Abbott Government

Flags of convenience pose security and jobs threat

A CORONIAL inquest currently underway into three mysterious deaths at sea is symptomatic of a broader union campaign to prevent the introduction of WorkChoices on Water around our coast.

Has there ever been a worse time to be unemployed?

AFTER the new jobactive system is introduced at the start of next month, it will be the worst time in Australia’s postwar history to be unemployed.

The 10 worst places to be a worker

AS the Abbott Government finalises its bilateral free trade agreement with China, that country has entrenched its position on a global index of the worst places for workers’ rights.

Parliament’s cleaners on strike for wage rise

FURIOUS Parliament House cleaners in Canberra began a 24 hour strike on Monday morning, symbolically choosing International Cleaners’ Day to launch an industrial campaign for a pay rise that has been thwarted by the Abbott Government.

D-Day arrives for low-paid workers

IT’S D-Day for about 1.9 million workers this afternoon when the Fair Work Commission will hand down its decision from its annual review of Award wages.

This is the only opportunity those Award-reliant workers will get for a pay rise this year.

Flesh put on the bones of new ACTU campaign

THE ACTU today put the flesh on the bones of its Build A Better Future campaign by outlining a new way of advancing worker rights in the community at elections — and beyond.

Unions set out to build a better future

UNIONS will step up their fightback for fairness by building the ACTU into a campaigning machine to defeat the anti-worker agenda of conservative governments Australia-wide.

Congress to push for better paid parental leave

UNIONS meeting in Melbourne for the ACTU Congress this week will endorse a push to extend the paid parental leave scheme to 26 weeks and pursue full income replacement, in a clear rejection of the Abbott Government’s winding back of the scheme in…

A decent parental leave scheme is not ‘double-dipping’

THE announcement on Mother’s Day that the Abbott-Hockey Government would remove access to the paid parental leave scheme for those who had employer-provided paid leave came as a rude shock.