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March 31, 2016
Workers at Nestle gained themselves an Easter gift when they approved an agreement that will deliver wages increases of nearly three per cent each year.
March 24, 2016
“The AMWU is ready for a federal election campaign which puts members’ jobs and family living standards first” - AMWU National Secretary Paul Bastian.
March 24, 2016
Victoria’s decision to place the largest order for new trains in the state’s history confirms the AMWU is on the right track as our rail delegates met this week to ramp up our campaigning for local content across Australia.
March 24, 2016
The AMWU has broken a three-year wage drought in Broken Hill with water supply workers voting up a new deal last week.
March 24, 2016
Nearly 1000 AMWU members are stepping up efforts to win fair FIFO rosters and dramatically improve safety at the massive Ichthys liquefied natural gas project site near Darwin.
March 18, 2016
Silvia was 14 when she arrived with her family in Australia on Friday, October 24, 1975. Fleeing the chaos, political instability and persecution of the Argentine military government, they jumped on a boat from Buenos Aires to nearby Uruguay. An Australian chartered flight took about 180 adults and 90 children from Argentina and Uruguay to Melbourne.
March 18, 2016
Haris Kumbaric is a service technician at ECL Group, repairing and maintaining petrol bowsers. The father of two young children is originally from Bosnia- Herzegovenia, as is his wife Alma, whom he met here. Haris arrived in Australia on June 28, 1995 at age 19 with his parents and sister. They had fled their town Bosanski Brod on the Croatian border in 1992 after Milosevic Government forces invaded. “That first night over 1000 shells fell on my town. As we watched from over the river, my town was burning,” he said.
March 18, 2016
Jagath Bandara is a well-known AMWU organiser in Sydney and also a campaigner for the kind of tolerance he experienced here when he had to leave his beloved motherland of Sri Lanka due to political oppression between1987and 1990. “My concern is that politicians around the world have changed since then; there are some short-sighted people prepared to use the race card for power,” he said.
March 15, 2016
Workers contracted to do maintenance work on the Hydro dams face an uncertain future despite the state facing an unprecedented energy crisis. Read more here.
March 11, 2016
AMWU women leaders are holding their National Women’s Conference this week as global concern emerges that female progress in bridging the gender gap on pay and conditions has stalled.
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