Submarine builder ASC has acknowledged industrial action underway at its headquarters at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide and pledged to work for a mutually beneficial outcome to the dispute. However according to an unconfirmed report on Channel 7 news the government owned business cut a proposed wage rise of 10 percent to 6.75 percent, suggesting…
South Australian submarine workers have decided to walk off the job this morning at 7.30am at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in a dispute over unequal pay in the rapidly growing sector. The ASC maintenance and sustainment facility will come to a standstill as 350 trades and operator support workers take protected industrial action over poor…
Manufacturing leaders have welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of a Future Made in Australia Act and greater focus from Canberra to supporting industry development. The Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark Australia Belinda Driscoll, said the company’s sole manufacturing plant in regional South Australia which produces VIVA, Kleenex, and Scott products, contributes over half…
A new report has identified potential economic benefits from manufacturing above the generalised calls for Australia to become a renewables superpower. The report from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Climate Action Network Australia, and the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures lays out the opportunities and actions required to stake out Australia’s value-added future.…
The federal government has declared a new offshore wind zone for electricity generation in the Southern Ocean off western Victoria with trade unions immediately calling for stronger local content rules. This, the third officially declared offshore wind zone in the country, will generate up to 2.8 GW of offshore wind energy, a fact welcomed by…
Things have gone sour at Mondalez International’s Cadbury chocolate factory at Claremont, Tasmania with the company in dispute with the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) over better wages and conditions. AMWU members at at Claremont are continuing a stop-work campaign, with nearly 400 AMWU members taking four hour-long work stoppages each fortnight as they push…
Mambers of major trade unions the ETU and AMWU members have hit railway engineering firm UGL’s Newcastle operations as they escalated their dispute over pay. More than 120 workers at the locomotive manufacturing and rail maintenance site at Broadmeadow, Newcastle walked off the job again on Friday to fight for fair pay, according to a…
