The UWU has closed Hospo Voice, Australia's first "digital-only" union, while maintaining it has provided valuable lessons and tools as organised labour seeks to counter its weakness in attracting and retaining young workers.
The leader of the ANMF's West Australian branch, Mark Olson, is stepping down after 24 years in the job and an often mercurial approach, which included taking the view that unions should not "shy away" from the Abbott Government's Heydon royal commission into trade unions.
The TWU says it has "ambitious plans" for a planned merger with the Virgin pilots union, expanding its longstanding industrial clout in the aviation sector "above and below the wing".
The TWU has struck a landmark agreement with food delivery business DoorDash on "core principles" for gig economy work that extends "appropriate" rights and entitlements to drivers and ensures they have a "collective voice" and access to dispute resolution.
The ACTU's first television advertisement of the election campaign seeks to sheet home the blame for wage stagnation to Prime Minister Scott Morrison's "inaction".
With Labor holding just a handful of the 30 federal seats in Queensland ahead of the May 21 election, unions are pouring resources into three Coalition-held electorates and say their messages on job security and wage stagnation and are "resonating" with voters.
The Australian Federal Police Association will use the national election campaign to push for its thousands of members to be exempted from the wages cap and efficiency dividend that applies across the APS.
The global labour movement has hailed the first successful ballot to be represented by a union at Amazon's US operations, in a David and Goliath struggle over a warehouse in New York City which is expected to energise organising in the US and around the world.
The ACTU has distributed to thousands of union member households a trio of election corflutes that seek to mock Prime Minister Scott Morrison over his 2019 Hawaiian holiday as the "black summer" bushfires roared, ahead of the Coalition's attempted spending counter-attack in today's Federal Budget
