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.
Without wage increases, this budget is a failure
May 13, 2021
The budget has failed as a plan to revive Australia’s social infrastructure and as a plan for economic recovery, writes Chloe Ward
Who’s trying to stop you getting a pay rise?
April 30, 2021
We’ve rounded up the last five years of Annual Wage Review submissions to see who is trying to stop you from getting a pay rise
Making the case for a living wage
April 9, 2021
A real, meaningful increase to the minimum wage is not only the right thing to do, but makes plenty of sense, writes Chloe Ward.
Break it down for me: changes to the minimum wage
March 26, 2021
Pay rises don’t just happen. Somebody has to ask for them.
This week, Australian Unions are doing just that. We’re making our case to the annual wage review for a rise in the minimum wage. Let’s break down what the annual wage review is and what it could mean for you.
The minimum wage will increase 2020
June 21, 2020
Each year, Australian Unions works to increase the minimum wage for all workers.
The minimum wage should be a living wage
July 11, 2018
Australia’s a great place to live with a high standard of living, and we want…
Wage theft – the new model for big business
September 8, 2017
No worker should ever have their wages stolen, but it has become a widespread and…
Trickle down inequality exposed
August 23, 2016
One of the defining concepts that underpins much of Malcolm Turnbull’s economic ideas – and pretty much every conservative government going back to Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s – is the belief in “trickle down”.