Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Equal pay day a reminder of the persistent gender pay gap
August 31, 2018
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day which marks the end of the 62 additional days women workers need to work after the end of the financial year to earn as much as men in Australia.
‘Australia needs a pay rise’: Change the Rules volunteers reach out to thousands in door knock campaign
August 31, 2018
Union members are volunteering to conduct thousands of conversations with Australians about the desperate need for pay rises during a national door knock in September.
Fix bargaining for better pay: IMF
August 31, 2018
Research by the International Monetary Fund has revealed that the erosion of people’s rights in the workplace has led to less pay for workers.
The International Monetary Fund research that shows that measures that have taken power away from working people in favour of big business have hurt take-home pay packets between 1970 and 2015.
Productivity Commission highlights growing inequality
August 29, 2018
An unlikely voice has joined the chorus of those sounding the alarm on inequality in Australia, with a Productivity Commission report on income inequality released today.
QANTAS workers united in opposition to latest ‘bonus’ offer
August 27, 2018
In the wake of its recently announced $1.6 billion record profit, Qantas’ attempt to link the payment of a $2000 ‘bonus’ to workers to the signing of new enterprise agreements has fallen flat across the Qantas workforce.
Sally McManus visits 1600 workers fighting to protect their job security
August 27, 2018
ACTU’s Secretary Sally McManus today meets with workers from two Alcoa bauxite mines and three refineries in WA who are on indefinite industrial action as the company threaten to terminate their Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, refusing to extend their existing conditions.
Government’s weak response to asbestos recommendations
August 23, 2018
A Senate inquiry into the efficacy of the ban on asbestos importation has recommended 26 far-reaching changes to keep Australians safe and hold importers accountable, but the Turnbull Government has failed to adopt most of them.
TPP legislation must be stopped
August 22, 2018
The peak body for working people has urged MPs to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership bill introduced to the lower house of Parliament today.
Vale Laurie Carmichael
August 18, 2018
The Australian union movement is saddened by the passing today of former ACTU Assistant Secretary Laurie Carmichael
Laurie dedicated his life to improving the living standards of working people and he shall be remembered as a giant of the Australian union movement.
Court decision shows need for proper definition of casual work
August 16, 2018
The Federal Court today has delivered a major blow against the misclassification of workers as casuals by employers under current Australian workplace laws.
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