UnionsACT recently made a submission to the ACT Government’s Taxi Innovation Review. The review looked at the impact of new technology on the taxi industry, especially from companies like Uber. UnionsACT holds that the emergence of app-based booking services does not excuse companies from their responsibility to workers and to the community. The ACT Government …
Do you want to work for the peak union council for the Australian Capital Territory? We’re hiring for a new Events & Office Coordinator to manage our office and drive our growing calendar of high-impact events. The UnionsACT Events & Office Coordinator manages all internal office processes, coordinates UnionsACT events and provides meeting support. Duties …
UnionsACT will today launch a major awareness campaign in support of the jobs created by light rail. Light rail will be a major source of new, secure and local jobs, with over 3,500 jobs created during construction and thousands more in the years following due to the economic stimulus effect. The UnionsACT campaign involves major …
UnionsACT has found that Canberrans want to support the jobs created by the light rail infrastructure project, despite the negative campaign run by the ACT Liberals. UnionsACT commissioned polling shows that, although opinion is divided on light rail, support dramatically increases when the job creation benefits are explained. Get more information about light rail The …
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Unions broadly support the ACT Budget’s focus on protecting jobs, delivering services, and growing the economy, said UnionsACT’s Secretary Alex White today. The ACT has been hit hard by savage public sector sackings, cuts to funding by the Federal Government to schools, hospitals and social services, reduction in GST funding, and the Mr Fluffy disaster. …
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[two_thirds flow=start]May Day is an event of central importance for the labour movement, and in the ACT has long been a celebration of working people. This year we will continue the tradition of awarding May Day Awards that recognise significant achievement amongst the activists and delegates of Canberra’s proud unions. With unions and the broader …
The announcement by ActewAGL that it will make “substantial” job cuts as a result of the Australian Energy Regulator decision highlights the need for a jobs plan for Canberra, UnionsACT’s Secretary Alex White said today. The AER’s decision to cut ActewAGL’s operating allowance by 36% is a massive hit, and it is forecast that 190 …
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Speaking notes from Workers Memorial Day, 28 April 2015, for Alex White, Secretary of UnionsACT. Thank you all for being here, at the National Workers Memorial, a monument constructed to honour the working Australians who have died as a result of work-related injuries or sickness. I would like to acknowledge first that we gather today …
Our rights at work are again under attack from the Abbott Government and employers. It recently became even clearer that the full-scale Productivity Commission inquiry into our rights at work could deliver cuts to penalty rates, the abolition of the minimum wage, bring back unfair individual contracts and swing even more power to the employers. …
UnionsACT acknowledges that it works on the land of the Ngunnawal people, and we pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Authorised A White for UnionsACT, 11 London Circuit, Canberra.