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The Municipal and Utilities Workers Union Inc. (MUWU) is a Union. A union is formed when workers come together as a group to improve their conditions in the workplace against bosses. Unions do this, because they know when workers organise collectively into genuine fighting unions, they secure much better outcomes for the members than if they are controlled in bosses unions.
If you are working in Victorian Local Government, water authorities or catchments, energy generation and distribution, MUWU can represent you.
MUWU is also an Industrial Association under the Fair Work Act 2009. As a Victorian Incorporated Association, MUWU are registered with Consumer Affairs Victoria under the Associations Incorporation reform Act 2012 (the Act).
MUWU was established in 2019 as a result of many workers voicing their long-term dissatisfaction with the way they had been represented.
MUWU believe that a Unions core business should be looking after workers and that they deserve to have a choice, so we are providing you with a better alternative.
If you want to be a member of a union that sticks up for it's workers and isn't afraid to take action, then you need to be a member of MUWU.
The Fair Work Act - Definition of Industrial Associations
The Fair Work Act (at s.12) defines Industrial Associations as including:
(b) an association of employees, or independent contractors, or both (whether formed formally or informally), a purpose of which is the protection and promotion of their interests in matters concerning their employment, or their interests as independent contractors (as the case may be);
As an industrial association and trade union, our members have all the protections under the Fair Work Act relating to general protections and industrial activity. In particular, s. 346 and 347 which include:
346. A person must not take adverse action against another person because the other person:
(a) is or is not, or was or was not, an officer or member of an industrial association; or
(b) engages, or has at any time engaged or proposed to engage, in industrial activity within the meaning of paragraph 347(a) or (b); …
347 Meaning of engages in industrial activity
A person engages in industrial activity if the person:
(a) becomes or does not become, or remains or ceases to be, an officer or member of an industrial association; or
(b) does, or does not:
(i) become involved in establishing an industrial association; or
(ii) organise or promote a lawful activity for, or on behalf of, an industrial association; or
(iii) encourage, or participate in, a lawful activity organised or promoted by an industrial association; or
(iv) comply with a lawful request made by, or requirement of, an industrial association; or
(v) represent or advance the views, claims or interests of an industrial association; or
(vi) pay a fee (however described) to an industrial association, or to someone in lieu of an industrial association; or
(vii) seek to be represented by an industrial association; or
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(f) takes part in industrial action;
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