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Tribunal approves Woodside LNG project strike vote 2025-11-24 [Reuters]

Union urges government to intervene over mining industry ‘inaction’ on workplace sexual harassment 2025-11-09 [The West Australian]

City of Nedlands faces fresh controversy after union claims staff underpaid for six years 2025-10-30 [The West Australian]

Romina Raschilla: WA public health system on the brink as majority turn to private hospitals 2025-10-27 [The West Australian]

TLC Surface Treatment fined almost $1m over death of 16yo Hamiora Sharland 2025-10-24 [ABC]

WA farmers to eventually foot the bill for drawn-out Kwinana Grain Terminal strikes and lockouts 2025-10-18 [Countryman]

Kwinana Grain Terminal lockout garners international attention with Japanese wharf union to report to ITF 2025-10-14 [Countryman]

CBH whacks unprovoked lockout on its entire Kwinana grain terminal workforce 2025-10-11 [MUA]

WA Park Rangers call on Government to stand up for them 2025-09-30 [UWU]

Department of Health asserts interpreter safety 2025-09-24 [Professionals Australia]

Kwinana Grain Terminal wharfie wage dispute draws out as harvest looms 2025-09-23 [The West Australian]

Industrial action takes break at Kwinana Grain Terminal 2025-09-11 [Grain Central]

CBH locks out staff at Kwinana amid strike action 2025-09-03 [Grain Central]

CBH Workers locked out of Kwinana grain terminal while Execs line their pockets during cost-of-living crisis 2025-09-02 [MUA]

Perth Airport workers plan 24-hour strike 2025-08-29 [Sky]

CBH facing rolling work shutdown strike from Kwinana Grain Terminal union memebers 2025-08-29 [Countryman]

Perth dnata workers to strike for a full 24 hours 2025-08-28 [Australian Aviation]

Helensburgh miners chalk up two wins 2025-08-26 [MEU]

Construction Workers Win Fairer Long Service Leave After CFMEU’s Eight-Year Campaign 2025-08-24 [WAMN News]

Hundreds of dnata ground handlers at Perth Airport will walk off the job this week 2025-08-21 [Travel Weekly]

Environment and Union alliance calls for WA oil and gas clean-up hub 2025-08-15 [MUA]

Striking CBH Kwinana grain terminal workers refuse to rule out future strikes over stalled EBA agreements 2025-08-12 [Countryman]

ETU WA members on strike to fight for what’s fair 2025-08-08 [ETU]

MUA and ETU workers at CBH Kwinana Grain Terminal kick off protective action against stalled EBA negotiations 2025-08-07 [Countryman]

Rio Tinto moves to slash sick leave from 45 to 12 days for Pilbara workers 2025-08-07 [9 News]

Protected action begins at CBH Kwinana terminal 2025-08-06 [Grain Central]

MUA escalates action against Pilbara Ports 2025-07-31 [Fully Loaded]

Unions vote in favour of protected action at CBH Kwinana 2025-07-30 [Grain Central]

MUA files for Protected Industrial Action against Pilbara Ports 2025-07-28 [MUA]

WorkSafe investigating ‘near-decapitation’ of Vertech rope worker at Rio Tinto’s Parker Point wharf 2025-07-14 [The West Australian]

Western Power Safety Forum 2025-07-12 [ETU]

The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara 2025-06-25 [Green Left Weekly]

Members fighting for better in the Pilbara 2025-06-02 [ETU]

Final lap for bike ride honouring miners’ union legend 2025-05-19 [MEU]

State Government backs union push for a ‘fair’ wage increase but won’t say how much 2025-05-16 [The West Australian]

Pilbara shipping under threat as port workers prepare to strike 2025-05-16 [Mining Monthly]

The Maritime Union of Australia prepares for industrial strike in Pilbara for the first time in 17 years 2025-05-15 [The West Australian]

Paramedics take protected action over health system decline 2025-05-15 [Green Left Weekly]

Concerns firefighters' industrial action could delay burnoffs in southern WA 2025-05-07 [ABC]

AWU lodges FWC application marking another step towards seizing WA Rio Tinto mine 2025-03-27 [The West Australian]

WA Government sold a pup as more than 120 Bankwest jobs axed 2025-03-26 [FSU]

Pilbara unions collective bargaining drive gains momentum 2025-03-24 [Green Left Weekly]

A disability leave win for WA’s neurodiverse public sector workers 2025-03-20 [The Mandarin]

Rio boosts travel, training perks as Pilbara union war heats up 2025-03-19 [AFR]

Genius Childcare staff quit in droves, forcing closures, accusing the childcare centres of poor management 2025-03-17 [6PR]

Workers sign petition for collective bargaining at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mine 2025-03-13 [Reuters]

Vale Gary Wood 2025-02-28 [MEU]

Bringing bargaining back to Rio Tinto 2025-02-28 [MEU]

Rio Tinto workers in Australia push for first collective agreement in 20 years 2025-02-28 [Mining Technology]

Rio Tinto's Pilbara workers to launch petition for annual pay increase, union says 2025-02-27 [Trading View]

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]