Working people will be pushing for pay rises across the board to counter high housing costs, the biggest cost-of-living pressure in household budgets. Wages need to keep pace with essential expenses ...

Australian Unions are calling for new national safety rules that require employers to stop work or modify duties when temperatures reach dangerous levels, warning that increasingly frequent heatwaves ...

The ACTU has fought for and won decades of wage increases through the award system and campaigns in the field, safer workplaces, greater equality for women, improvements in working hours, entitlements ...

Unions want the Government to phase-in a scale back of the size of the capital gains tax (CGT) discount so that working Australians have a better shot at home ownership.

Housing costs are one of the biggest contributors to cost of living pressures, and today’s Reserve Bank decision to lift the cash rate will only add to those pressures. Landlords with multiple ...

Read current and past media statements from the ACTU. You can also keep track of ACTU media releases by following the official ACTU feed on Twitter at @unionsaustralia. Australian Unions are calling ...

Sally is the 10th Secretary of the ACTU. She was the leader of her union, the ASU in NSW representing community, public sector and private sector workers. She commenced work with the ASU as an ACTU ...

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is the overseas aid and development agency of the ACTU. Our work aims to build self-reliance through support to educational and training projects for workers and their ...

It is a fundamental principle of the union movement that working people have a right to safe and healthy working lives. Throughout our history, Australian Unions have always campaigned against unsafe ...

The world faces a climate crisis. Australian workers know that we can be part of the solution, building new low carbon industries and creating decent jobs. But unlike many other countries Australia ...