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December 22, 2016

Union Leads Redeployment Plan for Hazelwood Workers

The AMWU will take a prime role in working with the Victorian Government to ensure hundreds of Latrobe Valley members get the best chance of new work and proper redundancy following the shutdown of Hazelwood power station.

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December 21, 2016

Union Members Win Battle of the Brewery

Workers at Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) and supporters around the country are celebrating after the AMWU and ETU members triumphantly returned to work following their six-month battle for reinstatement at union wages and conditions.

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December 20, 2016

Campaign 2017

The AMWU will be launching an exciting industry-wide bargaining campaign for the Victorian Metal Industry in 2017.

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December 16, 2016

Support Ivica's family

AMWU member Ivica Andrijasevic was tragically killed while working on site at South Wharf on 26 October 2016. Ivica’s family will receive the industry standard death benefit prior to Christmas, but the Building Industry unions are also fundraising to assist his family.

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October 04, 2016

New AMWU welding testing & certification centre

Welders to receive skills & jobs boost from new AMWU initiative  The union’s welding campaign has entered an exciting and critical new phase, as we prepare to launch a welding testing centre to help unemployed metalworkers receive welding accreditation to help boost their job prospects. The union will shortly be launching the pilot welding testing regime for members to help them prove that they are fulfilling the increased skills and standards expectations of the industry.  Are you a boilermaker interested in getting tested and certified at the new AMWU welding testing centre? Expressions of interest being taken now! Sign up here.

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March 04, 2016

Food workers deserve better

People working in the food and confectionery industries deserve a better deal. The AMWU helps win secure, long-term jobs and deliver wages to sustain a family on. Join the AMWU today or contact us to hear more about it.

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September 10, 2015

Wedderburn workers first fight

Workers at Wedderburn have decided that enough is enough. Late last year, the hard-working field service technicians at the Thomastown scales company were getting sick of the lack of action on conditions and pay. So they decided to act.

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July 20, 2015

Workers win at Aspen!

Mechanical fitters in Dandenong are celebrating the end of a long-running dispute with Aspen Pharmacare. AMWU members voted up a new agreement on Friday 17 July, which ended a 10-day picket line and 18-month negotiation period with the company. AMWU members celebrate their big win!

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July 16, 2015

Aspen picket line continues

AMWU members at Aspen Pharmaceutical in Dandenong have reached day 9 of their picket line. The workers, along with their NUW colleagues, are taking action to protect their conditions in the negotiation of their enterprise agreement. AMWU and NUW members united on the Aspen picket line

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July 16, 2015

AMWU Members fight Nissan closure

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union is calling on Nissan to redeploy all workers affected by the recent announcement that their Dandenong parts warehouse will close in October. The AMWU and union shop stewards at Nissan have slammed the company for the sudden announcement, which comes less than three months after Nissan announced that it would continue manufacturing parts for Nissan cars “well beyond 2020.”    Nissan workers protest the outsourcing of their jobs to casual labour

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