The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union is calling on Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce to immediately answer questions surrounding his relationship with live export supplier Stanbroke. This call follows evidence uncovered
The broken, unfair deal cooked up between the corporate-loving SDA and Coles has officially been killed, with Coles refusing the Fair Work Commission’s request to alter it so that no
The Meat Workers Union was devastated to learn today that Inghams plans to shut down its poultry processing operations in Cardiff, putting 350 locals out of work and destroying the
David has beaten Goliath again today, with the Fair Work Commission upholding the Meat Workers Union and young Coles worker Duncan Hart’s claim that Coles and the SDA deal ripped
It’s been another embarrassing week for Australia’s deputy Prime Minister and resident drunken uncle Barnaby Joyce, who sent the Liberal-National coalition into damage control mode when he publicly claimed that
In keeping with Malcolm’s Turnbull’s desire that we should all stay ‘flexible’ in the new ‘agile’ economy, the SDA seems to be trying out a new ‘innovative’ tactic lately: rather
Australians were shocked to read a damning report from Oxfam this week about how poultry workers at Tyson Foods plants across America were routinely soiling themselves at work. Unable to
Union workers have scored another victory after abattoir owner Teys-Cargill Australia was ordered to make good on thousands of dollars of underpayments to staff at its Beenleigh plant in Queensland.
The announcement this week of a new abattoir project in the Upper Hunter, and the 600 people who stand to be employed, is welcomed by the Meat Workers Union. We
The meat industry is full of shady characters, but few characters in Australia can compare to Talleys, New Zealand’s largest agribusiness company. This enormous mega-corporation owns and operates nearly all of
‘The mere fact that it is Anzac Day is not a reasonable excuse not to work’. That’s the message that Bindaree Beef delivered to their employees late last week, bluntly
The ultra-conservative, Liberal-party approved, homophobic SDA union has come under fire again after preventing their own members from voting in the Young Workmate of the Year Award – because their
The unprecedented leak of the Panama Papers this week and the release of tax transparency data earlier in 2016 by the ATO paints a terrifying picture for the average working
Every worker in Australia, regardless of where they come from, should be treated fairly under the law – including when it comes to taxation. But with the Turnbull Government proposing
The AMIEU’s Newcastle & Northern Branch welcomes the news that Baiada Poultry’s application to build 70 broiler chicken sheds in Manilla has been approved. The flow-on-effects of this massive poultry
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern NSW Branch has completed our investigation into the Baiada Beresfield chlorine dioxide incident of Monday March 7 2016, where 40 workers were hospitalised following exposure
International workers deal with brutal exploitation every day, whether it’s workers in our own sector like the underpaid employees in meat processing, or in other sectors like the 7-Eleven workers
Malcolm Turnbull has shown his true, far-right conservative colours by bowing to pressure to investigate the “dangerous” Safe Schools Program, which “indoctrinates” LGBTI children across Australia by teaching them an
Union members at JBS Swift’s Scone processing plant have had a victory earlier this year after their collective bargaining power saw them retain their jobs during a downsizing effort by
Dear Member, In the normal course of events the SDA generally do deals with Coles and Woolworths for new enterprise agreements to cover supermarket workers within those chains, and until
