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Charles Darwin University must stop attacks on academic freedom 2024-04-16 [NTEU]

Union calls on CDU vice-chancellor to apologise to workers 2024-02-20 [The Independent]

Areyonga School has a long list 2024-02-14 [AEU]

Police charges against NT truck driver show need for a zero tolerance approach to level crossing safety 2024-01-12 [RTBU]

Escapee arrested 20 kilometres from Alice Springs prison as union blames staff shortages 2023-01-05 [ABC]

Charles Darwin University’s pay offer sparks cost of living fear 2022-11-07 [NTEU]

Hundreds of Darwin bus services cancelled as drivers quit due to escalating violence and anti-social behaviour 2022-10-31 [ABC]

Darwin and Alice workers to stop work as part of public sector day of action 2022-09-01 [UWU]

Wage cap architect living it up on the public purse in London, while NT frontline workers suffer 2022-08-30 [UWU]

Industrial action concludes at Darwin Port, but negotiations continue 2022-08-30 [DCN]

Schools to remain open amid Territory-wide teacher strike on Thursday 2022-08-29 [The Independent]

Toni Childs features in all-female line-up at Freedom Day Festival to remember women of Wave Hill walk-off 2022-08-28 [ABC]

Darwin Port workers strike 2022-08-19 [DCN]

Darwin Port workers resolve to take strike action against rogue employer 2022-08-12 [MUA]

Darwin Port wage dispute escalates to FWC, port workers to strike 2022-08-12 [DCN]

Red alert – NT Ambos rally at last sitting day 2019-11-29 [UWU]

MUA achieve agreement to get ship's crew health checks 2020-04-13 [MUA]

Sex Workers Finally Have Decriminalisation: An Interview With SWOP NT's Coordinator Leanne Melling 2019-12-13 [SCL]

Darwin Ports mislead media about pay cuts for workfore 2022-07-22 [MUA]

Workers at the Darwin Port are joining the MUA in rejecting pay cuts put forth by management 2022-07-19 [ATN]

Darwin Port pay cuts rejected by workforce, industrial action to follow 2022-07-19 [MUA]

Alice Springs prison guards walk off job 2022-05-07 [Today]

Darwin correctional officers walk off to join May Day marchers 2022-04-29 [UWU]

NT indiginous workers underpaid between 1933 and 1971 join class action against government 2022-03-28 [ABC]

Essential workers around the Northern Territory are taking action in an effort to secure better wages and conditions 2022-03-18 [UWU]

Construction firm faces industrial manslaughter charge after worker dies 2022-03-16 [The New Daily]

Public Sector wage theft in millions 2022-02-11 [The National Tribune]

NT facing teacher shortage, says Australian Education Union 2021-12-08 [ABC]

Education union raises concerns about the impact of COVID vaccine mandate on NT school staff 2021-10-14 [ABC]

Industry, unions seek more detail on NT government's stage 3 COVID management plan 2021-09-16 [ABC]

It's 55 years since the Wave Hill walk-off, and Aboriginal workers are still fighting for their stolen wages 2021-09-01 [ABC]

Marina workers' exposure to COVID-19 case on yacht sparks call to move Darwin's international arrival point 2021-07-31 [ABC]

NT remote school teachers left stranded by COVID-19 hotspots in Victoria 2021-07-23 [ABC]

Arbitrary quarantine of dockers in Northern Australia set a dangerous precedent, ITF calls for their immediate release 2021-06-23 [ITF]

Workers protest over quarantine order 2021-06-23 [The West Australian]

Union seeks release of Darwin wharfies after WA authorities find no evidence of COVID onboard vessel 2021-06-22 [MUA]

Historic voter suppression complaint made to Human Rights Commission 2021-06-18 [MUA & UWU]

Legal action seeks immediate release of detained Darwin wharfies as COVID tests clear seafarers on vessel involved 2021-06-17 [MUA]

Quarantine for Darwin port workers a 'bureaucratic overreaction', maritime union says 2021-06-13 [ABC]

Darwin: Wharfies forced into quarantine over COVID safety breach 2021-06-12 [MUA]

Second Qantas plane damaged after baggage loader collision in Darwin 2021-05-30 [TWU]

ACTU stands with NT gas plant workers fighting for fair pay 2021-03-03 [ACTU]

Darwin: confirmed COVID case on livestock vessel highlights weakness in international quarantine rules 2021-01-03 [MUA]

NT Emergency Service Workers win PTSD protections, bill passes today 2020-06-24 [UWU]

Darwin: Three foreign vessels to dock in breach of coronavirus quarantine 2020-04-03 [MUA]

Win for NT emergency service workers diagnosed with PTSD 2020-02-21 [UWU]

Mine site had multiple safety complaints and wall collapses months before worker was killed 2019-12-09 [ABC]

Worker's body yet to be recovered from Bootu Creek mine due to unstable ground 2019-08-27 [ABC]

Man dead after Bootu Creek mine wall collapse, unions call for industrial manslaughter laws 2019-08-26 [ABC]

Brook Holloway receives Indigenous Service award 2019-08-21 [CPSU]

This month in labour history

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]

15-05-1905 The Merchant Service Guild of Australasia became the first trade union to be registered under the Australian Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 [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]