Media Releases
Recent Media Releases
Multi-employer bargaining an important tool to address skills shortages
06/09/2022
The Federal Government has announced plans to move ahead on giving workers and businesses greater flexibility to negotiate fairer and more competitive pay agreements across multiple employers.
SA Unions fight $41 a week pay rise in SA state wage case
22/08/2022
SA Unions have lodged South Australia’s state wage case with the South Australian Employment Tribunal (SAET).The state wage case determines the minimum wage ‘safety net’ for employees in the state industrial system (particularly state Public Sector and Local Government employees).
SafeWork SA needs more inspection funding to prevent incident
17/08/2022
In the same week, two horrific South Australian workplace incidents have come to light, because of SafeWork SA prosecutions (see below).
Adelaide’s inflation rate more than double current wage growth
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.
Govt must instruct RBA to prioritise full and secure employment
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.
Workers will overwhelm health system unless pandemic payment restored
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.
Disaster payment cuts will hit frontline workers hardest
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.
Pay rise today for more than 3 million Australian workers
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.
SA Unions maintains call for urgent wage action as business confidence soars
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.
Decade of Coalition Government costs workers $10,000
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.