ETU organisers regularly hear stories about apprentices being underpaid, ripped off and exploited. As an industry, and as a union, we need to work together to ensure that apprentices are protected and being paid what they’re owed.

Last week at the National Lift Industry Conference in Hobart, ETU and CEPU delegates heard from Markus Hansen, the President of the Norwegian Elevator Constructors Union, about a union-busting attempt by the largest elevator company in Norway, Schindler.

The Electrical Trades Union has slammed a Federal Government report it says will destroy Australian jobs by using COVID-19 as a cover to open the floodgates on skilled migration.

“On the anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown, our thoughts are with the workers and local communities who were exposed to toxic radiation from the nuclear disaster,” said Allen Hicks, National Secretary, Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU).

The Electrical Trades Union's Divisional Executive condemns Tony Maher's deal with Christian Porter that sets working Australians and unions back decades.

The government wants to change superannuation so that workers will be stapled to their first fund. This could leave building and construction workers new to the industry stuck in a fund that won’t cover them if tragedy strikes.

The ETU National legal team stood up for an apprentice this month whose employer tried to vary the terms of her contract of employment and lower her rates of pay.