Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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May 17, 2023
As the Fair Work Commission holds its hearing of the Annual Wage Review today, Wage Price Index figures released today show wages growth is 3.7% for the year to March 23, up from 3.3% for the year to December 2022.
May 9, 2023
The Albanese Government has taken another step towards delivering on its mandate to get wages moving for working people and to provide cost-of-living relief.
May 9, 2023
The Rotterdam Convention again remains paralysed by the tactics of Industry and a small group of countries, that block the listing of highly hazardous chemicals and pesticides, including chrysotile asbestos, that cause death and significant harm to human health and the environment.
May 8, 2023
The ACTU welcomes today’s announcement that the Labor Government will raise the age cut-off for the Parenting Payment (Single) from 8 to 14.
May 7, 2023
The ACTU welcomes changes to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) announced this morning that will raise $2.4 billion by closing loopholes on offshore liquefied natural gas projects.
May 5, 2023
The ACTU welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement today of a new National Net Zero Authority to support workers and their communities and to deliver a just transition to a net zero emissions economy.
The new Authority will help maximise the benefits and minimise the risks of Australia’s energy transition, driving the creation of good jobs in new industries and ensuring no worker or community is left behind.
May 4, 2023
The McDonald’s franchisee in Murray Bridge, South Australia, has admitted to unlawfully discouraging workers from joining their union and paid a penalty of $275,000.
The SDA, the union which brought the case, believes it is a world-first that a McDonald’s franchise has admitted to engaging in an unlawful campaign to deunionise its workforce.
May 2, 2023
The union movement welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement today that superannuation is to be paid on the same day as wages.
April 28, 2023
Every year on April 28, the trade union movement unites around the world to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day. We mourn those who have died at work or because of their work, and we fight like hell for the living.
April 28, 2023
As the Liddell Power Station in Muswellbrook, NSW, closes its doors today after 50 years in service, the ACTU acknowledges the impacted workers, their families and communities, and again calls for a National Energy Transition Authority to ensure no one is left behind in the nation’s transition to net zero emissions.
