The Australian Unions Support Centre provides free and confidential assistance and information for all workplace issues. We’re here to provide support, regardless of your job or industry. All Support Centre enquiries are 100% confidential.
Phone: 1300 486 466
Email: [email protected]
Need Support? Contact Us
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.
The inequalities that existed before COVID-19 are widening as workers in insecure jobs suffer the worst of the pandemic, writes Francis Leach
American journalist and author Sarah Jaffe spoke with On the Job about how ‘doing what you love’ can be a recipe for worker exploitation.
Being employed at an Australian university has become a poverty trap for thousands of workers across the country, writes Francis Leach
Have you ever had a job where the boss told you, "hey, we're like family!" Or worked somewhere where they claimed you had to "live your work"? How about your dream gig, where you loved it so much you ended up spending every waking minute eating, breathing and doing your job - until you couldn't separate what you do from who you are? Yeah - we've been there too! And American journalist and author Sarah Jaffe is here to tell us we should stop it, right now.
Workers in insecure work continue to pay the price for the Morrison Government's vaccination mess, writes Francis Leach
Interpreter Giuseppina Pungitore spoke with On the Job about the vital work of interpreters and the professional challenges they face.
