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Recent Media Releases

Payday super to boost workers’ retirement savings

March 14, 2025

Australians Unions welcome today’s release of exposure draft legislation by the Albanese Government requiring super to be paid at the same time as wages.

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Unions welcome $750 million boost to metals manufacturing

March 14, 2025

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s promise to eliminate Future Made in Australia is a threat to the jobs and livelihoods of working people and their loved ones. The last time Peter Dutton was in government, his party let our car manufacturing industry die. Now, he wants to stop Australian metals manufacturing workers and their kids from having a better future.

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Women and work from home: believe what Peter Dutton does, not what he says

March 14, 2025

Coalition Leader, Peter Dutton’s panicky small backtrack on his work from home ban for public sector workers would still be harmful for women, and based on his record, is unlikely to be true, says the ACTU.

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Bosses’ push to end penalty rates spreads to the finance and admin sector

March 13, 2025

The push by big business to scrap penalty rates has spread to the finance sector and all administrative workers.

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Action gets wages moving for women

March 7, 2025

The boost in women’s wages under the Albanese Government equates to an extra $2,600 on average per year for a full-time working woman.

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Dutton’s work-from-home ban a risk to job opportunities for women: ACTU

March 5, 2025

Working people in our outer suburbs face some of the longest and most expensive commutes. Forcing hundreds of thousands of workers back on the roads will mean less time with your kids and more time stuck in traffic.

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Coalition Trump copycat Work-From-Home agenda will hit working families

March 4, 2025

Shadow Finance Minister, Jane Hume’s pledge to end work-from-home arrangements in the public sector is another sign that the Coalition is blindly following US President Trump’s lead on workplace priorities.

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Scrapping work rights will worsen gender pay gap, warns ACTU

March 4, 2025

The ACTU warns the Coalition’s commitment to scrap work-from-home arrangements for public servants, eliminate the right to disconnect, wind back casual workers’ rights and end multi-employer bargaining, would worsen the gender pay gap. Unions believe weakening workplace protections would make it harder for parents, and especially women, to balance work and care.

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Young workers powering growth in union membership

February 27, 2025

New figures show union membership grew substantially – by almost 200,000 members – from 2022 to 2024, powered by growth among young workers. This is a 12.5 per cent increase.

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Dutton needs to come clean on his IR agenda

February 26, 2025

If working people can’t trust Peter Dutton to be transparent about his extensive property holdings, how can they trust him to protect their wages and rights at work.

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