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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Behave yourself this year
The do’s and dont’s for your workplace xmas event. Anne Purdy from the Young Workers Legal Service: Listen: Download Interview ◦Young Workers Legal Service: (08) 8279 2233 is an initiative of SA Unions and provides free work-related advice for workers … Continue reading
Renovating?? Check First!!
This week is National Asbestos Awareness Week and ceremonies will be held all around Australia. Asbestos is highly toxic, causing a range of lung diseases that are slow to develop but in many cases deadly. Mining companies and other industries … Continue reading
Spotless Cleaners take action at Westfield
350 shopping centre cleaners employed by Spotless Group have won their ballot for strike action in 16 shopping centres across the country, with a resounding 94% yes vote to take protected industrial action. The strike action could mean dirty shopping … Continue reading
A win for Baiada chicken workers in Victoria
More than 200 workers are believed to have won an 8 per cent pay rise over two years under a new agreement negotiated by the National Union of Workers, ending a 13-day strike at the Baiada chicken factory in Laverton, … Continue reading
Union News
Nurses union has welcomed a federal court decision to review their industrial action suspension Pilots union calls for a judicial inquiry into the Qantas grounding Foxtel accused of exploiting its contractors Uniformed NSW police rally over reform to their death … Continue reading
How dads can help their daughters get a job in the trades
The call has been issued to fathers of Australia to teach your daughters to use hand tools. The call, issued by SALT – Supporting and Linking Australian Tradeswomen – coincided with the inaugural Women in Industry Conference, held in Sydney … Continue reading
The fight for public school funding is on
Australian society expects and demands that both state and federal governments fund a free education system that is available to every Australian child. On Tuesday, Parents, teachers and principals across Australia took part in a National Day of Action for … Continue reading
Shocking tales from the Baiada chicken factory in Victoria
After four months of negotiations with Baiada chickens, 100% of voting NUW members at the poultry processing facility voted to take protected industrial action to defend permanent and secure jobs on site. The company wants to take away any form … Continue reading
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Union News
Committee told Adelaide Desal Plant project put production over safety ABS Data confirms cost of living pressures for workers Victorian nurses defy an order to suspend work bans Education Union calls for transparency over job slash plans New Zealand lamb … Continue reading
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Tagged ACTU, Adelaide Desalination Plant, Meat Workers, National Tertiary Education Union, New Zealand, nurses, wages
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I don’t feel like chicken tonight
There were ugly scenes in Laverton, west of Melbourne, over the weekend as community members took over a picket line at the Baiada chicken factory, after Fair Work Australia banned union officials from staffing the picket themselves. One man’s legs … Continue reading
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