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Michele O'Neil

June 2024

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with ACTU secretary Sally McManus at the union congress dinner in Adelaide on Wednesday.

Unions are at new heights of power. Now they just need to retain it

In the rocky world of industrial relations, the policy pendulum swings from one extreme to the other depending on who’s in power.

  • David Marin-Guzman

March 2023

ACTU President Michele O’Neil says unions are concerned about nuclear-powered submarines.

‘Nuclear-free’ unions fire warning over AUKUS pact

ACTU President Michele O’Neil says unions have long-standing support for a “nuclear-free defence policy”.

  • Andrew Tillett
ACTU president Michele O’Neil says a shorter work week would be great for everybody.

Workers endure ‘long hours’ and deserve a four-day week: ACTU

Michele O’Neil told the National Press Club studies overseas showed shorter working weeks boosted productivity, health and retention.

  • Tom McIlroy

September 2022

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and economist Danielle Wood who gave the opening keynote.

The summit where women roared

The gender split at the Jobs and Skills Summit was in stark contrast to former prime minister Bob Hawke’s 1983 economic gabfest, but did the presence of so many women have the desired outcome?

  • Sally Patten

July 2022

The ACTU’s Michele O’Neil said there will be no blank cheque for the government to expand the migratioin program

Government assures unions amid concerns over migration expansion

The ACTU has welcomed fast-tracking visa applications by 60,000 overseas skilled workers, but will play hardball on any shake-up of the migration intake.

  • Phillip Coorey
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July 2020

Michele O'Neil said the union movement would back the extension of IR crisis changes for employers who still needed JobKeeper.

ACTU backs emergency IR exemptions but only for JobKeeper

The ACTU will back the extension of emergency industrial relations exemptions for businesses deemed eligible for a new JobKeeper program.

  • Phillip Coorey

June 2020

ACTU president Michele O'Neil wants to maximise the number of full-time and permanent jobs at the reborn Virgin.

Virgin leaves workers in the dark

As the Virgin sale reaches another milestone, there is a general unwillingness to discuss the elephant in the room – the prospect of thousands of job losses.

  • Tony Boyd

October 2019

Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers defended the FTA deals as a net benefit to workers in a speech on Friday.

Union push to expel Labor MPs over free trade deals

Unions are backing motions that would expel Labor MPs who abandon job protections in free trade deals as anger rises at the party for siding with the Coalition.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Phillip Coorey
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham

Labor to support Indonesia, Peru and Hong Kong FTAs

Shadow trade minister Madeleine King has recommended Labor support legislation enabling three new free trade deals.

  • Phillip Coorey

September 2019

ACTU president Michele O'Neil said "disturbingly" the government's bill included no limits on retrospectivity when placing unions into administration.

Morrison government's union crackdown 'retrospective'

The ACTU says proposed anti-union laws could see the courts take control of a union based on industrial breaches that occurred before the bill passed.

  • David Marin-Guzman

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