Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Don’t miss out: millions of workers set for pay boost from July 1
July 1, 2025
Higher wages and improved workplace rights will come into effect from today – but the ACTU warns that one in ten workers may miss out unless they check their pay slips.
Record number of Australians win higher pay through union bargaining
June 27, 2025
Australian workers are on collective agreements in record numbers and securing stronger wage growth outcomes, according to new wage data released by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.
US multi-national locks out coal miners
June 26, 2025
Australian Unions have condemned an American multi-national for locking out hundreds of mineworkers at a New South Wales mine, in retaliation for taking an hour of protected industrial action.
Boost to Aussie wages on the way
June 3, 2025
The pay boost will help workers catch up on some of what they’ve lost over the past five years of the inflation fight and keeps real wages moving in the ongoing effort to rebuild living standards.
Women’s workforce participation at record levels
May 15, 2025
The participation rate of women in the Australian workforce has once again reached record highs of 63.4 per cent, according to today’s ABS Labour Force statistics.
Real wages up again – driven by bargaining
May 14, 2025
Wages rose 3.4 per cent over the year to March, driven by strong wage increases for workers paid under collective agreements. This is the clearest sign yet that working people’s incomes are finally being restored after years of going backwards.
Australians couldn’t risk Dutton
May 4, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the re-election of the Albanese Labor Government, and we look forward to working with them to ensure working people continue to see real wage growth, increased job security, and safe and fairer workplaces.
Coalition costings – cost women
May 2, 2025
The Coalition’s long-awaited election costings reveal a $1.2 billion cut to programs aimed at Australia’s working women.
CPI result shows continued real wages growth, and clears the way for a second interest rate cut
April 30, 2025
Working Australians are enjoying continued real growth in their pay packets while inflation is back down.
Tassie Liberal candidate says older Australians are ‘happy’ to work for $10 an hour – while disclosing the Coalition’s plan to cut wages
April 28, 2025
Australian Unions warn comments by a Tasmanian Liberal candidate reveal the full extent of a Dutton-led Government’s broad ambition to cut minimum wage rates for Australian workers.
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