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Historic Win as Easter Sunday to be Declared a Public Holiday in Tasmania 2026-08-19 [SDA]

Rushy Lagoon inquiry an attack on Tasmanian timber workers 2026-08-13 [TFTU]

TasPorts workers pushed into historic industrial action by bosses’ stonewalling 2026-08-10 [MUA]

Liberty Bell Bay Smelter Revival: Australia’s Last Manganese Hope 2026-08-09 [Discovery Alert]

New attempt to revive Liberty Bell Bay smelter in Tasmania after liquidation started 2026-08-09 [ABC]

Industrial action starts across Tasmania’s ports 2026-08-08 [Splash 24/7]

SDA Welcomes Move to Restore Fairness for Central Coast Workers 2026-08-07 [SDA]

TasWater’s Leadership Needs a Reality Check 2026-08-07 [ETU]

TasPorts workers pushed into historic industrial action by bosses’ stonewalling 2026-08-07 [MUA]

MEAA letter on freedom of the press and journalist safety 2026-07-18 [MEAA]

Bell Bay smelter to close with about 250 jobs lost after sale collapses 2026-07-16 [Pulse]

'Nobody saw it coming': smelter workers shocked by closure, union says 2026-07-16 [The Examiner]

‘Very sad day’: More than 200 jobs gone after sudden closure of Australia’s only manganese smelter 2026-07-16 [9 News]

Tasmanian Government gambling with stadium success by ignoring light rail 2026-07-11 [RTBU]

Workers confused as Boag's owner Lion states the beer brand is not for sale, but it is open to offers 2026-07-01 [ABC]

James Boag’s Brewery closure petition gains 2,715 signatures 2026-06-30 [Pulse]

‘Boags belongs to Tasmania’: workers call on Lion to sell rather than close Boags brewery 2026-06-25 [UWU]

Schools for our future inquiry travels to Tasmania 2026-06-25 [AEU]

Tasmanian Kinetic bus drivers to escalate pay dispute with six-hour strike 2026-06-10 [Pulse]

Liberty Bell Bay 2026-05-30 [ETU]

Liberty Bell Bay smelter workers get another two weeks pay reprieve 2026-05-15 [ABC]

NTEU takes strike action at UTAS over pay, conditions 2026-05-06 [Green Left Weekly]

Rockliff government's $45 million TasTAFE cuts an attack on Tasmania’s future 2026-05-03 [AEU]

Beaconsfield mine rescue continues to defy belief two decades on 2026-04-25 [ABC]

Beaconsfield 20 years on: the Australian spirit of grit and humour remembered 2026-04-25 [SBS]

Bell Bay wage lifeline welcome – but workers need more than short-term fix 2026-04-22 [MEU]

Kinetic bus drivers to strike on Thursday as pay dispute escalates 2026-04-21 [Pulse]

Administrators tell Liberty Bell Bay workers to take leave without pay or be sacked 2026-04-16 [ABC]

Workers across wide range of sectors to benefit from pay rises 2026-04-13 [PSNews]

Zinfra Workers Win Big After Difficult Bargaining Campaign 2026-04-04 [ETU]

Tasmanian AEU president: Teachers have ‘no other option’ but to strike 2026-04-02 [Green Left Weekly]

Royal Hobart Hospital pharmacists stop work in escalating pay dispute 2026-03-16 [Pulse]

NAPLAN tests derailed this week as teachers hold strike action 2026-03-11 [Pulse]

'Insult to workers': union hits back following Health Minister's comments 2026-03-06 [The Examiner]

Hobart hospital workers to walk out today after Launceston strike yesterday 2026-03-04 [Pulse]

Hospital strikes continue as hundreds walk off the job in Hobart 2026-03-04 [Pulse]

'Good times': union man Robert has seen the best and worst of Tassie mining 2026-03-02 [The Advocate]

Health workers launch industrial action over ‘broken’ pay deal 2026-02-25 [Pulse]

Public sector workers 'furious' as Tasmanian government denies reneging on pay deal 2026-02-25 [ABC]

Kinetic bus drivers threaten strikes over pay gap dispute 2026-02-24 [Pulse]

Launceston Council scraps 4-day work week plan after backlash from business sector 2026-02-18 [ABC]

Health union ends work bans after 12-month pay dispute breakthrough 2026-02-17 [Pulse]

Are Tasmanians set to be shortchanged on a public holiday this year? 2026-02-16 [The Advocate]

TFTU Savages Bob Brown Foundation for ‘Seedy’ Attacks on Tassie Workers 2026-02-13 [Wood Central]

Union calls for urgent response after Ashley Youth Detention Centre staff hospitalised 2026-02-05 [ABC]

Staff at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre 'at breaking point', worker says 2026-02-03 [ABC]

Ashley Youth Detention Centre workers strike following youth breakout 2026-02-03 [The Examiner]

Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility 2026-02-03 [AAP]

Council staff to vote for 4-day week 2026-01-29 [Government News]

Historic 4-day week for 600 Aussie workers 2026-01-29 [Newswire]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-08-1990 Founding of the United Firefighters Union of Australia. [more]

2-08-1917 Members of engineering and rail unions across Sydney begin to strike against the time card system, with more workers taking unofficial action the next day. [more]

9-08-1917 The number of workers on strike across Sydney increases to 45,000 when miners and longeshoremen join the action. [more]

12-08-1917 The Australian government informs the people, through the Sunday papers, that "The enemies of Britain and her Allies have succeeded in plunging Australia into a general strike." [more]

14-08-1917 Seamen's Union Vice President W. Daly is arrested and charged with conspiracy to instigate an illegal strike. [more]

16-08-1890 Marine officers walk off their ships in strike action, soon followed by their crews. [more]

17-08-1861 Coal miners in NSW refuse 20% wage cut & walk out; locked out until October. [more]

22-08-1966 200 aboriginal workers walk off the job in Wave Hill to back their demand for pay equality with white workers. The strike runs for 9 years and expands to include a demand for the return of stolen land. [more]

23-08-1966 Two hundred Gurindji workers walk off their cattle station at Wave Hill, a strike that will last almost a decade and lead to the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [more]

24-08-1917 The government declares that the Strike Committee in Sydney shall be considered an illegal organisation. [more]

25-08-1989 All 1640 domestic airline pilots, organized by the AFAP, resign to back their pay claim. TWU members refuse to refuel RAAF planes being used to break the pilots. [more]

26-08-1894 Striking shearers burn and destroy the steamship 'Rodney', which had been used to transport scabs on the Darling River. [more]

30-08-1917 First labour martyr Merv Flanagan shot and killed in Sydney during General Strike for yelling 'scab'. His murderer Reginald Wearne ( whose brother was a consevative MP) was never convicted. [more]

31-08-1890 Up to 100,000 workers gather in Melbourne to support the sheep shearers' strike [more]