The Queensland Council of Unions has today launched an education, support and campaigning organisation for young workers. Queensland Council of ...
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Unions have welcomed the announcement that if elected a Shorten Labor Government would introduce legislation to regulate labour hire. “For ...
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Workers and unions have another weapon in the battle against underpayment and exploitation from tomorrow (15 June) when labour hire ...
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Queensland Unions have welcomed the 2018-19 State Budget for its continued focus on frontline services but say any public infrastructure ...
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Today’s announcement of a 3.5 per cent increase or $24.32 per week to the minimum wage will still leave some ...
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Queensland Unions expect the recently announced parliamentary wage theft inquiry will be swamped by underpaid and ripped-off workers. State Parliament ...
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Chants of “Change the Rules” echoed throughout Queensland over the Labour Day weekend as union and community members joined hundreds ...
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Unions will use Workers’ Memorial Day to renew calls to scrap the Australian Building and Construction Commission and replace it ...
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This opinion piece appeared in the Brisbane Times on Thursday, 26 April under the heading "Too many workers are killed ...
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Queensland unions will use the state’s Labour Day celebrations to push ahead with a national campaign to change the rules ...
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Changing the rules around work for women continues to be a major focus for Queensland unions. Queensland Council of Unions ...
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This article has been published on the New Daily website - you can view it here: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/02/20/eureka-flag-ban/ --- It’s a poor ...
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Queensland Unions have questioned the economic credentials of new LNP leader Deb Frecklington after her recent comments about jobless rates ...
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Queenslanders have shown their support for a government that has created jobs, restored frontline services and retained public assets over ...
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Queensland Unions’ field campaign is in full swing, in the final sprint to the state election on 25 November. Dedicated ...
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Unions say this state election is a choice between a government creating jobs, restoring frontline services and business confidence without ...
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Queensland unions say investment in renewables should occur but must also guarantee good, secure jobs if it is to provide ...
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Queensland unions say the new offence of industrial manslaughter passed today through Parliament will be a deterrent to make sure ...
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Hundreds of thousands of Queensland workers are fearful they’re next for a wage cut after today’s Federal Court decision not ...
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Tim Nicholls and the LNP’s attempt to match Labor’s Buy Queensland policy will replay the disastrous unemployment scoreboard from the ...
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Queensland is now the first Australian state with mandatory licensing for labour hire operators after union-backed laws passed State Parliament ...
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Queensland unions say the federal Turnbull LNP government’s latest attack on asylum seekers is a desperate tactic to distract from ...
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Queensland Unions are joining an Australia-wide campaign to improve the lives of employees juggling work with caring and parenting responsibilities ...
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Queensland unions have welcomed the state government’s move to create the new offence of industrial manslaughter to deter negligent employers ...
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Queensland Unions are urging members to check their enrolment and to vote ‘yes’ in the upcoming marriage equality postal survey ...
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Queensland unions will fight on the battleground of secure jobs after statewide workers’ forums endorsed this election campaign focus at ...
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Queensland unions have slammed rail operator Aurizon for abandoning regional Queensland workers after its announcement of 300 job losses at ...
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Queensland unions have welcomed a state government proposal to introduce an offence of “negligence causing death” as part of a ...
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Queensland unions have welcomed a state government proposal to introduce an offence of “negligence causing death” as part of a ...
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Workers in regional Queensland will lose almost $150 million a year in disposable income a year due the Turnbull Government’s ...
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Queensland unions have welcomed the announcement on Labour Day of state government plans to license labour hire firms. Queensland Council ...
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Thousands of workers and community members turned out at today’s national rally against the federal Coalition’s continuing attacks on workers ...
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The Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) decision to radically cut Sunday and public holiday pay will hurt more than 400,000 Queensland ...
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The only thing voters learnt from Tim Nicholls’ apology today is that his sales pitch to sell public assets will ...
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The LNP’s backdoor deal today with Senate crossbenchers on a national building code will reduce safety, increase casual and insecure ...
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Queensland Unions have welcomed the Labor Party’s firm commitment to protecting the wages of millions of workers who sacrifice their ...
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One hundred years after her death in Toowoomba, labour legend Emma Miller and her hat-pin are still making news in ...
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Andrew Laming, the federal member for Bowman, was very quick to retreat after he posted this clanger on his Facebook ...
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A promise to protect current penalty rates would be the most useful guarantee the Turnbull LNP government could give to ...
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Western Australia's Murdoch University has applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate the Enterprise Agreement with its staff so ...
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Unions today used a roundtable event to renew calls to expand minimum domestic violence leave provisions as Australia approaches the ...
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Queensland union members can feel proud of their role in supporting justice and fairness for the reinstated #CUB55 brewery workers, ...
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Hundreds of workers from Blue Care/Wesley Mission Brisbane - and their supporters – stage a rally in the centre of ...
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Queensland’s workers and union members have been instrumental in the new laws passed overnight cleaning up the industrial relations chaos ...
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A government that prefers to use and abuse an itinerant workforce of temporary work visa holders rather than create conditions ...
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Australians remain sceptical about federal government motivations to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission despite the Coalition’s almost daily ...
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The Australian Building and Construction Commission (the ABCC) was a watchdog over the construction industry set up by the Howard ...
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The systemic, endemic and rife exploitation of foreign workers in Australia is continuing unabated, despite combined efforts by journalists and ...
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Queensland unions congratulate and highlight a major Queensland company’s efforts in a national campaign to enshrine minimum family and domestic ...
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Caltex members, who had taken indefinite industrial action at the company’s lubricants facility in Lytton, Queensland, have won a deal ...
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The federal Coalition can expect a major community campaign for putting tax cuts for millionaires and corporations ahead of paid ...
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Queensland unions want the State Government to follow South Australia’s lead and introduce licensing of labour hire firms ...
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Concerns over a concerted corporate strategy to erode workers’ wages and conditions sparked yesterday’s thousand-strong community march to Carlton & ...
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Early childhood educators are some of the lowest paid professionals in Australia. Why? Because 95% of us are women. So ...
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Malcolm Turnbull’s silence on Productivity Commission recommendations to cut penalty rates and introduce enterprise contracts will drive more Queenslanders to ...
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The Abbott/Turnbull Government has ripped funding out of apprenticeship programs, skills training and TAFE – more than $1 billion from ...
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