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Live News Feed: Current StoriesMake aged care an election issue - 10 March 2010The Australian Nursing Federation launched its national ad campaign in Sydney with the priority of making aged care an election year issue. Yr of the Seafarer: Action needed - 09 March 2010 As the Minister for Transport officially launched the International Year of the Seafarer today, the head of the Maritime Union of Australia warned that the country would pay dearly if it not take urgent measures to revitalise the Australia shipping industry - main employer of merchant seafarers. MUA boxing for a good cause - 08 March 2010 War on the wharves - maritime workers fighting for a great cause in this weeks boxing stoush - $35,000 for Children's hospital IWD celebrate women in construction - 08 March 2010 The CFMEU marks International Women’s Day – March 8 – by drawing attention to the achievements of women in the Australian construction industry, and encouraging more women to pursue a career in construction Star City staff kick off campaign - 08 March 2010 Star City staff today kick off a campaign to win public support for a fair pay offer for workers during this afternoon’s A-League semi-final between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory. Star City is a sponsor of Sydney FC. $50 pay cut for young workers - 07 March 2010 Australian workers will suffer cuts to their pay and conditions and lose protection from unfair dismissal under Liberal leader Tony Abbott’s plan to bring back WorkChoices, warns a new national union TV ad campaign launched today. Rig workers mobilise against Maersk - 05 March 2010 Hundreds of protest e-mails from Australian oil rig workers, and their supporters, are flooding into the e-mail in-boxes of top executives at Maersk, the big Danish multinational container shipping firm, and oil rig operator. Historic childcare win! - 05 March 2010 In December 2009 childcare professionals voted overwhelmingly in favour of improving conditions and real wage increases for ABC staff. Fair Work Australia, a tribunal, has approved this agreement which means it can be enforced. Boeing shows little respect - 04 March 2010 Boeing's workforce in Western Sydney has been treated with little or no respect with the company announcing it is shutting its aerospace engineering site without any consultation with the workers or their unions. Boeing shuts in NSW 400 + jobs go - 04 March 2010 Boeing's announcement that it will close its Milperra aerospace engineering site, costing up to 400 jobs, is a terrible blow to the workers and their families. Unions OK new awards action plan - 04 March 2010 Employers must give commitments that they will not use changes to the award system to rip off workers’ pay or conditions, say unions. No place for sex discrimination - 03 March 2010 Australian employers, including some of the nation’s biggest companies, must lift their game to end sex discrimination in the workplace and improve pay and opportunities for women, say unions. Rate rise creates low-pay pressure - 02 March 2010 Today’s rate rise by the Reserve Bank will add to the living costs of working families and underlines the need for a decent increase to minimum wages this year, say unions. Act Now Protest union discrimination - 02 March 2010 For almost two years the MUA-AWU Offshore Alliance members on the drill rig Nan Hai 6 have been trying to seal a deal with an iconic Danish shipping giant Maersk. Oz Rigworkers held 'captive' - 28 February 2010 For the past two weeks Norwegian offshore drilling company Songa Offshore, operators of the Australian manned drilling rig Songa Venus, have been refusing the right to shore leave for rig workers whilst the rig is Singapore for survey and refit work. Demand industrial manslaugher laws - 26 February 2010 Australian construction workers have today slammed both sides of politics for turning their backs on moves towards nationwide industrial manslaughter laws. MUA minutes silence for workmate - 26 February 2010 Workers on wharves across Australia will observe a minutes silence at 12 noon today (Friday February 26) in a mark of respect for Brad Gray who died in a workplace accident in Brisbane. Historic asbestos widow win - 25 February 2010 Turner Freeman Lawyers had a historic win after an eight year legal battle that will not only deliver compensation to three asbestos widows, but also set a precedent that could allow hundreds or thousands of former wharfies to receive compensation for exposure to deadly asbestos. Tas photo exhibit on asbestos crisis - 25 February 2010 The Australian Workers' Union is happy to be one of the sponsors of an extraordinary photographic portrait exhibition, putting a heart-rending sympathetic focus on the widows who have lost husbands to asbestos related diseases in Australia. FBU warns of arbitary boundaries - 25 February 2010 Bureaucratic boundaries between areas served by NSW Fire Brigade officers and volunteer bushfire crews are causing confusion and putting lives at risk. TWU welcomes White Paper - 24 February 2010 The Transport Workers Union today welcomed the Federal Government’s Counter Terrorism Whitepaper, saying corporate Australia also needed to heed international warnings and strengthen security. AWU campaigns for Mexican unionists - 21 February 2010 The Australian Workers' Union has joined a global campaign to support striking miners in Mexico demanding the right to have their voices heard loudly and clearly at work. ITUC and Palestinian/Israeli unions - 20 February 2010 In a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on 16 February, ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder discussed the deep economic problems confronting Palestinians, and the government’s plans to tackle a series of labour issues including vocational training, employment services, occupational health and safety and labour inspection. AWU warns bushfire tragedy ahead - 19 February 2010 Victorians continue to face devastating loss of lives because the state is not employing enough people to fight bushfires, the Australia Workers' Union Victorian State Secretary, Cesar Melhem, told the Bushfires Royal Commission on Friday. APHEDA's new Palestinian appeal - 19 February 2010 Help APHEDA- Union Aid Abroad in 'Bringing Health Home for Palestinians'. |
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