Campaigns
Our campaigns are driving change for workers across Australia. We're fighting for a stronger and secure future for workers and manufacturing.
Asbestos Free Future
Everyone deserves an asbestos free future. Did you know that globally: More than 100,000 people die each year from asbestos-caused cancer? Every 5 minutes someone dies from asbestos related disease? 2 million tonnes of asbestos are still mined and exported annually. Sign the petition to support a global asbestos ban – no more mining, no […]
Lower Limit Live Longer
The workplace exposure standard for welding fumes is now 1 mg/m³ AMWU members first campaigned to keep the workplace exposure standard for welding fumes before shifting our focus to lowering the limit. The old standard of 5 mg/m³ hadn’t been updated since it was set in the 1990s, leaving workers exposed to unsafe levels of […]
Support Aussie Made
We’re campaigning to grow our local manufacturing industry. It was manufacturing workers who 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. The Support Aussie Made […]
Our Trains Our Jobs
The AMWU is the union for train builders. We represent thousands of skilled trained builders around the country who are employed in one of Australia’s most economically vital rail building industry. From coast to coast we are fighting to put a stop to the offshoring of our train building jobs and to save our nation’s […]
Manufacturing Jobs For Australia
AMWU members have long fought for secure, union manufacturing jobs in Australia. We know strong local industries, both established and emerging, are key to a resilient economy, bringing back jobs and strengthening communities. Over the past three years, AMWU members have pushed the Labor government to raise its ambitions, securing workplace rights that have improved […]
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Manufacturing Jobs For Australia 2
Why join the AMWU? 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. 0 Workers supported through our Helpdesk 0+ Worker inquiries $0K Worker backpay secured in 2026 0 EBAs secured With the backing of over […]
LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS: QUALITY OUTCOMES FROM QUALIFIED TRADESPEOPLE
For many years, AMWU members have called for tighter regulation over the quality of work performed on structural steel. Our members are fed up with poor-quality fabrication and welding work being performed by people with no boilermaker qualifications, and they’re fed up with having to repair welding that has been done by somebody who cannot […]
Australian Manufacturing
Why join the AMWU? 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. Make it HERE, and jobs APPEAR! We are campaigning to grow our local manufacturing industry. Manufacturing workers kept food on the table, adapted […]
Ovato
Ovato is trying to terminate their agreement, effectively cutting workers’ pay and conditions. Directly disrespecting the very same workers that took a 40% cut to their hours before JobKeeper came in to help the company get through. You can show your solidarity too but taking a minute to tell their CEO, hands-off Ovato workers’ agreement! […]
Welding Campaign
Information and resources for AMWU boilermakers or members working in construction: – Download our WELDING CHECKLIST or POSTER to put up at your workplace. – Download the WorkSafe Safety Alert for Structural Welding – Report dodgy welding for investigation by AMWU welding inspectors – Expressions of interest for weld testing certification are now closed, with all tests currently booked up due […]
Get involved
Help support Manufacturing Jobs For Australia Your support for the Manufacturing Jobs For Australia campaign helps build a stronger future for local manufacturing. We’ve created a set of resources to help you share the message in your workplace and community. *Click to open full-sized images. Federal Election Comparisons and Wins and Commitments Stump Speech, […]
Build Them Here
IT’S TIME TO BRING PUBLIC TRANSPORT MANUFACTURING BACK TO NSW. Whether it’s trains, trams, buses or ferries, we should build them here. Join the campaign. Australian manufacturing workers are some of the best in the world. For decades, workers in Sydney, the Hunter, the Illawarra and the regions built the public transport that keeps NSW […]
Save Our Skills
RAIL EMPLOYERS AND INDUSTRY GROUPS ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE RAIL WORKERS’ SKILLS. They’re pushing for bogus new “qualifications” that would tie workers to the rail industry, prevent them from skilling up and leave them at the mercy of companies trying to “micro-credential” their workers into job insecurity. Instead of teaching workers generic skills that they can […]
The Force Behind Our Forces
Respect Defence Workers: Cuts Could Kill Our uniformed Defence Forces rely on a ‘silent army’ of civilian workers to support them. An ‘army’ of engineering and technical workers spend every day at work making sure that the equipment used by our armed forces is working, is safe and is ready to go. But a lack […]
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