Read current and past media statements from the ACTU.
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All ACTU media enquiries should be directed to ACTU Media team:
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E: media@actu.org.au
April 14, 2024
ACTU Assistant Secretary Joseph Mitchell is expected to criticise major supermarket pricing practices when he gives evidence to the Senate committee on Supermarket Prices today (Monday).
April 11, 2024
The Australian Council of Trade Unions strongly supports the Prime Ministers announcement today of a Future Made in Australia Act and looks forward to working with Government to ensure that its content guarantees the creation of good, safe, secure well-paid jobs and tangible community benefits.
April 3, 2024
The ACTU welcomes recently released data by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for the December 2023 quarter showing that average pay rises for workers covered by new collective agreements reached a 15-year high of 4.3 percent.
March 27, 2024
The ACTU has used its reply submission on the work and care stream of the Fair Work Commission’s
Modern Awards Review 2023-24 to call for “roster justice” and to highlight the impact that unfair
rostering can have on workers
March 25, 2024
The ACTU announced it will seek a 5% increase in Australia’s minimum and award wages as part of its submission to the Annual Wage Review.
March 21, 2024
The ACTU welcomes the Australian Law Reform Commission’s recommendation to protect students, teachers and other workers at religious educational institutions from discrimination.
March 21, 2024
The ACTU welcomes the significant decline in the unemployment rate today as a welcomed boost to working people built on major improvements to our workplace laws.
March 19, 2024
The ACTU calls on the RBA to cut the cash rate following today’s decision by the Board to hold it steady at 4.35 percent.
March 13, 2024
he ACTU’s response to the Fair Work Commission’s Work and Care discussion paper outlines changes that need to be made to awards to update them to reflect the needs of a modern workforce.
Despite some significant improvements, awards still reflect a long outdated idea that the average worker does not have any caring responsibilities as their partner looks after this at home while they are available to work full time.
March 7, 2024
The ACTU welcomes the announcement that the Albanese Labor Government will pay superannuation on the Government payment from 1 July 2025. This change will rectify a historic inequity that costs women thousands of dollars in retirement savings contributing to the stark gendered retirement gap.
