Campaigns

Melbourne-based rideshare drivers and delivery riders took part in TWU-organised protest actions today to demand fairness and safety for Uber workers, ahead of the imminent public sale of the billion-dollar backed company. Drivers and riders in Australia delivered letters to Uber offices with a list of claims on the rideshare...

The TWU welcomes proposed legislative changes that will make Victorian roads safer by ensuing thousands of owner drivers, forestry contractors and on-demand workers are paid a living wage. The Bill, introduced yesterday by Victorian Industrial Relations Minister Tim Pallas, will ensure these workers will no longer be vulnerable to exploitation...

On International Workers’ Memorial Day we remember all those who have died, made ill or were injured at work.It is the trade union movement which fought for our right to a safe workplace. We mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living.The transport industry is one of...

Over 500,000 Australians will miss out on $80 million in penalty rates this Easter and Anzac Day period as a consequence of the Federal Coalition’s cuts. According to a Centre for Future Work report released today this figure will rise to $107 million next year once other planned penalty rate cuts are...

Scott Morrison has promised $77 billion of tax cuts to those earning over $180,000 a year. This is the equivalent of 80 million emergency ward admissions, a year’s salary of two million minimum wage workers or one year’s salary for 1 million new nurses. And the LNP will have to...

The electoral roll closes 8pm THIS Thursday 18 April. If you are one – or know one – of the 163, 290 Victorian or Tasmanian residents eligible but not enrolled to vote, don’t delay, update your details or enrol today >> https://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/ Scott Morrison’s plans for the future are for low...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week called the Federal Election. Australia goes to the polls on 18 May and we’re more than ready to #ChangeTheGovernment. We have had six long years of this Federal Coalition’s war on workers and it’s beyond time they go. We’ve had enough of enforced casualisation,...

220 Huggies workers have been given the heartbreaking news that they’ll no longer have a job as the company moves operations offshore. What was Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response? “People are able to weather the disappointment” Nothing about the plight of the workers or their families. And, if he really...

Scott Morrison last night turned his back on the nation’s most vulnerable people. There was little to nothing in the Federal Coalition’s Budget to help working Australians pay the bills – so we must fight to get rid of them. And you can start by joining one of 14 nationwide...