Media Releases 2018
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Recent Media Releases
Morrison’s pay raise gaffe exposes trickle-down fallacy
September 26, 2018
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments to ABC radio national this morning indicate that he is following the same failed trickle-down path as his predecessors when it comes to the pay rises working people need to keep up with the cost of living.
Business “permanent casual” proposal could destroy permanent work
September 25, 2018
The business lobby’s proposal for changes to workplace laws to create a new category of “permanent casuals” would remove rights for millions of working people and lead to the rapid casualisation of the workforce.
ACTU helping people share their stories for sexual harassment inquiry
September 20, 2018
Australian unions will be making a submission to the Human Rights Commission sexual harassment inquiry and will be assisting people to share their own experiences of sexual harassment and sexual violence, anonymously if they wish.
Melbourne Institute finds ‘Enterprise bargaining is not delivering’
September 19, 2018
The Melbourne Institute has stated that productivity has become uncoupled from wage growth and the enterprise-only bargaining is failing to produce wage growth.
Insecure work in healthcare and social assistance hurting workers, patients, residents
September 19, 2018
Companies in control of healthcare, aged care and social assistance are deliberately making work less secure and forcing huge numbers of their workers to take second and even third jobs to stay above water.
Australia needs a pay rise – there’s no way around it
September 18, 2018
Reports in today’s Australian that real wages are rising relative to the cost of living are wrong. Real wages are going backwards for more than four in five workers.
Immediate $75 increase for Newstart recipients needed
September 17, 2018
The ACTU supports an increase of $75 a week to Newstart payments, with further staged increases to lift the rate above the poverty line so no Australian worker, whether they have a job or are trying to get one, has to live in poverty.
Ratios, reversal of funding cuts key to aged care fix
September 17, 2018
The Morrison Government must immediately reverse its funding cuts to the aged care sector and protect residents and workers by implementing minimum staffing ratios for aged care facilities.
The Morrison Government presides over long-term unemployment and insecure jobs.
September 14, 2018
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) report Faces of Unemployment finds more than half of those experiencing unemployment who later find work are subject to work insecurity.
Victory after a 10-year battle against broken rules for pathology workers in Victoria
September 14, 2018
Thousands of people working in Dorevitch Pathology collection centres across Victoria have won a decade-long battle for a fair pay rise.
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