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Recent Media Releases

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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…

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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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RBA should stop sitting on its hands and cut rates: ACTU

January 8, 2025

Today’s inflation figures offer further signs of a clear pathway for the Reserve Bank of Australia to start cutting official interest rates at its first policy meeting in February.

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New year, new powers to tackle wage theft affecting one million workers

January 1, 2025

Employers can face jail time or fines of up to $7.85 million under new laws criminalising wage theft that come into operation today, after a long union campaign.

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Workers win $120 million in compensation after defeating Qantas

December 17, 2024

The ACTU welcomes the establishment of a $120 million fund to compensate more than 1800 Qantas workers who were illegally sacked by the airline in 2020 – the largest case of illegal terminations in Australian history.

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