TASSIE DAIRY WORKERS RALLY OVER YEAR-LONG MAINLAND WAGE DISPUTE
Tasmanian workers are calling for mainland rates of pay as dozens of Saputo Dairy workers rally at the processor’s Burnie site in North-West Tasmania.The maintenance crew at Burnie have been taking protected industrial action, with no pay, for over three months straight. The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union […]
AMWU WELCOMES STARTERS’ GUN ON SOLAR MANUFACTURING
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) welcomes the long-awaited first phase of the Solar Sunshot program.Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today opened the first phase of the $1 billion Solar Sunshot program to support innovation in Australia’s solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing industry. There will be two funding rounds worth a total of $550 million. […]
WIN FOR WORKERS AT GPI
DECEMBER 17, 2021 – Workers at global packaging manufacturing giant GPI in Melbourne have reached an in-principle agreement today that will see the lowest paid workers receive a nearly 8 per cent pay rise over two-and-a half years, receive back pay until June this year, a casual conversion labour hire clause and commitment to a classification […]
500 MANUFACTURING WORKERS FROM TWO OF AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST DEFENCE COMPANIES TO RALLY FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OVER WAGE DISPUTES
Close to 500 South Australian manufacturing workers at two of the country’s largest defence manufacturing companies will be rallying outside the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Adelaide on Thursday drawing the attention of both state and federal governments over separate protracted wage disputes.Around 350 workers from ASC and more than 100 workers from BAE Systems are set […]
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