Malcolm Turnbull has spent this week vigorously talking up the embattled Trans-Pacific Partnership, a highly secretive global trade agreement designed to enrich the wealthy by exploiting the working classes and
Wealthy businesses and conservative politicians have a long history of working together in Australia to break up organised workers and make life difficult for unions. Lead by John Howard and
As we come into the worst of the long, hot Australian summer, many meat workers will now be sweating it out in uncomfortable temperatures. But these temperatures can be more
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern December issue of the journal is now out. All members will soon receive a physical copy in the mail, but for everyone else – or
Australia’s drunken uncle Barnaby Joyce has continued his extraordinary campaign of attacking Australian meat workers, demonstrating once more just how fundamentally out of touch he is with the rural Australia
This week’s announcement by the Fair Work Ombudsman of their interim findings into underpayments at Baiada offers a chance to reflect on the progress of tackling systemic workplace exploitation issues
Thomas Foods in Murray Bridge, South Australia have been forced into a humiliating backdown after calling the police on the AMIEU, only for the police to tell them the union
The Fair Work Ombudsman this weekend released a damning report into the conditions of 417 working holiday visa holders around Australia, highlighting brutal exploitation, criminal underpayment, and an environment of
The New Zealand Meat Workers Union has scored another victory in their ongoing fight against Talleys, who you may remember we described as “the worst company in the world” –
Retail giant Coles has taken the unusual step of holding a press conference to lash out at customers who take advantage of self-service checkouts to steal the odd onion or
The Federal Government’s proposed changes to backpacker tax legislation have been a rollercoaster of emotion — starting with an insanely draconian 32.5 cents in the dollar tax that had everybody
Massive multinational fashion retailer H&M has been welcomed to Australia in style by the SDA, who are doing their best to make the $21-billion company feel right at home by
Union members have had another great win at Baiada’s Beresfield site, after the national poultry giant agreed to make good on its promises around restoring rostered days off to their workforce.
In accordance with Section 263 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 and Section 265 of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 a copy of the financial statements of the
The Fair Work Commission has sent a number of employers scrambling to re-think their policies this week after a precedent-setting decision that will see workers have their time as a
Australian meat workers, already reeling from the ongoing meat industry crisis, were stunned today to learn that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just signed a new deal
In a move that will surprise nobody, the Institute of Public Affairs – a free-market think-tank which represents the interests of the rich and powerful – has released a paper
We’ve written before about the dangers of Q-fever, and the urgent need for the Government to put more money towards detection, vaccination and prevention of this terrible illness. Despite campaigning
The Meat Workers Union is alarmed by recent events unfolding across the meat processing sector in Australia. Time and again we are seeing highly-skilled Australian workers pushed aside in favour
Coles has finally acknowledged that it will have to cough up on back pay for meat workers. After wasting millions of dollars on lawyers at the Fair Work Commission trying to
