AWU National News: Archive by Category

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2005 National Conference
AIRC decisions
AWU Conferences
Aluminium Industry
Automotive Components Industry
Aviation Industry
Awards
Building Better Communities
Campaigns
Collective Bargaining
Conferences
Construction Industry
Corporate Governance
Disputes
Drug & Alcohol Testing
Executive Salaries
Federal Budget 2005
Fire fighters
Gas Industry
Glass Industry
Hazards
Immigrant Workers
Improving Workplace Conditions
Individual Contracts
Industrial Disputes
Industrial Manslaughter Legislation
Issues
Manufacturing Industry
Mining Industry
Miscellaneous
Oil & Gas Industry
Racing Industry
Reasonable Hours
Redundancies
Road Construction
Rural Workers
Shearers
Shift Work
Steel Industry
Superannuation
Surveys
Trade
Training
Unfair Dismissals
Union History
Water Policy
Women in the Workplace
Work & Family
Workers Entitlements
Workplace Privacy
Workplace Relations
Workplace Safety
wages

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2005 National Conference

• AWU National Conference Draws Near

AIRC decisions

• AIRC upholds union rights
• AWU Victorian Branch Auditor's Report & Financial Statements
• AWU Victorian Branch Operating Report
• AWU construction workers win 5% pay and super rises
• AWU on TV's Meet the Press: Conditional support for guest worker program
• Banks should put people before profits
• Notice to Members – Rule Change
• Unacceptable delays by banks in passing on rate cuts will hurt home buyers
• Union Support For Trapped Miners and Their Colleagues
• Zoo workers win 'poo allowance'

AWU Conferences

• "Strong, United, Effective: the AWU" 2003 NSW Delegates Conference
• 5th Annual AWU Gala Ball
• 6th Annual AWU Gala Ball
• AWU Opens News Sydney Office
• AWU conference starts tomorrow
• Latham to Address AWU Members
• Media Alert - One Day Longer
• No More Moombas - AWU Delegates to Debate Workplace Incidents
• Privacy Matters: AWU Victorian Branch 2004 Seminar
• Two's a Party, Three's a Crowd

Aluminium Industry

• AWU to Hold Crane to Job Security Guarantee
• AWU wins fight to protect Aramac hospital employees
• Aluminium workers debate future
• Construction workers should have the same rights as the rest of the workforce
• Donate to the Union Tsunami Appeal
• New website for AWU Aluminium Members
• PM Rudd salutes unions at Bernie Banton funeral
• THE FUTURE OF THE ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY
• Union wins nearly $14,000 pay out for NSW miner
• Work banned on pipeline after workers exposed to asbestos

Automotive Components Industry

• AWU Welcomes 'Kiss of Life' For 300 South Australian Workers
• Hardy Wines leave sour taste in mouths of workers
• National Forge Creditors meeting
• National Forge meeting critical to workers’ future
• Workers Rally at Ion Creditors Meetings

Aviation Industry

• "The company will escalate the action," says Qantas
• 262 Day Strike Set to Finish
• 400 forgotten Ansett survivors
• The Australian Worker Examines Health Impact of Government's Work Laws
• ANSETT WORKERS WILL JOIN THOUSANDS AT JOBS RALLY
• AWU BLOWS WHISTLE ON BHP SUPERANNUATION BLUNDER
• AWU Calls For Qantas Jobs Guarantee
• AWU STOPS QANTAS STAND DOWNS IN COURT
• AWU meets with shearers across Australia to defend work rights
• AWU offers "circuit breaker" to end deadlocked dispute before Christmas
• AWU takes Qantas to industrial dispute umpire
• AWU wants Govt to look at plan to trap CO2 under depleted offshore gas fields
• Light At End of Tunnel For Qantas Engineers
• Maintenance workers walk in protest at stalled talks
• New Qantas Owners Must Provide Guarantee On Job Security
• QANTAS ESCALATES DISPUTE BY STANDING DOWN MAINTENANCE WORKERS
• QANTAS escalates dispute after calling off talks with independent ump
• QANTAS: PREFERS SINGAPORE TO MELBOURNE
• Qantas Jobs Not Only Danger In Sale
• Qantas must give workers job certainty
• Qantas must not hurt 5000 Australian maintenance and engineering families
• Qantas: More AIRC Conciliations
• Rules change application AWU
• Safety and training in the Queensland diving industry under the spotlight
• Split Threatening National Netball Competition - ANPA/AWU
• Union warns against being wrong-footed on Climate Change
• Update on Ansett Superannuation Settlement
• Vote ends AWU maintenance workers 10-month wage ordeal at Qantas
• Work laws should respect Australia’s democratic values – Senate Inquiry told

Awards

• $27.36 per week increase
• AWU National Office Audited Account
• AWU to strike $70-a-week rise for Ten Pin workers
• AWU to target Vic wine industry
• BHP workers vote in favor of State Award
• Construction Giants Forced to Back-Pay Millions to Employees
• Horticulture workers awarded $90-a-week pay rise
• Minister Admits Fairness Is Not The Government's IR Agenda
• New employment standards: Step towards plugging gaps left by Work Choices

Building Better Communities

• AWU backs Republic
• AWU backs State Gvt concerns about BHP Cannington mine
• AWU calls for Govt inquiry into decision to manufacture trains overseas
• AWU to tackle Indigenous living conditions
• Former AJAX Workers Treated Unfairly Once Again
• Notice to Members – Rule Change
• Unions and volunteers ship Computer classroom to PNG

Campaigns

• AJAX Workers March To Holden Plant To Plead For Support For Aussie Jobs
• AWU Condemns Burnett Sawmill Workplace Fatality
• AWU Qantas Members Welcome Qantas' Rejection of Take-Over Offer
• AWU chicken growers score win against ACCC rooster
• AWU joins delegation to deputy Prime Minister to save Aussie ship workers jobs
• AWU says Govt carbon capture initiative important for jobs
• AWU to lobby Tasmanian and Federal Govt to defend Rosebery Hospital
• Across Australia working people are saying No to the Howard Government's IR laws
• Amid All The Hoopla, Spare A Thought For Lot of Jockeys
• Banks are ‘pushing debt’ onto working families
• CSL shipping dispute set to trigger cement shortage
• Collective bargaining lifts pay and community standards say unions in new TV ads
• Enrol to vote by September 7
• Fight Against Unfair IR Laws Goes Up A Notch
• Government's Extreme & Radical IR Legislation Confirms Union Campaign
• Have your say - enrol to vote
• Howard Governs For Big Business, Not Working Families: Poll
• Howard Gvt deregulation of mine safety threatens lives of Australian families
• Howard Wrong on Fairness Test
• Howard set for new attack on working conditions
• Howard's Pacific Solution Threatens Australian Jobs
• Minister Wrong on Cricketers' Contracts
• More people working Xmas Day, New Years Day than ever before
• Netball stars join AWU
• New AWU campaign website against Howard’s changes to workplace laws
• New union TV ad highlights importance of preventing Liberals going further on IR
• New website for Tassie Workers
• Notice to Members – Rule Change
• Polling Vindicates AWU Campaign to Keep Qantas Jobs in Australia
• Premier Shines Spotlight on Danger Ahead for Millions of Workers
• Qantas Workers Campaign to Keep their Jobs in Australia
• Road worker safety compromised by poor driving practices
• Stronger Together: A way forward for Australian Workers
• TAPS Branch launches new website
• Too soon to inflict another interest rate rise on working families
• Union Aid Abroad seeking volunteers
• WA’s workplace health standards should not be compromised by election result
• Western Port strikes against 'greedy' BlueScope
• Worker killed by packaging machine

Collective Bargaining

• AWU delivers WA workers 32 % wages deal
• AWU wins AWA battle at Sun Metals
• AWU wins unprecedented 36-hour week in Australian steel industry
• Admired AWU hero memorabilia sells for $360,000
• Chicken growers win collective bargaining breakthrough in ACCC
• Esso Threatens Victoria's Gas Supplies
• Howard shafts battlers with sackings law
• Pilbara Iron Ore Workers Historic Break Through
• Sacked mums go to court over AWA's 25% pay cut
• Stegbar workers victory ends lock-out
• Union Solidarity: Historic Union Alliance in Multi-billion Industry
• Union deals pay better
• Victorian Jockeys Get Fairer Ride

Conferences

• 2004-2005 AWU National Office Audited Accounts
• 2004-2005 AWU Victorian Branch Audited Accounts
• AWU Conference targets Howard's IR laws
• AWU backs tax cuts for middle earners
• Catholic Church comes out against WorkChoices
• Increasing minimum wages of guest workers will end cheap labour jibes
• Shorten Honoured With Life Membership
• Union protocol on workplace surveillance

Construction Industry

• ACCC Gives Green Light to Construction Duopoly
• AWU Bass Strait workers awarded up to 8% pay rise
• AWU Bass Strait workers to return to work after airfare win
• AWU Opposes Federal Government Development at Point Nepean
• Centenary of a great Australian union
• Death closes Sydney Cross City Tunnel indefinately
• Mid Year Bonus for Disaster Relief Workers
• Vote for the AWU website in 10th annual global union competition
• Workers win in AWU Eastlink agreement

Corporate Governance

• AWU rejects BlueScope boss's attack
• AWU votes for company health checks
• BlueScope first target of AWU's corporate governance reforms
• Boeing - recognize the union at Hawker de Havilland
• Call for ASIC and legal action over Ion failure
• Competition Watchdog Responds to AWU Concerns
• Corporatisation plans show competition out of control
• Ion job losses spark law reform call
• National Week of Action against John Howard's unfair work laws
• Safety Boost for Victorian Miners and Oil Workers

Disputes

• BHP workers fight Xmas hampers censorship

Drug & Alcohol Testing

• AWU Delegates to Tackle Drugs & Alcohol in the Workplace
• AWU commemorates Miners' Memorial day
• AWU condemns DNA testing
• AWU condemns pyschometric testing of smelter workers
• Media Alert: Testing the Limits
• Melbourne AWU Qantas workers vote against random testing
• Rural workers will cheer the end of AWAs
• Tasmanian Government must act on Coroner’s Mine Safety recommendations: AWU
• Union thankful no one killed at Varanus Island

Executive Salaries

• Bill Shorten farewells AWU members
• BlueScope AGM gets the workers' message
• Call For Government Inquiry Into Skyrocketing CEO Pay
• Global energy giant facing more claims of misuse of guest workers
• USA must pressure China to adopt decent global emissions trading standards: AWU
• Workplace hazard alert: Greedy Boardrooms

Federal Budget 2005

• AWU slams PM's Budget claims

Fire fighters

• Fires show need for staff improvements

Gas Industry

• Asian workforce on Australia’s North-West Gas shelf face wages rip-off

Glass Industry

• AWU Demands Concerning Alcoa Health Study
• AWU Glass workers fight for job security
• AWU Glass workers win job security and bolster role of the AIRC
• Keeping working Australians in the debate about a green future and secure jobs

Hazards

• AWU Calls for Inquiry into Ethanol Explosion
• AWU calls for Asbestos Audit at detention centres
• Esso toilet troubles a first for new safety office
• Pilkington fined over worker's death

Immigrant Workers

• Aussie Workers Sidelined - The Russians are Coming
• PM should stop Chinese worker importation

Improving Workplace Conditions

• AWU Awards proposed as Common Rule for Victoria
• AWU Awards to improve pay and conditions of Victorian workers
• AWU farewells union great, Terry Muscat
• Abbott Reshuffle Bad for the Sick and Good for the Workers
• Bill Shorten defeats Tony Abbott in IR debate, reports media
• Face of the AWU on Facebook
• Fruit growers face legal action in AWU blitz
• Giving a voice to Rig Workers - the Offshore Alliance
• Liberal's IR Lies
• Pipeline Workers Stopwork in Desert
• Seasons Greetings from the AWU
• The Great Debate: Abbott vs Shorten
• Updating Workplace Privacy Protection - AWU Seminar
• Workers' help for tsunami victims

Individual Contracts

• 'PM's steelworkers' battle individual contract pay cuts
• Bittersweet Win For Boeing Engineers
• Boeing stands down RAAF FA-18 jet workers
• Harness Racing stewards back to work after successful conciliation hearing
• Individual contracts at Boeing going, going. . .gone?
• Inquiry To Be Told of Hidden Dangers In Individual Contracts
• Is Boeing's Stubbornness and Government's Inaction Compromising Our Safety?
• Jockeys forced to miss start of racing season
• Maternity leave plan put by ACTU important 1st step to decent Paternity leave
• RAAF FA-18 stand-downs show danger of Howard's IR laws
• RAAF Jets Hit in Individual Contracts Row
• Sacking case AWAs bite the dust at mushroom farm
• Vale Robert Nichols
• Victorian firefighter lays injured for five hours before rescued
• Workers Forced To Jump Without Parachute

Industrial Disputes

• 200 Days On Picket Line For Boeing Workers
• AJAX workers take their fight on the road tomorrow
• AWU Car components workers fight for fair hours
• AWU Seeks Strong Assurances From Zinifex and Umicore
• AWU and unions to meet Esso at ACTU forum
• AWU backs Pilbara workers as mining giant clings to WorkChoices
• AWU win for local government workers across Australia
• American Workers Horrified by Treatment of Australian Colleagues
• Boeing Fails To Answer Union Concerns
• Boeing Running Scared
• Boeing Secret Ballot Decision Welcomed
• Boeing Urged To Answer Its Workers' New Year Wish
• Boeing Workers Ask: Do We Have The Rights You Say We Do Or Not?
• Boeing Workers Seek Vote on Collective Agreement
• CSL using bully tactics to silence unions bid to save Aussie jobs
• Caravan parts workers fight for superannuation choice
• Christmas On The Picket Line
• City West Water workers vote to return to work after breakthrough AWU agreement
• Decision to Replace Australian Seafarers with Foreign Crew "A National Disgrace"
• Electrolux workers vote yes to union representation
• Esso workers stranded off-shore
• Fertiliser production halts in AWU wage dispute
• Fight of Boeing Australia Workers Goes International
• Harness racing in Victoria to be crippled
• Howard Government Asleep At The Wheel on Defence Skills Shortage
• Hunter Region smack-bang on the frontline of climate change debate – AWU warns
• Its time to take action: AWU
• James Hardie Directors Reward Themselves With $2.5 Million Pay Rise
• Jockeys' Insurance Concerns Being Addressed
• Keep energy and resource jobs in Australia to cut global greenhouse: AWU
• Le Pine Does Howard Government's Bidding
• Lifeline Uses Workchoices to Cut Workers Conditions
• Mass meeting of Car components workers ends 3-day dispute
• Netballers Take Step Forward
• New Campaign to highlight the plight of Boeing Workers
• Pacific guest worker program must include union rights!
• Queensland’s Local Government Association has misled its members – AWU’s Ludwig
• Racetrack Workers Record Win
• Sacked Ajax Workers Gather TOMORROW To Mark A Sad Christmas
• Smelter workers to be locked out
• Support the Big Picture in Zimbabwe
• Tasmanian Inquiry must deliver dramatic improvements to mine safety standards
• The AWU and the Beaconsfield Inquiry
• Tristar Worker Sacked for Telling Truth
• Water and sewerage under threat after AWU workers stood down
• Wine Workers Take Industrial Action
• Workers return to work after win at Simsmetal

Industrial Manslaughter Legislation

• AWU fights ‘serial killers’
• Calling all Kiwis - AWU backs NZ unions general election campaign

Issues

• Coronial Database may cut workplace death toll

Manufacturing Industry

• 2004-2005 AWU Whyalla-Woomera Audited Accounts
• AWU Welcomes Pan Pharmaceuticals Sale
• Glass workers win 12% pay rise plus 30% LSL increase
• Jobs the priority before fertiliser merger go-ahead, says AWU
• Labour Day crowds turn out in force to dance on Workchoices' grave
• Libs must accept responsibility for WorkChoices disaster: new figures on AWAs
• Newcastle’s skilled workforce hurt hard on Xmas eve
• Pacific Hydro wind farm a win for local jobs, says AWU
• Pan Workers Continue Campaign for Jobs
• Pan Workers Say No To Liqudation
• Pan workers to be made redundant this week
• Squattocracy and Struggle - ABC documentary on early AWU years
• Union versus Asbestos: A fight for workers' lives
• Workers give $100,000 for tsunami aid

Mining Industry

• AWU Mining Summit: A Systemic Crisis
• AWU Secures Wages and Rights at Rio Tinto
• AWU To Seek Answers On Queensland Mine Tragedy
• AWU Welcomes Delivery of Beaconsfield Report
• AWU is back in the Goldfields
• AWU slams 'bad citizen' Comalco
• Another Delay For Beaconsfield Inquiry
• Are you a Kiwi in Australia, or do you know one?
• BHP Billiton Blocks Investigation into Mining Death
• Beaconsfield Deal Step In Right Direction
• Beaconsfield Delay Disappointing
• Beaconsfield Miners Vote On Macquarie Bank Gift
• Beaconsfield Miners' Declaration
• Cars ram equal pay picket at BHP-B mine
• Casual job losses show need for permanency at Alcoa
• Govt must eliminate artificial restrictions on competent union OHS people
• Landmark Injunction won for Outback Miners
• MINING GIANT PASMINCO SHUTS UNIONS OUT
• No Charges Doesn't Mean No Lessons For Beaconsfield
• Outback Miners Win Reprive
• Safety Paramount in Beaconsfield Gold's Restructure Plan
• Tasmanian mining industry in crisis
• WA mine fire stark reminder of mining safety risks

Miscellaneous

• 100 Days and still waiting for a Fair Go
• AWU Satisfied With Progress of the Beaconsfield Miners' Family Support Fund
• AWU Secures Breathing Space For AJAX Workers
• AWU Thanks Premier Carr For His Stellar Service
• Are you under debt stress? So is the worker on the other side of the counter
• Australia's Oldest Continuous Union Notches Up Another Milestone
• Brave Ajax Workers Return to Work
• Bright Future For AWU Pilkington Workers
• Call For End To Cemetery Trusts Acting as 'Secret Societies'
• Car Companies Do The Dirty on Loyal Ajax Workers
• Chinese Buyer Should Guarantee 900 Aussie Jobs
• IR Minister Wrong, Yet Again
• Job Losses As Factory Shuts Down
• Offshore unions crack down on safety and AWAs
• Rights on Site campaign against the ABCC launched today
• Rockhampton Hospital Workers at Risk: Union Warns
• Rogue bosses warned not to undermine Rudd Labor's workplace mandate
• Saying sorry is long overdue
• Sigh of Relief For Qantas Engineers
• Unions must stop opposing work schemes
• Unions welcome start of ban on new AWAs

Oil & Gas Industry

• 25% Casual loading spreads to oil drilling industry
• AWU calls for Moomba inquiry

Racing Industry

• AWU safety ban stops steeplechase
• Anglican priest & former AWU senior delegate – stands with our mining families
• Funds for racing safety project
• HOT WEATHER BANS TO HIT RACE MEETINGS
• Insurance Win For Tasmanian Jockeys - AWU
• JOCKEYS’ SAFETY AT WORK MUST COME FIRST
• Remember Workers As Well As Horses
• Tasmanian Jockeys Must Have Compo Cover
• Time to energise the Bush - writes AWU leader
• Vic Jockey Super Win a lesson for other states

Reasonable Hours

• "UNFAIR DISMISSAL LAWS – A MONSTER OR A MOUSE?"
• 13 per cent pay rise for Geelong metal workers
• 140 workers locked out at Stegbar
• ANSETT COLLAPSE: ONE YEAR ON
• AWU backs 56-hour week crackdown in Tas mining industry
• AWU exposes Liberal Senator’s ignorance of own law
• AWU presents 10-point plan at Mining Summit
• AWU speaking up and defending members
• AWU wins construction rules case
• AWU wins shorter working week at SPC
• Budget Fails To Save Medicare, Public Education or Make Childcare Cheaper
• Clyde Cameron - a great AWU man
• Gas shortages averted as Esso lifts lock-out
• Give Us A Break, Workers Say
• JUSTICE AT LAST FOR WOODLAWN MINERS
• No Night shift for Sunset Workers
• Port Hedland workers give ACM bad report card
• Qantas rejects AWU olive branch and recommendations of the independent umpire
• Roster Victory at MIM
• Safety campaign honours BlueScope steel worker
• Workers dig up asbestos dump

Redundancies

• 400 jobs to go at Ion plant
• 70 Jobs Go as Smorgon Tube Mill Closes
• ACTU praises AWU Climate Change campaign to protect jobs
• AWU Supports Pasminco Restructure to Save Jobs
• AWU TO MEET WITH CORNING OVER CLOSURE
• AWU Wins Redundancy Bonus for Members Only
• AWU backs plan to resurrect Pan
• Australian Workers Deserve Better
• Australian workers need stronger health and safety protections: review welcome
• Forgecast rescue call for 130 jobs, redundancy pay
• Forgecast workers vote for 87 jobs, extra $1.6 million
• OneSteel workforce meets to protest lack of respect for the Hunter
• Pan Workers shouldn't have to swallow bitter pill
• Southcorp Slashes 200 jobs

Road Construction

• AWU Backs Transport Expansion Plan
• AWU road workers rally for tougher speed limits for safety
• Eastlink Wages and Conditions

Rural Workers

• ABARE forcast ignores drought still hurting rural workers
• AWU joint OH&S conference tackles farm deaths
• AWU working with country women to boost farm safety
• Fair go blitz for seasonal farm workers
• Lift IR Law Ban on Union Training: Miners' Unions Warn Minister
• Revamp of Drought Assistance Programs Essential: AWU
• Rural Workers Punished By Wage Decision
• State’s dairy workers deserve a fair go, says AWU
• Truss Stacks Drought Roundtable

Shearers

• ARE SHEARERS BEING FLEECED?
• AWU Bombardier Members Welcome Contract Announcement
• AWU wins 25% casual loading for Shearers
• Big sheep face needle for shearers' safety
• Farmers Fed uses WorkChoice laws to fleece shearers
• Farmers Seek to Worsen Effects of Drought on Rural Workers
• Farmers seek to divide rural communities
• Interest rate hike puts more working families under financial pressure:unions
• New Vic transport plan crucial for survival of skilled local jobs
• Porkies Leave Shearers In Tents
• Pressure Exerted on Shareholders About Vaccine Withdrawal
• Shearers win $18.20 a week pay rise
• Time to pump life into the nation's engine rooms
• Victorian Opposition's Sugarloaf position risks jobs
• Workers' Health Must Come First

Shift Work

• A message from National Secretary Bill Shorten
• Night work 12-hour shifts can trigger cancer – AWU praises new UN Report
• Research confirms AWU fears over dangerous mining hours

Steel Industry

• A bipartisan Steel taskforce a necessary first step, says AWU
• AWU joins steel task force call for tough stance on imports
• AWU workers win choice deal in BHP superannuation
• Bluescope Steel hit by strikes over fairer super & redundancy
• Howard Government asleep at the wheel on Australian steel
• Howard shuts out steelworkers in steel crisis talks, says AWU
• Hundreds of BHP workers to vote on adopting State Award
• Independent report gives industry super fund top marks
• Take a stand against John Howards Work Laws on November 30
• Workers meet over Whyalla blast furnace blaze

Superannuation

• Major newspaper editorialises to back AWU plan
• Making our regions the engine room of Australia’s economy

Surveys

• Student competition: investigating wages and working conditions

Trade

• AWU Rallies for Fair Trade
• AWU and VECCI back Port Phillip dredging
• Union Gives 'Fair Dinkum' support to Australian Farmers and Farm-Workers

Training

• Enrol before November 30 for OHS Level 4 Certificate Course
• Skills shortage triggers union claims on employers

Unfair Dismissals

• AWU-MUA Alliance delivers for sacked rig worker
• Another Day, Another Victim of the Howard Government
• Don’t let companies move to nations with laissez-faire environmental regulations
• Mum Sacked After Questioning Loss of Penalty Rates & Below Award Wages
• Protecting the Queensland dream for all health workers
• Sacked mums' evidence proves farm bosses' wrong

Union History

• $25,000 Donation for Cyclone Larry Victims
• AWU pushes for 5 per cent- above inflation - pay rises
• AWU to Honor Adelaide Terrorist Victim
• AWU wants emissions permits for workers, not just corporations
• Australia’s newest industrial relations/current affairs journal launches today
• Bracks, Kelty to Open Office
• Cowboy workplace culture on North-West gas fields exposed
• Glass and Container Branch Financial Reports
• Jim Bacon: working people lose life-long advocate
• Port Kembla Branch launches new website
• Saving regional jobs : AWU leaders talk lower-carbon standards
• Scholarship to be Awarded in Memory of Australian September 11 Victim
• Union leaders pay tribute to founding father
• Union welcomes Pacific Island guest worker program
• Vale John Roy

Water Policy

• AWU holds peaceful sit-in at City West Water office
• EastLink welcomed by those who built it
• Water works hit by work bans

Women in the Workplace

• Is it Fair? Support Union Aid Abroad's "Make Life Fair Everywhere" Campaign

Work & Family

• AWU defeats ESSO attack on family rosters
• AWU votes for 14 weeks paid mat leave
• Esso contractors win family rosters
• Nationals rob hope and decency from working families in the Bush
• Peace and festive holidays to all
• Truth Overboard - 35 Lies told by John Howard and counting
• Working families cannot afford another interest rate rise

Workers Entitlements

• 130 Forgecast workers protest $3 million redundancy rip-off
• 17-day stoppage ends at Cobar mine
• AWU Campaigns for Gippsland Road Workers Entitlements
• AWU calls On Origin Energy to be a good corporate citizen
• AWU move to secure 3000 Ion Jobs
• AWU moves to protect HWE jobs
• AWU secures Pan casuals redundancy payment
• AWU secures workers entitlements at Pan Pharmaceuticals
• AWU supports creditors vote for Pasminco restructure
• AWU wants complete shutdown of BHP Iron operations until safety audit completed
• Call for ASIC inquiry on Ion failure
• Calling all Kiwis – AWU backs NZ unions general election campaign
• Concrete Workers Strike for Entitlements Protection
• Environment & Economy Big Issues at AWU National Conference
• Ex-Govt Gas and fuel workers to lose $2m in workers’ entitlements
• Let's turn Long Service Leave into a real job right – not a virtual right
• Millennium Train workers take industrial action
• National Electrolux Campaign Launch
• Origin Energy Fails Good Corporate Citizen Stakes
• Stop the big business push in its tracks: email your MP now
• Tristar Win: AWU Will Fight For National Entitlements Scheme

Workplace Privacy

• 200 jobs to go at Alcoa
• A message from AWU National Secretary Bill Shorten on the Federal Election
• AWU welcomes Portland wind farm
• BlueScope bosses face workers resolutions at AGM
• BlueScope record profit proves justice of redundancy strike
• Howard's Power Grab: Workers the Losers
• Ion Workers Demand Answers
• New AWU Secretary for WA plans aggressive push into mining heartland
• Time's Up on the 12 month wage freeze in rural Australia
• Toll Plaza worker threatened with sack for rolling up sleaves
• Virgin needs high maintenance standards to ensure clean image

Workplace Relations

• AWU angered by OneSteel slash and burn plant closures
• American writers on strike get picketline backing from AWU leader
• BHP caught trying to bribe Australian workers onto AWAs
• Cardinal Pell says strong unions are vital to our prosperity
• First step towards dismantling ‘Work Choices’ is welcome for working Australians
• John Howard cannot be trusted on industrial relations
• John Howard does not want you to have Your Choice on WorkChoice
• New unfair dismissal laws vital for fair workplaces: Lib 'extremism' must end
• No Joy For Howard in WorkChoices Survey
• Queensland construction and maintenance workers throw off the AWA shackles
• Queensland hospital workers begin industrial action
• Strike action to cost Victorian Harness Racing industry millions

Workplace Safety

• "Let us inspect Port Hedland D C," says AIRC
• 189 Ajax Workers Occupy Factory
• 2005-2006 AWU National Office Audited Accounts
• 2008 AFL & NRL Footy Tipping Competitions
• AWU Road workers mourn workmate
• AWU Welcomes Maxwell Report
• AWU campaign for Mandatory Inquests in Workplace Fatalities successful
• AWU campaigning to protect shearers from Q fever
• AWU demands speed cameras for safety
• AWU detention centre staff stop work over safety concerns
• AWU joins unionists across Australia to pay tribute to Bernie Banton
• AWU mourns death of Newcastle workmate at ex-BHP site
• AWU road workers win safety blitz
• Australia Last Port of Call For Doomed Ship
• BHP Cannington mine fights for silence - newspaper report
• BHP Deaths Require New Safety Powers
• Banks must exhaust all options before closing the door on working families
• Co-operation between AWU and Beaconsfield key to mine safety
• Detention centre dispute widens to Christmas Island
• Esso is to blame
• Fatigue and Chemical Exposure - AWU Conference
• First 25km/h speed limit at Victorian road works site
• Fund Established For Families of Beaconsfield Miners
• Hayman Island Resort trying to cut workers pay & conditions
• Horror Barge's Worst Safety Record
• Jackson Inquiry Says James Hardie Must Pay
• Let's have no more limbs lost - AWU members tell Melbourne paper
• MEDIA ALERT: AWU mass meeting of roadworkers
• Maxwell to address AWU Safety Reps
• Miners Union denied free access to workers at isolated BHP Cannington mine
• New national AWU leader calls for co-operative renewal of Australian "fair go "
• Notice to Members – Rule Change
• OHS Reps - Have your say
• Poor resources raise fears of riots, says AWU
• Qantas job cuts a sign of tough economic times
• Question marks over miners' safety yet again
• ROAD WORKSITES MUST BE SAFER, SAYS AWU
• Seasons Greetings from the AWU
• Tasmanian mine workers to back community campaign for local hospital
• Tunnel Death Needs Investigation
• Union poll shows Australians ready to give the nod for Super over a tax cut
• Unions to argue for smart investments at Hunter region 2020 summit
• Victorian Company Pays For 'Criminal Behaviour'
• WA Libs Need Hearing Check
• We too are ZCTU!
• Worker Death Highlights Need for Industrial Manslaughter
• Workers Lose Out At Victorian Golf Course
• Workers to lower speed limits to 40km in road work zones
• Workplace Fatality in North-East Victoria
• Workplace safety laws must be a priority, says AWU

wages

• AWU workers win 15 % Esso pay rise