June 03, 2016
AMWU organisers headed to Albury-Wodonga this week to talk to manufacturing workers at many newer businesses about securing their workplace rights.
June 03, 2016
ResMed workers have been walking taller this week after a major Fair Work Commission decision took effect, guaranteeing their right to be represented by our union as they seek a collective agreement.
May 27, 2016
AMWU retired members have led protests by pensioners this week over the brutal impacts on vulnerable seniors and low-income families from Budget cuts by the Turnbull Government.
May 27, 2016
The Coalition Government has rushed through changes which would undermine the quality of vocational education and training for apprentices, in a last-minute move as it prepared to go into election caretaker mode.
May 27, 2016
AMWU members and officials have strengthened our case for tougher regulation of labour hire in an intense day of meetings with MPs from across the political spectrum.
May 23, 2016
AMWU members from Bitzer in Victoria are still going strong seven weeks into their strike against the refrigeration firm trying to divide them by discriminating against casuals.
May 16, 2016
The AMWU has welcomed the new $58 million election commitment by the Labor Party to help firms in auto components and general industry successfully make the transition to advanced manufacturing.
May 12, 2016
Defence Department members have fired a shot across the bows of the Turnbull Government by voting to reject an inferior collective agreement which their bosses tried to unload days before the election was called.
May 12, 2016
Industrial giant Bradken is expected to face court next week concerning a breach of safety standards over the death of an AMWU delegate at it’s Wodonga foundry nearly two years ago.
May 06, 2016
The AMWU’s community efforts have scored a $400 million victory in securing regional Queensland rail jobs as the union’s national train campaign gathers momentum.
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