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Workers take fight for Portland jobs to Canberra
Media Release
The Committee for Portland welcomes the Australian Workers' Union and Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union's fight for the Federal Government to mandate local manufacturing...
Australian Trade Unions, BAE Systems ink landmark Principles Agreement
The Australian shipbuilding unions and BAE Systems Australia have signed a Principles Agreement that ensures the Future Frigate SEA 5000 project will revitalise manufacturing...
Australian Unions sign landmark MoU with SEA 5000 contender
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Fincantieri, a final contender for the Federal Government’s SEA...
Local manufacturing is dying out, new research shows
Australia’s manufacturing level has been experiencing a major decline and is heading towards total extinction unless appropriate measures are taken to save the sector,...
Australians voice support for manufacturing
The overwhelming majority of Australians believe the country should be manufacturing more goods, a recent poll has found.
The poll, published in Fairfax Media newspapers,...
McCain tables improved offer for workers at its processing facilities in Ballarat
Vegetable giant McCain has tabled an improved deal on pay and conditions for workers at the McCain processing facilities in Ballarat who have been...
ASC workers take protected industrial action in Adelaide
Workers at Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC have decided to take industrial action after the Federal Government-owned Corporation failed to negotiate a satisfactory enterprise agreement with...
AMWU endorses Labor’s national rail plan
AMWU members have backed Labor’s national rail initiative that will coordinate train purchases between the states to boost Australian manufacturing.
The National Passenger Rail Procurement...
Turnbull’s PaTH internship program alerts Unions
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has raised concerns that the PaTH internship program unveiled in the federal budget posed a serious risk...
AMWU: Navantia contract could “sink” 640 shipbuilding jobs in Adelaide
The Turnbull Government’s announcement that Spanish shipbuilder Navantia will construct Australia’s two supply ships has provoked a storm of criticism from the AMWU, which...
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