Join Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA
Live your union values. live your solidarity!
We have set some ambitious membership goals – because we have to. We need a reliable, independent funding source and as we increasingly focus all our international work on social and union movement building and struggles we need a member base ready to take action in solidarity with our partners.
Six reasons to become a member
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We are the Australian union movement’s global justice organisation
Everything we do is set in our union values. Unionists are generous and understand the need for us all to chip-in to win what we set out to achieve.
If we all chip-in with a monthly contribution we can, collectively, support important work internationally.
Our work is centred in union and allied social movement building
Unions reduce inequality. In countries the world over, unions lift wages at the workplace and also impact government policy on social policy – like funding for school education and health care, regulation of the cost of energy and influence tax policy. According to all the research, less inequality brings more happiness.
We help build powerful movements of organised people
World history is on the side of organised people’s movements – from the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa to the movement in support of independence for East Timor to the organised movement that fought Workchoices. Social movements achieve significant change and make large-scale impacts in the global fight against inequality and injustice.
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We are all connected to the world
While we fight to save our jobs here from workers on visas being paid $2 an hour, we have to also fight to lift the wage levels in their countries of origin, or we will never stem the flow. We may be well organised to demand the right to government regulation in multi-country trade deals, but if workers and communities are not well organised in counterpart countries we won’t win.
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We’re on a winning thing
For 40 years Australian unionists have backed APHEDA with amazing tales to tell. We are excited about the things we can do over the next 40 years, all of us, together, as internationalist unionists and supporters of global justice.
Our work is vitally important
Our work connects with the work of the Australian movement. We work to support stronger union and social movements in 14 countries across Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.
We work in partnership with 42 local unions and community organisations through 30 projects and campaigns that we’re proud to undertake with communities in our region and beyond.
See our Projects and Campaigns
Do Global Justice. The Union Way.