Funding guarantee gives TAFEs hope
A push to re-invigorate TAFE as the main teacher for the nation’s apprentices has been welcomed by the AMWU as an urgently needed reform.Federal Labor this week outlined a policy of guaranteed funding this TAFE Week would be a good start to restoring teaching numbers and facilities lost to in recent years from drastic cost-cutting and […]
Wrath of Kahn descends upon compo
AMWU members took their determination to save workers’ compensation to Canberra this week, urging Senators from all states not to undermine payments and protections for those injured.Kahn Goodluck, a boilermaker on the Curtis Island gas projects in Queensland, joined delegates from Victoria, NSW, ACT and SA trying to convince the politicians to vote down draconian […]
APPRENTICES WORRY DEBT BETRAYS THEIR FUTURE
The burden of taking on extra HECS-style debt to pay for tools when wages are already low is a major reason many apprentices are thinking of dropping out, a new AMWU survey reveals.An alarming 77 per cent of apprentices surveyed identified the cost of tools as a key issue. This comes just one year after […]
Esso tanks on safety concerns
A refusal to compromise on safety is at the heart of an overwhelming rejection by AMWU members of a proposed new enterprise deal at Esso’s gas and oil facilities that supply Victoria. About 150 AMWU members voted down the Esso proposal this month brought on by the company, after nearly 12 months of fruitless negotiations […]
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