Funding guarantee gives TAFEs hope
A push to re-invigorate TAFE as the main teacher for the nation’s apprentices has been welcomed by the AMWU as an urgently needed reform.Federal Labor this week outlined a policy of guaranteed funding this TAFE Week would be a good start to restoring teaching numbers and facilities lost to in recent years from drastic cost-cutting and […]
China Deal Threatens Auto Trades
Chinese workers applying for work as motor mechanics and in other auto trades in Australia will no longer have to undergo local skill tests under the new China Free Trade Agreement, it has been revealed.The Abbott Government has secretly agreed to remove mandatory skills assessments to make it easier for Chinese workers to gain 457 […]
Abbott blows ill-wind on wind jobs
Dismayed workers at a major wind tower maker have hit out at PM Tony Abbott’s latest attack on renewable energy for jeopardising local jobs as the industry gets back on its feet.Tower fabrication workers at Keppel Prince in Victoria fear that Mr Abbott’s hatred of wind farms risks scaring off billions of dollars in energy […]
Action set to hit Sydney mega-projects
Union members working on mega-projects at Sydney’s Barangaroo and Darling Harbour are poised to take protected industrial action after employers strung out talks on a new contractors’ agreement for months.The AMWU sheet metal workers could bring construction sites across greater Sydney to a near-standstill, including the $6 billion Barangaroo Point precinct plus the new Exhibition […]
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