“True Blue” legend plays for Collie community hit hard by coal company
Australian music legend John Williamson drew a big crowd in Collie on Wednesday as he diverted from his Australian tour to play for the community, which has been buffeted by Lanco Griffin Coal’s attempts to slash pay and impose a FIFO-style roster on local workers.Mr Williamson agreed to play after local support group Griffin Community […]
Welding challenge highlights new trade skills app
On Friday September 30, close to 50 metal workers gathered at XLT Training in Bibra Lake to take part in a live welding challenge. The event was put together as a way to bring local welders and boilermakers together, and to also film for a new video and global welding challenge.The challenge was given to […]
Unions condemn Barnett Government inaction on FIFO suicides
The joint leadership of the Western Australian AMWU, ETU and CFMEU, along with families of FIFO workers have condemned the Barnett Government’s failure to implement the recommendations of the bi-partisan Parliamentary inquiry into the Impact of FIFO Work Practices on Mental Health as they presented a petition calling for urgent change to Parliament.The three unions, who collectively […]
AMWU WA partners with MATES in Construction to combat industry suicides
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union’s Western Australian Branch has thrown its full support behind MATES in Construction, the national not-for-profit group working towards ending suicide in the construction industry.State Secretary Steve McCartney said the union was doing everything it could industrially and politically to improve workplace mental health and wellbeing and this was yet another […]
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