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Keep Your Promise! Unions Launch Campaign Demanding Delivery of Gender Equality Bill 2025-11-30 [SA Unions]

Same Job = Same Pay applications lodged at three major warehouses 2025-11-30 [SDA]

Major Victory for Retail Workers as WPO Legislation passes Parliament 2025-11-30 [SDA]

Meet Mana Elisabeth De Araujo 2025-11-23 [Green Left Weekly]

1000s of low-paid workers celebrate pay win 2025-11-21 [UWU]

Protest over US global e-commerce giant Amazon’s impact on SA jobs and businesses 2025-11-11 [InDaily]

Historic wage deal for 6000 public sector workers 2025-11-02 [UWU]

‘Kick in the guts’: Nurses and midwives march on SA parliament 2025-10-30 [InDaily]

Government announces new legislation to ban abusive customers 2025-10-29 [SDA]

Union action escalates 2025-10-21 [The SE Voice]

United Workers Union members to vote on proposed pay deal with government 2025-10-21 [PSNews]

Stronger safety measures enforced at 11 Adelaide Shopping Precincts 2025-10-20 [SDA]

Unions Hail Targeted Support for Workers in Hard-Hit Fishing Industry 2025-10-20 [SA Unions]

Thousands of workers protest outside SA parliament in call for better wages 2025-10-16 [9 News]

SA’s blood takers ‘hunting extra hours to survive’ 2025-10-15 [InDaily]

‘Throw us a bone’: RSPCA staff call pay deal a dog’s breakfast 2025-09-19 [InDaily]

SA’s lowest paid health workers still fighting for pay deal 2025-09-15 [InDaily]

Doctors accept pay deal: ‘We’ll take what we can get’ 2025-09-01 [InDaily]

FDV Royal commission report highlights need for crucial workplace reforms 2025-08-25 [SA Unions]

'Pay these workers a living wage': SA hospital staff strike for pay rise 2025-08-23 [9 News]

Major victory for train driver safety after tribunal finds breach of maximum shift limits 2025-08-15 [RTBU]

Dickensian hospital conditions highlighted in strike 2025-08-01 [UWU]

Low wages drive chronic understaffing and safety issues in SA disability support homes 2025-07-29 [UWU]

Lobethal Meatworkers Suspended Without Pay 2025-07-29 [5MU]

Doctors offered 13 per cent pay rise over four years 2025-07-29 [ABC]

Health unions in pay talks with SA government speak out about ongoing healthcare challenges 2025-07-21 [ABC]

Ambulance union raises response time concerns after man's death at Sellicks Hill 2025-07-14 [ABC]

Congratulations Kevin – fighting for a future for Whyalla 2025-07-12 [ETU]

Regional supermarket workers win millions in compensation 2025-07-07 [InDaily]

Union wins for thousands of low-paid Maccas workers 2025-07-04 [ACTU]

McDonald’s franchises lose ‘David and Goliath’ fight against collective bargaining move 2025-07-02 [HR Leader]

Fair Work win for South Australian Maccas workers 2025-07-02 [InDaily]

Fix the ramping crisis: workers take case to MPs 2025-06-27 [UWU]

SDA to negotiate first-ever Agreements at multiple employers in South Australia 2025-06-27 [SDA]

Health workers strike over pay gap and ramping crisis 2025-06-20 [UWU]

Allied Health Professionals Rally to Demand Fairness and Recognition 2025-06-10 [HSU]

Workers at BAE won’t back down 2025-06-02 [ETU]

CEPU SA members are winning the fight to clean up lead exposure 2025-06-02 [ETU]

Defence shipbuilders strike over pay as BAE bosses pocket millions 2025-05-30 [AMWU]

New youngest senator elected at 21 with unexpected win 2025-05-27 [CITY]

New youngest senator elected at 21 with unexpected win 2025-05-27 [CITY]

Underpaid: Support staff strike back at Flinders Medical Centre 2025-05-22 [UWU]

Shipbuilders walk off the job 2025-05-22 [InDaily]

SafeWork SA launches criminal proceedings against AGL over 'unsafe' lead levels 2025-05-20 [ABC]

Adelaide PepsiCo workers set to strike 2025-05-08 [InDaily]

Members at BAE keep up the fight 2025-04-27 [ETU]

Workers at BAE’s Osborne Naval Shipyard Australia Walkout in Wage Dispute 2025-03-20 [The Maritime Executive]

Disability support workers escalate industrial action 2025-03-17 [UWU]

OVER 500 DEFENCE WORKERS STAGE MASSIVE WALK-OUT OVER WAGES AS BAE AUSTRALIA MANAGEMENT ADDRESSES WORKFORCE 2025-03-17 [AMWU]

The Electrical Trades Union welcomes the South Australian and Federal Government’s $2.4 billion support plan for the Whyalla steelworks. 2025-03-08 [ETU]

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]