Media Releases

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All ACTU media enquiries should be directed to ACTU Media team:

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Recent Media Releases

Australian Unions give Maccas franchises a serve

February 11, 2025

Australian Unions are standing up to the McDonald’s fast-food chain in a test case over workers’ bargaining rights.

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Future Made in Australia investment to deliver hundreds of thousands of new jobs by 2040

February 10, 2025

With the passage of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia program, industries like green aluminium, solar and battery manufacturing, green hydrogen, and critical minerals could create more than 400,000 new jobs by 2040.

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CEOs go after penalty rates

February 7, 2025

Big business claims penalty rates and workplace rights in the era of Trump need to go.

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Hundreds rally to fight Nippon Opal paper cuts harming workers

February 6, 2025

ACTU President, Michele O’Neil has slammed Nippon Paper’s Opal management, demanding an immediate end to the lockout of over 300 production workers from its Morwell Paper Mill in the Latrobe Valley.

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ACTU accuses Gina Rinehart of oligarch-style influence over the Coalition

February 5, 2025

The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition’s industrial relations policy.

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Employer lobby furious that IR reforms are improving wages

February 4, 2025

Australian Unions have attacked big business employer group demands for an overhaul of the Albanese Government’s Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms as a plan to weaken wages growth.

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Labor’s IR reforms a success

February 3, 2025

Australian Unions have welcomed the findings of an independent review of the Albanese Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms finding the new laws have been a success in increasing wages.

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Mining and Energy Union’s Tony Maher appointed Chair of Safe Work Australia

January 31, 2025

Australian Unions have welcomed today’s announcement of Mining and Energy Union General President, Tony Maher as the new Chair of Safe Work Australia.

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New employer election wish list demands a return of wage-cutting schemes

January 31, 2025

The ACTU today warns that a pre-election wish list by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) will restore the wage cutting schemes used by companies like BHP and Qantas to reduce workers’ wages and conditions.

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ACTU statement on Stephen Jones’ retirement from federal politics

January 30, 2025

The ACTU commends the outgoing Assistant Treasurer on a career dedicated to improving the working and retirement lives of Australians.

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