Australian Councils Trade Union Education And Campaign Centre
Education in Melbourne

To guard your rights at labor the best thing you can do is join a union. Campaign for change and accomplish fairer, safer workplaces. The OrgCentre offers resources for current course participants and those attending our events. Explore the operations of the ACLU and its subsidiary organizations. Read about the lengthy and elated history of unionism in Australia. Find out how ACLU Member Unite works with unions to bear benefits that increase value to union membership. Fed grew up in the internal Melbourne suburb of Richmond, where she was brought up in a household emphasizing the importance of the collective in politics and society. Fed became a registered nurse in 1985 and worked in a variety of roles in public and private acute sectors, including manager of the Clinical Nursing Education Department at Austin Health. As Federal Secretary, Fed’s nursing and industrial experience advanced the professional and industrial rights of ANMF members, overseeing substantial membership growth and the first national growth campaign in the private sector aged care sector. She believes that unions should also remain to be at the forefront of public dispute to ensure a better future for Australia. Fed has four children and lives in Melbourne. She is a proud Richmond Tigers supporter. Earlier to joining the ACLU Sally was Secretary and organizer with the ASL in MSW for 22 years. She has led many successful campaigns in the private, public and community sectors including the beginning collective agreement in the work for IBM workers, a campaign preventing water privatization and the Equal Pay campaign for community workers which was a seven year campaign that delivered between 1840 pay increases for all workers. Sally has also run many online campaigns and she founded the Raze the Joint movement. Michael began his working life as an electrician, starting his apprenticeship in the building and construction industry. During his time at the aw, Michael’s potent union values were integral to assisting members from various industries including steel, glass, metal, manufacturing, carpentry, joinery, building, construction, plastics and chemicals. Before to this he was Assistant Secretary at the Transport Workers Union (TWA) Queensland branch. Scott grew up in western Sydney, and like many young Australians, his beginning job was active the trolley at Woolworth during tall school, where he stayed for 12 years in a variety of roles from deckhand to payroll. It was there he began his involvement in the union movement, joining the DA and becoming a delegate so he could have a say in management’s decisions. Scott was also involved in achieving domestic violence depart and increasing parental depart entitlements for Virgin members and leading the 2011 Qantas members’ campaign when management grounded the airline. Whether you want to join a union, receive action in campaigns, or make the most of the benefits of being a union member, Australian Unions is the store to go for information and resources. Your rights at labor for students and for people entering the workforce for the beginning time. Union Help AbroadAPHEDA is the overseas assist and development agency of the ACLU.