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Gender pay gap worsening: ACTU

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
With International Women's Day around the corner the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has renewed calls for the federal government to make gender inequality a priority. The ACTU's updated gender pay gap report shows 60% of women aged between ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... supports more super fund choice. It said institutional links between super funds with equal representation boards and trade unions gives rise to conflicts of interest that may have a negative impact on consumers. "The absence of competition in the default ...

Super fund governance bill enters final debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... like a very big change in the context of the overall aim of this bill." Representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) told the committee that the equal representation model was successful in fostering consensus in board decisions. ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Maiden, deputy assistant secretary of Unions NSW, told an estimated 800 union delegates at the Australian Council of Trade Unions annual conference in Melbourne that super funds should weigh into the issue of multi-national profit shifting and use their ...

FSC backs Commission on choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... Commission identifies inherent conflicts in the superannuation system "because of the institutional links between trade unions and industry superannuation funds." "In most cases, half the members of the board of an industry superannuation fund are nominated ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... that super funds having a majority of independent trustees would break "inappropriate relationships between some trade unions and some industry funds."

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... John Brogden welcomed the recommendation, saying it would it would break "inappropriate relationships between some trade unions and some industry funds." However, Industry Super Australia opposed the change, with chief executive David Whiteley saying ...

AustralianSuper names new deputy chair

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... Oliver has been a member of the AustralianSuper board since 2007. Oliver is secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and spent 20 years at the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union. AustralianSuper chair Heather Ridout said: "Dave has been ...

Howes to leave AustralianSuper board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... down as secretary of Australian Workers Union (AWU). He will also leave his position on the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Howes was nominated to the board of AustralianSuper by the ACTU. A spokesperson for AustralianSuper confirmed Howes ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... organisations work, and the strategies you need to put in place to represent your members." After ten years working for trade unions, Atkin followed the well-trodden path from union to industry fund, landing a job as communications officer at AustralianSuper's ...