Taking Up The Fight For A Fair Climate Change Policy

The AWU has been arguing strongly - both publicly and directly with the Rudd Government - for climate change measures that also protect Australian jobs.

The AWU is putting the case that it will not benefit our members or the environment if companies move their plants offshore, where they will only end up producing more carbon emissions.

As part of our campaign, the AWU commissioned a report by independent think tank Per Capita.

This report found that the total cost to the Australian community of job losses in the aluminium sector could amount to $1.215 billion.

To read the report The Full-Cost Economics of Climate Change - Aluminium: A Case Study, please click here

URGENT SAFETY REMINDER

The AWU is mounting a conveyor belt safety campaign after AWU member Gerald Wilkie's arm was amputated above the elbow in an incident at his Laverton workplace in May 2007.

Gerald had to tear his arm off in order to escape the machine as it attempted to pull him in.

To view the AWU Victorian Branch's poster - now on display in hundreds of Victorian workplaces, please click here