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July 22, 2021
JULY 22, 2021 – Essential food workers at McCain Foods in northwest Tasmania have been locked out of their workplace by their employer in their continued campaign for improved pay and conditions.
July 20, 2021
JULY 20, 2021 – Essential food workers at McCain Foods in Tasmania who’ve kept food on the table during a pandemic are being threatened with being locked out over a call for better pay and conditions.
July 06, 2021
JULY 6, 2021 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) South Australia branch is launching a nationwide Support Aussie Made campaign to its manufacturing delegates calling on state and federal governments to urgently step up and back local manufacturing workers and the products they make.
June 02, 2021
JUNE 2, 2021 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) are outraged former Attorney- General Christian Porter and his Department knew of printing giant Ovato’s plans to restructure and did nothing to protect workers.
June 01, 2021
JUNE 1, 2021 – Attorney-General Christian Porter knew about Australian printing giant Ovato’s plan to restructure months before workers and their union were told and did nothing to protect them.
May 11, 2021
MAY 11, 2021 – The Morrison Government’s Budget has failed manufacturing workers, delivering no significant spending or investment in our manufacturing sector say the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU).
May 07, 2021
MAY 7, 2021 – The Morrison Government’s $58.6 million handout to the gas industry is wasteful spending by a gas guzzling government intent on denying the futures of manufacturing workers in renewables, the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) say.
May 06, 2021
MAY 6, 2021 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) welcomes news that Liberty steel is on the verge of financing its Australian steel operations.
March 24, 2021
MARCH 24, 2021 – The Morrison Government has failed workers from one of Australia’s leading wind tower manufacturers in a deal it struck with Danish company Vestas to build Ryan Corner wind farm in Victoria.
March 15, 2021
MARCH 15, 2021 – The FWC has made an Interim s.418 Order, binding employees so that they stop industrial action about HDAL. The Interim Order requires that any industrial action, by any employee must not be engaged in, or threatened. Further, any industrial action must not be organised, aided, abetted, directed, procured, induced, advised, authorised, encouraged or facilitated and any direction, advice or authorisation by Employee/s to engage in industrial action is withdrawn. Full details of the order are here.
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