The Guardian • work safety
Issue #2061
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...
Read moreReport shows deaths at work on the rise
On 28th October, Safe Work Australia released a damning report which shows that deaths at work have increased.
Read moreLogistics and manufacturing industries in chaos due to government’s Omicron crises
The recent Omicron crises, the result of the incompetent Coalition government’s “let it rip” strategy, is reeking chaos in Australia’s logistics industry. High numbers of...
Read moreAustralia reaches 1,000 truck crash deaths since LNP abolished Road Safety Tribunal
The Transport Workers’ Union has demanded urgent Federal action to end dangerous work conditions in road transport, as the truck crash death toll since the...
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Issue #1979
Health and safety is in our hands
In May 2021, a Megaphone article titled “Knowledge is Power In Fight Against Gendered Violence” was published.
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Issue #2037
DINGO
Hundreds of refugees previously held by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea have written to the Home Affairs and Immigration Minister requesting urgent action...
Read moreTruckies pushed to the curb: no respect for our essential workers
At 2 am on Thursday the 11th of February there was a crash between three trucks at the SA-Victorian border two hours after the SA government shut its border to Victoria. One of the trucks was carrying chemicals that caused the crash to be fiery.
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Issue #2031
The legacy of asbestos mining at Wittenoom
“If the sugar refining company won’t come to my rescue/Who’s going to save me?” So goes the song Blue Sky Mine by Australian band Midnight...
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Issue #2061
DINGO
Activists descended on the offices and facilities of global weapons giant Thales last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West...
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Issue #2003
More support for teachers needed
While the Morrison government acts as if the pandemic is for all intents and purposes over, workers on the frontlines know that this is far from...
Read moreGender inequality in the workplace
Despite the achievements in the long struggle for gender equality in Australia, significant structural and cultural injustices remain, including widespread gendered violence.
Read moreThe people will not be silenced – COVID needs a social response
Our governments want us to accept the failures of their pandemic response as just chance events, bad luck or someone’s personal fate.
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Issue #1993
Forklift license fiasco highlights deepening pandemic crisis
Earlier this month, it appeared as though Australia had returned to the 19th Century when it became known that prime minister Scott Morrison had floated...
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Issue #2061
Australia’s deadliest industry
Transport Workers Union (TWU) members are pushing for changes to legislation to make transport work in Australia fair, safe, and sustainable. As the TWU says:...
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Issue #2048
Action for jobs, pay, safety
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members launched major rallies across Australia on Wednesday 5th April as anger mounts over serious issues facing the nation...
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Issue #2065
Baking in inequality – a stunning betrayal
The federal government has been accused of a stunning betrayal after it signed off on a Labour Migration Agreement that will see 400 temporary visa...
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Issue #2023
Jobs and Skills Summit: dangerous illusions for workers
Workers and their families are looking for real change – real wage rises, secure jobs, safe working conditions, with adequately funded and staffed health and...
Read moreRespect at work: sexual harassment not on!
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins released the Commission’s Respect@Work report on sexual harassment in the workplace more than twelve months ago.
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Issue #2004
Boot the Coalition out!
The Coalition government has comprehensive plans to destroy militant trade unions and give employers arbitrary powers and unfettered rights over workers in the workplace. The...
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Issue #1979
MUA TAKES ON LOGISTICS GIANT QUBE FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS
Even before COVID-19, working on the ports could be a dangerous business, so when workers for Qube at Fremantle Ports asked their employer to implement health and safety provisions.
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Issue #2070
DINGO
As temperatures climb, and heatwaves become more common, it’s worth remembering that unions achieve and enforce protection against heat. As a comrade in the Rail...
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Issue #2044
Less than eight years to live
Silica dust is so fine that it is 100 times smaller than a grain of sand. But with each breath, you risk death. A Curtin...
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Issue #2073
Campus-wide strike at Melbourne Uni
National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Melbourne have launched an unprecedented one-week, campus-wide strike. In a significant escalation of industrial action, all...
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Issue #2070
THE BIG RIP-OFF
In the face of the big rip-off of Australian workers, the Albanese government’s attempted makeover of the industrial relations system continued on 4th September, when...
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Issue #2055
Firefighters rally for wage justice
On Thursday 25th May, several hundred members of the United Firefighters Union of WA and their supporters, principally from other trade unions, marched from the...
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Issue #2055
Injured workers kicked off compo
The Australian Services Union has turned the spotlight on the Victorian government’s proposed cuts to the workers’ compensation scheme for injured workers. These changes would...
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