Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Historic move to stamp out forced labour at ILO
June 12, 2014
Unions and business unite to applaud a historic moment as a new legally binding protocol on forced labour is overwhelmingly voted for at the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.
It’s on – unions ready to fight for penalty rates
June 3, 2014
Australian Unions will fight a campaign by the business lobby to cut weekend penalty rates, challenging them today to ‘bring it on’.
Enough is enough: Trade deals should benefit local workers
June 2, 2014
Unions condemn further moves by the Abbott Government to make it easier for international workers to fill job vacancies where local workers are seeking employment.
Hundreds of thousands of Australian workers overlooked for jobs
May 29, 2014
Unions are concerned that up to 350,000 Australian workers are searching for jobs in the very occupations where employers are continuing to use 457 visa workers.
Jobs – not failed policies – will turn around unemployed
May 28, 2014
Australians looking for work need a Government who creates jobs, not one happy to push them onto the failed ‘work for the dole’ program.
Government must come clean on future of Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency
May 27, 2014
The possible abolition of Australia’s Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency will put lives in danger.
Government’s youth jobs plan: become a fruit picker
May 26, 2014
In what can only be described as a complete and total lack of understanding of the predicament of young job seekers, Employment Minister Eric Abetz has today casually suggested that young unemployed people should become fruit pickers.
Another Abbott Government attack on rights at work
May 26, 2014
In yet another example of blind ideology driving the Abbott Government agenda, Attorney-General Brandis has announced another inquiry into workplace laws.
Every worker must be able to go to work and return home safely
May 21, 2014
The tragic death of a waterside worker at the toll shipping facility in Melbourne yesterday and of a worker at the Boggabri coal mine in NSW this morning is yet another reminder that workplace safety is a life and death matter.
Thousands of nurse graduates locked out of jobs
May 21, 2014
Unions call for the tightening of laws that regulate the use of 457 visas in Australia as staggering numbers of nurse graduates are shunned by employers.
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