Issues
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. | |










