Workers & unions

  • May Day Parade

    • Muloobinba/Newcastle

    Join us for our May Day Parade to celebrate International Workers Day! There will be carnival rides, food, stalls, entertainment and more. We'll be assembling outside Newcastle Museum, Workshop Way from 9.30 am to begin our march at 10 am to the Foreshore.

  • Public Sector Wages Rally

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    All West Australians need a pay rise.  All are welcome to join us in solidarity with our public sector workforce on Wednesday 17th August from 12:30pm on the steps of Parliament House. In less than a year we've twice changed State Wages Policy. The latest offer - a one-off payment of $2,500 to last two years and 3% a year when inflation is running at over 7%, comes on top of…

  • Community Rally for Hunter Offshore Wind

    • Muloobinba/Newcastle

    OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR JOBS, OUR FUTURE.

    Rally to support responsible development of Hunter offshore wind, for workers, our communities and the environment. Your voice matters, and we need it now more than ever. 

  • AT THE COALFACE: Worker Solidarity and Just Transition in the Hunter

    • Online

    The Hunter Region was built on coal and industry - and Newcastle is a union town. Now, a transition away from fossil fuel exports and towards renewable energy for workers and communities is necessary for climate action. Getting this massive change right in the Hunter will set a model for the whole country about what can happen when communities come together to put people above…

  • May Day Dinner: Green Left Fundraiser

    • Djilang/Geelong

    Annual Fundraiser for Green Left, May Day Dinner at Geelong Trades Hall. This year celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the MUA Patrick Dispute. Come along to celebrate union solidarity, hear from union and community activists who were there in 1998, and support Green Left. Tickets prices:  $50 Solidarity $30 Waged $15 Unwaged Geelong Trades Hall, 127 Myers Street,…

  • Woolloomooloo Radical Walking Tour

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    First Nations resistance, the militant class struggle events, women and queer organising, public housing battles and the Green Bans. All the people's history excluded from the annals of public memory because they challenge the order of colonial, then capitalist, governments.

  • International Womens Day Breakfast & Film Screening of 'Women of Steel'

    • Djilang/Geelong

    Geelong Women Unionists Network - GWUN are hosting a breakfast and film screening of 'Women of Steel' for International Womens Day on Saturday 6th March. Breakfast starts at 9am and the film starts at 10am. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director Robynne Murphy. BOOK TICKETS HERE: https://fan-force.com/screenings/women-of-steel-geelong-trades-hall-geelong/…

  • Forum: Los Angeles protests: Resisting Trump's deportations

    • Online
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney
    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Join this public forum with Los Angeles-based union organiser Thomas Malone, a member of the Democratic Socialist America, Bread and Roses caucus, about the huge anti-deportation protests in the US. 

  • Director Robynne Murphy discusses her documentary Women of Steel

    • Muloobinba/Newcastle

    Wollongong, 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks – the city’s main employer – working class / migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years. Their battle against BHP, the country’s richest and most powerful company, took them from factory gate to the highest court in the land and changed the rules for women throughout Australia

  • AUWU Boorloo meetup

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    AUWU beanies and scarves have arrived! We'll be handing them out free to unemployed workers and welfare recipients in WA. Grab a beanie, scarf, and some of our new rights fact sheets, meet fellow AUWU members and supporters, and help plan future union events and actions.