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The Jobs and Skills Summit: what can be achieved when we listen to everyone

The Jobs and Skills Summit: what can be achieved when we listen to everyone

Published: 13/09/2022
Category: The Bulletin

ACTU Secretary Sally McManus joined us on The Bulletin this week to reflect on what came out of the Jobs and Skills Summit. 

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Compensating early educators critical for Australia’s future

Compensating early educators critical for Australia’s future

Published: 12/09/2022
Category: Women To The Front

The first five years of a child’s life are a critical period in human brain development. More than two decades of research has shown that interactions between educators and children are pivotal for optimal child learning – around language development, behavioural expectations, and emotional relationships. The effects of early childhood education are seen as far as secondary school.  

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Climate action could create hundreds of thousands of new, secure, well-paid jobs. If we act now.

Climate action could create hundreds of thousands of new, secure, well-paid jobs. If we act now.

Published: 12/09/2022
Category: Climate

There is a sunny future ahead for workers and their communities in the renewable export industry, but it will only ever remain on the horizon unless Australia acts now. 

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Qantas - the wounded Kangaroo

Published: 11/09/2022

For decades, Qantas was an institution that inspired a form of civic pride in most Australians.

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How unions make workplace mental health more than an annual check-in

How unions make workplace mental health more than an annual check-in

Published: 08/09/2022
Category: Work Health and Safety

If your employer is relying on days like R U OK to check in on your mental health – or worse, requesting workmates check in on each other one day a year without support from management – then that’s a huge red flag.

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It’s not just newspaper sizes that have shrunk. Journalists’ wages have too.

It’s not just newspaper sizes that have shrunk. Journalists’ wages have too.

Published: 08/09/2022
Category: Workers rights

The next time you read an article from The Age or the Sydney Morning Herald, have a look at the name attached to the piece. They may well be one of the freelancers who haven’t had an increase to their pay rates in 20 years.

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