04/07/2022
The decision by the Albanese Government to axe the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment will mean a return to the earliest and most costly mistakes of the pandemic, with frontline healthcare workers and thousands of others forced to make impossible choices between obeying isolation rules and paying their bills.
01/07/2022
Today South Australian Workers will get a pay rise fought for by the union movement at the Fair Work Commission’s Annual Wage Review.
11/05/2022
As business confidence in SA soars and worker productivity growth reaches 10.3% over the last decade, unions stand firm on their claim for 5.5% increase to the minimum wage.
05/05/2022
With workers facing a cost of living crisis, the Australian Unions have revealed that the average Australian worker would have earned $10,000 more since the Coalition came to power in 2013 if wages had kept up with productivity gains. On today’s wages, that would be another $74 per week.
10/04/2022
Casual workers in Australia are earning on average $350 less each week than their permanent full time or part time counterparts, according to a report released by Australian Unions today.
08/03/2022
SA Unions celebrate International Working Women’s Day in 2022.
02/03/2022
A report released by the ACTU today – “Morrison Missing – A Record of his Failure for Working Women” reveals how the Morrison Government has comprehensively failed to support working women.
01/03/2022
Australian Unions have today announced they will argue for a 5% increase to minimum wages in the Annual Wage Review. This would lift the minimum hourly rate to $21.35 and the minimum annual rate by $2008.76 to take it to $42,183.96.
21/02/2022
SA Unions demand action on wage theft from Marshall Government as employers fined $870,000.
17/02/2022
SA Unions have called on the Marshall Government to deliver a strong plan for South Australia’s future as new unemployment figures leave the government’s economic credentials in tatters.