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New South Wales ‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security
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1 in 5 workers suffering a mental health injury [Australian Unions] 04-09-2026
‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security [The Guardian] 04-09-2026
/ China “Don’t Organise a Strike Overseas”: Chinese Police Accused of Transnational Repression in Sydney [HKLRM] 03-09-2026
CPSU calls for pause on complex automated decision-making in Government [CPSU] 03-09-2026
Brisbane ferry workers to strike on Riverfire as RiverCity Ferries tries to ram through rejected agreement [MUA] 02-09-2026
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This month in labour history
10-09-1892 The first train of contractors brought in to scab during the Broken Hill miners' strike arrives and is met with hostility from local men and women. [more]
10-09-1917 Mass meetings of Sydney railway workers express outrage at the unions' capitulation to the government's terms, but nevertheless a return to work from the general strike begins. [more]
16-09-1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the IWW union in Australia, Is arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. [more]
23-09-1945 Australian wharfies refuse to work on Dutch vessels in support of Indonesia’s Independence. [more]