Original article by Angus Thompson
The Age – Page: Online : 11-Jan-23

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that union membership fell to a record low of just 12.5 per cent in 2022. Several unions have called for a long-standing ban on imposing bargaining fees on non-members to be overturned. The Health Services Union’s national president Gerard Hayes and Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union secretary Steve Murphy are amongst those who contend that workers who benefit from union-negotiated enterprise agreements but are not members of the union should pay a fee. Meanwhile, the ACTU has used its submission to a migration review to call for migrant workers to be inducted by unions and be given the opportunity to join one.

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AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS, HEALTH SERVICES UNION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS’ UNION, ACTU