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Video: Scott Morrison’s so-called ‘Ensuring Integrity’ Bill is an attack on the basic rights of all working people

17 October 2019 Editor 0

The Morrison government’s Ensuring Integrity Bill is nothing more than an attempt to launch a major attack on Australia’s union movement through the criminalisation of union activity and deny protection to workers, through law that […]

Scott Morrison declares intent to send industrial relations back to the Howard era

7 July 2019 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes We all knew it was coming. Scott Morrison has announced the introduction of new anti-union laws. And we can expect to see the worst that has been tried for a long time.

Transport workers are being exploited

22 June 2019 Editor 0

From the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Transport and delivery workers in the gig economy are paid less, work more hours unpaid and are less satisfied than other workers, a major survey reveals today.

John Setka faces another trial by media not based on fact

22 June 2019 Editor 0

By Joe Montero The vendetta being carried out against John Setka, the secretary of Victoria’s Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) is wrong. Plain and simple. It is those lining up to sink […]

Union calls for laws to protect Sharedrivers in Australia

13 June 2019 Editor 0

The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU), has called on the Federal Government to enact urgent legislation to ensure workers in the gig economy are given rights and protections against exploitation, following the Fair Work Ombudsman’s announcement […]

Massive turnout in Melbourne marks Australia’s latest Change the Rules marches

12 April 2019 Editor 0

By Joe Montero At least 150,000 union members and other Australians hit the streets in Melbourne to tell the Scott Morrison government that they are out to overthrow the present industrial relations system and fight […]

Deaths in building industry have become much too frequent

6 April 2019 Editor 0

From New South Wales One young man dead and another seriously injured. This is not a war zone, but an all too common scene on Australian building sites.

Video: Seafarers in Western Australia act on use of cheap labour on our ships

4 February 2019 Editor 0

Resource companies in Australia are killing the Australian shipping industry and seafarers are fighting back. Video by Kyle McGinn MLC

Morrison Government’s construction industry attack dog now being used more widely

25 January 2019 Editor 0

By Ugly As the Australia movement resumes its campaign to Change the Rules, the Australian building and Construction Commission (ABCC) has been turned by the Morrison government to be used against this.

Video: Join 23 October Melbourne rally and help change the rules

21 October 2018 Editor 0

It’s time to turn around record inequality and bring back the fair go. We need everyone out on the streets.

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