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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

A group of AMWU members who help keep the beer flowing have topped up their superannuation by up to $28,000 after discovering their employer had been underpaying it for years.The maintenance fitters at Carlton and United Breweries sought union help after suspecting they had been short-changed by their employer ABB for the past four years. […]

A new television ad about the threat to jobs from the China free trade agreement hit screens this week as the union campaign against the deal picked up strength.  The ad is paid for by the AMWU, CFMEU and ETU and started screening after the weekend’s  ALP National Conference  agreed to block the China deal […]