AWU NEWS Australian Workers' Union Victorians continue to face devastating loss of lives because the state is not employing enough people to fight bushfires, the Australia Workers' Union Victorian State Secretary, Cesar Melhem, told the Bushfires Royal Commission on Friday.http://www.awu.net.au/785092.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:22 +1000 Australian governments should leverage investment from foreign sovereign wealth funds to improve national infrastructure investment, skills and industry - through a new Sovereign Capital Trading Scheme, and a related Australian Endowment Fund, The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) said today.http://www.awu.net.au/421947.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:25 +1000 The Australian Workers' Union will pursue a nationwide campaign to improve conditions in the safety industry following Minister for Main Roads, Craig Wallace's decision to regulate the Traffic Controllers Industry in Queensland. http://www.awu.net.au/740735.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:39 +1000 The announcement that Chevron intends to import 25 000 tonnes of steel for the Gorgon Project in Western Australia means an opportunity for 2000 jobs including 300 apprenticeships will be lost.http://www.awu.net.au/791790.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:59:15 +1000 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.http://www.awu.net.au/530462.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 03:00:05 +1000 The Reserve Bank has done the right thing by keeping interest rates on hold, with the recent sequence of rate hikes putting extra pressure on household budgets, say unions.http://www.awu.net.au/18266.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:59:30 +1000 Joe Hockey's announcement that he wanted to slash subsidies to key Australian manufacturing industries would put at risk the security of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers and their families.http://www.awu.net.au/274846.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:57:18 +1000 Oil rig workers are holding a meeting early in February to discuss the rig workers campaign in 2010 and the growth of the Off-Shore oil workers alliance.http://www.awu.net.au/113120.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:57:58 +1000 Australia's strategic interests are threatened by the shutdown of the Caltex Lubricating Oil Refinery at Kurnell and should immediately be reconsidered, the National Secretary of The Australian Workers' Union, Paul Howes, said.http://www.awu.net.au/939440.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:31 +1000 AWU members returning to work after the summer vacation may have queries about the new Modern Awards which came into place on New Years' Eve.http://www.awu.net.au/428701.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:59:22 +1000 New minimum employment standards that come into effect on New Year's Day will be good for all Australian workers and represent a major step forward from WorkChoices, say unions.http://www.awu.net.au/527801.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:46 +1000 Paul Howes, on behalf The AWU would like to wish all our members, delegates, their families and friends a happy Holiday Season and a safe and prosperous New Year.http://www.awu.net.au/110918.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:57:44 +1000 Events in countries around the world are about to begin to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW) in 1990.http://www.awu.net.au/523234.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:14 +1000 This holiday season The Australian Workers' Union is backing the creation of the World's Biggest Relief Package a project of the UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, who provide and coordinate international relief for refugees and displaced people.http://www.awu.net.au/520027.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:59:27 +1000 A sharp rise in work-related fatalities last year shows that proposed new workplace health and safety laws need to be strengthened, not watered down, say unions.http://www.awu.net.au/626485.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:01 +1000 Tony Abbott has signaled that he is not going to pull any punches in his war on workplace rights with the appointment today of Senator Eric Abetz as his IR spokesperson, AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes, said today.http://www.awu.net.au/258906.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:57:36 +1000 The Australian Workers' Union Victorian Branch is angered by plans to cut 90 jobs at the Geelong Plant of Alcoa Australia Rolled Products.http://www.awu.net.au/516936.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:02 +1000 New Liberal leader Tony Abbott's promise to bring back WorkChoices under a different name will mean the jobs of working Australians will be less secure if the Coalition is elected.http://www.awu.net.au/470129.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:57:50 +1000 The Australian Workers' Union is hoping that in the next few hours industry leaders will let Liberal Senators know that any vote to delay the Federal Government's CPRS legislation is unsustainable.http://www.awu.net.au/945813.htmlSat, 20 Feb 2010 02:58:52 +1000