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Western Australia Unionism speaks all languages in saving jobs [AMWU] 2013-05-24
Urgent crisis talks needed to save manufacturing jobs following Ford announcement [AWU] 2013-05-24
Queensland Brisbane City Council - members moving towards industrial action [Services Union] 2013-05-24
New South Wales Gvt rewrites State workers employment conditions [PSA of NSW] 2013-05-24
Support Swan Cleaners [Clean Start] 2013-05-24
New South Wales PWCS Workers Go Forward With Stoppage Today And Declare Future Full Day Stoppage [MUA] 2013-05-24
Time to act for `Time to Care` [AMWU] 2013-05-24
Ford loss a manufacturing wake-up call for nation`s leaders [AMWU] 2013-05-24
Stop the apprenticeship decline: 457 employers must invest in local training [CFMEU] 2013-05-24
457 VISAS – CEOs rally for rights for the 1% [CFMEU] 2013-05-24
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New South Wales GALLERY, VIDEO: Striking PWCS workers picket 2013-05-24 [Newcastle Herald]
Victoria More proposed job losses in Bendigo 2013-05-24 [ASU Victoria]
ACTU rejects call for tariff increase- AMWU takes different position 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
Unions urge PM to convene crisis summit on future of car industry 2013-05-24 [ABC AM]
Northern Territory VIDEO: TWU Truckies Protest at Coles Store in Darwin 2013-05-24 [Channel 9]
ACTU calls for emergency talks on car industry after Ford's decision to close Australian plants 2013-05-24 [ABC]
Victoria Dark day leaves Geelong stunned 2013-05-24 [Geelong Advertiser]
Tasmania Screws keep tightening on health spending 2013-05-24 [Hobart Mercury]
Tasmania Gridlock cripples public hospitals - nurse union warns of crisis 2013-05-24 [Hobart Mercury]
Victoria Money for nurses, health worker safety 2013-05-24 [Gippsland Times]
Queensland Nurses' union attacks plan to recover wage overpayments 2013-05-24 [ABC]
New South Wales State funds come with proviso legal aid workers not to protest 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
Bring our payroll back on shore, Jetstar workers demand 2013-05-24 [eGlobal]
New South Wales Ampcontrol staff wait for job cuts 2013-05-24 [Newcastle Herald]
Tasmania 23 workers let go by Delta 2013-05-24 [Burnie Advocate]
Tasmania All aboard for AWU mining rally 2013-05-24 [Burnie Advocate]
New South Wales Midwives see red as purple uniforms go 2013-05-24 [Newcastle Herald]
New South Wales PWCS workers walk off job 2013-05-24 [ABC]
New South Wales Nwcastle port workers set to strike 2013-05-24 [AAP]
New South Wales How small communities are affected when a major manufacturer closes 2013-05-24 [ABC PM]
Australian Capital Territory CFMEU betraying members: ACT Liberal Senate candidate Seselja 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
Telstra in silent mode on job cuts 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
South Australia Holden pleads for help as Ford closes shop in Australia 2013-05-24 [News Limited Network]
Demise of Ford leaves nation's car industry in peril 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
Less support, lower tariffs, no industry 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
Consumer confidence falters as thousands of jobs disappear 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
ACTU wants crisis talks on car making 2013-05-24 [AAPP]
Canberra pressured to offer more protection 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
2500 lose jobs as debts send Swan Services to the cleaners 2013-05-24 [News Limited Network]
Australian Capital Territory PS unions say Gallagher broke pledge 2013-05-24 [Fairfax Media]
South Australia Rally for Gonski this Saturday – parliament house Adelaide 2013-05-24 [Radio Adelaide]
Ford workers not in the fair lane 2013-05-24 [Radio Adelaide]
Up to 2,500 cleaning jobs at risk after collapse of Swan Services 2013-05-23 [ABC]
ACTU dismisses report on labour reform as call for a return to the 'law of the jungle' 2013-05-23 [Fairfax Media]
Victoria Ford Australia to close Broadmeadows and Geelong plants, 1,200 jobs to go 2013-05-23 [ABC]
2500 jobs lost as cleaner goes bust 2013-05-23 [Fairfax Media]
South Australia Ford closure: What it means for South Australia 2013-05-23 [Adelaide Now]
New South Wales Forgacs boss says strike is taking toll 2013-05-23 [Newcastle Herald]
Victoria Ford workers 'devastated' by announcement Victorian plants will close in 2016 2013-05-23 [AAPP]
Tasmania How the AWU triggered the Tasmanian community fightback over mining in the Tarkine 2013-05-23 [Australian Mining]
Queensland Supreme Court decision limits public knowledge of OHS offences 2013-05-23 [SafetyAtWorkBlog]
Northern Territory VIDEO: 60 TWU Members Protest at Darwin Airport 2013-05-23 [ABC]
Queensland Mine in central Queensland town of Moranbah to employ 1000 workers on FIFO roster 2013-05-23 [Brisbane Courier Mail]
Queensland Police union accuses Newman Government of stalling over pay talks 2013-05-23 [Brisbane Courier-Mail]
New South Wales Delegates demand Govt revise its offer by 30 May 2013-05-23 [NSW Nurses and Midwives]
New South Wales CFMEU head bags Robbo's coal comment 2013-05-23 [Newcastle Herald]
Victoria Grocon opposes CFMEU appearance at coronor's inquiry. Police investigating why wall debris was removed from collapse site 2013-05-23 [Fairfax Media]
New South Wales Stop the NSW Power Sell-Off 2013-05-23 [NSW ETU]
Shop staff locked in to low pay 2013-05-23 [The Australian]
This month in labour history
1-05-1946 Eight hundred Aboriginal workers walk-off twenty-seven sheep stations in Western Australia, beginning the Pilbara strike that lasts until 1949. [more]
3-05-1927 The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is founded [more]
16-05-1891 Henry Lawson's poem 'Freedom on the Wallaby', written during the great sheep shearers' strike, is published in The Worker newspaper. [more]