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As part of a national week of action, dozens of students and workers will rally demanding the federal government end placement poverty. Students Against Placement Poverty is calling on the government to fully fund placements, make unpaid placements illegal, and update accreditation requirements to better recognise prior learning and professional experience. WHO: ASU NSW & … Continued
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Hundreds of electrical workers vital for the completion of essential renewable energy and power transmission projects will participate in major industrial action as Transgrid refuses to move on wages. On Friday, about 400 Electrical Trades Union members will strike for 24-hours, with dozens set to rally loudly outside of Transgrid’s Eastern Creek depot in western … Continued
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Media release | Thursday, 11 April 2024 The Australian Trucking Association should stop trying to blame trains for the failure of truck drivers to abide by road rules. Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) Assistant National Secretary Shayne Kummerfeld said the ATA’s call for flashing beacons and side-lights on trains to be made compulsory by … Continued
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Media alert | Thursday, 11 April 2024 Adelaide Metro rail workers will meet to discuss their campaign for better pay at Bonython Park today (Thursday 11 April). Workers will stop work for four hours today after their employer, Keolis Downer Adelaide (KDA), took legal action to prevent them from taking low-level industrial action which would … Continued
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National Tertiary Education Union members at Federation University have called for Vice Chancellor Duncan Bentley to resign after announcing massive job cuts. NTEU members have vowed to fight management’s plan to cut 200 ongoing positions from FedUni, equivalent to about 12% of staff at the already stretched university. At a mass meeting, an overwhelming majority … Continued
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Easing the staffing crisis in the community and disability services sector is edging closer as the Minns Government releases a landmark bill for fairer entitlements today, the Australian Services Union NSW & ACT said. The proposed portable leave scheme would allow community services workers to accrue long service leave based on time in the … Continued
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A coalition of students, academics and union representatives are demanding an end to unpaid placements for social work students, as new research unveils models the federal government could adopt. WHO: ASU NSW & ACT secretary Angus McFarland Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education representative Professor Christine Morley Per Capita executive director … Continued
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A coalition of students, academics and union representatives are demanding an end to unpaid placements for social work students, as new research unveils models the federal government could adopt. The Per Capita report, commissioned by the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education (ACHSWE), analyses a range of options to compensate students, with the preferred being … Continued
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MEDIA RELEASE Unions rally against Aware Super labour standards Unions will rally outside Aware Super’s offices in Sydney today, demanding to know why the industry super fund is bankrolling notorious non-union contractors to construct a five tower, 834 unit apartment complex in Manhattan, using hundreds of millions of dollars of Australian workers’ retirement savings. … Continued
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The NSW Teachers Federation endorses the Vocational Education and Training Review Panel’s first report released today, which recommends changes to TAFE governance and funding, removing TAFE from the contestable funding market. The NSW Government announced a comprehensive review of the NSW vocational education and training system (VET) and formation of the VET Review Panel … Continued
