Union to keep fighting for BAE members
The AMWU will be fighting back to ensure shipbuilding can stay in Australia and stay at Williamstown, after the company’s decision this week not to tender for 21 new Pacific patrol boats. Grey day: AMWU organiser Colin Muir brings members at Williamstown up to date on the day of the decision. The decision was seen […]
FIFO report a first step to halting suicides
The AMWU will push hard to ensure sweeping reforms to reduce the rate of suicide and self-harm among Fly-In, Fly-Out workers are implemented across isolated worksites in Western Australia.Improved rosters, better accommodation and reliable communications with home are among changes proposed in the final report of a bipartisan WA Parliamentary Committee tabled this week, which […]
China deal trades away jobs, rights
The AMWU is strongly opposed to the signing of the China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) this week, with potentially huge hits to manufacturing jobs and to all workers and taxpayers.Under the FTA, Chinese corporations can bring in entire workforces if they make a 15% investment on projects worth as little as $150 million, under “Investment […]
Union tough with Alcoa on asbestos exposure
The AMWU will not be accepting Alcoa’s assurances that the health risk is “extremely low” for workers exposed to asbestos in two incidents at aluminium refineries in the past six weeks.The union has stepped up its demand for written proof of an immediate and thorough change in the way Alcoa and its contractors assess the […]
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