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Western Australia Bringing bargaining back to Rio Tinto [MEU] 2025-02-28

Western Australia Rio Tinto review finds rape, pressure for sex persists at miner [Reuters] 2024-11-20

Western Australia Public servants take rolling action in demand for higher pay, four-day week [ABC] 2024-07-03

Western Australia Education workers and staff at two major Perth hospitals stop work to demand fairer pay [News.com.au] 2024-05-29

Western Australia Transport Workers Rally for Safety, Fairness at Aldi [TWU] 2024-05-09

Western Australia Game on: WA’s biggest union’s move into politics official as party reaches 500-member quota [WAtoday] 2024-02-05

Western Australia Solidarity Research for Union Renewal [UnionsWA] 2023-12-02

Western Australia WA government apologises to Indigenous people for decades of wage theft and workplace discrimination [ABC] 2023-11-28

Western Australia Chevron Australia LNG unions stick to strike plan even as pay talks continue [Reuters] 2023-10-16

Western Australia A strike at Chevron shows a reinvigorated union movement [The Economist] 2023-09-08

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Western Australia Kwinana Grain Terminal lockout garners international attention with Japanese wharf union to report to ITF 2025-10-14 [Countryman]

Western Australia CBH whacks unprovoked lockout on its entire Kwinana grain terminal workforce 2025-10-11 [MUA]

Western Australia WA Park Rangers call on Government to stand up for them 2025-09-30 [UWU]

Western Australia Department of Health asserts interpreter safety 2025-09-24 [Professionals Australia]

Western Australia Kwinana Grain Terminal wharfie wage dispute draws out as harvest looms 2025-09-23 [The West Australian]

Western Australia Industrial action takes break at Kwinana Grain Terminal 2025-09-11 [Grain Central]

Western Australia CBH locks out staff at Kwinana amid strike action 2025-09-03 [Grain Central]

Western Australia CBH Workers locked out of Kwinana grain terminal while Execs line their pockets during cost-of-living crisis 2025-09-02 [MUA]

Western Australia Perth Airport workers plan 24-hour strike 2025-08-29 [Sky]

Western Australia CBH facing rolling work shutdown strike from Kwinana Grain Terminal union memebers 2025-08-29 [Countryman]

Western Australia Perth dnata workers to strike for a full 24 hours 2025-08-28 [Australian Aviation]

Western Australia Helensburgh miners chalk up two wins 2025-08-26 [MEU]

Western Australia Construction Workers Win Fairer Long Service Leave After CFMEU’s Eight-Year Campaign 2025-08-24 [WAMN News]

Western Australia Hundreds of dnata ground handlers at Perth Airport will walk off the job this week 2025-08-21 [Travel Weekly]

Western Australia Environment and Union alliance calls for WA oil and gas clean-up hub 2025-08-15 [MUA]

Western Australia Striking CBH Kwinana grain terminal workers refuse to rule out future strikes over stalled EBA agreements 2025-08-12 [Countryman]

Western Australia ETU WA members on strike to fight for what’s fair 2025-08-08 [ETU]

Western Australia MUA and ETU workers at CBH Kwinana Grain Terminal kick off protective action against stalled EBA negotiations 2025-08-07 [Countryman]

Western Australia Rio Tinto moves to slash sick leave from 45 to 12 days for Pilbara workers 2025-08-07 [9 News]

Western Australia Protected action begins at CBH Kwinana terminal 2025-08-06 [Grain Central]

Western Australia MUA escalates action against Pilbara Ports 2025-07-31 [Fully Loaded]

Western Australia Unions vote in favour of protected action at CBH Kwinana 2025-07-30 [Grain Central]

Western Australia MUA files for Protected Industrial Action against Pilbara Ports 2025-07-28 [MUA]

Western Australia WorkSafe investigating ‘near-decapitation’ of Vertech rope worker at Rio Tinto’s Parker Point wharf 2025-07-14 [The West Australian]

Western Australia Western Power Safety Forum 2025-07-12 [ETU]

Western Australia The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara 2025-06-25 [Green Left Weekly]

Western Australia Members fighting for better in the Pilbara 2025-06-02 [ETU]

Western Australia Final lap for bike ride honouring miners’ union legend 2025-05-19 [MEU]

Western Australia State Government backs union push for a ‘fair’ wage increase but won’t say how much 2025-05-16 [The West Australian]

Western Australia Pilbara shipping under threat as port workers prepare to strike 2025-05-16 [Mining Monthly]

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]

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

Western Australia AWU lodges FWC application marking another step towards seizing WA Rio Tinto mine 2025-03-27 [The West Australian]

Western Australia WA Government sold a pup as more than 120 Bankwest jobs axed 2025-03-26 [FSU]

Western Australia Pilbara unions collective bargaining drive gains momentum 2025-03-24 [Green Left Weekly]

Western Australia A disability leave win for WA’s neurodiverse public sector workers 2025-03-20 [The Mandarin]

Western Australia Rio boosts travel, training perks as Pilbara union war heats up 2025-03-19 [AFR]

Western Australia Genius Childcare staff quit in droves, forcing closures, accusing the childcare centres of poor management 2025-03-17 [6PR]

Western Australia Workers sign petition for collective bargaining at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mine 2025-03-13 [Reuters]

Western Australia Vale Gary Wood 2025-02-28 [MEU]

Western Australia Bringing bargaining back to Rio Tinto 2025-02-28 [MEU]

Western Australia Rio Tinto workers in Australia push for first collective agreement in 20 years 2025-02-28 [Mining Technology]

Western Australia Rio Tinto's Pilbara workers to launch petition for annual pay increase, union says 2025-02-27 [Trading View]

Western Australia Maritime Union welcomes WA Labor Government’s Investment in Supply Chain Resilience 2025-02-18 [MUA]

Western Australia Australian Workers Union Pushes to Re-unionise Pilbara Mine Workers 2025-02-13 [INN]

Western Australia Homesick FIFO workers earning 190k stir talk of Pilbara unionization 2025-02-13 [Australian Financial review]

Western Australia Detention centre workers threaten strike action after employer Serco loses contract to US prison group 2025-01-30 [The West Australian]

Western Australia Courts staff walk off job over pay dispute 2025-01-25 [The Morning Herald]

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