Media releases

RAA WORKERS STOP WORK OVER FAIR WAGES AND CONDITIONS

JANUARY 20, 2021 – RAA roadside assistance patrol workers are taking part in stop-work action on Wednesday 20 January after management have refused to negotiate for fair working conditions and have applied to terminate the current enterprise agreementWorkers will walk off the job from 1:30pm for a three-hour stop work meeting after for over two years […]

APPRENTICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY SAY KEEP US ON THE TOOLS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020 – Apprentices from across the country are outraged at the Morrison Government’s plans to destroy apprenticeships as we know them and are meeting across the country calling for action. The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has led mass meetings across the country after the organisation giving advice to the Government on skills for […]

Senate inquiry hearing into IR Bill

FEBRUARY 9, 2021 – Australian manufacturing workers kept food on supermarket shelves and PPE in our hospitals at the height of the COVID-19 crisis.Now the Morrison Government’s planned changes to workplace laws could leave these workers behind after they’ve sacrificed so much during this pandemic, the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union will tell a senate inquiry into […]

AMWU URGES PORTER TO INTERVENE FOR OVATO WORKERS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has urged Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations Christian Porter to intervene in a NSW Supreme Court case that will leave workers at printing giant Ovato stranded over Christmas with no pay.Ovato applied to the court for a corporate restructure which would allow it to strip […]

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