by Elizabeth Humphrys | Oct 18, 2021 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, unions
I was recently a guest on the On the Job podcast, hosted by Francis Leach and Sally Rugg, discussing a report I cowrote with Freya Newman for the United Workers Union . From the podcast show notes… As the COP26 climate change talks in Glasgow loom...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Sep 20, 2021 | Australian Economy, Climate Change, unions
In September, Freya Newman and I launched the final report on our project investigating the impact of high heat and climate change on members or the United Workers Union (UWU). The launch was part of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (ACTU) Climate Safety...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 25, 2020 | Climate Change, unions
As part of a UTS research team, I have released a new report with the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, looking at the impacts of heat stress on workers in Australia. Prepared by UTS researchers as part of the Too Hot to Work Project, the report outlines...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 11, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, unions
The May issue of the journal Labour History carried a roundtable discussion of my book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. The special section ‘Assessing the Accord and Labour’s Role in Neoliberalism’ (paywalled) features contributions from Frank Bongiorno...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 20, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, Neoliberalism, unions
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Amy Thomas Union members in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) are in the midst of a turbulent debate over a proposed national Jobs Protection Framework (JPF). Universities have been excluded from the JobKeeper scheme just as...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 16, 2020 | Social Movements, unions
There have been a range of tributes to Jack Mundey since he died last Sunday night, but I wanted to post a few here. I spoke to James Purtill’s from TripleJ/ABC The Hack , and I really liked his piece as it thinks through the legacy of the Green Bans and...
