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Union at centre of IBAC probe being investigated for funnelling money into training organisation
The Victorian Health Workers Union is being investigated over allegations it secretly funnelled union money into a training organisation that an anti-corruption commission previously found was an abject failure.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Council workers accused of Islamophobic chants directed at Muslim mayor
Liverpool Council union workers chanted “Put some pork on your fork” and held up a plastic pig in a protest directed at the city’s mayor, Ned Mannoun.
- by Anthony Segaert
‘Overworked, underpaid and fed up’: Why thousands of WA teachers walked off the job
About 8000 teachers marched from Optus Stadium on Tuesday, joined by thousands more in the regions and even more watching the rally online.
- by Holly Thompson
Sydney rail workers push for annual pay rise of 8%
The start of negotiations over a new pay deal comes less than 18 months after the end of an industrial dispute that crippled Sydney’s rail network.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Government
The big questions being raised around Queensland’s ‘Big Build’
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country, a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
- by Matt Dennien
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ALP
‘Dumping ground’: Labor Senate team under spotlight for being union-heavy, minister-light
Labor must recruit future MPs from more diverse backgrounds to remain relevant, two federal MPs argue, as the party’s primary vote sits at historic lows.
- by Paul Sakkal and Kieran Rooney
Public service bosses will have to explain if they reject requests for flexible work
A new pay deal for state government employees has been described as representing a big shift in relations between employers and staff.
- by Kieran Rooney
‘They can’t afford the rent’: Meet the teachers demanding a 25 per cent pay rise
Some are paid $35,000 less than their peers in other schools and interstate.
- by Christopher Harris
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Political donations
The unions want to cap corporate donors. They also want to remain untouched
The union movement has thrown its support behind Labor slashing super-rich corporate donors, but it says the funding caps shouldn’t extend to its trades halls.
- by Angus Thompson
ABC union staff call for content chief’s resignation over Lattouf saga
“Mismanagement” by Chris Oliver-Taylor undermined the public broadcaster’s integrity, an ABC union house committee says.
- by Calum Jaspan
Leader of AWU through ‘proxy war’ of turbulent shearers’ dispute
Michael O’Shea led the Australian Workers Union during the bitter dispute over shearing equipment during the 1980s.
- by Jack Ayoub