Media

Key news, videos, images and media releases in the Your Rights at Work  campaign.

• Media Release: Employers stuck in past and must catch up to values on equal pay for women

  Employers must move on from old-fashioned ideas about women’s work and make a genuine commitment to overcome the 18% gap between men and women’s pay.
  

• Media Release: Equal pay justice for social and community sector workers signals historic day: unions

  Today’s ruling by the full bench of Fair Work Australia on pay equity for social and community sector workers is a landmark in the fight for equal pay for women, say unions.
  

• Media Release: Unions form alliance with Jack Thompson Foundation to improve job outcomes for Indigenous Australians

  A new partnership between unions and the Jack Thompson Foundation will aim to deliver better outcomes for Indigenous Australians through new skills and job training opportunities.

• Media Release: Jobs must be protected if Australia is to ride out global economic uncertainty

  Employers must pull out all stops to protect Australian jobs and not take a gunshot approach to addressing global economic challenges, say unions.
  

• Media Release: Australian workers will benefit from greater transparency of superannuation funds: unions

  A Productivity Commission inquiry into default superannuation funds in modern awards will shed welcome light onto the relative performance of industry and retail funds, say unions.
  

• Media Release: Australian Government must act in wake of Fiji’s renewed clamp on human and labour rights

  The Australian Government must consider economic sanctions against Fiji’s military regime in the wake of new laws that place even greater restrictions on human rights in the island nation.
  

• Media Release: Speak Up for health and safety: new campaign begins to inform workers of their rights

  A new national awareness campaign begins today to inform workers of their rights and employers of their obligations under harmonised health and safety laws.
  

• Media Release: Renewed trade agreement with Fiji risks legitimising an oppressive regime

  The Australian Government’s decision to renew a textile, clothing and footwear scheme with the Fijian Government under a multi-lateral trade agreement will do nothing to improve the lives of lowly paid Fijian textile workers.
  

• Video: Your Rights at Work - Looking back at 2011

  ACTU President, Ged Kearney thanks union members and campaign support for their support in 2011.
• Video: R@W News Live - December 2011

  R@W News Live features news, commentary, and opinion from the world of work. It's raw, and it's about Your Rights At Work. In the December episode we covered: * our attempt to investigate the situation in Fiji; * our Secure Jobs. Better Future campaign; and * holiday jobs and your rights at work
• Media Release: ACTU Christmas-New Year media arrangements

  The ACTU offices will be closed from midday on Thursday, 22 December until Wednesday, 4 January.
  

• Media Release: Ted Baillieu is the Grinch who stole Christmas from Victorian workers: unions

  Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu is the only Australian leader to deny workers a public holiday to compensate for Christmas Day this year falling on a Sunday.
  

• Media Release: Fair Work review is an opportunity to dispel employer myths and strengthen workers’ rights: unions

  Next year’s review of the Fair Work Act must not become a forum for employer grandstanding, and unions will take a strong interest to ensure the voices of working Australians are heard and that their rights are strengthened.
  

• Video: Working For A Better Life
• Media Release: Workers have just one week left to tell their stories to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work

  Workers across the country have less than one week left to contribute their experiences to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia, with submissions set to close this Friday.