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We’re Union, by Maxine Beneba Clarke

May 17, 2021

Maxine Beneba Clarke is a prolific writer and poet based in Melbourne. Victorian Trades Hall Council commissioned this work during the devastating bushfires of 2019/20 - Maxine had donated her talents to the...

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Why We’re Fighting for Aged Care Staffing Ratios

May 17, 2021

Proud union members and best friends Honorine Dowie and Kim Barwise...

Aged Care | ANMF

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Fund Our Future: School Strike For Climate

May 17, 2021

Aimee Griffiths is a year-12 student with three SACs coming up...

Solidarity | Climate

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Morrison to Australia: Shut Up and Take My Money

May 17, 2021

Miles Davis famously said of jazz music that, “It's not the...

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Digital Solidarity

May 17, 2021

True solidarity knows no bounds. Race and gender, age and ability...

OHS | Industrial | Solidarity

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Dear Comrade: Are private businesses exempt from wage laws?

May 17, 2021

A young mechanic asks the Young Workers Centre about penalty rates entitlements, and his boss' claim that private business is exempt. Spoiler, wage theft ahead.

Wage Theft | YWC | Dear Comrade

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“I did not make any mistake”: ATO seeks to reclaim Uber drivers’ Jobkeeper payments

May 17, 2021

We’re hearing from workers on temporary visas who had their JobKeeper...

Racial Justice | Gig | Auspol

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Ramsiyar & Thanush survived years of refugee detention. Now they are out, what's next?

May 07, 2021

“In 2009, in Sri Lanka, there was the big war,” says...

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Knowledge is Power In Fight Against Gendered Violence

May 07, 2021

Do you know what to do if you or someone you...

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Working People Getting a Seat at the Table

May 07, 2021

Applications are now open for Candidate School. Working people are so...

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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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