21 February 2008 [Read More]

Qantas workers sacked offered AWAs
Qantas parking workers sacked & then offered their jobs back on AWAs that pay $15,000 less.
16 February 2008 [Read More]

Release jailed Iranian workers
The ITUC and the ITF are organising a global action day on 6 March 2008 to express our solidarity with Iranian workers once again.
16 February 2008 [Read More]

Steel needs long term future vision
The Newcastle Herald ran this Opinion Piece today, from the AWU's Paul Howes, after OneSteel announced on Friday it was shutting down this September the former BHP bar mill at Mayfield in Newcastle.
16 February 2008 [Read More]

New employment standards
All Australians will be able to look forward to a more secure working future under the 10 new employment standards proposed by the Rudd Government, says ACTU President Sharan Burrow.
15 February 2008 [Read More]

AWU angered by OneSteel slash & burn
The AWU has blasted OneSteel for refusing to invest in new technologies and using their merger with Smorgons Steel as an excuse to shutdown plants across Australia.
15 February 2008 [Read More]

Vic elective surgery cancelled
Talks in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission fail to settle the long running pay and conditions dispute in Victorian public hospitals
15 February 2008 [Read More]

1st step to dismantle WorkChoices
The Labor Government’s proposed new workplace relations law, tabled in Parliament today, is an important and welcome first step towards reversing the damage done to working Australians by the Liberal and National Parties’ unfair ‘Work Choices’ laws, say unions.
13 February 2008 [Read More]

AWU miners back isolated community
AWU mine workers in Tasmania are lending their voices to a State campaign to re-establish the Rosebery Hospital.
13 February 2008 [Read More]

Campaign against privatisation
Public opposition has grown against the NSW Iemma Government plan to sell its electricity retail business and lease its power generating plants for 99 years to private companies.
13 February 2008 [Read More]

AWU wants Vic Gvt Inquiry
The Australian Workers’ Union is calling on Victorian Premier, John Brumby, to review the Government’s decision to award a $360 million contract for the overseas manufacture of 18 new trains.
11 February 2008 [Read More]

Unions on interest rates
Interest rate hike puts more working families under financial pressure:unions.
05 February 2008 [Read More]

Union Aid Abroad seeking volunteers
Union Aid Abroad is looking for volunteers for its Make Life Fair Everywhere campaign.
04 February 2008 [Read More]

Work families can't afford rate rise
Unions today warned that low and middle income working families cannot afford another rise in interest rates and called on the Reserve Bank to hold rates at current levels until the full impact of the global financial situation is clearer.
04 February 2008 [Read More]

Economic challenges Rudd Labor faces
The American economy is on the edge of an economic slowdown, recession is possible. Petrol prices are moving towards the threshold of US$100 dollars per barrel.
04 February 2008 [Read More]

AWU gets opinion-leader support
The AWU's superannuation plan launched on Wednesday at the National Press Club is winning support from influential opinion-makers.
01 February 2008 [Read More]

Darwin MUA crew statement
We the crew of the RV Triton would like to put on record our disappointment at Gardline for sacking us because we are members of a union.
31 January 2008 [Read More]

Make focus on OHS a priority
Urgent action is needed to prevent workplace deaths, the ACTU said today.
31 January 2008 [Read More]

ACTU: Restore workplace rights
Union leaders will meet in Canberra over the next three days at an ACTU conference to discuss how to scrap the Liberals’ Work Choices IR laws and restore the rights of workers.
30 January 2008 [Read More]

Regional jobs growth - the AWU plan
The Australian Workers’ Union wants the newly elected Rudd Government to build a strategy to help turn our country towns into the long-term engine-room of Australian growth, environmental protection, population redistribution – so that we can maintain the Australian dream.
31 January 2008 [Read More]

Winning back long service leave
The Australian Workers’ Union wants to work with the Rudd Government to restore the right to long service leave to our union’s members, Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary, will tell the National Press Club today.
30 January 2008 [Read More]

AWU backs Qld Gvt mine concern
A culture of silence at BHP’s Cannington mine must come to an end, the AWU National President and Queensland Secretary, Bill Ludwig, said today.
25 January 2008 [Read More]

Wage rip-off on North West Shelf
One of the biggest global energy industry corporations involved in the oil and gas rush on the North West Shelf is using the skills shortage to import cheap Asian labour – and they’re paying the workers less than what they were promised in their contracts.
22 January 2008 [Read More]

AWU denied Cannington access
Miners Union denied free access to workers at isolated BHP’s Cannington mine .
18 January 2008 [Read More]

AWU leader joins LA writers picket
The Australian Workers' Union National Secretary Paul Howes joins Writers Guild of America picket line in support of striking writers.
17 January 2008 [Read More]

Economic challenges Rudd Labor faces
The American economy is on the edge of an economic slowdown, recession is possible. Petrol prices are moving towards the threshold of US$100 dollars per barrel.
04 February 2008 [Read More]

WA mine pain: OHS voice restricted
The AWU, Australia's mining union, has called for the elimination of artificial restrictions on the right of our union's OHS people, and key officials, to represent mine workers facing workplace health crises.
13 January 2008 [Read More]

Bosses continue to force AWAs
Unions are calling on employers to stop forcing staff onto Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) ahead of new laws expected to be tabled next month in Federal Parliament that will ban AWAS and begin scrapping Work Choices.
09 January 2008 [Read More]

Banks must put people before profits
The ACTU is urging Australia’s major banks to put people before profits and refrain from increasing interest rates following recent decisions by ANZ and the National Australia Bank to put rates up.
07 January 2008 [Read More]

Bank staff pressured to sell debt
The Finance Sector Union today called for bank customers to direct their ire in the right direction in the wake of the move by the major banks to increase interest rates.
07 January 2008 [Read More]

12 hour shift cancer scare
The Australian Workers' Union has welcomed a United Nations report released at the end of last year warning that shift work can be an important factor in causing certain cancers.
07 January 2008 [Read More]

Xmas Day workers
More people working Xmas Day, New Years Day than ever before
25 December 2007 [Read More]

Question marks over miners' safety
A team of Australian Workers’ Union officials is heading to Fosterville Gold Mine near Bendigo to begin its safety investigation into an underground explosion at the mine which resulted in 12 workers requiring hospital attention.
20 December 2007 [Read More]

Stop the Sell Off
Unions NSW and power industry delegates launch campaign to 'Stop the Sell Off' of the state's electricity industry proposed by the NSW Government.
20 December 2007 [Read More]

Qantas must not hit 5000 Oz families
The AWU has been assured that Qantas’ announcement of a new joint venture with Malaysia Airlines will not have any impact on the more than 5000 Australian workers and their families who are involved in local Qantas engineering and maintenance operations.
19 December 2007 [Read More]

Newcastle workers hit hard @ Xmas
Well paid highly skilled Australian workers are about to lose their jobs in the Newcastle area because Federal and State governments are just not prepared to step up and support our manufacturing industries – the AWU said today.
19 December 2007 [Read More]

Beaconsfield mine safety
The AWU believes the new Beaconsfield mine management is much more co-operative than the previous management, the union said today as management announced the resumption of full production.
18 December 2007 [Read More]

MUA backs NZ dockers
Three ships turn away as a Maritime Union delegation joins a picket in Napier New Zealand.
17 December 2007 [Read More]

Face of the AWU on Facebook
The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) is set to become more visible on the web with a new Facebook application launched today. (Thursday December 13 2007).
13 December 2007 [Read More]

Hardy Wines leave sour taste
Hardy Wines was acting worse than the Grinch at Christmas in denying its Buronga winery workers fair compensation for losing their jobs next year, the Australian Workers’ Union said today.
11 December 2007 [Read More]

BHP trying to bribe Oz workers
BHP caught trying to bribe Australian workers onto AWAs
09 December 2007 [Read More]

Rogue bosses warned
Bosses who want to undermine the Rudd Labor government's plans to phase out AWAs will not be tolerated.
06 December 2007 [Read More]

PM Rudd salutes unions
Australia's newly elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, today praised the role and importance of the trade union movement in Australian society.
05 December 2007 [Read More]

Shorten farewells AWU members
Bill Shorten - one of the AWU's greatest leaders - has sent a message to our union's 130,000 members, thanking them for the extraordinary support and opportunities he has had over last 14 years in what he describes as as challenging and memorable chapter of his working life.
05 December 2007 [Read More]

NSW Fabian Society AGM
Please come along to the NSW Fabian Society AGM to be held at the South Steyne , Darling Harbour, Sydney on 12 December 2007 at 6.30pm.
04 December 2007 [Read More]

New national AWU leader
Australia's oldest and biggest blue-collar union has voted for generational change with Paul Howes, 26, elected as National Secretary after his predecessor, Bill Shorten, was elected on the weekend as part of the Rudd Labor Government.
27 November 2007 [Read More]

Union rejects ALP 'meat axe' call
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has called on the ALP to stop its offensive posturing over public service saving measures.
22 November 2007 [Read More]

Gillard on secret WorkChoice plans
Channel Seven FOI Editor, Michael McKinnon, has revealed that a two and a half year battle to get secret Work Choices documents released has resulted in a further cover-up by the Howard Government.
20 November 2007 [Read More]

Brit unions back Oz expat vote Labor
The British TUC has issued a call to Australians living in the UK to vote to restore workers' rights in the Australian elections which will be held this weekend.
20 November 2007 [Read More]

Gvt deregulation of mine safety
News of the safe and rapid rescue this morning of our miners in Ballarat is welcome indeed – Paul Howes of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) said.
19 November 2007 [Read More]

Farmers Fed uses WorkChoice laws
More than 100,000 workers in the Australian pastoral industry could have their wages cut because of complications caused by the WorkChoice laws, and the Howard Government’s Australian Fair Pay Commission
16 November 2007 [Read More]

New union TV ad for next 2 weeks
New union TV ad highlights importance of preventing Liberals going further on IR .
11 November 2007 [Read More]

Not speaking English - sacked!
Cochlear workers threatened with dismissal for raising concerns over an English-only workplace policy will feature in Mandarin language TV advertisements arguing for their right to be represented by a union.
09 November 2007 [Read More]

Fosters workers want union agreement
Fosters workers at Yatala in Queensland have again voted to take industrial action this week in their fight for a union collective agreement.
09 November 2007 [Read More]

Nationals rob rural workers hopes
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile's attack on The Australian Workers' Union shows how much the Nationals have adopted a lock-step, follow-the-leader policy stance with the Liberals - rather than an independent stance in support of regional Australia.
09 November 2007 [Read More]

PS jobs as political football
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has called on politicians to stop using public service jobs as a ‘political football’.
07 November 2007 [Read More]

Barnsley workers plight
CFMEU Construction National Secretary Dave Noonan will today meet union members on the picket line at Barnsley Joinery Works, where 17 workers were sacked on Friday without immediate payment of their entitlements as per the award.
07 November 2007 [Read More]

LGBTI workers and Fed election
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has stated that they intend to follow up the "Same Sex: Same Entitlements" Inquiry whose report was launched in June this year.
02 November 2007 [Read More]

Childcare leaders unite
Childcare leaders unite to identify crisis in quality standards across Australia
01 November 2007 [Read More]

Howard confirms plan to cut Awards
John Howard has confirmed that his Government will push ahead with their plan to reduce coverage of the award safety net and would also consider changes to the fairness test if re-elected, according to a report in today’s Australian Financial Review.
01 November 2007 [Read More]

2007 WorkChoices Cup
Here is a cheeky Melbourne Cup office sweep for the big day in November.
31 October 2007 [Read More]