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Australia’s major step towards closing the gender pay gap 2024-03-27 [IndustriALL]

Interview with Sally McManus, ACTU Secretary 2024-03-27 [LabourStart Podcasts]

PFA publishes Stoppage Time: A PFA Report on the A-Leagues and Climate Change 2024-03-26 [PFA]

Accord rhetoric exposes vice-chancellors’ shocking failures 2024-03-26 [NTEU]

ACTU calls for 5% increase to minimum wages 2024-03-26 [ACTU]

ACTU backs 5pc pay hike for award and minimum wage earners as bosses call for real wage cut 2024-03-26 [News.com.au]

Peak Union Body Will Ask the Government For a 5% Pay Rise For Workers 2024-03-26 [VICE]

Campaign Organiser - Pilliga Campaign 2024-03-25 [MUA]

Rise in more secure jobs welcomed by ACTU 2024-03-23 [ACTU]

All workers should be protected from discrimination 2024-03-23 [ACTU]

Next week, Australian Unions are announcing what we’ll be demanding from this years’ review. 2024-03-22 [Australian Unions]

Staggering figure Australian workers are losing to wage theft 2024-03-22 [9 News]

Coles worker rejects 'slap in the face' offer from supermarket giant 2024-03-22 [Yahoo]

Some aged care workers win long-overdue pay rise, others miss out 2024-03-22 [Green Left Weekly]

Here’s how your wages could be going up 2024-03-22 [Australian Unions]

Union action sees Network 10 make payslips available to casuals 2024-03-21 [Media Week]

'Historically undervalued' aged care workers get pay rise at last 2024-03-21 [SBS]

Union-management attack in Coles 2024-03-21 [WSWS]

Aged care workers secure historic 28.5% wage increase in Australia after landmark Fair Work Commission ruling 2024-03-20 [UNI]

Why are young people not joining their Union? 2024-03-20 [Honi Soit]

Anti-Aukus protesters hit out at ‘belligerent nuclear plans’ 2024-03-20 [South China Morning Post]

Open-Ended Strikes Can Win at Australian Universities 2024-03-20 [Jacobin]

Aged Care Act – Changing Aged Care 2024-03-19 [HSU]

Face-to-face PFA Skill Development workshops return for the first time since Covid 2024-03-19 [PFA]

First-ever A-League Women’s All Stars match “Exciting”: Williams 2024-03-19 [PFA]

Podcast: Applications underway, find out how Same Job Same Pay works 2024-03-19 [MEU]

Represent: diversity, inclusion & access for performers, crew and musicians 2024-03-19 [MEAA]

Running for President: NTEU members volunteer at Brunswick parkrun event 2024-03-19 [NTEU]

Finance Sector Union campaign to save bank branches 2024-03-19 [FSU]

Forcing unemployment to rise is not the answer 2024-03-19 [ACTU]

Fair Work Commission finalises decision on Aged Care wage rise 2024-03-19 [PSNews]

Aviation firefighters union confirms it will not hold industrial action over Easter but could still strike if deal is not agreed on 2024-03-19 [Sky]

Union's push to end agency's 'stop-gap' funding 2024-03-19 [The Times]

Strikes readied to hit airports during Easter as public sector pay dispute escalates 2024-03-18 [The Mandarin]

Former Qantas staff who were illegally sacked seek millions in compensation in returned court case 2024-03-18 [ABC]

Domestic workers in Hong Kong scared to speak up as rights dwindle 2024-03-17 [ABC]

Industrial manslaughter laws are still new to many parts of Australia, and convictions are rare 2024-03-17 [ABC]

Post-declaration negotiating period starts today 2024-03-16 [AIPA]

Major boosts to aged care wages in work value case 2024-03-16 [UWU]

Unprecedented compensation hearings for illegally sacked Qantas workers 2024-03-16 [TWU]

Wage case recognises historic undervalued work of aged care nurses 2024-03-16 [ANMF]

Aged Care industry wage rise a ‘great outcome’ but ‘well overdue’ 2024-03-16 [Sky]

Uber Australia Is Creating a Yellow Union to Head Off Reform 2024-03-16 [Jacobin]

Not all aged care work of equal value: FWC 2024-03-15 [Ageing Agenda]

Coles pay offer labelled ‘insulting’ as staff say they can’t afford to shop at own workplace 2024-03-15 [The Guardian]

Ballarat Gold Mine rockfall fatality renews calls for stronger regulations from engineers, former miners 2024-03-15 [ABC]

'Workers have won wage justice': Aged care sector granted historic pay rises as union wins protracted battle with Fair Work 2024-03-15 [Sky]

Aged care workers will get pay rises of up to 28 per cent after landmark decision 2024-03-15 [SBS]

Miners in Ballarat need time to grieve, but also timely justice 2024-03-15 [AWU]

Historic aged care wage rise delivers justice and dignity 2024-03-15 [HSU]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1912 The Brisbane general strike officially ends after employers agree strikers will not face victimisation [more]

21-03-1857 Trade unionist and suffragist Alice Henry is born in Melbourne. [more]