Australian Services Union聽and the Municipal and Utilities Workers Union members working for Moreland City Council have taken strike action after management offered a聽pay cut.聽Darren Saffin reports.
Australian Services Union (ASU)
Adele Welsh argues聽that no matter how it is dressed up, the聽'let it rip' approach to the pandemic has caused untold harm to families, workplaces and communities.
Workers in the housing and homelessness sector are one of the most undervalued and unappreciated workers. Angela Carr reports.
Geelong Library and Heritage Centre workers walked off the job on July 2 as part of a rolling campaign of protected industrial action for better pay and conditions. Adele Welsh and Sue Bull report.
Contracted by Centrelink, Serco has sacked hundreds of call centre operators in Melbourne, reports Jim McIlroy.
The pandemic is serious and strong action needs to be taken to stop its spread. But punitive and paternalistic interventions, that remove people鈥檚 agency, is counterproductive, writes Sue Bolton.
This year will be forever etched in our collective memories as the year Labor lost what was widely seen as the unlosable federal election.
Hundreds of public servants rallied outside Queensland's parliament on October 30 as part of a week-long industrial campaign. The rally was organised by Together Union (a branch of the Australian Services Union), also known as the "Purple Army".
The workers are facing enterprise bargaining negotiations in which the state government is refusing to offer any pay rise. The government argues that since workers have had a wage rise due to a rise in the聽award,聽they do not need to offer any rise in the enterprise agreement. The agreement聽will last for the next three years.
Chanting 鈥淔und the gap or we鈥檒l be back,鈥 more than 200 health workers protested outside Victorian health minister Martin Foley鈥檚 office on August 16 to demand the Labor state government restore funding to community mental health services. Services have been severely affected by the state government鈥檚 decision to cut $75 million from mental health funding.
"The refugee crisis is a union issue, as well as a social justice issue," Australian Services Union (ASU) NSW and ACT deputy secretary Judith Wright told about 100 people on June 27 at the "Change the Rules for Refugees" forum organised by Unions for Refugees.
"The ASU has members in support services for refugees. They see first-hand the results of the oppression and violence suffered by asylum seekers," she said.
In the lead up to the South Australian election, Premier Jay Weatherill announced on March 5 that an incoming Labor government would introduce portable long service leave for community services workers.
Australian Services Union (ASU) members in all states have been campaigning for long service leave portability for many years. So far only Victoria and the ACT have been successful. Portability of entitlements will bring stability to the sector. Community Services is a growing industry in which recruitment and retention of qualified staff is an issue.
Communist and feminist Zelda D鈥橝prano became the symbol of the fight for equal pay when, in October 1969, she chained herself to the Commonwealth Offices in Melbourne, after becoming frustrated at the lack of pay equity for women.
D鈥橝prano was employed by the meatworkers union, which was involved in a test case on the gender pay gap in the meat industry before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. At the time, women鈥檚 participation in the workforce was 38% and they were paid 75% of men鈥檚 wages for doing the same work.
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