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Australia ANMF celebrates successful campaign to secure pay rises for aged care workers [ANMF] 30-09-2025

Australia Higher wages growth means it pays to be in a union [ACTU] 25-09-2025

Australia Uber ordered to pay lost wages in first-ever unfair deactivation case [ACTU] 24-09-2025

Australia Fair Work Commission orders lost pay in landmark victory for unfairly deactivated Uber driver [TWU] 24-09-2025

Australia Call for Proper Reporting of Gig Worker Fatalities [TWU] 23-09-2025

Australia GrainCorp workers to walk off the job as corporate greed reaches breaking point [MUA] 22-09-2025

Australia Workers to be hit hard by climate crisis, new report confirms [ACTU] 18-09-2025

Australia Sectoral Bargaining Reforms Show Early Promise [CAP] 17-09-2025

Australia ANZ a bank in crisis: FSU to lodge in the Fair Work Commission [FSU] 15-09-2025

Australia Unhinged: ANZ plans to axe 3,500 jobs in ruthless profit grab [FSU] 09-09-2025


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

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

'Stick With It' Podcast ft. Anthony Mangan 2025-09-30 [AIPA]

Tasmania Remembering ETU Life Member Garry “Cackles” Laycock 2025-09-30 [ETU]

Tasmania Members in Tassie are standing up for better 2025-09-30 [ETU]

Embattled Optus bosses' dirty attack on workers: outrageous 2025-09-30 [CWU]

Vale, Ronald Heiler 2025-09-30 [CWU]

ANMF celebrates successful campaign to secure pay rises for aged care workers 2025-09-30 [ANMF]

Palestine Journalists censored for reporting on Gaza 2025-09-30 [IFJ]

Tasmania Fonterra workers may 'make message louder' in pay parity industrial dispute 2025-09-29 [The Advocate]

Northern Territory OC spray used at Darwin nightclub two weekends in a row as NT trial approaches one-month mark 2025-09-29 [ABC]

Tasmania Maintenance workers at dairy factories seeking pay parity with mainlanders 2025-09-29 [The Advocate]

Victoria Workers face brazen shoplifters and the wrath of ‘Kens and Karens’ as retail crime surges in Victoria 2025-09-29 [The Guardian]

Unions reject Minns stance on Narrabri Gas 2025-09-26 [MUA]

New South Wales 'Dummy spit': union lashes out over striking workers locked out of work 2025-09-26 [The Herald]

Higher wages growth means it pays to be in a union 2025-09-25 [ACTU]

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

New South Wales Sydney Premiere of smash-hit comedy about overworked, underpaid, teenage wage-slaves 2025-09-25 [Aussie Theatre]

New South Wales University of Wollongong to repay $6.6 million to more than 5000 underpaid staff 2025-09-25 [9 News]

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

Groundbreaking Ruling Forces Uber To Pay Lost Wages To Driver Whose Account Was Deactivated 2025-09-25 [Black Enterprise]

Major Australian university found to have underpaid thousands of workers millions in wages and superannuation for a decade 2025-09-25 [Sky]

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

New South Wales GrainCorp workers walk off the job after being pushed to ‘breaking point’ 2025-09-24 [Newcastle Weekly]

Westpac joins major banks in job-slashing digital push, union outraged by 200 cuts 2025-09-24 [The Australia Today]

New South Wales Grain export workers walk out over pay offer 'below minimum wage': union 2025-09-24 [The Herald]

‘Stressful’: Landmark win for Uber driver 2025-09-24 [Newswire]

ABC fined $150,000 for journo’s illegal sacking 2025-09-24 [The New Daily]

Qantas base closures could force pilots to leave airline 2025-09-24 [AFAP]

Qantas base closures could force pilots to leave the airline 2025-09-24 [TWU]

String of gig worker fatalities and assaults must be properly reported 2025-09-24 [TWU]

Fair Work Commission orders lost pay in landmark victory for unfairly deactivated Uber driver 2025-09-24 [TWU]

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

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

Statement from the National Media Section of MEAA on Gaza Reporting 2025-09-24 [MEAA]

Decommissioning industry gouged by hazardous waste loopholes 2025-09-24 [MUA]

Northern Territory NTPS workers vote down new agreement 2025-09-24 [CPSU]

Westpac axes 200 frontline jobs in digital shakeup 2025-09-24 [FSU]

Uber ordered to pay lost wages in first-ever unfair deactivation case 2025-09-24 [ACTU]

Victoria Valley ‘abandoned’ by govt, union boss claims 2025-09-23 [The Express]

ATO pulled-up on disabled staff access to union representation 2025-09-23 [The Mandarin]

Call for Proper Reporting of Gig Worker Fatalities 2025-09-23 [TWU]

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

New South Wales Walking off the job: Hunter workers from varied industries take industrial action 2025-09-23 [The Herald]

Victoria Early childhood workers stand up for better pay 2025-09-23 [The Star-Mail]

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

New South Wales Strike signals stalled talks at GrainCorp Carrington 2025-09-23 [Grain Central]

New South Wales 8.5% pay rise to health workers 2025-09-23 [HRD]

GrainCorp workers to walk off the job as corporate greed reaches breaking point 2025-09-22 [MUA]

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This month in labour history


1-10-1855 Stonemasons in Sydney held a dinner celebrating victory in a strike for a maximum eight-hour working day. In advance of a planned campaign the following year, workers building churches had gone on strike and quickly emerged victorious. [more]

4-10-1909 Workers in new South Wales join a huge procession for the 8 hour day. [more]

14-10-1981 Dock workers in Darwin start 7-day strike, refusing to load uranium on board “Pacific Sky” for US military use. [more]