October 10, 2017
A report released today by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) based on research from Ernst and Young Australia (EY) finds that closure of coal-fired power stations and reduction in the cost of renewable energy will mean significant change for the workforce in those power stations in the next decade.
October 3, 2017
The MOU signed today signals the intent of unions and DCNS Australia to work together to ensure that the Future Submarines project will not only produce the best possible product for the Australian Navy, but will also revitalise manufacturing industry and safeguard jobs for the future.
October 3, 2017
The betrayal of Australian Toyota workers by the Abbott Turnbull Government today reaches completion, as the final car rolls off the production line in Altona.
September 29, 2017
Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash has ignored warnings from the Department of Employment that the PaTH program will cost 120,000 real jobs for young jobseekers, according to documents revealed under freedom of information by The New Daily.
September 28, 2017
This is an extreme and dangerous bill.
It is opposed in the strongest possible terms by all affiliates of the ACTU.
It will undermine and weaken Australia’s trade unions as that is what it is designed to do. This bill is what some very powerful employers want, these corporations already have too much power and too much influence over the Government. The people who will be the victim will be working people who are already suffering with 40% of people in insecure work and the lowest wage growth in recorded history.
September 27, 2017
The ACTU congratulates our President Ged Kearney on being nominated to contest pre-selection for the Victorian Labor Party to contest the seat of Brunswick.
September 21, 2017
An ACTU submission to a review of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) being conducted by
the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) shows that secretive agreements have opened the door
to more exploitation of migrant workers.
September 21, 2017
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Secretary Sally McManus will be in Perth tonight for the first state-based meeting for the Change the Rules Campaign to address inequality and give power back to working people.
September 19, 2017
The attacks on working people by Australia’s Employment Minister Michaelia Cash are leaving a negative impact on a majority of workers. A new poll by Essential Research shows that 52% of people say that they have not had a pay rise in the last year, while Fairfax papers today are reporting that average weekly earnings have only increased an average of $3 per year for 9 years.
September 18, 2017
A new report commissioned by the Transport Workers Union – The Consequences of Wage Suppression for Australia’s Superannuation System – has been released this morning.
