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…
Attribute to United Workers Union W.A. State Secretary Carolyn Smith:
Our members working in hotel quarantine are doing their best in unprecedented times.
These essential workers deserve and need the respect and support…
Coles’ lock out of workers at a major south-western Sydney distribution centre was labelled “a disgrace” by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese today in a visit to the site.
In November Coles locked out 350…
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…
Calvary Hospital’s cleaners walked off the job in the Australian Capital Territory today in response to contractor Compass Medirest’s disrespectful 5¢ pay offer.
Last Thursday the cleaners protested outside the hospital, calling on Calvary…
In the Australian Capital Territory, hospital cleaners protested outside Calvary Bruce Hospital in response to contractor Compass Medirest's insulting offer of a 5-cent wage increase and their attempts to block lawful industrial action.…
Workers are protesting the unsafe working conditions and job insecurity experienced by gagged security officers in the Tasmanian state service.
Today United Workers Union members placed 90 cardboard cut-outs of security officers outside…
MEDIA ALERT
WHEN: TODAY Thursday 10 September at 3:30 pm AEST
WHERE: Live stream at https://www.facebook.com/UnitedWorkersOz
WHAT: Cleaners and union members across Australia participate in a virtual picket line calling on the University of Tasmania to reverse…
Starting today, the University of Tasmania (UTAS) will slash cleaning hours by 40%, courtesy of the questionable ethics of Rufus Black, the Vice-Chancellor, and the mismanagement of finances by his predecessor, Peter Rathjen.…
Statewide Quality Services, a mainland contractor, is stealing night cleaners’ wages through sham contracts at Glenorchy Central in Tasmania.
Workers, supported by the cleaners’ union United Workers Union, will rally outside the…
Brisbane Airport’s cleaning company SECUREclean cancelled an essential service to profiteer, while risking their workers’ safety.
Whilst adapting to COVID safe practices to protect the community, cleaners were being directed to change and clean…
A ruling in the Federal Court today is a landmark victory for long-serving cleaners and security guards who are being callously dumped without redundancy payments.
Even more broadly, the ruling affirms the rights of…