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July 06, 2022
The NSW IRC has issued orders preventing the scheduled industrial action by Transport for NSW workers taking place tomorrow. This is a disappointing outcome, but our members at the Sydney Harbour Bridge should be proud of their willingness to fight. AMWU members should attend work as normal tomorrow. See below for the text of the orders. You can download a PDF of the orders HERE.
May 12, 2022
NSW train builders have today delivered a clear message to voters in the federal electorate of Gilmore today: don’t give Andrew Constance a job after he offshored thousands of local manufacturing jobs as Transport Minister.
April 28, 2022
Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) at Sydney Trains have been calling on management to support their claim for 20 days of paid family and domestic violence leave.
April 14, 2022
Scott Morrison owes workers at Rheem an apology after using them on Monday as the backdrop to his announcement of job creation despite more than 100 of their jobs at the Western Sydney factory being at risk when the company offshores part of its operations, says the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
April 14, 2022
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union NSW & ACT (AMWU) has written to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor to make him aware of a range of workplace health and safety issues at Snowy Hydro 2.0 sites.
April 13, 2022
Scott Morrison’s promise of 1.3 million new jobs, touted during his visit to Rheem’s Western Sydney factory yesterday, has quickly come to stand in for his government’s record on manufacturing: very little to show for all the photo ops and announcements.
March 30, 2022
The Coalition Government has again failed to take any action to ensure that wages keep up with the rising costs of living and has made no commitment in its’ Budget to making and maintaining things here, the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) say.
March 04, 2022
Workers from Victorian wind tower manufacturer Keppel Prince and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) are gathered outside GrainCorp in Portland harbour to protest the arrival of imported wind towers that have already cost 40 workers their jobs and have left another 100 workers facing uncertainty.
January 17, 2022
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union calls for urgent workplace action in response to the coalition Government’s failure to keep working people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a national workplace and workforce crisis, with record numbers of workers sick, isolating and unable to work.
December 17, 2021
Workers at global packaging manufacturing giant GPI in Melbourne have reached an in-principle agreement today that will see the lowest paid workers receive a nearly 8 per cent pay rise over two-and-a half years, receive back pay until June this year, a casual conversion labour hire clause and commitment to a classification structure review over the life of the agreement.
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