Labor Urged to Stop Dodgy Trade Deals
The AMWU has joined a community and unions rally outside the opening day of ALP National Conference to highlight the destructive impact to Australian jobs of a swathe of free trade deals.Union officials and members grabbed the attention of arriving delegates over the failure of trade deal with China, Korea, Japan and the upcoming Trans […]
National Day of Action to save shipbuilding
AMWU members are set to converge on the offices of Abbott Government MPs across the nation tomorrow (FRIDAY) in a Day of Action to call on them to save Australia’s shipbuilding industry.Thousands of shipbuilding members facing the loss of their jobs will march and rally in the Hunter, Melbourne, Perth and in Adelaide, where the […]
My Istanbul eye-opener
By ANDREW KINLOCH, Printer at News Limited, Adelaide I’ve been a night shift delegate for three years and I was fortunate enough to have been selected to help represent our union overseas at an international printing meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the main four-yearly meeting of UNI Graphical and Packaging, the global peak union […]
Orora workers bag extra jobs
A major paper sack manufacturer in Melbourne is set to expand and hire extra workers after the dedication of AMWU members helped the firm win a new multi-million dollar export contract.Orora St Regis Bates could boost its workforce by at least 21 jobs when it installs a new multi-wall production line next year. Its 69 […]
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