Women’s workforce participation at record levels

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Australia Doritos workers strike to protest PepsiCo’s insulting pay offer [IUF] 12-05-2025

Australia Consultants, labour hire on the chopping block as Labor returns to power [CPSU] 08-05-2025

Australia / Iran Australian Unions and Civil Society Groups Back Iranian Workers on International Workers’ Day [NCRI] 01-05-2025

Australia How Labor changed workplace laws and what the Coalition wants to change back [ABC] 01-05-2025

Australia Tassie Liberal candidate says older Australians are ‘happy’ to work for $10 an hour – while disclosing the Coalition’s plan to cut wages [ACTU] 01-05-2025

Australia Better workplace conditions help us all [Green Left Weekly] 01-05-2025

Australia Peter Dutton keeping Australians in the dark on Public Service cuts [CPSU] 27-04-2025

Australia Same job same pay agreement at Qantas freight another step towards TWU push for better jobs at Qantas [TWU] 23-04-2025

Australia One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms [ACTU] 23-04-2025

Other news

Victoria 48-hour strike action to hit bakery supplies 2025-05-15 [UWU]

PFA announce annual A-League Women Team of the Season 2025-05-15 [PFA]

PFA and Juan Mata’s Common Goal unite to launch ‘Football For Good’ partnership in Australia 2025-05-15 [PFA]

Tasmania Keeping Tassie miners safe 2025-05-15 [MEU]

AEU welcomes new Albanese ministry 2025-05-15 [AEU]

Women’s workforce participation at record levels 2025-05-15 [ACTU]

Real wages up again – driven by bargaining 2025-05-15 [ACTU]

Victoria Coles mudcake supplies in jeopardy as Allied Pinnacle workers walk off job over wages 2025-05-15 [7 News]

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

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

Victoria As the Latrobe Valley moves away from coal jobs, could a green worker’s cooperative offer a solution? 2025-05-15 [The Conversation]

New South Wales Workers’ comp campaign: Combined union delegates meeting 2025-05-12 [PSA]

Doritos workers strike to protest PepsiCo’s insulting pay offer 2025-05-12 [IUF]

Victoria Reforms to target rideshare and taxi drivers won’t solve issues 2025-05-09 [TWU]

PFA announces 2024-25 A-League Women Stadiums of the Season 2025-05-08 [PFA]

Q&A with Francis de Vries about Head Start Coaching and how he hopes to inspire the next generation of footballers 2025-05-08 [PFA]

Joint Statement by AUSIT and TIA 2025-05-08 [Professionals Australia]

India Vale P.M. Mohammed Haneef, President of All India Port & Dock Workers Federation 2025-05-08 [MUA]

Consultants, labour hire on the chopping block as Labor returns to power 2025-05-08 [CPSU]

ANMF congratulates Anthony Albanese on historic Election win 2025-05-08 [ANMF]

AEU Congratulates Albanese Government on Re-Election 2025-05-08 [AEU]

Australians couldn’t risk Dutton 2025-05-08 [ACTU]

Allens, HSF, KWM: Top-tier firms are ‘exploiting’ lawyers, union says 2025-05-08 [AFR]

Truckies call for industry overhaul to attract more young drivers 2025-05-08 [ABC]

South Australia Adelaide PepsiCo workers set to strike 2025-05-08 [InDaily]

World Support Staff Day 2025 2025-05-07 [IEU]

Palestine Condemnation of the attacks on Peace Flotilla for Gaza 2025-05-07 [MUA]

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

Coalition costings – cost women 2025-05-03 [ACTU]

New South Wales Thousands Rally in Sydney CBD for CFMEU May Day Demonstration 2025-05-03 [The Times]

New South Wales Hunter workers mark 131 years of May Day 2025-05-03 [Weekly]

Victoria Health Workers Union put into administration as secretary Diana Asmar stands down 2025-05-02 [The Age]

New South Wales CFMEU, MUA and NSW nurses, midwives and doctors march on May Day 2025-05-02 [Green Left Weekly]

The law changes demanded as Sydney tunnel workers face death 2025-05-02 [The Age]

Better workplace conditions help us all 2025-05-01 [Green Left Weekly]

SDA takes legal action against Sexyland for systemic underpayments 2025-05-01 [SDA]

SDA stops Grill’d from burning workers in new EBA 2025-05-01 [SDA]

ABC House Committee statement on editorial independence 2025-05-01 [MEAA]

Where do the parties stand on creative and media policy? 2025-05-01 [MEAA]

May Day 2025 2025-05-01 [CWU]

Dutton's cuts threaten Defence, National Security Agencies 2025-05-01 [CPSU]

Coalition Public Service cuts don’t stack up 2025-05-01 [CPSU]

350,000+ emergency and health services workers call on Dutton to drop nuclear 2025-05-01 [ANMF]

The political parties supporting Australia’s nurses and midwives 2025-05-01 [ANMF]

Coalition to cut programs that support teaching students 2025-05-01 [AEU]

Coalition to rip $431 million from TAFE 2025-05-01 [AEU]

Coalition’s half-baked technical colleges no substitute for TAFE 2025-05-01 [AEU]

Coalition hiding their plans for the Australian curriculum 2025-05-01 [AEU]

Relying on penalty rates to make ends meet? 2025-05-01 [Australian Unions]

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This month in labour history

1-05-1946 Eight hundred Aboriginal workers walk-off twenty-seven sheep stations in Western Australia, beginning the Pilbara strike that lasts until 1949. [more]

3-05-1927 The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is founded [more]

15-05-1905 The Merchant Service Guild of Australasia became the first trade union to be registered under the Australian Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 [more]

16-05-1891 Henry Lawson's poem 'Freedom on the Wallaby', written during the great sheep shearers' strike, is published in The Worker newspaper. [more]