$450K super win at brewery
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. […]
China trade concern gets wider backing
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 […]
Union winds confidence in Pegasus wrangle
The AMWU will be a stronger union presence at Pegasus after taking the reigns on behalf of 10 employees which the Sydney print firm recently let go with inferior redundancy payments.Dozens of workers at the commercial digital printer have recently decided to join the union on the back of our campaign to double the redundancy […]
No surrender on Cat jobs
The AMWU is urging Tasmania’s Hodgman Government not to meekly run up the white flag on 280 jobs and instead make the case to Caterpillar to reconsider offshoring production of mining vehicles from the state’s northwest.Union State Secretary John Short said the lower, competitive Australian dollar combined with almost halving of production costs at the […]
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