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Highlights this month
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Told AM the pay claim is reasonable
Acting PM urges union wage restraint in tough economic times
The acting Prime Minister is urging the CFMEU to be responsible in its enterprise bargaining negotiations with aluminium giant Alcoa. The union is demanding a pay rise of up to ...
AM - 1 day, 13 hours ago
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Dismissed a Federal Government call for wage restraint and is ...
Burrow dismisses Gillard's wage restraint call
Australian Council of Trades Union president (ACTU) Sharan Burrow has dismissed a Federal Government call for wage restraint and is standing by a 33 per cent pay claim for some ...
Yahoo!7 Finance News - 1 day, 12 hours ago
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Dismissed a Federal Government call for pay rise restraint
Burrow dismisses Gillard's wage restraint call
Sharan Burrow has dismissed a Federal Government call for pay rise restraint.
ABC News federal politics - 1 day, 13 hours ago
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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 - 1 month, 3 weeks 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 - 3 months, 1 week 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 - 5 months, 2 weeks 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 - 5 months, 2 weeks ago
1 day, 12 hours ago
Burrow dismisses Gillard's wage restraint call
Australian Council of Trades Union president (ACTU) Sharan Burrow has dismissed a Federal Government call for wage restraint and is standing by a 33 per cent pay claim for some ...
Yahoo!7 Finance News - 7:49 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
Yahoo!7 Finance News - 7:49 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
Burrow dismisses Gillard's wage restraint call
Sharan Burrow has dismissed a Federal Government call for pay rise restraint.
ABC News federal politics - 7:20 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
ABC News federal politics - 7:20 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
Acting PM urges union wage restraint in tough economic times
The acting Prime Minister is urging the CFMEU to be responsible in its enterprise bargaining negotiations with aluminium giant Alcoa. The union is demanding a pay rise of up to ...
AM - 7:12 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
AM - 7:12 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
07:50 - Federal Government warns unions against pushing for big pay rises as the economy weakens (audio)
Marius Benson seeks reaction from the ACTU President Sharan Burrow
ABC NewsRadio politics - 6:50 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
ABC NewsRadio politics - 6:50 a.m. Thursday 8th January 2009
3 weeks ago
International Migrants Day
“The international trade union movement is keeping a close watch on the responses to the economic and financial crisis to ensure that they are not at the expense of the ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Friday 19th December 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Friday 19th December 2008
1 month ago
Sharan Burrow letter: appeal to Korea on ITF appeal case
On 10 December the Government of Republic of Korea will decide the appeal case of Captain Jasprit Chawla and Chief Officer Syam Chetan ex-crew of the MT Hebei Spirit. The ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 9th December 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Tuesday 9th December 2008
1 month ago
Sharan Burrow letter condemning arrests in Zimbabwe
4 December 2008 His Excellency Mr. Robert G. Mugabe President Causeway Harare Zimbabwe Fax: + 263.4.70.38.58 RE: More than 48 ZCTU arrests Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the Australian ...
ACTU - 10 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
ACTU - 10 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
1 month, 1 week 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 month, 2 weeks 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
1 month, 3 weeks 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
2 months, 1 week 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
2 months, 2 weeks 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
2 months, 2 weeks 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
2 months, 2 weeks 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
2 months, 3 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
