AMWU CALLS FOR MULTI-EMPLOYER BARGAINING, REDUCED WORKING WEEK
August 31, 2022 – The AMWU is calling on the federal government to support a raft of workplace changes at the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, including multi-employer bargaining, a reduced working week for manufacturing workers, and lowering the manufacturing industry retirement age from 67 to 65.Multi-employer bargaining will help address some of the most serious problems Australian manufacturing workers face, such as exploitation, […]
Australia’s Opportunity: A Green Manufacturing Superpower
For too long, environmental sustainability and creating more jobs in the manufacturing and energy production sectors have been seen as incompatible with one another. The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) rejects this framing. Our union — which organises and represents almost 70,000 members from every city and region of Australia — believes that the international […]
NSW TRAIN BUILDERS DELIVER CLEAR MESSAGE: DON’T GIVE CONSTANCE A JOB AFTER HE OFFSHORED OURS
MAY 12, 2022 – NSW train builders have today delivered a clear message to voters in the federal electorate of Gilmore today: don’t give Andrew Constance a job after he offshored thousands of local manufacturing jobs as Transport Minister.Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) who build and maintain trains in the Hunter Region were on […]
SYDNEY TRAINS WORKERS DEMAND 20 DAYS OF PAID FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LEAVE
APRIL 28, 2022 – Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) at Sydney Trains have been calling on management to support their claim for 20 days of paid family and domestic violence leave.This leave is an essential provision of the enterprise agreement that union members have been negotiating over for months now. AMWU members now have […]
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