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Highlights this month
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Lead a delegation of international unions in meetings with the ...
Unions contribute to G20 debate
A crisis summit of the G20 this weekend must begin work on a more inclusive, just and democratic system for the governance of the global economy, say Australian unions. Workers, ...
ACTU - 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Today put forward proposals to protect Australian working people from ...
ACTU calls for new measures to protect workers from fallout of US financial crisis
ACTU president Sharan Burrow has today put forward proposals to protect Australian working people from mortgage pressures and the financial crisis that is unfolding in the US, while she has ...
Workplace Express - 2 months ago
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Calling for Labor to expand employees' right to request flexible ...
Expand right to request, multi-employer bargaining, says Burrow
ACTU President Sharan Burrow is calling for Labor to expand employees' right to request flexible work and to extend its proposed multi-employer bargaining system for low-paid employees. She is also ...
Workplace Express - 4 months, 1 week ago
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Called for changes to planned federal industrial relations laws that ...
More small business workers should be covered by unions: ACTU boss
Union leader Sharan Burrow has called for changes to planned federal industrial relations laws that would help unions increase their presence in small business workforces.
Smart Company - 4 months, 1 week ago
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Host the meeting with the Chief Executive of the Australian ...
Unions and business in joint pact on skills
Australia's unions and the nation's two largest employer bodies will hold an historic meeting today (Tuesday) to forge a shared approach to the skills and training needs of the national ...
Australian Industry Group - 4 months, 1 week ago
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Address the Workplace Relations Summit in Melbourne today
Harvey Norman using IR confusion to rip off sales staff
Retail giant Harvey Norman has been caught red-handed using an unfair AWA months after they were banned to cut the take home pay of a sales worker by up to ...
ACTU - 4 months, 3 weeks ago
4 days, 6 hours ago
C, bee and demarcation
Memo to Sharan Burrow. For the past few decades the ACTU has found it hard to round up members -- though that'll change with mass sackings.
The Australian - opinion - 11 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008
The Australian - opinion - 11 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008
1 week, 1 day ago
The union movement launches a national television advertsing campaign this week ... targetting Malcolm Turnbull. (audio)
ACTU President Sharan Burrow tells Steve Chase says the ads are designed to pressure the opposition on new federal workplace laws
ABC NewsRadio politics - 7:45 a.m. Monday 24th November 2008
ABC NewsRadio politics - 7:45 a.m. Monday 24th November 2008
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Unions contribute to G20 debate
A crisis summit of the G20 this weekend must begin work on a more inclusive, just and democratic system for the governance of the global economy, say Australian unions. Workers, ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Sharan Burrow - Speech for Australian Financial Review Workplace Relations Conference - 31 October, 2008
It's a pleasure to be here and I thank the Financial Review for the invitation. Let me acknowledge that we stand on Indigenous land and I thank the elders for ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Monday 3rd November 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Monday 3rd November 2008
1 month ago
Downer debates Burrow on ABC
Howard Government Foreign Minister and former member for Mayo Alexander Downer was on Melbourne ABC radio this morning, sparring with the ACTU’s Sharan Burrow. Downer made some good points about ...
The Australian Conservative - 2:27 p.m. Monday 27th October 2008
The Australian Conservative - 2:27 p.m. Monday 27th October 2008
1 month, 1 week ago
Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws
The unacceptably high human cost of workplace death and injury highlights the need for stronger national workplace health and safety laws, the ACTU said today. As union members around the ...
ACTU - 9:07 a.m. Friday 24th October 2008
ACTU - 9:07 a.m. Friday 24th October 2008
1 month, 1 week ago
Trading debate 'out of whack', says BP chief; Australia dragging the chain on green jobs, says ACTU
BP chief Gerry Hueston today criticised those both sides of the 'fault line' in debate over the treatment of emissions-intensive industries, while ACTU chief Sharan Burrow said Australia lagged other ...
CE Daily - 2:41 p.m. Wednesday 22nd October 2008
CE Daily - 2:41 p.m. Wednesday 22nd October 2008
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Policy innovation in housing
In today’s Age, ACTU President, Sharan Burrow, and my AussieMac co-author, Christopher Joye, move beyond the conventional short-term issues associated with the financial crisis and remind us that governments have ...
CoreEconomics - 6:36 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
CoreEconomics - 6:36 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
1 month, 3 weeks ago
International unions call for new globalisation to respect rights to decent work and full employment
Global economic turmoil has made the right to decent work and full employment more essential than ever, Australian unions say. For workers around the world, organising and collective bargaining rights ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 7th October 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 7th October 2008
Banks must pass on interest rate cut to avoid economic downturn and help struggling families
An interest rate cut is needed to avoid an economic downturn and to help families struggling with high levels of debt, say unions. ACTU President Sharan Burrow said the present ...
ACTU - 9:57 a.m. Tuesday 7th October 2008
ACTU - 9:57 a.m. Tuesday 7th October 2008
2 months ago
ACTU calls for new measures to protect workers from fallout of US financial crisis
ACTU president Sharan Burrow has today put forward proposals to protect Australian working people from mortgage pressures and the financial crisis that is unfolding in the US, while she has ...
Workplace Express - 3:09 p.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
Workplace Express - 3:09 p.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
ACTU wants equal benefits for non-working mums
The ACTU president says she will campaign for stay-at-home mothers to get the same financial benefits as those proposed for working women.
ABC News federal politics - 2:50 p.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
ABC News federal politics - 2:50 p.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
Global financial crisis adds urgency to need for a fair and balanced IR system, say unions
Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, with collective bargaining at its centre, to protect the jobs and earnings of ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
ACTU to play waiting game on new IR laws
Unions will wait to see Labor's new industrial relations legislation before launching a possible assault against the federal government, ACTU president Sharan Burrow says.
Australian Mines and Metals Association - 8:21 a.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
Australian Mines and Metals Association - 8:21 a.m. Wednesday 1st October 2008
2 months ago
ACTU anti-government ads attack plans to roll back WorkChoices. (audio)
Marius Benson also speaks to ACTU President Sharan Burrow about public funded maternity leave.
ABC NewsRadio politics - 7:20 a.m. Monday 29th September 2008
ABC NewsRadio politics - 7:20 a.m. Monday 29th September 2008
