Live News Feed: ACTU Worksite for Schools

Tell your work story with hip hop
Tell your own story and the ACTU’s student web-site we'll put it to music. It's all part of the latest Worksite comp.
25 March 2006 [Read More]

WA EN's lead the way
For the first time Enrolled Nurse LHMU members in the growing ‘for profit’ aged care sector have secured an agreement delivering a career path and professional recognition.
18 July 2005 [Read More]

E-mail a pollie about working rights
Here’s our opportunity, sitting at our computers, to tell key politicians that ordinary working Australians and their families are concerned when they talk about plans to do away with our workplace rights.
17 July 2005 [Read More]

Turning globalisation on its head
One of Australia’s biggest unions has created a new global alliance with America’s largest union to help turn globalisation on its head – and make it a tool to win higher living standards for low-paid workers.
14 July 2005 [Read More]

Women will lose most
Women will be the biggest losers out of the Federal Government’s radical changes to workplace laws, Annie Owens, NSW LHMU secretary warned at an Evatt Foundation Seminar last week.
11 July 2005 [Read More]

Sneak Previews of The Take
Sneak Previews of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’ political thriller
05 July 2005 [Read More]

Childcare fee rip offs
Parents using childcare centres in Canberra and across Victoria should be very wary of fee increase rip-offs – the LHMU Child Care Union warned today.
01 July 2005 [Read More]

Unions reach 300,000 AFL spectators
Around 300,000 spectators attending AFL football matches across Australia this weekend will be given information about how Federal Government workplace reforms will mean less time for family life and less time for sport on weekends.
01 July 2005 [Read More]

3 Perth workers at the big rally
An Aged Care worker, a Casino Croupier and a Chemical worker, three WA LHMU members in Perth, explain why they will be rallying today against John Howard’s industrial laws.
30 June 2005 [Read More]

Nappies bombard Gvt MPs
A West Australian Federal MP, Michael Keenan, will have his office transformed into a childcare centre today - and be bombarded with 500 nappies - as part of the National Week of Action against the Howard Government’s planned industrial laws.
28 June 2005 [Read More]

Tas "alarm bells" for penalty rates
Working people in Tasmania should be very concerned about the future of penalty rates and loadings under the Howard Government’s proposed changes to the industrial relations system, given Special Minister of State Eric Abetz’s previous statements.
27 June 2005 [Read More]

Union wants aged care action
A new Senate report on aged care provides long overdue opportunities to upgrade the way we care for the elderly in our society, LHMU Aged Care Union, National President, Helen Creed said today.
24 June 2005 [Read More]

SMS aged care boss: demand decency
Union workers at West Australia’s largest for profit aged care provider – Hall & Prior – are organising for a $1 an hour pay increase.
23 June 2005 [Read More]

Barracks childcare undermined
The LHMU Child Care Union has called on Australia’s biggest corporate child care operator - ABC Learning Centres – not to reduce standards at their newly acquired Defence Barracks child care centres.
19 June 2005 [Read More]

Toilet Brush Award
The ACT LHMU Cleaners Union has given its annual Toilet Brush Award to a national cleaning company who owes over $2000 to a union member for under payment of wages.
16 June 2005 [Read More]

Canb clubs must not punish workers
The ACT Clubs industry faces challenging financial times - but they should not take it out on their workforce, the ACT LHMU warned today.
15 June 2005 [Read More]

Interview with Israeli union leader
The text below is an interview conducted with Amir Peretz, the leader of Israel's national trade union center, the Histadrut, and recently-announced candidate for leader of the Israel Labour Party.
15 June 2005 [Read More]

Supermarket cleaners wages 'stolen'
Korean guest workers are the target of unscrupulous offers for cleaning jobs at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets at Town Hall.
15 June 2005 [Read More]

Canberra cleaners breakfast
Canberra breakfast commemorates savage police attack on immigrant cleaners campaigning for workplace respect.
15 June 2005 [Read More]

Cleaners campaign globally
Angry Canberra cleaners meet the Anglican Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, George Browning, tomorrow to tell him the church is not matching its own high moral standards when they allow a cleaning contractor in an Anglican retirement home to cut their take home pay.
14 June 2005 [Read More]

Anglicans and job morality
Cleaners Union members asked Anglican worshippers at the St Paul’s Cathedral in Canberra, today to reflect on the morality of allowing low-waged contract cleaners to have their pay cut at Canberra’s Anglicare retirement homes.
05 June 2005 [Read More]

Weight Watchers win new pay plan
An LHMU campaign for Weight Watchers Leaders has won a breakthrough offer which will more than double the pay of hundreds of dedicated Weight Watchers staff.
02 June 2005 [Read More]

End sub-contracting at Syd Airport
LHMU Airport Security Union members have been campaigning for three years demanding an end to the pyramid contracting of airport security work at Sydney Airport – Australia’s major international gateway.
31 May 2005 [Read More]

Why ind'nt ump for politicians?
The PM seems to believe that an independent umpire to set wages for politicians is a good thing – but he wants to abolish the independent umpire for minimum wage workers – Tim Ferrari, the LHMU Assistant National Secretary pointed out today.
31 May 2005 [Read More]

Anglicans and low-paid workers
ACT LHMU Cleaners are asking the most senior person in the local Anglican hierarchy to ensure that workers employed at Anglican Church facilities are not treated immorally.
31 May 2005 [Read More]

Libs can't answer workers concerns
Two WA LHMU delegates in Perth waited over two hours on the weekend to put their concerns to Federal Minister Kevin Andrews over his proposed unfair dismissal laws, only to have him talk over the top of them.
30 May 2005 [Read More]

Tas Libs Destroy 300 Jobs Over VSU
Senator Eric Abetz should know that the state's voters did not put him on the Government benches so he could destroy the jobs of many good Tasmanians, says the LHMU.
23 May 2005 [Read More]

Budget and shonky operators
Aged care operators are ripping the heart out of aged care by up to $21.6 million a year – according to an extraordinary revelation buried inside this year’s Federal Budget.
11 May 2005 [Read More]

Childcare +Fed Budget
The Federal Government should deliver a massive increase in Budget funding today for the childcare sector, to ensure that the huge and growing workforce in this key industry receives a just wage for their endeavours.
10 May 2005 [Read More]

Fair play from Federal Budget
The Federal Government should deliver a massive increase in Budget funding today for the childcare sector, to ensure that the huge and growing workforce in this key industry receives a just wage for their endeavours.
10 May 2005 [Read More]

Pink Roses for The Pink Salt
The NSW Hospitality Union has sent a huge bunch of Pink Roses to The Pink Salt restaurant.
09 May 2005 [Read More]

The Pink Salt coughs up wages
The swish Sydney Pink Salt restaurant, competing in the reality TV show My Restaurant Rules, has been forced to pay more than $8,000 in back wages following public outrage that they had tried to force their staff onto individual employment contracts.
06 May 2005 [Read More]

New Long Service Leave rights in ACT
Canberra’s workforce will now be able to access their long service leave rights much earlier than in any other State or Territory, following the adoption of new legislation in the ACT Legislative Assembly today.
06 May 2005 [Read More]

Casino workers May Day CLOUT
The two national casino workers unions on both sides of the Tasman have come together to deliver organisational CLOUT to the thousands of workers we represent together.
29 April 2005 [Read More]

Refugee wins May Day award
A Chilean refugee, who works as a cleaner at the Calvary Hospital in Canberra, has won Unions ACT’s May Day award recognising the significant contribution he has made to improving the lives of working people in the national capital.
29 April 2005 [Read More]

LHMU bucks union membership trend
The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union ( LHMU) has bucked the national trend of union membership decline – despite the increasingly hostile environment for union organising.
28 April 2005 [Read More]

Weight Watchers Leaders muscling up
Across NSW Weight Watchers Leaders have been holding emotional meetings to discuss the health of their workplaces.
28 April 2005 [Read More]

Gove workers' strong global support
LHMU Sodexho workers at the Alcan Gove G3 construction site in the Northern Territory have won the support of the largest and fastest growing union in North America.
26 April 2005 [Read More]

Yale-Columbia strike and Aussies
Grad students at two top Ivy League US universities - Yale and Columbia - have voted for a five-day strike starting Monday - 'cause they're demanding the right to organise a union.
15 April 2005 [Read More]

Vanstone imports childcare workers
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone's wants to import key childcare workers – rather than support a decent pay package and career structure for Australians.
15 April 2005 [Read More]

NT's Big Rat Award to Sodexho
Unions in the Northern Territory are handing out their first ever Big Rat award for bad employment practices informing Territory families which company has done the most to gnaw away at working conditions.
15 April 2005 [Read More]

200 NSW childcare workers win!
Childcare workers showed this week they wouldn’t be treated like pawns on a chess board - pushed around at will without any consideration of their needs, NSW LHMU Child Care Union President, Jim Lloyd, said today.
14 April 2005 [Read More]

Cleaners union targets tax dodgers
The Victorian LHMU Cleaners Union have organised a school cleaners campaign to get the Australian Taxation Office to crack down on cash in hand payments.
13 April 2005 [Read More]

Westfield malls and cleaners
Westfield shopping malls in Canberra will play a key role in delivering ethical standards to the contract cleaning industry in our national capital, ACT LHMU Cleaners Union Assistant Secretary, Lyndal Ryan said today.
12 April 2005 [Read More]

Cleaning Code sets new standards
An ACT ground-breaking cleaning code to deliver high standards of cleaning services, in the most environmentally sound means possible, will create a national precedent – the LHMU Cleaners Union said today.
11 April 2005 [Read More]

Thousands query The Pink Salt
More than 100,000 people have visited LHMU Hospitality Union’s The Pink Salt protest campaign site in a little over a week – wanting to show they don’t like the AWA individual employment contracts Evan Hansimikali and Bella Serventare have offered their great restaurant staff.
05 April 2005 [Read More]

Wattyl smears workers by 'blob' talk
Inflammatory language used by top Wattyl Paint’s management has aggravated workplace relations at thismajor Australian paint factory’s sites across five states.
04 April 2005 [Read More]

Full Bench final childcare hearings
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission Full Bench will tomorrow hear final submissions on the new classification structures for 18,000 childcare professionals in the ACT and Victoria.
30 March 2005 [Read More]

Provide childcare funding choices
LHMU Child Care Union activists around Australia are calling for an extra $1 billion dollar injection into childcare funding in the coming May Budget.
30 March 2005 [Read More]

Protest Qld teacher-aide cuts
Teacher-aides and teachers will hold protest meetings next Monday (4 April) over a proposed 50 per cent cut to teacher-aide time for Preparing for School (Prep.) Year classes in Queensland.
30 March 2005 [Read More]

Parents,Principals, Cleaners Unite
School cleaners, principals and parents will today deliver an urgent message to Victorian Treasurer Brumby – “Keep Our Schools Clean and Bright, Get it Right on Budget Night.”
30 March 2005 [Read More]

New My Restaurant Rules Competition
We want to tell Evan and Bella - the owners of The Pink Salt restaurant - that they can’t expect Sydney’s vote in the popular My Restaurant Rules TV reality show if they don’t treat their workforce properly.
24 March 2005 [Read More]

Clean out Canberra Parl't properly
The LHMU Cleaners Union has called for Parliamentary Services to conduct an urgent review of the $3 million dollar per annum cleaning contract at Parliament House in Canberra.
23 March 2005 [Read More]

Hilton hotel re-born
For many LHMU Hotel Union members the reopening of the Sydney Hilton Hotel later this year will be a cause for celebration.
14 March 2005 [Read More]

No staff should work in smoky areas
Health and trade union groups have warned state and territory governments against allowing smokefree licensed venue deadlines to be avoided by the continued operation of mostly-enclosed smoky areas.
09 March 2005 [Read More]

Childcare bosses delay pay increase
A small number of private childcare employers are trying, in a last minute stratagem, to delay an historic pay increase for Victorian and ACT low-paid childcare workers.
07 March 2005 [Read More]

Homecarers demand equal pay increase
More than 4000 Homecare workers want the State Government to show them respect and offer a pay increase equal to that being offered to thousands of other public servants.
03 March 2005 [Read More]

15,000 childcare workers demand pay
A childcare pay equity case, lodged with the NSW Industrial Relations Commission on Friday afternoon, by the LHMU Child Care Union, will drag pay and conditions for the state’s 15,000 childcare professionals out of the 1960s.
28 February 2005 [Read More]

Chris Corrigan goes to church!!!!
For the first time in its history the national organisation representing churches in Australia - the National Council of Churches (NCCA) has fronted up to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
27 February 2005 [Read More]

Childcare bosses NSW take away feast
Childcare employers in NSW are out of step with community expectations, the NSW LHMU Child Care Union President, Jim Lloyd warned today.
27 February 2005 [Read More]

Health boss asked to do security job
South Australian hospital security workers have issued a challenge to the CEO of the State Health Department, Mr Jim Birch, to come spend a day with them – and then say they are not worth being treated the same as their public sector counterparts.
25 February 2005 [Read More]

Support SA hospital security workers
South Australian security officers, who work in the public health sector, daily face increasing incidents of violence, and new security issues:but they are among the lowest paid workers in our public hospital and health system.
16 February 2005 [Read More]

Valentine's protest againt violence
Senators invited to attend Queanbeyan, NSW, Valentine’s Day rally to protest assault of female union organiser
13 February 2005 [Read More]

Guest workers wages stolen
Working holiday visa workers are regularly being ripped off by unscrupulous sub-contractors who happily steal wages from unsuspecting tourists, the LHMU Cleaners Union warned today.
09 February 2005 [Read More]

Iraqi union leader kidnapped
The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) has denounced further attacks on one of its key leading elected officials.
30 January 2005 [Read More]

Global Unions tsunami mission
As trade unions around the world continue to collect millions of dollars to assist the reconstruction effort in the wake of the Tsunami, a mission of international and regional trade union leaders has just returned from Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two countries most cruelly affected by this unprecedented natural catastrophe.
27 January 2005 [Read More]

Help the young escape nursing homes
Every day on average in Australia a young person with a disability goes to live in an aged care facility.
24 January 2005 [Read More]

Stop work at Qld private prison
Key workers at the Arthur Gorrie Prison, Wacol (Qld) – run by the US-multinational GEO Group - will take protected industrial action commencing at midday today and continuing until midnight on Sunday night.
21 January 2005 [Read More]

LHMU Tsunami cricket auction
The Tasmanian LHMU has challenged the islands employers and other unions to dig deep for the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunamis by launching a silent auction for a valuable piece of cricket memorabilia.
18 January 2005 [Read More]

3 Oz unions in top ten popular vote
Three Australian unions came in the top ten for the annual LabourStart

LabourStart global popular vote for best trade union websites.
18 January 2005 [Read More]

Casino Union $10,000 for tsunami
Casino union workers in Western Australia have raised nearly $10,000 for a special tsunami relief fund they’ve created in response to the crisis.
17 January 2005 [Read More]

Iraqi unionists must vote!!!!
Iraqi’s living in Australia, who are members of the LHMU, are urged to register and vote in the upcoming Iraqi elections - the LHMU National President, Helen Creed, said today.
17 January 2005 [Read More]

Low-paid childcare worker pay win
Low-paid workers in the childcare sector have had a tremendous victory after a long and arduous community campaign, the LHMU Child Care Union said today.
14 January 2005 [Read More]

Unions call to NT Chief Minister
Public Sector Unions are dismayed at the lack of process and goodwill shown to workers in the latest round of enterprise bargaining with the Government and are calling on the Chief Minister to step in and resolve the issue before more damage is done.
11 January 2005 [Read More]

Trade union web vote ending soon
Three of the top 5 trade union websites, in the annual popular vote for best website across the globe, come out of Australia.
11 January 2005 [Read More]

Union Aid Abroad tsunami assistance
In a message to Australian Union Members, Sharan Burrow, president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said: “I urge union members to donate generously to a special tsunami donation program being put in place by Union Aid Abroad.”
11 January 2005 [Read More]

Union backed Oz worker in Sri Lanka
Richard Schmidt, an Australian working with the trade union-based Norwegian Peoples Aid de-mining program will return soon to his home in the Tamil areas of northern Sri Lanka to help manage emergency efforts and begin rebuilding in devastated coastal communities.
09 January 2005 [Read More]

Senior Iraqi union leader killed
The ICFTU today expressed its deep shock and revulsion at the brutal torture and murder of Hadi Salih, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) at his Baghdad home on Tuesday night (4 January).
07 January 2005 [Read More]

Keystone Kops airport security plan
Australia’s key airport security union has called on the Federal Government to implement a more effective response to regional airport security.
04 January 2005 [Read More]

Donate to the Union Tsunami Appeal
The Australian trade union movement, through it's overseas aid arm, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA, is calling on all working women and men in Australia to donate generously to the union appeal for the victims of the tsunami in South Asia.
04 January 2005 [Read More]

Listen to a tsunami appeal
Jagath Bandara is an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser who is originally from Sri Lanka.
03 January 2005 [Read More]

MUA widow donates union aid appeal
The widow of a former wharfie has rung the Australian union aid agency - Union Aid Abroad APHEDA - to offer $1000 to the special tsunami aid appeal.
31 December 2004 [Read More]

Global unions tsunami response
See how the global union movement is responding to theearth-quake tsunami crisis.
31 December 2004 [Read More]

Low-paid Vic workers welcome deal
Low-paid workers are today anticipating a well-deserved pay rise to take effect from New Year’s Day.
31 December 2004 [Read More]

Unions aid victims of Asian tsunami
Popular and well-known Sydney trade union official, Jagath Bandara, who was in the land of his birth - Sri Lanka - for the funeral of his father, was lucky in escaping the horrors of the Asian tsunami.
30 December 2004 [Read More]

Church cancels Xmas for low-paid
The Little Sisters of the Poor, who run two Western Australian nursing homes, are refusing to pay low paid aged care workers, caring for the most vulnerable in our community, their proper Christmas and New Year bonus.
23 December 2004 [Read More]

90 union websites in global compt
Voting has begun for the eighth annual Labour Website of the Year competition, sponsored by the London-based LabourStart project.
23 December 2004 [Read More]

Deputy PM must investigate airport
The LHMU Airport Security Union has called on the Deputy PM and Minister for Transport , John Anderson, to investigate immediately the collapse of a security company providing services to Sydney Airport.
23 December 2004 [Read More]

WA nursing home owners outdo Scrooge
Moran and Little Sisters of the Poor will be giving their employees working in nursing homes in WA a surprise present this Christmas – no public holidays for the Christmas period.
22 December 2004 [Read More]

Syd Airport job security crisis
Sydney airport could be facing a major security crisis over the Christmas-New Year period, because a pyramid sub-contracting arrangement for airport security guards is about to unravel – the airport security union warned today.
22 December 2004 [Read More]

Vote for the best union website
Voting began last week for this annual competition, which began in 1997, and which allows trade unionists around the world to vote for their favourite union websites.
19 December 2004 [Read More]

Aged Care workers Boxing Day pay
One of Australia’s wealthiest and most controversial aged care providers – Doug Moran – is refusing to pay the 50% loading to any of his approximately 300 West Australian aged care workerforce, who are rostered to work this Boxing Day.
16 December 2004 [Read More]

School cleaners in the frontline
School cleaners - just like their school teacher work colleagues - are being put onto the frontline in new battles against looming green issues and new health issues a NSW conference on Cleaners and the Health of our Schools was told today.
10 December 2004 [Read More]

LHMU expels Tassie Labor MP
Tasmanian Labor MP, Dick Adams, has had his membership cancelled in Australia’s largest service sector union: the 130,000 member Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union.
09 December 2004 [Read More]

Healthy, clean schools - Conference
LHMU cleaners play a key role in delivering healthy schools and healthy workplaces – a role to be highlighted in a major NSW conference tomorrow (Friday, December 10, 2004) sponsored by the LHMU Cleaners union.
09 December 2004 [Read More]

Hospital cleaners win job security
Cleaners employed by contractors at Calvary Hospital have won an important continuity of employment agreement from the hospital management.
08 December 2004 [Read More]

Hospital cleaners meet today
Cleaners at Calvary Hospital in Canberra will meet again at 8am today to consider a management letter and decide whether to stay on strike indefinitely over concerns about job security and conditions.
07 December 2004 [Read More]

Calvary Hospital cleaners Xmas
Cleaners at Canberra’s big Calvary Hospital are hoping to present the hospitals contract manager, Steve Madex, with a large outsize Christmas Card on Monday morning - which he can accept on behalf of the directors of the church-run hospital.
05 December 2004 [Read More]

Defend Oz workers' democratic rights
LHMU members faced with unsafe or unfair workplaces will find it harder to access information, advice and support from unions under new laws introduced into Parliament by the Howard Government.
03 December 2004 [Read More]

Update from Workers Advice Centre
Dear friends I would like to bring you up to date about WAC's campaign against the attempt by the Israeli authorities to close it down.
03 December 2004 [Read More]

Update from Workers Advice Centre
Dear friends

I would like to bring you up to date about WAC's campaign against the attempt by the Israeli authorities to close it down. First, here is the home page of the campaign website: www.workersadvicecenter.org/Campaign-main-page.htm.
03 December 2004 [Read More]

LHMU growth wins ACTU accolades
An LHMU campaign, which increased our union’s size in Western Australia by 2550 members, and dramatically increased our workplace density among educational support staff, has just won the prestigious 2004 ACTU Workplace Campaign Award.
02 December 2004 [Read More]

Feds waste no time: attack low-waged
Any delay in the National Wage Case hearing – as reported in national media today – would result in up to $500 disappearing out of the pockets of the lowest-paid workers in Australia.
02 December 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners union - schools & health
LHMU cleaners play a key role in delivering healthy schools and healthy workplaces – a role to be highlighted in a major NSW conference on Friday, December 10, 2004, sponsored by the union.
01 December 2004 [Read More]

Worth Fighting For - Union Memoirs
Ray Gietzelt was a key figure in trade union and labor politics in the second half of the 20th century and his memoirs are an essential and entertaining part of Australia’s history.
23 November 2004 [Read More]

Qantas workers deserve fair share
ASU members in the Qantas Group are currently negotiating their seventh enterprise agreement. ASU members work in areas like checkin, reservations, operations, holidays, finance, freight, catering and IT.
25 October 2004 [Read More]

Support US hotel workers!!!
San Francisco City Hall politicians sat through four hours of sometimes searing testimony on Friday from hotel union workers locked out of 14 up-market San Francisco hotels.
25 October 2004 [Read More]

School cleaners conference
NSW school cleaners have just won an important campaign to protect their jobs and working conditions, in the lead up to the 2005 State Government tender renewal for cleaning contracts.
21 October 2004 [Read More]

Millions work hard, fall short
Too many Australian working families now are stuck in low-paid jobs making it difficult for them to survive financially.
18 October 2004 [Read More]

The new face of poverty
An important forum on low pay, welfare and the working poor to explore the intersections between low-paid work, poverty and the welfare system.
12 October 2004 [Read More]

Pubs clubs fail to pressure NSW Gvt
A last minute push by NSW pubs and clubs has not pressured the State Gov't into allowing the health and safety of thousands of hospitality workers to be put at risk indefinitely, the LHMU Hospitality Union said today.
12 October 2004 [Read More]

Fed Gvt & childcare police checks
Childcare workers – who are among the lowest paid workers in Australia – are being forced to organise and pay for their own child abuse police checks, before prospective employers will even look at their job applications.
06 October 2004 [Read More]

Liberals Don’t care about Childcare
“The Liberal Party has shown very clearly how they feel about the issues surrounding childcare by failing to even bother to show up to childcare BBQ forums held in Hobart and Launceston over the weekend,” LHMU Tasmania Branch Secretary David O’Byrne said today.
04 October 2004 [Read More]

Aged Care vision a gold medal winner
Mark Latham’s promise to provide a clear set of standards for the level and quality of residential care will create a new era in Aged Care, the LHMU Aged Care Union said today.
01 October 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers want changes
Union members in childcare centres across Australia are sickened and angered by the news that the owner of a small chain of private childcare centres has been caught in a massive nationwide crackdown on child pornography.
01 October 2004 [Read More]

E-mail Ministers to back smoke bans
It’s crunch time in NSW for a smokefree deadline – NSW cabinet has met this week on the issue and were apparently deadlocked.
30 September 2004 [Read More]

Musicians urge pub/club smoke ban
Musicians have demanded all states legislate for immediate pub and club smoke bans and enforce workplace safety laws against smoky workplaces, after a NSW musician showed a dangerously high level of passive smoke intake from a two-hour engagement.
30 September 2004 [Read More]

400 Drs call for pub smoking ban
The NSW Minister assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor, has publicly accepted letters from 400 NSW doctors calling for an end to smoking in pubs and clubs by the middle of next year.
30 September 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers to grill pollies
“On Thursday childcare workers will be undertaking grilling practise at Battery Point in preparation for the LHMU Childcare Election Barbie,” David O’Byrne, LHMU Tasmanian secretary, said today.
30 September 2004 [Read More]

Uni cleaners in job security win
Low paid union workers employed at the University of Tasmania have protected their job security – after a strong and sustained community campaign led by LHMU activists.
30 September 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers despondent
A national phone-in on childcare has revealed how low morale is among the dedicated workforce in this important and sensitive industry.
28 September 2004 [Read More]

Airport security contracts crisis
The LHMU Airport Security Union has called on the Federal Government to immediately stop the pyramid contracting of airport security work at Sydney Airport – Australia’s major international gateway.
24 September 2004 [Read More]

Sydney Airport security crisis
LHMU Airport Security Union has called on the Federal Government to immediately stop the pyramid contracting of airport security work at Sydney Airport – Australia’s major international gateway.
24 September 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers dummy spit
Childcare workers from across Canberra are angry that they have had to wait more than 2 years for an outcome to an Industrial Relations Commission application for a better classification structure.
24 September 2004 [Read More]

Global solidarity with Israel
The ICFTU’s Israeli affiliate Histadrut today launched a nationwide strike in protest at unpaid wages in the public sector.
22 September 2004 [Read More]

Election impt'nt for LHMU members
The October Federal election will be important to all the members of our union because it gives us the opportunity to turn around the attacks on working families, which we have all suffered from over the last eight years.
22 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners win job security campaign
NSW LHMU Cleaners Union members have won their important job security campaign for low-wage contract workers.
22 September 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers need more than ABC
Childcare workers employed by Eddy Groves, at his growing ABC conglomerate, have rung LHMU Childcare Union offices across the country asking for membership forms – and details of how they can protect their wages and conditions.
15 September 2004 [Read More]

Hospitality workers in danger
The rapid escalation of violence, trauma, injury and even death has made the hospitality industry probably the most dangerous place to work, Tim Ferrari, LHMU Assistant National Secretary, said today.
15 September 2004 [Read More]

Star City casino workers win
Star City Casino workers have voted to accept a new enterprise agreement which delivers a pay increase of 9.25 per cent, as well as extra benefits.
10 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners job security camp'n update
School cleaners will return to work from midnight tonight, after their first major strike in 11 years, and they’re hoping that they won’t have to repeat it again over the coming weeks and months.
10 September 2004 [Read More]

Merger danger for children
The creation of a big privately run national childcare conglomerate, dominating the children’s services industry, should concern Australian families as well as the 100,000 workers in this important industry.
09 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners can't accept empty offers
More than 2000 cleaners, from across the state, marched today from Hyde Park, down Macquarie St to Premier Carr’s office.
08 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners protect my working hours
I need to know from the State Government that I will still have at least the same hours of work under the new contract, as I have got now, a 25 year veteran of NSW school cleaning Kath Haddon, will tell a rally of school cleaners this afternoon.
08 September 2004 [Read More]

School cleaners: still no offer
The State Government has made no offer to school cleaners guaranteeing their working hours, Annie Owens, LHMU Cleaners Union State Secretary, said.
07 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners travel thru the night
Low-wage school cleaners from across NSW are travelling through the night to take part in a Sydney rally on Wednesday.
07 September 2004 [Read More]

Uni VC meets low-waged cleaners
University of Tasmania cleaners will meet tomorrow afternoon with the Vice-Chancellor Prof Daryl LeGrew to discuss their campaign to protect their jobs and livelihoods.
06 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners in bus cavalcade
Angry school cleaners from rural and regional centres across NSW are getting up in the early hours of the morning to catch a bus to Sydney to join the big protest rally against Bob Carr.
06 September 2004 [Read More]

School cleaners strike tomorrow
The state-wide school cleaners strike will go ahead from tomorrow morning, with members in Wollongong attending a rally at the Wollongong Town Hall on Tuesday, where the Carr Cabinet is meeting, and an even bigger rally is planned for Sydney on Wednesday.
06 September 2004 [Read More]

Huge profits during childcare crisis
The hard work of low-waged child care workers is turning the operators of private childcare chains into some of the wealthiest people in Australia, the LHMU Child Care Union said today.
06 September 2004 [Read More]

Regional airport security
Australia’s airport security union has called for a bi-partisan approach to ensuring regional airports deliver the highest possible security standards for passengers.
05 September 2004 [Read More]

Job justice protest rally
NSW LHMU cleaners from across the state - along with their supporters - will take part in a huge Sydney protest rally, starting from the Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park North, at midday on Wednesday.
03 September 2004 [Read More]

Support Sth African telecom workers
The CEPU and CPSU's sister union in South Africa has made an urgent appeal for international support in its campaign against telecom layoffs.
03 September 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners rally in Sydney
School cleaners from across the State will rally in Sydney next Wednesday to demand Bob Carr deliver on his promises of job security for nearly 7000 cleaners.
01 September 2004 [Read More]

National childcare phone-in starts
The LHMU Child Care Union is joining with the ACTU and other unions to host a childcare phone-in, starting today ( September 1), to gauge the views of childcare workers and the community about the major concerns affecting this industry.
01 September 2004 [Read More]

Job justice demand at Tas Uni
The Tasmanian community is strongly backing a campaign for justice and respect for low-wage workers whose jobs and livelihoods are being attacked by the University of Tasmania .
01 September 2004 [Read More]

Uni cleaning jobs threatened
The University of Tasmania is threatening the job security of around 50 low paid workers, when it could easily protect their livelihoods.
25 August 2004 [Read More]

New national alliance for low -paid
Australia’s number one union giving a voice to low-paid workers – the LHMU – and one of the largest Australian organisations advocating for the poor – the Brotherhood of St Laurence – have come together in a $500,000 project to develop a new understanding about this nation’s low-paid jobs – especially in the growing service sector.
24 August 2004 [Read More]

Cynical airport security statement
The Federal Government’s regional airport security package is a cynical rabbit trick, pulled out the hat as the clock ticks away to a Federal election, the LHMU Airport Security Union said today.
24 August 2004 [Read More]

Olympics shame
On the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) pays homage to the 13 construction workers killed building Greece’s Olympic facilities. Hundreds more have been seriously injured and maimed for life.
13 August 2004 [Read More]

How Gvt stops childcare pay increase
The wages of 16000 child care workers are under threat from the Howard Government’s individual employment contracts - Australian Workplace Agreements(AWAs).
13 August 2004 [Read More]

Parents say no to cleaning
NSW public school parents are telling Bob Carr he shouldn’t expect them to volunteer and help out in the cleaning of local schools if the State Government goes ahead with a plan to cut back cleaning contracts in 2005.
13 August 2004 [Read More]

New England school cleaners rally
School cleaners from towns and villages across New England are joining the state-wide rolling stoppages campaign on Friday (August 13).
12 August 2004 [Read More]

Peace breaks out in gvt hospitals
Western Australia's largest health union expects members to vote to support a ground-breaking agreement for 5000 support workers in WA government hospitals.
11 August 2004 [Read More]

Tassie Casino workers win big
Tasmanian casino workers have won a significant victory, which should help all hospitality workers on the holiday isle improve their wages and conditions.
11 August 2004 [Read More]

Inner-city school cleaners protest
Inner-City Sydney school cleaners will take part in a state-wide rolling stoppages campaign tomorrow (Thursday August 12), mounting early morning information pickets at local schools.
11 August 2004 [Read More]

Sack cleaners? " Mongrel behaviour"
Popular Sydney radio host, Alan Jones, has punched Bob Carr in the nose today, calling the Carr Government’s plan to attack the jobs of nearly 7000 school cleaners – " Mongrel Behaviour" .
10 August 2004 [Read More]

Sew-in - near Athen's Acropolis
In what is being billed as the biggest anti-sweatshop mobilisation ever, the Clean Clothes Campaign, Global Unions and Oxfam are challenging the IOC and sportswear companies to accept their responsibility to stop the exploitation of workers producing the sportswear that is marketed through the Olympic Games.
10 August 2004 [Read More]

Cleaners on Bob Carr's doorstep
School cleaners will bring to an end the first week of rolling stoppages with a rally outside Bob Carr’s electorate office in Maroubra tomorrow morning.
05 August 2004 [Read More]

New Benchmark of Care
The low-wages paid to Australia’s 100,000 plus aged care workers is creating a crisis in one of the fastest growing service industries in this country, Helen Creed, the National President of a key Aged Care Union said today.
04 August 2004 [Read More]

600 Newcastle/Wollongong schools hit
Around 600 school sites have been hit by walkouts in Newcastle and Wollongong today as cleaners show their support for a rolling stoppages campaign by the LHMU Cleaners Union.
04 August 2004 [Read More]

Total walkout by school cleaners
More than 160 schools across Western Sydney, from Penrith to Bankstown, were hit by a 24 hour stoppage today as school cleaners showed their anger at Bob Carr’s plans to attack their jobs.
03 August 2004 [Read More]

School cleaners stoppages to start
School cleaners from Western Sydney will kick of a state-wide rolling stoppages campaign from Tuesday (August 3) by mounting early morning information pickets at local schools.
02 August 2004 [Read More]

Protect our prescription medicine
Union members across Australia are being called on to urgently e-mail Labor Party politicians to get them to recognise that the proposed free trade deal with America is a bad deal.
02 August 2004 [Read More]

Star City Casino stoppage
Sydney Star City LHMU Casino Union members are to take strike action this weekend, over management’s refusal to improve a wage offer for a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.
30 July 2004 [Read More]

Canberra Aged Care campaign
Canberra Aged Care workers, residents, and residents’ families and friends, will be putting aged care under the spot light this Saturday, July 31st.
30 July 2004 [Read More]

Phone in Shines Light on Aged Care
Aged care workers, residents and residents families and friends in Queensland will be putting aged care under the spot light this Saturday, July 31st.
28 July 2004 [Read More]

$175 m doesn't buy CDs for childcare
Michael Danby MP, Federal Member for Melbourne Ports, today disclosed that childcare mogul Eddie Groves, refuses to supply music to his childcare centres, and instead requires his staff to bring music to work, and that a visit by Mr Costello to one of Mr Grove’s Centres followed Mr Groves donating $10,000 to the Queensland Liberal Party.
27 May 2004 [Read More]

24 hour bikkie strike
More than 700 workers at Arnott’s Brisbane plant will walk out from midnight tonight for 24 hours after the failure of three days of crisis talks.
26 May 2004 [Read More]

A shortage of Family Assorted?
Arnott’s biscuit workers at the Virginia factory in Brisbane are going out for a 2nd wave of stoppages, today and tomorrow, because of the failure of their employer to come to the table and negotiate a fair dinkum collective agreement.
19 May 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers lose to Bullets
Last night, the Federal Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby, revealed that the Liberal-run ‘ABC Childcare’ would prefer to pay $200,000 per year to sponsor the Brisbane Bullets basketball team than pay their workers a decent wage.
13 May 2004 [Read More]

Brisbane Bullets v Childcare workers
The multi-million dollar ABC Child Care company was assailed in Federal Parliament last night for favouring its $200,000 sponsorship package witb the Brisbane Bullets basketball team over paying decent and respectable wages to its 660 Victorian workers.
13 May 2004 [Read More]

Child care - nothing for workers
John Howard and Peter Costello have made no commitments in the Federal Budget to improve the wages and working conditions of Australian child care workers.
12 May 2004 [Read More]

Is Arnott’s a fair dinkum company?
Arnott’s biscuit workers at the Virginia factory in Brisbane want this quintessentially Aussie brand name to demonstrate they still believe in their fair dinkum Australian roots.
12 May 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers jam Costello
Childcare workers and their supporters across Australia have jammed Treasurer Peter Costello’s e-mail over the last five days – demanding that tonight’s Budget provide proper funding to centers across Australia.
11 May 2004 [Read More]

Aged Care In Good Hands?
One of Australia’s biggest aged care unions – the LHMU Aged Care Union - has warned that the indications are older Australians cannot expect a lot from Tuesday’s Budget.
09 May 2004 [Read More]

Childcare urgent e-mail to Costello
Child Care activists across Australia have launched a national campaign e-mailing Treasurer Peter Costello calling on him to support struggling child care workers in his Budget next week.
06 May 2004 [Read More]

Reform Living Wage Case
The $19 Living Wage case decision handed down this morning underlines the need for Australia to consider major reforms to the current process, LHMU National Secretary, Jeff Lawrence, said today. The LHMU is the national union voice for low-paid workers.
05 May 2004 [Read More]

LabourStart editor in Oz and NZ
From the end of April through to the start of May the editor of LabourStart will be visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and several cities in New Zealand.
15 April 2004 [Read More]

Bouncers standards conference
Crowd controllers in pubs and at events and concerts are the bunnies left to carry all the responsibility as pub owners and concert management adopt a policy of contracting out of fault through a chain of blame, LHMU Security Union Assistant National Secretary, Jo-anne Schofield, said today.
15 April 2004 [Read More]

PM won't talk to child care workers
Australia’s PM John Howard went through a back door today to launch his new child care policy – in an attempt to avoid speaking to members of the LHMU Childcare Union.
07 April 2004 [Read More]

Childcare must be election priority
John Howard should announce a commitment to increased funding to support improved wages and working conditions for professional child care workers – as part of his early childhood education policy launch on Wednesday.
07 April 2004 [Read More]

Childcare as election priority
The Australian Government should tell delegates to a Global conference on Families and Work that they understand the importance of providing qualified and trained child care workers – and they are prepared to provide the funding to ensure quality childrens’ services for Australian families.
31 March 2004 [Read More]

Perkins Worker Killed in East Timor
A worker employed by Darwin company Perkins Shipping Pty Ltd has been killed in an industrial accident at the Port of Dili.
30 March 2004 [Read More]

Senate call for new Living Wage
Australia’s politicians must give the community a vision of how we can tackle the low wage crisis.
11 March 2004 [Read More]

Qld private prison dispute ends
LHMU Prison union members at Queensland’s private prison, the Borallon Correction Centre have ended industrial action and are preparing to vote on a sharply improved wages and working conditions offer.
04 March 2004 [Read More]

Private Ontario jail battles Ozzies
Unionized correctional officers at Canada's first privatized adult correctional facility are set to resume contract talks this week while their American-based employer is embroiled in a jail strike halfway around the world.
25 February 2004 [Read More]

Prison guards meet US boss - again
LHMU Prison Officers Union delegates will meet once more, this Friday, with the American-based operator of Queensland’s Borallon Correctional Centre.
24 February 2004 [Read More]

US boss bludgeons Qld workers
American multinational tries to bludgeon prison officers into delivering more taxpayers money into pockets of US shareholders.
22 February 2004 [Read More]

Low-paid workers confront ACCI
Low-paid workers will today confront leaders of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) at their offices, asking them to support a $26.60 pay rise in the annual Minimum Wages Case.
18 February 2004 [Read More]

Low-paid workers tell ACCI off !!!
Low-paid workers will today confront leaders of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) at their offices, asking them to support a $26.60 pay rise in the annual Minimum Wages Case.
18 February 2004 [Read More]

US prison Co in Qld & Canada dispute
US prison company toughs it out with workforce in Queensland and Ontario, Canada
16 February 2004 [Read More]

Aged Care: No more excuses
The Federal Government is running out of excuses for its refusal to properly fund aged care services in Australia the Joint Aged Care Council said today.
12 February 2004 [Read More]

Venues and crowd controllers
Night clubs, pubs and entertainment centres should be forced to take more responsibility for the quality of security and crowd control at the their venues.
10 February 2004 [Read More]

Prisoners locked into cells early
Rolling stoppages by prison guards at the Borallon Correctional Centre in Ipswich Queensland will see prisoners, next week, locked into their cells early.
10 February 2004 [Read More]

2nd strike at Qld prison
Prisoners at Borallon Correctional Centre near Ipswich, Queensland, will be placed in lockdown mode for the second day in a row tomorrow morning as LHMU prison officers strike in support of increased wages and benefits.
09 February 2004 [Read More]

Qld private prison strike
LHMU members employed as prison officers commence strike action over enterprise bargaining at the privatised prison Borallon Correctional Centre, Ipswich, from Monday February 9th.
08 February 2004 [Read More]

Building a coalition on poverty jobs
LHMU – the union voice of low-wage workers in Australia – has organised a lively and controversial group of speakers, from across the spectrum, to discuss the crisis created in our society by the spiralling growth of low-wage jobs.
29 January 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers don't sniffle
Some childcare professionals are returning to work sick and possibly infecting the young kids in their charge.
29 January 2004 [Read More]

Global protest to World Bank
The union movement across the globe has joined in a campaign on behalf of Chubb workers employed in East Timor at the World Bank’s Dili office.
23 January 2004 [Read More]

Kodak workers discuss jobs crisis
LHMU union members employed by Kodak in Australia will put the best possible case to keep our jobs alive, LHMU Victorian Branch Secretary, Brian Daley, said today.
23 January 2004 [Read More]

Stop Labor Council’s web push
If you don’t want to see Labor Council crowing again that they’ve won LabourStart’s international trade union website competition - again - you’d better get out and vote for their major opponent the LHMU.
17 January 2004 [Read More]

Timor Chubb workers need our support
LHMU members and supporters are backing East Timor security guards and cleaners, working at the World Bank offices in Dili, by taking a few seconds to send off a protest note to management in the USA and Australia.
16 January 2004 [Read More]

Global comp for best union website
LabourStart, the London-based global online trade union news service, today announced the beginning of voting for the seventh annual Labour Website of the Year competition.
11 January 2004 [Read More]

Feds must be child care responsible
Working parents must demand that the Howard Government face up to its child care responsibilities, the LHMU Child Care Union National President, Helen Creed, said today.
06 January 2004 [Read More]

Childcare workers want a Santa visit
Canberra’s Child Care Professionals are hoping Santa will not just deliver presents to the children in their care this year.
16 December 2003 [Read More]

East Timor security workers struggle
Workers employed as security guards and cleaners at the World Bank's offices in Dili begin industrial action
12 December 2003 [Read More]

Fairfield MP backs school cleaners
After working for 24 years in one place as a school cleaner Maria D’Alfonso would love to visit her family in Italy but unlike most Australian workers she just does not have the long service leave.
08 December 2003 [Read More]

Air security package disappoints
The Federal Government’s failure to extend the security umbrella to regional Australia will disappoint the Deputy Prime Minister’s constituents, the LHMU Airport Security Union said today in a comment on Mr Anderson’s announcement of a new security package.
04 December 2003 [Read More]

Airport screening powers a plus
New airport screening powers and improved training for security workers at our major airports are being debated right now in Federal Parliament – but Australians can only feel secure when airport security is delivered to all airport passengers, the LHMU Airport Security Union said today.
03 December 2003 [Read More]

Which Bank is a good corp citizen?
CANBERRA CLEANERS WONDER WHICH BANK WILL BE A GOOD CORPORATE CITIZEN AND HELP END EXPLOITATION?
01 December 2003 [Read More]

FECCA alert to worker exploitation
Following the revelations in The Australian newspaper of 29-30 November 2003 regarding the exploitation of contract workers the Chair of FECCA, Mr Abd Malak, today called on ethnic communities in Australia to be vigilant to exploitation.
30 November 2003 [Read More]

Howard Gvt and cleaner rackerteers
The Federal Government should be targeting the alleged racketeers who exploit hard-working cleaners, the LHMU Cleaners Union said today after The Weekend Australian's expose ( Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap) on cleaning contractor rackets.
30 November 2003 [Read More]

Hospitality smoking bans welcomed
Hospitality workers across the national capital will be counting down the days before a smoke free environment will be introduced into their workplaces, LHMU Hospitality Union ACT Secretary, Gil Anderson, said today.
20 November 2003 [Read More]

Burns Philp crash diet for bakeries
The big Burns Philp company is putting its newly acquired Goodman Fielder baking division on a crash course of shedding jobs and factories across Australia and the Pacific.
18 November 2003 [Read More]

Biscuit jobs go
LHMU union members are bitter and angry that more than 200 good jobs will be lost to Melbourne because of short-sighted investment policies by George Weston Foods.
18 November 2003 [Read More]

No champers for childcare workers
Canberra child care professionals should be outside the Industrial Relations Commission this morning cheering a great result – instead the professionals are outside the Commission calling out for fair treatment.
18 November 2003 [Read More]

Childcare centres disrupted
Child care professionals have issued an apology to ACT parents for the possible disruption to centres this Tuesday ( November 18) as some child care centres close for the morning, and others will operate only on a skeleton staff.
16 November 2003 [Read More]

Fed court win against militant boss
LHMU Cleaners Union has won an important federal court ruling against bosses forcing workers to become individual contractors.
14 November 2003 [Read More]

Liverpool school cleaning
Cleaners in government schools across the state were nodding their heads sagely this morning when they read the stories about Liverpool Boys High School making staff and students sick, because of a crisis in cleaning.
10 November 2003 [Read More]

Quality Pay for child care workers
The vital voice of childcare workers from across NSW needs to be heard participating loud and clear in the growing debate about the future of this crucial work.
06 November 2003 [Read More]

Child Care award delays
“ I really don’t think that it is feminist paranoia to suggest that the delays, and delays, and delays, we have faced would not have happened if this was an industry made up of men,” Helen Creed, LHMU Child Care Union National President said.
04 November 2003 [Read More]

Gas-masked hotel workers protest
Queensland LHMU activists have called on a national hoteliers’ conference on the Gold Coast to get Australia’s pubs indoor-smokefree as soon as possible – and on all governments to catch up with community attitudes and put total indoor smoke bans in place.
31 October 2003 [Read More]

Global security unions campaign
The LHMU Security Union has joined a global campaign to protest the way Group 4 Falck treats security workers in the USA who want to work with the SEIU - our sister union.
30 October 2003 [Read More]

Rail guards win sack case
RAIL SECURITY GUARDS WIN SACKING CASE AFTER EVIDENCE OF DISGUSTING WORKING CONDITIONS PLACED BEFORE COMMISSION
30 October 2003 [Read More]

New Tassie hospitality smoking laws
Hospitality workers across Tasmania will be extremely disappointed by the State Labor Government's response to community demands to ban smoking in pubs, clubs and casinos.
28 October 2003 [Read More]

Perth Immigration Detention protest
Experienced officers not rehired by new contractors risk to employees and detainees, says union.
17 October 2003 [Read More]

Statewide schools disruption
WA government school support workers will begin work bans and rolling stoppages in support of their wages claim from October 23.
17 October 2003 [Read More]

Want to work for a union? Start here
Looking to be a troublemaker for the working class? A job organising union members to shake up their workplace? Here in Australia?. Or anywhere around the world?
17 October 2003 [Read More]

Statewide disruption in schools
Perth metropolitan school support workers are likely to follow their rural and regional government schools in work bans and rolling stoppages in support of their wages claim.
16 October 2003 [Read More]

OHS on passive smoking
The union representing hospitality workers has called on State Governments to act promptly to end smoking in the workplace following a key decision released yesterday by the national occupational health agency on passive smoking.
16 October 2003 [Read More]

Job security win in Tassie
Tasmanian School Attendants union wins five-year job security agreement!
16 October 2003 [Read More]

Gvt sh'ld stop anti-working poor law
To commemorate Anti-Poverty Week the new Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews should differentiate himself from his predecessor, and show he has a better understanding of the needs of Australians working in poverty jobs.
16 October 2003 [Read More]

16 year old building worker dead
Australia’s main construction industry trade union, the CFMEU, has renewed its call for industrial manslaughter legislation to be urgently introduced in NSW following the tragic death of a young building worker in Western Sydney today.
15 October 2003 [Read More]

Surviving not living
Try living on around $400 per week when you pay most of your wages in rent and have teenage children to support.
15 October 2003 [Read More]

Dili airport strike now in week 2
East Timorese employees of Timor Aviation Services (TAS) entered the second week of their strike against the Australia-owned air services company after tripartite negotiations failed to resolve a long standing industrial dispute triggered by the summary dismissal of two company workers.
13 October 2003 [Read More]

Sh' d ALP Pres commit to unions???
The LHMU has surveyed all candidates for ALP National President to find out what their commitments are to the union movement, to involving working people in the life of the Labor Party, and to helping unions attract new members to their ranks.
12 October 2003 [Read More]

UN: " drop trumped up charges"
The General Secretary of global union federation the ITF today accused the United Nations UNMISET police of “a shabby act of political victimisation” and of manufacturing charges against the ITF’s representative in East Timor, Mick Killick.
09 October 2003 [Read More]

NT demo for Est Timor workers
TO ALL NT WORKERS, UNIONS & FELLOW TRAVELLERS,

RALLY IN RAINTREE PARK, DARWIN

THIS FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, AT 12.30 PM

IN SUPPORT OF STRIKING TRANSPORT WORKERS EMPLOYED AT DILI AIRPORT AND

TO PROTEST THE ACTIONS OF UN POLICE IN ARRESTING AND JAILING AUSTRALIAN UNION ORGANISER MICK KILLICK
09 October 2003 [Read More]

Brisbane Airport security review
The Airport Security Union in Queensland is demanding an urgent security review at Brisbane airport, following the sacking of one of the airport’s most experienced full-time airport security guards – a man who had 8 years service.
09 October 2003 [Read More]

Solidarity support for East Timor
We are seeking your active solidarity in support of Mick Killick and the East Timorese Maritime and Transport Workers Union. After three nights in a Dili gaol, Mick Killick from the MUA has been released on bail.
09 October 2003 [Read More]

ACTU on breakthru cleaning code
The ACTU today welcomed the establishment of a new code of conduct for the contract cleaning industry in the ACT as a national first which sets a new standard for the rest of Australia.
08 October 2003 [Read More]

Union official released from custody
UNMISET Media Briefing Note statement Dili, 7 October 2003. Union official released from custody The Prosecutor at Dili District Court this afternoon released Australian union official Mick Killick from custody and the court determined that it will hear the case at a later, unspecified, date.
08 October 2003 [Read More]

Cleaners win code of practice
Canberra cleaners have won a breakthrough agreement, which will establish responsible standards in the cleaning service contracting industry through a new Code of Best Employment Practice.
08 October 2003 [Read More]

Send protests over Est Timor arrests
Australia's top union leader, Sharan Burrow, has called on Australian unions and their activists to send urgent protest notes in defence of an Australian unionist arrested in Dili on the weekend.
07 October 2003 [Read More]

UN cops arrest East Timor unionist
Workers meeting at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Asia Pacific regional conference in Auckland, New Zealand, condemn the actions of the United Nations Police in arresting and detaining a union official in Dili, East Timor.
07 October 2003 [Read More]

NSW party backs total smoking ban
The NSW Labor Party Conference has instructed the NSW Labor Government to put forward a bolder and more innovative legislative package to protect the health of the state’s hospitality workers.
07 October 2003 [Read More]

East Timor workers to strike
The East Timorese Transport Workers Union and Trade Union Confederation seek an urgent and immediate resolution to an ongoing industrial dispute that began when Australian-owned Timor Aviation Services, based in Dili, unfairly dismissed two employees in the midst of negotiations.
03 October 2003 [Read More]

Airport Security Union at Inquiry
Australia’s airport security union warned today that without proper training and without a commitment to a permanent full-time airport security workforce no amount of new whiz-bang screening technology would strengthen our aviation security.
02 October 2003 [Read More]

Which Labor Prez backs unions?
All eleven candidates running for the top job in the ALP have been asked to put their hands up to back working people and their right to have strong and powerful unions.
01 October 2003 [Read More]

Crown Casino cleaner assaulted
A cleaner working for Crown Casino was stabbed five times in the early hours of this morning, an incident which has served to highlight the long-standing complaints of the LHMU cleaners union about the real fears they face at this major Melbourne site.
30 September 2003 [Read More]

Gvt's snide university politics
The Federal Government’s thinks it can have an easy win on a new industrial relations battle front by attacking universities.
25 September 2003 [Read More]

Airport security on national radar
The LHMU Airport Security Union is pleased to see that airport security is back on the radar of concern with a public inquiry traveling around Australia to study the issues, Jo-anne Schofield, the LHMU Airport Security Union Assistant National Secretary said today.
22 September 2003 [Read More]

Tassie losing child care workers
Australia’s main child care union has warned of a national shortage in qualified childcare workers because low wages were forcing committed staff our of the industry in droves.
16 September 2003 [Read More]

Value our Children Fund Our Care
Child Care professionals will campaign tomorrow (16/9), Child Care National Day of Action, to call for support in their campaign for professional wages and a new Charter of Rights for Quality Childcare.
15 September 2003 [Read More]

Canberra childcare rally
Child care professionals across Australia are campaigning for a new Charter of Rights for Quality Childcare.
15 September 2003 [Read More]

Tassie hospitality smoking petition
The Tasmanian Hospitality union has present the results of a successful petition campaign to the Tasmanian Health Minister at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Hobart.
15 September 2003 [Read More]

NT unions back East Timor workers
NT Unions today accused Darwin-owned Timor Aviation Services (TAS) of industrial thuggery in its treatment of TAS workers at Dili Airport.
14 September 2003 [Read More]

Childcare workers left without pay
Wealthy private child care chain has left hundreds of child care professionals without their weekly wage packet
12 September 2003 [Read More]

Hospitality bosses whinge
Australia's big casino operaters and hotel workers are rolling in the money - but they are whingeing about smoking bans hitting their earnings.
07 September 2003 [Read More]

LHMU National Council meets
Making the voice of the low-paid heard where it counts will be the core issue for debate at the National Council of one of Australia's biggest unions - the 130,000 member LHMU - meeting in Hobart.
07 September 2003 [Read More]

Shopping centre cleaners sacked
Cleaners working at Stockland’s Wetherill Park shopping centre in Western Sydney have been thrown out of their jobs – just ‘cause the centre management decided they could improve their profits by changing cleaning contractors.
25 July 2003 [Read More]

High tech pokies threaten jobs
Hospitality bosses, who have been given a license to print money with poker machines, are bringing in new high tech pokies, which will do thousands of workers out of jobs.
25 July 2003 [Read More]

Kodak workers slam arrogant man't
Kodak workers in Melbourne reckon their local management should learn a few manners.
24 July 2003 [Read More]

Hotel workers maternity leave win
Starwood hotel workers across Australia have now voted to ratify a union-negotiated agreement which delivers them a first for the Australian accommodation hotel industry – six weeks maternity leave.
04 July 2003 [Read More]

Childcare pay claim for 21st centruy
Child care professionals pay rates need to be dragged into the 21st century if we are to meet the current demand for child care, the LHMU Child Care Union's National Assistant Secretary, Jo-anne Schofield, said today.
04 July 2003 [Read More]

Detention centre want silent guards
The company operating the Villawood Refugee Detention Centre is trying to punish detention centre officers, because they visited Parliament House to speak about the detention centres.
24 June 2003 [Read More]

Police called to shop centre rally
A frightened shopping centre manager called for police support today when a rowdy rally of shopping centre cleaners made sure the manager understood that cleaners will be invisible no more.
16 June 2003 [Read More]

Cleaners rally worldwide
A huge clearance sale marking International Justice for Cleaners Day, is getting underway as cleaners demand that Westfield Malls clear out injustice.
16 June 2003 [Read More]

Int'l Justice 4 Janitors Day
Oz and US cleaners unions appeal to moral conscience of Frank Lowy’s Westfield
15 June 2003 [Read More]

US & Oz Westfield cleaners campaign
Westfield Shopping mall cleaners across the globe are working together in an unprecedented campaign to deliver decent working conditions to the largely immigrant and invisible workforce who keep Frank Lowy’s mall empire spick and span.
15 June 2003 [Read More]

Crown Casino security guards walkout
More than 150 Chubb security guards employed at Melbourne’s Crown Casino will stop work from 10 pm tomorrow night, which could shut down the entertainment complex.
13 June 2003 [Read More]

Melbourne leather workers lose jobs
The Howard Government should call to account the big auto manufacturer Mitsubishi for helping to destroy the jobs of Australian workers by using cheap overseas labour to supply the upholstery in Australian-made cars.
03 June 2003 [Read More]

Sydney Airport must apologise
Sydney airport should publicly acknowledge that last week’s security breach at the domestic terminal was not the fault of the security union member, LHMU Airport Security Union NSW Assistant Secretary, Mark Boyd, said today.
30 May 2003 [Read More]

Talk to airport security workers
Any review of airport security by the Federal Government and Qantas should involve the workers at the coalface who face the crisis every day of their lives, Jeff Lawrence, LHMU Airport Security Union National Secretary said today.
30 May 2003 [Read More]

Security walk off after bashing
Security union members at Melbourne’s newest icon – the Federation Square – have walked off the job after a security worker was so severely bashed by five thugs in the early hours of this morning that he is now in Royal Melbourne Hospital in a very serious condition.
30 May 2003 [Read More]

PM act - don't squeal about fat cats
John Howard should stop squealing about fat cat chief executives like the former boss of BHP Billiton, LHMU National Secretary, Jeff Lawrence, told the Senate Inquiry into Poverty today.
26 May 2003 [Read More]

Hotel threatens worker's evidence
A prominent Sydney Hotel has used economic blackmail to stop a low wage worker from taking part in Australia’s democratic life.
25 May 2003 [Read More]

Ground-breaking maternity leave plan
A ground-breaking provision for six weeks paid maternity leave for hotel workers is contained in an enterprise agreement now being debated by LHMU Hotel Union members employed by the multinational Starwood Hotel chain.
08 May 2003 [Read More]

Crisis of low pay and minimum wage
The Minimum Wage decision handed down this morning by the Industrial Relations Commission underlines the crisis of low pay in this society that demands a new national commitment to fair wages and decent work, the LHMU Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari, said today.
06 May 2003 [Read More]

Confronting the crisis of low pay
The Senate Inquiry into Poverty is having its first national public hearings in Adelaide tomorrow at Salvation Army Centre, The Hub Community Centre, The Hub Drive, Aberfoyle Park.
28 April 2003 [Read More]

Compensate workers hit by SARS
Workers affected by the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) should expect compensation from their employers - one of Australia's biggest unions said today.
17 April 2003 [Read More]

Strike: Villawood detention centre
Refugee detention centre workers in Sydney are taking industrial action on Wednesday as morale among the 160 officers plummets to an all time low.
09 April 2003 [Read More]

Make bosses accountable for salaries
High paid managers and executives should be made accountable for the impact of their spiralling salaries on increasing levels of inequality in Australia – and rising prices – one of the biggest unions in Australia said today.
31 March 2003 [Read More]

Millennium hotel crisis meeting
Sydney Millennium Hotel workers will hold a crisis meeting at 12.30 today angry because the hotel shuts down on Monday but their employer has not been prepared to sit down and bargain in good faith about a decent retrenchment deal.
26 March 2003 [Read More]

Airport rage no-fly policy
Qantas and the major airport security contractors will implement a strict new airport rage regime to protect passengers and airport security workers.
25 March 2003 [Read More]

Backpackers used to strike break
Young foreign backpackers are being used by the Sydney Millennium Hotel to break a 72 hour strike by Australians seeking a better redundancy deal.
10 March 2003 [Read More]

Independent MP backs hotel workers
A key state MP is not staying neutral in a dispute between the Kings Cross Millennium Hotel and its workforce. The Local MP for Bligh, Clover Moore, has come out in the corner of the 150 hotel workers who are about to lose their jobs.
09 March 2003 [Read More]

Airport screeners stop airport rage
Melbourne airport screeners and security guards have decided to defend themselves against increasing incidents of airport rage - because neither their security company or Qantas are prepared to act.
04 March 2003 [Read More]

They treat Coca-Cola signs better .
Hotel workers who have worked for decades at a landmark hotel in Kings Cross are being treated with little consideration – while at the same time management puts into place special plans for careful treatment of the garish Coca-Cola neon sign on the side of the building.
03 March 2003 [Read More]

Syd airport security pay win
Sydney airport has at last joined other Australian airports, and agreed to improve the pay of a key group of workers – the airport security and screening staff.
19 February 2003 [Read More]

Poor staffing means Detention crisis
The LHMU Security Union has once again called on the Federal Government to immediately supervise staffing levels at all six refugee detention centres around Australia.
14 February 2003 [Read More]

States must protect low paid
One of Australia’s biggest unions plans to enlist State Governments to deliver fair and decent wages if the Federal Government pushes through a new law which will hurt millions of low-paid workers.
13 February 2003 [Read More]

Rail Guards sacked
Sydney Chubb Rail guards have been sacked for demanding that licensed guards should have their batons returned to them so they can properly protect the travelling public.
12 February 2003 [Read More]

Wattyl the paint workers take home?
More than 400 workers at Wattyl Paints and Wattyl Paint Stores are about to vote on new enterprise agreements which deliver 10% plus pay increases, negotiated between the LHMU Paint Union and one of Australia's biggest paint companies - Wattyl.
12 February 2003 [Read More]

Strike Three for Arthur Gorrie
Prison guards at Brisbane's privately run Arthur Gorrie jail will walk off the job for three days from Sunday as their pay dispute with Australasian Correctional Management escalates
07 February 2003 [Read More]

Detention Centre staffing a concern
The LHMU Security Union has called on the Federal Government to immediately supervise staffing levels at all six detention centres around Australia.
04 February 2003 [Read More]

2nd private prison strike in a month
Private prison guards at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Brisbane will go on strike for the second time in a month – as management refuses to hold meetings with the union and workers as recommended by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
29 January 2003 [Read More]

Detention centre strike called off
Refugee detention centre workers at Australia’s six centres have forced Australasian Correctional Management to pay the $18 Living Wage increase – and backdate the payment to last September – followjng a threat to call the first ever 24hour national strike – LHMU Assistant National Secretary, Jo-anne Schofield said today.
28 January 2003 [Read More]

Prison guards more talks nxt week
More negotiations are to be held next week at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre prison following successful talks on Tuesday between the LHMU and management.
15 January 2003 [Read More]

Rail guards nobbled by bosses
At a time when the general public is most concerned about safety on the rail Sydney’s Chubb Rail Guards have been nobbled by their security bosses and the rail service.
15 January 2003 [Read More]

Prison company agrees to urgent talk
Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre prison workers in Brisbane returned to work this morning after the company agreed to an urgent new round of negotiations to start at 11am.
14 January 2003 [Read More]

Private prison strike Brisbane
Private prison guards working for Australasian Correctional Management will go on strike for 24 hours, starting tomorrow morning, when union members hold a mass meeting outside their workplace, the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Wacol.
12 January 2003 [Read More]

Cool heads prevail in Casino dispute
LHMU Casino Union members will meet with Crown Casino management on Monday – with the strong expectation of improved offers from the company, the LHMU Casino Union’s Connie De Nino said today.
10 January 2003 [Read More]

Crown Casino dispute flares
Crown Casino workers are preparing for further industrial action following the collapse of talks in Melbourne today.
08 January 2003 [Read More]

Private prison locks out guards
A lock out of prison guards at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre private prison in Brisbane could result in prisoners being confined to cells; significant court delays and a cessation of prison visits.
08 January 2003 [Read More]

HK Trade Unions Need Our Support Now
Please help us in our international campaign to protest the plans by the Hong Kong government to introduce a new 'anti-subversion law'.
05 January 2003 [Read More]

Barossa Valley wine workers win
Barossa Valley wine workers – employed by McGuigan Simeon Wines - have won an important battle to defend their union enterprise agreement – and at the same time they have won significant pay and allowance increases.
02 December 2002 [Read More]

Security Union: terror care needed
Australia’s biggest security workers union has issued a warning to businesses and property owners to double-check the security credentials of any company they bring into their workplace to handle security.
22 November 2002 [Read More]

Barossa wine workers say don't rat
Barossa Valley workers from the Yaldara Winery are coming into Adelaide tomorrow to hold a stop-work meeting in front of the McGuigan Simeon Wines shareholders meeting.
21 November 2002 [Read More]

Presbyterian Rev backs wine workers
A Sydney Presbyterian Minister, Rev Ivan Ransom, is adding his voice to union members protesting the shabby way they have been treated by a major Australian wine company.
20 November 2002 [Read More]

Detention Centre dithering
The Federal Government and the US-owned detention centre contractor, ACM, are putting Perth detention officers at risk by failing to provide for workplace safety.
14 November 2002 [Read More]

New vision of wage justice needed
One of Australia’s biggest unions has resolved to reach out to community partners to develop a broad ranging campaign for wage justice to deliver higher increases for low paid workers.
14 November 2002 [Read More]

Paint workers face militant bosses
More than 1800 paint industry workers around Australia are about to start the Paint Industry 2003 Campaign for a new enterprise agreement, with the first log of claims lodged today.
11 November 2002 [Read More]

Hilton dispute ends
Following the August announcement of the Sydney Hilton’s closure for renovations, the LHMU Hotel Union has reached a unique agreement with the hotel.
01 November 2002 [Read More]

Tas. hospitality workers thank ALP
Tasmanian Hospitality workers applaud the decision yesterday by the State Conference of the Australian Labor Party to call for their parliamentary representatives to legislate for a ban on smoking in all Tasmanian Hospitality venues.
28 October 2002 [Read More]

Pre-schoolers say give dough
Two Canberra preschool aged children, Zoe Neil and Lachlan Lansdowne, will stretch their little hands up over the registry desk of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on Monday – to demand that their professional child carers be paid more money.
27 October 2002 [Read More]

$6 mill awarded to ambos
Ambulance officers have today won a $6 million windfall from the Victorian Government after the Federal Court found the Government's Ambulance Services were liable for outstanding annual leave loading over the past 6 years.
25 October 2002 [Read More]

Bracks outburst on smoking
Premier Bracks’ extraordinary outburst on smoking in pubs and hotels flies in the face of the mounting reality that we need to adopt a zero tolerance policy to smoking in the workplace, the LHMU Hotel Union’s Victorian Secretary, Brian Daley, said today.
24 October 2002 [Read More]

NT paid maternity leave win
The Australian Liquor Hospitality Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) has praised the NT Government for putting women working in the Northern Territory Public Sector in the forefront nationally for paid maternity leave.
21 October 2002 [Read More]

Child carers get $18 Living Wage
More than 13,000 child care workers in NSW will finally get the $18 Living Wage increase after agreement was reached in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission, the LHMU Child Care Union said today.
18 October 2002 [Read More]

Jack Mundey at Hilton Rally
Jack Mundey – a heroic former NSW union leader – will be the keynote speaker at the Hilton Hotel rally on Saturday.
04 October 2002 [Read More]

Will Warriors back Hilton workers?
NZ Warriors fans flying to Sydney for the big football game have been asked to show their support for striking Sydney Hilton Hotel workers.
04 October 2002 [Read More]

Jesse Jackson backs Hilton workers
One of America’s best known campaigners for civil rights has declared that he is ‘outraged’ by the way management at the Sydney Hilton Hotel is treating its loyal workers – just so that it can invest millions of dollars in refurbishing their building.
04 October 2002 [Read More]

Hilton smuggles scabs
The Sydney Hilton Hotel has secret plans to smuggle strike-breakers into their hotel tomorrow morning in an attempt to subvert a hotel workers’ strike.
03 October 2002 [Read More]

24hr strike at Hilton Hotel
Sydney’s Hilton Hotel workers plan a 24 hour stoppage this weekend, following the collapse of talks on Monday over the hotel’s plans to sack nearly 500 workers so they can implement a $400 million renovation.
01 October 2002 [Read More]

Port Hedland dispute 'appalling'
The operators of the Port Hedland Detention Centre have 'acted appallingly', according to a Senior Deputy President of the Industrial Relations Commission.
30 September 2002 [Read More]

Why American Rabbi fights Frank Lowy
An American Rabbi who has come out in support of the Sydney Hilton Hotel workers is also busily campaigning on behalf of San Diego shopping mall cleaners employed at one of high-profile Australian businessman Frank Lowy's Westfield Shopping Malls.
27 September 2002 [Read More]

Perth detention centre bans
Immigration centre security guards in Perth will tomorrow introduce a ban on working with a criminal element held at the centre as they are prepared for deportation from Australia.
26 September 2002 [Read More]

Coalition backs Hilton hotel workers
One of the key leaders of the pro-business NSW Coalition has stood up in Parliament and lambasted the Sydney Hilton Hotel management for the way it has treated its workforce.
25 September 2002 [Read More]

Child Carers denied $18 Living Wage
More than 10,000 NSW child care workers are being denied the $18 a week Living Wage rise which was handed down more than four months ago.
18 September 2002 [Read More]

Sydney Airport workers casual win
The security company operating at Sydney Airport has quietly conceded to an LHMU Security Union campaign against the use of casual workers at the airport.
17 September 2002 [Read More]

Hilton boss gets 2000 e-mails
The man behind the sacking of 470 Sydney hotel workers has received more than 2000 e-mails condemning him treating his staff badly.
16 September 2002 [Read More]

Hilton Hotel e-mail campaign
A campaign for justice for the Sydney Hilton Hotel’s union members is receiving international attention – with protest e-mails flooding in to the Sydney management from around the world.
12 September 2002 [Read More]

Pastry workers tell boss get puffed
Pastry workers employed by Goodman Fielders in their popular Pampas division have told their bosses to get puffed – and voted to go out on strike for an unprecedented 8 weeks.
12 September 2002 [Read More]

Crisis in Syd Airport Security
Only 15% of airport screeners and security guards at Sydney airport are full-time employees, and during peak airport periods at least half the screeners are casual staff who often do not have the appropriate accredited training and licensing.
09 September 2002 [Read More]

Hilton workers lobby Labor MPs
Kamal Labib lives in Bob Carr’s electorate. Patrick Holmes lives in Clover Moore’s electorate. Wiwoho and Wida Sosrohardjono live in Craig Knowles’ electorate. Alisson Sakina lives in Sandra Nori’s electorate.
05 September 2002 [Read More]

Sydney Hilton Hotel squirms
The Hilton Hotel’s top man in Australia, Oded Lifschitz, squirmed in his seat this morning as he tried to avoid telling the Sydney media how much he would get paid in a golden handshake if his employer retrenched him.
30 August 2002 [Read More]

Airport security worker assaulted
The NT Airport Security Union has called on police to thoroughly investigate and prosecute a female interstate traveller who assaulted a union member at Darwin International Airport – the latest example of airport rage.
22 August 2002 [Read More]

Hotel's Living Wage clawback
Six weeks after hotel workers won a modest $18 a week Living Wage increase a 5- star Sydney hotel has found a way to claw most of this money back – they’ve decided to introduce a $2 meal charge for their workforce.
20 August 2002 [Read More]

In Joan Kirner's Corner - Left Union
One of Australia’s biggest unions representing women workers has come out firmly in Joan Kirner’s corner in the latest fracas over the Hawke/Wran Inquiry.
08 August 2002 [Read More]

Shangrila hotel rally today
Rally to support Indonesian hotel workers Time: 12.40 pm Date: Wednesday 7 August 2002 Place: 213 Clarence St Sydney HOTEL WORKERS PROTEST ASIAN MULTI-BILLIONAIRE’S HOTEL INVESTMENTS
07 August 2002 [Read More]

Labor drawn into Super trap
The ALP has again been drawn into a trap set by their political opponents in supporting so-called ‘genuine choice’ in superannuation, one of Australia’s biggest unions declared today.
07 August 2002 [Read More]

LHMU national leaders re-elected
The national leadership team of the 130,000 member LHMU has beaten off a challenge, and been re-elected by National Council delegates, on the first day of the union’s annual National Council meeting.
05 August 2002 [Read More]

Sydney Casino overtime jackpot
The LHMU Casino Union has won pay increases of up to $70 a week, improved rostering, improved range of work hours for part-time workers, new maternity leave, salary sacrifice options for superannuation and child care - all in a proposed agreement with Sydney’s Star City Casino.
02 August 2002 [Read More]

Childcare camp'gn for safe workplace
Canberra’s Child Care Union is keen to maintain high standards of care and staffing in our community and private sector child care centres, LHMU Child Care Union Assistant Secretary, Lyndal Ryan said today.
24 July 2002 [Read More]

Coke workers back Colombia workers
LHMU Coca-Cola workers will call on the US-based multinational to enter discussions to secure a global agreement on minimum trade union rights for all Coca-Cola workers.
19 July 2002 [Read More]

Coke's storm in a tea cup
Union members in Melbourne are stunned that one of the most profitable companies in Australia has decided to increase its profits by taking away their free tea, coffee and milk.
11 July 2002 [Read More]

Star City Casino bad boys
The union representing 3000 Star City casino workers wants Star City turned into a zero tolerance hospitality venue for handful of bad boys who have made some casino workers’ lives hell.
21 June 2002 [Read More]

Melb Airport Screeners win 8pc rise
Airport Security workers around Australia will welcome the AIRC decision, handed down this afternoon, to improve the pay of Melbourne airport screeners.
11 June 2002 [Read More]

Casino workers new safety net
10,000 casino workers in the eastern states of Australia have secured a new award safety net of wages and working conditions, following 18 months of negotiations between the LHMU and the Australian Hotels Association.
24 May 2002 [Read More]

Airport security: sack the bosses
The LHMU Airport Security Union wants the security companies now operating at Qantas terminals around Australia to be sacked.
23 May 2002 [Read More]

Hotel bosses back down
Australia’s hotel workers union has welcomed the decision by hotel employers to withdraw their application for a 6-month pay freeze, LHMU National Secretary, Jeff Lawrence said today.
16 May 2002 [Read More]

Hotels try to delay Living Wage
The union representing Australian hotel workers has called on employers to abandon their plans to seek a six month delay in the payment of last week’s $18 a week Living Wage increase.
15 May 2002 [Read More]

Canadian unions back MUA fight
Canadian Finance Minister's company at centre of Australian conflict.Canadian Labour Congress declares Minister's company's action " shameless".
13 May 2002 [Read More]

Security workers win lost dollars
Security workers, working at the Big Four NSW power stations in the Hunter and Lithgow regions, have just forced their Queensland based security company - Bark Security - to pay them more than $67,100 in lost entitlements.
10 May 2002 [Read More]

$18 per week - more needed
The Living Wage $18 a week pay increase for hospitality workers, security workers, cleaners, car park attendants and child care workers does not fully meet the claim made by the union movement for low-waged workers, the 150,000 member LHMU said today.
09 May 2002 [Read More]

Airport screeners face abuse
Airport Security screeners at Launceston Airport are having belts, shoes and loose coins, as well as foul language, thrown at them by passengers who hate the post 9-11 security standards.
06 May 2002 [Read More]

Territory firefighters work bans
The Northern Territory LHMU Firefighters Union has put bans on all work other than emergency responses.
03 May 2002 [Read More]

Bad Penny turns up at The Mint
AMWU, CPSU and LHMU members will stage a game of “Two Up” outside the Royal Australian Mint tomorrow at 10 am. The “Two Up” school is in support of a cleaner, Mark Smith, who has been sacked for refusing to enter into a dodgy sub-contracting arrangement.
17 April 2002 [Read More]

Hospitality workers on smoking laws
Tasmanian hospitality workers working in gaming areas at the casinos, pubs and clubs want bans on cigarette smoking because they view the existing situation as an unacceptable threat to their health, David O’Byrne, LHMU Tasmanian Secretary, said today
17 April 2002 [Read More]

Gv't must overhaul airport security
The LHMU Airport Security Union is calling on the Howard Government to have a complete overhaul of airport security with tough new regulations, standards and control.
16 April 2002 [Read More]

Airport Screeners 1 hr stoppages
Hundreds of Sydney airport security workers will stage a series of one-hour stoppages on Tuesday as a pay dispute involving their employer, SNP security, gradually worsens.
15 April 2002 [Read More]

Call for world Shangrila protests
Indonesian employers and the government of Indonesia continue to show their opposition to trade union rights and basic democratic principles. On March 26, the State Administrative High Court in Jakarta ruled, in an appeal case brought by the Shangri-La Workers Union SPMS, that the mass sacking of union members following a December 2000 lockout, was illegal.
12 April 2002 [Read More]

Breakthrough global labour agreement
A NZ based multinational dairy company – who employs hundreds of Australian workers – has signed a groundbreaking global agreement with a trade union international, which strengthens the hand of its workforce.
12 April 2002 [Read More]

AHA's drag on low wage workers pay
The AHA always looks for an excuse to avoid paying extra dollars to hospitality workers – today’s claim for a six month’s wages freeze on safety net wage increases is part of a pattern of not facing up to being responsible employers, LHMU Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari said.
08 April 2002 [Read More]

Lowest paid struggling
MEDIA ALERT Hospitality and Cleaning union members discuss why the Living Wage fails them Date: April 3, 2002 Time: 10.30am Place: Australian Industrial Relations Commission LOWEST PAID STRUGGLE TO KEEP HEADS ABOVE WATER LIVING WAGE DECISIONS CONTINUE TO FAIL THEM
02 April 2002 [Read More]

SRA Security Guards walk off trains
Hundreds of SRA State Rail Security guards from Newcastle, Wollongong Sydney and Lithgow have started walking off the job this afternoon, following the failure of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing today to deliver a decision on their amenities.
26 March 2002 [Read More]

WA Health Dept cancels meeting
With the cancellation of a crucial Enterprise Bargaining negotiating meeting by the Health Department, the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union (LHMU) is warning that work bans could be in place in Government Hospitals by next week
26 March 2002 [Read More]

Make Royal Melbourne show safe
The union representing workers at the Royal Melbourne Show today urgently called on the Victorian Government to provide funding to save this Melbourne icon and provide a safer environment for Show workers and the public.
21 March 2002 [Read More]

Union fears Gvt backflip on smoking
Union fears Govt. backflip on smoking ban at Crown Casino The union representing hospitality workers said today it would step up its public campaign to force the state government to legislate to make hospitality and gaming areas smoke-free.
13 March 2002 [Read More]

Security Union Bites Bark Back
A Queensland security firm will be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars to union members – in underpayments and superannuation monies – as a result of a Full Bench decision handed down by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
13 March 2002 [Read More]

How much for airport security?
Six months after the September 11 terrorist attacks the Industrial Relations Commission will tomorrow morning hear final submissions in a long-running work value case about Melbourne Airport screeners and security workers.
06 March 2002 [Read More]

Urgent :Union leaders arrested Korea
Emergency Call for Urgent Action: Trade Union Leaders Arrested in Korea As you may know, the South Korean government has been cracking down hard on strikes by railway workers and power workers in recent days. A number of union leaders have been arrested; others are in hiding.
06 March 2002 [Read More]

Star City Casino enterprise talks
One of Australia’s biggest, most successful and wealthiest Casinos will begin talks next week for a new enterprise agreement, following a log of claims served on them this week by the LHMU Casino Union.
01 March 2002 [Read More]

New Nat'l Indigenous paper
A new publication aimed at serving the Indigenous community of Australia will be launched in Sydney on Friday. The National Indigenous Times - a fortnightly tabloid publication - will be launched at a function at Technology Park, Redfern.
28 February 2002 [Read More]

Syd airport screeners win
Sydney airport screeners and security guards have just completed a dangerous goods training course, thanks to the campaigning of LHMU Airport Security Union members.
28 February 2002 [Read More]

AHA cries poor for Living Wage
The Australian Hotels Association cries poor, and calls for a six month wage freeze, in the very week that it’s impossible to get a hotel room, LHMU Hotel Union’s Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari said.
27 February 2002 [Read More]

Shangri-La protest Thursday
Sydney Hotel workers and union activists will tomorrow join a rally for Shangri-La Jakarta Hotel workers who since Christmas 2000 have been locked out of their workplace, a 5-star hotel jointly owned by members of the Indonesian elite and one of the largest hotel chains in Asia.
20 February 2002 [Read More]

Students told clean up own mess
The Brisbane area cleaners action committee of the LHMU Cleaners Union will be handing out white plastic garbage bags to students and staff at Griffith University's College of Arts, Logan and Nathan campuses on Tuesday 19th February to protest the dramatic cut in cleaning standards.
18 February 2002 [Read More]

Airport security lobby to Canberra
LHMU Airport Security Union members from three states will meet Federal politicians, and staffers, as they arrive on Sunday, February 17, at Canberra Airport for the second week of Parliamentary sittings.
15 February 2002 [Read More]

Security Union calls Police Minister
The LHMU Security Union has called for urgent talks with the NSW Police Minister, Michael Costa, over his plans to allow police to work – in police uniform – as private security guards during their off-duty hours.
30 January 2002 [Read More]

Women hotelworkers occupy foyer
Police were called in this morning when about twenty Kings Cross Gazebo Hotel workers occupied the foyer, and blocked access to the lifts, as part of a dispute demanding better redundancy money.
25 January 2002 [Read More]

Aviation Security Work Value Case
If the Australian Government is serious about improving airport security they will back the LHMU Airport Security Union in their work-value application, which starts tomorrow (Monday) in Melbourne, at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
20 January 2002 [Read More]

Union to protect Lanes Biscuits
Today's announcement that Lanes Biscuits in Victoria has been bought by Kraft has drawn a swift response by the union representing 300 of the 350 workers at the Broadmeadows plant.
17 January 2002 [Read More]

Casino win, now the Xmas Champers
MEDIA RELEASE CHRISTMAS CHAMPERS WILL WASH AWAY SOME TIMES BITTER SIX YEAR CASINO STRUGGLE After a sometimes bitter six year struggle Jupiters Casino workers on the Queensland Gold Coast have won their first enterprise agreement.
23 December 2001 [Read More]

Why pay airport screeners poorly?
SECURING OUR AIRPORTS – NATIONAL SAFE BOARDING PASS CAMPAIGN Sydney airport screeners and security workers - more than three months after the September 11 tragedy – are still waiting for new upgraded procedures, drills and training to face the post- September 11 security climate.
16 December 2001 [Read More]

Securing our airports
Media alert/Media diaries Date: December 16 Time: 11 am Place: Qantas Sydney domestic airport departure lounge screening point SECURING OUR AIRPORTS – NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
14 December 2001 [Read More]

Hotel cleaners told: bring own mops
HOTEL CLEANERS TOLD: BRING YOUR OWN MOPS When a Sydney company won a tender at the Blacktown Travelodge to run a contracted-out operation to clean guests’ rooms it took more than ten months before the workers were supplied with mops.
07 December 2001 [Read More]

Patrons before pokies
PATRONS BEFORE POKIES - HOTEL UNION WANTS MORE TO BE PUT BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY The LHMU Hotel Union has called for pokie venues to put more back into communities, improve venues, provide more sponsorships and donations, and additional contributions to help in anti-smoking health campaigns, before more gaming machines are introduced.
06 December 2001 [Read More]

Hoteliers ignore needs of workers
HOTELIERS IGNORE THE NEEDS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES - AGAIN The media release by the Australian Hotels Association today attacking the moderate $25 per week Living Wage claim by the LHMU Hotel Union again shows how out of touch they are with the needs of their employees, Tim Ferrari, LHMU Assistant National Secretary said.
05 December 2001 [Read More]

Hotel room attendants win
HOTEL ROOM ATTENDANTS STOP OUT- SOURCING PLAN ‘We won because we’re union’ A group of low-paid hotel room attendants have won a swift and significant victory by sticking together and telling the hotel manager they wouldn’t be kicked around.
05 December 2001 [Read More]

Workers picket Crest Hotel
MIGRANT WORKERS PICKET CREST HOTEL THREATENED WITH THE SACK, WORRIED ABOUT INJURIES Low-waged migrant workers, employed as room attendants at the Kings Cross Crest Hotel, have been told they’ll all be sacked at 5.30pm today ( December 5) - if they don’t sign employment forms transferring them from direct employment, to an outside contractor.
05 December 2001 [Read More]

Please Recycle hotel plans
PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR PLANS TO OUT-SOURCE OUR JOBS: HOTEL WORKERS SAY Sydney hotel workers in North Sydney and Kings Cross are battling to save their jobs from being contracted out to a controversial housekeeping agency who has an anti-union reputation.
03 December 2001 [Read More]

Tacky Star City
DON’T TURN STAR CITY INTO A TACKY EXPERIENCE The introduction of electronic roulette at Star City Casino downgrades the attractiveness of the venue and hurts the job prospects of LHMU Casino Union members.
03 December 2001 [Read More]

Goodman Fielder log of claims
First national enterprise agreement claim lodged for Goodman Fielder workers The LHMU Baking Industry Union has served a 21-point log of claims on Australia’s biggest bread company - Goodman Fielder – on behalf of union members.
29 November 2001 [Read More]

Airport guards welcome new Vic case
Security guards at Melbourne and Avalon airports will today welcome the commencement of their case to examine the value and responsibility of the duties they perform for the flying public.
16 November 2001 [Read More]

Inadequate airport security
INADEQUATE NORTH COAST AIRPORT SECURITY THREATENS LOCAL JOBS The inadequate airport screening and security at Coffs Harbour airport, by Qantas airlines and Chubb Security, should be a matter of concern to the local community , the airport security union said today.
07 November 2001 [Read More]

Apprentice plan gets support
LABOR APPRENTICESHIP PLAN WILL HELP AGED CARE & CHILD CARE WORKERS The national union representing aged care workers and child care workers has welcomed Kim Beazley’s plan to create 35,000 high-skill apprenctice places.
01 November 2001 [Read More]

Melb Airport guards meet
MELBOURNE AIRPORT SCREENERS TO MEET TODAY AFTER COMPULSORY CONFERENCE Some of Australia’s lowest paid workers are expected to protect from terrorist attacks some of Australia’s most expensive and cherished things – the lives of millions of airline passengers, and the billion dollar machines they fly on.
01 November 2001 [Read More]

Upgrade airline luggage screening
31 October, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE UPGRADE ALL AIRLINE LUGGAGE SCREENING – AIRPORT SECURITY UNION Transport Minister, John Anderson, should announce an immediate upgrade of all airline luggage screening - whether it goes into the hold or goes with passengers into the cabin, the LHMU Airport Security Union said today.
31 October 2001 [Read More]

Bronny Halloween masks hit Darwin
MEDIA ALERT Date: Tuesday October 30, 2001 Time: 12.45pm Place: Raintree Park, Darwin City HALLOWEEN IS COMING AND SCARY BRONNY BISHOP MASKS ARE FLOATING AROUND DARWIN ‘Tis the Day before Halloween and Scarry Bronnie masks on a stick will be everywhere in Raintree Park.
29 October 2001 [Read More]

LHMU National Council meets Darwin
MEDIA ALERT Place: Carlton Hotel Dates:October 28 - November 1 Contact person: Lisa Caukill 08 8980 0872 or 040 346 1782 The 150,000 member Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union will hold its National Council meeting in Darwin from October 28 to November 1 at the Carlton Hotel.
26 October 2001 [Read More]

PM claim: No Nursing Home Crisis!!
PM CLAIMS NO NURSING HOME CRISIS ON PERTH RADIO The Prime Minister’s claim on Perth radio today that he doesn’t believe there is a nursing home crisis shows that our government is lead by a man with his head in the sand, LHMU Aged Care Union National President, Helen Creed, said today.
24 October 2001 [Read More]

Aged Care rally in PM's electorate
Media Alert HREA Supports Aged Care Rally in PM’s seat Date: Thursday 25 October 2001 Time: 9.00 am Venue: Outside John Howard’s Campaign Office 6 Hillview Rd, Eastwood
24 October 2001 [Read More]

Security union claims Nauru backpay
SECURITY UNION CLAIMS BACK-PAY FOR NAURU DETENTION CENTRE GUARDS The LHMU Security Union is seeking a compensation payment of nearly $7000 for each security union member who was sent to Nauru to act as a security guard at the refugee detention centre set up by the Australian Government.
22 October 2001 [Read More]

80 Woolies cleaners lose jobs
Up to eighty members of the LHMU Cleaners Union are about to find themselves unemployed because Woolies only care about the price of the cleaning services they buy.
19 October 2001 [Read More]

Pru Goward talks to union conference
MEDIA ALERT Date: Sunday October 21, 2001 Time: 9.15 am Place: Brisbane Girls Grammar School Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill PRU GOWARD KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT CHILD CARE UNION CONFERENCE
19 October 2001 [Read More]

Hotel union cautious about gloom
HOTEL UNION CAUTIOUS ABOUT EMPLOYER GLOOM AND DOOM The Australian Hotel Association’s recent bout of hysteria about the effects of the US and Ansett tragedies is an opportunistic campaign, the LHMU Hotel Union Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari said today.
18 October 2001 [Read More]

Regional airport security
REGIONAL AIRPORT SECURITY IGNORED BY JOHN ANDERSON Australia’s airport security umbrella has major tears and holes in it because security screening is not compulsory for regional and rural airports, where flights involve less than 100 passengers
17 October 2001 [Read More]

Bronny on a Stick in Adelaide
MEDIA ALERT Date: Sunday October 14, 2001 Time: Midday Place: Frank Norton Reserve, Rankine Rd, Torrensville, Adelaide GETCHA BRONNY ON A STICK Bronwyn Bishop as you’ve never seen her!!!!!!
13 October 2001 [Read More]

Nauru detention centre escapees talk
MEDIA ALERT Date: Sunday October 14, 2001 Time: 1pm Place: 9th flr Board Room LHMU National Office 187 Thomas St HAYMARKET, SYDNEY TWO NAURU DETENTION CENTRE ‘ESCAPEES’ AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW
13 October 2001 [Read More]

Nauru guards under-paid, untrained
NAURU SECURITY GUARDS UNDER-PAID, UNTRAINED AND FACING DIABOLICAL WORKING CONDITIONS Australian security guards working, as detention officers in Nauru, guarding the Afghan and Iraqi refugees, are untrained, under-paid and facing diabolical working conditions, the LHMU Security Union said today.
12 October 2001 [Read More]

Airport frontline deserves better
AIRPORTS' SECURITY FRONT LINE DESERVES BETTER Security guards and screeners are the front line in the struggle to ensure the safety of our airlines and their passengers
09 October 2001 [Read More]

Getcha Bronny on a Stick!!!!
MEDIA ALERT Date: Friday October 5, 2001 Time: 8.30am Place: Southern Cross Sports Club ( previously called Mt Gravatt Workers Club) Cnr Klumpp & Logan Rd, Mt Gravatt, Bribane. GETCHA BRONNY ON A STICK Bronwyn Bishop as you’ve never seen her!!!!!!
04 October 2001 [Read More]

Cleaners Union takes redundancy case
Cleaners Union takes redundancy case against Canberra contract cleaning firm Prominent Canberra contract cleaning firm - Endoxos – may face a an entitlements payout well in excess of $100,000, if the LHMU Cleaning Union wins a redundancy case against the company.
03 October 2001 [Read More]

Paintworkers win 10% pay increase
Sydney paint workers have won a 10 per cent pay increase after a long and bitter dispute, which involved a seven-week strike by LHMU Paint Union members.
26 September 2001 [Read More]

Airport Security Union meeting
Airport Security Union calls urgent meeting to discuss implications of US tragedy. The LHMU Security Union’s airport security delegates have called for an urgent national meeting to discuss the tragedy in America, and the implications for Australian airports and security workers.
26 September 2001 [Read More]

Tragedy create security impetus
TRAGEDY CREATES IMPETUS FOR STRINGENT NEW SECURITY STANDARDS LHMU Security Union members have won a battle for new stringent security conditions for workers transporting cash and other valuables in non-armoured cars.
21 September 2001 [Read More]

Tourism industry haemorrhages
TOURISM INDUSTRY HAEMORRHAGES AS GOV’T STANDS BY Australia’s hospitality and tourism industry is haemorrhaging thanks to the double tragedy of the collapse of an Australian icon, Ansett, and the horrendous scenes in New York and Washington.
20 September 2001 [Read More]

Tip Top work return
Mass meetings of LHMU Tip Top workers – at three major sties in NSW – today voted to return to work tomorrow.
12 September 2001 [Read More]

Tip Top Bakers walkout
NSW’s most popular breads will be difficult to get tomorrow as LHMU Bakers have gone on an immediate strike to protest the company’s failure to make a suitable pay offer.
11 September 2001 [Read More]

Smoke & mirrors casino tricks
SMOKE AND MIRRORS CASINO OFFERINGS Smoke-and-mirror tricks will not hide the fact that management at Jupiters Casino want to cut the pay of some of its workers – and offer most of the LHMU Casino Union members less than 70c an hour increase.
10 September 2001 [Read More]

Paint shifted secretly
SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANY SECRETLY SHIFTS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF PAINT INVOLVED IN DISPUTE Men hiding their faces were brought in over the weekend to shift millions of gallons of paint, which has been caught up in a month long dispute at Taubmans.
10 September 2001 [Read More]

Qld - investigate Casino authority
BEATTIE ASKED TO INVESTIGATE CASINO AUTHORITY ACTIONS The Beattie Labor Government will be called on today to investigate whether the Queensland gaming regulator unfairly took sides in an industrial dispute on the weekend, involving Jupiters Casino and their workforce.
10 September 2001 [Read More]

Casino turns away solidarity punters
CASINO TURNS AWAY PUNTERS WHO BACK WORKERS Angry Jupiters Casino management on Saturday night turned away punters who accepted badges from Casino Union members calling for improved pay and better working conditions on the Gold Coast.
09 September 2001 [Read More]

Casino workers march
MEDIA ALERT Date: Monday September 12, 2001 Time: Midday Place: March starts at Bulletin Park and goes to Level 9, Niecon Plaza, 17 Victoria Plaza, Broadbeach CASINO WORKERS MARCH ON JUPITERS DIRECTORS’ MEETING
09 September 2001 [Read More]

Bully Casino locks out workers
BULLY CASINO LOCKS OUT WORKERS AS NEW HIGH ROLLER ROOM INAUGURATED The Gold Coast Casino will lock out all its gaming staff for three or four days, starting this weekend, just as it launches a new multi-million dollar high-roller’s gambling room targeting some of Australia’s and Asia’s wealthiest punters.
07 September 2001 [Read More]

Coca-Cola's war-like stance
COCA-COLA ADOPTS WAR-LIKE STANCE TOWARDS WORKERS; PLAYS ON JOB SECURITY FEARS Coca-Cola in Victoria has adopted a war-like stance towards 140 LHMU members as it seeks to strip away hard won workplace rights, the LHMU Victorian Assistant Secretary, Terry Breheny, said today.
04 September 2001 [Read More]

Cleaners pressured to take lower pay
ENDOXOS WORKERS PRESSURED TO ACCEPT INFERIOR PAY RATES IN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS SCHEME The husband of a Liberal ACT parliamentarian, who runs Endoxos ( a contract-cleaning firm in the national capital), has set up a scheme to turn 70 employees into ‘independent contractors’.
29 August 2001 [Read More]

Wonderland threatens to sue cleaners
The huge Sydney theme park, Wonderland, has threatened to personally sue a group of cleaners who are taking their first ever industrial action on Sunday ( August 26) after six months of talks demanding that they all be treated equally.
25 August 2001 [Read More]

No wonder Wonderland workers unhappy
MEDIA ALERT Wonderland cleaners protest at front gate Date: Sunday 26 August 2001 Time: 9.30 am Place: Wallgrove Rd, Eastern Creek
24 August 2001 [Read More]

Employee contractors in Aged Care
A WA Aged Care group is trying to change its employees to “independent contractors” which means they are no longer employees and therefore lose Annual Leave, Sick Leave, penalty rates and become responsible for their own taxation, superannuation, workers compensation and other legitimate employment entitlements.
22 August 2001 [Read More]

Tip Top's Not the One
Tip Top HQ Bakery Protest Time:1pm Date: August 17, 2001 Place: Gibbs St, CHATSWOOD
17 August 2001 [Read More]

Paint Manusafe dispute
WORKERS ENTITLEMENTS AT CENTRE OF PAINT DISPUTE About 150 Taubmans workers at Villawood in Sydney are going out on a seven day strike from tomorrow morning (Thursday 16 August) in support of an enterprise bargaining campaign.
15 August 2001 [Read More]

Manusafe dispute in Perth
Boss keeps deferring talks about workers' entitlements in Manusafe dispute
15 August 2001 [Read More]

Cleaner wins leave right appeal
Cleaning Union member wins annual leave rights dispute The Canberra cleaning company, described as 'unreasonable' by the Industrial Relations Commission for denying annual leave, today lost its appeal against the decision before the Full Bench of the AIRC.
14 August 2001 [Read More]

Melb Airport security pay win
Melbourne airport security workers win massive pay increase One of the lowest paid group of workers at Melbourne Airport have won a first enterprise agreement, giving them pay increases of between 18-20 per cent over the next three years.
13 August 2001 [Read More]

Soldiers suffer contractor profits
SOLDIERS SUFFER AS PRIVATE CONTRACTOR INCREASES PROFITS Soldiers at the Puckapunyal Barracks, north of Melbourne, have had to suffer cuts in the cleaning of their barracks and their ablution blocks - as well as longer queues in the canteen, as a private contractor tries to increase its profits.
13 August 2001 [Read More]

Cleaner appeals 'unreasonable' label
Cleaning company appeals against ‘unreasonable’ label A Canberra cleaning company, described as 'unreasonable' by the Industrial Relations Commission for denying annual leave, will appeal against the decision next Tuesday (August 14) before the Full Bench of the AIRC.
10 August 2001 [Read More]

Paint sit-in goes to Commission
Taubmans paint workers, who held an all day sit-in on Thursday, are being dragged into the Australian Industrial Relations Commission this morning as a dispute over enterprise bargaining spirals into a bitter campaign.
10 August 2001 [Read More]

Gain for weight loss workers
The 200 Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centre workers, who first organised themselves into a union in October 1999 to fight their poor working conditions, have just had their first Award certified.
30 July 2001 [Read More]

Cleaner sacked while overseas
A Canberra cleaning company, described as ‘unreasonable’ by the Industrial Relations Commission for denying annual leave, has now sacked their employee while she’s overseas visiting her aging parents.
30 July 2001 [Read More]

Give Roy'l Comm money to Aged Care
REDIRECT ROYAL COMMISSION MONIES TO AGED CARE The money being spent on the Royal Commission into the construction industry could be much better spent on providing more aged care beds, the LHMU Aged Care Union said today.
27 July 2001 [Read More]

Boss tries (again) to stop holiday
Media Alert LHMU puts on a ‘Farewell Slavica celebration’ Date: Wednesday July 25, 2001 Time: 9.30am Place: 4 Archel Place Palmerston ACT Even as Slavica readies to fly overseas Boss tries (again) to stop cleaner going on holiday Slavica Noveska, the Canberra cleaner whose boss was described as ‘unreasonable’ in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for denying her leave to go to a family reunion, flies out tomorrow.
24 July 2001 [Read More]

Not Happy St John!
Rolling stoppages continue Theatre Orderlies at St John of God Hospital in Subiaco walked off the job at 12.30 today.
17 July 2001 [Read More]

St John of God hosp workers camp'n

Shangri-La workers continue struggle
Shangri-La Workers Continue Struggle Against Unfair Dismissal

The Regional Secretariat of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering and Allied Workers Associations (IUF) in Asia and the Pacific has been informed of recent statements by Halilintar Nurdin, the former president of the Shangri-La Independent Workers' Union (SPMS), and the Management of the Jakarta Shangri-La Hotel.
11 July 2001 [Read More]

Cleaning union backs Rafter but.....
MEDIA RELEASE CLEANING UNION WISHES PAT RAFTER THE BEST - AND A FAIR-GO FOR WIMBELDON COLLEAGUES
09 July 2001 [Read More]

Cleaning boss carpeted
EMBARGO MEDIA RELEASE 10.30am Sunday 8th July MEDIA RELEASE UNREASONABLE CANBERRA CLEANING BOSS CARPETED BY COMMISSION
07 July 2001 [Read More]

Indonesia:No return to dictatorship!
The Asia and Pacific Regional Organisations of the IFBWW, the IUF, PSI and UNI, representing members in 25 countries, are profoundly concerned over the recent attack by youth groups linked to the military and to Golkar on the Bandung Office of the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI).
06 July 2001 [Read More]

Paying dedicated Aged Care workers

School cleaners attend compo meets
School cleaners - members of the LHMU - will stop work tomorrow morning to attend local meetings to hear reports on the ongoing campaign to oppose the State Government’s workers compensation reform package.
26 June 2001 [Read More]

Casino returns to bargaining table
Jupiters Casino have agreed to come back to the bargaining table with their 500 gaming staff workers in an attempt to avoid any further industrial disruption - following the weekend long strike and lockout.
26 June 2001 [Read More]

Melb airport guards strike
UNION SAYS ‘ABSOLUTELY’ AT ANSETT TERMINAL - BUT IT’S DIFFERENT FOR QANTAS Security workers at the Qantas domestic and international terminals in Melbourne walked off the job this afternoon for 24 hours as part of an on-going campaign to improve their pay and conditions.
22 June 2001 [Read More]

Casino workers surround workplace
MEDIA ALERT Time:11am Date: June 23 , 2001 Place: Jupiters Casino North Bridge Entrance CASINO WORKERS TO SURROUND WORKPLACE
22 June 2001 [Read More]

Jupiters boss farewell disrupted
FAREWELL FOR JUPITERS CASINO BOSS DISRUPTED BY DISPUTE Tonight’s strike by Jupiters Casino workers will disrupt the Gold Coast send-off function for the chief executive of Jupiters, Richard Barnes.
22 June 2001 [Read More]

Hotel workers win $50 pay increase
About 2000 hotel workers in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Geelong have won up to $50 a week increase, over a 27 month period, after a national vote of LHMU Hotel Union members was completed this week.
22 June 2001 [Read More]

Qld's biggest Casino shuts down
QUEENSLAND’S BIGGEST CASINO SHUTS DOWN FRIDAY NIGHT Casino won’t make a deal with the dealers
21 June 2001 [Read More]

Airport shutdown.Security Strike
TULLA AIRPORT SHUT DOWN AS SECURITY GUARDS STRIKE Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport will probably shut down this afternoon as security guards vote to walk out following the collapse of negotiations in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
15 June 2001 [Read More]

Tulla security guards strike
TULLA SECURITY GUARDS THREATEN STOPPAGE More than 140 security guards at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport will begin an industrial campaign today if talks in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission collapse this morning.
15 June 2001 [Read More]

Migrant cleaners no long invisible
MIGRANT CLEANERS REFUSE TO KEEP BEING THE INVISIBLE WORKERS WORKING FOR FULL RIGHTS, FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL CLEANERS LHMU celebrates International Justice for Cleaners day
15 June 2001 [Read More]

Int'l Justice for Cleaners' Day
MEDIA ALERT LHMU Cleaning Union members rally 1pm, Friday June 15, 2001 447 Collins St, Melbourne Working for full rights, fair treatment for all cleaners
14 June 2001 [Read More]

AHA must come clean on smoking:union
LHMU calls on Australian Hotels Association to come clean on smoking The hospitality workers’ union today attacked the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) for being deceitful and dishonest in its statements responding to the union’s call for making hospitality venues smoke-free.
01 June 2001 [Read More]

Smoke-free hospitality workplaces
LHMU announces campaign for smoke-free hospitality workplaces PASSIVE SMOKERS REGISTER PRECURSOR TO COMMON LAW ACTIONS The union representing hospitality workers today launched a ‘passive smoking register’ as the first step in a public campaign to make hospitality workplaces smoke-free.
31 May 2001 [Read More]

World No Tobacco Day
Job Insecurity a threat to health Casuals put up with smoke risk Insecure working hours mean that casual staff are not speaking up about passive smoking.
31 May 2001 [Read More]

Smoke-free hospitality workplaces
NOTE: EMBARGOED THURSDAY 31 MAY 1.30PM MEDIA ALERT LHMU to announce campaign for smoke-free hospitality workplaces The union representing hospitality workers will tomorrow announce a campaign to force employers to make hospitality workplaces smoke free.
30 May 2001 [Read More]

Timor unions back Shangri-La workers
The fledgling East Timor trade union movement has joined an international campaign of support for Indonesian hotel workers who have been in dispute with their Hong Kong-based employer for more than five months.
29 May 2001 [Read More]

Aged Care under attack from Budget
The Federal Government has continued its attack on Aged Care with yesterday’s Budget, says the LHMU, the union which represents workers in the sector.
23 May 2001 [Read More]

Publicans want to reduce bar pay
PUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE MONEY OUT OF POCKETS OF BAR STAFF Pub bosses want to take money out of the pockets of their workers in a new application to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
23 May 2001 [Read More]

Fed'l Gv't insults Arnott's workers
21 May, 2001 Federal Govt insults all Victorians by labelling Arnott's campaign ridiculous The Federal Government has seriously miscalculated Victorian community depth of feeling by labelling the campaign against Arnott's as ridiculous and outrageous, the union representing the Arnott's workers said today.
21 May 2001 [Read More]

Community rally against Arnott's
MEDIA ALERT Community to rally against Arnott's Sellout A community rally for people supporting the campaign against Arnott's Biscuits' decision to pull out of Victoria will be held this Sunday, 20 May in Melbourne.
18 May 2001 [Read More]

Union puts new Arnott's offer
A revised offer on wages and redundancy pay-outs will be put to the workers from Arnott's Melbourne plant this afternoon.
17 May 2001 [Read More]

Arnotts dispute widens
Several hundred delegates representing 12 Victorian manufacturing industries will meet tomorrow morning to plan an industrial campaign following Arnott’s decision to shut down and put 600 Victorians out of work.
15 May 2001 [Read More]

Web War Against Arnotts
Sunday 13 May, 2001 For immediate release MEDIA RELEASE Web war win against Arnotts Community and union activists angry with the Arnotts biscuit company have been flooding their web page with protests and angry comments about the company’s decision to shut down their Melbourne plant and put 600 workers out of a job.
13 May 2001 [Read More]

Arnotts union wins redundancy pay
FRIDAY 11 MAY 2001 Union wins redundancy payout for Arnotts casuals DISPUTE WIDENS TO OTHER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
11 May 2001 [Read More]

Happy Hour for Heineken
10 May, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE HAPPY HOUR FOR HEINEKEN WITH A HALF PRICE DOLLAR The key union representing Fosters workers - the LHMU - has expressed serious concern about the reported moves by Heinken to buy out the Australian-based Fosters Corporation.
10 May 2001 [Read More]

Workers Bank Protest Rally
3 May, 2001 MEDIA ALERT Cleaners rally 11.30am Friday May 4, 2001 447 Collins St, Melbourne ’WORKERS BANK’ PROTEST RALLY
03 May 2001 [Read More]

Low pay fuels turnover in child care
National Canberra Child Care Conference starts Friday May 4, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE Low pay fuels high turnover in ACT child care
03 May 2001 [Read More]

Smoking case: win for hotel workers
PASSIVE SMOKING DECISION A WIN FOR THOUSANDS OF HOSPITALITY WORKERS The passive smoking decision in the NSW Supreme Court spells the beginning of the end for smoking in all hospitality venues, LHMU Assistant National Secretary, Tim Ferrari, said today.
02 May 2001 [Read More]

Cleaner wins May Day award
An LHMU member who has been in the front line of a battle to improve workers’ rights at the up-market Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School will today be awarded the annual ACT Trades and Labor Council May Day Award.
01 May 2001 [Read More]

Outraged cleaners continue AXA demos
19 April, 2001 Media alert Time: 11.30 am - 2pm Date: April 19, 2001 Place: 447 Collins St, Melbourne Outraged cleaners continue AXA axings protests as HQ lockout nears three weeks
19 April 2001 [Read More]

Locked out 18 days: AXA cleaners
18 April, 2001 MEDIA ALERT April 18 1pm - 4pm 447 Collins St MELBOURNE Locked out for 18 days - AXA office cleaners hold protest BBQ
18 April 2001 [Read More]

Shangri-La boss loses $bill project
HK-based billionaire, Robert Kuok - the owner of the Shangri-La hotel and resort chain - has lost out on a nearly $2 billion dollar tender to build an upmarket hotel, apartment blocks, offices, shops, restaurants and cafes on a prime real estate site in Melbourne.
12 April 2001 [Read More]

Parramatta Dinner with Kim Beazley
To celebrate the Centenary of the Federal Electorate of Parramatta, the Parrmatta FEC is hosting a dinner with The Hon Kim Beazley Leader of the Federal Labor Party and future Prime Minister
11 April 2001 [Read More]

Ch'ch Sc'l sends poor Easter message
MEDIA ALERT Canberra Girls Grammar rally and leafletting by staff Time: 2.45 pm Place: Canberra Girls Grammar Senior School main entrance Date: Monday April 9, 2001 TOP CHURCH SCHOOL SENDS OUT POOR EASTER MESSAGE In the week before Easter one of the ACT’s most prominent church schools has told their long-serving domestic, catering and maintenance staff that there is no room for them at the school.
09 April 2001 [Read More]

Mirotone victory march tomorrow
1 April, 2001 MEDIA ALERT Breakfast BBQ celebration and victory march 5am April 2, 2001 21 Marigold St Revesby, Sydney MIROTONE WORKERS WIN: RETURN TO WORK TOMORROW MORNING AFTER SIX WEEK LOCK-OUT Mirotone paintworkers will return to work at 6am tomorrow ( Monday April 2) having won a clear victory for decent working hours and union delegates rights after a six week lockout.
01 April 2001 [Read More]

Mirotone workers win
MIROTONE WORKERS CELEBRATE WIN FOR DELEGATES RIGHTS AND DECENT WORKING HOURS Mirotone paintworkers are today celebrating a clear victory for decent working hours, and union delegates rights.
30 March 2001 [Read More]

Newcastle jobs go
22 March, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE NEWCASTLE JOBS GO SO GLOBAL CO. CAN INCREASE PROFITS More than a third of the Buttercup workforce in Newcastle will lose their jobs by mid-April because of a decision by the company to centralise its baking at their Moorebank, Sydney, outlet.
22 March 2001 [Read More]

No grace in non-union ballot
MEDIA RELEASE NO GRACE IN NON-UNION BALLOT AT GRACE HOTEL More than 150 hotel workers at the four-star 382 room Grace Hotel in York St, Sydney have rejected an attempt by their employer to introduce a non-union agreement.
21 March 2001 [Read More]

Union wants No Sweat Shop Uniforms
One of Australia’s largest unions has decided to join an international campaign against the manufacture of sweatshop clothing. The LHMU will be asking employers in their industries to ensure that all workplace clothing and uniforms worn by their members carries a No Sweat Shop label.
19 March 2001 [Read More]

Casino Union wants to save lives
19 March, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE CASINO UNION WANTS METAL DETECTION TO SAVE LIVES A national official of the Casino Union has called for the urgent introduction of metal detection devices, warning that a Casino worker could be killed or badly hurt as the current Australian gambling mania grows and spreads uncontrollably.
19 March 2001 [Read More]

Mirotone ratchets up dispute
MEDIA RELEASE MIROTONE RATCHETS UP DISPUTE BY SACKING UNION DELEGATE The senior delegate at the Mirotone paint company, Ken Phillips, was sacked today, two hours before a scheduled meeting between the union and the company called to settle the on-going dispute.
13 March 2001 [Read More]

Paintworkers rally at Mirotone
MEDIA ALERT DATE: March 8, 2001 TIME: 2 pm PLACE: Rally at Mirotone workplace Marigold St, Revesby HUNDREDS OF PAINT WORKERS TO MARCH ON MIROTONE
08 March 2001 [Read More]

Regent Hotel to pay Aust wages
Eleven hotel housekeepers, from Indonesia and Hong Kong, who are working at the Sydney Regent Hotel, are to be paid Australian wages, following an agreement between the LHMU Hotel Union and the Regent Hotel.
07 March 2001 [Read More]

Paintworkers Mirotone march
MEDIA ALERT DATE: March 8, 2001 TIME: 2 pm PLACE: March starts from UWS Milperra campus to Marigold St, Revesby HUNDREDS OF PAINT WORKERS TO MARCH ON MIROTONE
07 March 2001 [Read More]

Aboriginal Hostel workers may strike
6 March, 2001 MEDIA RELEASE ABORIGINAL HOSTEL WORKERS THREATEN MORE STRIKE ACTION TO GET A BETTER DEAL More than 500 angry Aboriginal Hostel workers from across Australia are set to reject the latest offer from their employer after the failure of nearly 12 months of negotiations.
06 March 2001 [Read More]

Mirotone extends lockout
The paint company Mirotone has extended the lockout of its Queensland and NSW workforce for another fortnight, in an increasingly bitter campaign to break the 35 hour week and force workers out of the union and onto individual employment contracts.
04 March 2001 [Read More]

Rally against paintworkers' lockout
1 March, 2001 Date: Friday March 2 Time: 11.30am Place: 21 Marigold St Revesby RALLY AGAINST BOSS’ LOCKOUT OF PAINT WORKERS Australian paint company, Mirotone, has locked outs it workers and is trying to destroy long established hours of work in the paint industry by forcing their staff onto AWAs ( individual employment contracts).
01 March 2001 [Read More]

Regent Hotel pays 'slave wages'
MEDIA ALERT Time: 2pm Date: March 1, 2001 Place: Entrance Regent Hotel, George St, Sydney REGENT HOTEL PAYS HK and INDONESIAN HOUSEKEEPERS SLAVE WAGES
01 March 2001 [Read More]

Oz boss locks out NZ workers
Australian cleaning contractor locks out NZ workers More than 100 cleaners in a NZ hospital have been locked out indefinitely by their employer, the Australian-owned contract cleaning company Spotless.
28 February 2001 [Read More]

Pub bosses say no to fair wages
Pub bosses - making windfall profits from their pokies - are campaigning against a Living Wage increase for their workers.
28 February 2001 [Read More]

Paintworkers locked out for 12 days
Paintworkers in Revesby, NSW and Wacol, Queensland, were locked out of their jobs this afternoon, for twelve days, by a leading Australian coating paints company, Mirotone, after the collapse of enterprise bargaining negotiations.
22 February 2001 [Read More]

Restoring fairness at the Wentworth
Hotel workers and their union have won an important first step in the restoration of fairness to the workplace at the Wentworth Hotel, the LHMU Hotel Union National Secretary, Jeff Lawrence, said today.
16 February 2001 [Read More]

AHA decision: Jaw dropping hypocrisy
Jaw-dropping hypocrisy, that’s the only way you can describe the Australian Hotels Association decision to scuttle at the last moment an agreement on maternity and paternity leave , Tim Ferrari, the Assistant National Secretary of the LHMU Hotel Union said today.
15 February 2001 [Read More]

HK boss to stymie Int'l solidarity?
BILLIONAIRE HK HOTEL OWNER FLIES TO AUSTRALIA TO SAVE HIS PROJECT FROM UNION ACTION The billionaire owner of the Shangri-La hotel and resort chain - Mr Robert Kuok - has flown to Australia to try and salvage his tender to build a new Shangri-La hotel in Melbourne.
14 February 2001 [Read More]

Wentworth Hotel won't provide work
The Sydney Wentworth Hotel is refusing to provide work to the 20 people the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) ordered should be immediately re-instated.
13 February 2001 [Read More]

Obey the law: Wentworth Hotel
MEDIA ALERT Jobs rally Time: 10.30am Date:13/2/01 Place: Chifley Sq ,Sydney Despite a clear legal ruling that workers retrenched from the Wentworth Hotel should be allowed to return to work yesterday - from 5pm - the hotel management is refusing to let these people return to work.
13 February 2001 [Read More]

Wentworth Hotel workers win
WENTWORTH HOTEL WORKERS ORDERED TO BE RE-INSTATED A top Sydney hotel has been ordered to reinstate 20 workers sacked just because it was part of the $108 million condition of sale for the central city property.
12 February 2001 [Read More]

Fiji Hotel workers for democracy
Employees in the Fiji tourism industry have called for a rapid return to democracy in the country, if the tourism industry is to pick up.
12 February 2001 [Read More]

Labor Aged Care Plan gets thumbs up
QUALITY AGED CARE PLAN GETS ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT OF AGED CARE WORKERS Labor’s Plan for Quality Aged Care will get the enthusiastic support of aged care workers around Australia, the national president of the LHMU Aged Care Union, Helen Creed said today.
12 February 2001 [Read More]

Union confronts One Nation candidate
The LHMU has warned Western Australian voters they should think twice before voting for the One Nation candidate for Bunbury, Alan Giorgi, because he is not paying his employees award wages.
07 February 2001 [Read More]

Syd rally for Jakarta hotel strike
MEDIA ALERT For media diaries Rally - 10 am Friday February 9, 2001 Place: Sydney World Bank Offices 14 Martin Place,Sydney This is on the corner of Pitt St and Martin Place - opposite the Westin Hotel ( the former GPO). HOTEL WORKERS PROTEST WORLD BANK FUNDING OF JAKARTA HOTEL IN SUPPORT OF LOCKED-OUT INDONESIAN WORKERS
07 February 2001 [Read More]

Wentworth Hotel strike
STAFF STRIKE TO PROTEST WENTWORTH HOTEL SACKINGS LHMU Hotel Union members went on strike for 24 hours today after holding a noisy protest rally in front of the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney.
06 February 2001 [Read More]

Wentworth Hotel workers sacked
HOTEL WORKERS SACKED SO WENTWORTH HOTEL CAN BE SOLD LHMU Hotel Union members will rally in front of the Wentworth Hotel tomorrow morning to protest a mass sacking decision by the company - just so the sale of the hotel can be completed.
05 February 2001 [Read More]

Las Vegas backs Oz Casino union
LAS VEGAS CASINO DEALERS BACK JUPITERS WORKERS The powerful Las Vegas Casino Dealers union has stepped in quickly to back Jupiters Casino workers, in Queensland, who were locked out of their workplace over the weekend because of an industrial campaign to improve their wages and conditions.
05 February 2001 [Read More]

Army holds Ozzies against their will
AUSTRALIAN CIVILIANS HELD AGAINST WILL BY ARMY: PETER REITH ASKED TO ACT Ten Australian civilians have been held against their will by the Army during a fourteen day Army camp one and a half hours from Townsville, North Queensland.
05 February 2001 [Read More]

Jupiters Casino Staff March
URGENT URGENT URGENT All media Time: 12.30 Brisbane time Date: Saturday February 3, 2001 Place: Jupiter Casino Gold Coast Staff Car Park, K.C.Peters Drive, Broadbeach
03 February 2001 [Read More]

Qld Casino workers locked out
Casino gaming staff at the Queensland Gold Coast Jupiter Casino have tonight been locked out of their workplaces because they dared to wear union badges at work.
02 February 2001 [Read More]

World Bank loans $$$ to strike hotel
The World Bank must '"forcefully inform" Shangri-La Hotel management of their obligations to workers - a senior international union official said today.

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02 February 2001 [Read More]

ACTU official at Indon picket line
A senior Australian union official joined picketing Shangri-La hotel workers in Jakarta today as a small show of solidarity.

02 February 2001 [Read More]

Casino workers lose place at table
Queensland’s Gold Coast Jupiters Casino has threatened to lock out all staff working on the gaming tables - roulette, blackjack and baccarat - because they are involved in legally protected industrial action.
25 January 2001 [Read More]

HK rally for Shangri-La hotelworkers
The Shangri-La Jakarta hotel workers campaign took an important step forward this week with a noisy international solidarity rally in Hong Kong.
24 January 2001 [Read More]

Miratone sets bad tone
A well-known Australian niche paint company, Mirotone, which makes timber and metal coatings, has been needling its workforce ever since they returned to work after the Xmas-New Year break.
22 January 2001 [Read More]

Bribery claim in Indon hotel dispute
An influential Indonesian newspaper, Kompas, has carried reports that the Jakarta Shangri-La Hotel's management had been caught out bribing provincial level officers of the Manpower Department.
16 January 2001 [Read More]

McDonalds blocks WA pay rises
McDonalds is trying to deny WA hospitality workers new pay rates. LHMU Hospitality Union members and supporters around Australia are being asked to tell this 'family friendly' company what they think of this raw deal.
12 January 2001 [Read More]

Casual workers win Peppers dispute
The casual workers who invaded the foyer of the luxury Peppers Fairmont Resort Hotel in Leura have had a clear cut victory over the out-sourcing of their jobs.
12 January 2001 [Read More]

Casuals lose out to Texan franchise
Forty hard-working casuals, employed at the 210 room deluxe Peppers Fairmont hotel resort in Sublime Point Rd, Leura, are about to lose their jobs to the Big Mac of the commercial cleaning industry.
10 January 2001 [Read More]

The Big Mac of Commercial Cleaning
MEDIA ALERT THE BIG MAC OF COMMERCIAL CLEANING SWEEPS UP CASUALS JOBS Casual workers’ rally 11am Wednesday, January 10 Peppers Fairmont Hotel Resort 1 Sublime Point Rd LEURA
09 January 2001 [Read More]

Oz union attacks Indon union-busting
The 150,000 member Australian hotel union has called on the Indonesian government to act against the union-busting strategies of the Shangri-La hotel management
04 January 2001 [Read More]

Indon hotel strike ends violently
Hundreds of Indonesian police stormed the five-star Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta just as Christmas Day ended, breaking up a sit-in and strike by hotel workers campaigning for better wages and working conditions.
26 December 2000 [Read More]

Bread Women write to Holmes A'Court
BREAD CARTERS WIVES APPEAL TO AUSTRALIA’S RICHEST WOMAN The wives of Canberra bread industry workers have appealed to Australia’s richest woman, Janet Holmes A’Court, to step in and ensure one of the companies she is associated with gives them a fair go.
13 December 2000 [Read More]

Paint Dispute Spreads
Taubmans and Wattyl have in-principle agreements Paint workers employed at a small niche manufacturing company - Miratone - which has facilities in Queensland , Victoria and NSW have this morning begun industrial action, which includes a 48 hour strike in NSW and Qld , in support of the LHMU’s Paint 2000 campaign.
13 December 2000 [Read More]

Buttercup ACT - indefinite strike
Members of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union and the Transport Workers Union have voted at a stop work meeting this morning to take indefinite strike action from 11.00am today.
08 December 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl Make 'Em Fair Dinkum
Paint workers believe they are a smidgin from getting an agreement with their employer, Mark Boyd, NSW LHMU Assistant Branch Secretary, said today.
30 November 2000 [Read More]

Gvt asked to recall Schweppes drinks
MINISTERS ASKED TO RECALL CADBURY-SCHWEPPES DRINKS The Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs, Ms Marsha Thomson, has been asked to recall all Cadbury-Schweppes drinks distributed from the company’s Tullamarine plant in Victoria.
29 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl We Do On Monday?
MEDIA ALERT Time: 6am Date: 27 November Place: 4 Steel St Blacktown Paint workers employed by Wattyl - who were issued three day lock-out notices by their employer last Wednesday - expect to march back through the gates at 6am on Monday morning - with flags flying and their heads held high.
26 November 2000 [Read More]

Cadbury Schweppes Lock Out
CADBURY SCHWEPPES LOCKS OUT WORKFORCE REPORT REVEALS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEMS More than 150 union members, employed by Cadbury Schweppes, have been locked out of their jobs for seven days - after police forcibly removed them very early on Saturday morning, to bring an end to a sit-in at the plant which had lasted for several days.
26 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl Workers March on Monday
MEDIA RELEASE PAINT WORKERS MARCH BACK THROUGH THE WATTYL GATES ON MONDAY Paint workers who were issued lock-out notices by Wattyl expect to march back through the gates at 6am on Monday morning - with flags flying and their heads held high, Cheryl Hyde, the LHMU Assistant National Secretary, said today.
24 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl A Sit-In Do For A Pay Rise
Production of more than 3 million litres of paint - worth an estimated $60 million - will have been stopped if Wattyl paint workers are not allowed to go back to work by tomorrow, Cheryl Hyde, LHMU Assistant National Secretary, said today.
23 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl media conference
Time: 1pm Date: November 23, 2000 Place: 4 Steel St, Blacktown WATTYL WE DO FOR A PAY RISE
23 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl Sit-Ins spread nationally
Workers employed by paint manufacturer Wattyl have now begun sit-ins at almost every one of their eight manufacturing sites around Australia in solidarity with their Blacktown colleagues who were threatened with a lock-out by the company this morning, Cheryl Hyde, the LHMU Assistant National Secretary said today.
22 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl Workers Sit-In at Blacktown
About 80 Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union members have begun a sit-in at Wattyl’s Blacktown facility - 4 Steel St, Blacktown.
22 November 2000 [Read More]

Wattyl We Do For a Pay Rise
Wattyl, Australia’s largest paint industry employer, has this morning been hit by an industrial dispute as part of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union ( LHMU) Paint 2000 Campaign.
22 November 2000 [Read More]

Coca-Cola Hit by Racism Claims
Allegations of Workplace Racism at Coca-Cola Australia have been taken to the Equal Opportunity Commission of Victoria by the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) .
15 November 2000 [Read More]

Hotel Workers Rally Against Reith
MEDIA ALERT HOTEL WORKERS TO ASK REITH TO SAY SORRY FOR HIS INSULT Sydney Hotel Workers will tomorrow morning ( November 15) ask Peter Reith, as he enters the Hilton Hotel, to say Sorry for his Telecard insult to hotel receptionists, suggesting the receptionist may have ‘stolen’ his pin number as an excuse for his Telecard scam.
14 November 2000 [Read More]

Meals on Wheels at Country Club
Launceston Country Club’s plans to restructure their kitchens are a recipe for disaster, leading to job losses, department closures and contracting out of other jobs, a Hotel Union official warned today.
09 November 2000 [Read More]

Living Wage media conferences
31 October, 2000 For November 1 diaries MEDIA ALERT LIVING WAGE MEDIA CONFERENCES AROUND AUSTRALIA The ACTU’s Living Wage Case is very important to workers in the hospitality industry, cleaners, security officers, nursing care assistants and childcare workers, all industries traditionally represented by the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union.
31 October 2000 [Read More]

US Cleaners: Day 3 Hunger Strike
Janitors Fast for Justice at Tent City Outside Metro Center Office Building in Stamford, Conneticut.
30 October 2000 [Read More]

Waiting to Hear Reith Say 'Sorry'
HOTEL WORKERS WAIT TO HEAR REITH SAY SORRY Hotel workers around Australia are waiting to hear Peter Reith say ‘Sorry’ when he walks into the Parliamentary Chamber this week, a senior official of the LHMU Hotel Union said today.
30 October 2000 [Read More]

Low Paid: Substantial Wage Increase
The 150,000 member Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) has called on the ACTU to seek an extra $1.00 per hour, or $38 per week, for lower paid workers in the Living Wage Case.
27 October 2000 [Read More]

Reith: Apologise to Hotel Workers
Peter Reith should apologise to Hotel workers - especially Hotel Reception staff - for his transparent attempt to shift blame as he squirmed during his self-created Telecard fiasco.
20 October 2000 [Read More]

Paint 2000 -Primed to Win
Two thousand paint industry workers, in all mainland states, have launched the Paint 2000 Campaign - a national industry-wide campaign to win better pay and conditions for Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) members.
18 October 2000 [Read More]

Hilton Hotels Limping
Hilton Hotels limping as a result of union dispute Chefs, porters, kitchenhands, housekeepers and engineering staff from the Sydney Hilton and the Airport Hilton went on strike today as part of a continuing series of rolling stoppages throughout most Sydney Hotels.
01 September 2000 [Read More]

Barracks Workers put pinch on MP
Media Alert Midday Qld Time September 1 2000 Picket of Member for Herbert's office Cnr Ross River Rd and Nathan St CRANBROOK, TOWNSVILLE Cooks and kitchenhands who work at North Queensland’s largest Defence facility, in Townsville, are angry that the Defence Department has either not paid them their wages on time, or paid them incorrectly - and Defence also forgets to provide a payslip.
01 September 2000 [Read More]

Hotel workers in Olympics car raffle
The Hotel Inter-Continental has insulted its 700 staff by offering, as their main Olympic Bonus incentive, a special staff raffle with first prize a new car followed by further cash prizes.
31 August 2000 [Read More]

Hotel workers hold protest raffle
MEDIA ALERT 8am August 31 2000 Hotel workers Olympic protests roll on. Inter-Continental Hotel 117 Macquarie St SYDNEY Hotel workers at the top of the range Hotel Inter-Continental, in Macquarie St, will take part in a protest rally tomorrow morning because management has refused to talk to them about the how they want to implement their changes for the Olympics Rosters.
30 August 2000 [Read More]

Regent Hotel imports Indon cleaners
Samaranch Hotel to use cheap Indonesian workers during Olympics The Sydney luxury hotel that IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch will use during the Olympics revealed today they are flying in more than thirty Indonesians to work as cleaners and housekeepers during the Olympics
28 August 2000 [Read More]

Strike at Samaranch Hotel
MEDIA ALERT Att: COS/Pictorial Editors For Media Diaries 8.30am Monday August 28, 2000 199 George St Sydney SAMARANCH HOTEL TO BE HIT BY OLYMPICS STRIKE The Sydney luxury Hotel that IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch will use during the Olympics will be hit by a Hotel Union stoppage tomorrow morning.
27 August 2000 [Read More]

Schweppes De-Fizzes Campaign 2000
SCHWEPPES HOPES TO TAKE THE FIZZ OUT OF VIC CAMPAIGN 2000 The Schweppes soft drink company has adopted a provocative industrial relations position by announcing they will stand-down more than 110 members of the LHMU tomorrow (Monday August 28) because of the Victorian manufacturing unions’ Campaign 2000.
27 August 2000 [Read More]

How Zora won Long Service Leave
Monday August 28 2000 10 am Foyer Green Building Benjamin Offices BELCONNEN HOW ZORA WON HER LONG SERVICE LEAVE AFTER TWENTY YEARS WORK Zora Gocevska will make a little bit of labour history tomorrow ( Monday August 28, 2000)
27 August 2000 [Read More]

Sydney Hotel stoppages next week
Hotel Union members will hold rolling stoppages in major Sydney hotels next week to back their campaign for an Olympics Bonus.
25 August 2000 [Read More]

Child Care Union wins 10pc increase
NSW’s 15,000 child care workers have just won a major wage increase following a campaign, which got considerable media attention when hundreds of Child Care Union members rallied in front of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW.
24 August 2000 [Read More]

Selleys Araldite dispute is over
A fortnight long strike at Selleys, by 130 members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU), will come to an end tomorrow following an agreement between Selleys and the union.
21 August 2000 [Read More]

Selleys Dispute Stuck:Strike Goes On
The Selleys dispute is about to stretch into a second week as workers voted today to stay out till next Monday, because the company has refused to budge in enterprise bargaining talks.
15 August 2000 [Read More]

The Araldite Strike Sticks
Media Alert Attention COS for Media Diaries Selleys Workers Rally 12.30 PM Tuesday August 15 1 Gow St PADSTOW The future of a week long strike at Selleys - the manufacturers of Araldite, Polystrippa and Poly Filla - will be decided tomorrow ( Tuesday 15 August) at a meeting of 130 members of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union ( LHMU).
14 August 2000 [Read More]

Lone Star Saloon Doors Left Flapping
11 August, 2000 LONE STAR WORKERS LEFT WATCHING SALOON DOORS FLAPPING AS WEALTHY OWNER WALKS AWAY Several hundred people working for the franchise restaurant Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon have been thrown out of their jobs this week without any notice or warning.
11 August 2000 [Read More]

Selleys workers stick to union
SELLEYS TALKS BREAKDOWN ‘CAUSE WORKERS ARE STICKING TO THE UNION Weekend home renovators may find it hard to get popular Selleys products - such as Araldite, Polystrippa and Poly Filla - as 130 Selleys workers have voted to go on a seven day strike.
10 August 2000 [Read More]

Attempt to sneak redundancy money
SECURITY COMPANY CAN’T SNEAK AWAY WITH WORKERS REDUNDANCY MONEY One of Australia’s big security firms has been told they can’t avoid paying redundancy payments when they switch their direct-employees to outsourced contract labour.
10 August 2000 [Read More]

Riot Police Attack Korean Workers
Trade unionists from around the world are showing Solidaity with Korean workers following a violent confrontation between riot police and hospitality workers employed at some of the most expensive 5 star Hotels in the capital of South Korea.
09 August 2000 [Read More]

Chaudhry speaks at Sydney meeting
The deposed Labour Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry, and the head of the Fiji union movement, Felix Anthony, are the key note speakers at a meeting this Saturday at the Marrickville Town Hall.
08 August 2000 [Read More]

Thugs hold top Fiji unionist
Fiji's top trade unionist Felix Anthony, and seven or eight other union members, were held ‘hostage’ today for a short period by a group of nationalist ‘thugs’ apparently angry at the union movement organising a successful national day of protest.
02 August 2000 [Read More]

Hotels impose unreasonable demands
Unreasonable and outrageous levels of demands on room attendants will be met with organised resistance by the Hotel Union - a national conference of Hotel workers representatives resolved this week.
02 August 2000 [Read More]

Canberra Parl't Cleaners Strike
Over fifty LHMU cleaners employed to clean Parliament House in Canberra met this morning and voted to take indefinite strike action against their employer Limro Cleaning Services.
02 August 2000 [Read More]

Fiji Action Day for Democracy
Brussels July 31 2000 (ICFTU OnLine no.171/2000): The Fiji Trade Union Congress (FTUC) as well as many other civic groups in Fiji will hold a National Action Day to call for democracy and constitutional government, law and order on Wednesday, August 2. The FTUC is calling for international solidarity support from trade unions worldwide.
01 August 2000 [Read More]

URGENT - Fiji appeal ICFTU
Urgent Appeal: Fiji - national day for law, order and democracy To All Members of the Human and Trade Union Rights Committee To All International Trade Secretariats To All Interested Organisations
01 August 2000 [Read More]

Accor makes 'cheeky' Olympics offer
Negotiations for an Olympics bonus with Australia’s largest hotel group, Accor, broke down this evening with the company offering Hotel Union members an insulting figure which can only create turmoil in the hospitality industry, the Hotel Union Assistant Secretary, Mark Boyd said today.
27 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji union protests on Wednesday
A national union led protest, which should shut down all of Fiji, will go ahead next Wednesday despite the latest turmoil in that country, Fiji TUC General Secretary, Felix Anthony said today.
27 July 2000 [Read More]

Chaudhry visits Australia next week
The deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is expected in Australia next week to hold discussions with senior Australian government officials as well as supporters in the union movement and the Fijian-Australian community.
26 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji Democracy protest plans
Trade unions in Fiji will tomorrow ( Thursday) finalise, with their civic group allies, plans for a series of national demonstrations calling for the re-instatement of the island nation’s democratic constitution.
26 July 2000 [Read More]

Hotel workers win Olympic Gold
The Hotel Union has won its first significant Olympics Bonus for members employed at four major Sydney hotels managed by Starwood hotels and resorts.
24 July 2000 [Read More]

Democracy protests planned in Fiji
A coalition of Fiji civic groups - in which the Trade Union Congress is playing an important part - will stage a nation-wide protest to demand a return to the 1997 Constitution.
23 July 2000 [Read More]

ACTU's Burrow at Hotel Workers rally
ACTU President Sharan Burrow will address an industry-wide meeting of Sydney hotel workers who are campaigning to secure better pay and conditions during the Olympic Games.
23 July 2000 [Read More]

Sydney Hotel Workers Monday Meeting
Media Alert Att: COS For media diaries HOTEL WORKERS MEET TO DISCUSS OLYMPICS STRESS An overflow crowd of Sydney hotel workers will meet on Monday morning at the Sydney Masonic Centre, Goulburn St.
21 July 2000 [Read More]

High-Tech Security wins extra pay
Canberra's security gaurds, operating X- Ray equipment, have just won a $15 a week pay increase, despite strong resistance from ACT employers who had argued that the guards operating high-tech equipment were no more skilled than those on posts checking passes.
20 July 2000 [Read More]

City Rail Gaurds want Olympic Bonus
Sydney's 1300 City-Rail Chubb Security Staff are seeking negotiations over the coming month for a decent Olympic Bonus.
16 July 2000 [Read More]

Hotel plays tough to get an edge
A hostile industrial relations strategy in one of Sydney’s new 5 star hotels has seen union officials escorted off the property by security gaurds a number of times, and tricky games played to keep employees away from the union and inside the ambit of a non-union agreement.
16 July 2000 [Read More]

Chaudhry speaks to media
PEOPLE'S COALITION GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT PRIME MINISTER MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY Saturday, 15th July, 2000 --------------------------------- May I firstly take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude on behalf of my colleagues and their families to all of our friends and supporters both here at home and across the world who have given us strength, support and courage during the two months of our captivity.
15 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji still in crisis - TUC leader
The Fiji TUC national secretary has warned tonight that there is still an on-going political crisis in his Pacific Island country.
13 July 2000 [Read More]

ILO special rep to Fiji to press
Wednesday, 12 July, 2000 For immediate release ILO SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO FIJI TALKS TO PRESS Suva, Fiji – 12 July, 2000 (ILO News) – ILO Special Representative to Fiji, Dr. Ian Chambers, held a press conference this afternoon at the ILO Office in Suva. He made the following statement:
13 July 2000 [Read More]

Security gaurd gets to keep $100,000
A Queensland security guard has won almost $100,000 after his employer decided to withdraw an appeal to a Queensland Industrial Court.
13 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji People's Coalition talks to ILO
Statement on the Fiji Crisis to International Labour Organisation Mission to Fiji led by Mr Ian Chambers by Hon. Pratap Chand, Official Spokesman for the People's Coalition Government, and Hon. Isimeli Cokanasiga, Acting Leader of the Fijian Association Party
13 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji Telecom strike
A senior manager at Fiji Telecom was today removed from his position following a walk-out by indigenous Fijian workers who are members of the Telecom Employees Association.
11 July 2000 [Read More]

Qualified negotiators for Fiji
People's Coalition seeks professional negotiators Media Statement Friday, 7th July, 2000 The People's Coalition is calling for international assistance to ensure a peaceful and immediate solution to the hostage crisis. We believe that there is an urgent need for the assistance of professional negotiators who have the expertise to deal with hostage-taking situations. While we acknowledge the efforts being made by the military, we believe that the time has now come for the Commander to seek support for the military's negotiations.
07 July 2000 [Read More]

ACTU wants 'smart' Fiji sanctions
ACTU President Sharan Burrow has called on Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to use ‘smart sanctions’ against Fiji to support the release of the hostages and the restoration of the 1997 Constitution.
06 July 2000 [Read More]

New Fiji Gvt - backward step: unions
STATEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A MILITARY APPOINTED CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT BY FELIX ANTHONY - GENERAL SECRETARY, FIJI TRADES UNION CONGRESS The setting up of a military appointed civilian government by the Fiji Military Forces is a fundamental step backwards for Fiji's democracy.
04 July 2000 [Read More]

Sharp increase in Fiji violence
Shooting at the Fiji Parliamentary complex and reports that a key military barracks is now in revolt - as well as reports of death threats against the newly appointed Fiji PM - has forced many people to shut shops and offices and rush home to the relative safety of their houses.
04 July 2000 [Read More]

Fiji IR Minister ex-Employers Fed
Mr Hector Hatch, the Minister for Labour and Industrial Relations appointed by Fiji's Commodore Bainimarama promotes himself as an industrial relations consultant and is the immediate past president of the Fiji Employers Federation.
04 July 2000 [Read More]

ACTU Fiji resolution tomorrow
The ACTU Congress is expected to lift their Fiji union bans tomorrow following requests from the Fiji TUC and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).
28 June 2000 [Read More]

Military wants ACTU bans lifted
The Fiji military Government has told local media that they want the Fiji TUC to get Australian unions to lift their industrial bans.
27 June 2000 [Read More]

Casino Olympic Pay Deal
Sydney's Star City Casino workers have picked up a $500 Olympic bonus, as part of the negotiations for a new Casino Union enterprise agreement.
25 June 2000 [Read More]

UK Nurses Union acts on Fiji
Unison backs Fiji Nurses and calls for rekease of Lavenia Padarath held hostage in Fiji Coup
23 June 2000 [Read More]

No Cigars for Casino High Rollers
In a world first Australia’s Casino Union has won a decision to ban smoking on gaming tables at Sydney’s Star City Casino.
22 June 2000 [Read More]

Chaudhry ready to continue struggle
Mahendra Chaudhry - the Fijian Prime Minister held hostage with other MPs in the Parliamentary complex - has sent out a message: his ardour for social reform and constitutional government has not faded.
22 June 2000 [Read More]

Porters win back their Tips
Hotel workers in one of Sydney’s leading Kings Cross establishments, catering to the Japanese tourist trade, asked their union to complain ‘cause they believed their tips were being ‘nicked’, as part of a new company policy.
21 June 2000 [Read More]

Cleaners sweep up their pay
MEDIA ALERT - for media diaries Date:Thursday June 22, 2000 Time: 11 am Place: Canberra: Under the Eagle outside Russell Hill Defence Dept Offices The cleaners at Russell Hill - the big Defence HQ in Canberra - have just swept up a huge sum of money for themselves - over $100,000 in unpaid leave entitlements.
21 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji unions in food relief program
Trade unions in Fiji have begun a program of feeding union members who have been laid off because of the actions of the Speight terrorist coup.
20 June 2000 [Read More]

Don't raise hopes too early: Fiji
The leadership of the Fijian union movement has warned against raising expectations too early that the crisis in the Pacific Islands is now nearly over.
19 June 2000 [Read More]

Union Summit Meeting in Fiji
By Andrew Casey Senior union officials from throughout the Pacific have flown into Fiji to discuss the coup crisis - which tomorrow will be one month old.
18 June 2000 [Read More]

GST creates tourism Job-Flight
Australia’s hotel and tourism union has warned that their industry will suffer from massive job-flight as the GST impacts, hotels, resorts and restaurants.
18 June 2000 [Read More]

NZ unions increase Fiji bans
The NZ union movement has resolved to ratchet up their bans on Fiji from next Tuesday, the President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions, Ross Wilson, announced this afternoon.
16 June 2000 [Read More]

Military harasses Fiji union leader
Fiji Trade Unions Congress national secretary Felix Anthony was detained and questioned for several hours this morning ( Friday) by the Fiji Military Forces in the Western half of the main island.
16 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji TUC backed by Students
THE Fiji Youth and Students League fully supports the trade ban imposed on Fiji by overseas unions and endorses the principled stand taken by the Fiji Trades Union Congress on this issue, the Fiji Daily Post reports on the fijilive.com website.
15 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji container ships empty
CAMPBELLS Shipping Agency says five of their cargo ships returned empty from Australia as a result of trade union sanctions against Fiji.
15 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji Bosses Fed'n cautions members
THE Fiji Employers Federation has called on all employers to handle their cost cutting measures in as humane a manner as possible, the Fiji Daily Post reports.
15 June 2000 [Read More]

Pacific airlines plead with unions
PACIFIC Island regional airlines have urged trade union organisations to avoid inadvertently harming the fragile economies of many small Pacific Island countries by imposing embargoes on Fiji.
15 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji bans may intensify
The ACTU is preparing to increase its bans on the movement of freight and mail to Fiji if George Speight does not release his hostages and allow the restoration of parliamentary democracy.
14 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji unionist's home arson target
THUGS tried to burn down the home of trade unionist Diwan Shankar in Suva but were foiled by neighbours who alerted police, the Fiji website, Fijilive, has just reported. Mr Shankar, Assistant General Secretary of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, was not at home when the fire started on Sunday night.
13 June 2000 [Read More]

International union mission to Fiji
An international trade union mission to Fiji has met the Military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama to back up the local national union leadership's demands.
12 June 2000 [Read More]

Cut cane or else: Fiji military
THE Fiji Military Forces warned yesterday that the sugarcane farmers should harvest their cane or face prosecution under martial law, the Fiji Daily Post reports today.
08 June 2000 [Read More]

South Pacific unions meeting called
By Andrew Casey South Pacific unions have started to lobby their governments to establish a co-ordinated plan - through the South Pacific Forum - to help reinstate the Fijian Constitution and the democratically elected government of Fiji.
06 June 2000 [Read More]

Breakaway Western Fiji Chiefs meet
Western chiefs conference June 7 Approximately 70 chiefs from Fiji's western provinces, who have rejected the coups in Suva, are expected to attend a conference in Nadi tomorrow. Provinces represented will include Ba, Ra, Nadroga, Navosa, Serua and Namosi.
06 June 2000 [Read More]

Nowra community protests job 'theft'
Workers at a couple of Navy Bases on the NSW South Coast have been given a stark choice by a British multi-national SERCO - take an Australian Workplace Agreement individual contract or take the sack.
06 June 2000 [Read More]

Cane Unions protest Fiji Coup
The two largest cane farmers unions in Fiji have come together to jointly protest the hostage situation, fijilive.com reports.
04 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji Sugar Farmers strike
Fiji's largely ethnic Indian sugar farmers are refusing to harvest this year's crop to protest against the gun-toting thugs who have taken as hostage Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry.
04 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji: Human Rights Trauma report
FIJI LABOUR PARTY PRESS RELEASE Saturday, 3rd June, 2000 (6.00 p.m.) The People's Coalition is alarmed at the escalating reports of orchestrated violence against innocent communities in rural areas outside Suva. It calls for an immediate investigation by the Human Rights Commission; and for urgent protection for these communities by the security forces.
03 June 2000 [Read More]

Commonwealth Unions give Fiji views
The Commonwealth Trade Union Council will circulate a Fiji crisis submission to members of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group who meet in London this Tuesday 6 June.
03 June 2000 [Read More]

ILO Workers Group Statement on Fiji
ILO WORKERS’ GROUP RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN FIJI The Workers’ Group meeting at the 88th Session of the International Labour Conference, having received reports on the serious situation prevailing in Fiji,
03 June 2000 [Read More]

Western Fijians rally for Chaudry
Fiji's high chiefs based in the economically wealthy Western provinces of Fiji have called a rally for tomorrow at historic Viseisei Village near Nadi. The West is the heartland of indigenous support for the Fiji Labour Party and its People's Coalition allies.
02 June 2000 [Read More]

Fiji TUC to business lobby: Butt Out
PRESS RELEASE Fiji TUC tells Business Lobby to talk to G.Speight about the hostages rather than campaign to lift Australian bans
01 June 2000 [Read More]

Hundreds lose defence jobs in Nowra
Government privatisation and outsourcing has resulted in a British-based multinational sacking hundreds of people on the NSW South Coast who work in the cleaning, maintenance and security sections of HMAS Albatross and HMAS Cresswell.
30 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji unions want peace-keeping force
The Fiji TUC - despite the military takeover in an attempt to end the on-going Fiji crisis - has maintained its support for comprehensive sanctions applied swiftly and speedily.
30 May 2000 [Read More]

Fijian democracy protest in Canberra
The Movement for Democracy in Fiji has organised a Canberra demonstration demanding the restoration of the constitutional government of Mahendra Chaudry.
30 May 2000 [Read More]

Union leader safe. Military takeover
A military dictatorship has been imposed on Fiji after 11 days of political turmoil in the wake of the attempted coup.
29 May 2000 [Read More]

Pacific unions asked to act on Fiji
Unions right around the Asia-Pacific basin are being asked to co-operate with the Australian union movement in the isolation of Fiji while democratic institutions are under threat.
29 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji unions organise for democracy
The Fiji Trades Union Congress has convened a meeting tomorrow morning of all of Mahendra Chaudry’s MPs who were not captured in Parliament House last week.
29 May 2000 [Read More]

Chaudry's last speech as a free man
Two days before his government was taken over at the point of a gun by George Speight’s terrorists, Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry spoke to about 500 people at a public meeting in Nasinu. That was probably his last public utterance before he was made hostage - shut behind parliament doors till now.
29 May 2000 [Read More]

Shooting near Fiji TUC HQ
Conflicting reports are coming out of Fiji tonight as to whether the Trades Union Congress offices were the target of a group of gunmen loyal to coup leader George Speight.
28 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji union shutdown starts
Fiji unions will probably shutdown the country next Wednesday after an Executive Committee of the Fiji TUC meetings on Tuesday.
28 May 2000 [Read More]

Union boycotts of Fiji start
Unions in countries right around the Pacific have started putting into place Fiji boycott strategies.
28 May 2000 [Read More]

FLP rejects sacked a/g PM
The People's Coalition Government understands that Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, Minister for Labour, has this afternoon agreed to a proposal of His Excellency, the President. This proposal involves the invoking of sections 106 and 99 of the Constitution to enable the President to appoint Ratu Tevita as Acting Prime Minister.
27 May 2000 [Read More]

Mara sacks Labour Gv't
The Secretary of the Fiji TUC, Felix Anthony, began consulting with his union affiliates the moment the Fiji President announced he had sacked, Mahendra Chaudry, the democratically elected Labour Prime Minister of Fiji.
27 May 2000 [Read More]

Paint workers back common claims
Paint union members meeting around Australia today have endorsed common claims for Australian paint companies and the paint industry.
23 May 2000 [Read More]

Paint Union says No to Bad Laws
LHMU members in the paint industry will tomorrow hear reports on the harsh new laws Peter Reith plans as part of a massive swing of the pendulum in favour of employers.
22 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji TUC suspends national protest
By Andrew Casey The Fiji Trade Union Congress has decided to suspend their national protest out of respect for the efforts of the President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to return to the country to democracy and uphold the 1997 constitution.
22 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji strike details: Sydney rally
Support for the TUC strike against the terrorists who have hijacked the Fiji Parliament has been exceptional.
22 May 2000 [Read More]

General strike another burden
The President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has said a nationwide strike call by the Fiji Trades Union Congress to protest the takeover of the Mahendra Chaudhry government is an additional burden on the present state of affairs in the country.
21 May 2000 [Read More]

URGENT\\\URGENT- Solidarity messages
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21 May 2000 [Read More]

Solidarity Messages needed for Fiji!
By Andrew Casey Even though Fijian Labour Government Ministers are being released the political situation in this Pacific island country is still uncertain, the leader of the Fijian trade union movement, Felix Anthony, told Workers Online and LabourStart early on Sunday morning.
21 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji civil service backs strike
The Fiji public sector union has announced its support for the general strike on Monday, called by the Fiji TUC.

21 May 2000 [Read More]

Fear for Fijian union leaders
The ACTU says Fijian union leaders may be one of the first targets of the coup leaders if the democratically elected government is not restored to power.
21 May 2000 [Read More]

Fiji General Strike against Coup
By Andrew Casey The Fiji Trade Union Congress has called for a nation-wide stoppage on Monday to battle the coup-makers who are holding the Labour PM, Mahendra Chaudry, hostage in Parliament House in the national capital of Suva.
20 May 2000 [Read More]

Reith Plays Tricks With Inquiry Ad
Senate inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2000 has placed its first public advertisements, calling for submissions, in national papers today - and has asked for all submissions to be in 'as soon as possible' but no later than next Thursday.
19 May 2000 [Read More]

Plants worth more than our children?
People who deliver nursery plants are better paid than the child care workers who deliver our children onto the first rung of a life of learning and development - a child care union delegate grumbled today outside the NSW Industrial Relations Commission offices
15 May 2000 [Read More]

Smoke Free Gambling Rally
Sydney Casino workers want the NSW Minister for Health, and the public, to see that hospitality workers want smoke free workplaces and that Casino dealers are the worst affected group of hospitality workers
15 May 2000 [Read More]

No Jobs.No Pay.No Joy from Budget
The Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) will back members agitating to get GST related wage increases, the LHMU National President, Helen Creed, said today.
11 May 2000 [Read More]

PM: Take Bold Leap on Reconciliation
The Prime Minister should take a bold last minute leap -and surprise all of us - by wholeheartedly, without qualifications, backing the Reconciliation process, Helen Creed, the National President of the 150,000 member Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union said today.
11 May 2000 [Read More]

Living Wage Only Part of Answer
While the LHMU welcomes today's decision of the Commission to award a $15 increase per week in Federal awards the increase must be seen in a context of sharply increasing costs for workers which is getting worse by the week.
02 May 2000 [Read More]

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