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'Nothing was being done': Inpex workers raise fears over toxic chemical emissions and oil spills 2025-11-13 [ABC]

OC spray used at Darwin nightclub two weekends in a row as NT trial approaches one-month mark 2025-09-29 [ABC]

NTPS workers vote down new agreement 2025-09-24 [CPSU]

Members urged to reject ‘shabby’ NTPS pay deal 2025-09-21 [CPSU]

NT public sector offer ‘a slap in the face’ 2025-09-18 [Government News]

Program: 'We're not being heard' - public health workers on pay dispute with NTG 2025-09-17 [ABC]

Thomas Mayo rejects NT Government’s planned roll out of pepper spray to security guards 2025-09-06 [MUA]

Industrial action to hit NT prisons as EBA negotiations break down 2025-08-31 [CPSU]

Patients in Peril: Urgent Action Needed for Hospital Pharmacy Crisis in the NT 2025-08-15 [Professionals Australia]

Work From Home brawl brewing in NT 2025-05-30 [CPSU]

Historic moment as CDU win sees union-negotiated enterprise agreements at every public university in Australia 2025-05-19 [NTEU]

Prison officers deliver no-confidence vote in Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley 2025-02-21 [ABC]

Paramedics union survey finds 88 per cent have no confidence in St John Ambulance NT executive 2024-12-11 [ABC]

'Exploding with prisoners': union fights inmate shift 2024-10-27 [The Post]

Union responds to serious concerns at NT prisons, with corrections officers fearing for their lives 2024-10-16 [MIx 104.9]

Federal government to pay up to $202 million settlement to indigenous workers, relatives in NT stolen wages class action 2024-09-07 [ABC]

Wage justice at last for Indigenous NT workers 2024-09-06 [The New Daily]

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]

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

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

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]

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]

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]

Safety for Correctional Officers 2019-07-24 [United Voice]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

2-01-1879 Sacked Austrialian seamen return to work after a six week strike, with the promise of re-employment over the next two years. [more]

3-01-1974 Forty four Victoria Street squatters, including BLF activist Joe Owens, are arrested as property developers try to clear the area for the construction of three skyscrapers. [more]

11-01-1951 270 women members of electrical and metal trades unions walked off the job at 3 Sydney factories demanding that they continue to receive 90% of men’s wages, as they had during and since wartime, rather than the 75% imposed by employers. [more]

14-01-1929 600 union dock workers rushed the scab-filled Mareeba steamship in Port Adelaide. Scabs and police fought the workers, who retaliated with stones, injuring 30 scabs. One scab began shooting into the crowd but was not arrested. [more]

18-01-1929 800 women - mostly the wives of striking Port Adelaide workers - began a march in support of their husbands. The women, many with their children marched to the port to confront scabs, and fought back when attacked by police. [more]

24-01-1951 After leading the 3rd strike by Aboriginal workers for fair pay and civil rights, Lawrence Wurrpen arrested and sentenced to four months in jail. On his release under appeal, he was directed to stay within Bagot Compound Reserve in Darwin. [more]

31-01-1912 A general strike begins in Brisbane in support of thousands of tramworkers sacked for wearing union badges. [more]