Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Still no answers on youth unemployment
August 25, 2016
ABS labour force figures released today show rising youth joblessness is not going away, with the unemployment rate for 15 to 24 year olds at 12.7% – up from 12.4% in June.
CUB workers to walk off work, halt production
August 25, 2016
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) will today join up to 100 working members from the Carlton & United Breweries Abbotsford Plant at a 3-hour paid stop work meeting to protest the sacking of 55 workers.
Independent report hits out at Government’s trickle-down economics theory
August 22, 2016
A new report from the Inclusive Prosperity Commission exposes the inequality of the Turnbull’s Government’s obsession with trickle-down economics.
ABS figures show workers suffer double blow
August 18, 2016
Today’s dual ABS releases on Average Weekly Earnings and the snapshot Labour Force data show that Australian workers continue to be affected by a two-pronged dampener on their living standards.
Record low wage growth continues, economy has stalled
August 17, 2016
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is today calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to sit down with unions and business and address stagnating wages.
ACTU executive vows to end racist Community Development Program
August 16, 2016
The ACTU executive has adopted a resolution authorising all means at the organisations disposal to be mobilised against the Turnbull Government’s racially discriminatory Community Development Program.
ACTU rallies to recognise 50 years of struggle for Indigenous Wage Justice
August 15, 2016
The ACTU, including Secretary Dave Oliver and Indigenous Officer Kara Keys, has joined with affiliate unions and local Indigenous people in Darwin this morning to draw attention to the ongoing fight for wage justice for Indigenous Australians.
Coalition’s clamp down on right of entry laws could cost lives
August 5, 2016
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is alarmed that the Federal Government intends to stop working people organising in their workplaces and accessing their unions.
Post the Abbott-Hockey years, Coalition still out of touch
August 4, 2016
The following statement can be attributed to ACTU President Ged Kearney:
Treasurer Scott Morrison has once again revealed the Coalition’s hand; that the Turnbull Government is embarrassingly out of touch with working people.
Statement from Michael Borowick, Assistant Secretary, ACTU: Asbestos ban must be enforced to protect all Australians
August 4, 2016
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is today releasing a report – five months after he received it – that shows the Federal Government is dangerously negligent when it comes to controlling asbestos importation in Australia.
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