The pay boost will help workers catch up on some of what they’ve lost over the past five years of the inflation fight and keeps real wages moving in the ongoing effort to rebuild living standards.

PROGRAM The Organising Works program was established in 1994 to provide affiliated unions with a younger more diverse group of organisers to organise and empower workers. Since then, more than 1,000 ...

The ACTU executive has today resolved to take all necessary steps to ban engineered stone by the middle of next year following a CFMEU motion (attached) if government bans are not in place by then.

Australian Unions warn that the Coalition Leader’s plan to ban work-from-home arrangements in the public sector will reduce women’s job opportunities and drive down productivity. Nearly one million ...

The ACTU welcomes the re-election of the Albanese Labor Government, and we look forward to working with them to ensure working people continue to see real wage growth, increased job security, and safe ...

Australian Unions are releasing a new report today outlining how workers would be $8,700 worse off by now, if Peter Dutton had achieved his goal of blocking the Government’s major reforms to get wages ...

The ACTU has welcomed the government’s new Migration Strategy which will be instrumental to repairing the Coalition Government’s legacy of damage and neglect, which has seen rampant migrant worker ...

The Coalition’s only plan for women is to remove access to affordable childcare by reintroducing the childcare activity test if elected. This will result in parents throughout Australia losing ...

The Australian Union movement is a movement of peace and respect for all races and nationalities. We oppose war, racism, and oppression. We act in solidarity. The Australian Union movement is ...

The Coalition has given its strongest signal yet that it would dismantle and Americanise Australia’s compulsory superannuation system if it were returned to office. In a speech at Sydney University on ...

The Coalition’s long-awaited election costings reveal a $1.2 billion cut to programs aimed at Australia’s working women. The Coalition’s costings lay bare $1.2 billion in funding cuts to programs that ...