Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Soaring power prices under privatisation heaps more pain on Australia’s growing class of ‘working poor’
July 27, 2017
A new report today from the Australia Institute is the latest to confirm that privatising energy assets significantly drives up power prices.
7-Eleven wage theft scandal continues: $19,000 more stolen from workers
July 25, 2017
In the latest development in the 7-Eleven wage theft scandal, a former franchisee has been found to have underpaid eight workers $19,937, including one worker who was underpaid a staggering $14,000 over two years.
Wage theft has become a business model because even employers who are caught are only required to pay back the stolen wages.
Family trust another vehicle for the rich avoiding tax
July 21, 2017
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) calls for urgent reform of family trusts as yet more evidence surfaces of the rich avoiding paying their fair share of tax.
Just five cents a day: the real cost for business to provide paid family and domestic violence leave revealed
July 20, 2017
The Turnbull Government has refused to ensure Australian women have access to paid domestic and family violence (FDV) leave, despite new evidence that it would cost bosses just five cents a day.
Statement from ACTU Secretary Sally McManus on FWC Appointments
July 14, 2017
“Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull’s campaign to hand corporations more power continued today with the announcement of new appointees to the Fair Work Commission (FWC).
Government needs to urgently act to clean up growing tax mess
July 11, 2017
Australian Unions are calling on the Turnbull Government to take urgent steps to plug gaping holes in the national tax framework which are robbing Australia of badly needed funds for schools, hospitals and services.
Casual Conversion test case: Unions plug small hole in casualisation crisis
July 5, 2017
Australian Unions have won a first battle in the fight against the epidemic of casualisation.
ACTU wins first national family and domestic violence leave in the world
July 3, 2017
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has today won a first round victory to get working people access to paid family and domestic violence (FDV) leave.
Government ensures PaTH to poverty for young people with new retail deal
July 3, 2017
The day after cutting retail workers’ wages under the lie that it will create jobs, the Turnbull Government is forcing young people into slave labour arrangements with big companies and ensuring they remain in entrenched poverty.
Ged Kearney and Brendan O’Connor Doorstop on Penalty Rate Cuts
June 30, 2017
ACTU President Ged Kearney and Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Brendan O’Connor will address the media on the cuts to penalty rates. New polling shows that Australians believe these cuts are making the economy less equal and giving more power to the very rich.
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