Australian Unions welcome the Albanese Government’s announcement of a National AI Plan containing clear recognition of the need to put working people’s rights, wages, conditions, and jobs at the ...

Working women in Australia are seeing the gender pay gap narrow thanks to new work rights, pay rises in undervalued sectors, and strong increases in award and collective agreement wages.

Australian Unions welcome today’s announcement of the Australian AI Safety Institute, calling it a critical step toward ensuring Australia has a pro-worker, pro-jobs and pro-growth adoption of ...

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 ...

The Fair Work Commission has made its first ever order requiring a major energy employer to provide support for workers facing job losses from the closure of a power plant. The AGL-owned gas-fired ...

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 welcome today ...

The ACTU is calling for a ‘fair go in the digital age’ following today’s report that one in three Australian workers are at risk of job loss by 2030 from the introduction of AI by big corporate ...

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 ...

Australians would benefit from a shorter working week – including a four-day model – under a proposal that unions will take to next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable. The ACTU will argue that workers ...

Australian workers experienced unacceptably high levels of burn-out, stress and over-work, the latest data from the Work Shouldn’t Hurt Survey reveals.