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An Adelaide transport company has been penalised a total of $93,000 and been ordered to back-pay 10 truck drivers more than $374,000. The Industrial Relations Court of South Australia has imposed the penalty and Order against Largs North-based Atkins Freight Services, which transports bulk petroleum products into the Northern Territory,...

The Transport Workers’ Union has cautioned against the dangers of not addressing lethal pressures that cause truck drivers to speed as a proposed new law calls for harsher speeding penalties on heavy vehicles. The Union’s warning came after the National Transport Commission recommended draft legislation that would see heavy vehicles...

The TWU Jetstar flight attendants EBA committee has presented your endorsed log of claims with company representatives. During meetings with the company, the committee strongly pressed member demands for greater wages and allowances. Other issues raised included the company’s ability to direct employees to work Trans-Tasman/international flights. The company has...

With an election supposedly predicated on industrial relations issues of the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Registered Organisations Bill, the Turnbull Government has been suspiciously silent on exactly what they are planning for Australia’s 12 million plus workers. What we have seen is the Abbott and Turnbull Governments...

Brian Owler is a neurosurgeon and a former Australian Medical Association president. In an editorial published in The Age, he pleads with voters to consider the real-life short- and long-term consequences of the Coalition’s health budgets cuts. “Whatever the verdict this weekend, we cannot afford a government that mistakes fiscal shortcuts for health policy....

Over 40 per cent of the Coalition’s promised $48 billion company tax cut will go to the offshore investors of multinational companies and foreign tax authorities. According to a University of Technology Sydney report, commissioned by GetUp, reducing the company tax in Australia from 30 per cent to 25 per cent would see a total tax benefit for...

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is proud to stand with 55 sacked maintenance workers at Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) today who are being forced to reapply for their own jobs but with a 65% wage cut. The sacked workers at CUB have refused to bow to the...

Newly-elected TWU (Vic/Tas Branch) Secretary John Berger spoke with a large number of bus delegates who attended the Bus Industry update at the Port Melbourne head office on Tuesday 21st June.  

The voting public has been warned not to fall for Coalition ‘spin’ that they have no plans to sell-off Medicare. Shadow minister for health and Ballarat MP Catherine King said the facts were undeniable. “Medicare should never be privatised and I was shocked when I found out Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull...