Union Growth

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6 February, 2025 1:00pm AEDT

Australia’s union movement has recently experienced remarkable growth. From 2022 to 2024, union membership grew by 12.3% – the largest increase in over a decade!

This session provides some analysis of this growth and what it means for the union movement going forward. This meeting included presentations from:

Professor Emeritus David Peetz (pre-recorded): A deep analysis of the trends behind union membership growth.
Mick Weise, National Organising and Training Director, Mining and Energy Union: Organising in the mining sector alongside same job, same pay laws.
Robbie Moore, State Secretary, HACSU Tasmania: recruitment, retention and blitz organising strategies that drove significant growth.

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Audio and Video recordings of this meeting along with presentation slides and the extended, full interview with David Peetz will be placed here in the week commencing 10 February, 2025.

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