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	PlanetPapers - Australian Council Of Trade Unions
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions or ACTU is Australia’s dominant association and governing body of the trade union movement in Australia.
		The ACTU believes that the reason for this is due to the changes in the composition of the Australian workforce and the structure of the economy.
		Education union delegates in fields, which are not solely in their workplace.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4595.php (1334 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
		The Australian Workers' Union joined the ACTU in 1967, and the ACTU's merger with two leading federations of white-collar unions, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, in 1979, and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, in 1981, gave it about 2,500,000 members, or more than three-fourths of the trade-union membership in Australia.
		The ACTU's policy-making body, a biennial congress, is made up of delegates from state branches of the federation (called trades and labour councils) and from affiliated trades unions.
		1927 - 1947 Australasian Council of Trade Unions
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0155b.htm (351 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ACTU was formed in 1927 as the "Australasian Council of Trade Unions".
		Currently the ACTU is opposed by another peak council, the Australian Council of Professional Associations which caters to a small number of non-union bodies.
		The white collar bodies were: the Council of Professional and Commercial Employees Association (1948), which became the Council of White Collar Associations (1954), which amalgamated with the Salaried Employees Consultative Council of New South Wales (1954) to become the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (ACSPA) in 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Council_of_Trade_Unions (795 words)

	ARPA: Women in unions
		In 1998, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Jennie George told a large group of union women that she could not have possibly done her job, or held a leadership position within her own union if she had had children.
		The book is in part case studies of a small group of union leaders and activists from South Australia; and in part a political analysis of the way union women express their feminism within the politics of the Australian union movement.
		Franzway acknowledges that the Australian union movement is not homogenous, but the conclusions she draws are by nature limited by the scope of her case studies.
	www.australianreview.net /digest/2002/10/mcmanus.html (1517 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Labor Goes Global in Australia
		Currently, lesbian trade union activists are more prominent than gay male activists, not only in white collar or "traditionally female" sectors like nursing, teaching and community services, but also in industrial sectors, like the meat industry, and manufacturing.
		In 1984, gay union activists and their allies led several trade unions to adopt policies on HIV with regards to occupational health, pensions, discrimination and prevention education.
		Unions are campaigning to free the refugees in detention, mostly Kurds, Palestinians, Iraqis, Iranians and Afghanis.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/020813_gay_unions_aus.html (1647 words)

	ACTU \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		In the Australian case, agitation for One Big Union occurred from 1911 from the revolutionary Australian section of the IWW and from the pro-arbitration Australian Workers Union (AWU).
		In 1918 after the destruction of the Australian IWW a group of militant trade unions (which were opposed to the AWU) attempted to form One Big Union under the name Workers Industrial Union of Australia (WIUA).
		It was the impetus of a conservative Federal government in 1927 which impelled the Australian trade unions to form a national council.
	www.babylon.com /definition/ACTU/English (328 words)

	Australian union official arrested during industrial row
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions claims the arrest is unprecedented, and the UN has interfered with the right to take industrial action.
		The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sharran Burrow, says Mr Killick took part in a legitimate, peaceful protest and his arrest was unwarranted.
		The ACTU protested yesterday to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the International Labor Organisation and Australia's consulate in Timor after the unionist, Michael Killick, was removed from a picket line at Dili Airport and jailed on Sunday.
	www.etan.org /et2003/october/07-13/08austr.htm (1069 words)

	Remarks by Sharan Burrow, President, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and Australian Council of Trade ...
		It is therefore critical that unions act through the ICFTU and Global Union Federations to organise workers everywhere, to bargain collectively across the global reach of the Men’s and to include demands for respect of labour rights through the supply chains.
		Union action must work for union members and thus our strength must also hold politicians accountable for the rights that their citizens are entitled to.
		The challenge for fair trade, a trading system that drives employment everywhere and guarantees that human rights and core labour standards are respected is greater and yet more obvious than ever.
	www.aflcio.org /mediacenter/prsptm/sp07272005g.cfm?RenderForPrint=1 (2365 words)

	Ed Davis \| The ACTU Congress of 2003 \| Labour History, 85 \| The History Cooperative
		The 2003 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress was held in Melbourne from 18–21 August.
		The ACTU's standing in the international union movement was suggested by the very high profile of the speakers and their glowing tributes to the ACTU and Australian unions.
		Unions believe that Australian businesses and their executives have a responsibility to engage in legal and ethical conduct and environmentally sustainable practices at all times with employees, stakeholders and the community.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/85/davis.html (7774 words)

	Victorian Trades Hall Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tailoresses Union was formed in Melbourne and it succeeded in gaining improvements in tailoresses' wages and working conditions, when they went on strike in support of a "catalogue of claims".
		Many unions of today owe their existence to unions that were established by women.
		Although the nature of unions changes continuously, one thing remains constant, that is, unions are continually under attack by employers and governments.
	www.vthc.org.au /index.cfm?section=4&category=48 (1413 words)

	Australian trade unions reject national strike against BHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) ruled out a national 24-hour stoppage across all BHP's divisions after meeting on Monday with the five unions in dispute over the resource company's introduction of individual work contracts at its iron ore sites in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
		Last month Australian Workers Union federal secretary Graham Roberts said that the five unions involved in the dispute had informed the company, through the ACTU, that they were committed, “to bring about world's best practice that would substantially lower costs in the Pilbara operations”.
		In fact, the unions have been able to use the pent-up hostility felt by many workers toward BHP over the continuing destruction of working conditions and jobs (the result of past collective bargaining agreements negotiated by the unions) to bring workers out behind the present campaign.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/bhp-j26.shtml (1018 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Australian Government's New Anti-Union Laws
		The Australian government is using its newly-acquired majority in the Senate to rush through industrial relations legislation, to dramatically reduce the rights of workers to union representation, collective bargaining, minimum employment standards and protection from unfair dismissal.
		Unions can be fined $30,000 if they seek to reach agreement with employers on unfair dismissal, union training leave, use of subcontractors and a range of other matters;
		On 15 November, the Australian Council of Trade Unions is organising a national day of protest against the new laws.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/view/2208/1/131 (443 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions
		The ACTU has called on the Federal Government to hurry up and deliver a pay rise for low paid workers struggling to cope with the rising cost of living as a wage freeze caused by the Government's IR laws enters its sixteenth month....
		The ACTU today condemned the Federal Government's move to issue visas for temporary overseas workers that undercut by $6,000 the current minimum salary levels for the skilled migrant program....
		A new ACTU analysis of ABS data shows the IR changes are starting to bite into workers' take home pay with the latest data showing that in the last twelve months average earnings failed to keep pace with inflation for the first time in five years....
	www.actu.asn.au (809 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions ('''ACTU''') is the peak national body representing workers in Australia.
		This makes the ACTU one of the earliest attempts by Trade Unions to apply the principles of One Big Union earlier explored by more radical syndicalist Unions like the CNT or revolutionary industrial unions like the IWW.
		The ACTU's Australian Trade union precursors include state labour councils like the Victorian Trades Hall Council (originating in 1856 as the Melbourne Trades Hall Committee), the Labor Council of New South Wales (originally formed in 1870 as the Sydney Trades and Labor Council) and the Inter-Colonial Trade Union Congress (formed in 1879).
	australian-council-of-trade-unions.iqnaut.net (265 words)

	Health and Community Services Union: : Press Release - Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) - 26 May 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Millions of Australian workers are set to lose their access to award conditions, protections from unfair dismissal and an effective safety net of minimum wages under new workplace reforms announced by the Prime Minister John Howard earlier today.
		The changes announced by the Government are an assault on the rights and living standards of Australian workers.
		Unions will fight to protect the rights of Australians at work.
	www.hacsutas.asn.au /news/197.html (475 words)

	National Union of Workers - What is the Australian Council Of Trade Unions (ACTU)?
		The ACTU is the peak organisation which represents unions in Australia and internationally.
		The ACTU was established in Melbourne in 1927 when the State Labour Councils and the then federal unions recognised the need for an organisation to represent the national interests of the unions.
		Today the ACTU speaks on behalf of all its member unions on issues that are of interest to all Australian workers.
	www.nuw.org.au /faq/faq9 (197 words)

	ACTU - Being Bossed Around Is Bad For Your Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This campaign aims to raise awareness amongst the community, workers, unions, employers, health professionals, OHS authorities and governments that bullying is a serious health and safety hazard.
		It is estimated that 350,000 people are subjected to long term bullying in Australia, while 2.5 million experience some aspect of bullying over the course of their working lives.
		Over half the respondents (53%) to union surveys report an unhappy and oppressive workplace, and 54% say that that intimidating behaviour - shouting, ordering and belittling people happens in their workplaces.
	actu.labor.net.au /public/resources/bullying (176 words)

	Who is who in the War on the Wharfies
		The ACTU has also confirmed that former Dubai trainees, now employed with P and C are still on the payroll of Fynwest, the recruiting company for the Dubai exercise.
		Union officials say he was an active infiltrator of union meetings and picket lines, trying to urge workers to cross the line.
		Unions said yesterday the shields were evidence of State Government involvement in the Webb Dock non-union labor push.
	www.takver.com /wharfie/who.htm (4811 words)

	ACTU: OHS: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Health and safety issues were prominent on the agenda at ACTU Congress 2003 held from the 18-21 August in Melbourne.
		On 13 and 14 May 2003, the Australia Council of Trade Unions convened a seminar in Sydney on occupational health and safety, including the impacts of changes in the labour market and work organisation.
		This campaign is about unions, health and safety representatives and workers using their legal rights to deal with such hazards such as stress, bullying and dangerous hours, and to improve health and safety on the job.
	www.actu.asn.au /public/ohs (600 words)

	Labour market reform versus the Australian Industrial Relations Commission
		Keith Hancock, former research officer for the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), is another critic of market solutions who never allows economic reasoning to reveal the role unions played in creating our unemployment problem.
		Several years ago he wrote a sanctimonious letter to the Australian in which he asserted that “if the Government were attracted to the idea of reducing real wages to counter unemployment, it should see to ensure that all wage-earners, and not only those dependent on awards, participate in the sacrifice”.
		According to this view unions are necessary to force wage rates to the zone’s maximum point otherwise it will pay employers to use their superior bargaining power to force wage rates down to the bottom of the zone.
	www.brookesnews.com /052208hancock.html (1086 words)

	Australian economy, unions, minimum wages and unemployment
		The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) is now pushing for another rise for the low-paid.
		In early 200 Grant Belchamber, the ACTU’s chief research officer argued that a study by the British Low Pay Commission had found that the last rise in the minimum wage had caused no “overall” effect on the country’s employment level.
		This reasoning could be used to argue that in the absence of union pressure employers could use their ‘superior bargaining power’ to force wage rates down to the bottom of the zone.
	www.brookesnews.com /052609mw.html (1208 words)

	Newcastle Trades Hall Council - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Newcastle Trades Hall Council is the peak Union body in the Hunter and works closely with Unions NSW (Labor Council of NSW) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U. This co-operation means that State and National campaigns are co-ordinated and run on behalf of Unions by the NTHC.
		At present the Newcastle Trades Hall Councils main campaign is the opposition to the proposed changes to the Workplace Relations Act of 1996 that will begin to move into legislation when the Conservatives take control of the Senate in July 2005.
		The Union movement is the only organised force that can stand up to the Governments Draconian agenda and on behalf of the working class we must ensure we not only oppose the Industrial Relations agenda of this Government but its attacks on Health, Education and Welfare.
	www.newtradeshall.com (325 words)

	A Response to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), by David Burton, Director of the Asia and ...
		A Response to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), by David Burton, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
		This letter was sent in response to a letter from Sharan Burrow, President of the ACTU, to the Managing Director of the IMF, which may be read at www.actu.asn.au, concerning the IMF's support for the federal government's recently proposed reforms of industrial relations in Australia.
		Bakvis from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions on October 6.
	www.imf.org /external/np/vc/2005/102705.htm (1112 words)

	Australian Council of Trade Unions (iii), ACTU - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
		Australian Council of Trade Unions (iii), ACTU - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
		Australian Council of Trade Unions (iii) (1981 -)
		Related Entries for Australian Council of Trade Unions (iii)
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0157b.htm (428 words)

	A Letter from the President of Australian Council of Trade Unions to the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China
		The continuing repression, arrest, and detention of Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) members in China is of increasing concern for the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
		Practitioners of Falun Gong are members of unions in Australia and have provided us with evidence of the extent of the repression in China.
		The continuance of the policy whereby people are dismissed from their work, are prevented from engaging in the work of their choice, and are condemned to labour camps because of their beliefs, could well be the basis of a complaint to the International Labour Organisations (ILO).
	clearwisdom.net /eng/2001/mar/07/wws030701_1.html (310 words)

	AUT - International solidarity with Australian unions
		Tomorrow, 15 November, is an international solidarity day with Australian trade unions who are fighting to maintain workersâ rights in the face of attack by the Australian government.
		It will be a major day of action in Australia, and trade unions around the world have been asked to protest at the local Australian Embassy.
		The Australian Council of Trade Unions reports that: 'The Howard governmentâs radical WorkChoices industrial relations agenda will hurt the quality of life of millions of Australians.
	www.aut.org.uk /index.cfm?articleid=1429 (256 words)

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