The Morrison Government’s Budget measures to address the aged care crisis have been marked a hard “fail” by more than 700 aged care workers, in survey results released today.
While failings in the vaccination…
Revelations today that aged care workers were only given leftover aged care vaccines confirms the dreadful vaccine experience of aged care workers over the past few months, United Workers Union Aged Care Director…
Urgent plans for South Australian aged care workers to be banned from aged care facilities until they are vaccinated is a case of workers being punished for the bungled aged care vaccination rollout,…
Federal Government attempts to shift the blame for the failed aged care vaccination program on to aged care workers are nothing short of despicable, United Workers Union Aged Care Director Carolyn Smith said…
Victorian workers across the state are doing the right thing and staying home if they are unable to work due to public health advice, but they are being left without the support they…
WHEN: TODAY 1:20pm Tuesday 25 May 2021
VISUALS: WA health workers will be rallying out front of the WA Industrial Relations Commission
WHY: Multiple employers in WA Health are in breach of their enterprise agreement…
Spotless Services, which relied on vital Defence Force support staff working throughout Covid-19, has left contract cleaners, groundskeepers and range operators at RAAF Garbutt and Lavarack Barracks in Townsville with no choice but…
The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work report on aged care funding reveals once again the terrible human cost paid for years of neglect, Carolyn Smith, Aged Care Director of United Workers Union,…
Industrial action by essential health workers fighting against privatisation of vital health services will continue after a failed bid by the Marshall Liberal Government to block the workers.
“The Marshall Liberal Government has monumentally…
4 Reasons You’re Better Off Union
Unions have a long history in Australia. The first Australian union was formed in the 1820’s, and between 1850-1869 there were around 400 unions formed in Australia.…
SA Treasurer Rob Lucas’s refusal yesterday to rule out further privatisation of health services and job cuts in hospitals has shocked workers who help care for South Australia’s ill, elderly and most vulnerable.
Mr…
Today the Victorian Government announced a $50 million investment into mRNA vaccine technology and research, so that COVID-19 vaccines using mRNA technology can be manufactured locally.
The United Workers Union welcomes this decision to…