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A Love Letter to ‘Last Exit to Springfield’

May 07, 2021

Sitcoms, especially American ones, provide both good and bad representations of unions. As a child of the 90s, my earliest memory of unionism wasn’t of going to a rally with my family or...

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Unsafe at Work: Assaults on Journalists on the Rise

May 07, 2021

The Media and Arts Alliance released their annual Report on Press...

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Is This The Rail Life?: No Longer Jobs To Count On

May 05, 2021

“When you took a job in the rail, it used to...

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Insecure Work a Real Downer

May 03, 2021

Workers at Downer’s Newport site took their first strike action in...

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Women Onsite Powering Change

April 30, 2021

“I didn’t go into a trade because I’m like this tough...

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International Workers’ Memorial Day: The Numbers Don’t Lie

April 30, 2021

There was something different about this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day ceremony. If you attended, or if you caught the live stream, you would have noticed that some of the deaths that were...

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Sisyphus Submits A WorkCover Claim

April 30, 2021

Around the time of the seventh conciliation hearing, Sisyphus really started...

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May Day in Folklore: New Ideas and Mischievous Spirits

April 30, 2021

On May 4th, 1886, a riot broke out after a bomb...

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Bushfire Recovery Projects: Touch One, Touch All

April 23, 2021

Victorian union leadership visited two bushfire recovery projects in East Gippsland...

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International Workers' Memorial Day: Healthcare Workers and COVID-19

April 22, 2021

“At the beginning of the pandemic, we saw a massive uptick...

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I’m a nurse - here’s why I care about climate change.

April 21, 2021

2020 was designated by the World Health Organisation as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife but we missed the party because we were all rostered to work! That work involves...

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Workplace Surveillance Laws

April 20, 2021

We hate to creep you out like this, but it’s a...

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Top Five Union TikToks To Follow Right Now

April 19, 2021

Despite whatever preconceptions you might have formed, TikTok isn't just about...

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