The Australian Workers Union

Tasmanian Office Locations

Tasmanian Office
6 Lefroy Street
North Hobart
Tasmania 7002

Phone : (03) 6234 6744

Facsimile : (03) 6234 5712

Email admin@awutas.org.au

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Tasmania News

Tasmanian Campaign Organiser - 26 May 2010
Looking for an exciting job - and you really believe in the Aussie Fair Go , then the Australian Workers' Union is the place for you.

Rights at Work Campaigners demand to know: Where is Will Hodgman on IR? - 12 March 2010
Noting the conspicuous absence of Senator Eric Abetz on the campaign trail in the Tasmanian state election, Rights at Work campaigners today brought Will Hodgman face to face with an outsized version of Senator Abetz.

Tassie photo exhibit breathes new life into reality of asbestos scourge - 25 February 2010
The Australian Workers' Union is happy to be one of the sponsors of an extraordinary photographic portrait exhibition, putting a heart-rending sympathetic focus on the widows who have lost husbands to asbestos related diseases in Australia.

Golf Day - 11 February 2010
The National Jockeys Trust will be holding a golf day at Kingston Beach Golf Club on Monday the 15th of March.

Joint winners of Forestry trainee award named after AWU member - 19 January 2010
Judges for an annual award for Forestry Trainees, introduced as an initiative of the Australian Workers' Union and Forestry Tasmania as an incentive for young workers, had a difficult task separating contenders this year, so they took the commonsense approach and declared joint winners.

Manufacturing Alliance meets with Tassie workers - 27 November 2009
Australia's two largest blue collar unions are in Tasmania today as part of a national campaign to secure manufacturing jobs for the future.

New book on Tasmanian Premier, and former AWU organiser, to be launched - 25 November 2009
Electric Eric is a new biography on the highly respected Tasmanian Premier, Eric Reece, to be launched later this week in Hobart.

AWU welcomes new backing for West Coast miners out of work - 15 October 2009
The Australian Workers' Union Tasmania branch has welcomed the Tasmanian Government's support for the more than 180 Mt Lyell miners who were put of work in August - because of a mudslide which shut down the Queenstown mine.

Tassie miners receive $600,000 in assistance - 09 October 2009
The Australian Workers' Union has welcomed the announcement today by Vedanta and Copper Mines of Tasmania to put together an assistance package to help mine workers through the current stand-down period.

AWU National Secretary and delegation of Mt Lyell workers to meet with Premier Bartlett this morning - 28 September 2009
AWU National Secretary Paul Howes will lead a delegation of Mt Lyell workers to meet with Tasmanian Premier Bartlett about their predicament, having spent a month stood down while their workplace is remediated following a mudslide.

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Workers protected from dodgy bosses rip-offs

25 July 2010

Union members and their families will welcome today's announcement that the Gillard Government plans to improve the protection of workers' entitlements, and crack down on unscrupulous bosses, AWU National Secretary, Paul Howes , said today.
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