Media Releases
Recent Media Releases
Australian Unions call for 5% increase in Annual Wage Review
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.
SA Unions demand action on wage theft
21/02/2022
SA Unions demand action on wage theft from Marshall Government as employers fined $870,000.
Marshall Government’s economic management credentials in tatters as unemployment spirals
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.
Unions welcome SA Labor’s commitment to safer, fairer workplaces and ban of further privatisation
06/02/2022
SA Unions have welcomed SA Labor’s commitments to deliver safer and fairer workplaces and a ban on further privatisation, contained in its workplace relations policy which was launched today.
Breaking: PM wants children to perform high risk work
30/01/2022
Scott Morrison will today ask Premier Steven Marshall to lower the age limit on obtaining a license to perform high risk work. It’s been revealed the PM will make the request of State Premiers at today’s National Cabinet meeting in a bid to boost the number of forklift drivers to get national supply chains moving.
Political failure forces unions to take action
30/01/2022
Unions from across the country held an emergency meeting today to consider options to respond to the Omicron crisis. In response to the failure of Steven Marshall and Scott Morrison to take action to protect the safety of workers, union members will commence taking whatever steps necessary to ensure they are as safe as possible.
Marshall and Morrison inaction on skills shortages in disability sector exposed
30/01/2022
The Federal and SA Governments’ lack of action to address skills shortages in the health, aged care and disability sectors has been exposed with some COVID positive workers having to continue working while unwell, in the absence of alternatives.
SA Unions welcomes report on wage theft – slams Marshall Government for inaction
17/01/2022
SA Unions has today welcomed the South Australian Parliament’s Select Committee Report on wage theft and endorses the report’s 37 recommendations which, if implemented, will constitute a major step forward in delivering South Australian workers the fairness and justice they deserve.
Political failure forces unions to take action
17/01/2022
Unions from across the country held an emergency meeting today to consider options to respond to the Omicron crisis. In response to the failure of Steven Marshall and Scott Morrison to take action to protect the safety of workers, union members will commence taking whatever steps necessary to ensure they are as safe as possible.
Scott Morrison’s pay cut for Australian workers this Christmas
16/12/2021
Today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has confirmed that real wages will go backwards this financial year, after years of stagnant wage growth under the Morrison Government. As inflation outpaces wage growth, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is delivering Australians a pay cut for Christmas.