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The ACTU Organising Centre
provides education and support
for Australian unions affiliated to
the ACTU.
The education provision of the ACTU is aimed at developing the skills and knowledge of organisers, officials, union leaders, delegates and activists. The Organising Centre works directly with unions to help organise and plan industrial strategies for growth.
We work together with union leaders to assist them to meet current challenges, build capacity and grow.
The Centre offers:
n Courses for delegates and activists that can be delivered for individual unions or as multi-union courses.
n A flagship training program for trainee organisers, called Organising Works, which blends formal training with mentor supported workplace learning over a nine month period.
n Short courses for new organisers, experienced organisers and lead organisers aimed at expanding their skills and knowledge of organising and campaigning.
n Management training and forums for union leaders and lead organisers.
n Professional development and networks for Union Educators and Leads.
n Work on organisational change, planning and developing industry strategies for growth.
n Courses and networks for union specialist staff such as industrial officers
and researchers.
As a Registered Training Organisation, we also provide accredited training including the Certificate IV in WHS and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment courses. A Certificate IV in Unionism and Industrial Relations can also be delivered to unions in partnership with us.
ACTU Organising
Centre
Course application forms, course prices and course requirements can be found at:
www.actu.org.au/
orgcentre
or contact us on
(03) 9664 7363
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ACTU Organising Centre
ACTU Organising Centre Melbourne Office Tel (03) 9664 7360 Fax (03) 9670 0837 [email protected] www.actu.org.au/ unioneducation ACTU Building Level 4, 365 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Educators /Organisers Chris Hughes Tel (03) 9664 7389 [email protected] Anna Pupillo Tel (03) 9664 7334 [email protected] Thirza White Tel (03) 9664 7355 [email protected] Madeleine Wolf Tel (03) 9664 7328 [email protected]
Compliance and Grant Manager Helen Gwilliam Tel (03) 9664 7364 [email protected] Online Education Officer Tanya Mammone Tel (03) 9664 7302 [email protected]. au Online Education Resource Officer David Macara Tel (03) 9664 7391 [email protected] Sydney Office Tel (02) 8268 9700 Trades Hall Building Level 3, 4-10 Goulburn St Sydney NSW 2000 Educators /Organisers Kristyn Crossfield Tel (02) 8268 9711 [email protected] Jonathan Mill Tel (02) 8268 9710 Wayne Moody Tel (02) 8268 9731 [email protected] Alice Salomon Tel (02) 8268 9713 [email protected] Adelaide Office Ground Floor, 170 Greenhill Rd Parkside SA 5063 Educator / Organiser Jane Clarke Tel (08) 8279 2230 [email protected] Perth Office Level 4, 445 Hay St Perth WA 6000 Educator / Organiser Keryn Anderson Tel (08) 6313 6017 [email protected] Hobart Office 379 Elizabeth St North Hobart TAS 7000 Educator / Organiser Jayne Reid Tel (03) 6234 9553 [email protected] Brisbane Office TLC Building Level 5, 16 Peel St South Brisbane QLD 4101 Educator /Organiser Chris Doyle Tel (07) 3846 2468 [email protected]
Educa
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Education and Training
Innovation and Business Skills Australia Tel (03) 9815 7000 Fax (03) 9815 7001 [email protected] www.ibsa.org.au Level 11 176 Wellington Pde East Melbourne VIC 3002
Chief Executive Officer
Patricia Neden IBSA is the Industry Skills Council responsible for skills and training for industries underpinning the economy from management to music, IT to visual arts, finance to education, libraries to printing and graphics. IBSA’s mission is to build capability, professionalism and innovative capacity in the Australian workforce. In consultation with employer and union representatives, our products and services are designed to foster innovative thinking and practice reflecting real industry workforce development and individual skill requirements. IBSA’s suite of learning and assessment resources support businesses, trainers and learners. Manufacturing Skills Australia Tel (02) 9955 5500 Fax (02) 9955 8044 [email protected] www.mskills.org.au PO Box 289 North Sydney NSW 2059
Chief Executive Officer
Bob Paton
Manufacturing a skilled Australia
Manufacturing Skills Australia (MSA) is the national body responsible for ensuring that manufacturing enterprises have the workforce skills they need to be globally competitive now and into the future. We work with enterprises, employer and industry associations, trade unions and industry advisory bodies to identify what skills are needed and how these can most effectively be implemented in industry.
We are a national Industry Skills Council, owned by industry and managed by a board from across industry, funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Industry. Australian Industry Group www.aigroup.asn.au NSW Tel (02) 9466 5566 Fax (02) 9466 5599 51 Walker St North Sydney NSW 2060 QLD Tel (07) 3244 1777 Fax (07) 3244 1799 202 Boundary St Spring Hill QLD 4004 VIC Tel (03) 9867 0111 Fax (03) 9867 0199 Level 2, 441 St Kilda Rd Melbourne VIC 3004 SA Tel (08) 8394 0000 Fax (08) 8394 0099 Level 1, 45 Greenhill Rd Wayville SA 5034 Director, Education and Training Megan Lilly Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CS&HISC) Tel (02) 8226 6600 Fax (02) 8226 6601 [email protected] www.cshisc.com.au PO Box H61 Australia Square NSW 1215
Chief Executive Officer
Rod Cooke CS&HISC drives workforce development and growth in the community services and health industry by setting the national VET standards, and by working with employers and union representatives on national reforms, regional sustainability models, best-practice in training, and identifying career pathway opportunities.
Representing the fastest growing industry in Australia, CS&HISC constantly reviews its 160 qualifications that support 500 job roles and 1,198 work-based competency standards for aged care, children’s services, mental health and disability care, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, allied and complimentary health, nutrition and oral health among others.
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Education and Training / Legal Services
Slater and Gordon Lawyers www.slatergordon. com.au Industrial and Employment Law Practice Group Melbourne Tel (03) 9602 6888 Fax (03) 9600 0290 485 La Trobe St Melbourne VIC 3000 GPO Box 4864 Melbourne VIC 3000 National Practice Group Leader, Industrial and Employment Law Marcus Clayton Marcus.Clayton@ slatergordon.com.au Sydney Tel (02) 8267 0600 Fax (02) 8267 0650 Level 5, 44 Market St, Sydney NSW 2000
Practice Group Leader
Phil Pasfield Phillip.Pasfield@ slatergordon.com.au Brisbane Tel (07) 3220 2555 Fax (07) 3220 1777 Principal Lawyer Andrew Rich Andrew.Rich@ slatergordon.com.au Perth Tel (08) 9223 4800 Fax (08) 9223 4850 Level 4, 190 St Georges Tce Perth WA 6000
Practice Group Leader
Simon Millman Simon.Millman@ slatergordon.com.au Work and Organisational Studies University of Sydney Business School HO3 The University of Sydney NSW 2006
The Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies offers the following internationally recognised postgraduate coursework and research programs: – Graduate Certificate /Diploma, Master of HRM & IR; – Graduate Certificate /Diploma, Master of Commerce specialising in Management and Organisations or Strategy and Innovation; – Master of Philosophy; and – Doctor of Philosophy. These programs are especially for those wishing to undertake advanced course-work study and /or research on work, strategic management, employment relations, and unions and other work organisations. Tel (02) 9351 4264 Fax (02) 9351 4729 angela.knox@sydney. edu.au W.G. McNally Jones Staff Lawyers Accredited Specialist in Employment & Industrial Law Tel (02) 9233 4744 Tel 1800 651 599 (toll free) Fax (02) 9223 7859 [email protected] www.mcnally.com.au NSW Tattersalls Building Level 10, 179 Elizabeth St Sydney NSW 2000 Tel (02) 9233 4744 Parramatta By Appointment Only Tel (02) 9233 4744 WA 110 East Parade East Perth WA 6004 Tel (08) 6142 6200 Contact Bill McNally Canberra Tel (02) 6257 1922 Fax (02) 6257 1806 Level 1, 71 Leichhardt St Kingston ACT 2604
Practice Group Leader
Martin Carrick Martin.Carrick@ slatergordon.com.au
Other Office Locations
Adelaide, Albury, Ashfield, Ballarat, Bendigo, Birtinya, Broken Hill, Browns Plains, Bunbury, Cairns, Caloundra, Campbelltown, Carlton, Cessnock, Coffs Harbour, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Dubbo, Footscray, Frankston, Geelong, Glen Waverly, Gosford, Goulburn, Hobart, Joondalup, Keilor, Kingston, Lithgow, Liverpool, Loganholme, Minyama, Morayfield, Morwell, Mudgee, Mundingburra, Newcastle, North Ipswich, North Lakes, Nowra, Parramatta, Pialba (Hervey Bay), Preston, Reservoir, Ringwood, Robina, Rockhampton, Shailer Park, Southport, Sunshine, Tamworth, Toowoomba, Townsville, Tweed Heads, Victoria Park, Wagga Wagga, Wangaratta, Warrnambool, Werribee, Wodonga, Wollongong
Occupational Health and Safety
Visit our website for full details of the courses available and to download a registration form.
www.actu.org.au/UnionEducation
ENROL IN THE NATIONAL CERTIFICATE IV
IN WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY
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SAFEATWORK.ORG.AU
When you’re confronted with a health or safety issue at work, you don’t have to deal with it alone. Visit our website
for more information.
Health and Safety in Australia
Union workplaces are safer workplaces
Unacceptably high rates of
workplace fatality, injury and disease continue to devastate working Australians and their families. Data shows 600,000 workers are injured annually – 127,000 of those seriously – costing Australia more than $60 billion per annum.
While addressing a recent ACTU Work Health Safety and Workers’ Injury
Compensation conference, ACTU Assistant Secretary Michael Borowick said: “We know
that union workplaces are safer workplaces. Health and Safety Representatives who have the support of union members at their workplace and the resources of the union office and its officials behind them make a huge positive difference. Most Health and Safety Representatives are knowledgeable, passionate and brave. Often they lead the campaign to eliminate, reduce and manage the hazards that threaten the wellbeing of their co-workers.”
WHS provides great mechanisms for unions and workers to have direct discussions with their employers at workplaces about risks and hazards they are concerned about and talk about solutions that will protect them. The resources and work of the ACTU support unions and their members to organise around WHS in their workplaces. While every worker has the right to go to work and come home healthy and safe, for many that right is often not recognised. As a result, high levels of work-related death, injury and illness are still a shameful reality in Australia. The rights of injured workers are also of fundamental significance. Unions continue to advocate for effective rehabilitation and return to work programs, as well as the provision of economic security
through workers’ injury compensation arrangements, which are all critically important to injured workers, their families and the wider community. In work health and safety, and workers’ injury compensation, the ACTU focusses on: • Advocating for workers at the
national level on government and non-government bodies, including Safe Work Australia, the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, and the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Council; • Lobbying for better and more
effective legislation and regulation; • Identifying and working to address major health and safety issues for workers; • Monitoring international research, standards and solutions;
• Opposing measures which diminish WHS regulation, standards and schemes designed to protect workers;
• Standing up for people over profits; • Providing information, resources and guidelines to unions and workers; and • Conducting campaigns in conjunction with state and territory peak union councils.
Safe At Work website
The ACTU has a website to assist unions and workers with work health and safety issues. Make sure you visit:
www.safeatwork.org.au Twitter
You can also follow us on Twitter: @safeatworkUNION
Work Health and Safety (WHS)
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Occupational Health and Safety Contacts
ACTU Occupational Health & Safety
and Workers’ Compensation Unit Tel (03) 9664 7340 [email protected] www.safeatwork.org.au Level 6, 365 Queen St Melbourne VIC 3000 ACTU Assistant Secretary Michael Borowick JP Tel (03) 9664 7340 [email protected]
STATE OHS CONTACTS Unions NSW
Tel (02) 9881 5999 Fax (02) 9261 3505 Level 3, Trades Hall 4 Goulburn St Sydney NSW 2000 Industrial Officer (Safety, Workers Compensation and Industrial Relations) Shay Deguara Tel (02) 9881 5999 sdeguara@unionsnsw. org.au Unions NT Tel (08) 8941 0001 Fax (08) 8981 3947 1st Floor, 38 Woods St Darwin NT 0800 GPO Box 1833 Darwin NT 0801 QLD Council of Unions Tel (07) 3010 2555 Fax (07) 3844 4865 Level 5, TLC Building 16 Peel St South Brisbane QLD 4101
Research and Policy Officer John Martin Tel (07) 3010 2555 Unions ACT Tel (02) 6247 7844 Fax (02) 6257 6638 189 Flemington Rd Mitchell ACT 2911 Unions TAS Tel (03) 6234 9553 Fax (03) 6234 9505 379 Elizabeth St North Hobart TAS 7000 PO Box 128 North Hobart TAS 7000 Unions WA Tel (08) 9328 7877 Fax (08) 9328 8132 Level 4, 445 Hay St Perth WA 6000 Assistant Secretary Owen Whittle Tel (08) 9328 7877 owhittle@unionswa. com.au SA Unions Tel (08) 8279 2222 Fax (08) 8279 2223 46 Greenhill Rd Wayville SA 5034
Victorian Trades Hall Council Tel (03) 9659 3511 Fax (03) 9663 2127 Ground Floor, Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton South VIC 3053 PO Box 93 Carlton South VIC 3053 OHS Coordinator Cathy Butcher Tel (03) 9659 3511 [email protected]
Safe Work Australia
Tel (02) 6121 5317 www.safeworkaustralia. gov.au 220 Northbourne Ave Braddon ACT 2601 Workers Health Centre Tel (02) 9749 7666 Fax (02) 9897 2488 admin@workershealth. com.au workershealth.com.au Granville Tel (02) 9749 7666 Fax (02) 9897 2488 Suite 2, 133 Parramatta Rd Granville NSW 2142 Newcastle Tel (02) 4926 2129 Fax (02) 4929 1960 Suite 4, Level 2 Devonshire House 406-408 King Street Newcastle West NSW 2302 Director Michelle Burgess director@workershealth. com.au
