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Students left to sweat as teachers strike during exams

Students left to sweat as teachers strike during exams

Teachers have walked off the job over a long-running pay dispute, disrupting crucial exams at more than 100 schools for year 10 and 11 students.

'Only the start': workers send warning at mass rally

'Only the start': workers send warning at mass rally

'Only the start': workers send warning at mass rally

'Only the start': workers send warning at mass rally

Unions have firmly stated their fight for better pay and conditions is not yet finished after three days of strikes that forced schools to open late.

Teachers stop work to school government on stalled deal

Teachers stop work to school government on stalled deal

Teachers stop work to school government on stalled deal

Teachers stop work to school government on stalled deal

Workers and the government are at loggerheads over pay with teachers walking off the job and public sector staff planning wider industrial action.

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'Sketchy' future for top gallery as job cuts loom

'Sketchy' future for top gallery as job cuts loom

Job cuts at one of Australia's top art galleries will hurt its ability to host some of its biggest and best exhibitions, union members warn.

Show us the money: teachers mock 'education state' tag

Show us the money: teachers mock 'education state' tag

Hundreds of kindergarten teachers have gone on strike, taking direct aim at a premier as she spruiks her state's education credentials overseas.

Rare strike by school teachers as wage talks fail

Rare strike by school teachers as wage talks fail

Months of talks between teachers and the government have failed to reach on agreement on pay and conditions, with state school educators calling a rare strike.

Deliveries not impacted as freight pilots go on strike

Deliveries not impacted as freight pilots go on strike

Qantas has put contingency plans in place as freight pilots, responsible for delivering parcels, prepare to take industrial action over a wage offer dispute.

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Courts staff walk off job over pay dispute

Courts staff walk off job over pay dispute

Courts staff walk off job over pay dispute

Courts staff walk off job over pay dispute

Hundreds of court security and custodial officers have gone on strike for eight hours, demanding a 24 per cent pay rise.

More travel turmoil with negotiations off the rails

More travel turmoil with negotiations off the rails

More travel turmoil with negotiations off the rails

More travel turmoil with negotiations off the rails

An industrial stoush threatens to cripple the nation's busiest rail network as passengers were left stranded and trains came to an extended halt at platforms.

Striking Qantas engineers look to crash Christmas party

Striking Qantas engineers look to crash Christmas party

Striking Qantas engineers look to crash Christmas party

Striking Qantas engineers look to crash Christmas party

Engineers at Australia's largest airline have targeted the peak summer travel period with industrial action, escalating an eight-month dispute over a pay deal.

Major surgeries affected as nurses and midwives strike

Major surgeries affected as nurses and midwives strike

Major surgeries affected as nurses and midwives strike

Major surgeries affected as nurses and midwives strike

St Vincent's Hospital nurses and midwives are beginning rolling strikes to push for better staffing levels as workers face burnout and exhaustion.

Woolies rushes to deck the shelves with Christmas stock

Woolies rushes to deck the shelves with Christmas stock

Woolies rushes to deck the shelves with Christmas stock

Woolies rushes to deck the shelves with Christmas stock

Woolworths is counting the cost of a 17-day strike that took millions of dollars from their bottom line and left shelves empty in the lead-up to Christmas.

Woolies nabs union deal to end warehouse strike

Woolies nabs union deal to end warehouse strike

Woolies nabs union deal to end warehouse strike

Woolies nabs union deal to end warehouse strike

Striking has ended at Woolworths' distribution centres after workers who had walked off the job for 17 days accepted a fresh offer from the supermarket giant.

The 50 million reasons Woolies wants blockade to end

The 50 million reasons Woolies wants blockade to end

The 50 million reasons Woolies wants blockade to end

The 50 million reasons Woolies wants blockade to end

Woolworths says strike action has cost the company $50 million as it lodges an urgent application to ban workers from blocking access to its warehouses.

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Shelves bare but union puts stock in talks with Woolies

Supermarket shelves will continue to remain bare as hundreds of workers picketing a major Woolworths warehouse fight for better pay and conditions.

Warnings of blackouts as rural workers go on strike

Electricity workers are preparing to walk off the job as a pay dispute, simmers, with regional residents warned of potential blackouts at the start of summer.

Hundreds of striking police walk out of headquarters

Hundreds of officers walked off the job from police headquarters for one hour, as their union accused a state government of running away from their pay dispute.

'Not robots': Woolies says no shortages as staff strike

Some 1500 Woolworths warehouse workers are on strike, but the supermarket giant insists their absence is not leading to empty shelves for customers.

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'Deserted': police begin first strikes in over 20 years

Police have walked off the job for the first time in two decades to protest the Victorian government's "disrespect" in a long-running impasse over a pay deal.

Thousands rally as nurses reject one-or-the-other deal

Angry nurses will not accept delaying their demand for improved staffing ratios as a condition of securing a major pay rise.

Big police pay rise sparks ructions in other wage deals

Police and nurses point to a big pay increase for officers in one jurisdiction while threatening strike action as their wage negotiations deteriorate.

No flight disruptions tipped as Qantas engineers strike

A months-long pay deal stand-off has prompted hundreds of Qantas engineers to take industrial action for 24 hours in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs and delay first 777X delivery

Boeing says it will lay off 10 per cent of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples plane production.

No flight pain as Qantas engineers continue to strike

Hundreds of Qantas engineers have gone on strike, but the airline insists no flights have been delayed or cancelled due to the industrial action.

NSW Fisheries officers' night strike over safety risks

NSW Fisheries officers are refusing to inspect commercial trawlers at night saying it's too dangerous without access to stab-proof vests and other safety gear.

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