Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
Mental illness, fastest growing workplace hazard, costs hundreds of billions per year
October 31, 2019
The Productivity Commission’s draft report illustrates the immense cost of mental illness, which independent research shows is the fastest growing type of workplace injury in Australia.
Workers need more power to end wage theft
October 30, 2019
The announcement today that Woolworths has underpaid workers $300 million over a decade by incorrectly applying the Award to salaried staff is a wake-up call for the industry and for the Government.
CPI remains low, crushed by low demand
October 30, 2019
CPI has remained low at 1.7 per cent according to new data released this morning by the ABS.
Union ad campaign calls on Centre Alliance to put workers first
October 29, 2019
The ACTU has launched radio ads this week following on from print advertising last week calling on Senator Rex Patrick and Centre Alliance to stand up for working people and block the Ensuring Integrity bill.
Business proposed bargaining changes would cost workers billions
October 29, 2019
A new report from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work includes modelling which shows that the changes to bargaining rules proposed by business groups would cost workers currently on private sector EBAs $2000 over the first three years and rip billions in wages from the workforce as a whole.
Government ignores inquiry evidence, while opposition mounts to union-busting bills
October 25, 2019
The Morrison Government has today re-committed to its extreme union-busting Ensuring Integrity and Worker Benefits bills, despite hearing from numerous experts and ordinary working people that the bills would attack their rights, leaving unions less able to keep them safe or fight for better pay and conditions.
Economic growth slows to GFC levels, household consumption growth weakest in six years
October 25, 2019
The economy grew 1.9 per cent in 2018-19 according to new data released this morning by the ABS.
Government continues to lock workers out of vocational education
October 24, 2019
Business Council of Australia Chief Economist and former Liberal party staffer Adam Boyton has been announced as interim National Skills Commissioner by Minister for Skills Michaelia Cash in another example of the Morrison Government handing control of vocational education to big business.
Workers can’t wait for denialist government
October 24, 2019
ACTU Assistant Secretary Scott Connolly will today address the All-Energy Conference, making the case that any successful transition to future economy that preserves the integrity of our planet must put working people at its center, and cannot wait for action from the Morrison Government.
Workers retirements must be protected
October 24, 2019
The ACTU is calling on the Government to rule out new laws that would stop the increase of the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent.
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