Working Life
12 Festive Fails: your workplace rights this Christmas
December 16, 2025
Yule be shocked by the common failures from bosses over the festive season. But the good news is, you’ve got rights! And your union can help you enforce them.
When the clock jumps, what happens to your pay?
October 2, 2025
Daylight saving starts 2am Sunday, 5 October 2025, when the clock jumps forward in NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and ACT. What does this mean for workers?
Everyone should pay their fair share of tax
August 19, 2025
A fairer tax system will strengthen our economy, support essential services, and secure a better future for the next generation.
Everyone deserves a secure future through affordable housing
August 12, 2025
Our current system is working directly against the interests of working people and younger Australians.
Have you got five minutes to shape your future?
July 17, 2025
If you could sit down with the federal government and the bosses of Australia, what would you say?
An interview with Liam Byrne, author of ‘No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia’
June 24, 2025
‘No Power Greater’ is filled with examples of working people coming together, taking action, and transforming Australia for the better, time and time again.
5 benefits of joining a union
February 10, 2025
More workers are realising that joining your union is the best decision you can make for your working life (and beyond). Here are five of the top benefits of joining your union.
55 years: From Zelda to our lowest gender pay gap ever
October 21, 2024
On 21 October 1969, legendary union activist Zelda D’Aprano chained herself to the doors of the Commonwealth Building to protest for Equal Pay.
Don’t let your retirement savings become a super-massive black hole
September 18, 2024
How would you feel if your boss opened your wallet, took cash out, and kept it for themselves – and got away with it? That’s exactly what is happening right now in super accounts all across Australia.
Union members win change this financial year
July 4, 2024
Today’s the start of a new financial year, and a number of changes that benefit workers – and workers’ wallets – have come into effect.