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It pays to be union: Campaigning stops disastrous cuts to workers’ compensation 2025-11-18 [PSA]

Nurses’ union fined $130,000 over strike action in Albury and Sydney 2025-11-17 [Region Riverina]

'Absolute tragedy': Union pledges support to family of worker killed at BlueScope 2025-11-17 [The Mercury]

Contractor dies in workplace accident at BlueScope Steel blast furnace 2025-11-17 [ABC]

Rix’s Creek Miners Reach Agreement After Seven Weeks on Strike 2025-11-13 [MEU]

'Longest strike in 25 years' ends as Rix's Creek miners declare victory in new deal 2025-11-13 [Port News]

Illawarra unions slam NSW government's workers' comp changes, urge a rethink 2025-11-12 [The Mercury]

Dignity Restored — Minns Beefs Up Support Package for Timber Workers 2025-11-11 [Wood Central]

‘Historic’ motion over worker violence 2025-11-06 [Newswire]

Local school cleaners get a bump to their pay 2025-11-04 [2HD]

AGL power station workers warned of hundreds of job cuts before Christmas 2025-11-02 [MEU]

Union says UoN support program fails workers at risk 2025-10-31 [The Weekly]

'All-consuming': Woonona nurse resigns as the head of state's biggest union 2025-10-30 [The Mercury]

Seventy-five years on: the Burrinjuck Dam disaster that shook a nation 2025-10-30 [About]

Seventy-five years on: the Burrinjuck Dam disaster that shook a nation 2025-10-30 [About]

Prison officers striking over sentence for NSW inmate who bashed guards ordered back to work 2025-10-30 [ABC]

Prison staff ordered to end ‘catastrophic’ action after about 5000 staff walked off the job 2025-10-30 [News.com.au]

Tragedy at Cobar 2025-10-30 [MEU]

Rix’s Creek miners overwhelmingly reject Bloomfield’s backward deal. 2025-10-29 [MEU]

'Heartbreaking': Young woman killed in mine explosion identified 2025-10-29 [9 News]

'Catastrophic' mine explosion highlights safety issues 2025-10-28 [AAP]

State government investing millions in bathroom and break facilities for bus drivers after horror working conditions exposed 2025-10-28 [7 News]

Two people dead after mine explosion at Endeavour mine, Cobar, Western NSW 2025-10-28 [ABC]

Sanjeev Gupta urged to pay debts or sell Tahmoor mine as workers go unpaid 2025-10-27 [ABC]

Aviation workers to protest at Sydney airport over lack of job security for Certis staff 2025-10-25 [TWU]

‘Paves the way for workers’: Ruling against major Aussie bank that banned mum WFH hailed by Finance Sector Union 2025-10-22 [Sky]

'Patronising' reason City of Sydney council won't give workers a government-funded 15 per cent pay rise 2025-10-21 [Sky]

Rix's Creek coal miners ramp up strike action 2025-10-16 [2HD]

New register to monitor health of silica-exposed workers across manufacturing, mining sectors 2025-10-15 [Australian Manufacturing]

Further 7-day lockout at Ulan – time for a resolution 2025-10-11 [MEU]

Another week, no work: second Ulan lockout marks breaking point in pay fight 2025-10-10 [The Guardian]

'Dummy spit': union lashes out over striking workers locked out of work 2025-09-26 [The Herald]

Sydney Premiere of smash-hit comedy about overworked, underpaid, teenage wage-slaves 2025-09-25 [Aussie Theatre]

University of Wollongong to repay $6.6 million to more than 5000 underpaid staff 2025-09-25 [9 News]

GrainCorp workers walk off the job after being pushed to ‘breaking point’ 2025-09-24 [Newcastle Weekly]

Grain export workers walk out over pay offer 'below minimum wage': union 2025-09-24 [The Herald]

Walking off the job: Hunter workers from varied industries take industrial action 2025-09-23 [The Herald]

Strike signals stalled talks at GrainCorp Carrington 2025-09-23 [Grain Central]

8.5% pay rise to health workers 2025-09-23 [HRD]

Second AGNSW staff protest demands answers from Parliament on job cuts rationale 2025-09-19 [Arts Hub]

Sydney commuters face more disruption as metro workers to vote on industrial action 2025-09-19 [The Guardian]

Snowy 2.0 workers get $50k pay rise after union campaign 2025-09-13 [ABC]

Union fights to save Lithgow's workshop from being sold off to land bankers 2025-09-11 [The Mercury]

Report Details Racism Experienced by Nurses and Midwives 2025-09-08 [SBS]

Unions Slam NSW Gov for Koala Park Five Times Bigger Than Panel Advice 2025-09-07 [Wood Central]

Rank-and-file unionists call September 10 national day of action for Palestine 2025-09-06 [Green Left Weekly]

Rank-and-file unionists call September 10 national day of action for Palestine 2025-09-06 [Green Left Weekly]

Loveness says she experienced racism while working as a nurse. She isn't the only one 2025-09-06 [SBS]

Union labels Whitehaven Coal leave entitlement audit ‘unfair’ 2025-09-05 [The Times]

Nurses and midwives accept 3 per cent interim wage increase offer from NSW government 2025-09-05 [ABC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1923 Police in Melbourne strike against the use of labour spies. [more]

2-11-1928 Police fire on striking dock workers in Melbourne, killing one man. [more]

4-11-1908 Sydney's rockchoppers vow to continue their strike "so long as one single member of the union remains in gaol." [more]

5-11-1890 Miners in Newcastle are the last New South Wales workers to return to work after the Great Strike. [more]

29-11-1849 Chartist leader William Cuffay arrives in Australia, having been transported from Britain after his treason trial [more]