Workers & unions

US women footballers go to court for pay equality
The mining union should join students fighting for a transition from coal
ALCOA workers reject enterprise agreement for third time

About 1600 members of the Australian Worker’s Union (AWU) employed at various ALCOA Aluminium refineries and bauxite mines throughout Western Australia again sent a strong message to the American multinational to negotiate a fairer Enterprise Bargaining Agreement after the company’s EBA was voted down on March 2.
Transdev WA bus drivers continue action for parity with other drivers
Hospitality workers organise against wage theft

Hospo Voice members and supporters who have been organising to combat wage theft were happy to hear on February 28 that the Fair Work Ombudsman had decided to investigate Le Bon Ton to ensure it is complying with Fair Work regulations.
Volunteer internships, wage theft and political hypocrisy
Ferry workers win dispute
Support the bus drivers’ action for wages and conditions
Letter from the US: Teachers strike blow against school privatisation
When England's footballers had to fight for their pay
New Vale mine disaster in Brazil is one more corporate failure

The world’s biggest producer of iron ore, Vale, has again distanced itself from an ecological and workplace disaster of its own making, writes Pip Hinman.
Iranian workers' protests confront a regime in crisis