Labour hire companies are achieving success on the backs of working people
Recently retired mine worker Rob Foot speaks with On the Job about the damaging effect of labour hire on mining communities.
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Time to act on Respect @ Work
When it comes to Respect @ Work for women, Australia needs urgent and decisive action not spin and rhetoric, writes Francis Leach
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(Working) Life in a Northern Town
People are always talking about mining, miners and their communities - but it occurred to us that hardly anyone is speaking with them.
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The war against COVID is also a fight for equality
The inequalities that existed before COVID-19 are widening as workers in insecure jobs suffer the worst of the pandemic, writes Francis Leach
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Reactive economic policy is no safeguard in a public health crisis
Without a JobKeeper wage subsidy, lockdowns will keep exacerbating and further entrenching patterns of inequality, writes Lauren Piko
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There’ll be no economic recovery without a wages recovery
It’s time to face the truth. Our wages problem is because of the weak bargaining power of workers, writes ACTU Secretary Sally McManus
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