Griffin fight goes national
A determined delegation of Collie locals is back home in the South-West after two weeks on the road taking the story of the devastating Griffin-Lanco dispute to Federal MPs and Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (ACTU) leadership.On November 15, Collie community spokespeople and wives of Griffin AMWU members Leonie Scoffern and Jane Beauglehole addressed the […]
AMWU congratulates new life member Bill Ridley
Our Union congratulates Bill Ridley, our newest Life Member after 60 years and counting as a proud unionist. This is his story.My story begins midyear in 1941 while at a Government school in Midland Western Australia. I applied for an apprenticeship but was not selected. At the end of 1941 I left school but enrolled […]
Union boost for Peel Community Kitchen
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union is continuing to support our members’ local communities with our latest contribution to the Peel Community Kitchen this week. On January 16 State Secretary Steve McCartney presented a $10,000 donation to the Peel Community Kitchen, a not-for-profit organisation that relies on volunteers and donations to serve those in need. With more […]
Australian Submarine Corp to stop work amid Government interference in wage bargaining
Around 100 workers from the Australian Submarine Corps Henderson facility will stop work tomorrow (Tuesday 29 November) as unprecedented meddling by the Federal government continues to choke an enterprise bargaining process that has already dragged on for two years.Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union and Electrical Trades Union including boilermakers, electricians and mechanical fitters […]
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