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October 29, 2019
A new report from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work includes modelling which shows that the changes to bargaining rules proposed by business groups would cost workers currently on private sector EBAs $2000 over the first three years and rip billions in wages from the workforce as a whole.
October 25, 2019
The Morrison Government has today re-committed to its extreme union-busting Ensuring Integrity and Worker Benefits bills, despite hearing from numerous experts and ordinary working people that the bills would attack their rights, leaving unions less able to keep them safe or fight for better pay and conditions.
October 25, 2019
The economy grew 1.9 per cent in 2018-19 according to new data released this morning by the ABS.
October 24, 2019
Business Council of Australia Chief Economist and former Liberal party staffer Adam Boyton has been announced as interim National Skills Commissioner by Minister for Skills Michaelia Cash in another example of the Morrison Government handing control of vocational education to big business.
October 24, 2019
ACTU Assistant Secretary Scott Connolly will today address the All-Energy Conference, making the case that any successful transition to future economy that preserves the integrity of our planet must put working people at its center, and cannot wait for action from the Morrison Government.
October 24, 2019
The ACTU is calling on the Government to rule out new laws that would stop the increase of the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent.
October 22, 2019
The Morrison Government’s Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter will immediately bring forward legislative changes removing rights to negotiate for better pay from workers involved in infrastructure projects and employed on greenfield agreements.
October 21, 2019
A report published today by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) shows that the ABC was aware that casual staff were being underpaid, but ignored formal complaints from staff and their unions as well as ignoring opportunities to proactively fix the situation.
October 21, 2019
The Free Trade Agreements with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru that are before the House of Representatives today fail to protect Australian workers or our legal sovereignty. They should never have been signed, let alone won bi-partisan support.
October 15, 2019
The fight for public safety and to secure justice and billions of dollars’ worth of compensation for asbestos victims would not have been won without a campaign of work stoppages, boycotts and protests.
