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International Transport Workers Federation welcomes new Seafarers Centre at Port Hedland 2024-05-09 [MUA]

Transport Workers Rally for Safety, Fairness at Aldi 2024-05-09 [TWU]

Teachers take strike action over wages, workload and staffing 2024-05-03 [Green Left Weekly]

Today hundreds of union members are calling on the new WA Premier to address the ongoing challenges faced by all hospital workers 2024-05-02 [UWU]

Health Workers Union unlikely to accept deal that averted transit officer industrial action 2024-05-01 [The West Australian]

Interpreters in Western Australia have made history! 2024-04-26 [Professionals Australia]

CFMEU claims fatigue and an unsafe work site played roles in death of Dallcon worker Federico Parazzoli 2024-04-23 [WEST]

Disruptions flagged for 83 WA public schools as teachers strike in latest pay rise bid 2024-04-22 [Head Topics]

The WA schools planning to close on Tuesday revealed 2024-04-20 [WAtoday]

Dozens of WA schools to take part in teachers’ strike 2024-04-19 [The Morning Herald]

Aboriginal boy suicide tragedy: Union claims child protection workers in ‘perpetual state of crisis’ 2024-04-19 [The West Australian]

Unions for school support staff notify principals of refusal to supervise students during teacher strike 2024-04-18 [The West Australian]

Perth Uber drivers start five-day strike with Friday airport blockade 2024-04-16 [The Morning Herald]

Teachers set to strike next week as union rejects latest pay and conditions offer 2024-04-15 [ABC]

ETU National Office Heads to The Pilbara 2024-04-06 [ETU]

School teachers threaten to strike next month as wage negotiations stall 2024-03-26 [The Morning Herald]

Pilots vote ’no’ & hold more work stoppages 2024-03-16 [AIPA]

2024 International Women's Day 2024-03-07 [UnionsWA]

Pilots resume strike at Qantas subsidiary over pay 2024-02-28 [AAP]

Unions slam pay rises for fat cats, describes as ‘kick in the guts’ to workers 2024-02-25 [The West Australian]

WorkSafe investigates mining giants Albemarle and Alcoa over chemical exposure incidents 2024-02-22 [ABC]

Cyclone prompts pilots to jettison four-day strike 2024-02-21 [AAP]

Another 24h stop work announced for WA pilots 2024-02-18 [AFAP]

Video Making for Unions 2024-02-18 [UnionsWA]

BHP Iron Ore Drivers reach in-principle agreement and call off industrial action 2024-02-18 [MEU]

BHP averts rail strike with 20% pay raise 2024-02-17 [Nikkei]

Qantas Group and regional pilots hit wall in pay row 2024-02-16 [AAP]

BHP Iron Ore Drivers Call Off Strike After In-Principle Agreement 2024-02-15 [MEU]

Government cracks down on violence against retail workers 2024-02-14 [WAMN]

Pilot strike 'increasingly difficult' for miners and regional travellers 2024-02-14 [SBS]

Three-day pilot strike to hit some WA regional routes 2024-02-12 [The New Daily]

Network & QantasLink pilots in WA stop work Wed to Fri 2024-02-12 [AFAP]

Griffin must give locals a fair go 2024-02-12 [MEU]

BHP iron ore drivers give notice of 24-hour stoppage 2024-02-12 [MEU]

Rail workers set to strike on Friday in BHP enterprise deal battle 2024-02-12 [The West Australian]

Flight disruptions expected for Western Australia as hundreds of pilots at Qantas subsidiary strike 2024-02-08 [9 News]

pilots flying for Network & QantasLink stop work tomorrow 2024-02-07 [AFAP]

Remote towns, miners brace for renewed WA pilot strike as union, Qantas reach stalemate 2024-02-07 [ABC]

https://www.afap.org.au/media-releases/ArtMID/1603/ArticleID/456/qantas-wa-pilots-advise-of-24-hour-work-stoppage 2024-02-05 [AFAP]

Iron Ore Train Drivers play the long game on conditions 2024-02-05 [MEU]

Game on: WA’s biggest union’s move into politics official as party reaches 500-member quota 2024-02-05 [WAtoday]

CFMEU secures new 25pc pay deal for WA construction workers 2024-02-05 [The West Australian]

TWU welcomes Worksafe action on injured transport worker 2024-01-25 [TWU]

State School Teachers’ Union threatens to disrupt schools in fight for higher salaries 2024-01-25 [The West Australian]

Bankwest deserts customers by closing more branches 2024-01-18 [FSU]

Australian Workers Union boss Brad Gandy slams Labor for ‘ignoring industry, treating WA like an ATM’ 2024-01-11 [The West Australian]

Uranium ship sneaks into ‘nuclear free’ Fremantle port, sparking concern by wharfies over safety 2024-01-06 [The West Australian]

WorkSafe ‘following up’ on new asbestos exposure concerns at CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino Iron mine in Pilbara 2024-01-04 [The West Australian]

Vapes & Smoking - UnionsWA Summer Webinar 2024 - Thursday 18 January 2024-01-01 [UnionsWA]

Maritime workers overwhelmingly back rolling strike action, bans against BAE Systems in pay feud 2023-12-08 [The West Australian]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-05-1946 Eight hundred Aboriginal workers walk-off twenty-seven sheep stations in Western Australia, beginning the Pilbara strike that lasts until 1949. [more]

3-05-1927 The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is founded [more]

15-05-1905 The Merchant Service Guild of Australasia became the first trade union to be registered under the Australian Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 [more]

16-05-1891 Henry Lawson's poem 'Freedom on the Wallaby', written during the great sheep shearers' strike, is published in The Worker newspaper. [more]