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Recent Media Releases
Porter rushes in with new attack on workers’ rights
October 22, 2019
The Morrison Government’s Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter will immediately bring forward legislative changes removing rights to negotiate for better pay from workers involved in infrastructure projects and employed on greenfield agreements.
Report shows ABC wage theft from casuals of $22.9 million
October 21, 2019
A report published today by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) shows that the ABC was aware that casual staff were being underpaid, but ignored formal complaints from staff and their unions as well as ignoring opportunities to proactively fix the situation.
Free trade agreements fail working people
October 21, 2019
The Free Trade Agreements with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru that are before the House of Representatives today fail to protect Australian workers or our legal sovereignty. They should never have been signed, let alone won bi-partisan support.
Link between union-bashing bill and public health campaigns
October 15, 2019
The fight for public safety and to secure justice and billions of dollars’ worth of compensation for asbestos victims would not have been won without a campaign of work stoppages, boycotts and protests.
Ensuring Integrity would mean raids on union offices were just the beginning
October 11, 2019
The Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) did not have reasonable grounds to raid the offices of the AWU, according to a ruling from the Federal Court this morning.
ITUC-AP condemns ‘draconian, anti-democratic’ EI Bill
October 9, 2019
The Morrison Government’s proposed Ensuring Integrity Bill is an extreme and unprecedented attack on the basic rights of workers guaranteed under international law, according to a resolution from the International Trade Union Confederation Asia-Pacific (ITUC-AP). The ITUC represents 207 million workers worldwide.
JSCOT waves through secret trade agreements that would cost jobs
October 9, 2019
The Joint Standing Committee on Trade has released its report on the Hong Kong and Indonesia Free Trade Agreements, supporting them despite the fact that they do not contain protections for local workers and would compromise Australia’s sovereignty, handing immense legal power to multi-national corporations.
Voters concerned about protections for local workers and sovereignty under new Free Trade Agreements
October 8, 2019
Polling conducted for the ACTU shows that 75 – 80 per cent of voters in the key marginal seats of Bass, Brand, Corio, Hunter and Rankin oppose trade agreements such as those with Peru, Hong Kong and Indonesia, which allow additional work visas without first testing if local workers can fill available jobs.
Health and safety reps crucial as mental injuries at work become fastest growing injury
October 1, 2019
Safe work month highlights the importance of safety in the workplace, calling on workers to ‘be a safety champion’ and leaders for work health and safety within their organisation or industry.
Regional jobs inquiry must focus on future of regional communities
October 1, 2019
The ACTU welcomes the Jobs for the Future in Regional Areas Inquiry, beginning today in Melbourne.
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