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The TWU is calling on the Federal Government to properly protect employee drivers after an embarrassing climb down by the ATO over unfair tax changes to truck driver meal expenses. Check out the fact sheet. TWU National Secretary Tony Sheldon said the Federal Government must ensure these unacceptable tax changes...

Michaela Cash has a horrible record as Employment Minister and continues to let down workers. She recklessly tore down the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal and continues to defend Liberal donors Aerocare despite a terrible safety record. The latest scandal leaves her position untenable. She must resign. If she won’t resign,...

WORKERS at CC Containers began 2017 toiling away without knowing if they were being paid the right whack or correct penalties and conditions under the company’s complex pay and grading system. Well, they know now! After contacting the TWU, these workers – many of whom are first time union members – have gone through a...

New measures for ground-handling staff at airports will not go far enough in strengthening security, says the Transport Workers’ Union. The announcement by the Federal Government today fails to address high turnover rates and deliberate understaffing which are creating daily breaches at airports, the union added. “Extra checks on staff...

Gravel, goat tracks and guts. Brian Dixon spent his working life traversing the open roads, unpaved byways and bush tracks of northern Tasmania. Needless to say that only the most steady-handed and steely-veined drivers can boast such a career. In February 1967, Brian took a job on the cheese floor...

    Labor will seek to crack down on big employers using “sham” enterprise agreements to cut the pay and conditions of permanent employees if the ALP wins the next election. In an address to the National Press Club today, opposition workplace relations spokesman, Brendan O’Connor will announce an ALP...

The Fair Work Commission has slammed as “ludicrous” the defence by Qantas of paying less money to employees who help transfer elderly and disabled passengers around airports. The Commission backed the employees’ claims for higher pay, adding that Qantas’s arguments were “very weak and unpersuasive”. The TWU and Qantas Ground...

Watch the video of TWU (VIC/TAS BRANCH) SECRETARY JOHN BERGER address the rally over Aldi’s outrageous treatment of workers. Global supermarket giant Aldi is successful because it undercuts the competition. But the cheap groceries would not be possible without Aldi’s low-cost wages. It is the hidden shame of the supermarket...

The West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee invites you to attend the public memorial service. The collapse of the bridge, only two years into its construction, remains one of Australia’s worst peace-time workplace tragedies. It was 11:50am on 15 October 1970 when a 2000 tonne, 112 meter span between two piers...