The Fair Work Commission has made its first ever order requiring a major energy employer to provide support for workers facing job losses from the closure of a power plant.

The ACTU has fought for and won decades of wage increases through the award system and campaigns in the field, safer workplaces, greater equality for women, improvements in working hours, entitlements ...

Australian Unions will today call for an urgent overhaul of national asbestos health and safety laws to force employers to remove asbestos-containing materials from Australian workplaces, including ...

Australian workers experienced unacceptably high levels of burn-out, stress and over-work, the latest data from the Work Shouldn’t Hurt Survey reveals.

The trend reflects a growing number of working Australians moving from casual and part-time work into full-time secure employment. The casual share of employment fell to its lowest level in August ...

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is the overseas aid and development agency of the ACTU. Our work aims to build self-reliance through support to educational and training projects for workers and their ...

Unions are concerned that APRA and ASIC’s failures to prevent the First Guardian and Shield collapses could cost working people’s superannuation savings through an increase in mandatory levies paid by ...

Read current and past media statements from the ACTU. You can also keep track of ACTU media releases by following the official ACTU feed on Twitter at @unionsaustralia. Australian Unions will today ...

Sally is the 10th Secretary of the ACTU. She was the leader of her union, the ASU in NSW representing community, public sector and private sector workers. She commenced work with the ASU as an ACTU ...

Australians would benefit from a shorter working week – including a four-day model – under a proposal that unions will take to next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable. The ACTU will argue that workers ...

The world faces a climate crisis. Australian workers know that we can be part of the solution, building new low carbon industries and creating decent jobs. But unlike many other countries Australia ...