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‘Falls well short’: Tasmanian firefighters unhappy with 3% pay rise offer 2025-09-25 [Pulse]

Hobart-based Qantas pilot 'won't see kids' if airline shuts Tasmanian base 2025-09-24 [Pulse]

Union warns of more public school closures unless outdated staffing model is updated 2025-09-23 [Pulse]

Ballarat bus drivers warn of further industrial action on day of fifth strike 2025-09-20 [The Courier]

Police union slams Tasmanian government over ‘disrespectful’ wage offer 2025-09-19 [Pulse]

Several Tasmanian schools to close on Wednesday as support staff strike 2025-09-17 [Pulse]

‘Disappointing’: Multiple Tasmanian schools forced to close as support staff strike 2025-09-17 [Pulse]

'You work to live': Why Liam says he clocks off school feeling 'worn out' 2025-09-17 [The Advocate]

Royal Hobart Hospital cleaners strike over training pay dispute 2025-09-15 [Pulse]

Stolen wages: the $25 million problem impacting Tasmanian workplaces 2025-09-02 [The Advocate]

Hydro Tasmania workers set to strike as wage disputes reach boiling point 2025-09-01 [Pulse]

Historic win for Tassie workers and their families 2025-08-31 [ETU]

Derwent Valley Council workers strike over stalled pay talks 2025-08-30 [Pulse]

ASU Slams Derwent Valley Council’s “Stinky” Wage Offer 2025-08-28 [The Times]

Program: Union leader Robbie Moore says Labor has been 'way too conservative', welcomes leader change 2025-08-21 [ABC]

Keep Tasmania’s transport public as new research exposes privatisation risk 2025-07-12 [RTBU]

Liberty Bell Bay smelter workers face a month without pay as operations scale back 2025-05-21 [Pulse]

Union organiser Josh Dolega the front runner to replace Anne Urquhart in the Senate 2025-05-21 [ABC]

Program: Workers have 'significant anxiety' over limited operations announcement at Liberty Bell Bay 2025-05-20 [ABC]

Keeping Tassie miners safe 2025-05-15 [MEU]

If the Coalition wins, Tasmanians will be worse off 2025-04-11 [CPSU]

Unions launch campaign against potential asset sell-off 2025-03-28 [Pulse]

CEPU Tasmania slams gov’t ‘asset leasing’ plans 2025-03-05 [Green Left Weekly]

Northern Tasmanian bus drivers to stop work on Wednesday 2024-11-30 [RTBU]

Tassie Government has given up governing 2024-11-30 [RTBU]

AWU backs Dean Winter’s call on Canberra 2024-11-29 [AWU]

Tools down at Jane Franklin Hall 2024-11-21 [UWU]

Emboldened Tassie unions set to fire up pay parity push 2024-11-06 [The Advocate]

Saputo pay dispute over and what it could mean for other Tasmanian workers 2024-11-05 [The Advocate]

'Not a peep' in support: Striking Saputo workers a Teeny bit cheesed off 2024-10-10 [The Advocate]

'We've had enough': No end in sight for cheesed off maintenance workers 2024-10-04 [The Advocate]

New Tasmanian deal fails to deliver full funding for public school students 2024-09-27 [AEU]

Tasmania's budget 'absolutely unfathomable', unions say, as departments asked to find $130m in additional savings 2024-09-12 [ABC]

Electricity strikes: Union members to vote on revised pay offer 2024-09-11 [The Examiner]

'Now a police matter': Striking worker wakes to find union signs slashed 2024-09-09 [The Advocate]

Tassie dairy workers rally over year-long mainland wage dispute 2024-09-03 [AMWU]

Nine-week strike: Tasmanian politicians back striking Saputo workers in fight for pay parity 2024-08-07 [Pulse Tasmania]

“Until Saputo sort this out, we’re asking all supporters of a fair go to boycott Saputo products. SAPUTO – NO GO!” 2024-08-04 [ETU]

Burnie Saputo workers' pay fight extending into US, Canada 2024-07-30 [The Advocate]

'Rock solid' Saputo workers to stay on strike for as long as it takes 2024-07-24 [The Advocate]

Liberal MP refused to meet Saputo workers about pay row, union leader says 2024-07-08 [The Advocate]

'He doesn't care about workers': Big union lashes 'Big Unit' in Saputo row 2024-07-05 [The Advocate]

Strike claims heat up dispute 2024-07-05 [Sea FM]

Saputo workers in Tassie call for cheese boycott in pay dispute 2024-07-04 [Food and Drink]

Braddon MP blasts 'union thugs' for 'stunt' Saputo cheese boycott campaign 2024-07-04 [The Advocate]

Saputo workers take pay battle to Melbourne HQ, supermarket rallies planned 2024-07-03 [The Advocate]

'Poor cousin no more': Tasmanian unions call for boycott of Saputo Dairy products over mainland pay gap 2024-07-02 [Pulse]

Boag’s Brewery: jobs and iconic brands targeted 2024-06-30 [UWU]

Burnie cheese factory pay dispute deepens as unions launch national boycott 2024-06-28 [The Advocate]

CPSU says child safety workers want pay rises and better working conditions 2024-06-22 [The Examiner]

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]