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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
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CFMEU National Secretary Zach Smith statement regarding Work Health and Safety Ministers’ Meeting today: “The CFMEU welcomes confirmation engineered stone will be banned from July 1 after our union’s successful Stop This Killer Stone campaign. “Federal, state and territory governments have backed our call to ban the importation, use and manufacture of engineered … Continued
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Hundreds of Electrical Trades Union members working for Transgrid will down tools for 24 hours in a fight for wages that match the high cost of living. The union warns that Friday’s protected industrial action will push out Transgrid’s maintenance backlog and disrupt operations, including to the already troubled Project EnergyConnect – Australia’s largest … Continued
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EMBARGO: 15 March 2024 The long running HSU work value case for aged care workers will be concluded on Friday afternoon, when workers learn if they have achieved an across-the-board 25 per cent wage rise. Media are invited to attend the HSU office in Sydney from 2pm to capture reaction from workers and officials, followed … Continued
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AWU Victorian State Secretary Ronnie Hayden will provide an update on the Ballarat Mine collapse Time : 10am today (14.03.2024)Location: Trades Hall Ballarat, 24 Camp St, Ballarat Central Contact details: Sasha Dougherty: 0438498305
