Manufacturing hopes rest on union-supported co-operative ventures Australian unions have endorsed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) support for co-operative operations, recognising the critical role they play in advancing the organisation’s Global Employment Agenda and promoting decent work. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the 2012 ACTU Congress had endorsed the position in support of co-operatives as [...]
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Lives on Hold
ACTU Secure jobs report now available… scroll down to the bottom to Lives on Hold. Worth reading and debating. http://www.actucongress.org.au/site/media-releases/1622-unions-pledge-to-tackle-the-growing-crisis-of-insecure-work-in-australia-with-a-national-campaign
ACTU Congress: action groups…
Insecure work campaign and report http://www.securejobs.org.au TCFUA campaign for sucessful legislation for outworkers See http://www.tcfua.org.au United Voice for Earlychildhood Educators in Child care Centres Big Steps campaign http://bigsteps.org.au At the ACTU Congress there are a range of other supportive issues for unions. Not exhaustive, but they include… Strong support for Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and [...]
ACTU on the economy
ACTU Congress Jobs & the Economy Australian unions have been central to the advancement of progressive economic and social policy in the past. Unions have fought for, and secured, vital elements of the social wage, like pensions, superannuation, Medicare, and income for the unemployed. Australian unions have always had a vision for a fair and [...]
US union winning struggles in Ohio and Wisconsin
At the ACTU Congress inspiring reports from two US union activists Shari Obrenski Clevand Teachers Union and Eric Barnes from Wisconsin explaining how US unions are sucessful in mobilising hundreds of thousands in Wisconsin and Ohio pushing back the extreme Republican state anti-union and no collective bargaining allowed attacks. Their campaign extended to mobilisation citizens [...]
Support BHP workers
BHP dispute This ACTU Congress declares its full support for the 4,000 mineworkers who have been attempting to negotiate a new Enterprise Agreement at BHP’s seven Central Queensland coal mines for over 18-months now. We note that the while the CFMEU, AMWU and the ETU have been negotiating in good faith BHP has refused to [...]
HSU and rats and rats…
ACTU Congress and HSU. I can assure you that this issue did not dominate Congress despite the media headlines, but had to be addressed. Dave Oliver said unions “cannot tolerate the sorts of things revealed in the Fair Work report into the HSU and that kind of behaviour is not acceptable in our movement”. Unions [...]
Battling corporate Chevron
Chevron Campaign The 2012 ACTU Congress recognises the work of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Construction unions on the Chevron campaign and fully endorses a National and International campaign against Chevron. The ACTU recognises that multi-national companies like Chevron and its contractors are exploiting loopholes in Australia’s Migration Act – loopholes which mean [...]
ACTU on wages
The Wages and Employment Conditions Policy adopted at this Congress reflects our promise to working Australia that unions are committed to lifting real wages for all workers. This promise is underpinned by the fundamental commitment of Australian Unions to improving the position of the lowest paid while continuing to provide career paths to all workers [...]
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