Residential group homes are an essential public service for individuals living with disabilities. Homes provide a safe environment, supported by public sector workers who have dedicated their careers to caring for individuals with high support needs.    Privatising these services will leave families with nowhere to turn, separate clients from carers and leave 400+ public sector workers without jobs. 

Queensland state school teachers and leaders carry out one of the most essential, influential, invaluable roles in our community - educating the next generation.     While their work underpins just about everything necessary for a fair, thriving, equitable society, Queensland teachers and leaders are also currently reporting increased stress and anxiety, stemming from issues related to rising workplace injuries, assaults and threats. ·       Teacher and student wellbeing and learning are at risk. Every worker must have the right to attend their workplace safe from harm or violence - teachers should not be any different. A safe and healthy workplace is a legal right for employees and a legal obligation of the employer.  ·       The teacher shortage crisis will only worsen unless educators can be assured of their safety at work. Stress, anxiety, and burnout are key contributors to experienced teachers leaving the profession and the lack of new people joining it.  ·       It’s about government responsibility to ensure the ongoing future of strong, sustainable, equitable public education that delivers on its promise – “Brighter Futures – delivering excellence in every state school.”  Current legislation simply isn’t protecting Queensland state school teachers and leaders as required.   Sign our petition and send a clear message to the Premier - great state schools need teachers and leaders who are safe from occupational violence and aggression.

Liverpool City Council workers deserve to feel safe at work and supported while serving their community. Instead, ongoing dysfunction, public hostility and political conduct have created a workplace environment where staff report distress, harassment and fear for their safety. More than half of surveyed staff have considered leaving the Council. When experienced council workers are driven out, the whole community feels the impact — from parks and libraries to roads, planning, customer service and support for vulnerable residents. Liverpool deserves a council that is safe, stable and properly functioning for both workers and the community. This petition calls for action to restore safety, good governance and public confidence at Liverpool City Council.

608 Victorian workers told us what's really happening behind the counter, on the floor and in the kitchen. The picture is clear: this industry is failing in their duty to create safe workplaces and breaking their social contract with the community. Right now, there are no real consequences for failing workers.   That has to change.   Licence holders and business owners must be held accountable when violence happens on their watch and they failed to prevent it.    We're calling on the Victorian Government to:   • Introduce a penalty system for liquor licence holders and employers who fail to prevent or address safety incidents, including conditions, suspension or revocation of their licence   • Introduce a dedicated safety framework for high-risk venues like late-night and alcohol-serving venues, developed in consultation with workers and unions   • Establish a clear, accessible reporting process that accounts for the precarious nature of hospo work: protecting casual workers, visa holders, and those with language barriers from retaliation.   

These jobs aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet.  These are the workers who keep our trains running, deliver vital support to children and families, provide security in our prisons and correctional facilities, and keep our schools, hospitals and emergency services running smoothly.  Every public sector job cut means:  • longer wait times,  • fewer services,  • more pressure on already overstretched workers,  • and another family who will struggle to pay their bills   At a time when people are struggling to pay the mortgage and fill up the car, the Liberals’ first instinct is to cut jobs and services. When the Liberals cut jobs and funding – it’s working families that pay.  Victorians deserve investment in strong public services — not cuts, privatisation, and job losses. We call on Jess Wilson’s Liberal party to reverse this decision immediately. Sign the petition & tell the Liberals to get their hands off our public services!  

Every child deserves a great education. That depends on schools being able to attract, support and keep great teachers, education support staff and school leaders.  Right now in Victoria, that is becoming harder:  •  Catholic school staff are being denied basic bargaining rights by employers •  Workloads are unsustainable  •  Schools are facing serious staff shortages  This means less time, less support, and fewer opportunities for our children.   Families invest in Catholic education and rightly expect high-quality teaching and support. However, in Victoria, Catholic education employers are spending time and money on a legal battle to deny staff these basic rights, instead of investing in the staff and schools our children rely on. 

This week marks 170 years since the Melbourne University Stonemasons won the first 8 hour day in the world in Melbourne, Victoria. Since then, we have seen the invention of the telephone, the light bulb, the automobile, radio, airplanes, television, computers, the internet, and now generative AI. Yet workers still work the same amount of hours, often more, and the Top-end-of-town reap all the rewards. Australia led the world for workers' rights winning the 8 hour day. It's time to do it again. It's time for a Four Day Work Week.

In the middle of yet another global crisis disrupting supply chains, this is our moment to secure NSW’s future – because when overseas supply chains fail, it’s local workers and communities who pay the price. Public money should back local industry - creating secure jobs, strengthening communities and building a more resilient NSW. A Jobs First Commission would make sure government spending backs NSW first - supporting workers, strengthening local businesses, and protecting our state in uncertain times. Sign the petition today to call on the NSW Government to establish a Jobs First Commission that will: 1. Invest in local manufacturing and expand NSW domestic capacity  2. Build stronger, more resilient supply chains to protect our state in times of uncertainty  3. Prioritise safe, secure, and well-paid jobs for NSW workers

Liberty Bell Bay provides hundreds of secure, well-paid jobs in a region where good jobs are hard to come by. More than 200 workers rely directly on this site, with many more jobs flowing through the local community. Despite market pressures from dumped overseas manganese products, this site is competitive by global standards. There is real interest from multiple buyers — but that only matters if the workforce stays and the plant keeps running. Our work here matters beyond this site. Manganese is a critical input into steel and other essential industries. Liberty Bell Bay supplies major Australian operations like BlueScope and Whyalla. If this site closes, those industries become more dependent on imports. This is also a future-facing industry. Bell Bay is powered largely by hydroelectricity, putting it in a strong position as Australia moves toward lower-emissions heavy industry. If the site closes, the cost won’t just be to workers — it will fall on taxpayers through termination liabilities and decommissioning costs. What happens now? The move into voluntary administration creates uncertainty — but also an opportunity to secure a future for this site. Liberty Bell Bay is a cornerstone employer in Northern Tasmania. Losing it would have serious consequences for workers, families, and the broader community. With targeted short-term government support, the site can be stabilised and sold to an owner committed to its long-term future. Workers, Tasmania and the country are better off if Bell Bay stays!

Housing costs are one of the biggest pressures facing working people. They affect where we can live, how far we have to commute, and whether we can get ahead. Union members are raising their voices to demand change because housing affordability won’t improve on its own. By coming together, workers can push for real reforms and make housing fairer. Sign the petition today if you agree the Federal Government must: 1. Create a fairer tax system for housing – reform negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions so home ownership is supported over investment for profit. 2. Invest in more public and affordable housing – commit to long-term, large-scale investment so more people can access secure homes.

We the undersigned, are writing to raise serious concerns about the combined impact of rising petrol prices, and inadequate award travel allowances payable to disability support workers. As you are no doubt aware, disability support workers are an essential workforce. Their work is inherently mobile. Workers are required to travel between multiple participants each day, often across significant distances, at all hours, and in locations where public transport is not a viable option. As a result, the vast majority rely on their own vehicles to deliver NDIS-funded supports. Sustained increases in petrol prices following the conflict in Iran have substantially increased the out-of-pocket costs borne by our members. However, neither the award travel allowance nor NDIS pricing arrangements adequately reflect this reality. The current award travel allowance only $0.99 per kilometre does account for sustained increases in petrol prices. As fuel costs rise, the real value of these allowances erodes further, effectively resulting in a reduction in workers’ take-home pay. At the same time, NDIS pricing settings do not provide a mechanism that meaningfully responds to sharp increases in fuel costs. While pricing models recognise labour and some operational costs, they do not adequately account for real-world travel expenses borne by workers. This situation is unsustainable. It is contributing to financial stress for workers, and ultimately undermines service continuity and choice for people with disability when workers are forced to consider working elsewhere due to increased out of pocket transport costs. In the immediate term, we urge the NDIA to work with Government, providers and unions to introduce an interim travel loading payable to disability support workers within NDIS pricing to respond to fuel price volatility. An interim loading would provide immediate relief while longer-term pricing and industrial issues can be addressed. Such a loading would be linked to recognised fuel price indicators to ensure it reflects real-world costs applied on a temporary basis while petrol prices remain elevated. Such an approach would be consistent with the way in which the sector sought to address financial implications on workers in the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. Disability support workers perform skilled, complex and demanding work that is central to the success of the NDIS. They should not be expected to absorb escalating fuel costs simply to keep the Scheme functioning

DXC workers have gone 5 years without a pay rise, while inflation has risen by 24.5%.  After a long bargaining process and repeated below-inflation offers, workers have been forced to take protected industrial action for fair wages and conditions. DXC management can end this dispute at any time by bargaining fairly and coming to the table with an offer that recognises DXC employees' work, delivers a real cost-of-living wage increase, and protects existing workplace conditions. Sign this petition to tell DXC: stop lowballing workers and bargain fairly now.