Unions Tasmania

07/09/2026

This 👇👇

I actually struggle to put into words how bad the One Nation policy to allow workers to access up to a quarter of their super contributions in take home pay for three years really is. But I’ll try.

Taking from your superannuation now - even by a seemingly small amount - can means literally tens of thousands of dollars less in your retirement.

All this policy would do is actually make inflation worse (no, thanks) and push up house prices (double no, average house prices have already increased by over 400% since 2000).

When you pump money into an economy without building more homes, prices go up. Everyone just has more money to bid with, pushing rents and the costs of buying a home even higher.

It’s not a real solution to a genuine housing crisis that is not the fault of workers, but that One Nation want you to pay with out of your retirement savings.

Here’s a radical idea. I think workers should be able to have an affordable home in the present and a decent retirement in the future. Shocking.

We absolutely shouldn’t stop demanding action on housing from our governments, at all levels. Demand they end unfair tax breaks, build LOTS more public homes, and put in place more rights for renters.

But don’t fall for One Nation’s utter garbage.

07/09/2026

Eric Abetz threatens to cut workers compensation on one hand but then cuts workplace supports with the other!

The Tasmanian Government has axed the specialist safety and wellbeing service for workers in the Department of Justice despite the important role it plays in supporting staff exposed to some of the most challenging work in the public service.

Workers in this Department deal with trauma, conflict, aggression, and incredibly difficult situations every day. They need more support, not less.

If the Government wanted to prevent psychological injury, they could start by investing in safe workplaces and supporting workers

06/09/2026

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads (especially our union dads) ✊

We hope you’re getting spoiled today and, if you’re working, you’re getting union won penalty rates!

05/09/2026

The list of Tasmanian public schools in desperate need of repair made front page news today. This includes repairs to switchboards, air conditioning, heating, or roof works. All essential.

And the Liberals think our schools can afford even less funding than they get now? Madness

Australian Education Union Tasmania

04/09/2026

More than 1 in 5 workers experience a work-related mental health injury or illness. There’s an urgent need to strengthen WHS protections. Read more in comments 👇

02/09/2026

If only our university was focussed on supporting all its staff with decent wages and job security, rather than payouts and big executive salaries.

Solidarity to NTEU Tasmanian Division members!

02/09/2026

PSA: Superannuation is an industrial entitlement, the deferred wages of working people, won by the union movement because we believed that workers shouldn’t labour their whole lives to retire in poverty.

01/09/2026

Tassie represent ✊

Australian Services Union Tasmanian members recently took the message for adequate funding for local government to the federal parliament.

Check it out here 👇

01/09/2026

In the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, that looks like 30% fewer workers caring for Tasmania’s history and cultural heritage (according to the Rockliff Liberal Government).

We stand with CPSU Tasmania members campaigning to protect these important cultural institutions and the workers who make them tick

31/08/2026

Huge job cuts are planned for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with 30% of jobs set to go across the combined museum, art gallery, and herbarium.

It seems nothing is safe from the Liberal’s cuts, not even the team who work at Australia’s second oldest museum.

These job cuts would devastate the specialist expertise TMAG workers have in protecting our state’s history and cultural heritage.

We join our friends at the CPSU Tasmania in calling on the Government to reverse this decision and