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Skills for who? An interview with Alan Wilson about changes to TAFE funding
Launching its updated five-year strategy, the Training and Skills Commission warned that South Australia will miss out on record jobs growth if there is a failure to train the right people with the...
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The Green of the Forests
Around 4000 protesters gathered in Mt Gambier on Thursday to tell Premier Jay Weatherill that the Government needed to listen to some sense on forestry privatisation. Business across Mt Gambier closed...
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More jobs to go as Qantas CEO Alan Joyce wields the axe
Picture: Leahy Qantas has revealed 500 workers will lose their jobs across the country, mainly in the catering and engineering sectors, with more expected. Around 150 jobs in Adelaide are among the...
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BHP workers strike over conditions in Queensland mining towns
Cartoon: Leahy Thousands of workers are staging Australia’s biggest industrial action in the mining sector in more than a decade, with a week-long strike at Queensland’s coal mines. Three unions are...
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Workers’ safety laws still in Parliament
Back in 2008 the states, territories and the federal government agreed to “harmonise” their workplace health and safety laws. In an historic follow-up agreement in 2009, employer associations and the...
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Union News – 15/3/2012
In the news tonight: 1. BHP boss Marius Kloppers refuses to meet with Queensland mining families 2. Three former Health Services Union officials to face Federal Court action 3. Iranian unionist faces...
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Holden in SA to stay
Is the manufacturing industry sustainable? What about federal support for companies like Holden? Holden has come to an agreement with the South Australian and Federal Government that will secure it a...
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Howe’s moving inquiry
This week the Howe Inquiry into insecure work visited Adelaide. The inquiry was instigated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and began public hearings in Brisbane last month. South Australian...
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Union News – 29/3/2012
In the news this week: Unions march to oppose Victorian WorkCover cuts CFMEU member Ark Tribe awarded We bring you the wrap from the union oscars and how sex workers are outing pressure on Spanish...
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How clean is your food court?
Westfield shopping malls all around the country were under the microscope today, when cleaners and concerned members of the public banded together to investigate the hygiene and cleanliness of...
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CFMEU workers strike after BHP renege
CFMEU have accused BHP Billiton of deliberately bringing negotiations to a standstill in Queensland’s Bowen Basin as workers take industrial action. As we’ll hea Construction, Forestry, Mining and...
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What’s the real cost of cutting jobs in the Public Service?
When governments are looking to cut costs, those working in Public Service are often the first with their heads on the proverbial chopping block. With so much knowledge and skills lost every this...
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Industrial Action possible at Christie Tea
An 18-month long campaign by low paid, Adelaide tea manufacturers for their first union collective agreement is building steam. Workers at Christie Tea will vote later this month on possible industrial...
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Union News – 12/4/2012
In the news this week: Howes calls former HSU official’s selfish AWU was to see a lower aussie dollar Employers look to cut wages and conditions AEU hopes Gonski gets a timetable at COAG Kosovar Union...
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Justice Kirby’s May Day message – an interview
High Court Justice Michael Kirby AC AMC is Australia’s longest serving Judge. He was Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission, the inaugural Chairman of the...
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Union News – 31/04/2012
In the news tonight: Journos risk fines as they strike in the east Victoria’s public school teachers vote to strike Calls for a National Database For Resource Sector Worker And the Turkish government’s...
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Teachers fight for the future of NSW education
Public School teachers in New South Wales are continuing their campaign despite the The Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, calling on their upper house to pass a law that would allow the union to be...
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Union news 30 August 2012
In the news this week Timber workers walk off the job in Mount Gambier Dodgy contractors dump Coles in hot water Head trade unionist quits the Fiji Labour Party Download: union-news2.mp3 download story
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Union News – 22/11/2012
In the news this week: South Australia Remembers Rex Munn Carter Holt Harvey cuts workers 700 jobs go Railcorp Gillard asks Business and Unions to work together The ILO slams Fiji for trade union...
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Who really values education?
Part of the reason Isobel Redmond was forced to step down as Opposition Leader were her comments on the staffing levels of the Education Department. Ms Redmond said there were about 2000 public...
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