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November 29, 2024
The analysis in this report was commissioned by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Lock the Gate Alliance and was prepared by Springmount Advisory. Springmount Advisory is a specialist policy and research company that specialises in the economic opportunities for Australia from building a clean and just economy. Our research provides insight reports to drive policy change that are underpinned by strong analysis of financial, job and community benefits of driving rapid shifts to a more sustainable future.
September 03, 2024
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Strategic Review of the Australian Apprenticeship Incentive System. The AMWU has had an opportunity to read the submissions of the ACTU and supports its recommendations. The Australian Apprenticeships Priority List include trades and significant skills gaps in Australia which are essential to manufacturing industries and that are foundational trades of the AMWU. These include civil engineering trades, graphics pre-press trades workers, joiners, metal fabricators, sheet metal trades workers and vehicle tradespeople.
April 10, 2024
Australia is a global leader in renewable energy research and development and has access to the best renewable energy sources in the world. We have a significant opportunity to become a renewable energy superpower, creating a good jobs boom in our regions while taking decisive steps for a clean energy future. But right now we are being left behind – if not going backwards – as other major economies around the world make massive investments in manufacturing renewable energy infrastructure. The time to change this is now.
June 16, 2023
The AMWU is proposing a national coordinating body for Australia’s transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEV) made up of government, industry, climate and energy policy organisations, and the unions covering workers in the industry.
February 22, 2023
The decision by the former Morrison Government to cancel construction of 12 French Attack-class submarines and announce the acquisition of nuclear submarines through the AUKUS alliance has left Australia vulnerable to a submarine capability gap. This report looks at the enduring workforce and industry development benefit of an Australian marine engineering build.
August 31, 2022
Australia’s defence manufacturing capability needs to be strengthened. Renewed geopolitical tensions in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, accelerating climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the fault lines of fragile global supply chains. These crises have demonstrated the urgent need for Australia to build and maintain sovereign capability in defence and in our manufacturing industries more broadly.
June 28, 2022
We need the government to use its powers of procurement to invest in Australian jobs and industries and rebuild our domestic supply chains. Most of all, we need a government with the vision and commitment to make that happen. This paper is designed to give you the opportunity to see the manufacturing sector through workers' eyes, to understand what it means to the workers it employs and the communities it supports. They believe, and AMWU believes, that with the right policy leadership, Australia can enjoy a manufacturing-led recovery that creates secure, high-skilled jobs; promotes economic development in our regions; increases our sovereign capabilities; and diversifies the nation’s economy.
June 27, 2022
Around the world today, the governments of most major countries are making significant investments in developing highly skilled manufacturing workforces to bolster their sovereign capabilities. These governments recognise the economic opportunities represented by rapid changes in production technologies and are positioning themselves to take full advantage. Without a significant rethink of skill development and recognition, Australia risks being left behind.
June 27, 2022
For too long, environmental sustainability and creating more jobs in the manufacturing and energy production sectors have been seen as incompatible with one another. The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) rejects this framing. Our union — which organises and represents almost 70,000 members from every city and region of Australia — believes that the international shift to renewable energy represents an unprecedented opportunity to revive our nation’s battered but resilient manufacturing sector.
October 01, 2021
At present, the Australian manufacturing sector is battered but resilient. Despite decades of policy negligence —and, at times, deliberate governmental sabotage — manufacturing remains a major employer in this country. But that neglect has left Australia as one of the world’s least self-sufficient industrialised nations when it comes to manufactured goods.
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