Flashback: Did you know?
- A labourers wage in 1967 was $44.36 a week.
- In 1993 over 4000 unionists marched against the Court Government's attack on Mabo.
- In 1974 we fought for a $15 a week increase, 4 weeks annual leave and 17/5% leave loading and won.
- In the early - mid 1800's building workers worked at least a 60 hour week.
- In the 1920s an average of 29 painters a year were dying in Australia of lead poisoning. The Union led the charge to ban lead in Paints.
