Fixing gender-based undervaluation in the Health Professionals and Support Services Award Quick Navigation Links Background The Fair Work Commission identified a number of nationwide sectors that are female-dominated, and susceptible to gender-based undervaluing in terms of the minimum wages that apply. This undervaluation arose from the first work to determine minimum wages, with those in…
Quick Navigation Links About In 2020, Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) began the Reproductive Health Leave campaign to ensure any person, regardless of their reproductive health challenges, can fully and meaningfully participate in work, and in turn are afforded the social and economic security they rightfully deserve. Reproductive health issues can affect anybody, at…
What is the Anna Stewart Memorial Project? Designed to encourage more women to be present and active in unions, the Anna Stewart Memorial Project is a structured, two week long internship program consisting of two days each week at Trades Hall, with the remaining days in a union of choice. In some cases women nominated…
Every day we work to protect health – but what’s the health impact of our super? Right now Aware Super, Australia’s health and community services industry super funds, is investing our money in fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels for electricity is hugely harmful to our health. Air pollution from coal-fired electricity…
We Are Union is a campaign by Victorian Trades Hall Council to encourage union activism! We welcome all members of the community to volunteer in our campaigns. We are campaigning hard on a range of issues that affect working people. We work together to achieve shared goals.To Volunteer Check out upcoming volunteer opportunities here or…
