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May 28, 2015
THE last three ACTU Presidents have been women, but our unions want to do better in promoting our female members towards leadership roles.
May 28, 2015
THE AMWU has joined the ACTU in welcoming the support of domestic violence campaigner and Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty, to give millions of Australian workers access to 10 days domestic violence leave.
May 28, 2015
(Story courtesy Working Life website) The AMWU is among unions which have agreed to step up their fightback for fairness by building the ACTU into a campaigning machine to defeat the anti-worker agenda of conservative governments Australia-wide.
May 28, 2015
The peak ACTU Congress met this week with AMWU delegates playing an important part in deciding the union movement’s policies to improve the lives of working Australians and defeat the Abbott Government agenda.
May 26, 2015
The AMWU will join a union review of how well unions are operating in the new digital economy, and how we can better serve the huge numbers of workers in micro businesses struggling through rapid change.
May 26, 2015
The union's growth and outreach project for NSW Apprentices kicked off today with events at Wollongong TAFE.
May 21, 2015
Holden’s decision to impose forced redundancies on its workforce for the first time has been described by the AMWU as a sad day for our members, Adelaide and the nation.
May 21, 2015
Do you wonder whether those extra overtime hours the boss pressured you to work were really worth it? Well, this week the union kicked off a legal campaign for better overtime conditions.
May 20, 2015
The AMWU is extremely concerned about the impact on Fly In – Fly Out workers from Labor’s support of the Abbott Government move to change the Zone Tax Offset.
May 19, 2015
Rail delegates from NSW and Queensland are on track for a national campaign to maximise manufacturing and maintenance jobs after a key meeting this week.
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