November 20, 2006
Greg Combet has called for Labor and the union movement to develop a new “democratic consensus” on the issues of economic growth, security, education and climate change.
October 25, 2006
ACTU Congress 2006 – IR policy for the next stage of the campaign for workers’ rights
September 22, 2006
On Melbourne radio last Friday, Prime Minister John Howard categorically committed his Government to opposing any right for Australian workers to collectively bargain with their employer.
September 15, 2006
ABC TV’s Lateline Program speaks to ACTU Secretary Greg Combet about union plans for a new system of collective bargaining.
September 13, 2006
The Howard Government is losing the debate over the new industrial relations laws not only because the laws are unfair. It is also losing because it has been dishonest.
August 2, 2006
In a public address at the University of Melbourne 2 August 2006, ACTU President Sharan Burrow provides new ACTU analysis of the key pressures on working families as a result of the IR laws and the Federal Governments economic policy.
June 28, 2006
Greg Combet outlines the impact of the new IR laws and the union campaign ahead.
November 15, 2005
Remember this day. Remember this day. Because THIS is the start of something.
For more than 100 years Australia has had an industrial relations system that has given working people a share of the benefits of economic prosperity.
November 15, 2005
Today, by rallying in such huge numbers, we declare that working people will not be denied a central place in Australia’s future. Working families built this country. They fought and died for it.