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As union members, we work together to protect your rights at work. That means ensuring our members receive the pay, conditions, safety and respect they deserve at work.

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We are campaigning to grow our local manufacturing industry. Manufacturing workers kept food on the table, adapted to make ventilators, and produced masks and other PPE during the pandemic. A strong manufacturing sector creates high skill, high wage jobs, supports our economy, and is vital for Australia’s sovereign capability. We need to support Aussie made and support Aussie jobs.

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14 Jul 2026 Research and submissions

Submission: underpayments

Unlawful underpayment of employees’ remuneration The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) represents over 70,000 workers who create, make and maintain in every city and region across Australia. Many of the workers that we represent have experienced wage theft. Further, the wages and conditions of AMWU members who work for businesses that do properly pay their […]

14 Jul 2026 Research and submissions

AMWU NSW Local Jobs First Submission

In the AMWU NSW Local Jobs First Submission, we’re advocating for an increase in the use of local content in government procurement, improving labour rights in jobs created from public sector procurement and expanding the role of the Local Jobs First Commission. Click here Share on

14 Jul 2026 Research and submissions

How to write a Senate Submission

How to write a Senate SubmissionThe AMWU’s guide to writing a Senate Inquiry Submission. Read more Share on

14 Jul 2026 Research and submissions

Submission to the Senate Economics References Committee’s inquiry into the Australian Manufacturing Industry 2021

At present, the Australian manufacturing sector is battered but resilient. Despite decades of policy negligence —and, at times, deliberate governmental sabotage — manufacturing remains a major employer in this country. But that neglect has left Australia as one of the world’s least self-sufficient industrialised nations when it comes to manufactured goods.In their own words, the […]

14 Jul 2026 Research and submissions

Impact of COVID-19 on essential workers in NSW

NSW & ACT End of Financial Year Our people Media Releases Retired Members NSW Apprentices View the report (pdf) The report findings This report is based on nearly 850 responses to a survey of AMWU NSW members. The results show that there is no consistency when it comes to ensuring safe workplaces for essential workers. While […]

14 Jul 2026 Media releases

Tomago jobs sunk by Coalition – federal and state

The AMWU is stepping up pressure on the NSW Baird Government to award new infrastructure work to help sustain Forgacs after the firm announced a further 150 job cuts due to being frozen out of shipbuilding contracts.The announcement that the jobs will go next month came the day of the Baird Government Budget, with Forgacs […]

14 Jul 2026 Media releases

Justice for sacked CUB workers

You can show your solidarity with 55 Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) electricians and fitters who were sacked in a pre-meditated vicious attack on terms and conditions in the following ways: Visit the peaceful protest at the CUB Abbotsford site. Click here for a map of the location. Make a donation to support the sacked workers. […]

14 Jul 2026 Media releases

PARLIAMENTARY FRIENDS OF AUSTRALIAN BOOKS AND WRITERS

The launch of the recently formed group the ‘Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers’ was held at Parliament House in Canberra last week. Distinguished guests included popular Australian authors and political heavyweights from both sides, including Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Shadow Foreign Minister Tania Plibersek, and Government MPs Kevin Andrews and Tony Abbott all […]

14 Jul 2026 Media releases

Trade deal must benefit Australian workers and the economy

The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) is concerned that the Turnbull Government’s latest Trans Pacific trade deal will sacrifice Australian sovereignty, bringing us closer to having the status of a ‘Third-world economy’. “No-one except the Government knows the detail of this latest version of the TPP and already Malcolm Turnbull is trying to pressure Labor […]

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