Union Message on jobs gets through to Victorian voters
AMWU members have successfully campaigned in NSW and Victoria to make the case for election candidates to back local content and local jobs.And the ousting of the Liberals from the NSW state seats of Newcastle and Charlestown to Labor in last weekend’s by-elections confirmed the AMWU’s message about the importance of Hunter ship, ferry and […]
New Mega agreement
In early 2015, the Workers of Nu-Mega Ingredients, a producer of fish oils located in Altona North, made contact with the AMWU and hinted that they might want to join the union. It’s a small, tightknit crew of workers who decided to meet with their local AMWU organiser after work one Friday. They had a […]
Fair pay for bigger job – Jeremy’s Loving it
He’s one person, in one workplace, in one city but Jeremy Coubrough is happy to be among thousands of AMWU members whose union came through when he needed it.Mr Coubrough was in that situation when the boss suddenly asked him to take on a bigger job on top of normal tasks, a challenge and a […]
ACTU Congress Unions back Better Future ‘blitz’
(Story courtesy Working Life website) The AMWU is among unions which have agreed to step up their fightback for fairness by building the ACTU into a campaigning machine to defeat the anti-worker agenda of conservative governments Australia-wide.The ACTU’s new Build A Better Future campaign will first put 21 full-time activists to work targeting the Abbott Government in marginal seats, […]
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