DRIVERS WIN AS TWU SUCCESSFULLY FIGHTS COMPANY ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE SUB-STANDARD RATES

June 8, 2018
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Drivers have had a major win over an employer attempt to introduce below award rates and conditions. The Fair Work Commission rejected the attempt by Truck Moves and other employers to introduce sub-standard rates and conditions for drivers who relocate trucks. The Commission stated the proposal was put forward “to...

WOMEN LEAD CHARGE TO CHANGE THE RULES

June 7, 2018
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Decades of failed trickle-down economics have left Australia with a crisis of insecure work and stagnant wage growth – in fact, for the first time ever, less than half of all Australian workers are employed full-time with entitlements. But for women, the situation is even worse. This is why the...

FEWER FULL-TIME JOBS, ENTITLEMENTS IN AUSTRALIA

June 6, 2018
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Australian workers are being forced into part-time and casual work, superannuation is going unpaid, penalty rates being stripped and wage theft is rife. We need to stop Australian full-time workers becoming working poor – they deserve free and fair bargaining and a living wage. New research now shows – for...

ESSO UGLy DISPUTE – A YEAR AND COUNTING

June 5, 2018
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The rules are broken – it is time to fight back! Stand united against corporate greed with ESSO / Longford UGLy dispute workers on 28 June to mark a year since the company’s loyal contractual workers established a lawful picket line to protest against sham contracts and the cutting of wages...

ALDI-TWU TO DISCUSS SUPPLY CHAIN & OTHER ISSUES

June 3, 2018
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BREAKING: Aldi have agreed to hold talks with the TWU on safety and standards. The talks will start this week and we are hopeful of a good outcome that benefits drivers and the entire community 👍👍. Updates to follow

WORKERS NEED A LIVING WAGE TO SURVIVE

June 2, 2018
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Low economic growth + minimal minimum wage growth = little respite for the working poor. That’s the cold facts following yesterday’s Fair Work Commission (FWC) announcement of an increase to the minimum wage of 3.5% or $24.32 per week. TWU (VIC/TAS Branch) Secretary and TWU National Vice-President John Berger said while...

BIG WIN FOR WORKERS – TWU FIGHTS FOR WAGE THEFT LAWS

May 31, 2018
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Wage theft is real, rife across the transport industry and creating a class of working poor. That is why TWU (VIC/TAS Branch) Secretary John Berger put a motion to the 2017 ALP State Conference calling for it to be criminalised – WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. Fast-forward 12 months, Premier Daniel...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: No worker should suffer occupational violence at work

May 28, 2018
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In the past two years there have been 150 callous and senseless attacks on public transport workers by members of the public. This is one reason why the TWU (VIC/TAS Branch), RTBU Victoria and Ambulance Employees Australia have joined forces in calling for an extension of new Victorian Government mandatory sentencing...

WAGE THEFT & INDUSTRIAL MANSLAUGHTER LAWS PLACED ON TABLE BY PREMIER

May 26, 2018
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The strength of the TWU (Vic/Tas Branch) has been proven once again after the Wage Theft Urgency Resolution put to last year’s 2017 ALP State Conference by TWU (VIC/TAS Branch) Secretary John Berger will become law under a re-elected Labor Government. Premier Daniel Andrews announced at today’s 2018 ALP State Conference...

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