Living costs are still rising - and too many SACS workers are being forced to cut back, dip into savings, or delay essential expenses.  That’s why the ASU is putting forward a case for an 4.5% increase in 2025. And your support helps show just how urgently this is needed across our sector.  In the past few years alone, union members have campaigned for – and won – above-inflation increases for Award workers. These wins didn’t come from nowhere. They came from workers like you, standing together and demanding better.   But big business and the Coalition have made it clear: they don’t back wage increases for workers like you.   So once again, we’re taking a stand and making the case for a real pay rise.  In 2025, we’re pushing for a 4.5% pay rise.  Add your name to support a real pay rise.  Together, we’re winning better pay. 

Our recent cost-of-living survey showed what you already know: workers are under real pressure. Essentials like groceries, rent and fuel are taking a bigger bite out of household budgets.   This is why the Annual Wage Review matters.   In the past few years alone, union members have campaigned for – and won – above-inflation increases for Award workers. These wins didn’t come from nowhere. They came from workers like you, standing together and demanding better.  But big business and the Coalition have made it clear: they don’t back wage increases for workers like you.   So once again, we’re taking a stand and making the case for a real pay rise.  In 2025, we’re pushing for a 4.5% pay rise.  Add your name to support a real pay rise.  Together, we’re winning better pay.  Sign the petition for a 4.5% pay rise today.   

The university is undergoing a restructure, including significant cuts, that is opposed by the LTSU and is introducing another student body to weaken the union’s ability to oppose this. Elected representatives from “another student organisation” within the last two years are ineligible for a position on the new Student Council, preventing those who have already been elected by the student body to the LTSU or LTSA from running. Additionally, the Election Regulations allow the university to “remove candidates from the election process at any time at their own discretion”. The regulations also allow the university to “share information about individual candidates on the University website and/or social media”, purportedly to promote the election. Both of these policies could allow the university to influence the results of the election and have an influence in how the Student Council runs.  We, the undersigned, call on the university to cancel the formation of the Student Council as an attack on the LTSU and independent student organisation.

With a growing population and out-of-control hospital wait times, Queenslanders need better health services now. Delaying our hospital expansion program is a major betrayal by David Crisafulli’s LNP government, which was elected after promising no cuts to health and to deliver projects on time. These hospital projects are currently being built by local workers employed by reputable Queensland construction firms.   But the LNP want to delay the build so they can bring in southern subcontractors to do it on the cheap. This uncertainty is killing productivity on projects that should be well underway. Queensland construction workers are calling on the Crisafulli LNP government to commit to funding the hospital expansion program. ““The LNP must stop playing politics with our hospitals. Get out of the way and let us build. Redcliffe is my hometown, and the whole Moreton Bay community needs this hospital.” Damo, Redcliffe Hospital expansion project.” “"FNQ is in desperate need of upgraded health services. Our hospitals are at capacity. We need buildings, not politics." Jared, Cairns construction worker” ““Our health system is in crisis. I pulled a sciatic nerve about a month ago and I sat in the waiting room in a wheelchair for over 7 hours.” Lance, Townsville University Hospital expansion project.” ““Toowoomba Hospital currently is held together with zip ties and sticky tape. My partner works in that hospital as a nurse, we’re about to birth our child in that hospital, and it’s not up to scratch.” Matty, new Toowoomba Hospital project.” ““The Olympics is not that important. Hospitals are important. Townsville is supposed to be the capital of North Queensland but we’re not feeling the love from the government.” Jodie, Townsville University Hospital expansion project.” ““All my family are here, and our elders are at the age where they’re in desperate need of special treatment. This hospital is really important to my family and the local community.” Rodney, Mackay Hospital expansion project.” It’s not too late. Sign our petition to help us build these hospitals for our communities. 

Off the back of strike action last year, Nine management committed to engage in discussions about freelance rates and conditions with MEAA representatives. Despite this commitment, Nine management have made few tangible changes to their existing terms of engagement for freelance contributors, and have ignored members calls to implement fair rates, annual increases, and a signed agreement. Freelancers are the lowest paid and most insecurely employed workers in the media industry, and the business models of major publications are becoming increasingly reliant on exploitation of these workers. We must demand fair freelance rates and conditions if we are to ensure a future for quality journalism.

For too long, local government ECEC workers have been underpaid. Now, we have a chance to fix this, but only if councils take the necessary steps.  ASU members fought to make sure local government ECEC workers were included in this funding, and we won. Now, we need to make sure every eligible worker receives it.  That’s why we’re calling on all local government ECEC workers to demand their councils apply for the funding and put the required workplace instrument in place.  Sign the petition today to tell your council: ECEC workers deserve their pay rise!  We, the undersigned, call on our employer to apply for the Commonwealth Government’s Worker Retention Payment and amend our workplace agreement to ensure these pay rises are delivered.  We endorse the ASU to act on our behalf in securing this outcome and ensuring that no eligible worker is left behind.  Sign now and stand with your fellow ECEC workers for fair pay! 

Because of government funding changes, many community + disability sector workers never get to stay with one employer long enough to take long service leave. That’s why states and territories throughout Australia are legislating for portable long service leave so workers take their leave entitlements with them between employers.   Northern Territory workers are about to fall behind the rest of the country because of the CLP Government. Sign the petition and stand with Australian Services Union members in calling on the NT Government to save Portable Long Service Leave. 

The Safe Haven Cafe offers a vital alternative to emergency department visits for people experiencing non-urgent mental health issues. It's led by LLEW (Lived & Living Experience Workers), providing compassionate, peer-based support that is accessible and non-judgmental. With the growing crises in housing, cost of living, and social isolation, the need for services like the Safe Haven Cafe has never been more urgent. Closing this service directly impacts those who are already marginalised and struggling to access mental health care. The lack of affordable and accessible options—due to long wait times and high costs—leaves many people without support when they need it most. This closure would be a failure of St Vincent's commitment to its own values of compassion, justice, and person-centred care. We cannot afford to lose this service. Stand with us to protect mental health services in our community!

Here are the facts:  • 91% of the early childhood workforce is female. • G8 Education is one of the largest ASX-listed companies that doesn't offer employer-funded paid parental leave for their employees.  • In the 2024 Global Gender Gap Report, Australian women are ranked 42nd in the world for economic participation and opportunity (down from 38 in 2023). • In Australia, a third of the gender pay gap is due to the time women spend in unpaid care work.  • G8's current gender pay gap is 20.1% (of the average total remuneration according to WGEA's latest data) • By not offering employer-funded paid parental leave, G8 Education is helping to grow the gender pay gap. It is perpetuating the 'motherhood penalty' which sees the average 25-year-old woman make $2 million less in lifetime earnings than the average 25-year-old man who also becomes a parent.   • Degree-qualified early childhood teachers are leaving the sector to work in schools with better pay and conditions, including employer-funded paid parental leave. If this continues, the quality of early learning in Australia will suffer as we lose dedicated and highly skilled teachers.    Teachers, educators and young children deserve better.    It’s time for G8 Education to step up and show they value the essential work that their teachers and educators perform. Please sign and share this petition today. * This petition supports Sustainable Investment Exchange’s campaign to pressure G8 to fund paid parental leave for staff. Learn more about the activist shareholder’s campaign here.

The Liberal Party has promised to scrap recently won improvements to our rights at work: • pushing to cut superannuation to 9% • they will kill off new ‘right to disconnect’ laws, which stop bosses hassling us at home • they will wreck ‘same job, same pay’ laws • they will take away rights for casual workers, making them easier to exploit and to sack • they will scrap laws that criminalise wage theft. This is just the start. The Liberal Party says “everything is on the table” when it comes to dismantling Australians’ rights at work.

The rights of Australian women are under attack. The Liberal Party has fought against: • 3 days of subsidised childcare for every child • paid family and domestic violence leave • paying superannuation on paid parental leave • a long overdue 28% wage increase for low paid aged care workers • a 15% wage increase for early childhood educators • the right to disconnect, preventing bosses hassling us at home • new laws to stop sexual harassment at work. If the Liberal Party is elected at the next federal election, this is all under threat.

No one should have to work in pain or sacrifice their income to care for their health. Reproductive leave would allow workers to care for their health without financial stress or fear of discrimination. Let’s create fairer workplaces for all workers. Sign the petition to call on 10 days of reproductive leave today!