Death Of A Thousand Cuts: How Live Export Is Killing Australian Meat Work
Late last week the RSPCA expressed its fear that increasing live exports would not only mean an increase in animal cruelty, but also lead to a cut in local abattoir…
40,000 Aussie Jobs On The Chopping Block As Turnbull Hurries To Sign Trans-Pacific Partnership
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…
Compulsory Unionism For Farmers, But Not Workers
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…
Clueless Barnaby Joyce Spits On Australian Meat Workers
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…
Wages down, hypocrisy up: Coles cries poor over self-service shoplifting while slashing staff and cutting costs
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…
Why the Fair Work Commission’s decision on casual redundancies is great for meat workers
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…
Rich and powerful think-tank wants to abolish award system and destroy minimum wage
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…
AMIEU Gathering Evidence On Breaches Of Visa Worker Agreements
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…
New Government, Same Old Meat Industry Crisis
While Australia collectively sighs at the longest and most lukewarm election in living memory, meat workers and their families around the country are continuing to suffer under a two-pronged attack…
350 Poultry Workers Out Of Jobs As Inghams Abandons Cardiff
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…