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ACTU: Time to get rid of WorkChoices

ACTU: Time to get rid of WorkChoices May 04, 2009 Lifelong Liberals, swinging voters, Labor supporters, Greens - this time six months ago we all united around the need to get rid of WorkChoices. Today the ACTU is ...

Budget relieves some pressure for working families

The 2008 Federal Budget is a good step towards undoing the damage of Work Choices and relieving the pressure on working Australians and their families ACTU President Sharan Burrow said: "This Budget signals a clear break ...

Australian workers urged to dig deep to support Burmese people - APHEDA

The Australian Trade Union movement’s overseas aid organization Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has launched an appeal in the wake of the devastating cyclone that hit Burma last weekend. Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has worked for ...

Paid Maternity Leave Petition petition

Unions NSW is calling for 6 months of paid maternity leave for all women (working or not, including casuals, part time, contractors and full time). This petition calls for all Australian mothers to have access to six months ...

NSW electricity privatisation bid rejected 7 to 1

Delegates at the NSW ALP Conference in Sydney overwhelmingly rejected the State Government proposal to privatise electricity. The final vote was 702 against electricity privatisation and 107 for it. The vote came after a lengthy debate ...

ACTU submission to the 2020 summit

The Summit is an important opportunity for the needs of working Australians and their families to be fully considered in the development of policy prescriptions for a prosperous and fair Australia say unions. ACTU President Sharan Burrow ...

APHEDA Raffle: $2 ticket can help Make Life Fair Everywhere

The annual Union Aid Abroad (APHEDA) Raffle is on again! 2008 Raffle FIRST PRIZE is a Round the World Trip for Two Imagine, you and a friend heading off around the world on a trip of a ...

Peak groups agree on maternity leave

HREOC Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick, ACTU President Sharan Burrow and Australian Industry Group Chief Executive Heather Ridout have joined forces to call for a national, taxpayer-funded paid maternity leave scheme for all Australian women. HREOC ...

The Australian - General Staff lodge 9 per cent pay claim

THE AUSTRALIAN Unis call for part of the budget surplus to be ploughed into research Sid Marris | April 03, 2008 THE bigger universities want some of the windfall from next month's federal budget to be put ...

Banks are pushing debt onto working families: unions call for cuts to lending targets

Unions call on the banks and other lenders to immediately cut the loan and credit sales targets that are imposed on bank workers and to review lending practices in the banking and finance industry. The ABC 4 Corners ...