Today’s jobs data ramps up the urgent need for a rates cut when the Reserve Bank of Australia meets next month.

The ACTU warns that the current push by Coalition members to cut superannuation will cost the average 30-year-old worker around $165,000 in retirement income.

Today’s inflation figures offer further signs of a clear pathway for the Reserve Bank of Australia to start cutting official interest rates at its first policy meeting in February. The monthly CPI ...

Employers can face jail time or fines of up to $7.85 million under new laws criminalising wage theft that come into operation today, after a long union campaign.

Unions warn that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal announced today will drive up power bills and worsen the cost-of-living for working people. The seven proposed nuclear reactor sites ...

Working Australians want the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut official interest rates at the final opportunity for the year when the RBA’s two-day Board meeting wraps up tomorrow. ACTU Secretary Sally ...

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 ...

The ACTU welcomes the establishment of a $120 million fund to compensate more than 1800 Qantas workers who were illegally sacked by the airline in 2020 – the largest case of illegal terminations in ...

The ACTU has branded a new workplace policy agenda being advanced by the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) as extreme. COSBOA is lobbying for the definition of a small ...

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 ...