Media Releases 2022
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Recent Media Releases
Unions increase annual wage claim in response to cost of living increase
May 8, 2022
The ACTU has revised its Annual Wage Review claim from 5 per cent to 5.5 per cent to ensure that the quarter of the workforce who rely on pay increases provided by the Review do not go backwards in the midst of the Morrison Government’s accelerating cost of living crisis.
RBA projects real wage cuts until end of 2023
May 6, 2022
Working people will continue to see the value of their wages go backwards until the end of 2023, according to inflation and wage projections released this morning by the Reserve Bank.
Rate rise hits workers battling Morrison’s cost of living crisis
May 3, 2022
Today’s rise in interest rates will deepen the cost of living crisis facing Australian workers caused by a Prime Minister who has refused to act to end the real wage cuts that Australian workers are enduring.
Decade of Coalition Government costs workers $10,000
May 2, 2022
With workers facing a cost-of-living crisis, the ACTU has revealed that the average Australian worker would have earned $10,000 more since the Coalition came to power in 2013 if wages had kept up with productivity gains. On today’s wages, that would be another $74 per week.
ACTU welcomes action on gender pay gap
May 1, 2022
The ACTU welcomes the announcement today that an Albanese Labor Government would take real action to address the failure of our industrial relations system to secure pay equity for women and end the systemic underpayment of workers in women-dominated industries.
Does Morrison think he deserves a raise?
April 29, 2022
Liberal Minister Ken Wyatt has told The Australian that he needs a pay rise on his $426,000 salary, at a time when workers on average incomes will lose almost $4000 in 2022 in real terms and the Morrison Government is refusing to support pay rises in the Annual Wage Review or the aged care pay case.
32% more deaths at work under Morrison since 2018
April 27, 2022
One worker every two days is killed on the job in Australia, according to a major report by the ACTU into the Morrison Government’s failings on work health and safety.
Wage Crisis Escalates: Real pay cuts 4 times bigger than projected in budget
April 27, 2022
Inflation data released this morning shows that the average worker will receive a real pay cut of nearly $2,000 in the first half of this year, nearly four more than the Morrison Government projected in the budget less than a month ago.
Labor’s Ag Visa commitment a step in the right direction
April 26, 2022
The ACTU welcomes the Labor Party’s commitment to bring the Agriculture Visa under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme and the improved protections it offers.
ACTU steps up campaign on job insecurity and cost of living: calls on Morrison to release details of IR plan
April 26, 2022
The ACTU is stepping up its workplace campaign and launching TV ads in key marginal seats to warn voters that Scott Morrison has not come clean on plans to re-introduce legislation that will remove rights from workers, and put further downward pressure on wages.
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