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Recent Media Releases
Workers to be hit hard by climate crisis, new report confirms
September 15, 2025
Labour productivity could decrease 0.8 per cent, and up to 2.7 million additional days of work could be lost, with devastating consequences for real wages and national income growth. Property damage is projected to increase to almost $1 trillion per year by 2090.
Unions seizing the opportunities of AI and protecting the fair go
September 3, 2025
AI agreements would include guarantees around job security, skills development and retraining, transparency over the use of AI technology, as well as genuine privacy and data collection protections. Workers are also calling for the protection of their creative output from content theft and for regulation of AI through a National Artificial Intelligence Authority.
Unions welcome penalty rates protection for Australian workers
August 28, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the Senate’s passage of the Albanese Government’s Bill to protect penalty and overtime rates for Australian workers.
Gender pay gap down as women’s workforce participation rises
August 14, 2025
Australian Unions welcome today’s news that jobs and wages are continuing to rise with a strong lift in both employment and pay for women.
Unions to push for shorter working hours, including a four-day work week
August 13, 2025
Australians would benefit from a shorter working week – including a four-day model – under a proposal that unions will take to next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable.
Unions welcome rate cut, urge banks to immediately pass on savings
August 12, 2025
Australian Unions have welcomed today’s decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates for the third time this year, providing more critical cost-of-living relief for working people.
Productivity Commission skills report lets employers off the hook – ACTU
August 12, 2025
Australian Unions are urging the Albanese Government to reject key elements of the Productivity Commission’s newly released interim report ‘Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce,’ arguing it prioritises employer cost-cutting over effective solutions to address Australia’s skills and training challenges.
Unions and media bosses align on protecting creative workers and their industries
August 7, 2025
Calls from the large multinational tech sector and regurgitated by the Productivity Commission for a copyright exemption for AI firms while they train their new models would see creative workers, journalists and academics’ work stolen to build the profit of some of the world’s biggest companies and richest people.
New national skills levy so employers help pay to bridge the skills gap
August 7, 2025
With national priorities from the energy transition to AI requiring the reskill and upskill of thousands of workers over the next decade, Australian Unions have thrown their support behind a national skills levy.
PC Report proposes to sell out Australian workers and their industries
August 6, 2025
The Productivity Commission seems completely ignorant of the world-leading academic research and best-practice examples that demonstrate the most effective AI introduction is done through consultation, co-design, and collaboration with workers.
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