AMWU SAYS GOODBYE TO DAVE GOODGER
JANUARY 31, 2020 – On the 18th of January this year, the AMWU lost one of our long serving comrades, Dave Goodger. Dave joined the AEU, one of the unions that amalgamated to create the AMWU, in 1956 at the age of 16 as an apprentice at the Eveleigh rail yards.Dave then worked at the Colgate-Palmolive […]
SWEET VICTORY FOR CADBURY WORKERS IN FEDERAL COURT CASE
AUGUST 21, 2019 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) welcomed the long-awaited decision handed down today by the majority of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Mondelez v AMWU & ors. Mondelez, which owns Cadbury, took the AMWU and two of its members to Court in a bid to strip all shift-workers of […]
AMWU READY TO FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ PERSONAL LEAVE IN THE HIGH COURT
DECEMBER 13, 2019 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) is disappointed but unsurprised by today’s High Court decision to grant special leave to Mondelez International and the Australian Government to appeal the decision of the Federal Court in Mondelez v AMWU.That decision recognised shift workers entitlement to ten days paid personal leave as calculated by […]
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST ACT TO CREATE MANUFACTURING JOBS IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER 1, 2019 – The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) is recommending an overhaul of policies to promote manufacturing in regional Australia along with a major push to create new jobs. AMWU National Research Officer Adam Wieladek will outline a series of proposals designed to create highly skilled and well-paying manufacturing jobs when he gives evidence […]
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