AMWU congratulates new life member Bill Ridley
Our Union congratulates Bill Ridley, our newest Life Member after 60 years and counting as a proud unionist. This is his story.My story begins midyear in 1941 while at a Government school in Midland Western Australia. I applied for an apprenticeship but was not selected. At the end of 1941 I left school but enrolled […]
Union boost for Peel Community Kitchen
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union is continuing to support our members’ local communities with our latest contribution to the Peel Community Kitchen this week. On January 16 State Secretary Steve McCartney presented a $10,000 donation to the Peel Community Kitchen, a not-for-profit organisation that relies on volunteers and donations to serve those in need. With more […]
Australian Submarine Corp to stop work amid Government interference in wage bargaining
Around 100 workers from the Australian Submarine Corps Henderson facility will stop work tomorrow (Tuesday 29 November) as unprecedented meddling by the Federal government continues to choke an enterprise bargaining process that has already dragged on for two years.Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union and Electrical Trades Union including boilermakers, electricians and mechanical fitters […]
Barnett Government spends $14 million of taxpayers’ money to create jobs in Los Angeles
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union has slammed revelations that heavy maintenance works on the future 787 fleet for the newly announced non-stop Perth-London route will be conducted in Los Angeles, rather than locally in Perth.At a meeting between Qantas management and Qantas aircraft engineers last week to discuss planning for the introduction of the new […]
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