Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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January 20, 2025
Australian Unions are taking on mining giant BHP in a fight over Same Job Same Pay rises for more than 1,600 labour hire mineworkers.
January 20, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the Albanese government’s commitment of $2 billion to build a green aluminium industry in Australia – an industry that will support thousands of jobs and drive deep reductions in climate pollution.
January 16, 2025
Today’s jobs data ramps up the urgent need for a rates cut when the Reserve…
January 16, 2025
The ACTU warns that the current push by Coalition members to cut superannuation will cost the average 30-year-old worker around $165,000 in retirement income.
January 8, 2025
Today’s inflation figures offer further signs of a clear pathway for the Reserve Bank of Australia to start cutting official interest rates at its first policy meeting in February.
January 1, 2025
Employers can face jail time or fines of up to $7.85 million under new laws criminalising wage theft that come into operation today, after a long union campaign.
December 17, 2024
The ACTU welcomes the establishment of a $120 million fund to compensate more than 1800 Qantas workers who were illegally sacked by the airline in 2020 – the largest case of illegal terminations in Australian history.
December 15, 2024
The ACTU has branded a new workplace policy agenda being advanced by the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) as extreme.
December 13, 2024
Unions warn that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal announced today will drive up power bills and worsen the cost-of-living for working people.
December 10, 2024
The ACTU is calling for a ‘fair go in the digital age’ following today’s report that one in three Australian workers are at risk of job loss by 2030 from the introduction of AI by big corporate employers.
