04 February 2010

Workers from five rigs attended a meeting in Fremantle on the 2nd of February to hear reports from AWU/MUA Alliance officials on the many positive developments in the campaign to organise workers in the exploration industry.
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• Reserve Bank has done the right thing by working families by keeping rates on hold - 02 February 2010
• Manufacturing workers and their families would take a big hit if Joe Hockey became Treasurer - 21 January 2010
• Meeting of Offshore Alliance rig workers in February - 14 January 2010
• Australia's strategic interests threatened by refinery shutdown: AWU - 03 January 2010

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What does it mean for me?
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• National Asbestos Register
• The Manufacturing Alliance - A Country That Makes Things
• The New Steel Plan
• Rights on Site
• Precarious Work, affects us all

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Union officials have again been denied access under Commonwealth OHS laws to a John Holland worksite after a worker suffered injury when a wall collapsed.
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• New OHS laws must make employers provide safe workplaces say unions
• Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws
• BHP Cannington mine fights for silence - newspaper report
• New OHS laws must make employers provide safe workplaces say unions
• Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws
• BHP Cannington mine fights for silence - newspaper report
• New OHS laws must make employers provide safe workplaces say unions
• Safe Work Week timely reminder of human cost of workplace tragedies and need for strong OHS laws
• BHP Cannington mine fights for silence - newspaper report