Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
Australia
Breaking news
Banking CEOs pay up 36 per cent as banks make billions by suppressing wages
Australia
English
/ All languages
Top stories
Banking CEOs pay up 36 per cent as banks make billions by suppressing wages [ACTU] 2022-08-14
Western Australia Workers walk-off at Pfizer for a fair deal [UWU] 2022-08-12
Western Australia Public Sector Alliance Rally 17 August [UnionsWA] 2022-08-12
Mammoth Legal Action Lodged against McDonald’s operators [SDA] 2022-08-12
Secure jobs and a fair share for workers is an economy that works for people [Australian Unions] 2022-08-11
Pay Rise to Recognise Undervalued Aged Care Workforce [ANMF] 2022-08-10
Full and secure employment must be top economic goal [ACTU] 2022-08-10
ACTU pushes for caps on energy bills and a windfall tax on corporate profits ahead of jobs summit [The Guardian] 2022-08-10
We need a new approach to make Australia’s economy fair for workers [Australian Unions] 2022-08-09
ACTU welcomes action on EBA terminations [ACTU] 2022-08-08
ActNOW
Today's labour news
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]