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Annual General Meeting 2016
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 12th December from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the Unions NSW Executive Board Room, Level 3, Trades Hall, 377-383 Sussex Street, Sydney. All members are welcome to attend.
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Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA says YES to marriage equality
As the global justice organisation of the Australian union movement, we know how important it is to fight for a just and fair society for everyone. This includes fighting for the rights of our LGBTI brothers and sisters who want marriage equality.
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Australians have become complacent about asbestos
The Roman Empire used it for household goods, its name is derived from the Greek word for indestructible and evidence of it has even been found in ancient China. But despite the many volumes of scientific evidence proving its poisonous nature – and decades of campaigning by the Australian union movement – asbestos is now threatening to have a resurgence in Australia.
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Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA People: Meet Vinnie
This month we spoke with Vinnie Molina from Perth. Vinnie is a carpenter by trade and an organiser for the CFMEU Construction & General Division in Western Australia.
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Australian Unions Dug Deep To Help Pacific Island Cyclone Rebuilds
Australian unionists gave generously to provide support to workers and communities who had lost housing and livelihoods due to Vanuatu’s Cyclone Pam in 2015 and Fiji’s Cyclone Winston in 2016.
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Tackling Global Inequality
Inequality is on the rise in so many areas around the world. ACTU President, Ged Kearney, tackles some of the big questions on inequality in this speech delivered in Perth on Saturday 15 October at the Unions WA International Committee Conference.
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Myanmar’s Salween River is NOT FOR SALE
With the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef weighing heavily on the minds of many Australians, you could be forgiven for not having noticed the threat looming over Myanmar’s Salween River – another of the world’s great environmental treasures.
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Ramping Up The Fight On Asbestos
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA’s Executive Officer Kate Lee knows all too well why asbestos continues to be discovered on Australian building sites so many years after bans on the material were put in place. This month she updates us on how APHEDA is tackling this insidious...
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Crackdown on Students in PNG
University students in Papua New Guinea, who organised widespread protests calling on Prime Minister O’Neill to stand aside and face corruption charges, have again become the target of a ruthless crackdown – this time by their university.