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Elections shape the future of our workplaces and communities. At Australian Unions, we empower union members to stay informed and actively participate in the electoral process, ensuring that workers’ voices are heard and represented. This page provides essential updates, insights, and information on upcoming elections, key political issues affecting workers, and how unions are advocating for better policies that benefit all employees.
Union members play a crucial role in influencing election outcomes and securing better conditions for workers across Australia. Advocating for fair minimum wages to push for stronger workplace protections, and equal gender pay gap, unions work tirelessly to ensure that political leaders prioritise workers’ rights. Here, you can stay up-to-date with campaign developments, election news, and learn how being apart of a union can amplify your voice and help elect leaders who stand up for the working class.
Union members not only protect their own rights but also shape the future of Australian workplaces through collective action in the political arena. By joining your union, you ensure that your voice is part of the collective power pushing for positive change in elections and beyond. Together, we can drive policies that benefit all workers, ensuring fair pay, job security, and better working conditions.
The Albanese Labor Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay workplace reforms – won by union members – have boosted economy-wide wage growth by $6.3 billion over the past year.
The gender pay gap now at its lowest point ever at 11.5%. If we continue to progress as we are, the gender pay gap in Australia could close completely within nine years.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2024/11/19/20-reasons-why-the-gender-pay-gap-is-closing-faster/
Business groups are lobbying Peter Dutton and the Coalition to cut workers’ pay and conditions ahead of the federal election.
If annual wage growth had continued at the same low rate as under the last Coalition government, the average Australian worker’s wages or salary would be $4,700 less today.
Peter Dutton has already committed to turning secure jobs into casual jobs, repealing the right to disconnect and standing against minimum standards for gig workers.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2024/07/11/dutton-is-coming-for-your-workplace-protections/
More workers are realising that joining your union is the best decision you can make for your working life (and beyond). Here are five of the top benefits of joining your union.
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