The Australian Unions Support Centre can assist you to find and join your union. We can also provide general information about your rights at work.
Phone: 1300 486 466
Email: support@australianunions.org.au
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The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.
It’s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job. It’s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.
Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we’ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives. And that can all be in the same week!
Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone who listens. So, clock on to “On the Job” and take a listen back through the archives.
Inflation - it's like disco and scratch and sniff t-shirts (look it up, people) - so very 1970s! Strangely, its making a comeback as our economy struggles to recover from the pandemic and Scott Morrison's government overheats the housing market.
After two years of a punishing pandemic, a failed vaccine roll-out, a staffing disaster that required the intervention of the ADF, and the incompetence of federal minister Richard Colebeck who’d rather spend his time at the cricket than do his job, the aged care sector is on its knees.
Claudia believes Honey Birdette needs to be held to the standards they themselves have sold to the public. “They say they are still empowering women by providing a safe place to shop for their products. They’re less about empowering women, more about empowering women to buy their products.”
For a brief period in 2020 at the height of the first COVID 19 outbreak, families around Australia experienced something remarkable - free early childhood education and child care.
There was no strike. This was a shutdown and lockout of the workforce by bosses and the NSW government.
Amazon Flex drivers will now be the first in the world to enjoy enforceable rates of pay along with rights to dispute resolution, union representation and collective bargaining.
