Election
Stay Informed and Empowered During Elections with Australian Unions
Elections shape the future of our workplaces and communities. At Australian Unions, we empower union members to stay informed and actively participate in the electoral process, ensuring that workers’ voices are heard and represented. This page provides essential updates, insights, and information on upcoming elections, key political issues affecting workers, and how unions are advocating for better policies that benefit all employees.
How Union Members Shape Election Outcomes
Union members play a crucial role in influencing election outcomes and securing better conditions for workers across Australia. Advocating for fair minimum wages to push for stronger workplace protections, and equal gender pay gap, unions work tirelessly to ensure that political leaders prioritise workers’ rights. Here, you can stay up-to-date with campaign developments, election news, and learn how being apart of a union can amplify your voice and help elect leaders who stand up for the working class.
Your Voice Matters — Join The Movement Today
Union members not only protect their own rights but also shape the future of Australian workplaces through collective action in the political arena. By joining your union, you ensure that your voice is part of the collective power pushing for positive change in elections and beyond. Together, we can drive policies that benefit all workers, ensuring fair pay, job security, and better working conditions.
Read our articles below for more information on Union Elections!
Like your work-life balance and job security?
April 30, 2025
Dutton is a risk to your job flexibility and stability.
Relying on penalty rates to make ends meet?
April 27, 2025
A vote for Dutton is a vote to scrap your penalty rates.
Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms lift wages by $6.3 billion
December 3, 2024
The Albanese Labor Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay workplace reforms – won by union members – have boosted economy-wide wage growth by $6.3 billion over the past year.
20 reasons why the gender pay gap is closing faster
November 19, 2024
The gender pay gap now at its lowest point ever at 11.5%. If we continue to progress as we are, the gender pay gap in Australia could close completely within nine years.
Confirmed: Your work rights are on the line this election
October 14, 2024
Business groups are lobbying Peter Dutton and the Coalition to cut workers’ pay and conditions ahead of the federal election.
Working people would be $4,700 worse off if Dutton was PM
August 28, 2024
If annual wage growth had continued at the same low rate as under the last Coalition government, the average Australian worker’s wages or salary would be $4,700 less today.
Dutton is coming for your workplace protections
July 11, 2024
Peter Dutton has already committed to turning secure jobs into casual jobs, repealing the right to disconnect and standing against minimum standards for gig workers.