Australian Shipbuilding Federation of Unions

Well done all, great work by highly skilled unionised workers AMWU - Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union AWU - Australian Workers' Union Professionals AustraliaETU - The Electrical Trades Union 

Two Australian-made icons.

The Opera House, and our brand new Parramatta Class ferry.

This is millionaire Stuart Whiley who heads submarine builder ASC. Hundreds of South Australian submarine workers across the AMWU, AWU - Australian Workers' Union and ETU - The Electrical Trades Union critical to the survival of Australia’s future AUKUS submarine fleet unanimously have issued a vote of no confidence in the CEO’s leadership calling for him to be sacked. Stop hiding and meet your workers at the bargaining table!

Today the ASFU is supporting a delegation with the Premier South Australia Peter Malinauskas and BAE Systems Australia Maritme CEO Craig Lockhart along with ASFU delegates from the AWU - Australian Workers' Union and AMWU - Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union we are seek assurances from Ministers Pat Conroy MP Richard Marles MP for a continues Shipbuilding program in South Australia.

On the red eye to Canberra this morning with a team of frontline shipbuilders from Osborne. We’re pressing the case today for the Federal Govt. to lock in the continuous surface ship building program in SA.

Join us at 12pm in Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga as we call on the federal government to secure the future of our submarine workforce by committing to a new naval build - now!

Workers across the South Australian shipbuilding industry are rallying tomorrow - will we see you there?

ETU - The Electrical Trades Union AWU - Australian Workers' Union CEPU SA Professionals Australia

Join us tomorrow for a webinar about how Aus can maintain its naval shipbuilding capabilities in the aftermath of the Morrison Govt's decision to scrap the conventional sub partnership w France to pursue nuclear subs through AUKUS.

FREE, rego essential > us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Representatives of the Australian Shipbuilding Federation of Unions are in Canberra this week meeting with government ministers about the need to build Australia's local submarine manufacturing workforce.

If we don't start training and skilling our workers now, there's no way we'll be able to maintain and repair nuclear submarines when the AUKUS treaty delivers them.

We need to build six Collins Mark II conventional subs as an interim build to plug our defence capability gap and give our workers the experience they'll need in the future.

Australia need to build to six new Colins class submarines to build the workforce and plug our country capability gap.

‘We need a plan B’: Unions have ‘deep concerns’ about AUKUS pact Manufacturing unions fear AUKUS will not deliver the promised local jobs bonanza and are urging the government to develop a back-up submarine plan.

We need to keep Australian shipbuilding jobs here.

Come down to Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga on the 24th and tell the government that we need to build the next generation of conventional subs in Australia.

Another day, another hole in the harebrained idea that we can plug our submarine capability gap by buying nuclear subs off-the-shelf from the US. Even American politicians are admitting the US simply doesn't have capacity to sell Australia any subs.

It's yet another reason why the federal government should commit to building the next generation of conventional submarines here in Australia.

Leaked senators’ letter warns AUKUS deal could harm US submarine industry The intervention is the first time members of Congress from either party have expressed significant misgivings about the AUKUS pact.

First of the BAE type 26 HMS Glasgow, hits the water in Govern Scotland. The vessel is to be handed over to the Royal Navy in the mid 2020s . This is the frigate that the Australian Navies Hunter class frigate program is based off.

Australian affiliates of stand in solidarity with shipbuilders and ship breaking workers globally ✊✊ AMWU - Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union AWU - Australian Workers' Union ETU - The Electrical Trades Union

https://www.industriall-union.org/solidarity-visit-to-alang-shipbreaking-yards

Solidarity visit to Alang shipbreaking yards A global delegation of shipbuilding and shipbreaking unions visited the Alang shipyards in Gujarat, India, and the downstream industries in the ship recycling ecosystem, as part of IndustriALL Global Union’s campaign to clean up shipbreaking.

Some of our AMWU Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union WA members at Henderson Maritime Precinct in Perth met with Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy MP yesterday to talk about what our trainees and apprentices in the defence industry need to succeed.

Our defence manufacturing sovereign capability needs to be strengthened - and our next generation of apprentices will be the ones to do it.

The Shipbuilding struggle continues today. Stay strong members, you deserve better💪

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The Hunter class frigates will be among the world’s most advanced anti-submarine warfare frigates – and the process to build them is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6vCiE5oHw

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Under the Morrison Government $5.5 billion has been wasted on submarines that will never exist, with 1,000 South Australian jobs lost to show for it.

Gold plated infrastructure.

Well that was quick! The broken cross arm we posted about yesterday at 1 Hoylake St, Novar Gardens has swiftly been replaced by the outstanding SA Power workers!

It appears there actually is work out there for the SA Power Workers to perform despite SA Power Networks claiming there isn't and sending workers home without pay citing "We have not been able to find any duties for you to be usefully employed on this day despit our best efforts"

If that is the best you can do SAPN, then your best isn't good enough!

This disgusting and obviously false statement by SAPN just goes to show the deep and systemic problems within the company by the way they treat their workers. A shocking course of action of a once great publically owned South Australian Utility now in the private hands of foreign ownership.
Shame SAPN Shame!

Stay tuned as we find more work for the hardworking SA Power Workers ✊

*A Picture of the brand new cross arm in the comments

As an island nation, our local shipbuilding industry is absolutely crucial, but current plans for new nuclear-powered submarines could see us face a capability gap before they hit the water.

Today we launched our report calling for immediate plans to build as many as six conventional submarines in Australia so we don't lose critical shipbuilding jobs, skills, and capacity, and can ensure the navy has the capability they need.