Jobs lagging on renewables upgrades, says ACTU
In a report released on Saturday morning by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the country’s renewable energy sector may represent one of the […]
Articles by William Olson
Digital media code closer to passage after ABC and SBS win inclusion
A mandatory Australian media code legislation aimed at Silicon Valley’s largest digital media giants is now closer to passage after the Australian Consumer and Competition […]
Casuals due to get relief in Victoria, in lieu of national action
Victorian casual workers plying their trade in any of a number of industries and sectors may be entitled to up to five days of sick […]
Unions call for thaw of superannuation freeze
More than six years have passed since Tony Abbott’s LNP government put a freeze on a previously agreed-to pattern of annual rises in workers’ superannuation […]
Ignore the spin – unemployment still up, says ACTU
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released unemployment figures for the month of October, and in its monthly labour force survey on Thursday revealed an […]
CDP is still useless, claims ACTU group
Eligible Indigenous workers in remote communities have continued to fail to benefit from a five-year-old employment program that was designed to do the opposite, the […]
ACTU reveals T’s & C’s for work-at-home revolution
If the COVID-19 pandemic has produced any sort of silver lining at all – aside from the obvious ones such as partaking in an over-abundance […]
Dutton’s bidding to put press freedom under threat, again: GetUp!
Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton is seeking added powers to grant to ASIO to strike at freedoms granted to journalists and citizens alike, activist group […]
ASEAN trade deal may not employ Australians – ACTU
The Morrison government is due to sign a trade agreement whose final stages have been secretly negotiated among itself and 14 other nations in the […]
MEAA sets wish list for media diversity inquiry
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) welcomes a forthcoming Senate inquiry investigating media diversity in Australia – but wants those partaking in that enquiry […]
JobMaker backflip leaves older workers exposed, says ACTU
Workers over the age of 35 are now more likely to fall victim to an oncoming wave of institutionalised ageism in hiring and human resources […]
Rudd’s anti-Murdoch petition results in its first steps
On the heels of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s recent Parliamentary petition which gained in excess of half-a-million signatures and had the hashtag #MurdochRoyalCommission trending […]
Address failings in women’s employment – ACTU
Over-represented and under-rewarded – that’s a conclusion drawn by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) about women in the workplace impacted by the COVID-19 […]
JobSeeker extended to March – but after that, who knows?
The good news, from Scott Morrison’s government: the fears over the axing of the JobSeeker stimulus in December have been spared. Instead, the extra money […]
Catch up on climate change, urge ACTU and ALP
Australia’s union movement has aligned itself with a number of key Labor ministers to urge the Morrison government to pick up the slack when it […]