One of South Australia’s largest aged care providers, Eldercare, is effectively sacking essential aged care workers who have worked throughout the pandemic, telling them they must resign from their positions if they have…
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At 5 am this morning workers at Coles Smeaton Grange warehouse in New South Wales started 24-hour rolling work stoppages to improve redundancy in the face of coming automation.
In an aggressive response from…
One of Australia’s oldest breakfast food companies, Kellogg’s Australia, is using hardline industrial tactics to threaten essential workers who have worked throughout the pandemic, the United Workers Union said today.
Workers at the Kellogg’s…
Statement attributable to Karma Lord, spokesperson for Hospo Voice, the hospitality arm of the United Workers Union:
“The New South Wales Government’s ‘Out and About’ voucher scheme announced today must not go towards…
You’ve seen the announcements from Dan Andrews, you’ve seen a flood of speculation on Facebook, you might have even received a pretty confusing letter from Crown and hey you might have already done…
Workers at the Lactalis Dairy factory in Bendigo are essential workers that have kept supermarket shelves stocked with the fresh dairy products they make throughout the global pandemic
Yesterday afternoon, workers voted…
Ambulance Victoria’s focus on cutbacks and so called ‘KPIs’ at all costs has left paramedics feeling like they are just “a bum in a seat” according to Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) Secretary…
Melbourne Airport workers are outraged and angered after learning of a recent COVID case at the airport via the media and word of mouth.
United Workers Union members employed by ISS Security as…
Calvary Bruce Hospital cleaners escalate their fight for fair pay with the introduction of cleaning bans and a protest outside the hospital.
Starting today there will be rolling one-hour bans on emptying bins and…
Yesterday Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the State Government would fully fund Victorian kinder services in sessional and Long Day Care centres in 2021.
This announcement extends free kindergarten delivered in 2020 to support…
South Australian essential workers in the public sector have told the Marshall Liberal Government it must address rampant understaffing, reject any further privatisations and renounce cuts to vital services in tomorrow’s SA Budget.
“Public…
The apparent relaxation of a ban on South Australian aged care workers taking on two jobs leaves aged care workers at a serious financial disadvantage heading into Christmas, United Workers Union aged care…