Wages
Fighting for fair wages and better pay for all workers
Union members are leading the fight for fair wages, ensuring that every worker is paid what they deserve. This section highlights how collective action is securing higher wages, stopping wage theft, and pushing for better pay conditions across industries. Through strong advocacy and negotiations, unions continue to improve minimum wage laws, ensure equal pay, and protect workers from underpayment and exploitation.
Securing wage increases and workplace protections
Unions have won key victories that deliver pay rises and safeguard workers’ rights. Whether it’s securing penalty rates, advocating for better award wages, or ensuring casual and part-time workers receive fair treatment, union members are driving change to improve wages and conditions. Learn how ongoing campaigns are making a real difference in workers’ pay packets.
Join the movement for wage justice
Being part of a union means having the power to demand better pay, fight against wage inequality, and ensure that all workers receive fair compensation for their work. Together, we can push for stronger laws, stop wage exploitation, and create a fairer, more just economy for every worker.
Read our articles below for more information about Worker’s Wages.
Do Millennials and Gen Z really have it that tough?
April 21, 2023
They grew up during the Global Financial Crisis, survived a decade of conservative governments, and now are well and truly adults. Millennials are thirty, flirty and so not thriving.
Six things you need to know about the minimum wage in 2023
April 12, 2023
Here are the six things you need to know about how everyone benefits from fair pay rises.
Why a 7% increase to the minimum wage is a matter of survival
April 3, 2023
For workers who rely on minimum wages, the sheer cost of living doesn’t mean missing out on takeaway coffee or streaming services. Those things are already long gone. It means cutting back on basic needs because there’s nothing else left to cut.
Early educators are out to win a massive pay rise. You can too.
February 17, 2023
How have we reached this point? Because wage growth has looked like a bumpy footpath for the past decade while corporate profits have scaled mountains.
One in four Australians skipping meals shows need to get wages moving again
December 1, 2022
It’s a shocking figure that has gained massive media attention, making headlines in the ABC and the Guardian. Even The Australian understands that one in four Australian skipping meals means we need urgent reform.
Three things workers need to see in tonight’s Federal Budget
October 25, 2022
Prices on everything are going up but our wages have failed to match those increases. The budget is a chance to turn the trend around. But don’t just take it from us. It’s what the experts are saying too.
Are you one of the workers who has just landed a pay rise? Here’s how to check
October 12, 2022
Do you work on a plane? Or in a café? Or conduct tours? If you…
How we can get wages growing again
September 1, 2022
Our workplace bargaining laws are overly and unnecessarily complicated. They no longer provide an even playing field for workers.
Having trouble getting decent pay? Fixing the bargaining system will change that
August 31, 2022
Keep an eye out of the next few days for the union movement’s positive plan to ensuring millions of workers can get a pay rise.
Sally McManus provides a key answer to fixing our low wages
August 25, 2022
We are staring in the face of a massive cost of living crisis where the prices everywhere have gone up but our wages have not. So what do we do to tackle such a big challenge?