Author: Cameron Warasta
Media Releases:
- March 16, 2026: Australian workers exposed to unsafe chemicals
- March 12, 2026: Half a million Australians left exposed by outdated workers’ compensation system
- March 11, 2026: Super win for low-income workers
- March 11, 2026: IR reforms are closing loopholes, as big business tries to open them up again.
- March 6, 2026: Unions push for new universal right to 10 days paid reproductive leave
- February 19, 2026: Australian Unions welcome growth in secure jobs
- February 18, 2026: Collective agreements deliver pay rises ahead of inflation
- February 4, 2026: Extreme heat is killing workers: Unions urge national rules to save lives
- February 3, 2026: Rate hike adds to housing costs
- January 15, 2026: Australian Unions and Microsoft sign agreement on Workers’ Rights and Artificial Intelligence
- December 12, 2025: Unions welcome review of Comcare workers’ compensation scheme
- December 8, 2025: Unions welcome expanded support to tackle gender inequality
- December 5, 2025: Unions welcome review of Closing Loopholes workplace reforms
- December 3, 2025: Chemist Warehouse workers win big
- November 28, 2025: Union wins help narrow the gender pay gap
- November 25, 2025: Unions welcome new AI Safety Institute
- November 25, 2025: Landmark ruling orders AGL to support closing power plant workers
- November 21, 2025: Australia on track for more asbestos deaths, unions warn
- November 20, 2025: Workers mental health under threat from violence and aggression, increasing work pressure and discrimination
- November 19, 2025: APRA’s failures shouldn’t cost members their retirement savings
- November 4, 2025: Passage of payday super a win for workers fighting super theft
- November 4, 2025: Safety rules failing to tackle climate change risk to workers
- October 30, 2025: Coalition must stop playing politics with women’s grief
- October 20, 2025: Unions warn Coalition’s attack on bargaining a risk to living standards
- October 17, 2025: New data reveals a third of jobs driving Australia’s serious injury claims
- October 16, 2025: ACTU renews calls for rate cuts as unemployment rises
- October 15, 2025: Government’s backflip to hurt thousands of workers
- September 24, 2025: Uber ordered to pay lost wages in first-ever unfair deactivation case
- September 15, 2025: Workers to be hit hard by climate crisis, new report confirms
- September 3, 2025: Unions seizing the opportunities of AI and protecting the fair go
- August 28, 2025: Unions welcome penalty rates protection for Australian workers
- August 14, 2025: Gender pay gap down as women’s workforce participation rises
- August 13, 2025: Unions to push for shorter working hours, including a four-day work week
- August 12, 2025: Unions welcome rate cut, urge banks to immediately pass on savings
- August 12, 2025: Productivity Commission skills report lets employers off the hook – ACTU
- August 4, 2025: Australian Unions back ‘faster to yes – faster to no’ on energy approvals and reducing the fuel tax credit scheme
- July 30, 2025: Unions say a more diverse economy is needed to boost productivity
- July 24, 2025: Unions welcome Bill to protect penalty rates for 2.6 million workers
- July 2, 2025: Union wins for thousands of low-paid Maccas workers
- July 1, 2025: Don’t miss out: millions of workers set for pay boost from July 1
- June 27, 2025: Record number of Australians win higher pay through union bargaining
- June 26, 2025: US multi-national locks out coal miners
- June 3, 2025: Boost to Aussie wages on the way
- May 15, 2025: Women’s workforce participation at record levels
- May 14, 2025: Real wages up again – driven by bargaining
- May 4, 2025: Australians couldn’t risk Dutton
- May 2, 2025: Coalition costings – cost women
- April 28, 2025: Workplace fatalities claim 32 lives nationwide this year
- April 24, 2025: Young men back Albo as champion of workers, new poll reveals
- April 22, 2025: One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms
- April 16, 2025: Australian Unions welcome landmark decision on women’s pay
- April 15, 2025: Women in outer suburbs and regions hardest hit from Dutton’s plan to axe Free TAFE
- April 10, 2025: Bosses argue low-paid workers don’t deserve $3.94 a day to spend on lunch
- April 10, 2025: Bosses argue that Western Sydney workers shouldn’t earn enough to live there.
- April 9, 2025: $12,000 for bosses: Unions slam Coalition’s apprenticeship proposal
- March 31, 2025: Coles and Woolies are taking the piss, blaming workers for higher prices
- March 30, 2025: Ban on supermarket price gouging welcome
- March 25, 2025: Budget delivers higher incomes for workers
- March 24, 2025: Threats to work from home likely to affect 1 in 3 workers
- March 20, 2025: Retail workers face losing $5,000 a year – and it won’t stop there
- March 14, 2025: Payday super to boost workers’ retirement savings
- March 14, 2025: Unions welcome $750 million boost to metals manufacturing
- March 5, 2025: Dutton’s work-from-home ban a risk to job opportunities for women: ACTU
- March 4, 2025: Scrapping work rights will worsen gender pay gap, warns ACTU
- February 27, 2025: Young workers powering growth in union membership
- February 25, 2025: Australian Unions slam Dutton’s threat to axe 36,000 public service jobs
- February 21, 2025: ACTU welcomes $500 million investment in manufacturing jobs
- February 21, 2025: The Coalition should join with the government in opposing cuts to penalty rates
- February 20, 2025: Australian Unions welcome support and a future for thousands of jobs at Whyalla Steelworks
- February 19, 2025: Real wages have grown more in the last twelve months – than under the entire nine years of Coalition government
- February 14, 2025: Abolishing representative boards would cost workers in retirement: ACTU
- February 13, 2025: New analysis reveals weekly cost to Australians of scrapping the right to disconnect
- February 12, 2025: New report on AI recommends stronger rights and protections for workers
- February 5, 2025: ACTU accuses Gina Rinehart of oligarch-style influence over the Coalition
- January 31, 2025: New employer election wish list demands a return of wage-cutting schemes
- January 30, 2025: ACTU statement on Stephen Jones’ retirement from federal politics
- January 30, 2025: 1 million Australian workers at risk of penalty rate cuts while bosses are promised free lunches
- January 29, 2025: Inflation data shows rate cuts long overdue: ACTU
- January 28, 2025: Big business launches bid to scrap penalty rates for retail workers
- January 24, 2025: ACTU welcomes $10,000 cost-of-living boost for apprentices
- January 21, 2025: ACTU slams multinational’s lockout of regional workers
- January 16, 2025: Australians risk losing hundreds of thousands in retirement income under Coalition super proposal
- December 17, 2024: Workers win $120 million in compensation after defeating Qantas
- December 13, 2024: Cost-of-living to spike under Dutton’s nuclear proposal, ACTU warns
- December 10, 2024: One in three workers at risk from AI: Unions call for fair go in the digital age
- December 4, 2024: Reserve Bank’s rates hesitancy is hurting workers
- November 28, 2024: Future Made in Australia a win for workers, jobs and climate
- November 19, 2024: Mind the gap: improvements in narrowing the gender pay gap
- November 3, 2024: Australians to save thousands with announcement of permanent fee-free TAFE
- November 1, 2024: Flight attendants celebrate 28 per cent pay rise
- October 30, 2024: Australia becomes world leader in protecting workers’ rights and safety
- September 19, 2024: Historic win: harassment victim-survivors granted fairer access to justice
- September 19, 2024: Unions welcome superannuation boost for parents
- September 15, 2024: Senator Hume confirms workers’ pay and job security at risk under the Coalition
- September 13, 2024: Coalition super proposal would worsen women’s financial security, says ACTU
- September 6, 2024: Australian unions commemorate anniversary of winning the right to a weekend
- September 5, 2024: ACTU statement on Bill Shorten’s retirement from federal politics
- September 5, 2024: ACTU calls on big banks and insurance companies to stop having a lend of us
- August 29, 2024: Inflation slows down, but big business must do its part by dropping prices
- August 26, 2024: ACTU President heads to Burnie to back striking Saputo workers
- August 26, 2024: Unions welcome new right-to-disconnect laws as a cost-of-living win
- August 22, 2024: Paid Parental Leave changes good for women and the economy
- August 13, 2024: Working people would be $4700 worse off if Dutton was PM
- August 2, 2024: Right to disconnect award should be clear and practical, says ACTU
- July 23, 2024: Commission’s review of part-time work should deliver “roster justice”, says ACTU
- June 19, 2024: Dutton’s dangerous nuclear fantasy will cost workers, says ACTU
- June 5, 2024: Statement on the election of ACTU officials at Congress 2024
- June 3, 2024: ACTU welcomes real wage rises for 2.6 million workers
- May 22, 2024: ACTU calls for wages boost ahead of today’s Annual Wage Review hearing
- May 20, 2024: ACTU seeks to strengthen right to disconnect, as Dutton promises to abolish it
- May 16, 2024: Dutton’s plan: remove workers’ rights, drive down wages and rob the next generation of a decent retirement
- May 16, 2024: Unions win stronger laws that will improve health and safety for offshore oil and gas workers
- May 15, 2024: Workers’ real wages grow more in past year than under 10 years of the Coalition
- May 14, 2024: Working people win higher wages and cost-of-living relief in Budget 2024
- May 13, 2024: Wage rises and super on parental leave a big support for working women and care industries.
- May 13, 2024: Budget 2024 must deliver cost-of-living relief and support wage growth
- May 6, 2024: Unions welcome cost-of-living relief for nursing, teaching and social work students
- May 2, 2024: Unions commemorate 50 year anniversary of 1974 Equal Pay Case
- April 29, 2024: ACTU calls for interim pay rise of “at least” 9% for workers in key feminised industries
- April 3, 2024: Unions welcome record pay rises for workers on new collective agreements
- March 27, 2024: ‘Roster justice’ needed so workers can plan their lives
- March 21, 2024: All workers should be protected from discrimination, says ACTU
- March 6, 2024: Shameful conduct sees Qantas fined $250k
- February 28, 2024: Qantas to pay $21k to illegally stood down worker
- February 27, 2024: Coles should drop prices after $594m half-year profit
- February 21, 2024: Unions welcome working people’s real wages finally moving
- February 20, 2024: ACTU response to Professor Fels’ report and recommendations
- February 19, 2024: Ampol still squeezing consumers at the pump with $1.7 billion profit
- February 19, 2024: Unions welcome review of Australian apprenticeships incentive system
- February 15, 2024: Commonwealth Bank fined $10.3 million for wage theft
- February 7, 2024: Unions welcome additional protections for migrant workers
- February 6, 2024: ACTU welcomes crackdown on dodgy training providers
- January 31, 2024: Unions welcome falling inflation rate
- January 29, 2024: Half of workers in insecure jobs forced to work due to lack of paid leave
- January 25, 2024: Unions welcome government announcement of ACCC inquiry into supermarket prices
- January 18, 2024: Steady unemployment rate masks job losses and likely rise in insecure work
- December 6, 2023: Early Christmas present for millions as a significant parts of the Closing Loopholes Bill passes
- December 6, 2023: Working people are paying less for essential services thanks to the Albanese government
- December 4, 2023: Power to Prevent Coalition Media Release
- November 29, 2023: Government intervention helping with cost of living, but big business need to do their part
- November 28, 2023: ACTU welcomes super theft inclusion in the Closing Loopholes Bill
- November 16, 2023: Qantas found guilty again, this time for targeting health and safety representative
- October 22, 2023: ACTU calls for an urgent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine
- October 16, 2023: Unions welcome Albanese Government’s landmark National Skills Agreement
- October 3, 2023: Unions welcome RBA rates hold
- September 13, 2023: Workers defeat Qantas: High Court confirms sackings were illegal
- September 5, 2023: End of Philip Lowe’s term as RBA governor offers an opportunity for change in direction
- August 31, 2023: Industry super funds outperform profits super funds yet again
- August 31, 2023: Harvey Norman records over a billion in profits whilst pushing pay cuts for working people