Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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All ACTU media enquiries should be directed to ACTU Media team:
T: 03 9664 7315 (24 hours)
E: media@actu.org.au
November 1, 2024
From today, more than 800 cabin crew employed through labour hire will see pay rises of up to 28 per cent, with the wage increases backdated from their next pay period.
October 31, 2024
An industrial relations “blueprint” paper from the conservative HR Nicholls Society outlines a radical employers’…
October 30, 2024
The ACTU is urging the Reserve Bank of Australia to start pulling down interest rates before the end of the year, following today’s inflation figure coming in at 2.8 per cent.
October 30, 2024
The ACTU welcomes Australia becoming the first country in the Asia-Pacific region, and among the first globally, to ratify all 10 fundamental International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions following the ratification of two work health and safety Conventions in Geneva at a tripartite ceremony consisting of unions, employers and governments.
October 28, 2024
Australian Unions are taking aim at the country’s most powerful mining interests for lobbying the Coalition to undo the Albanese Government’s new Same Job Same Pay rights which come into effect on the first of November.
October 25, 2024
The Australian Resources and Energy Employer Association today claimed the Howard era WorkChoices agenda “did not go far enough”.
October 18, 2024
The Coalition has given its strongest signal yet that it would dismantle and Americanise Australia’s compulsory superannuation system if it were returned to office.
October 14, 2024
The ACTU has slammed as unfair and seriously harmful a pre-election agenda being pushed by the business lobby to axe significant workplace rights for up to one million Australian workers.
September 19, 2024
The union movement welcomes the Senate’s passage of the Albanese Government’s Costs Protection Bill, which will make it easier for victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment to pursue legal action against perpetrators.
September 19, 2024
The ACTU welcomes the Senate’s passage of the Albanese Government’s legislation to pay 12 per cent superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave payments from 1 July 2025.
