industrial action Archives

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) hold their hands to show solidarity.

Issue #2145

Workers in India on the march

Ninety percent of Indian workers are in the unorganised sector. This does not mean that they are outside trade union structures, but only that most...

Issue #2032

The ALP’s new IR laws: new avenues for action, new shackles

CPA Logistics and Manufacturing Branch The ALP government has recently announced its new Industrial Relations laws. Positioned as a response to workers’ demands to organise...

Issue #2033

DINGO

In a massive escalation of the simmering industrial conflict being waged by Svitzer Towage’s Australian management against local tugboat crew, the company gave notice that...

Issue #2030

RAFFWU members strike at Apple

Members of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) went on strike in the first nationally co-ordinated industrial action in retail in Australian history....

Issue #2014

Workers across New South Wales fight for their rights!

Over the last two weeks, intense industrial action has been taken against the Perrottet government. Having held a mass meeting at Sydney’s Town Hall, The...

Issue #2074

Supermarket workers’ historic action

Coles and Woolworths workers were the essential worker heroes of our pandemic. They turned up to work throughout the entire pandemic, thrown onto the frontline...

CityFerry operating on the Brisbane River that provides mostly cross-river services.

Issue #2206

Union industrial action in Brisbane

As well as the ferries, Brisbane has also seen strong union industrial action at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre, Queensland Rail, and Qantas. Employers, conservative commentators...

Issue #2152

UWU ongoing industrial action at Quantem terminal Geelong

Terminals Pty Ltd (Quantem Bulk Liquid Storage & Handling) in Geelong, Victoria, provides bulk aviation fuel to Tullamarine, Australia’s second largest airport. United Workers’ Union...

Issue #2152

Strike at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital

Nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Western Sydney’s Westmead Hospital went on strike on 23 June, over grave concerns about patient safety...

Issue #2205

Sydney Ferries workers take action

Sydney Ferries workers have taken industrial action as frustration grows over private operator Transdev’s failure to deliver a fair and sustainable wage offer to the...

Issue #2056

Industrial action looms at Queensland power stations

The union representing workers at the Callide and Kogan power stations will apply to the Fair Work Commission to take industrial action after negotiations broke...

Issue #2072

Shame, Inghams, shame!

Around 1000 workers at Inghams chickens have been on strike, demanding better wages and conditions. Their demand for a 6 per cent pay increase was...

Issue #2096

MAY DAY 2024

CHANGE Congratulations to all workers taking action this May Day, the international day of working class struggle and solidarity. Actions of workers on the streets,...

Issue #2152

ACTU supports police industrial action

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Executive formalised their support for the ongoing Police Association of NSW (PANSW) industrial action. On 30 June, NSW...

Issue #2160

DINGO

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has welcomed the acknowledgment by technology companies of the rights of Australia’s media and creative workforce and willingness...

Issue #2152

Health support workers strike in SA

UWU (United Workers Union) health support workers across South Australia have taken strike action at Glenside Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital,...

An iron ore train loading at the Brockman 4 mine, Pilbara.

Issue #2201

Workers escalate strike action in the Pilbara

Less than a month after the historic first strike in the Pilbara in nearly three decades (see Guardian #2199, ‘Battle for the Pilbara’), BHP workers...

Issue #2207

‘Our shout’ – MUA confirms fare-free ferries

Sydney Ferries workers have confirmed their industrial action will proceed with Opal card readers to be switched off and turnstiles left wide open across the...

Issue #2208

Tasmanian health workers take action

Public sector nurses are fighting for a fair deal with decent wages and conditions and safer staffing levels. Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) member...

Issue #2152

Unions alive and kicking!

The Australian media tend to show union industrial action as uncommon, and that unions rarely win. This is far from the truth. There was a...

Issue #2152

SASMOA votes for strike across Adelaide hospitals

On 25 June, in a one-hour stop work meeting in Adelaide, 2,800 medical professionals discussed future industrial action. Stage three surgeries were cancelled. Doctors have...

Issue #2152

More union action across Australia

Unions are getting active. Across Australia a number of unions are currently involved in industrial action, including strikes. These actions are in support of ongoing...