First Edition, March 2025
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in a meaningful way with increased union membership.
Bargaining on an industry or sector level now offers us a new approach.
Multi-employer bargaining gives us the power to prioritise growth. We can consolidate union resources to
sharpen our focus on a smaller number of targeted negotiations covering multiple employers within the
same agreement.
We can free up single-site bargaining resources to organise the thousands of free-riders (non union
members) who, under the Australian system, continue to benefit from our union agreements.
It’s an exciting time to be an IEU member in Australia.
While many challenges remain in our schools and our workplace laws are far from perfect, for the first time
in a long time we have a fighting chance to win real and long-lasting change through member bargaining
campaigns.
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