“Elections are meant to help us decide what we think. But on one important issue we already know. Opinion poll after opinion poll shows most of us want the bloody business of live animal exports stopped. It’s our political leaders Read More
Read moreSenator Glenn Lazarus calls on the Government to put interests of Australians before overseas companies and save jobs in rural and regional Queensland in the meat processing sector!
Read moreThe Queensland Parliament is undertaking an Inquiry into the practices of the Labour Hire Industry in Queensland. If you have a story about how labour hire has impacted your working life go to www.securejobsqld.org.au and tell your story today.
Read moreCLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO SIGN THE PETITION!
Read moreAMIEU Queensland representatives are meeting with State and Federal members of parliament to discuss the alarming amount of stand downs and plant closures affecting meatworkers in the State. The JBS Townsville meatworks has not re-opened since shutting down prior to Read More
Read more12 January 2016 Statistics simply don’t support trade union royal commission claims of “widespread” corruption in the union movement. In Queensland, for example (a major focus of the Commission), one union official out of several hundred officials and organisers Read More
Read moreOnce again the AMIEU’s position has been vindicated with the Federal Court handing down a decision on Tuesday 5th January. The ‘incentive payment system’ does form part of the 2010 EA and pieceworkers are to be paid incentive rates under Read More
Read moreUnions welcome state inquiry into rogue labour hire firms Queensland unions have welcomed announcement today of a Palaszczuk government inquiry into rogue labour hire companies operating in the state. Regulation and licensing of labour hire firms is the first step Read More
Read moreA Taiwanese meatworker who went public with exploitation claims on the ABC’s 7.30 program two weeks ago has been stood down from her job at Wagga Wagga’s Teys Cargill abattoir. View the follow up story on Monday’s 7.30 program.
Read more