Employers must stop forcing staff onto AWAs ahead of laws to scrap WorkChoices
9 January 2008

Unions are calling on employers to stop forcing staff onto Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) ahead of new laws expected to be tabled next month in Federal Parliament that will ban AWAS and begin scrapping Work Choices.

Banks should put people before profits
7 January 2008

The ACTU is urging Australia’s major banks to put people before profits and refrain from increasing interest rates following recent decisions by ANZ and the National Australia Bank to put rates up.

ACTU condemns Work Choices fines for WA construction workers
21 December 2007

The ACTU has joined with the CFMEU and other unions to express their strong condemnation of fines up to $10,000 meted out under the Howard Government’s IR laws to 91 West Australian construction workers in a Federal Court decision yesterday.

Big business should follow Liberals lead & admit Work Choices is dead, stop using AWAs
21 December 2007

The ACTU has called on the business community to also admit Work Choices is dead and to immediately stop pushing workers onto unfair AWA individual contracts, following the announcement of Liberal leader Brendan Nelson.