17/08/2022
In the same week, two horrific South Australian workplace incidents have come to light, because of SafeWork SA prosecutions (see below).
17/08/2022
Wage growth has flatlined, rising by only 0.07 per cent to 2.6 per cent, less than half the rate of Adelaide’s local inflation rate of 6.4 per cent, according to data released by the ABS Wednesday morning.
11/08/2022
Full and secure employment should be the top macro-economic tool of the federal government according to Australian Unions in a new paper released yesterday ahead of the Jobs summit in early September.
07/07/2022
The Federal government is under increasing pressure to restore the Pandemic Leave Disaster payment. Unions have been strongly advocating for the payment’s reintroduction with the Federal Government.
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.