Union Workers Force Labor Into Better Position On TPP
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern Branch today acknowledges and welcomes the announcement by the Australian Labor Party that it will make sweeping changes to the process by which trade agreements…
AMIEU Condemns Federal Labor For Giving In To Big Business Over TPP
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern NSW Branch condemns Federal Labor’s decision this week to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, torpedoing the efforts of Australia’s union movement to make sure that Australian…
Baiada Reaches Out To Unemployed Tamworth Youth Following AMIEU Campaign
Tamworth is in the grip of a youth unemployment crisis, with figures showing that teenagers and young adults in the area are unemployed at a rate double the national average….
Thomas Foods Chooses More Visa Workers Over Training Local Kids
Thomas Foods is secretly planning to move more than a hundred 457 visa workers into its Tamworth operation, desperate to do whatever it takes to avoid employing New England locals….
Australia’s Corporate Fat Cats Want More Visa Workers, Less Oversight
The Business Council of Australia, an organisation of rich people whose job it is to figure out ways they can become even more rich, has just this week announced another…
Thomas Foods Brings In More Visa Workers While Youth Unemployment Skyrockets
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made a shock announcement back in April, declaring that the 457 visa program was dead and buried, and that it was time to put Australian workers…
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…
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…
Backpacker tax changes are unfair and unreasonable: Here’s how to fix the problem
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…