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The Transport Workers Union and Flight Attendants Association of Australia have together penned a letter to the Attorney-General Michaelia Cash, urging her intervention in an ongoing dispute between Qantas and its international cabin crew. Qantas announced last week that it had made an application to the Fair Work Commission to terminate...

Dear members,  We’re pleased to announce some exciting changes at the TWU. John Berger and Chris Fennell, two stalwarts of the union, are moving on and the Branch Committee of Management have unanimously endorsed Mike McNess as the new Branch Secretary and Mem Suleyman into the Assistant Secretary role.  Thank you,...

Following July’s Federal Court finding that Qantas illegally outsourced workers, the court will move on to compensation for workers as the primary remedy, with Qantas also set to face penalty hearings for its illegal conduct. The court did not order Qantas to reinstate the jobs of the workers. The TWU will appeal that...

The Transport Workers’ Union has demanded the Federal Government urgently regulate the gig economy to end the deadly exploitation of workers, as the European Union proposes laws to give workers minimum rights and protections. The proposals would end the deliberate misclassification of gig workers, setting out minimum wages, entitlements and unfair...

The Transport Workers’ Union is calling on the Qantas Board to instruct management to reinstate highly trained and experienced outsourced workers following an investigation which found worker inexperience to be the cause of a flight taking off with locking pins still in place. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s report on...

An almost year-long battle for job security has ended after the TWU bargaining committee reached an in-principle enterprise agreement with StarTrack on Friday, leaving FedEx the only major transport operator yet to finalise a fair deal. Workers won a backdated agreement to compensate them for the drawn-out negotiations, and commitments for...

Parcel deliveries will be thrown into chaos from Monday as FedEx locks out workers left with no choice but to take industrial action after the company refused to consider their reasonable solution to finalise a fair enterprise agreement. FedEx has notified the TWU that workers who participate in four-hour stoppages...

The Federal Government has failed to establish a national covid-safe plan for aviation as international borders open in weeks, threatening to risk public health and cripple the industry with further shutdowns, says the TWU. The TWU warns that the Prime Minister has left airports vulnerable by opening up without rapid...

The Fair Work Commission has approved a job security strike allowing 2000 StarTrack workers to walk off the job for 24 hours from midnight tonight, rejecting the company’s attempt to thwart the strike by exploiting the covid crisis. At the start of the hearing, StarTrack dropped its application to terminate the...