Media Releases
Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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Recent Media Releases
The Coalition should join with the government in opposing cuts to penalty rates
February 21, 2025
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should back the Government in opposing an application by Australia’s largest retailers to cut penalty rates for some of Australia’s lowest-paid workers.
Australian Unions welcome support and a future for thousands of jobs at Whyalla Steelworks
February 20, 2025
The saving of Whyalla jobs highlights the stark difference between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton when it comes to job security and local manufacturing. When steel jobs were on the line, Anthony Albanese showed up while Peter Dutton did not. Actions speak louder than words, and people still remember that the last time Peter Dutton was in government, his party let our car manufacturing industry die.
Real wages have grown more in the last twelve months – than under the entire nine years of Coalition government
February 19, 2025
The ACTU warns this wages turnaround is at risk of being reversed if a Dutton Government is elected, as it has vowed to reverse the wage-boosting rights that have delivered these gains.
Relief from high interest rates needed now … not next time
February 18, 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia must start delivering on long-awaited interest rates relief for workers who have been hit hard financially by the past 13 interest rate rises.
Dutton opposes childcare cost of living relief for families
February 14, 2025
Australian Unions have blasted the Coalition for trying to defeat cost-of-living relief for families paying for childcare.
Abolishing representative boards would cost workers in retirement: ACTU
February 14, 2025
The ACTU has denounced calls to ban worker representatives from serving on superannuation boards, following the release of a new report from a Senate inquiry into Australia’s retirement system.
New analysis reveals weekly cost to Australians of scrapping the right to disconnect
February 13, 2025
Australian Unions are warning that scrapping the new right to disconnect laws risks adding more than 100 minutes of unpaid overtime every week for the average Australian worker.
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.
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