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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]

Striking Saputo workers at Australia plant battle to secure fair wage deal 2024-06-19 [Just Food]

Striking Burnie workers slam Saputo’s “anti-Tasmanian attitude” 2024-06-17 [Pulse]

Saputo dairy workers take wages appeal to Canadian big cheeses 2024-06-06 [The Examiner]

Dairy workers halts cheese production as calls for mainland wages left unanswered 2024-05-29 [AMWU]

Unions Tasmania will host a free union members day of talks, films and music on Saturday 1 June at the ground-breaking exhibition Unshackled: the true convict story 2024-05-28 [The Times]

Unions unite in Tassie dairy workers fight over mainland wage disparity 2024-05-21 [AMWU]

Tasmania is now the only state without laws relating to industrial manslaughter 2024-05-11 [The Mercury]

Westbury level crossing collision 2024-05-02 [RTBU]

HACSU: Tas Child Safety Workers are Lowest Paid in Australia 2024-05-01 [The Times]

New front opens in row over Saputo Burnie cheese factory workers' pay rates 2024-04-28 [The Advocate]

Saputo Dairy Workers Strike For Mainland Wage Rates, Tasmania No Longer The Poor Cousin 2024-04-26 [AMWU]

ABC Rural Saputo Dairy Australia workers strike at Burnie plant over pay gap with mainland employees 2024-04-24 [ABC]

Burnie workers paid 21 per cent less than mainland colleagues, union says 2024-04-23 [The Advocate]

CEPU Tasmania Lift Members Fight for Pay Parity 2024-04-06 [ETU]

'Take some responsibility': Unions call for change after Labor falls short 2024-03-25 [The Examiner]

Hit from both sides: Union strikes over failure to implement ban 2024-03-23 [The Examiner]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

5-06-1974 The New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation lists 49 'Green Bans' as part of its campaign of industrial action to protect the environment. [more]

16-06-1886 The Australian Workers Union, widely accepted as Australia's oldest union, was established at Fern's Hotel in Ballarat, Victoria, as a shearers' union [more]

17-06-1971 New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation enforces the first Green Ban, refusing to build luxury houses over the last open green space in a suburb of Sydney. Despite management threats to use scabs, the builders and residents won. [more]

24-06-1929 The six month timber workers strike ends in defeat as workers have to accept a 48 hour week. [more]