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Unions
After four weeks of strike action, UWU members at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries in Melbourne have won an immediate 7 per cent cost-of-living pay rise, better than official inflation.
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More than 100 ASU members at anti-poverty charity the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne went on strike for a full day in their campaign for a better enterprise agreement.
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Solidarity’s monthly industrial round-up reports on workers fighting back around the country.
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The Sydney University strike campaign ended in June, with 80 per cent of union members voting to accept management’s offer, and 96.5 per cent of workers supporting the agreement in the final ballot.
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Workers at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Melbourne that employs 190 people have been on strike for three weeks fighting for pay rises to match inflation and equal rates for casual workers.
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Our monthly industrial round-up reports on industrial disputes across the country in June.
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Workers at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne have rejected management’s proposed enterprise agreement in a non-union ballot, 61 per cent to 39 per cent.
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Our monthly industrial round-up reports on disputes in NSW, Victoria and WA.
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Over 50 workers at hospital and health care supplier Onelink in western Sydney have won higher pay and improved redundancy payments after five days of strike action over two weeks at the end of May.
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