Why Join?
WHAT HAVE UNIONS DONE FOR YOU?
TODAY'S UNIONS ARE CHANGING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE
The following are improvements made to Members' wages and conditions over the past decades.
- Minimum Living Wage set - 1900
- Compensation for sick and njured workers - 1920s
- 40 Hour week with the weekend off - 1940s
- 8 hour day - 1950s
- Rights for Apprentices - 1960s
- Equal pay for women - 1970s
- Holiday Pay - 1970s
- Superannuation for all workers - 1980s
- Paid education leave - 1990s
- Training Wage for young workers - 1990s
Independent research proves that union member earn more than non-members in the same industry.
Active workplaces with a Union Delegate earn 17% more - that's $68 a week extra for someone on $400 a week.
TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER
That's why 2 million people choose to belong to their union. As a Union member, you have strength in numbers.
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