Media Releases 2017
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Recent Media Releases
PACER-Plus Agreement fails Pacific economies
June 14, 2017
The refusal of Vanuatu, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to attend the signing of the PACER-Plus trade deal shows that this agreement will disadvantage Pacific island economies and leave them exposed to exploitation.
Let the Parliament vote to protect penalty rates
June 14, 2017
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling on the Lower House of the Australian Parliament to be given every opportunity to get the one majority vote needed to save penalty rates.
Penalty rate cuts and inflation will cause double digit wage reduction
June 8, 2017
Ongoing inflation and the penalty rate cuts will wipe out minimum wage increases and significantly reduce real wages for Sunday workers, according to new data from the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute.
MEDIA ALERT: Sally McManus Doorstop on Minimum Wage Decision
June 6, 2017
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus will address the media in response to the Fair Work Commission’s announcement on the minimum wage case 2017.
Penalty rates transitional arrangements a blow to 700,000 workers
June 5, 2017
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has confirmed the penalty rate wage cuts for 700,000 workers will begin in less than four weeks.
Australia must have a Modern Slavery Act to protect the human rights of working people
June 5, 2017
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) today commends Federal Labor for its proposal to establish a Modern Slavery Act.
Penalty rate cuts will tear $760 million out of cities & suburbs
June 5, 2017
More than 350,000 workers in metropolitan electorates across Australia will collectively lose $760 million in wages when the penalty rate cuts come into effect in July, new research from the McKell Institute warns.
Commitment to Paris crucial for ensuring a Just Transition for workers
June 2, 2017
Enduring commitment to the Paris Agreement from the Australian Government is critical to ensuring Australia plays it part in addressing climate change alongside ensuring a Just Transition is achieved for workers in emissions-intensive industries and other industries that are facing a period of immense change.
All Australians need to listen to the ‘Statement from the heart’
May 27, 2017
The ‘Statement from the heart’ released by the Uluru Constitutional Convention yesterday sets out a simple but powerful objective – to better express pre-existing and ongoing Aboriginal and Torres Strait ownership of this country and in doing so address the ‘torment of [Indigenous] powerlessness’.
Statement from ACTU Secretary Sally McManus on Qld law to stop exploitive labour hire contracts
May 25, 2017
The Queensland Government is taking action to regulate labour hire practices — the Federal Government needs to stop sitting on its hands and do the same.
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