Unions
Unions urge RBA to prioritise rate cuts, not higher une...
March 22, 2024
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reconsider its monetary policy stance, after the RBA Board decided to hold the cash rate steady at 4.35 percent. The ACTU argues that raising unemployment is not the answer to tackling inflation, which has already begun to slow…
6 days ago
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Historic strike by Northern Irish nurses
January 31, 2020
Unsafe staffing and poor pay in the absence of a functioning government in Northern Ireland…
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Anti-union bill shot down
January 31, 2020
The defeat of the Morrison government’s grotesquely named “ensuring integrity” bill is a victory for…
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It’s time to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassme...
January 24, 2020
Violence and harassment has been seen as part and parcel of being a nurse or…
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Bushfire information for nurses and midwives
January 8, 2020
Judith Kiejda, Acting General Secretary of the NSWNMA, extends the Association’s support to all those…
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Taking the bargaining out of collective bargaining
December 10, 2019
“An aggressive and wide-ranging agenda for changing Australia’s labour laws” has been quickly assembled by…
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ACTU seeks Fair Work Commission control over workplace...
November 15, 2019
An ACTU survey finds 60 per cent of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment at…
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Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they...
November 15, 2019
Some advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that trade unions are bad for productivity. “With few…
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‘Louts, thugs, bullies’: the myth that̵...
November 15, 2019
What have Scott Morrison and and Attorney General Christian Porter got in mind for unions?…
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SA nurses and midwives to take a stand on patient care
October 22, 2019
South Australian nurses and midwives have elected to take industrial action if their state Liberal…