Joe Hockey’s announcement that he wanted to slash subsidies to key Australian manufacturing industries would put at risk the security of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers and their families.
Manufacturing workers and their families would take a big hit if Joe Hockey became Treasurer
February 1, 2010
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Manufacturing Alliance campaign to promote jobs in SA
October 1, 2009The heads of Australia’s biggest blue-collar unions are in South Australia today meeting workers at the ASC, a submarine and ship building company, as part of the two unions’ Manufacturing Alliance jobs campaign. The Manufacturing Alliance is calling for better government procurement policy and policies to encourage innovation in Australia’s manufacturing industry to create jobs.
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Manufacturing Alliance campaign to promote jobs in Kwinana
September 29, 2009The heads of Australia’s biggest blue-collar unions are in Kwinana, Western Australia today to address workers at the Alcoa refinery, as part of the two unions’ Manufacturing Alliance jobs campaign. The Manufacturing Alliance is calling for better government procurement policy and measures to encourage innovation in Australia’s manufacturing industry to create jobs.
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Victoria must boost local manufacturing
August 21, 2009The Victorian Government should urgently step up measures to secure local manufacturing jobs in response the global financial crisis and emerging international competition, the Manufacturing Alliance said today.
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New Steel Industry Innovation Council a win for Australian jobs
August 6, 2009The Manufacturing Alliance strongly supports today’s announcement by Minister Kim Carr that a Steel Industry Innovation Council will be established to ensure access to both public and private sector projects.
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Manufacturing Alliance Unions welcome new Buy Australian initiatives
August 6, 2009Manufacturing workers will welcome today’s Federal Government Buy Australian announcements because they provides assurances that Australian manufacturing will get better access to government and private sector opportunities, the leaders of the Manufacturing Alliance unions said today.
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New polling shows Australians support our manufacturing industry
August 6, 2009The Manufacturing Alliance today released polling that revealed Australians would like to see a stronger Government approach to local content and procurement.
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New Alliance to protect and promote Australia’s manufacturing industry
July 23, 2009MEDIA RELEASE
Australia’s two largest Blue Collar Unions are in Canberra today to launch an Alliance to address the jobs crisis in the manufacturing industry and to ensure that Australia remains a country that makes things.
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A Country That Makes Things – the AMWU-AWU Manufacturing AlliancY
July 8, 2009By Paul Howes, AWU National Secretary and Dave Oliver, AMWU National Secretary
Manufacturing employs around a million Australians directly, many of them in key regional centres such as Ballarat, Newcastle, Gladstone, Whyalla and Kwinana. It is an important national asset. But unlike other manufacturing nations, in Australia, for over a decade, it has been the poor cousin to trade policy.
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Stimulus Spending must be targeted for maximum jobs
July 8, 2009
Despite all the hype surrounding the $900 cash payments the vast majority of the government’s stimulus packages have gone towards important, nation-building infrastructure projects that will create employment and build our economic capacity for the long-term.
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