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On this day in 1915 the Amalgamated Miners Association became a federal union — the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation. NEALE TOWART looks back at the earliest years of what is now the Mining and Energy division of the CFMEU.

THE union movement has thrown its support behind the Australian Workers’ Union Reserve Our Gas campaign for a domestic gas reservation policy.

The move comes after a resolution of support was passed at the 2015 ACTU Congress today in Melbourne.

PAUL Spear is an Australian Workers’ Union health and safety representative (HSR) at OneSteel Laverton, near Melbourne. In his role as Safety Co-ordinator for manufacturing he oversees all HSRs on the site. OneSteel Laverton is a steel manufacturing business…

THE Australian Workers’ Union is locked in an epic battle to see the Victorian Government commit to using locally-produced steel on the first stage of the East West Link road project in order to secure up to 800 jobs and maximise the benefit of infrastructure…

IT’S become very fashionable of late to praise the Accord of 30 years ago.

Even those who railed against it at the time, now acknowledge it as the critical turning point in the nation’s economic history.