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$50 pay cuts for young workers on the cards with Tony Abbott's plan to bring back WorkChoices
07 March 2010
Australian workers will suffer cuts to their pay and conditions and lose protection from unfair dismissal under Liberal leader Tony Abbott's plan to bring back WorkChoices, warns a new national union TV ad campaign launched today. -
Aussie oil-rig workers supporters want iconic Danish multinational to recognise union
05 March 2010
Hundreds of protest e-mails from Australian oil rig workers, and their supporters, are flooding into the e-mail in-boxes of top executives at Maersk, the big Danish multinational container shipping firm, and oil rig operator. -
Generating good jobs for Kalgoorlie - making the new work laws work for the region
05 March 2010
The Australian Workers' Union is hosting its first community seminar on how the new work laws affect working people in regional Australia at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall on March 8, 2010. -
Boeing shows lack of respect for Western Sydney workers
04 March 2010
Boeing's workforce in Western Sydney has been treated with little or no respect with the company announcing it is shutting its aerospace engineering site without any consultation with the workers or their unions. -
Union welcomes Alcoa Victoria announcement
02 March 2010
Australian Workers' Union members are celebrating the job certainty delivered to thousands of regional Victorian families because of a long-term deal energy deal announced today by Alcoa. -
ACT NOW: Email Danish oil rig firm discriminating against Aussie union members
02 March 2010
For almost two years the MUA-AWU Offshore Alliance members on the drill rig Nan Hai 6 have been trying to seal a deal with an iconic Danish shipping giant Maersk. - Rig Workers held captive in Singapore win their freedom
28 February 2010
For the past two weeks Norwegian offshore drilling company Songa Offshore, operators of the Australian manned drilling rig Songa Venus, have been refusing the right to shore leave for rig workers whilst the rig is Singapore for survey and refit work. -
Australian manufacturing workers can help solve insulation crisis
26 February 2010
More than 1400 manufacturing jobs across Australia could disappear forever, the Australian Workers' Union warned today, if the Federal Government cannot come to an agreement to help the major local insulation manufacturers. -
Tassie photo exhibit breathes new life into reality of asbestos scourge
25 February 2010
The Australian Workers' Union is happy to be one of the sponsors of an extraordinary photographic portrait exhibition, putting a heart-rending sympathetic focus on the widows who have lost husbands to asbestos related diseases in Australia. -
AWU backs global campaign for striking Mexican mine workers threatened by para-military
21 February 2010
The Australian Workers' Union has joined a global campaign to support striking miners in Mexico demanding the right to have their voices heard loudly and clearly at work.
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