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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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Menulog: Will They Deliver?

April 18, 2021

Following on from recent news that Uber in the UK are...

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Beyond the Left-Handed Screwdriver: The Need for Apprenticeship Reform

April 17, 2021

A group of young workers are gathered at Trades Hall on...

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Working Beneath the Crescent Moon: Ramadan in the Workplace

April 16, 2021

All of us, as unionists, campaign against poverty, but few unionists go to the lengths of fasting to express our solidarity with the hungry. Few of us, that is, other than our Muslim...

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Government Caves to Pressure From Women

April 12, 2021

Union women meeting with local Victorian MP's to discuss implementing the...

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Arts For Everyone

April 11, 2021

Federal Arts Minister Paul Fletcher said last week that he believes...

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