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COURT ACTION FOLLOWS LATE PAY, MISSING SUPER, MASS RESIGNATIONS
December 16, 2024
A Federal Circuit Court action lodged as a test case seeks to recover money for low-paid early educators, among hundreds of workers across five states owed unpaid superannuation worth an estimated $7 million*…
CANCER CARE WORKERS WALK, SEEKING SAME JOB, SAME PAY
December 10, 2024
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 10 December 2024
The health workers who look after cancer patients in treatment, radiation therapists, took protected industrial action today in the form of a four-hour stoppage from 10:00am.
More than 90…
WOOLIES WORKERS WIN ON ‘FRAMEWORK’, PAY RISES
December 9, 2024
After a strike lasting 17 days, more than 1800 workers at five sites have won cost-of-living pay increases and Woolworths warehouse workers have successfully blocked a work-speed measurement tool being used to automatically…
WOOLIES WORKERS RETURN TO WORK: ‘WE’RE HUMANS NOT ROBOTS’
December 7, 2024
Statement attributable to United Workers Union National Secretary Tim Kennedy regarding the Woolworths warehouse workers strike:
Today workers across three warehouses in Victoria and one in NSW have voted to accept a…