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…
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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…
Essential health workers will press their case today for state-wide industrial action to raise their concerns about privatisation and job cuts.
The workers and their union will attend a tribunal hearing after a last-ditch…
MEDIA ALERT
WHEN: TODAY 1pm Thursday 1 April 2021
WHERE: McCormick Foods, Cnr Fairbank Rd and Brady Ave, Clayton South
WHAT: Shadow Education Minister and Shadow Minister for Women Tanya Plibersek, ACTU President Michele O’Neil…
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE
WHAT: Aged care nurses and carers media conference.
When: 10.30am, Tuesday 16 March, 2021.
Where: Senate Courtyard, Parliament House, Canberra.
A DELEGATION of aged care workers from across Australia will converge on Parliament House,…
Aged care workers have rejected central recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission, saying they do not go far enough or quickly enough to provide the care and safety older Australians need.
In a…