Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
More rate cuts won’t fix pay crisis
July 2, 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s second consecutive cut to interest rates shows that the Morrison Government is failing to address wage stagnation and a stalling economy.
The RCEP deal a raw deal for working Australians
July 1, 2019
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal being negotiated in secret between the Australian government and 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including China and India could worsen conditions for working people in Australia and across the region.
Penalty rates cut again as politicians enjoy pay rise
July 1, 2019
On the day that politicians are receiving a two percent pay increase, equating to $11,000 per year for Scott Morrison, the penalty rate cuts which he voted for eight times are taking even more money out of the pockets of low-paid workers.
Super changes must put working people first
June 30, 2019
The peak body for working people has welcomed the Morrison Government’s commitment to end their “culture wars” against industry funds and call on their legislative priorities for superannuation to put members’ interests first.
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.
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