Air Traffic Controllers

The TWU is the only union that covers members across the entire aviation supply chain, above and below the wing.

Throughout the country, over 10,000 TWU aviation members—supported by 50,000 others across transport—united in our fight to raise standards for all workers in the industry.

On 17 December 2025, the FWCFB concluded that relevant employees of Airservices Australia, whose work is concerned with the provision of air traffic management services, are eligible to be members of the TWU and are thus entitled to have their industrial interests represented by the TWU. However, there is a second case being run by Civil Air seeking orders from the FWC that Civil Air is to have the right, to the exclusion of the TWU to represent under the FWRO Act and the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) the industrial interests of the employees employed by Airservices Australia who are eligible for membership of Civil Air. And that the TWU is not to have the right to represent under the FWRO Act or the FW Act the industrial interests of those employees.

If the FWCFB decides in favour of Civil Air then the TWU would no longer be able to represent your industrial interests, the hearing for that matter is scheduled for 18-20 January 2027