The Latest Breaking News from United Workers Union

Childcare workers across Australia are planning to walk off the job today, saying increasing demands and wages barely above the minimum have them at breaking point.

West Australian public sector workers have gathered in large numbers outside Parliament House in Perth amid an ongoing dispute over public sector pay.

Unions and providers welcome one-month extension of workforce support but say tens of thousands of aged care workers unavailable

The United Workers Union says prison guards in Alice Springs will walk off the job on Saturday in further industrial action over the four-year pay freeze.

Hundreds of childcare centres to shut on Early Childhood Educators Day as workers call for better conditions and wages

Hundreds of health workers warn of a crumbling health system as they take to the streets to push for higher wages.

The United Workers Union says correctional officers in the Northern Territory will strike this month over the ongoing pay freeze.

The Queensland government has spruiked a record health spend in its state budget, but the response has been lukewarm, with the peak doctors lobby group saying the funding was needed "yesterday".

The union representing firefighters has launched an extraordinary attack on the Northern Territory Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker, over disputed comments allegedly made at a meeting of recruit firefighters.

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

The former Australian Services Union assistant national secretary gains backing from the United Workers Union