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Rally To Change the Rules Nationwide

Things are out of balance. Australia needs a pay rise that keeps ahead of the cost of living. It's time for working people to stand together for a fai...

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The Australia we once knew, that our parents experienced, is not the reality anymore because the rules that made our country fair are broken.

Wages stay low even as award rises kick in

14 Nov 2018 Pay rises for working people in Australia have remained low with the Wage Price Index rising only one fifth of a percentage point year on year, even as minimum wage rises won by the union movement kick in across the economy.

Nobel Prize-winner endorses sector bargaining

14 Nov 2018 Nobel Prize-winning economist and former World Bank chief economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has endorsed industry and sector bargaining as an answer to slow wages growth.

Morrison wants to let super thieves off the hook

14 Nov 2018 The Morrison Government is poised to reward businesses owners who’ve stolen superannuation from working people by giving them a tax deduction for paying the money back, with no further penalties.

Super Trustees Forum 2018

29 Nov 2018 ACTU Super Trustees Forum 2018 - This event is a unique opportunity for union directors to discuss and debate key issues around superannuation with each other.

Anti-Corruption Commission

13 Feb 2017 The best way to weed out corruption is to have a national Anti-Corruption Commission with the powers to investigate all areas of society. Establish a Commission now!

Support Family Violence Leave for all wokers

13 Feb 2017 Union members are asking the Fair Work Commission and Governments to giveeople subjected to family violence a minimum of ten paid days away from work. It is the responsibility of our whole community to end family violence, and to support people experiencing violence right now.

Australian Senate Vote Down the TPP

26 Oct 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (or TPP) is a dangerous trade deal with the potential to destroy thousands of Australian jobs. The deal was negotiated by Malcolm Turnbull behind closed doors and allows corporations to sue our government just for making laws in the public interest. The TPP risks our jobs, our health and our democracy.

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TWU Australia @TWUAus

HUGE day for delivery riders & on-demand workers tomorrow: FW will give unfair dismissal ruling while riders vote on Foodora pa…
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Michele O'Neil @MicheleONeilAU

The fabulous ⁦@CPSUnion⁩ National Council delegates today. What an amazing campaigning machine they are. We are going t…
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Sally McManus @sallymcmanus

I did a long interview yesterday on our agenda to #ChangeTheRules abc.net.au/news/programs/…
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Member Benefits @Member_Connect

@MicheleONeilAU speaking at the @HSUNational Council about why #AustraliaNeedsAPayrise and how we need to #ChangeTheRul…
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Michele O'Neil @MicheleONeilAU

Great to meet this morning in Sydney with the fine & formidable delegates of ⁦@HSUNational⁩ National Council #ChangeThe…
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Sally McManus @sallymcmanus

The unveiling of the monument to celebrate the Dalfram dispute where union members stopped pig iron being shipped to Japa…
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Construction Forestry Maritime Mining Energy Union @CFMEU

We're with @sallymcmanus - if you want better pay and conditions, join your union and help us #ChangeTheRules https://t.co/PYLSQ…
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The AMWU @theamwu

Matthew Guy had the chance to stare the AiGroup leadership directly in the eye and demand justice for Dillon Wu. He squibbed i…
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Sally McManus @sallymcmanus

Visited the Boom cranes @CFMEU members who have been on strike for five weeks because they haven’t had a payrise for five…
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Jess Walsh @JessWalshOz

POLL: 85% Vic voters support making wage theft a crime & 71% want to avoid hospo venues that rip off staff. Find out what’…
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Kill a worker? Go to jail. We need to stop deaths like Dillon's by introducing industrial manslaughter laws to ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Joe McKenzie @aJoeMcKenzie

Dillon Wu died an hour after a WorkSafe inspector left the factory he was working in. Workers had been sending anonymous…
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Michele O'Neil @MicheleONeilAU

Dillon Wu’s family want answers not flowers. The entirely preventable death of a young man. #industrialmanslaughter App…
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The AMWU @theamwu

This is Dillon Wu. He was an apprentice boilermaker who died on the job last month, overcome by fumes while welding in a confi…
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Maddie Lucre @maddielucre

@sallymcmanus @unionsaustralia @UnitedVoiceOz Please help us get the word out about this crappy zombie agreement. Please…
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CPSU @CPSUnion

Thank you to both @sallymcmanus and the CPSU Delegates at the ABC who fought hard to make sure this event went ahead today. I…
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UnitedVoice Victoria @UnitedVoiceVic

Labor MP’s are pushing for @chriscrewthermp to be referred to the High Court as soon as parliament returns, in relation…

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