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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]

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]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

10-09-1892 The first train of contractors brought in to scab during the Broken Hill miners' strike arrives and is met with hostility from local men and women. [more]

10-09-1917 Mass meetings of Sydney railway workers express outrage at the unions' capitulation to the government's terms, but nevertheless a return to work from the general strike begins. [more]

16-09-1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the IWW union in Australia, Is arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. [more]

23-09-1945 Australian wharfies refuse to work on Dutch vessels in support of Indonesia’s Independence. [more]