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    Currently we have 90,000 members throughout Australia in the transport industry. These women and men work in aviation, oil, waste management, gas, road transport, passenger vehicles and freight logistics. We represent employees of companies including Toll, Linfox, TNT, Bunkers, CEVA, Booths, Asciano, K & S, Startrack, Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Blue and many, many more. Contact your state branch to become a member of TWU.

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ABC News Breakfast Interview with TWU National Secretary Tony Sheldon

May 20

Campaigns

  • Ending Exploitation of Skilled Migration

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    Whether you have a 60,000-year family heritage in Australia or you arrived last week, all workers in Australia should have equal rights and be free from the threat of exploitation.   Despite the vast majority of Aussie businesses playing by the rules, there are some unscrupulous employers who are exploiting loopholes that currently exist in Australia’s skilled migration systems. These bosses are engaging in a blatant attempt to undermine Australian labour conditions and evade their responsibility to educate and train local workers by creating an underclass of underpaid and overworked foreign workers.

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  • Safe and Secure Australian Skies

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    Across the world and even right here in Australia, aviation workers are under attack. Employers like Qantas and other major airlines are showing through their actions that they don't care about human rights or Australian standards. They're exporting Aussie jobs and importing human rights abuses. That’s not Australian, and that’s why we are standing up for Safe and Secure Australian Skies.

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News

  • Union Movement Must Lead on Australian Values

    May 20

    Unions need to take the intellectual lead in spelling out a vision for the future of Australia, according to National Secretary Tony Sheldon's speech to the TWU National Council.

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  • Coalition IR Policy A U-turn on Road Safety

    May 9

    Plans announced by the Coalition to review the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal in the event of winning September’s Federal election ignore all of the evidence collected over twenty years showing a direct relationship between pay and conditions for truck drivers and road safety.

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Events

  • 2013 TWU National Council

    May 20 - 23

    Minister for Transport Anthony Albanese, Cardinal George Pell, Senator Nick Xenophon, former Qantas Chief Economist Tony Webber and Dr Joo-Cheong Tham, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School are just some of the guests who will be attending the Transport Workers’ Union National Council, which takes place at Sky City, Gilruth Ave, Darwin Northern Territory from Monday May 20th to Thursday May 23rd.

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  • 2012 Safe Rates Survey Results

    April 13

    More than 950 truck drivers completed the 2012 Safe Rates Survey at truck stops, depots and distribution centres right across the country as well as online. Check out the startling findings.

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