Media Releases 2025
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Recent Media Releases
Dutton wants working Australians to wait longer for rates relief
February 12, 2025
Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s assertion that the Reserve Bank of Australia is at risk of cutting rates “too early” shows that he has no idea about the cost-of-living pressures that working families face.
New report on AI recommends stronger rights and protections for workers
February 12, 2025
The ACTU welcomes recommendations to strengthen workplace rights outlined in the newly released report by the House Standing Committee’s Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces.
Australian Unions give Maccas franchises a serve
February 11, 2025
Australian Unions are standing up to the McDonald’s fast-food chain in a test case over workers’ bargaining rights.
Future Made in Australia investment to deliver hundreds of thousands of new jobs by 2040
February 10, 2025
With the passage of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia program, industries like green aluminium, solar and battery manufacturing, green hydrogen, and critical minerals could create more than 400,000 new jobs by 2040.
CEOs go after penalty rates
February 7, 2025
Big business claims penalty rates and workplace rights in the era of Trump need to go.
Hundreds rally to fight Nippon Opal paper cuts harming workers
February 6, 2025
ACTU President, Michele O’Neil has slammed Nippon Paper’s Opal management, demanding an immediate end to the lockout of over 300 production workers from its Morwell Paper Mill in the Latrobe Valley.
ACTU accuses Gina Rinehart of oligarch-style influence over the Coalition
February 5, 2025
The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition’s industrial relations policy.
Employer lobby furious that IR reforms are improving wages
February 4, 2025
Australian Unions have attacked big business employer group demands for an overhaul of the Albanese Government’s Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms as a plan to weaken wages growth.
Labor’s IR reforms a success
February 3, 2025
Australian Unions have welcomed the findings of an independent review of the Albanese Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms finding the new laws have been a success in increasing wages.
Mining and Energy Union’s Tony Maher appointed Chair of Safe Work Australia
January 31, 2025
Australian Unions have welcomed today’s announcement of Mining and Energy Union General President, Tony Maher as the new Chair of Safe Work Australia.
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