Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Inflation data shows rate cuts long overdue: ACTU
January 29, 2025
Today’s inflation figures offer a green light for the Reserve Bank of Australia to reduce the cash rate at their meeting in February.
Big business launches bid to scrap penalty rates for retail workers
January 28, 2025
The ACTU warns that today’s proposal by Australia’s largest retailers to abolish penalty rates and cut minimum conditions for supermarket employees risks hurting some of Australia’s lowest-paid workers and sets a precedent for other bosses to do the same.
A+ for State Schools funding deal
January 24, 2025
Australian Unions have welcomed today’s announcement by the Prime Minister that the Federal Government has secured new school funding agreements with Victoria and South Australia.
ACTU welcomes $10,000 cost-of-living boost for apprentices
January 24, 2025
Australian Unions welcome the Albanese Government’s announcement of a $10,000 wage bonus for apprentices to work in housing construction and clean energy.
49,000 and counting – pay rises a reality for early educators
January 24, 2025
An extra 20,100 early educators are set to receive the first stage of a 15 percent pay rise under the Albanese Government’s wage justice for early educators’ reforms.
ACTU slams multinational’s lockout of regional workers
January 21, 2025
Australian Unions are calling on one of Australia’s largest paper and packaging companies to end their indefinite lockout of over 300 workers without pay at the Maryville paper mill in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Time’s Up Pay Up! – Unions in BHP Same Job Same Pay fight
January 20, 2025
Australian Unions are taking on mining giant BHP in a fight over Same Job Same Pay rises for more than 1,600 labour hire mineworkers.
‘New era for workers’: Unions welcome clean aluminium investment
January 20, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the Albanese government’s commitment of $2 billion to build a green aluminium industry in Australia – an industry that will support thousands of jobs and drive deep reductions in climate pollution.
Softening jobs market yet another reason for the RBA to cut rates – ACTU
January 16, 2025
Today’s jobs data ramps up the urgent need for a rates cut when the Reserve…
Australians risk losing hundreds of thousands in retirement income under Coalition super proposal
January 16, 2025
The ACTU warns that the current push by Coalition members to cut superannuation will cost the average 30-year-old worker around $165,000 in retirement income.
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