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- Australia : Cunningham backs 'best and fairest' workers comp
- Australia : Emotional debate on workplace safety
- Australia : Too many employees have had their lives and careers ruined by workplace bullying: Shorten
- Australia : ANF welcomes funding for mental health and cancer programs
- Australia : Short-sighted redefinition of worker
- Australia : Ambos get tough after abuse spike
- Australia : Gladstone Seafarers Call For Coronial Inquiry
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Union News
Workers paid only $100 a day on Port Adelaide Docks Warehouse workers finally reach an agreement with Toll London bus workers win Olympic bonus The stalled South Australia Work Health and Safety Bill South Australia Government proposal to cut 114 … Continue reading
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YWLS on the need for Penalty Rates
Fair Work Australia is currently carrying out a review of Modern Awards in the restaurant and Hospitality industry. Restaurant and Hotel employer associations have recently launched an application for penalty rates to be massively slashed and only available to those … Continue reading
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Tagged AHA, Anne Purdy, Catherine Zengerer, FWA, pay, penalty rates, unions, Young Workers Legal Service, your rights at night, yran, ywls
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Get Gonski Going
Tuesday (July 24th) was declared National Gonski Day by the “I give a gonski” campaign driven by the The Australian Education Union. The day called for support for the implementation of the recommendations of the Gonski review. The campaign has … Continue reading
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Tagged AEU, Gonski, Gonski Review, Howard Spreadbury, Maxine Winkley, sa unions, unions, your rights at night, yran
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No job, but no redundancy payments
500 Whyalla employees of a mining company, Leighton Contractors, have been left angry and distressed after they were told last week, that they would not receive redundancy payments, despite their positions being made redundant. It was announced earlier in the … Continue reading
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Tagged AWU, Leighton Contractors, Maxine Winkley, sa unions, Scott Martin, unions, Whyalla, your rights at night, yran
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Over 300 Caltex Cuts
Around 300 Sydney refinery workers are in shock today with Caltex announcing that they will close their Kurnell refinery in the second half of 2014. The move has caused anger, with Australian Workers Union’s Paul Howes saying both the NSW … Continue reading
Unions take on Toll
This week the industrial dispute between workers working for Coles Supermarkets, but employed by Toll continued. The workers are asking for the same rights as those given to other Coles workers. No trucks can get in or out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameron Stops, Catherine Zengerer, Coles, NUW, Somerton, Toll, your rights at night, yran
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Desal Death finnaly get Day in Court
On July 16, 2010, 35 year old Brett Fritsch headed off to work at Adelaide’s desalination plant. He never came home. He was struck with a steel beam which fell from a crane, and was killed. Crane contractor, Ferro Con … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Cartledge, Adelaide, Adelaide Desalination Plant, Brett Fritsch, CFMEU, Ferro Con, OH&S
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Ford’s Future Undefined
Ford have announced that up to 440 jobs will go at their Geelong and Broadmeadowsplants in Victoria. The high Australian Dollar, decreasing demand for large vehicles and over reliance on handouts have all been raised in the debate over why … Continue reading
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Tagged AMWU, Catherine Zengerer, ford, geelong, Leigh Diehm, manufacturing, unions, your rights at night, yran
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