Media releases

Royce Cusick is AMWU delegate from BSR Amberely. His story is about the how the skills and training he received at an AMWU delegate course helped him in real life and how he was able to pass this training along to others. “A few years ago as an inexperienced delegate, I attended a delegate course […]

The Queensland Government is conducting an inquiry into the practices of the Labour Hire Industry.    The inquiry will consider: phoenixing and undercutting of conditions  impacts on regional communities, of replacing permanent employees, apprentices and trainees with labour hire workers labour hire and sham contracting being used to avoid workplace laws exploitation, harassment and other mistreatment of […]

On April 26, AMWU State Secretary Rohan Webb will be speaking at The Queensland Jobs Growth Summit 2016. The summit will bring together Ministers and other key policy makers with leaders of the industries driving jobs growth in Queensland. Rohan will be speaking about how it is vital that we do not simply create more jobs but […]

We are proud to announce the launch of our 2016 AMWU Kids Activity Book! Our kids are the future of our union and the AMWU Kids Activity Book is a fun way to engage and educate children about the AMWU and the union movement. They will learn more about the role and values of the union through entertaining word searches, pictures and […]