Unions
UNION WIN: Westmead Branch prevents reduction in beds i...
April 22, 2024
The Westmead Hospital Branch of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) who successfully staved off an attempt to reduce the staffing profile at the hospital’s Close Observation Unit (COU). Management sought to reduce the unit from 12 beds to 8, without proper staff consultation. The reduction of beds would have seen the unit lose…
15 days ago
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The COVID-19 recovery must not come at expense of worke...
July 21, 2020
Public Services International says that the COVID-19 recovery must not come at the expense of…
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Unions call for unlimited paid pandemic leave
July 20, 2020
Australian Unions are calling on the Morrison Government to provide paid pandemic leave for all…
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“We haven’t seen this since the 70s”: young peopl...
July 16, 2020
Over a third of young Australians are out of work, in what has been described…
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Cutting taxes for the wealthy is the worst possible res...
July 15, 2020
Australia’s response to the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is rightly considered…
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If we want workers to stay home when sick, we need paid...
July 2, 2020
Australians have been told they can no longer be “heroes” and go to work if…
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Nurses and midwives’ super under threat from backbenc...
June 30, 2020
Australian Unions has called on the Prime Minister to reject calls from Liberal Party backbenchers…
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Frontline workers to slash spending if wage freeze proc...
June 24, 2020
As public sector unions prepare to fight the state government’s proposed wage freeze in the…
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“Australian workers won’t cop a cut to their take h...
June 22, 2020
Australian Unions Secretary Sally McManus has made an impassioned plea to the Committee for Economic…
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More Australians think we’re better off with stronger...
June 17, 2020
An Essential poll has shown that support for unions is at an all time high,…