Tamworth Mayor Punishes Exploited Workers To Cover His Own Tracks
The AMIEU is today calling on Col Murray, the Mayor of Tamworth Regional Council, to step forward and take responsibility for the network of exploitation and intimidation which he has…
NSW Labor Finally Agrees On Urgent Need To Fight Exploitation
The trade union movement has been leading the fight against worker exploitation in Australia for many years. Australia’s meat sector has suffered greatly under some of the worst, most underhanded…
Workplace Exploitation Continues In Poultry Industry, Even As Compliance Improves
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…
Fair Work Ombudsman Finally Acknowledges Overwhelming Evidence of Backpacker Exploitation
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…
Changes To Backpacker Tax Miss The Point Again
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…
SDA Welcomes Fashion Retailer H&M To Australia By Surrendering Wages And Conditions
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…
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…
American Nightmare: The future of Australian meat work under Turnbull
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…
Fired for reading a newsletter: The NZ Meat Union’s ongoing fight against Talleys, the worst company in the world
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…
Labor’s laws on worker exploitation are a good start, but won’t fix the real problem
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…