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Recent Media Releases
Union wins help narrow the gender pay gap
November 28, 2025
Working women in Australia are seeing the gender pay gap narrow thanks to new work rights, pay rises in undervalued sectors, and strong increases in award and collective agreement wages.
Unions welcome new AI Safety Institute
November 25, 2025
Australian Unions welcome today’s announcement of the Australian AI Safety Institute, calling it a critical step toward ensuring Australia has a pro-worker, pro-jobs and pro-growth adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
Landmark ruling orders AGL to support closing power plant workers
November 25, 2025
The Fair Work Commission has made its first ever order requiring a major energy employer to provide support for workers facing job losses from the closure of a power plant.
Australia on track for more asbestos deaths, unions warn
November 21, 2025
Australian Unions will today call for an urgent overhaul of national asbestos health and safety laws to force employers to remove asbestos-containing materials from Australian workplaces, including schools.
Workers mental health under threat from violence and aggression, increasing work pressure and discrimination
November 20, 2025
Australian workers experienced unacceptably high levels of burn-out, stress and over-work, the latest data from the Work Shouldn’t Hurt Survey reveals.
APRA’s failures shouldn’t cost members their retirement savings
November 19, 2025
Unions are concerned that APRA and ASIC’s failures to prevent the First Guardian and Shield collapses could cost working people’s superannuation savings through an increase in mandatory levies paid by all superannuation funds.
More secure jobs are being created
November 13, 2025
The trend reflects a growing number of working Australians moving from casual and part-time work into full-time secure employment. The casual share of employment fell to its lowest level in August 2025, the lowest it has been since the early 1990s.
Passage of payday super a win for workers fighting super theft
November 4, 2025
Australian Unions welcome the passage of the Albanese Government’s payday super legislation through Parliament this afternoon.
Safety rules failing to tackle climate change risk to workers
November 4, 2025
Unions are calling for new work health and safety laws to better protect workers from climate change, including extreme heat, natural disasters and air pollution.
Coalition must stop playing politics with women’s grief
October 30, 2025
Coalition MPs, including Andrew Hastie and Barnaby Joyce, have challenged the laws currently before the Senate, cynically exploiting women’s grief to raise their opposition to women undergoing late-term abortions.
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