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Queensland Labor conference passes motion calling on Commonwealth to take CFMEU out of administration 2025-11-30 [ABC]

Solidarity leads to workload wins 2025-11-26 [IEU]

Critical water workers strike for better pay 2025-11-21 [InDaily]

Police accused of signing secret agreement with CFMEU 2025-11-19 [The Examiner]

$6,000 backpay for school officer taking on higher duties 2025-11-17 [IEU]

State appoints former chair of rightwing group Advance to school curriculum board as union leaders ousted 2025-11-13 [The Guardian]

BHP ordered to pay miners $84,000 following Christmas holiday pay dispute 2025-11-12 [ABC]

Mining and Energy Union back mining safety directive on lightning strikes at Peak Downs 2025-11-06 [The Courier-Mail]

Media Statement 22/10/25: Local Government Association of Queensland Conference- Trading Hours 2025-10-25 [SDA]

Workers down tools at hydro construction site 2025-10-24 [IQ]

Nurses and midwives vote overwhelmingly in favour of new $1.8 billion pay deal 2025-10-22 [ABC]

Over 40 hours of meetings, no agreement: union boss tells ed minister to show workers respect 2025-10-20 [UWU]

Mining Coroner Legislation misses the mark on worker safety 2025-10-20 [MEU]

QLD kindy staff reject inadequate employer offer 2025-10-14 [IEU]

Mount Isa support package secures thousands of regional jobs, defends sovereign capability 2025-10-11 [AWU]

Strike action highlights tensions over pay at Sunshine Coast recycling plant 2025-10-02 [The Sunshine Coast News]

QLD Paramedics slam pill testing ban 2025-09-30 [UWU]

Superior Pak workers strike in Bundaberg 2025-09-25 [Today]

Kianga Disaster – 50 Years On 2025-09-24 [MEU]

State to “dissolve” Yurika tech division, staff told, as unions attack LNP on renewable plans 2025-09-18 [Renew Economy]

Unions backhand BMA over coal job cuts 2025-09-17 [IQ]

Townsville Council pay dispute talks continue following 48-hour lockout 2025-09-05 [Power 100]

Union go-slow on Queensland sites squeezes housing supply: developers 2025-09-04 [Commercial Real Estate]

Thousands of Qld’s lowest paid public sector workers land pay rise 2025-09-04 [The Times]

Exhausted, overworked: ambulance officers demand an end to 21-hour shifts 2025-09-02 [UWU]

Union protestors rally over Brisbane 2032 2025-09-02 [Inside the Games]

Queensland government reaches pay agreement with nurses and midwives union 2025-08-31 [Nine News]

‘Tremendous victory’: nurses secure nation- leading pay 2025-08-29 [The Queenslander]

Bargaining consensus reached for Queensland nurses and midwives 2025-08-29 [Inside State Government]

14 September is Same Job Same Pay Day for BHP workers 2025-08-26 [MEU]

BlueCare cuts 60 per cent of enrolled nurses, gags them from telling residents 2025-08-25 [The Morning Herald]

Queensland teachers consider further strike action 2025-08-16 [ABC]

Teachers strike for pay, conditions 2025-08-13 [Green Left Weekly]

QTU grateful for community support as fifty thoudsand teachers and school leaders take a stand 2025-08-06 [Queensland Teachers Union]

Historic strike chaos engulfs Queensland as teachers walk off the job in all of its state schools for first time in 16 years 2025-08-06 [Sky]

Teachers strike after pay negotiations with government hit a stalemate 2025-08-06 [ABC]

Queensland teachers to strike after pay negotiations with government hit a stalemate 2025-08-06 [ABC]

Traffic disruptions as hundreds of Queensland transport workers walk off the job 2025-08-04 [7 News]

CFMEU inquiry terms of reference released 2025-07-31 [Mining.com]

Police union chief calls state government pay offer ‘grossly inadequate’ days after approving it 2025-07-31 [The Guardian]

Queensland teachers pay dispute escalates as strike deadline approaches 2025-07-30 [Brisbane Times]

Teachers preparing to strike over pay negotiations, nurses angered by 'swift' police pay deal 2025-07-29 [ABC]

Major public sector union launches push for workforce-driven AI use 2025-07-28 [The Morning Herald]

Podcast: BHP ordered to pay $30,000 to 2,300 miners 2025-07-24 [MEU]

Bus driver welfare in spotlight after alleged knife attack 2025-07-20 [The Sunshine Coast News]

Alleged stabbing of bus driver at Caloundra sparks union to push for return of safety forum 2025-07-15 [The Sunshine Coast News]

Casino workers defend penalty rates, strike when it hurts 2025-07-12 [Green Left Weekly]

High Stakes Strike: Star Casino Workers Walk Out on State of Origin Night 2025-07-12 [UWU]

Nurses and midwives ramp up industrial action as pay negotiations break down 2025-07-08 [ABC]

BHP ordered to pay workers an average $30,000 more after defeat in landmark labour hire ruling 2025-07-08 [ABC]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-12-1948 The long ACTU-led campaign to win more time off for workers led to the imposition of the 40-hour work week and the 2-day weekend. [more]

15-12-1882 Tailoresses' Association of Melbourne, Australia's first women's trade union, established. [more]

17-12-1918 A march of members of the Australian Workers Union forces the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John Gilruth. [more]

21-12-1916 The Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) are outlawed. [more]

23-12-1928 An industrial court decides that timber workers must increase their weekly working hours from 44 to 48, a decision that sparks a 6 month long strike. [more]

29-12-1884 Edward Theodore, founder of Amalgamated Workers’ Assn & forerunner of Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), is born. [more]

31-12-1968 John Smith Garden, Australian trade unionist & founding member of Communist Party of Australia, dies. [more]