While the issues within one of Australia’s most powerful unions need urgently addressing, fixing the conditions that keep women out of the industry looms as a much larger problem.
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As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
The jobs and skills summit, which concluded on Friday, has been a highly-managed exercise by the Albanese government in maximising policy and political productivity.
Employees at Amazon knew they were under constant surveillance and that the company had a history of sacking those who were pro-union.
The latest scandal involving the CFMMEU leader has the potential to cause serious damage to the Labor Party and the union movement.
Unions and Labor have a long history of working together, but if the ALP wins office, unions will have to compete with many other groups to get what they want.
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Sessional Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University