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 [