Issues

 

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These are some of the pressing issues affecting Australian workers and their families, workplaces and industry - which unions have expressed concern about and have developed policies or passed resolutions on: 

 
  Balancing work and family life is essential for the wellbeing of our whole community and yet it is a balancing act that is becoming increasingly difficult.  
 
  Unions are determined that no worker be left worse off as a result of award modernisation, and will pursue employers who use modern awards to cut pay.  
 
  Each year the ACTU and unions claim a pay rise for Australian workers through the Minimum Wages Case.  
 
  Australian unions believe that working life should be enjoyable and that it should give people the satisfaction of using their skills to the fullest measure, and making a contribution to the common good.  
 
  Executive PayWatch highlights the blatant hypocrisy of big business executives in pushing for industrial relations deregulation that would cut the pay, conditions and rights of Australian workers.  
 
  Unions are strongly committed to promoting equality in the workplace and in the broader society for Indigenous Australians, and promote the active participation of Indigenous peoples in trade unions.  
 
 
Asbestos 
 
Unions have campaigned for decades about the dangers of asbestos and have successfully helped secure long term compensation for people affected by asbestos-related disease.
 
 
  Unions believe that all workers in Australia, no matter where they’re from, should have equal rights to decent pay and conditions and be treated fairly at work.  

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World Party Tasmania 2012
Sat Feb 25, 2012
Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work
Fri Mar 02, 2012 @ 9:30AM - 04:00PM
International Women’s Day Quiz Night
Thu Mar 08, 2012 @ 7:00PM -
International Worker’s Memorial Day
Sat Apr 28, 2012
May Day Ball 2012
Fri May 04, 2012 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM
ACTU Congress 2012
Tue May 15, 2012 @ 8:00AM - 04:00PM
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Safe Work Month HSR Conference
Mon Oct 01, 2012
Safe Work Month HSR Conference
Fri Nov 02, 2012

Worker Assist

Unions Tasmania are proud to announce the launch of Worker Assist Tasmania.

Worker Assist will provide specialised assistance to injured workers about claims for workers compensation and workplace injury management and return to work.

p: 1300 0 ASSIST
1300 027 747

w: workerassist.org.au