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WorkChoices: whatever the name, NEVER again

Don't let Tony Abbott bring back WorkChoices! Click here for campaign information and resources.

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Union activists once again campaigning against WorkChoices

Union activists are once again getting out and about campaigning to ensure that Tony Abbott does not bring back WorkChoices…

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UnionsWA's Simone McGurk on the Pay Up! campaign

It's time to address the wages gap in WA.

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Clean Energy Jobs

A million clean energy jobs could be created in Australia if "dinosaurs" in big business and politics stop blocking action…

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Union Related News and Updates
Australian Education Union's new ad
Thursday, 29 July 2010

The Australian Education Union launch their new advertising campaign... very amusing!

 
Union activists once again campaigning against WorkChoices
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Union activists are once again getting out and about campaigning to ensure that Tony Abbott does not bring back WorkChoices style changes to employment laws.

In 2007, the Your Rights At Work campaign had a fantastic victory in defeating John Howard and Tony Abbott’s unfair WorkChoices legislation. Unbelievably, just 3 years later we are again campaigning to ensure that Abbott doesn’t bring back the worst aspects of WorkChoices by ‘tweaking’ the Fair Work Act.

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Harmonisation Update

Every state in Australia except Western Australia will adopt the national harmonised health and safety laws.

A meeting of state and federal Workplace Relations Ministers held on 11 December 2009 approved the creation of consistent health and safety laws to operate from 1 January 2012 as the Work Health and Safety Act.

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Media Release
It's simple: To end the fear, release the report

UnionsWA Secretary Simone McGurk has responded to claims by WA Minister for Commerce Bill Marmion that the unions are ”scaremongering “ in regards to the Barnett Government’s efforts to bring in WorkChoices style laws by repeating her call for the Amendola report to be released.

“If the Minister is so concerned about voters being scared he should simply release the Amendola Report. It’s his Government’s refusal to release the report, written by a key architect of the Howard Government’s WorkChoices legislation, that has workers concerned, not our efforts to bring some transparency to the issue,” Ms McGurk said.

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