Pull Future Made In Australia funding for failures, thinktanks say
Labor’s major plan to reinvigorate Australian manufacturing needs the ability to pull taxpayer funding from underperforming projects, industry think tanks say.
Net Zero Authority and Agency will guide industry transition
Bills to establish a Net Zero Economy Authority and Net Zero Economy Agency to guide industry and the economy’s transition to net zero emissions have passed the Senate and will soon be signed into law. The Bill establishes a new independent statutory authority to promote orderly and positive economic transformation as the world decarbonises. Billed…
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Dettmer announces retirement National President of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union Andrew Dettmer has announced that he will resign from the role, effective September 1. In an update on Linkedin on Thursday, Dettmer shared: “It’s been an amazing adventure. Very proud of my union and all that it’s achieved in its 172 years. I’ve been…
AUKUS submarine workers continue strike action at ASC
South Australian submarine workers have begun strike action at the government owned ASC maintenance and sustainment facility in Adelaide as they continue their long running dispute seeking pay parity with ASC workers in Western Australia. The 350 workers, members of the AMWU, AWU and ETU, who began their protected strike action in early May took…
ASC pledges to work with striking workers but cuts pay offer – report
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…
Essential submarine workers strike over unequal pay
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…
Industry, unions welcome Future Made in Australia Act
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…
New energy superpower to new energy manufacturer – report
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.…
Unions call for local content in offshore wind power
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 not so sweet at Cadbury Claremont
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…