The 1938 Dalfram dispute involved dock workers at Port Kembla in Australia striking & refusing to load iron on a ship bound for Japan in 1938.
Learn about the maritime strike in the Torres Strait Islands in 1936 where workers in the pearl fishing industry took a stand against racism.
About the different union campaigns for wage equality for First Nations workers in Australia in the 1960s.
On 21 April in 1856, building workers in Melbourne took strike action and won the eight-hour day as a general industry standard.
31 August is Equal Pay Day-Australian unions have a long history of campaigning for gender equality & for the economic independence of women workers.
The first nation-wide meeting of unions in Australia took place in October 1879. It was called the Intercolonial Trade Union Congress.
Learn more about legendary union activist, leader and organiser Emma Miller, who was born on the 26th of June 1839.
Commemorating Australian poet, Henry Lawson, who in the late nineteenth century was a superstar of working-class poetry.
Unions have a long history of campaigning for superannuation.There were union campaigns for retirement schemes as far back as the 1920s.
A short history of how unions in Australia campaigned over the decades for the right to annual leave.
Read about the infamous 1998 Waterfront dispute with the dockworkers, Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores.
An inspiring example of collective action by Aboriginal workers and their allies against powerful corporate interests who wanted to trample their rights for profit.
Remembering former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU - legendary Bob Hawke.
This is the story of Muriel Heagney, an extraordinary unionist who led a 60-year long campaign for equal pay for working women.
A Sheep Shearer’s strike began in Queensland in 1891 when employers sought to introduce union-busting contracts and a reduction in pay rates.
Learn about the leaders of a strike in 1957 by Aboriginal people on Palm Island demanding to be treated with dignity, respect & equality.
Brief history of the union campaign in Australia for equal pay for women which led to the “equal pay for work of equal value” decision in 1972.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU campaign for equal pay for women workers started with a conference in 1941.
Have you heard the story of the trade union contribution to the struggle for equality? Read about the hidden history of LGBTIQA+ and unionists.
Learn about the Wave Hill walk off and strike in 1966 by the Gurindji people who fought for award wages, land rights and self-determination.
In 1907 the Commonwealth Conciliation & Arbitration Court delivered the famous Harvester Judgement enforcing a basic rate of pay.
On 8 December 1981, unionists in the metal industry voted to end a long industrial campaign, and won the 38-hour week.
The first of May has long been a day of celebration for the international workers’ movement. Why do we celebrate May Day?
In 1999 the Australian union movement sprung into action to show solidarity with the people of East Timor by protesting.
Documentary about the Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 - a watershed event in Australian industrial relations history.
Learn about one of the worst industrial disasters in Australia’s history: the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne in 1970.
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