Media Releases 2019
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Recent Media Releases
South Korea arrests trade union leader
June 26, 2019
The Australian union movement utterly condemns the arrest and detention of the chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kim Myeong-hwan in South Korea.
ACTU calls on PM to kick-start wage growth
June 25, 2019
In the week before the cuts to penalty rates take effect, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling for immediate action to kick-start wage growth with new research showing how badly the wages crisis has squeezed household budgets and weakened the economy.
Unions mount legal challenge to Qantas bonus threat
June 24, 2019
Today, the peak body for working people on behalf of seven unions representing workers at Qantas lodged a legal challenge to the company’s sham bonus scheme.
Morrison’s secret agenda: an unprecedented attack on workers’ rights
June 24, 2019
Prime Minister Morrison made it clear in his speech today that despite refusing to discuss workers’ rights during the election campaign, his Government’s first objective when parliament resumes next week will be to introduce the Ensuring Integrity bill, a roll-back of the basic rights of working people which has no equivalent in the western world.
Historic global Convention to eliminate violence and harassment at work passed
June 22, 2019
A ground-breaking Convention and Recommendation to eliminate violence and harassment at work has been adopted overwhelmingly at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, on the organisation’s 100th year anniversary.
Porter steps up attacks on working people and their unions
June 21, 2019
In comments to the AFR the Minister for Industrial Relations Christian Porter has made it clear that the goal of the Morrison Government is to attack the internationally recognised right of working people to run their own unions, and freely represent working people.
RBA Governor concerned about underemployment and low wage growth, warns cutting rates won’t be enough
June 20, 2019
The Governor of the Reserve Bank has reiterated his concerns about the high rate of underemployment, low wage growth and limited ability of the RBA to cut rates any lower in a speech today.
Equal pay fight continues fifty years after landmark case
June 19, 2019
On Wednesday the peak body for working people will celebrate five decades since the 1969 landmark equal pay case.
RBA raises concerns about high levels of underemployment
June 18, 2019
Notes from the Reserve Bank’s June meeting, at which it lowered Australia’s interest rate below emergency levels, reveals the bank is concerned about the rates of unemployment and underemployment in the Australian economy.
Statement from ACTU Secretary Sally McManus on John Setka
June 13, 2019
Today I met and had a long and frank discussion with John Setka. I told him it is in the best interests of the union movement that he resigns.
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