Following tight pay negotiations, workers planning industrial action at Fonterra and Saputo dairy processing plants across Victoria have secured historic pay deals.
Workers at Fonterra owned Stanhope, Darnum and two dairy plants in…
WHEN: 10am Monday, 29 November 2021
WHERE: Front lawns of Parliament House, Canberra
WHAT: UWU is releasing a shocking report exposing the financial practices of for-profit providers in Australia. Early childhood educators are calling for…
After almost two weeks on strike, workers at Country Road Group will return to work today after securing an agreement that includes a substantial pay rise.
The mainly women workers from the Truganina warehouse…
In the lead up the peak Christmas retail season, the United Workers Union (UWU) is urging shoppers around Australia to avoid Country Road, or any of its subsidiaries, following the company’s treatment of…
The United Workers Union (UWU) is urging the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria to reconsider Country Road Group’s (CRG) appearance at a Melbourne Fashion Week panel.
Tomorrow morning, CRG’s head of sustainability Eloise…
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The United Workers Union (UWU) welcomes today’s announcement of additional funding for the early education sector, but the Federal Government has included a raft of JobKeeper-style loopholes.
“The Federal Government’s announcement of funding for…
This week’s political football of mandatory vaccinations is a classic case of misdirection by the Federal Government, United Workers Union said today.
“The Federal Government’s approach this week has been a disgraceful political cook-up…
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…